16 weeks and 4 days

I realize this isn't the best picture. I'll try talking Darren into taking these pictures for me so they look better.


How far along? 16 weeks and 4 days
Total weight gain/loss: I'll find out today and update
Stretch marks? No new ones to report
Sleep: It's alot better now that I don't have to be at work at 6:00 anymore. I love coming in at 8:00!
Best moment this week: It'll happen later today
Movement: I've felt flutters
Food cravings: Chocolate milk, icees, anything spicy
Gender: Still no clue..hopefully I'll find out later though! What I miss: Being able to roll over in bed without losing my breath
What I am looking forward to: My ultrasound and dr appointment later today
Weekly Wisdom: Nothing new
Milestones: Starting to feel flutters...I'm almost positive it's not gas. I've felt these flutters before =)

Keeping Fingers Crossed!

Tomorrow is my 16 week appointment. I'll be 16 weeks and 5 days. I'm hoping that the ultrasound tech can tell us what we're having. Darren is actually coming with me because of this small chance of being able to find out. He only came to one appointment with me when I was pregnant with Wyatt and that was to find out that he was a boy. I'm really excited that he's coming. Even if we don't find out, atleast he'll get to see his baby squirming around and hear the heartbeat and all that fine jazz.

So everyone..please keep your fingers crossed for us that we can find out. I'd be over the moon if we find out tomorrow!

Oh and I know it's been a week or two since I did my last weekly update. I PROMISE to take a picture tonight and do my 16 week update tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a nice HUMP DAY!!!

Tired of freeloaders..

I'm so ready for our "room-mate" to move out. He's been staying with us since right before Christmas and seriously..I can't take it much longer. He hasn't even looked for a place yet but he's looking for a new truck???!!! WTF?

We told him he could stay with us for a few months until he found a place. He agreed to pay us X amount of money, help out around the house and help out on groceries. He has given us maybe $300 and helped out on groceries two or three times since moving in. He's cooked once and done ZERO dishes. I don't expect him to wash dishes all the time but come on now...if me and Darren are at work all day and all night, he is the only one home from 5-10ish...the dishes he dirties (which are the only ones in the sink) he should wash..right?

I'm so frustrated and I don't know how to talk to him about finding a place. I've tried hinting around to Darren but he obviously isn't getting it. I feel like it's going to come down to me having the talk with him but I don't want it to be like that.

One guy from our work has already asked him if he felt like he was overstaying his welcome and if that's the reason why Darren was always so aggrivated at work or if that's why we were starting to argue more. J seriously freaked out and started...crying...yeah crying! He left work early bc he was so upset..he called me crying asking if I or Darren had said anything to that co-worker. Of course we hadn't, that was just our co-workers opinion.

I feel so bad having to complain about him on my blog but Darren just isn't getting it and I've gotta talk to someone about it. I'm noticing that I'm kinda snappy and very short with J at home and at work. And that actually makes me feel bad. I think it's time for him to atleast start looking ya know...

Anyone have any advice???
ugh...okay vent over!

An AW for my husband

I have to brag on my hubs for a minute this morning. I had killer heartburn last night. I don't really like taking those chalky tablets so usually chocolate milk works for me. Well we're out of chocolate syrup and regular milk just doesn't cut it. So at 10:45 Darren offered to drive to the store to get me a small thing of chocolate milk! I told him no we were already in bed that I'd find something else. I sucked it up and devoured a rolaid and chased it down with some sweet tea. It worked but some chocolate milk sure woulda been better!

Fun fun fun

Well I don't have anything else better to do today so I'm posting about my next couple of days.

Tomorrow at 8:45 I have an appoitment to have an assload of blood drawn from me for different tests. Seriously...8:45? Can't wait till after lunch can ya?!
Tomorrow is also our last day at work until next Monday! Woo hoo for 3 day weekends!

Friday morning DH and I are getting up super early to go fishing with our friend J on his party barge. We both work that night so it won't be an all day thing. I plan on laying out while they fish. I'm ghostly white and need a tan!

Saturday nothing planned but working and making my super cute easter desserts for Sunday.
Sunday...I'm just hoping it doesn't rain like it's supposed to. I plan on wearing this adorable summer dress from Old Navy to show off my baby bump for the family! I can't wait to pig out on my daddy's fried fish! Oh and of course all the yummy easter candy we usually get from my parents! I can't wait for today to be over...

14 weeks 4 days

How far along? 14 weeks and 4 days

Total weight gain/loss: Up 3 pounds
Maternity clothes? Bought two bella bands but I think they're the wrong size. They feel too loose!
Stretch marks? No new ones to report

Sleep: Can't seem to get enough of it. I can seriously sit still in my office chair long enough with my eyes closed and I'm out!
Best moment this week: Getting in bed before 10:30 two nights in a row!
Movement: None yet.

Food cravings: Ice cream, dill pickles, and cheetos

Gender: I honestly have no clue!

What I miss: Sex. Enough said!

What I am looking forward to: My 16 week ultrasound. They might be able to tell us what we're having!

Weekly Wisdom: "Sleep all you want, the baby needs it!"
Milestones: Not wanting to kick DH in the face this week!

I broke down

and bought two bella bands! I found them on ebay and yes they're knockoffs but who cares...I got 2, one black one white, for $17.50! woop woop!

Oh dear...

Well I had a dr appointment last Thursday. I haven't posted about my appointment yet but I will now. I brought Darren's mom with me because she wanted to hear the heartbeat. Well we go and we actually don't wait very long at all. We go back and my dr's nurse took all my vitals and whipped out the dopplar. She had problems finding the heartbeat. A few weeks ago I was very sick and had high fever. When I went in to see them then she had no problem finding it. It made me nervous and I'm actually still not feeling the best about my appointment but she didn't seem worried so I'm trying not to be. She would catch bits and pieces but wasn't entirely sure if it was the placenta or the baby. I had no idea the placenta gave off a noise for the dopplar!

Well we see the doc and he confirms my next appt and we leave. On the way home, Darren's mom asks me if she can come when we find out what we're having. Now, I have zero problems talking to my MIL because she's just that awesome. So I told her "look this is kinda something for me and Darren. You know..it's like our little family thing. it'll be the only appointment Darren comes to and I'd love it if it was just me and him" Well she didn't have a problem with it.

She then asks me who is all going to be in the delivery room! I tell her "Just me and Darren and the medical staff. Darren isn't allowed past my stomach." She says well when you delivered Wyatt you let T (Darren's sister) stay in the room. I tell her "Yes I let her stay but only because I couldn't stop crying to ask her to leave. I don't want anyone else in that room but us. It's a special time for us and after everything is all cleaned up and my legs are freaking closed everyone is more than welcome to come in"

She then asks if we're going to film the birth!!!!!

Okay I think that's where I almost slammed on my breaks (I was driving back to her house to drop her off) I turned to her and said "Why in the world would I want to film a baby coming out of me? That's not something I ever want to watch or ever want to show my children!" Apparantly Darren's sister let her parents film it with her two kids..I reminded her I wasn't T and that was something that was deffinately NOT being filmed. She proceeded to tell me I was wierd and was a freak since I didn't want to film the birth. She thinks I'm being to "over protective" of this pregnancy...hmmm...I actually prefer to think of it as mine and my husbands own personal choices. Well except the filming..that's my own damn choice. That's my girly bits all out in the open!

I'm wondering if I'm going to have problems with this basket case later on down the road in this pregnancy....

Car is paid off!

I just went and put my final carnote in the mail. I've been paying $222.18 a month since I got the car my sr year in high school as a "graduation present" that I had to pay for! When we got our taxes back we had a deal that Darren could put new tires on his truck and fix his work truck so he could quit driving his silverado to work and I could pay my car off. Whatever is left over we're putting it towards a loan to add onto our house for the baby's room and making our room bigger with a bigger closet. Can't wait for the summer so we can get started on all that.


My current cravings are: Spaghetti (which our friend Josh showed me how to make his homemade sauce. We started the sauce last night and let it cook for 2 hours, then let it cool and threw it in the fridge. Today we'll add the meatballs and let it simmer again for another 2 hours before we FINALLY EAT!!) Banana Nut bread (which Ali from the BR Nestie board mentioned and I HAD to have it..I baked a pan last night and had some for breakfast) Jellybeans (I have 2 bags of starburst jellybeans in my desk drawer) and also Laffy Taffy (I have 2 bags of them in my drawer also, and the best part is, it's only banana and strawberry flavorings in the bag! woot woot)

First baby dream

I had my first baby dream last night. It was so wierd too...me and Darren both have dark hair and dark eyes. The baby in my dream was a boy(yay) but he had blonde hair, blue eyes and was such a porker! I'm thinkin I was dreaming of Darren's son B as a baby but I don't know. Either way...my first baby dream and it was a boy! woo hoo...
This weekend is gonna suck...wet, cold, and rainy. I was thinking about tellin Darren lets go see a movie Sunday and eat lunch somewhere but with the weather I just want to stay home.

Warm Milk

Makes me gag thinking of it!! I want my milk ice cold...like I'll pour a glass of milk and put it in the freezer for 15-20 mins or so before I even drink it. Well last night I wanted just a few sips of milk with my thin mints. I didn't put it in the freezer..I just took a sip and I almost threw up in my mouth! It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold. It was like a temperature of tap water. Very very nasty. I am calling a repair man for the fridge today..I might even just throw the damn thing away and buy a new one. I threw up my dinner and yes this is TMI so stop reading if you have a weak stomach..but penne noodles and chicken are very hard to throw up. Okay you can start reading again...my throat hurts and I'm not hungry at all this morning. I want to eat a BLT for breakfast but it just doesn't seem like it's gona happen...

Bad weekend

Well Friday wasn't that bad..I worked and went home..nothing big or abnormal. Saturday was a different story. I got up feeling fine, got ready for work feeling fine..got to work and BAM! I got the chills and started feeling really bad. I was supposed to close but I sweet talked another girl into switching with me so I got off before 8:30ish. I went home and took my temp..I had a fever of 100.7 so I ate dinner (yummy grilled chicken salad Darren made) and went straight to bed. I locked myself up in the room all night and most of the day Sunday because the kids were there and I didn't want to get them sick. Mostly because when they come, they're always sick and I usually catch their colds. For once, they weren't sick and I was..I didn't want them sick with whatever I had. Well Sunday while Darren was gone my fever got up to 102.5 and I almost went to the ER. I took some more tylenol and it came down. My fever stayed between 100.something-101.something for the rest of Sunday/night. Called my OB yesterday morning to let them know about my eventful weekend and he wanted me to come in ASAP.( On my info packed it says to let them know about any fever over 100 degrees) sweet nurse took my temp, asked about my symptoms, and then she let me hear the heartbeat after joking about the baby being boiled all weekend..It was such a great sound to hear! Yay for heartbeats!!
Anyway...today I feel alot better so I came to work.

1st year anniversary

Well yesterday was our first year anniversary and it was great. We slept late, got up and went to walmart to get stuff for our crawfish boil. Josh came over around 3 with the crawfish and the boys got to work. They were so good and between the 3 of us we ate almost a whole sack! I had taken our cake out Friday and thawed it out in the fridge, then took it out yesterday afternoon and left it on the counter. We ate some last night before going to bed and OH MY GOODNESS it still tastes as good as it did at our wedding. My stepmom did a good job of wrapping it up for us. It was such a good day!
We both work today and tonight but we're off all day tomorrow bc we're going to New Orleans for the concert!!! Can't wait! We're eating PF Changs before! YUM!! The banana spring roll is calling my name!

1st ultrasound pics!!!

As promised...here are pictures of our nugget. He is upside down right now and still in the yolk sac. You can barely see the sac around him but it's still there. He has 2 arm buds and 2 leg buds..no wee-wee bud yet though!

Sucky appointment

After I waited for an hour they finally called me to the back for an US. Found out my cervis is 90% tilted to my back..that explains my horrible back pain when I'm on my period. Anyway...she was having problems doing it abdominally so I got the dildo cam!! She said the baby was only measuring 8 weeks 5 days (according to LMP I'm 11 weeks 2 days)..my heart quit beating. It took me atleast 2 minutes to ask her if she even saw a heartbeat. She did and it was beating at 182bpm..wonderful numbers!! My new EDD is 10/3. Kinda bummed about my date getting pushed back but oh well! Atleast our nugget is healthy!

Stewwwpid Doctor

My first ultrasound is today and my doctor appointment was canceled. I'll just be going in for an US and they're taking my money for the first payment. Apparantly they're "triple booked" and can't fit me in since I'm only 11 weeks. Guess I'm not as important :( My last appointment was a month ago and this appointment was scheduled then. Oh well..atleast I get to have an ultrasound. I hope I'll be able to hear the heartbeat with that..I don't remember how that works. I was so excited to get to hear Nuggets heartbeat today at my appt but maybe the US tech can help me out. I'll post a pictures later today.

Busy week!

This is going to be one busy but fun week! Tomorrow is Mardi Gras and we're going to the parade in Metarie. It's huge (over 300) floats and it lasts all day. We have a big group of people going to so it'll be alot of fun. After the parade we're bringing the kids home and then going to eat at PF Changs on the way home. CAN'T WAIT!!!

Thursday is my first ultrasound and I get to hear the heartbeat for the 1st time also. I can't wait to hear my nuggets heartbeat and see him on the screen hopefully bouncing around so I can get some good pics!

Then next Tuesday (I know it's next week and now this week but oh well) I get to go see freakin britney spears! yay!!

So much to look forward to!!!!!

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Well our valentines went good. We both made some serious cash Sat night. I ended up giving Darren his gift Saturday night when we were eating dinner after we got home from work. He loved it! He bought me another flat wallet since mine was stolen in my purse. It's really pretty. My real present though is tickets to go see BRITNEY SPEARS on March 3rd!!!! I can't wait!!! The funny thing is..it's only 2 days after our 1st anniversary so that's gonna be our "celebration" type thing too. We're leaving work around lunch time that day and we'll head out that way. I'm sure we'll end up eating an early dinner somewhere around the super dome. I am so excited!! What sucks is..it's not until 7:30 and I'm sure we won't even leave New Orleans until 12ish so we'll be getting home laaaaate! Like around 2 or 3...it's such a long drive! And we both have to be at work for 6! I plan on sleeping ALOT that day at work! Glad I'm off that night...

Valentines Day

Well this weekend is going to be pretty busy. Me and Darren both work tonight and tomorrow night. We're doing our valentines day dinner Sunday night at Outback and I'm giving Darren his tickets to the WWE Monday night raw that I bought him. I bought him FLOOR TICKETS!!! I'm putting them in his V-day card. Sunday night can't come soon enough!

Today for lunch

I had a pickle. It wasn't a Vlasic pickle so it wasn't the best...but it was a dill pickle out of a bag from a gas station. Yummy...I'm sure I'll be hungry later..and for that I have a slice of papa johns pizza left over from the other night. Tonight is my only night off from the restaraunt this week and I'm going shopping after I leave work today to buy stuff to make lasagna with. I haven't made any in forever and I'm so excited! I'm even more excited about being able to get in the bed before 11:30! I'm aiming to be asleep before 9:30 but we'll see...