Thanksgiving

Who else ate a whole bunch for thanksgiving besides me? We went up to Huntington where my dad's fiance lives and had a wonderful time. I cooked some of my awesome mac and cheese and we had tons to eat! Lori made some awesome spinach dip and deviled eggs! YUM My dad cooked a ton too. He made some very delicious Candied Yams and a whole bunch of pies.
They did a great job hosting. I'm so glad to see my dad with someone as nice and fun as Lori.

The weather that day was pretty icky. It was pretty much cold and drizzling outside all day. We all hung out and enjoyed each other's company and had a great time.

Friday was black friday and andy and I had to work so no shopping for us. Which is fine by me. I did buy some clothes online at Old Navy who were having black friday sales online and in store.

I bought my secret santa child a cute outfit and got her a toy this weekend. I so wish I had more money to buy her more things. I hope my gifts will bring a smile to her little face and make her Christmas that much more special.

Now the weekend is over and its back to work. On a more exciting note, Tuesday is my 16 week appointment. Lets cross our fingers I can get my ultrasound scheduled before the year is out!!

So excited!

By my post you might think it has something to do with baby Kirk, but suprisingly it does not!
Andy and I live in a 2 bedroom apartment and when we first moved in together we did not have much furniture. Andy had lived at home so he literally had nothing to bring. We had lots of little things but no where to store it. Well that second bedroom kind of turned into what we called our "Junk" room.
It was embarrassingly packed with tons of junk. Anytime we had guests over we would close the door and hope that no one accidentaly walk into it. My dad would lovingly scold me about how that room needed to be cleaned up. (He lovingly scolds me to clean my whole house all the time by the way.)
So finally after a year of living in the apartment I decided to take some initiative and get it at least some what organized. Andy's mom offered to help and so we tackled trying to get stuff out of the closet to make room for stuff to put in the closet. The room is finally cleaned out!
The most exciting thing though is this:
One of the biggest things we are having a problem with our storage is all our books taking up closet space. So Andy and I compromised and we bought 2 of these bookshelfs! I am so excited to get them and put some of our stuff into it. I feel like I'm slowly finally becoming a real adult with matching furniture! Well its slowly coming together that is. My original plan is to put both bookcases on each end with the tv stand in the middle but with the layout of our apartment and our couches, I dont think that will be possible with out some serious moving everything around.
Eventually thats how I would like it to look but I'll take it as it is now.
I can't wait to get them on Monday! Yay!

14 weeks!

Well today marks the first day of my second trimester! I feel so lucky to have gotten through my first with very minimal nausea. Mostly it was when I didnt eat right away in the mornings which I have never been good at. I would literally force oatmeal or toast down my throat to try to not feel nauseous. I can tell now that I don't have that problem anymore. Course I am still eating but now I don't feel like I have to right away when waking up. I didn't experience any throwing up which is awesome because I really hate throwing up. (Who loves to throw up?)

Also I was worried that with all the eating that maybe I was being unhealthy but I only gained 4 pounds in my first trimester. I'm still not sure if thats a good or bad thing. I've read some women lost weight and some gained like 12 pounds in their first. So I guess I am averaging out. I still haven't really noticed any definite changes. My waist has increased a couple inches but its still not the pregnant belly yet. It definitely sticks out more though!

Still fitting into all my clothes although i wear most of my pants/jeans unbuttoned with the bella band. Its so much comfier for me. Yes I could be vain and button my pants and be like "oh i still fit in my jeans." Because technically I do. But sitting down the pants definitely press into my expanding stomach and its not that comfortable. We will see how much longer I can go with wearing my pants/jeans before I have to bust out the maternity pants/jeans.

Yesterday at work I had a coworker come up to me and tell me that I had the "pregnancy face"
I took that to mean that my face had gotten fatter. LOL he then told me he meant that he could see I had the pregnancy glow. Hmm I don't know about that but I have been lucky enough to avoid the pregnancy acne side affect.

On a last note on the website I frequent they have this food comparison to your growing baby. Which I find weird, and makes me hungry at the same time. Very odd but todays picture is cute.
My little baby is now the size of a lemon! YUM! I mean cute! I think I will take another belly picture when I am 15 weeks or 16 weeks.
Also at 16 weeks I will go in for another appointment and schedule our ultrasound! Can't wait!!

1st Dr. Appointment

On Tuesday I finally got to go to the doctor for my first official prenatal appointment. I knew that I probably wasn't going to get an ultrasound so I figured it was just testing and what not. Well when we got in we learned that our doctor we were supposed to meet with had to step out for a delivery! Not a big deal just kind of funny I mean it is his job and all to deliver babies. He might even deliver mine! So instead we met with a Nurse who did all the testing. I got to do the fun stuff of peeing in a cup. Donating blood and getting "checked out".
Mostly I feel bad for andy I thought it was going to be a bit more eventful since it was our first appointment, but apparently even prenatal appointments aren't that exciting either! So I get done and my next appointment is December 1st. I will be 16 weeks then. I think it will be just another checkup of sorts. Then I will get scheduled for my one and only ultrasound at another 4-6 weeks.
I'm hoping I can get it right at 20 weeks but I guess I will just have to see what I get.
I can already tell that being pregnant is working my nerves . I am impaitent person. I always have been and I think I always will be to some degree, but being pregnant and waiting for these appointments are testing me! I already know I'm going to be one crabby person when baby kirk is due.

6 more days.

So I have about 6 more days until I finally get to go to the doctors and get my first official prenatal checkup. From what I can remember I will be giving blood and urine samples for testing. Getting an oh so fun pelvic examination. And then if I am lucky the doctor will actually tell me I'm pregnant!
But really it has been a bit of a frustration for me. Yes I took pregnancy tests. 5 to be exact. Yes I got to hear the heart beat. Thanks to my own initiative. It's just it doesn't feel real to me yet! I see women on the Babycenter forum where I read posting their ultrasound pictures from anywhere from 6 weeks to 10 weeks. They got to have ultrasounds already and know that their child is growing safely inside them.
I unfortunately don't have that comfort. I keep having daydreams (more like nightmares) about going into the doctors office finally at 12 weeks and them doing an ultrasound and telling me that if there was a baby, it's not there any more. I know I'm just freaking out, but I just can't help it!
Mostly I am probably the most impaitent person, and this has been probably one of the longest wait I've had to go through.

On another note Halloween is this weekend! Andy will be getting to dress up for what I think is his first time! I'm a bit sad that he never got to experience the fun of dressing in a costume and going trick or treating and eating lots of candy. I hope that when our children are older he can kind of live through their joy and get to experience it. Still we are hoping for nice weather and not too cold. Of course this is indiana so we have no idea what we are going to get!

Our First Video of Baby Kirk

At exactly 10 weeks into my pregnancy, Andy and I got to hear the most wonderful sound. The sound of our baby's heart beating. I was originally upset that I wouldn't get to hear or find out anything until my first appointment which isn't until November 3rd. But I took matters into my own hands, researched around and found out that you can rent or buy your own fetal heart doppler.
I decided to rent one and rented it at 8 weeks. You can rent it for 4 weeks so I decided if I couldn't find the heartbeat myself at least I tried and I could go into the doctors.
At 8 weeks I didn't find anything. I wasn't really sure where to even look! The directions say right under your belly button but that made no sense to me. But I fiddled around didn't find anything and put it up for next week.
At 9 weeks I again didn't find anything. I wasn't worried just more disappointed as I really wanted to see if I was imagining being pregnant or if this was really real. (you would think 5 pregnancy test would make it real for me but haha it didnt!)
Finally last friday on exactly 10 weeks, I tried again. As you can see by all the lotion I tried every where! Started off high moved around and was starting to give up again when I moved lower I thought I could hear something. It was faint but I moved it around some more and then bam there it was fluttering away in my ear!
I yelled for andy to grab the flip and told him "I think I found it!!!"
And there baby kirk was. Andy was recording, I was super thrilled. And then I ruined it by moving the doppler just ever so slightly. Or baby kirk got scared and swam away. Who knows but for a brief moment we could hear him/her, and know that he/she was really there. That I wasn't crazy!
Amazing!!

Oh baby!

Wow I haven't updated in a while! So if you are a follower of me on facebook you might have already heard the news that Andy and I are expecting our first child May 14th. We are beyond happy and excited and just a little nervous.
As of today I am 9weeks 6days. So my last post was about the reception party which was on August 29th. Well if my calendar is correct baby kirk was already growing inside but I had no idea! A little tmi but I am a very regular person when it comes to that time of the month. I immediately knew when I had missed my period and took a test that morning.
I was in shock! I mean at first I thought maybe I was just late and over reacting. But as I watched that first line show up and how dark it was! I was just excited! It was around 9:30 am and I immediately took the test and jumped into bed and woke Andy up. He was all groggy and did not know what was going on. I then waved the stick in his face and he then had a huge smile on his face!
I originally was going to try to wait until after 12 weeks to make it public knowledge but Andy and I both just couldn't keep it in. Shoot we didn't even make it past 7 weeks!
Still it's wonderful and exciting. I'll have more posts about baby stuff as we progress. As of right now I'm just kind of sitting around and waiting. My first appointment isn't until November 3rd which is almost 3 weeks away ugh! I'm so impaitent!