Week 20: Half Way There and It's A.....

Size of Baby/ This week's fruit: Cantaloupe. I really wonder how they are measuring this fruit sometimes!

Cravings: Ice Cream. I tell my husband this is how we know it is his child since I never really have been much of an ice cream person and suddenly it sounds so good to me.

What I love now: The fact that we are at the half way point and it all seems very real right now. It's time for things to start happening over here! I started feeling movement and some kicks this week and towards the end of the week I realized I was able to see the kicks.

Symptoms: Still have low energy and started having leg cramps.

Highlight of the week: Our 20 week appointment and anatomy ultra sound. This is the BIG appointment. They told us it would be a long one. Our ultrasound tech was WONDERFUL and was very thorough checking everything out. There really aren't words to describe how unbelievable it all is. At our first appointment the baby looked a little like a shrimp to be honest and now it is a BABY. It is beyond anything I could ever truly grasp. They ask for you to come with a full or mostly full bladder to the appointment. I EXCELLED in this task since I don't know how much it takes to fill my bladder these days and our little one wasn't too activity since it had a full bladder pressing against it. Our ultrasound tech and our doctor were both very happy with everything and we felt extremely fortunate to have such a great appointment.

Gender: We are having a girl. Her name is Lucy Grace. :) We both really loved the name Lucy and her middle name, Grace, is the same as my mom's middle name and my maternal grandmother's first name. We have had such a positive reaction to her name and so much love and support already.

We feel so incredibly blessed and are so excited to meet our daughter :)


The fact that I am wearing pink and he is wearing blue was a total coincidence. Not planned at all.

16 Weeks - Avocado - Who Wants Some Guacamole?

I have a feeling that after this pregnancy has resulted in a little bebe I'm going to want to be able to remember this special period of time. My husband bought me a pregnancy journal for a birthday present that I am using but I am going to try to keep up with weekly record keeping of the same criteria week to week. I'm going to give it the old college try at least. :)

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Week 16 - The Bump Fruit Size: Avocado


Size of Baby/ This week's fruit: Avocado. Hmm right off the bat and we are switching it up since an avocado is a vegetable.

Cravings: I haven't had any weird cravings at all so far. I've mostly just craved junk food. Pizza, doughnuts, all of the Publix bakery and once in awhile I will really crave something salty like crackers or chips.

What I love now: The fact that I have just a bit of a belly all day now. It use to be that I only really "showed" in the evening when bloat was at play but it looks like the belly has moved in for good these days!

Symptoms: Just some very mild soreness from time to time. My abdomen always feels tight. Pregnancy brain is in FULL effect over here. I feel a bit like Dory from Finding Nemo in most things....I think. :) It seems that my burping and difficulty with indigestion and food have finally gone away which was my biggest issue in the 1st trimester. I'm a lucky girl who never had any morning sickness.

Highlight of the week: Our 16 week appointment. Everything looked good, baby's heartbeat was in the 150s (it hadn't been below 160 till this point). And the most exciting part of the appointment, scheduling our 20 week anatomy scan ultrasound (aka the gender ultrasound) for the end of the month. I'm amazed at how fast this has all gone so far. 20 weeks is the half way point in a pregnancy. It blows my mind that we are almost at that point. We have a boy name and a girl name picked out which is exciting. While it is very exciting that we will know the gender of our baby soon I'm most excited about having the chance to see our baby again (first ultrasound was at 8 weeks) and to know that we have a healthy baby. As far as gender preference, we have none. None at all. I feel sort of cliche that I'm saying that and it use to really bug me when pregnant women would say that because I figured that they did have a preference and just didn't want to look like they didn't want a particular sex but I realize now how true it is to say "we just want a healthy baby". I just can't wait to know this baby a little bit better after our next appointment!

Little Peanut

Where do you even begin when you are writing a post about a new life growing inside of you?

About your first child.

About a baby. Your baby.

Kinda some heavy stuff, you know?



We live in South Carolina. It's a state known for its palmetto and crescent moon flag, for the low country and amazing seafood. And peanuts. Mainly boiled peanuts. Which is pronounced "bowled" if you are truly a native of the state.

And now we have our very own little South Carolina peanut on the way.

Our baby is a little bit bigger then a peanut these days, according to the weekly fruit updates I get each week that clue me in to all the amazing things that the baby is up to. Like growing fingerprints, bones and muscles. Its forming an image and an identity along with creating a strong and functioning body.

This will be a summer baby. We are at 16 weeks right now. In a month we will get to see our baby again . We will get to see a small beating heart and and take another step closer in learning who this baby is.

It's hard to know how to start a post about the life growing inside of you. This amazing blessing that has entered our life. I'm finding it's even harder to end a post about this little miracle. Because right now my heart is just full with the wonder of a new beginning.

I've Been Doing Some Reading...

I've been doing a little reading lately. I'm getting prepared for later this summer when all this knowledge will be pretty important for us. And we couldn't be happier

♥

Friday the 13th

It's Friday the 13th, time to freak out!!!

Right?

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I've actually never seen the movie before, all I know is that it has to do with an old school hockey mask. Jason and not Freddy is in this one, right?

This leads into the point of this lovely blog post, since today is a day about being superstitious and fearful.

I would say I am a fairly superstitious person. When I was younger I would hold my breath when the school bus would go past a cemetery, didn't want to breathe in the evil spirits. I stopped doing that awhile ago, but I still have other superstitious habits like knocking on wood when I say something and I don't want it to go the other way. For examples, "The weather is suppose to be perfect no rain this weekend for our trip" *knock on wood*.

All the other superstitions I have relate to sports. My husband and I have little routines that span from kissing for goals scored to chest bumps depending on the sport we are watching. On top of that I do find myself crossing my fingers sometimes when I'm watching a game and I *really* want some thing positive to happen (a goal, a touchdown, first down, etc) for the team I'm cheering for. Being Cubs fans we would put the "W" flag (which signals a win in the city of Chicago after a game) up in our house after a win and make sure it came down before the next game started. A lot of superstitions in sports.

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It's probably pretty clear from my lack of knowledge about the movie Friday the 13th that I don't do scary movies. I'm a big baby when it comes to scary movies.

My biggest fear though has to do with a creature that has no legs and has a pretty notorious beginning in the story of Adam and Eve. Augh I don't even want to type those letters. SNAKES.

I'm absolutely terrified of snakes which is why I'm not posting a picture of one.

Y'all know what a snake looks like.

Living in Florida they are all over the place and the couple times that I have come near one I'm pretty sure my feet did something like you see in an episode of the Flintstones where the toes aren't actually touching the ground as I got the heck out of there. I can't watch movies with them in it, I can't watch nature shows with them in it or I'm guaranteeing myself nightmares that night.

So on this day of superstition and fear what are you afraid of or what superstitions do you have?

Woo Lawdy!

I've been a little MIA lately in these parts!


Here are some places that I've been lately:







More to come!

Random Thoughts for a New Month

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

It was our first year having trick or treaters (we've lived in apartments before now and never really in kid friendly areas) and I was surprised at how much I loved having the cute little kiddos come to our house. We had some great kid costumes in our area including a homemade R2D2 (Star Wars character) that was made from an upside down garbage can and spray painted. The poor little guy didn't really have arms in his costume so his brother had to carry his candy for him. So cute!

The only one that got dressed up for Halloween in our house was our dog Wylie.



He is a turtle in case it isn't obvious :)

I'm always a little sad come November 1st because I love Halloween decorations and I hate to put them away.




I liked this black and white hounds tooth pattern for my Halloween nails. I think it turned out pretty good.


We were in Jacksonville this past weekend for the Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, otherwise known as the Florida- Georgia game.





The game was .....scary. Halloween came a little early for Gator fans. Ouch.

And if this post wasn't random enough already, in the past 2 days I've seen 2 Mary Kay Pink Cadillacs.

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Just seemed kind of random to see 2 in 2 days when I haven't seen one in a long time. Maybe Mary Kay just got a shipment in and a whole bunch of ladies are sporting some new pink wheels? I was a Mary Kay consultant for a very brief time. It's a good company, sales just aren't my thing. Mary Kay Ash (real person) was a very interesting lady and pretty inspirational.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash


Random Post over!

What was the highlight of your Halloween? Have you ever seen a pink Mary Kay caddy?