Crib is UP!

My brother came over today and helped us pick up our crib. Hubby put it together tonight and it is GORGEOUS and PERFECT!!!! So exciting!!! LOVE IT!!!!

kicky marie!!!

felt the first beautiful kicks today!!!!!!! awww!! so cuteeeee!!!!!

19 weeks today! Due date is now 9/22/2011...we'll see!

My EDD keeps fluctuating between 9/19 and 9/22... at our last ultrasound appointment I was supposed to be 18 weeks 3 days but I measured 18 weeks exactly...which puts me right at exactly 9/22 for an EDD... which is what I always thought it would be because even though my LMP was 12/13/2010 I don't have a 14 day ovulatory cycle. I ovulated on day 17 (12/16/2010). So that measures just about perfectly for me!

We found out we are having a baby girl! Yes!!! So excited!! So, so, sooo excited!!! Some women wait forever to have a girl.. some women never get to have girls. We're having a girl!!! YEAYYY!!!!

I feel pretty good. No complaints. Minor light stretching of uterus at times. Lots of cm. Yuk. But feel great otherwise. I do feel BIG. It's hard to walk and now that the weather is warmer my thighs are rubbing together. Ouch! No complaints though!

I guess I need new sneakers. I wore a pair for a walk the other day and when we got back my right arch was so tender and sore and my left knee felt the same. Oww!

17 weeks 2 days.... definitely FELT A KICK TODAY!!!

Ok- well I was lying in bed this morning (on my back! whoopsie) and I've been trying to lie on my left side like everyone tells you to. Well I rolled over onto my back at some point. Baby didn't like that and I could tell because I got the ol' kicky kicky in the tummy!!!!!! I definitely felt movement this morning!!! It was exactly like getting butterflies in your tummy!! At first I thought- oh I must just be nervous or making myself nervous about telling people at work today but then I realized... Uhm I get myself worked up and nervous A LOT and I have NEVER given myself butterflies! lol!! It was the babie!!!!! WOW!!!! Neato!!! Hope I can repeat that performance again soon!

It felt like butterflies... like your stomach was dipping when you go on a roller coaster.

Felt the baby move today! I think? 17 weeks 1 day

Well- couple of milestones today! Dh and I were all snuggled up and I could have sworn I felt a little flutter. I could be wrong. But I think I did!

Remember life before kids? Boooorrrinnnggggg!

I wanted to do a blog post today to remind myself when I am a new mommie- how lucky I am to be a mom! Here I am almost 5 months pregnant (17 weeks tomororw!) and I have all the free time in the world. I have lots of quiet time (which I love) and can nap, sleep, play, bop, clean, shop, cook, read, dance, and do whatever I want, whenever I want! It's great! But... it's also pretty boring. :) I snuggled in bed with my hubby today and realized how much FUN it will be to have our own little snuggler between us to play little games with while we doze off for another Saturday morning snooze. My husband is the pen-ultimate cuddler! How glorious to have our own little friend to snuggle in with and make breakfast for and go have adventures with! I can't wait. So this is just a reminder to myself that while all this free time and do whatever you want time is abounding... it's also a little predictable, a little mundane, and a little insignificant. Remember that momma Laney when you are chasing around a toddler and trying to breastfeed a newborn!

Belly Button! Yipe! What happened to you?

Oh my goodness! I was sitting on the sofa yesterday and after my hubby was careessing and singing to my tummy and kissing my little belly button he said - hey! you know how I always say I can never see the bottom of your belly button? Well there it is! I said what?! And when I looked - there it was! LOL! OMG! My belly button is expanding and pushing out! I can actually see the bottom of it. What a riot. That kind of made it hit home that yes- there is a little baby in there and yes- my body is actually changing! Holy smokes!! Wow! Well- there ya go! Feeling great over here!

Some stress at work because there's a lot of talk about promotions and not getting them and my co-worker and I have been barking up the same tree for a promotion for two years with no avail. She's really getting wacky about trying to promoter HERSELF whereas I try to advocate for both of us. Oh well... you get what you have coming to you is the truth... if she wants to go put her self out there and leave me in the dust- f- her. That's something that will probably bite her in the arse down the road anyway... Me? I could never do that. I am all for girl-power in the work world and sticking together. We both have the same job and she's been there 1 year longer than me but I have about 12 years of other experience on her. So it evens out and even works more in my favor if you ask me. I could care less. That place is so drama I want nothing to do with it anymore. Take your shitty promotion with no pay increase and stick it in your ear. I'm leaving after maternity leave anyway (if I can!) and then I will have a wonderful hard time trying to find a job with a toddler if I need to. Yeah. Can't wait for that! Not.

I am putting the intention out there that I get a promotion (at least a title change into a higher position). It might be at my current work place it might be at a future workplace- either way- I'm putting in my time until January and getting my 5 years in and then I'm out. Sounds good to me... If I can keep working there in some capacity that would be great too but only if it jives with my baby and my hubby and my schedule.

Well- better go dry my hair (I really need a haircut!!!) and get ready for work. Weeee!

Sun is out today!! YES!!!!

Give a little respect.... tooooo meeee...

My little baby bean is 16 weeks old as of yesterday! 16 weeks and 1 day today!!! What a gorgeous and amazing little baby we have! This week he will be able to hear me sing and talk!! So I have been singing Erasuer's song A little Respect because we were watching a Scrubs episode on Netflix the other day and they played this song in the OR. Of course I am all over it right now! lol... I feel great! No complaints! A little tired but otherwise feel wonderful. I had a major headache the other day that lasted the entire day so I took 2 tylenol... which I think helped with some relief... but other than that I feel fabulous!! I finally told my MIL it was OK to tell other people and I told my coworker that it has to be asecret between her and me... she is very good about keeping mum though she pretty much guessed I was pregnant and said our other corowrker girlfriend asked her if I was because she thought I might be too (its not like they dont know we were trying). It's so gloomy out! Yuk!

Have a wonderful day today and I am so thrilled! I can't wait for our next doc visit next Tuesday and then we find out the sex of our baby and and u's  on April 29- CANT WAIT!!!!

Weee!!