6.24.13

Wowza; its been awhile.  Not sure why I've been such a stranger to the blog except that we've been super busy working on the house, which has been drainingly exhausting but super crazy amazing in pretty much every other way.  Its really starting to take shape & become our own.....and I'm loving the way that's making me feel.  I don't know if Feng Shui is a real thing or not but if it is, its definitely coming into play because as we get more & more things done & finally "right", its really beginning to feel fantastic when I look all around me in here.  Of course there are still paint cans & sandpaper in my field of view.....but we have come so far & done such a fab job & I'm just loving it all.  Yay us for being such a great team:)

ANYhow.......I hit 14 weeks (+ "lemon" status) tomorrow!  Can you believe it?  I feel like I *just* peed on the stick....and now here I am, cruising right on into my second trimester already.  Seriously.....whhhat an amazing feeling.  We get to see Dr. Heinzel again on Wednesday morning, so that'll be fun since we should get to listen to baby's heartbeat again.  

::insert warm fuzzy feeling here::

:)  :)  :)  :)  :)

I'm not really getting a huge vibe re: boy vs. girl yet though most people seem to think I'm having another girl so far from what they've told me;)  I'll have to do a poll on here again like I did with Stella's blog once I get a little bit further along.  The sad thing is that I can't be sure if baby was conceived at the end of March or on the first day or 2 of April....so I can't even consult the Chinese Gender Predictor chart this time.  Boo!  Ah well; I'll have to do that thing where you swing your wedding ring over your belly or whatever it is & see what the results of that turn out to be this time instead;)

I actually can't believe that I haven't told the whole world yet......but I've done really good & have just been telling people as I see and/or talk to them.  Its been so much fun getting to do it this way rather than just totally informally all at once on FB.  I have a few more people I'd like to see/tell in person & then I'll blurt it out for the rest of the world via some kind of a cute belly pic and/or "Big Sis" pic of Stell Bee.  I still have yet to figure out the creative aspects of that but that's on the asap TO DO list....so, with a little luck, it should be accomplished before long:)

6.12.13

So I reached the ever-elusive 12-week mark yesterday & ooooooh how glorious it felt:)  I remember taking my test & thinking that "June 11th" felt like it would take FORever to arrive.....but it was here before I knew it!  The first tri has been flying past much more fluidly than I thought it would & I'm so grateful for that. Plus summertime always flies & my beloved fall never lasts as long as I'd like for it to & always gets interrupted with an overabundance of Christmas shopping .....so, really I'm thinking baby will be here in our arms basically before we know what hit us;)

Stella talks about baby regularly now & its the absolute greatest...

"When we get all of the baby stuff out, me & Mouse will teach the baby how to use it!"

"Mouse would like to share the changing table with the baby, if that's ok?"

"I want a baby sister but I'm thinking it must be a boy cause...you know, I'm a girl."

She's so flipping cute.

I really need to update this blog more regularly with all of the sweetness that comes out of her mouth:)

Oh!  And I found out last weekend of yet ANOTHER dear friend (and family member, actually!) who will be birthing a little bitty friend for our peanut just about a month after ours gets here. That makes 5 of us now so far!!  I can't even believe that baby is still in utero & already has this fabulous, built-in playgroup already in place!

:)  :)  :)

6.4.13

I feel like its especially important to document that yesterday was the first day that Stella started to incorporate the baby into her drawings.

:)  :)  :)  :)  :)

I feel like its finally started to sink in for her & she's genuinely starting to get really excited.  And BOY....what a fantastic thing that is to witness.

She also told me that Christmas is "waaaay too long to wait".

I can't say that part of me doesn't agree with her;)

Oh & by the by.....

Today marks the start of Week 11 for me & baby has officially reached LIME status:)

6.3.13

These past few days have been super exciting & its been so much fun.  

After we had heard the (gloriously beautiful & perfect) heartbeat, we told my parents our happy news.  Mom looked so totally floored & it was so awesome.  She couldn't believe how baby-like the lil bean already looks on the ultrasound picture.  You can really make out so much; the head, the back, even the femur!  Such totally amazing stuff.  Of course she wanted a copy for her fridge;)

Then we fed the ducks down at the lake with Stella on Saturday morning & it just felt like such a happy moment & the perfect time to tell her.  First she jumped up & down at the news, then ran all over the place, then proceeded to peek down my shirt in an effort to see the baby.

The logic of a 4-year old is seriously the cutest ever.

She's told us a couple of times that she's kind of hoping for a sister but that she "thinks it might be a boy cause, you know...I'm a girl."  Hehe.

And now the hunt for the cutest BIG SISTER shirt ever officially begins.  Or maybe I'll create an original one for her myself somehow.  That could be fun.

I'll also need to figure some kind of a cool way to reveal the news on FB.......eventually.

:)