22 Weeks

Here's a little update on me and the baby since people have been asking and for some reason people think i'm sick. So in order to keep everyone on the same page I figured I will write a post for all of you. I know I have been posting a lot lately so I hope this doesn't annoy anyone, here we go! Also don't read this too seriously it's supposed to be taken lightly.

As of today I am officially 22 weeks pregnant with our baby girl.

I am barely showing and if you didn't know I was preggers you would probably think I had too much to eat and if you saw me eat that would confirm your suspicion. I grow small babies.

I am not sick at all, the morning sickness ended around 11 weeks (knock on wood) and I would rather die than have it come back. This annoys Brian because we have a lifetime supply of preggie pops that I never used and no we wont give them away, if you want them you'll have to buy them off of us.

I love sweet foods, I eat cuties all the time. Everyone at work jokes and asks if I ever eat anything else, so today I brought a salad. Take that suckas!

I eat so much food! I used to be the cheapest date Brian ever had now its embarrassing to take me out, I usually eat more than he does. Don't give me that "you're eating for two" crap, I'm eating for like 5 or 6.

I started feeling the baby move recently and I hate it. It feels like a fish is swimming angerly around in there, but I've started tuning it out like random background noise.

We have picked a name, but I don't want to tell you what it is, not to keep it a secret i just have no desire to tell anyone unless they pry it out of me.

I am not one of those women that loves being pregnant, I hate it and I cant wait until this whole thing is over with, however getting whatever food I want is a bonus!

I love my job so much! It helps time fly by. Before I know it I'm going to have a baby!

Heartburn is a jerk! I don't get it often but when I do Satan might as well be living in my throat..

We have begun painting the nursery! The colors we chose were two light shades of purple and white. Now, we don't want everyone to take this information and buy us purple everything, other colors would be nice if you choose to get us something.

We are registered at target, in case you aren't sure how to access our registry go to target.com go to the registries tab under baby click on find. It will ask for a name put Brian and our last name and it should come up.

For now I believe I am out of things to tell you. I hope you all didn't take this too seriously and I hope you all have a fantastic day!

The Act of Anger

I'm sure we all have known someone in our lives who has made them angry. When I say angry I mean the worst kind of anger imaginable and you think to yourself "I hate that person" and you probably feel like you mean it.

Hate is such a strong word and I feel as a society if we stopped using it to describe things we dislike all the time we as a people would be much happier and more forgiving. Its hard when someone angers you by saying something rude, accusing you of things you never did, bullying you, whatever the case may be to forgive them and to truly mean it.

As a crazy pregnant lady with hormones flying everywhere it is very easy to upset me and put me in a bad mood so believe me when I say I know anger. When we consider how to respond to whoever is upsetting us we need to take a minute to think about how it will make the other person feel on the inside and to think about how it would make you feel if someone said that to you, if it's not a good feeling we should not respond because how is anger and sadness going to benefit the relationships we have in our lives? Even if you don't know the person why would you want to make someone feel horrible inside? No one I know of enjoys feeling horrible, angry or sad. We all need to take a good look at ourselves and try to be better even if it's just smiling at a stranger, because you never know how bad their day is going.

One of the things I try to remember when dealing with upsetting situations is how Jesus would respond. I'm not even kidding, it may sound silly or what have you, but it really makes you sit and think. Jesus Christ was the most loving and caring person I know of. With every situation he was given he always acted with compassion and love. I feel that we all need to consider responding with love and compassion instead of hate and disdain and to try to be more like Jesus and treat everyone with respect and kindness.

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read this, This topic has been weighing on me recently and I just wanted to get some thoughts out and maybe try to help someone else that may be dealing with these emotions.

The results are in

Today we went to the doctors and had an ultra sound. 

The tech asked if we wanted to know the gender and we said yes, she then proceeded to do the anatomy evaluation the whole exam took about 40 minutes and she looked at everything and I mean everything! We saw our babies heart and spine and brain and it was all really weird, but pretty fascinating! 

She had a hard time determining the gender because our baby decided to be shy today and not cooperate, but finally the technician was able to snap a quick picture and she double checked with us to make sure we wanted to know and we said yes once more. 

She then proceeded to tell us "From what I can see here it looks like you're having a girl!" 

So there you have it we are expecting a miniature version of me in May. 

Bring on the little terror! 

Predictions

Next week we are having the ultra sound to find out what gender we are having. I thought it would be fun to take a few of the old wives tales and see what results I get before we actually find out! Here we go!!

1. Carrying High or Low: I am low I think, its hard to tell.  Boy

2. Skin Dry or Soft: I have the driest skin on earth!  Boy

3. Baby's heart rate below or above 140: All 3 times we heard it, it was above 140.  Girl

4. Thin or full hair:  I would say its rather full.  Boy

5. Carrying weight in front or in back: I would definitely say front.  Boy

6. Add age at conception and month, odd or even: Odd.  Girl

7. Craving sweets or salty sour: I cant get enough cookies, sweets, juice mac n cheese or BBQ sauce  Girl

8. Morning sickness: From 6 to 11 weeks  Girl

9. Appearance looking better or worse: I am way worse!  Girl

10. Ring test, does it move in circles or side to side: First it was side to side then it did circles for a while, but I used Brian's wedding ring so maybe it's confused haha  Boy

We can officially say your guess is as good as mine judging from these results. I hope you enjoyed this little post and I will try to keep everyone up to date on exciting things that are happening!