2 is better than 1

I’m into Trimester 2! Woohoo! So exciting to get to the milemarker. While I’m still waiting on the renewed energy part, I’m just happy to be where I am!

I’ve been sick the past few days with a sore throat and runny nose and sneezing. I don’t have a temperature, and think it’s more allergies than anything else. I’ve read my books and blogs to make sure I’m not doing anything to harm the baby. I’m gargling with salt water and drinking shots of honey and lemon juice (the only shots I’ve had in a while… exciting, lol).  I’m taking cough drops (alchohol free) and just waiting it out!

I’m hoping that my lack of energy is from feeling this way and not still the pregnancy. I’m ready for some energy, and since I’m in week 13, I fully expected to have that ‘boost’ immediately into my 2nd trimester (I know I’m not always a patient person!)

Tonight Travis and I had ‘date night’ because he was actually off on a Friday (he goes back to work tomorrow).  I managed to make it through some shopping at Babies’R’Us for a baby shower (which Travis was so excited to do, it was cute.)  Then I managed through dinner at Macaroni Grill–one of my fave places.  Once we made it home with the movie and to snuggle on the couch, that was the end of me! I think I saw it to 8:30 or so last night. That may be why I’m up at 5am writing this… Or it could be that I couldn’t breathe and my throat was hurting! Either way, I feel bad for only making it through a potion of ‘date night’, but came to the realization that this woud probably be future date nights when he have the baby! HAHA.  Travis said the same thing as he woke me up and got me tucked into bed. And to be honest, I don’t think either of us mind 🙂

Here’s another picture form our 12 week ultrasound. This one’s called ‘alien baby’ I’m sure you can figure out why…

 

12 weeks! WooHoo!

Travis and I went to my 12 week checkup today. I was so anxious this morning that I couldn’t sleep in until 5:30 (which is considered sleeping in on weekdays)…I was up at 5 thinking about how excited I was to see our baby and hear the heartbeat.

From many nights of googling ’12 week ultrasound pictures’ I had an idea of what we would see… but I had no idea what it would actually feel like! We got to look at our baby for about 20 minutes, and I could have layed there and watched that baby for hours! I hated for our visit to come to an end.

I cannot feel the baby yet, but boy was it moving today! Just like a Jones (myself included of course!) the little one was stubborn and kept switching directions and moving around! At one point it was looking straight at us, and then it would roll over and turn its backside to us! One time we thought it looked like the baby was sucking it’s thumb…so cute! It was also so amazing to get to hear the heartbeat, which was 169 beats per minute.

I didn’t want the visit to end, but atleast we got a lot of pictures to go home with.

Along with pictures, we came home home with a huge sense of relief and excitement. Everything looked wonderful and the tests we had done all were fine. We’re so happy to be at this point, and to really feel like we can breath a sigh of relief. I know it won’t stop my constant worry about this and that, but certainly puts my mind at ease to see a healthy little baby in there… and maybe a boy! (according to a guess by the ultrasound tech!) We’ll see for sure in 6 weeks!

Maternity Pants

This past weekend I went shopping with my mom and tried on some maternity pants. Turns out its going to be even more difficult for me to shop for clothes than I had thought! I’m going to have to get TALL maternity pants! I found some really great dress pants in tall at JCPenney and they are really affordable! So I ordered a pair in all three colors! I’m excited to get them because with my belly band that I already have, I can start wearing them now!  By wearing the belly band on top of the maternity pants, I can forget about trying to squeeze into my work pants that won’t zip all the way or button, and go straight for the spandex ones! 🙂 Ahhh… comfort… 🙂

Travis and I are SO EXCITED about Thursday when we’ll have our 12 week check up and get another ultrasound picture of our little one!!!

Travis is already so excited about my slight bump, and says he ‘CAN’T WAIT’ until it grows more! haha! 😉