fireplace bling

My fireplace recently got jazzed up a bit. Poor Chris spent just over two hours HAMMERING nails into the brick. The mirror had a wire on the back, and being round, the best way to hang it (supposedly according to a guy at Home Depot) were with these hooks that had brick nails. Lets just say nails do not hammer into brick easily.

But I absolutely love the mirror! Now I am just at a loss of what to put on the mantel. I'm thinking matching vases with something, but who knows. Any thoughts?

bump check: 14 weeks

Still not a lot going on at 14 weeks. I honestly can't tell if I'm just showing some pudge, or if I can claim some bump. When I'm feeling extra large I just call it baby :o). The extra little bit by no means is a reflection of the two and half pounds (what?!?!) I gained this week. Crap... guess I have to actually start watching what I'm eating.

This week baby is about the size of a lemon, 3.4 in long (from head to rump) and weighing in at approximately 1.5 oz. Baby is working on thumb sucking, toe wiggling, and wonderfully enough making urine. (Awesome, I feel so clean inside now!) The kidneys, liver and spleen are still working on developing. Go baby go!

How far along: 14 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: -2 pounds

Maternity clothes: my jeans have become friends with a BeBand

Stretch marks?: nope

Sleep: not perfect, but I won't complain too much yet

Best moment this week: attempting to test out strollers

Movement: not feeling anything yet

Food cravings: hamburger helper and s'mores (I know...)

Gender: Meaghan dreamed it was a girl!

What I miss: feeling better than ick on a regular basis

Milestones: nothing really

some new additions

There have been a few little updates in our house lately. First, I received this beautiful rug that I ordered from Anthropologie. It looks great in our dining room! I wish it was a tad bit bigger, but the next size up would have covered basically our entire dining room, and I couldn't bear to cover up my beautiful hardwoods that much.

Also, hubby found some time to finally install all of our cabinet hardware. It is pretty simple, but I love it. Plus is makes the cabinets much easier to open!

I have a few more new items to share, but they will have to wait until I a) clean up my house a bit, and b) take some good pictures.

Have a great day!

meet baby j

Here are a few pics from our ultrasound. This was actually the second ultrasound I had, but the first one was at just over six weeks, and the baby looks absolutely nothing like a baby. So I figured this would do :o).

In this first pic, no offense to baby, I think s/he looks pretty creepy. Baby is looking right at you.


In this one you can see the back of baby's head, an arm and two hands.


And here is baby's profile. Do you think baby looks like me? :o)


We actually had to have this ultrasound done twice. This first day we went in baby was constantly looking at as, making it impossible for the tech to get the measurements she needed. She even had me pee twice and jump up and down to try and get the baby to turn the way she wanted, but no luck.

We watched the baby squirm around, A LOT! I didn't know such a little thing would be moving around so much. Baby even got the hiccups. It was absolutely hilarious.

The only bonus to non cooperative baby? I got to see baby two days in a row. Day two baby was still extra wiggly, but the tech managed to get the look she needed. My mom came to the ultrasound... she said it looked like a crazy little boy moving around in there like that. I am going with it was a little girl dancing :o). I suppose we will find out in about six weeks or so!

And random tidbit for the day? I texted Chris today in the hopes that he would bring home hamburger helper and smores for dinner. He did. He loves me. :o)

bump check: 13 weeks

The picture on the left was taken at four weeks, and I didn't take another picture until yesterday at 13 weeks. I don't think I really missed much between now and then... other than some serious bloating around weeks 5 and 6. (I couldn't wear my jeans for like two weeks!) I think I'm looking a teeny bit rounder, maybe, or that could just be the shirt I'm wearing... and the fact that I'm wearing jeans... who knows.

And here is something I've partially stolen from several other mom-to-be blogs out there:

How far along: 13 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: -5 pounds

Maternity clothes?: pants will be coming soon...

Strech marks?: nope

Sleep: I pee around 5:30, and then toss and turn until my alarm goes off

Best moment this week: seeing the baby get the hiccups during an ultrasound

Movement: not that I can feel... but I know s/he is going crazy in there!

Food cravings: fondue from the Melting Pot!

Gender: everyone thinks its a boy

What I miss: margaritas... and wine :o(

Milestones: making it to 13 weeks... goodbye first trimester!

finding out

Towards the end of May, very beginning of June we decided that we were ready to parents. We weren't in any big rush, just decided that we were going to let whatever happened, happen. So we picked up some vitamins and stopped preventing a baby from happening :o).

Fast forward to July 17th, should be the start of my monthly fun. Nothing showed up so I took a pregnancy test. Definitely a negative. I was a little upset, but not crushed. Monday rolls around and still no sign of my monthly friend, but another pregnancy test comes back negative. I wait out the rest of the week, wake up Friday morning, take another test, it also comes back negative. At this point I've decided that because I'd only been off birth control for a few months (I stopped taking it in February, my new insurance didn't cover the particular brand of birth control I was taking) my cycle must be a little off, so I tried to calm my self down and let nature take its course.

Throughout the next week I started becoming a little more emotional, and slightly agitated I guess, because it was so frustrating that nothing was happening. I kept thinking if I'm not pregnant lets just get on with this already!

It was 5:15 in the morning (I can't say I'm a fan of the med school student schedule, especially when I don't have to work until 8:30!) on July 31st. Christin's wedding was this weekend, so seeing that my period still hadn't shown up, I decided I better take a pregnancy test just to make sure before I booze it up all weekend. With my eyes half closed I stumbled to the bathroom, pulled out a test and did my business. I washed my hands, brushed my teeth, and looked down just in time to see the blinking hour glass switch to PREGNANT.

What? Seirously? I fully expected it to say not pregnant, and then I would have chucked it in the trash and crawled back in bed. I was completely shocked. I contemplated not telling Chris just yet, I had an idea to give him an early birthday present that evening, but knowing his schedule, the weekend ahead, and the fact that there about a thousand thoughts and emotions running through my head, I changed my mind.

I walked into our bedroom, knocked on his bathroom door, and held the test up as he opened the door. The look on his face was priceless. Like he was completely confused at what he was seeing. Then he smiled and gave me a huge hug. Unfortunately he was then hurrying to get out the door and get to the hospital on time, while I was following him around the house saying "I can't believe it, seriously?".

The rest of the day I was a ball of nerves because I was so excited, and so scared at the same time.

i'm blaming it on...

the baby. My lack of blogging that is. I don't know whether or not it is a good excuse, but it is mine! Chris and I are expecting our first April 10th!