24 Weeks

How far along? 24 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +14 lbs. Hello Christmas cookies!
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Sleeping well this week
Best moment this week: Christmas! Owen even got an adorable little sweater for Christmas.
Movement: All the time...and violent!
Food cravings: No real cravings this week
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week
What I am looking forward to: Getting started on the nursery. We have the bedding picked out, paint color picked out, and have the stuff that we need to get rid up up for sale on Craigslist. We are making some progress.
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Nothing this week
Milestones: 24 weeks- Viability day. We are to the point where if for whatever reason he was to come he would have a chance at survival.

 

 

Catching up

I have clearly been negligent in posting real updates lately! I'm not sure what exactly we have been doing, but we have been busy constantly for the past few weeks.

So since it has been a while, lets start with Thanksgiving. We headed to the Morrow's as usual and enjoyed a day of friends and family. We also let everyone else in on Owen's sex and name. Jake had a blast playing with Aunts Nikki, Chrissy and Michelle. He would pick one at a time to take him around on treasure hunts or play cars with him. The next day we spent the day decorating our house for Christmas. We put up 4 different trees this year, our big one in the living room, a fun one for Jake in the playroom, our small intial tree on the table in the living room and we got Jake a small tree for his room. After a long day of decorating we headed downtown to our city's Christmas festivities. Josh, Jake and I stood in line to ride the train while Grammy and grandma did some shopping on the square. Next year we will have to get there earlier so we can do more, we ended up waiting in line for an hour! We had pictures that Sunday finally. We had to reschedule since it rained them out a couple weeks before. It was a bit windy, but we got some good pictures!

Since Thanksgiving we have just been busy. Josh has had rugby games on the weekends, I have been working a decent amount (not a lot but all of my times are full now) and on the same days that Josh has rugby, so Grammy has been spending Saturdays with Jake when rugby and work overlap. Jake seems to not mind that a bit, he basically just tells us to go when she is here! Jake and I have been doing some painting and lots of running around doing stuff.

Jake loves singing Christmas songs, but trying to catch him on video has proven to be quite a challenge since he just wants to see himself on it.

This past weekend Grammy's sisters were all in town. Jake was loving all of his aunts! He was such a ham trying to make everyone laugh and making himself laugh in the process. He is such a goof.

We went and visited Santa a couple of weeks ago. Jake loved Santa and walked right up to him and introduced himself and hopped up on his lap. We got such a cute picture and he talked to Santa and told him what he wanted. I love that he has never been afraid of him and we have all cute pictures of him smiling with Santa. Hopefully Owen follows that lead!

This week we have been working on finishing our Christmas baking, Jake and I are going to finish our sugar cookies this afternoon. And the rest of the weekend we will be finishing getting ready for Christmas.

Waiting in the snow for Santa

 

Opening presents from his Aunts

 

Painting

 

Posing in front of the Christmas tree

 

From our family pictures taken a few weeks ago

Christmas card picture this year

 

 

 

23 Weeks

How far along? 23 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +10 lbs..whoa. Still not where I was with Jake at this point, but at least on the chart for weight gain finally
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Still sleeping well, unless we get a middle of the night wake up call from Jake in which case I have been unable to fall back asleep because I am wide awake.
Best moment this week: We decided on bedding for Owen! (We are so behind in the nursery planning department...oh and we got Owen's stocking and I finally bought something for Owen. We are mostly going to need newborn, 0-3 and a few 3-6 month things since he will be born in warm weather and there aren't many warm weather things out right now so I had been waiting. But I found a cute onesie that he needs (although long sleeves so I had to get 9 months). I can't wait until spring stuff starts coming out!
Movement: All the time
Food cravings: No real cravings this week
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week
What I am looking forward to: Christmas!
Differences from 1st pregnancy: We are much further behind in doing anything to get ready for Owen. I guess it helps that we have most stuff that we absolutely need.
Milestones: Buying something for Owen!

 

 

Done, Done, DONE!!!!

I officially finished my hour for my license yesterday evening! 3000 hours and 4 years of counting every single hour, done! My paperwork is in the mail and I should have my full license in my hands in 3-4 weeks! What a great Christmas present to myself!

(I am working on a real post to catch up on the last month, we have been busy.)

22 weeks

How far along? 22 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +7 lbs
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Still sleeping well, but Owen doesn't like when I lay on my stomach now
Best moment this week:
Movement: All the time
Food cravings: Chex cereal
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week
What I am looking forward to: Getting the nursery started
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Slower weight gain
Milestones: No milestones this week.

21 Weeks...just a little late!

How far along? 21 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +5 lbs...well there we go
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Still sleeping well, but Owen doesn't like when I lay on my stomach now
Best moment this week: Watching Jake talk to Owen then make my belly look like it is Owen talking back to him
Movement: Lots...kid is going to move just like his big brother!
Food cravings: Ramen noodles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Not getting beat up when I am laying on my belly. Although it is amusing at the same time.
What I am looking forward to:
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I can feel when I am having braxton hicks contractions this time. With Jake I had no idea until the first trip to l&d where they hooked me up to the monitors and told me I was having them
Milestones: Getting the first new things for Owen! (Some new diapers!) Poor kid isn't going need a lot of new things since he will get a lot of Jake's things, so it will be nice when he does get some new stuff.

 

 

 

20 Weeks...Halfway!

Well technically halfway. I am not expecting him to hang out in there past when Jake was  born, so we are considering this pregnancy more than halfway over. That is slightly scary! We have to wait until after Christmas to start working on the nursery, but hopefully that will get done quickly since all we need to do is get rid of furniture and paint in there.

How far along? 20 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +4 lbs...well there we go 
Maternity clothes? Maternity everything unless I am just hanging out at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep:  Still sleeping well
Best moment this week: Getting all of our Christmas decorations up
Movement: Lots...kid is going to move just like his big brother!
Food cravings: Ramen noodles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Picking out bedding and figuring what all we are going to need for Owen!
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Feeling like someone kicked me in the crotch syndrome has hit much earlier this time
Milestones: officially halfway!

 

 

19 Weeks

How far along? 19 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +3 lb  according to the dr's scale (+2 lbs on ours)
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Sleeping well unless monkey boy comes into our bed in the middle of the night and starts kicking or hitting me in the face
Best moment this week: Finding out Tiny's name!
Movement: Lots
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Family pictures this weekend
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Still needing to eat pretty regularly or I either feel sick or lightheaded
Milestones: Finding out what baby Tiny is!

Picture tomorrow. We were busy decorating today!

Umm or a week later. Oops. We took this last week I  just never got around to posting it.

 

 

"Once upon a time...."

This is a story about Jake, as told by Jake at our dinner table last night.

"Once upon a time....there was a Jake...and he was eating dinner...and was just eating the cheese...and he was playing with his sweet potato...and he spilled his milk."

18 Weeks

How far along? 18 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep:  Sleeping better, less waking up in general and any time I did wake up this week I fell back asleep pretty quickly
Best moment this week: Hmmm...not much happened this week pregnancy related.
Movement: Tiny moves a lot. And moving all the time now
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, I enjoy being pregnant so I really don't miss much
What I am looking forward to: Thanksgiving
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I am still really sensitive to smells and will gag at random smells
Milestones: Feeling like my energy is back to normal!

 

 

17 Weeks

How far along? 17 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I sometimes have a hard time going back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night (or am woken up by some cute kid coming into our room in the middle of the night) and I have a harder time laying directly on my belly
Best moment this week: Josh and Jake feeling Tiny kick on the outside
Movement: A lot more movement
Food cravings: Nothing
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Nothing this week, it has been a pretty uneventful (pregnancy related) week
What I am looking forward to: Next u/s in a few weeks
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I think my belly is smaller this time
Milestones: Josh and Jake feeling Tiny kick on the outside

 

 

 

 

Big Boo Boo

Jake got his first really big boo boo today. He was playing in the child care at the gym and fell into the corner of the window and hit his head. They came running to get me and he had a nasty gash on his head, but they had gotten the bleeding under control at least. But dang there was blood everywhere. Poor kid couldn't figure out why his hands were covered in blood but didn't hurt. After we got him all cleaned up I looked at it again and it was pretty small, but wide. I figured we would just put a bandaid on it for a while and it would be good in a week or so. But when we got home and I cleaned it again it started bleeding again, so Josh and I decided I should at least call the dr's office and get their opinion. The nurse said since it was wide to go ahead and bring him in to let the dr look at it and at least put some glue on it. So we headed to the dr to get it checked out. They got us in with the first available person who happened to be the nurse practitioner. She checked it out and was trying to decide if glue would hold it or it would need a stitch. I begged for the glue since I didn't want Jake to have to go through the trauma of getting stitched for one stitch. So she grabbed our normal pedi who looked at it and said, yep let's get some glue on there. I was thrilled with that and I love our pedi!

So 10 minutes later he was all glued up and ready to go. Of course this happened just a few days before we have family pictures taken. I guess this year they will truly capture our life at the time, gash and purple glue on his forehead!

16 Weeks

How far along? 16 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 0 lb according to my scale....2lbs according to the dr's scale
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I sometimes have a  hard time going back to sleep when I wake up in the middle of the night (or am woken up by some cute kid coming into our room in the middle of the night)
Best moment this week: Hearing Tiny's heartbeat at the dr. It is always reassuring.
Movement: Feeling movement usually in the afternoons or evenings
Food cravings: Nothing really
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Not having to take 9-11 pills for random things everyday
What I am looking forward to: Next u/s in a few weeks
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I have had frequent headaches this time
Milestones: Feeling Tiny kick on the outside. It was just one quick tap but I happened to have my hand there and felt it on my hand too. I am slightly scared of how much this one is going to move once I can feel everything!

 

 

Halloween

I LOVE the holidays right now. I mean, I have always loved holidays, but they are just getting better and better now that Jake gets them and the anticipation and he has so much fun!

Last night we headed out around 6, we were going to go down to the end of our street where they had a bounce house set up, but it took us a little bit to get ready so we just skipped that part. We stopped at some of our friends house to see when they were leaving to go Trick or Treating. We ended up hanging out with them and going Trick or Treating with them. Jake and I were out from about 6:45-8 then headed home and Josh took him out for another 20 minutes. We hit a ton of houses and got so much candy that I had to empty Jake's bucket twice while we were out then again when we got home so he could go with Josh. But he just loved it. He was so excited to be Buzz Lightyear and told everyone he was Buzz Lightyear and did his "To infinity and beyond!" He got so many compliments on how cute he was.

Of course, our evening was not complete without a moment of panic for me. We were about halfway between our house and our friends houses (we had dropped them off there and worked our way home) when Jake announced to the man that opened the door of the house we were at that he had to go potty. No trick or treat, just "I have to go potty!" His costume was one a one piece with his wings over that and we were just too far to run in either direction and I didn't know if it was I have to go now or I kinda feel like I might need to go soon. So this very nice man, while laughing, asked if we wanted to use his bathroom. It was so awkward! But what other choice did I have at that point?! So inside some strangers house we went and got the costume off as quick as we could. We made it just fine, but dang that made for an interesting few minutes. And a good story that we can laugh about.

Jake has been so proud of all of his "treats" that he has told everyone about them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pumpkin Patch (x2)

We love going to the pumpkin patch to play and pick out our pumpkin. This year Jake got to go twice. He and I went to a small pumpkin patch close to our house with our Thirsty Thursday group to play, then we all went the one we have been to the past 2 years on Sunday to play some more and actually get a pumpkin. He had a blast with the big pumpkins this year. And we ended up getting one that weighs just as much as he does! He also got 3 smaller pumpkins that he just had to have. We took a ride on the hayride, which about half way through Jake tells us he needs to go potty. Ahh, I love that he is potty trained, but dang sometimes it makes things a little difficult. (Fortunately, he was able to hold it until after the hayride and got to the bathroom no problem) He was also so obsessed with the bounce houses that we had to convience him to pick out pumpkins first because he would've never gotten out of that if we'd let him go there first! He was very side when his turn in the bounce house was over.

We stopped for some frozen yogurt on the way home because it was close to 90* while we were at the pumpkin patch and they don't make short sleeved Halloween shirts for kids so Jake had long sleeves on (we changed him when we left so he wasn't stuck in that long). Crazy Texas weather didn't get the memo that it is supposed to be Fall all through October. Thankfully we did finally have a good cold front come through this week so it has been nice and cool this weekend and it is supposed to stay that way through the rest of the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 Weeks

How far along? 15 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 0 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I love sleep.
Best moment this week: Fall arriving
Movement: Feeling movement usually in the afternoons or evenings
Food cravings: Skittles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Feeling like I have more of a wardrobe
What I am looking forward to: Next week's dr appt
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Not much this week
Milestones: Not much this week


I will have to update with pictures tomorrow. Jake is sick so we didn't want to try to get a picture tonight.

 

 

14 Weeks

How far along? 14 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants but I can still wear regular shirts
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I love sleep.
Best moment this week: I have energy again!
Movement: Feeling movement usually in the afternoons or evenings
Food cravings: Skittles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Migraine meds. Ugh, a migraine without meds is not good, especially with a 2 year old in the house.
What I am looking forward to: Feeling Tiny move consistently throughout the day. It is weird to feel movement only sporatically since with Jake once I felt him he was moving pretty constantly!
Differences from 1st pregnancy: Feeling movement so early!
Milestones: 2nd trimester energy has kicked in

I love him. We thought about trying to take a picture with a better face from him, but this is just so him.

 

 

13 Weeks

This was done on Friday and I just had to upload pictures, but we had a bit of a rough weekend here so I just got around to it.

How far along? 13 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: -1 lb
Maternity clothes? Maternity pants for work and some sort of stretchy shorts, skirts, and dresses at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: I love sleep.
Best moment this week: Jake naming the baby and deciding on the sex (What's that? You didn't realize a toddler could pick the sex? Apparently Jake thinks he can and has been consistently referring to baby as one sex for a few days)
Movement: Feeling movement pretty regularly, usually in the afternoon or evening
Food cravings: Skittles
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Being able to workout or go to the grocery store without feeling sick
What I am looking forward to: Looking more pregnant in all clothes, some clothes just make me look fat
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I cannot stand to see or deal with raw meat.
Milestones: Starting the 2nd trimester

 

 

And  bonus Jake picture. He was so excited about his drawing on the board that he wanted us to take a picture of it.

 

 

 

12 Weeks

Not much going on this week. Jake and I went to a bounce house place with some friends on Monday and he loved it, so we are thinking of doing that for his birthday this year. And yesterday Jake and I decorated the house for fall. He loves helping me decorate and I now have random old fall decorations in random places throughout the house. I can't wait to decorate for Christmas and see what happens there! I also had a doctor's appointment this week. Everything looks great and baby was just jumping up and down the whole time. It is so fun to see, but it is cool to see Jake getting to see the baby too!

How far along? 12 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 0 lb...I fluctuate from -2 to 0 throughout the week. I was up less than .5lb at my dr appt this week.
Maternity clothes? Already in maternity pants for work and some sort of stretchy shorts, skirts, and dresses at home
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: Sleep is my friend again
Best moment this week: Seeing baby jumping around at my appt. Jake got to see baby moving and was able to see that it looks like a real baby now!
Movement: I felt a couple of little taps one night this week
Food cravings: Still not really craving things
Labor Signs: Nope
What I miss: Not much right now
What I am looking forward to: The beginning of the 2nd trimester next week
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I couldn't feel Jake (or at least didn't recognize it) until 18 weeks.
Milestones: A stranger noticing I am pregnant. And that pretty little ticker at the top says we are down to less than 200 days

Denton, America

We headed to Denton a couple of weekends ago for a day full of North Texas fun. Grammy came with us this year to help with Jake and go to a football game in the new stadium. We started the day early and headed to the bookstore to get Jake a new North Texas shirt. (And somehow he also ended up a fun football too). We headed to my alumni meet next. There weren't a lot of alumni that were older, so I didn't know many of them. This may have been my last time to swim in an alumni meet. Jake had fun wandering around occasionally and cheering. Once we were done there we headed to a park to eat lunch , then we dropped Josh off to warm up for his game. Grammy and I took Jake to have some ice cream at Beth Marie's (best ice cream place ever) then drove around for a while so Jake could sleep some, then headed back to watch Josh's game. Well Jake played at the playground more than watched.

Once we were all nice and sweaty from the rugby game, we headed back to campus to get some dinner before the game. We stopped at a new resturant that was all macaroni and cheese! Yum. Then we walked ALL the way (it had to be at least to 2.5 miles) to the stadium. Jake actually did really great and walked a good portion of it. We didn't take the stroller so he had to walk a ton, but he did get carried some and a few piggy back rides. He loved the football game. He really got into cheering and looking for Scrappy. We also had a really nice family sitting in front of us and Jake was all about talking to them! He apparently impressed the lady so much with his cuteness, she went down to the store and bought him a foam claw. So nice! He finally got to see Scrappy and was so excited! (Although this year's Scrappy is not nearly as good as last year's.) He made it through the whole game though and did great. He did get carried all the way back to the car and also had his first peeing in the grass experience. We got almost to the car when he said he had to go potty, of course all of the buildings on campus are closed so no access to a bathroom. So we quickly found a hidden place for him to go. I was surprised that he went without any hesitation! Good thing he is a boy! It made it nice and simple and clean. And with that, we headed home. It was a LONG day, but we had fun. Jake can't wait to go back to a football game and asks about it almost every day. I love it!