22 weeks

2012. 06.04

Nothing too exciting this week. Just growing away!

What is going on your ask? Why, let me tell you! Week 22 in a nutshell

- baby is almost 10 inches long and weighs a WHOLE 14 ounces! 

- baby is the size of a small doll. (man terms: the size of an overinflated football. the description stays as an overinflated football through week 24. Funny... I feel like an overinflated hot air balloon!)

- I am starting to get tired from simple things that I used to do on a regular basis. shopping anyone? (this is my worst nightmare, and I am sure... C$'s best dream.)

21 weeks

2012.05.28

This week, I revealed the secret at work. I made everyone wait until Wednesday when I brought in pink cookies :) Lucky for them, because they all love some free food! My friend had sent out an email asking people to vote between one of three choices. 

     1. boy

     2. girl

     3. twins! (Believe it or not, some people were hoping that finding out the gender also meant that there would miraculously be twins. Miraculously, there were not.)     

Once people guessed, they had to wait until the next day for the email announcing free food! Oh yea, and the baby's gender. It is funny though, I mean, I feel like it is more real, but I think that everyone I work with feels like it is more real too!

What's happening in week 21?

- baby has grown to over 8 ½ inches long and weighs about 12 ounces. (man terms? the length of a beer bottle.)

- baby's eyelids have finished forming this week.

- baby is about the size of a papaya

And me? I really enjoy the "hand on my hip because I am so awkward in photos" pose.

the big reveal

2012. 05.25

Sorry! I know, I know... it's been awhile. Let's try to catch up shall we?

Last time we left you, we told you that IT'S A GIRL! However, we didn't tell you about telling our families!

Since my family is in Seattle, while C$'s fam-bam lives in town (like, 8 miles directly west of us!) we decided to virtually get everyone together. Chris's parents and youngest brother came over with the younger bro's gf for dinner. Meanwhile, I had set up a facetime date (gawd... I love apple) with my family. Once dinner was over, we called up my family and sat C's fam down on the couch. Following some explanation of how some people choose to do a reveal through a cake, but we wanted to do something slightly different (and the fact that C's mom makes a killer dessert that I was not about to pass up), we finally opened the giant box that had been taunting everyone in the living room all evening. Next thing you knew (after I realized that I hadn't cut all the tape on my side) balloons flew out making is very apparent that a little girl would be gracing us with her presence in October.

And just so you get to see our beaming mugs with my crafty-handiwork :)

And as a final note (and to know how amazing I am with my craftiness), AFTER we did this, I saw a picture on Pinterest (my current obsession) of a couple opening a box and colored balloons flying out. Just to give myself a little pat on my own back (not that I can reach it right now...), we did the box BEFORE I ever saw the Pinterest picture. BAM!

4th appointment: do you want to know???

2012. 05.24

Well.... do you? I mean, that's the first question people ask US lately. "Do you know what you are having?!" And as much as I want to respond with "Yes! A baby!" We can actually now answer people's questions with what they want to hear.

But let's back up to the appointment.

C met me at the Doctor's office. (And let me take a moment to point out how AMAZEBALLS my husband has been. He has only missed 1 appointment, and that was because he was out of town traveling for work. So he had a great excuse. Otherwise, he has been with me at every appointment and tries to schedule his meetings around the appointments if he knows when they are. He never ceases to amaze me! Now that we have all sufficiently vommed in our mouths a little bit, lets get on with this story.) He greeted me by asked how I was doing and I responded by telling him that I was nervous. No matter how many weeks into the pregnancy we are, I am always nervous to go to these appointments.

We got inside, and had a seat. Much to our surprise, we were quickly called to the back. (Seriously, how many times have we all gone to the Dr's office only to sit and wait at least 30 minutes before they even call you into the back??) The first part of our appointment was the good stuff; the sonogram! As we were walking in, I asked to use the bathroom. They ALWAYS make you pee in a cup when you are there, so I figured that I would just get it out of the way. That, and I never drink enough water on a regular basis, but I DO think that by loading up on water the morning before my appointment will somehow trick Dr. Long into thinking that I am TOTALLY drinking 90 ounces of water every.single.day. (Let me have live in my dream world) After I got myself situated, I met C$ in the sonogram room.

The technician had me lay on the table, uncover my growing belly, and then smeared some gel on it to get me ready for the big reveal. As she was getting ready to get started, she asked if we wanted to know the baby's gender. I am sure that they look of "duh" was written all over our faces when we told her yes. Next thing we knew she was moving the monitor over my belly.

The first thing that she did was pull up the sound so we could hear the heart beat. When you are listening to the most reassuring sound in the world, they also pull up a visual of the sound waves. For our sonogram, they looked something like this: "beat. beat. beat. BEAT. beat. beat. beat. BEAT. beat. beat. beat. BEAT". Well, the 2 different beats gave C a bit of a shock. He thought that the technician  was going to tell us that we were having twins! I laughed out loud when he told me after. Thankfully, the technician assured us that there was only one baby in there. (Sorry Grandmas). Then, the technician started taking pictures, measurements, and checking to ensure that everything was ok. Little did she know that by doing all of this, she was driving us CRAZY. At one point, she was getting ready to tell us the gender, but our little baby had it's hand between it's legs so the technician wasn't able to tell. So she just keep taking pictures and measuring. But then...... she was able to get a good look because our little babe was moving like crazy and moved its hand while doing the macarena. (Must share my love for a good dance party!)

IT'S A GIRL!

I am sure that there were other things said, but all I knew is that the technician still had more pictures to take, but I was ready to high tail it out of there and hole up in my house not telling anyone the gender until we told our families! The rest of the appointment was pretty standard. Finished the pictures. Met with Dr. Long. Had a couple of questions and made our next appointment. 

I actually left that afternoon feeling like I was pregnant, and not just like I was growing for nothing. It actually felt REAL. As C reminded me, it had always been real. But it hadn't really FELT real. But now it does. There is a little girl that we are preparing for! And now I feel a little more justified when I have to pull "the baby wants/needs/thinks..." card. ;) Also, C$ (and he may not admit it) appeared to me, feel like it was a little more real. He now talks about our "baby girl" and how he is stressed for 13 years down the road. I make sure to point out all of the men out there who have survived raising daughters, including my own dear ol' dad. 

Anyway, enough rambling for tonight. Check out some more pics!

baby's profile

baby's face. Can you see her wittle-bitty nose??

little baby feet!

20 weeks

2012.05.21


Brace yourself... this is the first belly pic!

Up to this point, I haven't "felt" pregnant. And truth be told, I didn't "feel" pregnant even after C$ took this pic and gave me a peek. Eh, I felt more like (and this is my sister's description so don't judge me; judge her.) "a sorority girl." The ones my sister saw at the gyms in college had skinny little legs with bellies from all of the beer that they had consumed 6.5 nights a week.


Anyway, take a look for yourself and see the growing bump! And for those of you that care...


What is happening in week 20?
- baby is about 7 ¾ inches long and weighs approximately 9 ounces. 
- the baby is about the size of a cantaloupe. (C follows a "man" blog that gives him comparisons men care about. This week? Compared to one nice sized boob. No Joke. Check it out.)
- I am starving. Pretty much all of the time. But much to my sister and father's dismay, no I am not on a "see food" diet. 


And yes, the big REVEAL is coming soon. Stay tuned!