20 Week Ultrasound/ Anatomy Scan

Thank you Lord for our precious daughter, and all of my little angels!

Well, she's still a baby girl and a perfectly healthy looking baby girl! The doctor said everything looked wonderful. My blood disorder does put me at a higher risk for heart defects so they want me to come back in 10 weeks, but for now, he said she looked perfect!

I got a picture of her foot and I counted 5 toes there! I think she's gonna have big boat feet just like me!

I felt like I was having contractions for about 2 hours last night but refused to be the fool who cried wolf at the ER so I stuck it out and went to sleep. It seems to be better now, though I have felt a few today. They measured the length of my cervix and said it was fine.

I walked through Storkland on my way home, hoping to be inspired by something to decorate her room. I didn't see anything I liked though and decided that I need to raise the price of my wall letters. They had them for sale for $18 each and these were just painted white, no designs... I am way under priced based on what I saw today!

Trying to decide on a theme for baby girl's nursery!

I just can't seem to find a crib set or theme that I really like. I don't really want any of the store bought sets because they are so cartoony and most are pretty cheesy looking. I also can't decide if I want something modern or vintage, pastely, super baby-girly. I'm also excited to make wall letters and hairbow holders for our little princess!

I have found one piece of a crib set that I like, this is the bumper:

and the whole set looks like this, but I'd prefer putting a green sheet with white polka dots and some kind of tulle or lacy crib skirt.

20 Weeks

Halfway there!! Though, in some ways, it seems like I've been pregnant for much longer, and in others it feels like time has flown by since I found out I was pregnant. I just need to be patient! I have a checkup this afternoon with my OB. I know I will have some blood work to do and they usually do a 20 week ultrasound but I'm not sure she will order one since I have an appointment for my anatomy ultrasound on Thursday with my high risk doctor.

I have had migraines EVERY SINGLE DAY! And, today, on top of the migraine, I feel like I'm going to puke my guts up for the first time in weeks! Hopefully, this will pass!

Good news! A few days ago I was able to feel our baby girl move from the outside! She tumbled like a little gymnast for a long time yesterday. Jeremy still hasn't felt or seen her move yet because she's only away when he is at work.

Joshua was doing better since his stay in the hospital but he was up ALL NIGHT LONG 2 days ago saying his stomach hurt. He has a fever right now too. He refused to eat anything yesterday and isn't too keen on drinking anything either. I don't know what to do aside from sitting on him and forcing things down his throat. I don't want another trip to the hospital!

Nathan's Christmas pageant is tomorrow at preschool. I'll post pictures afterwards. He has a part in the play too- he's a wise man! He is so excited and I'm so proud of him!

Just throwing this out there...10 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!!!! WOO HOO! I just wish I had money to enjoy it!

19 Weeks

I'm almost to the half way mark! Not much to report about this week though. I am just mostly thankful for my children this week! I am so glad to have my little Joshy home and not hooked up to machines in that hospital bed! I am happy to report that he is back to his normal, sweet, crazy self! I felt so bad for having to leave Nathan while we were in the hospital with Joshua. It was only the second time he had spent the night away from us. The first being when Joshua was born. He seemed to do fine though and now he's excited that he will be having another slumber party with Grandma when our baby girl is born.

So back to our new baby GIRL! I still cannot believe it! We are having a daughter!!! I really never thought this would happen. I thought I just wasn't meant to have a girl. I was made to be a mommy to boys. God has a plan and he has a reason for holding out on this precious girl for so long.

I received my very first baby gift from my friend Crystal. I will have to add a picture of it. It is a very cute outfit, white shirt with a pink crown appliqued and pink polka dot sleeves with pink and white striped pants and a satin pink headband with a diamond crown. I just couldn't believe I was getting such tiny clothes, such tiny pink clothes! So, over the weekend, I went out on a venture to buy my first pink item for her. I hit up a consignment sale early and left empty-handed because I just didn't see anything I liked. I ended up buying her first outfit at Target. It is a white dress with flowers and a bumble bee and rainbow striped bell bottoms. I can't believe I will have a tiny baby girl to put this on in a few months!

She still has no name....After I found out I was pregnant, we talked about having the baby's name be Elizabeth Grace if it were a girl. Now that it is, I am having second thoughts. When I was pregnant with Nathan, I was sure he was going to be a girl and I was going to name him Annabelle. So that name is slowly creeping up in the back of my mind. I just can't decide on something so hugely important. I tried weighing the pros and cons of each. Here are the names I found that our daughter could be teased with:

Annabelle: people say that's a cows name and call them annasmells, taco bell, or anna big belly...what if our baby is chubby and smells?

Elizabeth: Lizard, lizzy the lezzy, lizardbreath, E-lesbian, ditsy lizzy.... the list goes on.

How do you decide what's best?

Bubbles And Butterflies....Some of my recent creations!

I just wanted to share some of the orders I have been working on lately.

Wall Letters (PS- I can't wait to pick out a name for our baby girl to make a set for her! I've always been jealous because I haven't been able to use the girly fonts for myself!)

Batman Wall Letters

Pink & Green Wall Letters
Baby Gap Giggling Turtles Wall Letters

Pottery Barn Kids Eli's Elephant Wall Letters

Hair Bow Holders (Yea! I finally get to make one of these too!)

Tutus (I can't wait for one of these too!)

Pick me up off the floor....It's a GIRL!!!! I'm having a daughter!!!

I am still in shock! I just didn't expect to hear those words! The ultrasound tech said I'm pretty sure it's a girl, but the baby was in a bad position, so she said she would come back later and see if it had moved any.

The students started looking around again and the girl stopped on a screen and she said "oh.....no...." I said, "That's a penis isn't it?" The girl said, "No.......hmmm...." So I say, "Is it both?!?" They both bust out laughing and say "No, we can't say anything, but that's definitely a girl."

So, the tech came back in to look again and my tiny baby had moved and sure enough, SHE is a GIRL!!!

It still hasn't sunk in yet...I need to buy something pink, and maybe name my child one day!

Wow...what a crazy few days!

I decided to take Joshua to the doctor on Tuesday because he had a fever over the weekend and had developed a cough. I wanted to make sure he didn't have pnemonia or the flu. Well, it turns out that he was severly dehydrated. The doctor said he would "go down the tube fast" if he wasn't hospitalized. So, I had to leave the doctor's office and take him to Sacred Heart Children's Hospital right away.

The gave us a room, took his vitals, and weighed him. He was only 29 lbs, when he is normally around 33. They finally took us to a treatment room and started his IV and took blood. This was the worst thing I have ever put any of my children through. They had to try 3 times to get a vein that didn't explode. To top it off, they squirted water up his nose and sucked it out with a machine to test for flu and other viruses.

Everything came back negative other than him being positive for RSV, and infection in his lungs. So, we were quaranteened for 2 days in his tiny hospital room while they pumped him full of fluids.

I am so proud of my brave little boy! He was so good and took everything so much better than I ever expected! He is so strong and such a trooper!

Santa, Mrs Claus, and Frosty paid him a visit in his room last night. They gave him a big stuffed dog which he named Fluffy. He would never give they any eye contact, but he sure loves that dog!

Before they discharged him today, they gave him a flu shot and the H1N1 shot. That was horrible too, having to hold him down for that was awful! He got over it fast and was ready to bee line it for our house!

Yesterday afternoon we let grandma come sit with him for a while because I had an appointment for an ultrasound at the hospital and didn't want to cancel and have to wait for another appointment. So, I'll keep you in the dark for this post, but I know what IT is now...... :)

18 Weeks

Woo hoo! I made it through the dreaded 17 week mark!! I am sure I am beginning to sound like a broken record, but I have not felt any movement in about 2 days. Yesterday I woke up with pains in my stomach but they finally went away. I don't want to call my doctor about every little thing because I know they think I am crazy. I just need my sweet baby to give me a good nudge so I know it's ok.

I am so excited because I am going tomorrow for an ultrasound! I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep tomorrow and make it through the whole day until the afternoon! Granted it will be students practicing on me, but my child is bound to cooperate enough in the hour's time for someone to see some genitals! I am so praying for a girl but I will love a boy just the same as I love the 2 I already have! I just want that experience and fulfillment of having both. Everyone around me gets to dress their children in bows. dresses, and pigtails, and I just want that same experience. I suppose if this baby is a boy, I can put bows on him until he's old enough to know better! :)

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas around here. We put up our tree on Thanksgiving. I ended up having to re-decorate it a few days ago because I couldn't take the purple and silver we've used for the past few years! Plus, Nathan always puts the ornaments at eye level in only one spot. Elfie also made his grand debut Thanksgiving night. The boys found him on the front porch, waiting for us when we got back from their grandma's house. They were both so excited to see him again after a long year! Now, it is a game every morning trying to find where he has perched for the day. I went shopping this past week on Black Friday. I didn't really get the things I had planned to because of the lack of funds and mass confusion in the stores. It was fun to start off the Christmas season at a ridiculous 4:30 am though.

Well, I hope to post again tomorrow night with good news of a precious baby boy or girl!