24 Week picture

This was from almost two weeks ago. But here's my 24wk belly :)

23 Weeks Stats

I haven't done my stats yet this pregnancy so I figured I should probably start. I'm a couple days early on being 23 weeks (2 days to be exact) but since I had a Dr appt today I figured it would be good to get it down before I forget. :) I'm going to take a picture on Sunday so I'll post that then.

Due Date: June 30, 2013

Weight Gain: Up... do I really want to say? gulp... 17lbs :( My doctor says it's normal but I only gained 26 with Carver and 28 with Noah so I'm feeling quite huge right now with 17wks left

Symptoms: horrible sleep. I've actually gotten cold-like symptoms because of the lack of sleep.

What's different this time: Everything is different this time! More hormonal, more nauseous during the 1st trimester, the girls have actually grown, goldfish didn't work for the nausea but almonds did, I have been craving gummy bears, I've gained more weight than at this point with both the boys, crazy dreams, want me to go on?

Cravings: I'm on the tail end of gummy bears. Hopefully something healthy will be next

Aversions: meat, but that's not new

Sleep: between getting up to go to the bathroom and the crazy dreams, I haven't gotten much sleep lately

I am loving: feeling her move, the way Carver is just in love with her. it melts my heart!

I miss: not much. I just feel huge for only being 23wks

I am looking forward to: getting the diaper bag i ordered and finishing up the bedroom. We have the crib up and the bedding ordered. Once the bedding comes we'll paint stripes on the wall of her crib. Then we can hang the letters for her name and get the mattress.

I'm spazzing about: feeling huge. Am I a broken record yet?

Best thing about this week: Getting the crib put together

Milestones: We registered!

Movement: It depends on what I eat. She's definitely doing a lot of her 14-16hrs of sleep during the day.

It's a...: Girl!!!

Exercise: what's that? haha

Diet: Ideally, a lot of healthy stuff but it's honestly whatever is put in front of me.

Other goals: Getting things checked off the list of stuff we need

Christmas 2012

Here's the pictures from Christmas. Yes, I know that was over two months ago but I've honestly been way too tired to post anything lately. Sleep has been nonexistent between getting up to go to the bathroom and having some interesting/disturbing dreams.

Coming out to see the presents

 Checking out his new gun safe Chris made

 Fast forward to Nana's house. Carver got to deliver everyone's stockings in his trike and trailer from his tractor. He thought it was pretty cool!

 Looking at pictures on Uncle Jake's phone

 Checking to see if his nipples were still there. We couldn't stop laughing at him!

 Doing playing card flash cards with Nana. He did a lot better than we thought and he was getting the J, Q, K and A too!

 Brothers

 Goofballs!

 Love this guy like a  brother!

It's A...

It's a GIRL!!!

 Introducing... McKay Anona Garland

My great-grandma's name was Ruth Anona and my middle name is Ruth. I love that we will share that.

We started the day by picking up my friend Hannah because she is visiting from Ireland! We picked her up from the ferry in Port Orchard. We took her by Carver's school and made a Starbucks run (the closest one is 2hrs away from where she lives) and then went to the doctor's office. Chris met us there since he was busy with work.

Hannah sat with Carver in the waiting room while we were in with the technician. The first thing she looked for was the sex and we were both really surprised that it's a girl. I had been telling myself that since I had been feeling like it was a girl that it must be a boy since that's how it was with both the boys. And let me tell you, it was very obvious that she is a girl!

After we got that out of the way, the tech looked over everything in detail. Baby was transverse (sitting sideways in my belly) which isn't the easiest to get shots but baby girl was constantly moving around and we saw her sucking her hand, yawning and hiccuping. :)

After we were done in there, we came out to the waiting room and told Hannah and Carver and showed them the pictures. I took Carver into the bathroom, since we were heading to Ellensburg from there, and he burst into tears! :( He so wanted it to be a boy. It took awhile to calm him down but he is over the moon in love with the idea of having a little sister. 

Chris probably took the longest to become ok with the idea of a girl, but he made the point that it was similar to when we found out Carver was a boy. It took me a couple more days to be ok with it than it did with Chris. So on Valentines' Day, Carver and I decided to go to Target and find McKay an outfit that would help Chris realize that girls aren't all princess / ballet / pink. We found this outfit and it was perfect. The onesie says "Daddys little girl" on it and Chris loved it. :) Carver really wanted to pick something out for McKay and he found some headbands that he thought she'd like.

I love how much Carver loves this baby!! He'll come up to my bell and give it hugs and kisses and say "Hello Mee-Kay! Where are you?" 

And that's where I leave you. I'll be 21 weeks in the morning.

Quick catch up

Let's back up and catch up for the last four weeks. I hosted a baby shower for a friend of mine from high school. She's having a boy and is doing an owl theme. So I went with it and did an owl and blue/grey theme. It was sooo cute and so much fun to plan. :)

Here's me at 19 weeks

 Carver and I saw this at Target and had to get it for the baby. It could work for either a boy or a girl and... it has monkeys (Carver), giraffes (Noah) and elephants (this baby)!!! :)

17 weeks now!!

I'm officially 17 weeks today and I'm finally feeling the baby! I got worried for awhile since I felt both the boys at 13wks but had to remind myself that every pregnancy is different and I have a little extra skin, courtesy of Noah, right where the baby is right now.

Here's a horrible picture at 10 weeks.

 And here's me today.

I feel huge! But I'm not wearing maternity clothes yet and will probably stall on that as long as possible. The main thing is that I don't have any warm zip up jackets that actually zip right now so that's been frustrating. 

Let's see... I'm feeling pretty good and only get tired if we've been doing a lot. I have my second blood draw for the genetic testing tomorrow and then we'll get the results on the 31st. We should have our 20wk ultrasound and the big gender reveal about two weeks after that. I honestly don't care either way what the sex is. Chris and Carver both think it's a boy and Chris has been right both times so we'll see. It could be that he just wants another boy. haha

Pregnancy to date

So I figured I should probably catch everyone up on what's been going on, pregnancy-wise, for the last 14 weeks. I have a couple pictures but, honestly, I haven't unpacked from Christmas so my camera is still packed away.

I found out I was pregnant on October 21st... the same date I found out I was pregnant with Carver. This was the Monday before I went on a Moms weekend with my Moms group from church. I did really good and only told one person that weekend. I had to lie to everyone and it wasn't the easiest thing to do.

Things were pretty easy the first few weeks. Then the nausea set in, and boy was that not fun. I don't remember ever being this nauseous with either of the boys. I was also super tired but part of that was that Carver wasn't sleeping very well. Funny thing about this time, salt didn't cure the nausea. It actually made it worse. So the Cheez-its with Carver and the goldfish with Noah weren't going to cut it. Then I found almonds, the kind for baking that don't have salt. Those were magic, except they are a lot more fattening than goldfish so I gained 3lb between my first two doctor appointments!

As the weeks went on, it got increasingly harder and harder to hide my belly. I really popped two days before the 12wk ultrasound which was perfect timing. By then a couple other people in town and a bunch of people out of town knew. To be honest, I had a really hard time telling people. I didn't want to get my hopes up and I was really scared that something would go wrong. I wasn't enjoying being pregnant which was totally different than the other two times at that point. Some of that changed the appointment we had the first ultrasound. We had the ultrasound and saw the heartbeat and the baby was measuring a coupe weeks behind (6wk instead of 8wk). As I was sitting up, my Dr asked if he could pray over the baby. I had no problem agreeing to that! So he got his holy water and put his hand on my baby and prayed over the baby and the pregnancy. I don't know if it was someone actually praying over the pregnancy or that he was praying about everything that I had anxiety and fear over but I walked away from that appointment with a lot more peace.

Even after all that, we still walked into the 12 week ultrasound with a lot of apprehension. Obviously, the first thing we asked the technician to look at was the head. And glory be, there was a full dome!!! That eased a lot of anxiety from us. I don't remember if it was the same technician as with Noah but she seemed familiar and we told her about Noah. So as she was checking everything she needed to check, she just kept saying everything looks perfect. We'll get the genetic testing results tomorrow so that will clear up some more anxiety but I feel like a big weight has been lifted with that ultrasound.

Oh! I guess I should mention that the Wed before Thanksgiving (so I would've been 8-10wks, we didn't have concrete dates yet) I started spotting. We ended up going to the ER in Ellensburg and had everything checked out. Everything that they saw looked good, my HcG levels were good and the heartbeat was strong. While they were checking the heartbeat I actually felt the baby move! I've felt it off and on since then but not recently. I think that's because it's getting higher to where my extra skin from Noah is. Lovely, I know. Anyways, the spotting was off an on until my next Dr appt (that next Tuesday - the one where he prayed over me). That was one of the things that my Dr prayed for - that the spotting would stop. After it stopped I came to the conclusion that I only spotted in the morning when I woke up and it was after I'd been laying on my left side. When I was in the ER we learned that the baby implanted on my right side so I'm assuming that laying on my left side had gravity pulling it down. This is just my own idea but it makes sense to me. I get nauseous when I lay on my left side anyways, but the night we went to the ER I had been laying in bed with Carver trying to get him to sleep so I was on my left side for probably 45min. But it's all over now and am glad to have that little scare out of the way.

That pretty much brings us to today. I'm 14wks 4 days today and I feel A LOT better! I still get nauseous when I'm hungry and I'm still tired but it's not nearly as much as it was before. I don't need to carry almonds with me which has been great! When I get unpacked and more settled back into daily life, I'll post some pictures. I've had to start taking pictures earlier since I'm showing so early. :)