13 Weeks Pregnant!

I'm in my 14th week! I'm pretty sure that nudges me up into the 2nd trimester, but maybe not for another week... Either way, I am feeling better so far! I had a rough few days earlier this week so I'm hoping that was my "peak" and that I'm coming down into that splendid time where I actually enjoy being pregnant! Keep your fingers crossed for me;)

The batteries are dead in my camera so I'll have to take the belly picture tomorrow or this weekend after shopping.

I've been able to talk to Thomas a lot this week, like once or twice a day so far!! He's doing very well. We're pretty sure he's staying the whole deployment:( But have started talking about a little vacation we want to start planning for when he gets home this July! So it's something for us to really look forward to!! He's working his regular 12-hour shift right now and an extra 4 hours to cover part of another guy's shift. 16 hour days... whew!! But ofcourse we're proud of him and he's doing a great job over there!

Life and pregnancy are pretty slow right now so I don't have anything else to really write about:( But ofcourse.... I have Fun Facts about Baby Whitten this week:):)

THE 14th WEEK OF PREGNANCY:

*Thyroid gland has matured and your baby begins producing hormones which will be used throughout his or her life.
*In boys, the prostate gland develops
*In girls, the ovaries move from the abdomen to the pelvis
*Your little one may have learned to suck his thumb by this point!
*Your child's bones are getting harder and stronger by the day!
*Your baby's skin is very transparent still
*Lanugo (very fine hair) covers the baby's body and will continue to grow until 26 weeks gestational age - Generally this will be shed prior to birth. Its purpose is to help protect baby's skin while in all that water!
*Your baby is 3.42 inches (8.7cm) long and weighs about 1.52 ounces (43 grams) - approximately the weight of a letter!

Playing Catch Up!

Sorry about not posting this on time! I spent the weekend in jacksonville busy with family and a baby shower for a friend! The weekend was wonderful! I ate a ton and kept it all down!! It was a beautiful thing:) I woke up monday morning to leave and had a pretty sore throat, so I was a little worried since I spent sunday with Thomas' step-mother who had Strep throat! Well, my battery was dead in the Durango and everytime my dad hooked it up to the charger my security system started going off, at 5:30 in the morning!! he finally figured out that we could disconnect the horn and wa la... it was quiet and charging!! (Such a smart man!!) Well, that was the end of my beautiful weekend! I threw up that morning just a few minutes before I left:( I munched on some crackers and a muffin on the 2 and a half hour drive home and felt fine when my dad called to check in on me a few minutes from my house! But not even 15 minutes later I was throwing up again:( I laid down to take a nap and woke up 2 hours later throwing up. I ate some trail mix while i put some tater tots in the oven and by the time the tots were done, the trail mix came back up. I was miserable. It was the worse (worst?) I have felt so far. I, stupidly, thought I was done and that the tots were staying down... Thomas called around 10 that night and a few minutes later I had him on speaker phone listening to those lovely tots coming back up!! I figured, since his timing was so great and he wasn't here to hold my hair, the least he could do was be grossed out by it on the other side of the world!! I called out of work the next day since i planned on going to the ER since I wasn't able to keep anything down and threw up with in the first half hour I was awake. But the rest of the day I was fine... I went to get a sub from subway and started getting sick on the way there, but was too scared of throwing up while I was driving so i "jedi mind power-ed" it to stay down:) And the rest of the week has been fine! I haven't worked, she gave me the week off to rest, so I've just been bumming around the house with my horribly energetic dogs! I don't have a belly picture for 12 weeks but I can post the fun facts about the baby!!

THE 13th WEEK OF PREGNANCY:

*Your infant is about 2.91 inches (7.4cm) and weighs around 0.81 ounce (23gm) - This is about the same weight as 4 quarters.
*If you could peek in again you may spot your baby as he begins to practice inhaling and exhaling movements
*Eyes and ears continue to move and develop
*Baby's neck is getting longer, and the chin no longer is resting on his chest
*His hands are becoming more functional - Your baby may find it comforting to start playing with his fist.
*At this point all nourishment is received from the placenta

I typed out this whole long post about how terrible I feel and figured it was a little too detailed and a little too whiney... so I deleted it!! But the past week has been a wonderful combonation of exhaustion, nausea and hot flashes... only to be topped off tonight with projectile vomitting my SPICEY chicken taco salad all down the front of my new clothes:( On the plus side, throwing up made me feel much better, even though I am starving again!! I'm pretty sure I was a silly silly fool for praying to God all those months for this!! And I really don't think we'll be sticking to the 5 kids plan I put into play while I was so desperate for a baby! At this point I'm almost certain this will be an only child!! But maybe if Thomas can get a 3 month leave to take care of this child and everything else while I'm pregnant next time, I'll think about doing this again! lol.

Speeeeeaking of Thomas... I got an e-mail from the commander's wife today! She had talked to her husband the day before and he wanted her to tell me that Thomas is "kicking butt" and that he is so proud of all of his accomplishments!! Wow! If you know Thomas there is no way you are surprised by this!! But it just amazes me that he is doing SUCH an amazing job over there and I'm throwing up all over myself back here! Two totally different worlds at this point!! lol! BUT, I will be 12weeks tomorrow, so pray pray pray that this part of the pregnancy is over for me soon! I'm ready to be excited about this pregnancy and this baby of ours!! I'll update on baby's growth and whatnot tomorrow or Thursday and add a belly picture soon too!!

Belly Picture--11w2d

Today is a lazzzy day! I decided I would sleep until noon and stay in my p.j.s all day since I'm going to be running around so much tomorrow!

I think I look amazingly huge in this picture... and not in the pregnant way! Just fat. But I have been eating chocolate for the past 2 days!! But here it is at 11 weeks and 2 days... and it's only going to get bigger:P

Valentine's Day

Valentine's day was wonderful!! I didn't throw up:):):) And that makes any day special, but I was so happy to get through the day with out being sick!

Thomas called me before I had to go in for work to wish me a happy v-day and we talked for a few minutes! He called later that afternoon and we talked for about half an hour and I cried the whole time lol... I felt so bad for being so emotional, I know all you military spouses know how important is is not to cry like a silly woman when you're talking to your husband 6,000 miles away. It's no good for him to be over there thinking you're having a breakdown! haha. But luckily, he was sweet about it and assured me that he believed I was fully capable and not breaking down!!

I had a dinner and movie date with my friend Shelly. Her husband is also over seas so it worked out good. We went to Samurai for dinner and then killed time at a furniture store before going to watch Jumper. It was a really good night... and again, I didn't get sick:):)


When I got home I had a present waiting for me on the door step! Thomas sent me chocolate covered strawberries with a precious teddy bear and a balloon!! It was perfect considering he waited in line at the moral hut for over an hour to use an unlocked computer to order them for me!! It was so thoughtful and the strawberries were a perfect dessert before bed:)

I also have to mention the package I got from my parents the night before! They were sweet enough to seend me a box full of candy and a card! It was so special and I'm still enjoying the excess of chocolate in the house!! --Thanks mom and dad! love you:)

11 weeks pregnant

I'm in my 12th week of pregnancy. Almost out of my second month:)

The nausea isn't getting any better. I'm throwing up almost everyday and hating most all foods. But I'm praying that with the end of this month will come the end of this annoyance! So we shall see!

I'm making progress on the house. Thomas has been gone for 3 weeks and I have yet to do any dishes! But, I have swept and mopped the floors and made the rest of the house look decent! Tomorrow I'm going to buy some storage bin, those big rubbermaid ones, and will take down our christmas tree!! Yep! That's right... yesterday was Valentine's day and our lovely (fake) tree is still bringing in the christmas cheer!! But only for one more day I assure you! (Don't judge me lol)

I will also be shopping with a friend tomorrow for some more maternity clothes. I gained weight in our nearly two years of trying to concieve and couldn't fit into most of my clothes... so now that I have a great starting off point for maternity clothes, I'm still only down to one pair of jeans, one pair of green cargo pants, one pair of black dress pants and 4 or 5 shirts that I can fit into this early on... and they are just tees and regular shirts, nothing dressy. So I will be searching for another pair of jeans and some cute shirts that I can wear now and grow into over the next few months!

Thomas is doing great! I think I mentioned that he has a lot of responsibilities over there, but I know it's good for him to be busy and not just sitting there thinking he is serving no purpose!!

I'm not really sure what else to write... the past week was pretty uneventful and I'm hoping that things start getting more exciting around here so I have more interresting material to write about, for your sake!

But for now you'll have to settle for fun facts about baby's growth and development in week 12:

*Vocal cords begin to form.
*Those precious eyes begin to move closer together!
*Ears shift to their normal place on the side of the head
*Intestines move farther in to your child's body
*His or her liver begins to function - Responsible for cleansing the blood, storing nutrients, and providing needed chemicals, this is an important event!
*The pancreas begins to produce insulin
*Baby's average size is now at a whopping length: 2.13 inches (5.4cm) and weight: 0.49 ounce (14gm)

Midnight's weekend get-away!

well, for those of you that do not know my beautiful kitty, Midnight... She was found by my dad like 4 years ago and given to my little sister as a pet... she was pretty much a wild cat and was pretty hateful... to everyone but me for some reason! So midnight became my cat and when I married and moved, her and Nina cam with! Well she turned out to be a very sweet and loving cat until she is under stress! And nothing causes her more stress than dogs! So now that we have Mya and Rocco she is a bit frazzled most of the time!! She spends her days on the back of the couch, tucked away on a chair in the dining room or on top of the fridge with her face planted in her food bowl... she is quite fat now!! But every now and then, when the weather is nice and the dogs are in their kennels (to grant her safe passage to the door) she likes to run out the front door while Im on my way to work and spend the few hours in the sun!!

Well, Saturday I ran out to get some food and she ofcourse bolted out the door! When I came back half an hour later she wasn't ready to come in yet, so she stayed out and I took a nap after throwing all my food up:( A few hours later I went to let Nina out for the night (she spends every night outside or she screams at my bedroom door until I put her out) Midnight wasn't on the front porch or out back! Now, i really need to stress to you just HOW important this cat's food is to her!! There is no reason in the world that cat would go that long without begging to come in so she could eat!! But there was nothing I could do, it was late! So all day sunday I looked for her around the neighborhood, in the woods behind our house... nothing! So today I decided I would go door-to-door and ask if anyone had picked her up or seen her! Everyone knew what cat I was talking about but hadn't seen her since saturday and promised to keep looking for me!! So I decide to call animal control. I wasn't really thinking I would get anywhere with it since there are a few stray cats in the neighborhood and no one has ever complained to me about my two being outside! But as soon as the lady answered the phone and I described the cat (Big, fat, black female!) she knew who it was right away!! And gave me a number to call!!

A few weeks ago a lady put flyers up in my neighborhood for her missing black cat with an injured back leg. Someone had spotted Midnight saturday night and picked her up out of my yard and called the lady from the flyer at 10:30 at night!! When they realized it wasn't her cat, the man said he would just take her back and "dump" her in the neighborhood... But the lady knew she had to have a home bc she was sooo fat! So she kept her over night and took her to the vet the next day to have her scanned for a chip and told the lady at the desk to give her number to anyone that calls asking for a "fat black cat"!!

For a while I thought about just not looking for her... if she came back, then great and if someone had picked her up then atleast she was with a family that loved her... but the thought of her being at the pound for some reason and not being adopted... just drove me crazy! The house was so empty without her last night!! It's strange enough not having Thomas here... but to lose Midnight too... I couldn't deal with that!! So I'm so glad everything worked out and that I'll have my full house again!! The lady is dropping her off in the next hour:):) I couldn't imagine not having my Fat cat around!!