22w4d

well this kid is kicking the crap out of me!! i really don't mind considering i finally have something reassuring me every day that he/she is ok in there. it's truly amazing...i never thought i'd be so intrigued with every little kick. a week or two ago matt felt the baby for the first time. he was looking at me and said "THAT was the baby?!". he couldn't believe it. so now that the kicks are even stronger we sat on the couch last night with his hand on my belly just waiting for the little sucker to move. well of course after a day of constant kicking Angus (matt's pet name for the baby...) decided that he didn't want to move. so i ate some sugary stuff and finally after about an hour he was thumping the crap out of me again. matt still couldn't believe that he was feeling the baby move and not me moving my stomach muscles or something. it's such a cool experience.

anyway, i had my echo done last week. it was so incredibly painful and i was still bruised from it 3 days later. i just recently got the results and they didn't find anything wrong, so i don't have MVP. the bad thing is that now i have to wear a 24 hour heart monitor to see if that can find the problem. if it can't then i'll probably have to wear one for 3 months!! i hope i can talk my GP into giving me some meds for palpitations w/o having a diagnosis b/c i REALLY don't want to have to wear one until october! so i've got an appointment to get that put on saturday morning.

this weekend should be fun. we're going to attempt to paint the nursery, but that might not happen considering dad will be here on the 3rd. we have to prime first and then paint and knowing our luck we'd only get the priming done before he gets here and it would be such a pain to have to take down the plastic and tape so he could be in there just to have to put it back up again to paint the yellow. so we'll see. we may just get the room cleaned out and tape as much as we can w/o the plastic and then just wait until the following weekend to paint. anyway, dad will be here from the 3rd to the 5th and i'm excited to see him again. it feels like it's been forever since he's been here to stay. oh and on the 5th we have our repeat BIG ultrasound!! can't wait to see the baby again!!

matt got a promotion!

woo hoo!! great timing considering the baby will be here in 4 months! :D

well i knew i was growing...

but i didn't realize until i took another belly pic just how much!! matt's been telling me each week since 18 weeks "wow you've really changed since last week!". i totally feel like i am getting bigger but i didn't really see it until i took the pic. only 4 more months to go!!!!

more craft projects

so since i have a TON of yarn (and i finally finished the blanket!), i decided to work on some projects last week. i found some great crochet patterns online that i decided to attempt and it turned out they were all super easy to do! the first pic is of the "take home outfit". basically it's what we plan on bringing the baby home from the hospital in (minus a sleeper). the second pic is of some goofy hats i just attempted on my own using the pattern for the crochet hat. i found these pictures online at some super expensive baby clothes site of these knit baby hats in the shape of animals and i kind of just used those as inspiration. i think they turned out pretty good and i plan on making some more.

i've been feeling pretty good this week...except when it's hot. i never got sick because of the heat before, but since getting pregnant if i get too hot i get sick to my stomach. sucks, especially since we have a crappy central air unit that is 30 years old or more. oh well, come the end of summer we plan on replacing the stupid thing, assuming it doesn't die before then. i have my echo this week. hopefully that will go well and we'll have an answer as to why i'm having the palpitations. hopefully it's just the MVP that grandma has. will post updates when i get them.

half baked!!

20 weeks!! i can't believe that in another 20 our baby will be here!! hopefully the second half will go by as fast as the first half.

first kicks and other stuff...

well i've finally decided that the thuds i've been feeling off and on for the past few weeks is the baby. starting today it's actually gotten pretty regular. now i just can't wait for matt to be able to feel it too!

well i hadn't thought that my belly was really looking like a baby belly mainly b/c i started off overweight and i just felt fat and not pregnant. so i decided to take a pic of myself and see if it looks like a baby bump and not just flab. to my surprise it actually looks like i'm pregnant!! it's very exciting!!

oh and i found out that my thyroid is just fine, so it's not the cause of my palpitations and shortness of breath. dad was talking to grandma about this and she asked if i had ever been checked for a mitral valve prolapse. turns out she and aunt mary (and jessica thinks mark too) have this heart defect and it can cause the symptoms i'm having. we'll see what my GP says, i have an appointment for friday.

other than that i've been feeling pretty good. the palpitations do make me feel crummy when i get them, but *knock on wood* my kidneys haven't acted up in a while and the acid reflux hasn't been an every day occurrence since 14 weeks or so. i guess it helps that one of my constant companions is a glass that holds 3 cups of water. it really helps me stay on top of my water intake. well i'm off. i'm almost done with the blanket and i'd like to finish it soon so i can start on something else!

it's a....

hehe. we weren't finding out and we didn't cave!!! once we got there it was SOOOO easy not to find out b/c it was just so amazing seeing the baby again (i was totally bawling the whole time!). and this time it actually looked like a baby!! it didn't take but 10 minutes max and the tech was going so fast i couldn't even see the baby move!! when i asked him if the baby was moving he said yes and showed me and told me that he'd slow down a bit so we could see it. it was freaking unbelievable!! baby was facing outward so no profile shot but we do have some face shots. the baby must be a simpsons fan like daddy b/c he/she had their hands together like mr. burns!!!

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anyway, here are the pics.

a good view of the face, arms, and body


head, spine, body, and believe it or not there is a leg and foot in there too!


head and body

all in all it went well. i'll find out more later when the doctor calls, but the tech said it looked good. he/she was measuring a few days behind, but not far enough behind to worry. now if october will just get here so we can meet this little one!!

i had to get this too....

so i couldn't resist getting matt this too for father's day. after the car ride we took with my niece and nephew to the zoo we both realized we needed to get some good kids music. :)