Sunday, May 19, 2013
25 weeks
Here's the latest picture we have of our baby girl. She was in the perfect position for this profile picture. I wonder how much babies really look like they do in ultrasound pictures. I know I'm her mother so I'm biased but she is so cute. She looks like her dad!
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Emotions
Since family left, I have been on a roller coaster of emotions. Sometimes I just feel like crying and can't even talk without crying. Last night I participated in a women's walking group and on the way home, cried part of the way home. I stopped at the store for a few things and decided all I felt like having for dinner was cheddar cheese potato chips. So, I bought myself a bag! Yikes!! I came home and talked/cried with Matt on the couch and told him what I had done re: the chips. Then I felt like the worst wife because he had been busy since early in the morning and had recently arrived home as well. He had not had dinner yet. I wanted to get him something for dinner besides cheddar cheese chips. I tried to explaining that to him and then I started crying that I just wanted to be a good wife.
Matt deals with me very well. After several hugs and kisses and reassurances that I am a good wife, he heated himself up some soup, had some Strouds leftovers and all was well. I ate my chips and had a can of guava nectar and went to bed happy.
Matt deals with me very well. After several hugs and kisses and reassurances that I am a good wife, he heated himself up some soup, had some Strouds leftovers and all was well. I ate my chips and had a can of guava nectar and went to bed happy.
Girls Weekend
This last weekend Mom, Jenny, Elizabeth, Becky & Maddy came out to visit. We decided we needed a girls weekend. Too bad the distance is so great that these can't happen very often...but, the cool thing is we get to have another one in two weeks!!
Mom, Jenny, Becky & Maddy drove out. They drove across Colorado and Kansas on the way out and across Nebraska and Wyoming on the way back. Including some time spent in Missouri, that's 5 new states for Maddy and 3 new states for Beck. How exciting!
Earlier last week, we had sunny 80 degree weather. Then the winter storm hit and it was 30's, 40's & 50's the whole time family was here. The sun did not make an appearance until everyone left. I was so disappointed, but we still had a great time.
Elizabeth flew in and we have a few hours before everyone else arrived. We went to the art museum and then had fried chicken at a popular local eatery.
Saturday morning we all arose early to participate in the Kansas City Temple Run. It's a 5K that some of us ran and some of us walked. It was a cold, wet morning but we went and had fun. The picture below is funny because Matt had a bright orange shirt on under his hoodie. He was trying to lift up the hoodie to reveal the bright orange shirt but ended up revealing a bit more than he intended. LOL!
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Maddy and Elizabeth at the finish line.
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That afternoon, we had pedicures and then we went for BBQ at Oklahoma Joe's. Then we headed for downtown KC to watch The Piano Guys in concert. It was such a great show and I think everyone really enjoyed it.
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Sunday we went to Sacrament Meeting and then that afternoon we went walking in Shawnee Mission Park. We walked for a few hours enjoying the green and helping Elizabeth identify trees.
Sunday night we went through 5 bags of baby girl clothes that Becky brought out. I was starting to really feel overwhelmed with the clothes and where we will put all of them...and overwhelmed with a baby coming and not knowing how everything will work out. But, a good night's sleep does wonders.
Monday morning we moved furniture. Maddy asked if we were moving all the beds in the house. It seemed like it!
I really enjoyed having everyone come out. It was such a fun weekend and I really appreciated all the help.
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Mom, Jenny, Becky & Maddy drove out. They drove across Colorado and Kansas on the way out and across Nebraska and Wyoming on the way back. Including some time spent in Missouri, that's 5 new states for Maddy and 3 new states for Beck. How exciting!
Earlier last week, we had sunny 80 degree weather. Then the winter storm hit and it was 30's, 40's & 50's the whole time family was here. The sun did not make an appearance until everyone left. I was so disappointed, but we still had a great time.
Elizabeth flew in and we have a few hours before everyone else arrived. We went to the art museum and then had fried chicken at a popular local eatery.
Saturday morning we all arose early to participate in the Kansas City Temple Run. It's a 5K that some of us ran and some of us walked. It was a cold, wet morning but we went and had fun. The picture below is funny because Matt had a bright orange shirt on under his hoodie. He was trying to lift up the hoodie to reveal the bright orange shirt but ended up revealing a bit more than he intended. LOL!
Maddy and Elizabeth at the finish line.
That afternoon, we had pedicures and then we went for BBQ at Oklahoma Joe's. Then we headed for downtown KC to watch The Piano Guys in concert. It was such a great show and I think everyone really enjoyed it.
Sunday we went to Sacrament Meeting and then that afternoon we went walking in Shawnee Mission Park. We walked for a few hours enjoying the green and helping Elizabeth identify trees.
Sunday night we went through 5 bags of baby girl clothes that Becky brought out. I was starting to really feel overwhelmed with the clothes and where we will put all of them...and overwhelmed with a baby coming and not knowing how everything will work out. But, a good night's sleep does wonders.
Monday morning we moved furniture. Maddy asked if we were moving all the beds in the house. It seemed like it!
I really enjoyed having everyone come out. It was such a fun weekend and I really appreciated all the help.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
21 week update
I'm 21 weeks today. In the past week I've changed doctors and hired a doula...all very good changes I feel. I feel so confident and good about the care I will be receiving. Baby girl is doing well. At today's checkup, she was very active. She kept moving around as the doctor tried to listen to her heart beat. I couldn't feel a bit of her activity though a few time each day I will feel her little flutter movements. The only thing is I keep losing weight with each appointment - down about 7 lbs now. While normally this would be very exciting news, isn't one is supposed to gain weight while pregnant. I am eating and haven't had nausea or been sick. All is well with baby, though, and in all her sonograms she's measuring right where she should be. The doctor didn't say a thing about it so I guess I can be happy about my weight loss.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Melony and baby movements
This morning Matt & I were making our daily smoothie for breakfast. We put half a cantaloupe in the smoothie today. When I tasted it I said, "Wow! This smoothie is very melony tasting." Matt responded and said, "I guess that's a name we won't want for our baby...Melanie." I commented - that's a clever play on words but why wouldn't we want the name Melanie? Matt, being a man, responded - if she has big boobs and she's named Melanie (Melony) that wouldn't be good. Ha, ha, ha!
I think I have been feeling the baby move over the past week...feels like little beats down where she is. Like clockwork, whenever I lay down in bed at night I can feel quite a few movements. Occasionally I'll feel something that I initially think might be gas but realize it's not and is probably that little thing doing a somersault or rolling over inside me. Pretty cool is what I have to say about that right now! Also reassuring to know that I don't have to wait for doctor appts to hear a heart beat and know she's alive inside me.
I think I have been feeling the baby move over the past week...feels like little beats down where she is. Like clockwork, whenever I lay down in bed at night I can feel quite a few movements. Occasionally I'll feel something that I initially think might be gas but realize it's not and is probably that little thing doing a somersault or rolling over inside me. Pretty cool is what I have to say about that right now! Also reassuring to know that I don't have to wait for doctor appts to hear a heart beat and know she's alive inside me.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Pregnancy Pics and baby pics
I had Matt start taking some pictures to track my pregnancy at 16 weeks. Here are the pictures since then. Mostly I think I look chubby, chubbier and really chubby and then finally maybe more pregnant than fat.
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| 16 weeks |
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| 17 weeks - not a good week for me and pictures |
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| 18 weeks |
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| 19 weeks and really chubby |
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| 20 weeks |
Saving the best for last...
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| Look at this cute little girl! Looks like her Dad! |
Spring Break 2013
For Spring Break this year, we flew the girls to Dallas and we drove down. We were there for over a week total. We had such a great time with the girls and with family. Here are a few pictures of our adventures.
One of the days we took the girls to the new Perot Natural Science Museum in downtown Dallas. It was packed...tons of people there. I'm not and never really have been interested in science but Matt and the girls are. It thought it was okay. I think they thought it was okay too.
Matt, Lynzee and Abbey using their brain skills in the life science section of the museum. Matt & Abbey are playing ping pong with their brain and Lynzee is trying to write her name viewing through a mirror.
The next day we drove about 2 hours south of Plano to Fossil Rim - a very cool wild animal park. Matt and the girls have been there before but it's been a few years. This was my first time. It's about a 9 mile drive through the park and most of the animals roam free. As we drove up and saw the animals behind the fence I got really excited. I guess I must quite reserved around the girls because Abbey thought my exclamation of excitement was pretty funny. Here are lots of pics of our adventures that day. This really is the coolest place.
Just a short drive from the wild animal park was a nuclear power plant. Matt is fascinated by them and wanted to drive by it. We could only get as close as the security gate so spent a few minutes in the visitor center instead.
On Thursday, we went to East Texas with Matt's mom and Grandfather. East Texas is where Jody's parents are both from and where Matt's grandmother is buried. I loved this trip because Pops was with us and shared so much great family history information. There is a great cemetery near Winnsboro called Pine Hill. This is where Nannie is buried and where up to 25% of the people buried there are either Pops's family or Nannie's family. After Winnsboro and lunch, we drove down to Grice Texas where Pops's grandfather settled after serving in the Civil War. He was from Alabama so he fought in the Confederacy. Grice Texas is named for Pops's grandfather, John Jackson (J.J.) Grice. I loved this trip so much. We learned a lot, spent some great time together, felt connected with all the people we learned about and the girls even got to have some adventures. We searched the Grice cemetery for Pops's grandmother Grice's headstone. Lynzee found it and Abbey helped do a rubbing so we could make out what was written on the headstone.
One of the days we took the girls to the new Perot Natural Science Museum in downtown Dallas. It was packed...tons of people there. I'm not and never really have been interested in science but Matt and the girls are. It thought it was okay. I think they thought it was okay too.
Matt, Lynzee and Abbey using their brain skills in the life science section of the museum. Matt & Abbey are playing ping pong with their brain and Lynzee is trying to write her name viewing through a mirror.
The next day we drove about 2 hours south of Plano to Fossil Rim - a very cool wild animal park. Matt and the girls have been there before but it's been a few years. This was my first time. It's about a 9 mile drive through the park and most of the animals roam free. As we drove up and saw the animals behind the fence I got really excited. I guess I must quite reserved around the girls because Abbey thought my exclamation of excitement was pretty funny. Here are lots of pics of our adventures that day. This really is the coolest place.
On Thursday, we went to East Texas with Matt's mom and Grandfather. East Texas is where Jody's parents are both from and where Matt's grandmother is buried. I loved this trip because Pops was with us and shared so much great family history information. There is a great cemetery near Winnsboro called Pine Hill. This is where Nannie is buried and where up to 25% of the people buried there are either Pops's family or Nannie's family. After Winnsboro and lunch, we drove down to Grice Texas where Pops's grandfather settled after serving in the Civil War. He was from Alabama so he fought in the Confederacy. Grice Texas is named for Pops's grandfather, John Jackson (J.J.) Grice. I loved this trip so much. We learned a lot, spent some great time together, felt connected with all the people we learned about and the girls even got to have some adventures. We searched the Grice cemetery for Pops's grandmother Grice's headstone. Lynzee found it and Abbey helped do a rubbing so we could make out what was written on the headstone.
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| Pine Hill Cemetery |
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| Nannie's headstone |
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| The home that Nannie lived in Winnsboro |
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