18 Weeks

The little one keeps growing! I feel like I am huge, although I have been told I am not by several people. It is starting to get harder and harder to bend over to grab things. My belly definitely gets in the way. I have felt the baby moving around a few more times since Tuesday morning when it woke me up. Other than that, we're just chugging along.

It moves!

So, two nights ago, I am peacefully sleeping. Or, as Tim says, out with no way of waking, I was awoken. Startled awake more like it at two in the morning. I felt like I was having all these weird muscle spasms in my tummy. In my zombie like state, I finally figured out that it was my little bun in the oven kicking me from the insides. How weird it felt. My sister-in-law had just been describing how weird it felt to me when she was here this weekend, and boy was her description spot on. (Thank you Lisa!) Then, of course after feeling the baby move for the first time I instantly had to get up to use the restroom. Guess he/she must have been kicking my bladder too. Anyways, I was just really excited to have experienced feeling the baby move. I am sure pretty soon it will be a common occurance.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a fun Thanksgiving weekend and were very fortunate to have a large chunk of Tim's family come out to visit. His parents and 91 year old grandma flew out from Tucson, Arizona and his from Paul, his wife Lisa, and their girls Lizzy, Hannah and Kaity all drove out from Enid, Oklahoma. Tim and I hadn't seen Paul's family since the wedding and the girls have grown sooo much. I had a blast spending time with all of them and couldn't be luckier to have gotten five amazing nieces. (There are two that weren't here that are pretty amazing too!) Tim's mom made almost all of our Thanksgiving dinner. I helped a little and so did Lisa. Lisa and I mainly had clean up duty. Friday, Lisa, Lizzy, Hannah and I went shopping for a bit, while Paul helped Tim put up Christmas lights. Saturday we took Tim's folks and grandma down to Forest Park to walk around and go in the Art Museum. Sunday everyone had to go home :( and we got our first snow fall.
Tim and I in front of our mantel. Below is Tim carving his first turkey. He didn't like the carving knife and fork that I bought him. He said the design stunk and it was too slippery.

Baby update

I had a baby doctor appointment today. We got to listen to the heart beat again. This time it was 156 beats per minutes. My doctor says everything is looking great still. Yeah! My next appointment is December 18. I will have an ultrasound at that one and if the baby cooperates, we'll find out the sex!

Amoxicillin anyone?

So, I have been sick for the last week. It all started with a stomach thing on Wednesday and then progressed from there into a full on hacking fit and congestion. It got better over the weekend and then slammed me down good yesterday. I ended up calling in sick to work today and Tim took me in to the doctor. Turns out, I have an upper respiratory tract infection. Lovely, yes I know. I figured something was up when Robutussin just wasn't cutting it anymore. So, I am now on day one of antibiotics to clear me all up. Doesn't really help that we didn't even get out of the thirties today. Needless to say, I think my butt is imprinted permanently into the couch cusions from all my time spent there over the last few days.

Onto baby. I am now fifteen weeks. Tim just snapped this picture. We are trying to get a shot each week so we can watch my growth, although with me being sick we are running a little late this week. Oh well. My morning/all day sickness is pretty much gone. (Thank God!) I am now noticing that foods I used to love, just don't taste good anymore. For some reason chicken just isn't cutting it for me right now, which really stinks. No real food cravings for me though, which is kind of nice. Other than that, things are just cooking right along.

Chicago!

Over the weekend, I flew up to Chicago and met three of my girlfriends from high school. Karissa is a CPA in Seattle and had a business trip out to Chicago to audit a hotel, so Charissa flew in from Virginia and Shelley drove up from Indiana and we all got to visit with each other for the weekend. Charissa was the planner for the group. (Thank you Charissa!) Friday night we went to the original Uno's Pizza, which is Chicago style deep dish. Then, Saturday we spent the day downtown. We walked the magnificent mile, and boy was it magnificent! I've decided that I need a whole week, plus a lot of money to go shopping up in Chicago. We also went to the Signature Room at the top of the John Hancock so we could see the city from up high. For dinner we went to Lowry's and experienced the famous roast beef, and then took off to the Oriental Theatre for the Broadway production of "Wicked." It was great being able to see my friends, so who I hadn't seen in a long time again. Hopefully we'll be able to do it again soon!

Our view from our table at the John Hancock.

Charissa said she had a "food" baby, so we compared to see whose baby was bigger. :)

Me, Karissa, Charissa, and Shelley in the Signature Room.

Shelley, Charissa, and Karissa on the blue train going to town.

13 Weeks

So, I continue to have a growing belly. I swear it doubled in size to me this week. I officially can't sleep at all on my tummy and that drives me nuts! The "all day" sickness has definitely eased up, now just randomly will I feel sick. Yeah!!! Both of us are still working extra, and this week I really felt it. I am super tired. Hopefully I can catch up on my sleep with day light savings time tonight. :)