BUMPdate: 16 weeks

Pregnancy Highlights: I feel like a real-life human again!! No more sickness, energy level is back! It's gloooorious!!

How Far Along: 16 weeks on the nose

Size of baby: Avocado, 4.6 inches, 3.5 oz

What's baby up to: Stinker's eyebrows, lashes & hair are coming in.  Also, the taste buds are forming.  Baby's tiny ear bones are formed and he/she can hear me now. I'm going to bet his/her first words are "No Tucker"

Total Weight Gained/Lost: 6ish pounds thanks to the beach gluttony and I'm sure my muscles. 

Maternity Clothes: No official maternity clothes, although I did have to rubber band pair of shorts on vacation last week.

Gender: July 22nd, EVERYONE is on the girl wagon this time around. Not sure if they really think we are having a girl, or just really want us to have a girl. Drew and I (and a handful of friends) think it's another boy. Tucker can't make up his mind. He's straight "Baby Bubba" for a week, and then throws a "Baby Sissy" in there out of the blue.

Movement: Nothing that I can't blame on gas, but I'm paying closer attention these days just in case
Sleep: There are pee breaks, at least 2. Every night. Also, big T is cutting his 2nd year molars, so what is sleep exactly....

What I miss: Comfortably sunning on my belly

Cravings: I went through a sushi phase and I think I've burnt myself out for a while. I love goat cheese pesto dip again this time, and milk. I looooove milk.

Aversions: Smells still causing me to mouth breath a lot

Symptoms: Mainly just hormones, feeling pretty good right now, oh and my belly button is a science project already. It's gross.

Best Moment this week: Listening to Tucker talk to Baby Stinker in the mornings... "Hey Baby Stinker, I loves you. I'm your big brother." *Pat, Pat, Pat the belly*

14 Weeks and a full day of eating :)

16 Weeks

BUMPDate: 10.5 weeks

Post-dated due to announcement***

Pregnancy Highlights: Seeing Baby Stinker on the ultrasound at 10 1/2 weeks, Heartrate was 164 on this day. Baby Stinker was calm, cool, and collected throughout the ultrasound.

How Far Along: 10.5 weeks

Size of baby: Kumquat, Just over an inch, less than a 1/4 of an ounce

Total Weight Gained/Lost: Nothing at this point

Maternity Clothes: Dresses combat the bloat, that showed up even earlier this time around

Gender: Late-July, I'm sensing a BOY for now, but it may be a biased idea because it's all I know

Movement: None yet

Sleep: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy dreams

What I miss: I have learned since Tuck, that everything is ok in moderation. What I do miss is my energy... uggghhhhh sweet sweet energy.

Cravings: Watermelon (cliche I know), granny smith apples, sour patch kids

Aversions: I have had a nose like a blood hound since just before finding out and it hasn't worked in my favor very often.
Symptoms: Bloating, some heartburn, painfully tired, raging hormone roller coaster, hungry for anything and everything
Best Moment this week: Seeing that sweet little bitty baby.

Ohhhhh baby.... Here we go again....

Written April 8, 2014

Oh baby...

This morning I woke up with a little wonder in my heart. You see, your Daddy and I have been waiting on you. We knew that when the time was right you would be ours. I managed to muster up the energy to drag myself out of bed, and remember to grab the magic wand before I got "started with my morning". 3 minutes later I found myself on my knees in the bathroom floor crying and praising your wonderful creator and your creation. I was overwhelmed with emotion: joy, comfort, SHOCK, fear... I ran the gamut. Because I'm lazy I snapped a pic of the 2-lined truth teller and sent it to your Daddy, who was just downstairs. I knew he received it when I heard the recliner slam into an upright position and his feet come bounding up the stairs. He jumped up and down in the bathroom like a little kid. It was perfect. We couldn't be more excited. Your big brother Tuck is excited too. Well, kinda. He says "today" that he wants a "sissy". We love you little bitty bit. Welcome to the circus. The cotton candy is fresh!