Wordless Wednesday

Reading with Uncie Jeremy.

Doing his animal puzzle from Aunt Netta.

Reading a book from Great Grandma and Grandpa Shupe.

Playing tug of war with Harper.

Drawing with Hayden.

Trying to put his pants on all by himself.

How we announced our pregnancy on facebook.

 Some of the out-takes from our facebook announcement photo shoot:

 

 

 

 

Ready to ride the train with Hayden at my 10 year reunion family picnic.

 

Enjoying the train ride!

Making a cake out of wood chips with some girls on the playground at the picnic.

Walking along holding hands.

Hayden said, "Carter, I live in (town he lives), where do you live?"  It was so cute!

Walking with one of my parents' neighbors he loves to play with when we visit.

 

Playing with a new puzzle from Erin's mom/Hayden's grandma.

Trying out his new potty from Grammy and Grampy.

Found a new way to ride in the wagon.

Showing off the pear he was eating.

Carter and Jake reading books on the way home from the library.

The pear thief returns!

What was left of the pear when he was done eating it before dinner.

Carter's so stylin, even his toys match his outfit!

Enjoying leftover homemade broccoli cheddar soup for lunch, thank you pregnancy cravings!

Swinging with Jake, not sure who taught him to swing on his belly.  I'm guessing my mom.

Week 12 Bumpdate

Carter says, "What's going on in here?!!?"

We had our 2nd doctor's appointment Monday.  We had another ultrasound and the doctor found that the placenta is covering my cervix which is called placenta previa.  He said it is very likely that it will shift away from my cervix as my uterus expands and my placenta grows.  I really hope that is what happens!  He said if it stays where it is I will be on exercise restriction later on and will have to have a c-section.  I had such the perfect delivery with Carter and every ounce of my being hopes that I am able to again deliver naturally.  When I made it out to the car I sat and cried for a little bit and then I realized how silly that was.  Here I was 12 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby and I was crying that I might need a c-section.  In the end it doesn't matter how the baby gets out, just that (s)he arrives safely.  Our doctor had also said the baby is measuring a bit on the big side which is totally different from Carter Man who always measured small to average at our appointments.  Baby's heart beat was 175 bpm and the doctor said we'll be able to find out the sex at our next appointment.  Just for fun, comparatively Carter's heart rate was 10 bpm slower at both appointments.  When I got home I looked up more information on placenta previa and I probably shouldn't have.  I found out that you can have heavy bleeding later on in pregnancy which could lead to an emergency preterm c-section and that I could also end up on bed rest.  Totally not ideal with a 2 year old running around.  Please pray, cross your fingers, or do a placenta dance for me, whatever you're into, that the placenta will be a sweetie like we know that baby is and go ahead and move it's hiney to where it should be.

September 23, 2014

Baby's Size: Baby is the size of a plum, (s)he measured in right at 2 inches.  Baby is entering the growth and maturation stage.

Weight Gain: Still hanging out at my starting weight for no weight gain overall.

Maternity Clothes: I'm still wearing regular clothes, but I'm at that stage where I look like I have a little bit of a beer belly.  My mom took me maternity clothes shopping, but none of the stores in their town had maternity clothes.  We ended up going through shirts on clearance and she bought me 4 shirts in bigger sizes than I'd normally wear.  They should last me through until I get really big and will make me feel less fat and frumpy now and after Baby is born and I still have a belly.

Wearing one of my new shirts mom bought me.

Sleep: For some reason I'm having a hard time falling asleep.  We'll go to bed and once Ty falls asleep I read for a while to help me fall asleep.  I'm still taking a 30 minute nap during Carter's nap time.  I'm hoping soon I'll be able to go without and get a bit more done while he's sleeping.  I had a dream I went into labor at 26 weeks which of course made me a bit more nervous about preterm delivery.  Now that I know I have placenta previa I'm a bit more worried about it, but I know it is very likely that the placenta will move on it's own.

Symptoms: I've been feeling a lot better this week.  I'm starting to get my energy back and am getting a taste of the 2nd trimester surge.  The craziest part is that I didn't realize how poorly I actually felt until I started feeling better.  I had some light cramping throughout the week.  On Saturday I had a few really strong cramps that felt like contractions.  They stopped me dead in my tracks and I couldn't talk.  Of course I totally freaked out, but after 2 cramps they went away and they were not accompanied by any bleeding.  I was thankful we had a doctor's appointment on Monday so I would be reassured everything was okay.  I keep forgetting to list that when I get really hungry I feel like I'm going to sneeze once I start eating, but I never sneeze.  It's so strange.

Running: My weekly mileage this week was 21 miles.  On Saturday I ran my 11 mile long run.  It went well, but wasn't amazing like my 10 mile run a couple weeks ago.  I was a bit slower, but hit 9:25 pace which I was pleased with.  I had no hip or round ligament pain during or after the run.  At our doctor's appointment we found out baby's placenta is covering my cervix.  The doctor said it is still safe for me to run and I can even do long runs.  He freaked me out a bit when he said his only concern is that I'll get out 6 miles somewhere and start bleeding and have no way to get to the hospital.  I think he was referring to later on if I still have placenta previa, but I decided to nix the 12 mile long run I had planned for this weekend.  I'll stick with this past weekend's 11 mile long run as my last long run and then be very careful during the half-marathon.  After that I'll scrap long runs until we find out whether the placenta has shifted or not.

Food Cravings: Still loving macaroni and cheese.  I've been all about broccoli cheddar soup and yellow mustard.  I look forward to sandwiches for lunch just so I can slather them with mustard.  I typically don't like mustard and I'm talking slather them.  To the point where my eyes twitch a little bit from the sourness of it all.  It's strange, but delicious.

Food Aversions: Same things: barbeque, eggs, spinach.  I can still eat fried eggs.  Scrambled eggs are what get me.  It's mostly seeing them.  I had fried eggs while Ty ate scrambled eggs and I couldn't look at them.

Movement: We didn't see the baby move during our ultrasound like I was hoping we would because our doctor moved so quickly.  I think part of it was the angle as well.  With Carter we had a transabdominal ultrasound at 12 weeks and this time we had a transvaginal ultrasound.  It appeared that baby was sucking his/her thumb which was adorable.  Baby is already like his/her brother!

Our little thumb sucker.

 

Best Moment of the Week: Seeing the baby on the ultrasound was so exciting even though partway through the ultrasound we were shocked by the news that I have placenta previa.  My 10 year high school reunion was on Saturday.  There was a picnic for families in the afternoon and a dinner reception in the evening.  At the picnic I got to hold a sweet, little 2 month old.  It was the best feeling to hold such a tiny baby.  It made me so excited for our baby to come.  

Currently Loving: Looking at the ultrasound pictures of our sweet baby sucking his/her thumb!  Up until now I haven't felt the baby was a boy or girl either way.  Typing this post I keep almost typing she and her.  I'm starting to lean toward baby being a girl.  It will be fun to see what we are having in 4 weeks!

Miss Anything: Nothing really.  Most everyone was drinking at the dinner/reception for our reunion and I didn't wish I could at all.

What Big Brother is Up to This Week: When I showed Carter the ultrasound pictures after our appointment he pointed at the baby and said "baby!"  When I asked him where the baby was he took off running and brought me a picture of himself as a baby that I have framed and out in the kitchen.  My Week 12 Bumpdate with Carter.  I keep looking back at my bumpdates from Carter and feeling bummed that I don't look as pregnant as I did with him.  But then I remembered that back then I was working and didn't have time to do them in the morning so we did them in the evening right before dinner and sometimes forgot until after dinner.  My belly is definitely much bigger in the evening!

 

 

Week 11 Bumpdate

Harper photo bombing.

 

September 16, 2014

Baby's Size: Baby is the size of a lime, about 1.6 inches long.  Tooth buds, hair follicles and nail beds are forming.

Weight Gain: I'm back down to my starting weight again.  That's after time at the beach indulging in ice cream and delicious food.  My weight has been fluctuating so much this whole first trimester!

Maternity Clothes: Loving my stretchy jean shorts.  I'm wearing pants that I typically wear with a belt and they fit nicely.  I haven't worn any of my tighter fitting shorts lately, but I have a feeling I would have to pull out the hair tie trick in order to get them to fit.

Sleep: I typically wake up around 3:30 am to use the restroom.  I haven't been quite as exhausted and even skipped a nap 4 different days, not by choice, but I made it through the day okay.  I had a dream one night that I went for my 12 week appointment and when the doctor did the ultrasound I looked over and thought, the baby is so adorable.  But then did a second look and realized the baby looked like a dog.  The doctor then said, "Congratulations, you are having a dog!"  I was so disappointed and told the doctor I didn't want another dog.  I hated that I would have to wait another 9 months to try and have a baby again.  It was a weird dream, but pregnancy dreams typically are!

Symptoms: We spent most of the week in Florida and I felt really good during the trip.  I was a little bit worried because I felt so good during week 10.  So far when I've had a good week, it's followed by a rough one.  Lucky for me this week was another good week.  I didn't feel nauseous until the day we flew back and started to worry I was going to throw up on the plane.  Thankfully I didn't.  Our first day home I was miserably nauseous and threw up first thing in the morning.  Carter was in our bedroom, heard me, yelled "mommy, mommy!", and came running with cars for me to play with while I threw up.  When I was finished he spit in the toilet, silly little guy!  I was also exhausted and Thomas suggested that I felt so terrible from the traveling because as he said, "I feel really tired after traveling when I'm not pregnant."

Running: I ran 10 miles last week so I could skip out on a long run while in Florida.  I didn't run further than 3 miles all week and it was nice.  I got the chance to run on the beach 3 days during our trip and it was amazing.  It was so freeing and wonderful.  There's something about running barefoot on a surface other than pavement that makes you feel one with nature.  My weekly mileage was 15 miles.  I also had the chance to go to a Barre class Amanda taught the day before we left for Medeira Beach.  I was a bit nervous I would be super sore and struggle with running for a few days, but I wasn't.  There definitely was a bit of soreness, but it wasn't anything more than when I first start back on planks.  Which I need to get my booty in gear and start back up this week!

Food Cravings: Macaroni and cheese.  I don't care what kind.  It can be fancy restaurant style mac and cheese or nasty boxed mac and cheese.  I want it all.  On our trip I suddenly had to have some mac and cheese and there were those little containers you just add water and stick in the microwave left in the beach house from the previous renters.  I made one and it was the most delicious thing!

Food Aversions: Smoked meat/barbeque in general just isn't going to happen at all this pregnancy, I get the feeling.  I was able to eat eggs in a breakfast burrito during our trip.  The thought of eggs and seeing them still makes me nauseous, but I poured a bunch of salsa on top of them and rolled them up in a tortilla.  As long as I couldn't see them, they were fine.  I've figured out that sandwich meat just grosses me out when it's heated up because it smells so strongly.  So I heat it and walk away until it cools and stops having such a strong odor.  I've only been able to make it through half a sandwich, but that's fine with me.  Spinach is one of my favorite foods.  I absolutely love throwing it in all kinds of things.  Spinach in grilled cheese sandwiches, spinach on pizza, spinach instead of lettuce, spinach in tomato soup, spinach in mac and cheese.  I'll put it in anything.  So I've been in denial for weeks that I just can't eat it.  It turns my stomach and makes me sick.  I keep hoping it's temporary and try it each week.  Finally I'm accepting the fact that it's a no-go food for me right now.  Every time I try it chunks rise into my throat, so I'm over it.  I won't be trying it again for a while, or a week, who knows!

Movement: So excited to see movement during our ultrasound on Monday.  It will be even better when I can feel it and then when Ty and Carter can feel it!

Best Moment of the Week: Our trip to Florida was amazing!  Leina bought Carter a souvenir shirt and then said we should get a onesie for the baby because the baby was on the trip too.  It was so cute and made me giggle.  We didn't actually get a onesie, but picturing our future baby wearing it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  Every time I feed Jake a bottle when he's at our house I get so excited to nurse a baby again.  I keep picturing a little newborn in my arms and I get giddy.  I still can't quite believe we're pregnant.  Come on belly, start showing so this feels real!  

Currently Loving: That we have an appointment on Monday and we'll get to see the baby again.  With Carter our doctor told us we were safe to share the news after our 12 week appointment, so I'm also looking forward to finally spilling the beans!  Although I haven't been as antsy to share the news this time around.

Miss Anything: I had a day where I was really emotional and was sure I had harmed the baby by eating Eggs Benedict for breakfast.  I didn't realize until after I ate it that there were eggs in the Hollandaise Sauce (because someone told me) and I panicked that the eggs may not have been heated up enough.  That made me miss being able to eat things without panicking and worrying that I caused my baby harm.

What Big Brother is Up to This Week: Carter saw the ocean for the first time and it was a hit!  He enjoyed all the extra attention with 6 adults to 1 child.  Today he was saying "Baby... Mommy" and I'd say, "Yes, mommy has a baby in her belly."  It's fun to see him start to understand a little bit more and/or verbalize what he hears us say.  My Week 11 Bumpdate with Carter.

Harper was determined to be in a picture.

Carter woke up late and Ty needed to leave.  Carter still wanted to be held so he threw himself down and held my foot!

This is a cool picture and I feel like you can tell the size of my belly really well.

Week 10 Bumpdate

September 9, 2014

I can't believe we're already a quarter of the way through this pregnancy! It is flying by! It is so true when people say the 2nd one goes by faster because you're busy with your 1st baby.

Baby's Size: The size of a prune, a little over an inch long.  Nails are beginning to form on fingers and toes.  Peach-fuzz hair is beginning to grow.

Weight Gain: I'm up a pound from my starting weight. Not too bad, but I don't think I gained any weight with Carter until the 2nd trimester. My mom said she gained weight differently with each of us, so we'll see.

Maternity Clothes: I'm still able to button all my pants and haven't been having trouble at the end of the day like last week.  Every once in a while I feel a bit sore down low and I've had a little bit of cramping here and there, usually when I wait too long to use the restroom. It's worse when I'm wearing certain shorts. I have a pair of jean shorts that are stretchy and they are serving me well!

Sleep: This week I've been having a bit of a harder time falling asleep at night.  I haven't felt quite as exhausted and even skipped an afternoon nap one day.  Still waking up to use the restroom and Skippy has been messing with me hardcore and sleeping on the small of my back which makes it really sore! I've also been having weird dreams. Lately they've been about flying.

Symptoms: This week has been a really good week.  I've only been nauseous a couple days and don't wake up feeling as sick.  I've been able to eat lots of fruits and vegetables.  I've even been able to eat at dinner without a problem most nights which is a huge improvement. Officially up a cup size and upgraded to bras my friend, Ang, gave me. Woke up this morning with a lot of discharge which freaked me out a little bit until I was reading my 10 week update from The Bump and it was listed as a symptom, whew!

Running: I bumped my long run up to 10 miles because I didn't want to get off schedule with my long runs and I knew I wouldn't want to do one in Florida.  The run was one of those surprise runs which you expect to go poorly and actually goes really well.  The day before my long run my legs burned and I was absolutely exhausted.  I headed out for my run planning to turn around early if needed.  I half expected to only make it 3 or 4 miles.  The weather was perfect with a light drizzle and a temperature in the mid-60's.  I felt great and even ran just under 9:00 minute pace for the entire run.  My hips were a bit sore toward the end and started to burn the last couple miles.  My round ligaments didn't get sore at all after the run.  I think part of that may have been because I took the day after my long run off running.  Weekly mileage total was 23 miles.

Food Cravings: Bagels with cream cheese!  It all started with wanting an everything bagel with cream cheese from Panera.  Then my mom got a dozen bagels from Panera and I had a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese after I ate all the everything bagels.  It was delicious!  I've been eating half a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast every morning.

Food Aversions: Still eggs and smoked meat.  I thought it was just smoked meat, but I got honey barbeque buffalo wings and couldn't eat them.  Turns out it's also barbeque sauce.  I still can't eat anything I ate when I was really sick, thankfully most of it wasn't very healthy.  The only thing I can't eat that was healthy is my favorite smoothie at Tropical Smoothie.  Every once in a while I eat something and it just doesn't taste right.  One day I ate blueberry Greek yogurt and it tasted like metal.  It was so weird.

Movement: Looking forward to feeling those first kicks which baby is likely already doing. At Carter's 12 week appointment he was flipping around and kicking like crazy, I hope to see the same with this baby in 2 weeks!

Best Moment of the Week: Splashing in puddles with Carter on Saturday morning.  It has also been great to feel better this week.  I've felt better this week than I have the entire pregnancy.  It has been great!  That led to an awesome long run which was so enjoyable.  

Currently Loving: That my belly has just barely started to pop.  I can see it, Ty can see it, and my mom can see it.  After my long run on Saturday as I was walking to my mom she said I looked pregnant.  It must've been because my shirt was plastered to me due to the drizzling rain as well as the fact that I was wearing spandex shorts.  It's so much fun to have a belly and feel connected to the baby anytime I look at it.  I know it won't be long before I have a real bump!

Miss Anything: Really not missing anything this week.

What Big Brother is Up to This Week: Carter is obsessed with his rain boots and loves that he can put them on by himself.  I read to Carter from a magazine they gave us at the doctor's office about how the baby is developing right now and showed him pictures of what the baby looks like right now.  He excitedly pointed at the pictures saying "baby"!  When I asked him where our baby was he pointed at my chest and then looked around the room searching for a baby, haha!  He'll figure it out once my belly starts popping.  My Week 10 Bumpdate with Carter.

Carter loves posing for the weekly pictures!

 

Carter wanted to show off his belly too!

I joked this is his Hollister pose!