If you haven't heard the great news (which I'm sure most or all of you have)
We are PREGNANT!!!!!
We found out while we were in Tampa Fl, and being somewhere else when finding out this news made it much more exciting. Because it took so long to become pregnant I had time to think about if I was going to take a test with Robert next to me, or surprise him. When we found out we were pregnant the first time I had taken the test and called him right away and he came home and we called all our family and friends in that moment and we remember thinking.....now what!
hehe so I knew i wanted this time to be different.
I took the test while Robert was working and was in complete shock it was positive! I wanted to do something really cute to surprise Robert, but in the moment I was much too excited to think and only knew where a
walmart was so I went there and picked up a shirt and a marker and wrote on it. Rob didn't get home until late that evening, but when he came home
Makayla went running to him and he saw the shirt, turned it around and looked over at me with the biggest smile. He was in complete shock as well! We could not be happier right now!
I had a scare early on in the pregnancy. I went to my first doc
appt when I was supposed to be 6 weeks 5 days (calculating from when I got my positive ovulation test not
lmp) well...we had an ultrasound and the baby was measuring at 5 weeks 1 day and with no heartbeat. A heartbeat doesn't start beating until around 6 weeks and they try not to worry until baby is 8 weeks with no heartbeat, so the heartbeat was not the worst of my worries at that time. It was the fact that he/she was measuring almost 2 weeks behind. The doc said all we could do was wait it out and do another ultrasound in a week to see if there was any progression. In my crazy head I thought for sure the baby had died. Maybe if the measurements were only a couple days off i would have thought differently but 2 weeks is a big difference. I had no pregnancy symptoms either and with
Makayla I got super sick right away along with other symptoms. For the whole week I was a wreck to say the least. I was pretty much crying off and on all day and waiting to miscarry. It was a terrifying experience. We had asked our families to fast for us and in the same weekend my parents, aunt, and grandparents had all gone to the temple and put our name in. It was so amazing to know that our names were in 3 different temples at the same time. I finally got into my
appt a week later and had my ultrasound and.......ugh there was the heartbeat!! I instantly threw my head in my hands and just started to cry. To know that this baby was alive and growing was the most amazing feeling ever! We still don't know what happened, baby is still measuring small, but only a week behind and
everytime we've gone in for an ultrasound the baby had grown slightly more in short time, so i wouldn't be surprised if baby catches up to original size and my due date changes.
Pregnancy thus far had been pretty rough! Other than the scare early on, I became extremely sick. Not morning sickness, I call it all day sickness! Its been pretty hard, I was super sick with
Makayla, but it was a while ago, so I cant tell if this one is worse or better I'm thinking it has been the exact same as with
Makyala, but at least this time I finally got a prescription from my doctor and it has really helped. It doesn't take the nausea away completely, but enough for me to cook, or want to eat something. I'm 12 weeks sat (wasn't planning on announcing it until 13 weeks but hubby couldn't wait and was begging for me to tell everyone) cute right! and I am so ready to be in my second trimester!!! We feel so blessed and
grateful to be able to
experience pregnancy again. When trying for so long you start thinking what if I cant have another baby, and now that i am pregnant I have a whole new look on pregnancy and parenthood. I know going through what we went through was only to make us stronger and appreciate this gift that much more. I
don't even want to wait 6 more months I am ready to have this baby out and start the no sleep, lots of nursing, hearing the newborn
cry's and go through the emotions (because I'm sure my hormones will be raging again after this baby). Bring on this scary yet so
exciting time. We are ready!
and its been making me feel a lot like this...
I think I'm letting my pregnancy hormones get to me lately and i don't feel like I've had the patience I used to have. Maybe tomorrow I'll hear a lot less tantrums (and let me tell you that girl of mine sure knows how to scream LOUD) and hopefully I can start feeling myself again. Until then I'm counting down the minutes until Rob gets home so I can lock my door, take a bath and have some alone time.
We only got one picture with our visitors and it was of Makayla and Devin, and let me tell you Makayla LOVES her aunts and uncles. She used to be so shy around them, but she has really come out of her shell. Her and Devin played and played and played and had such a fun time running around the house playing hide and seek and she had a blast playing with aunt "cee cee" lacey. She keeps asking for her and saying cee cee bye bye!! Its the cutest thing. Unfortunately she only was able to spend an hour or so with Megan, but was definitely showing her the new things she's learned.
I recently got this Baby Bjorn. I had one with Makayla, but it had broke so we bought a new one for the next baby and thought it would be funny to put kayla in it and she thought so too =)
Robert and Makayla have had lots of snuggling time. She loves her daddy so much and gets so sad when he leaves for work, and so excited when he comes home. They have been wrestling lately which is pretty funny and playing catch and trying to play baseball. Who needs a little boy when we have this super talented outgoing little tomboy in our house! She is lots of fun these days
oh and lastly this beautiful little girl of ours is back in dance. Did we get the best of both worlds or what?!! She plays all sports and wrestles with her daddy and yet is super girly and sings and dances all day and gets to be my little princess. She loves her dance class and all her little friends that are in it. She is really growing up. She knows all her ABC's. If you write them in any order on a piece of paper she can tell me what letter it is. She is so smart, so fun, and so loving. She is going to be such a great big sister!
