18 Weeks- tomorrow

Holy cow, hard to believe we're at 18 weeks!

How far along? 18 weeks (tomorrow anyway)

 

Total weight gain: 4.5 lbs so far.... Is that a lot? It feels like a lot!

Maternity clothes?:  Regular clothes are starting to get snug and I've just been wearing skirts and dresses, so those are pretty comfortable.

Sleep: I'm sleeping great at night, just waking up a few times to pee.  Other than that, it's going great.

Cravings:  Salty foods

Best moment this week: Feeling some movements that could be baby kicks... not quite sure! :-)

Movement: Maybe a little, it's hard to tell.

Gender: You're guess is as good as ours!

Labor Signs: No and stay away until December!

Belly Button in or out? In and I hope it stays in

What I miss: Having more energy

Weekly Wisdom: Enjoy the little things!

Milestones: Well into the 2nd trimester and hear the baby's heartbeat again at our 16 week appointment!

Favorite Moments: Feeling baby kicks (maybe) and my belly getting a bit bigger.  still feeling just chubby, but it's starting to resemble a belly!

In just a little over 2 weeks we'll be able to find out the sex of the baby!!! We cannot wait!  August 2nd, hurry on up!  I think this is the first time EVER that I have wanted summer to fly by! :-) Have a great rest of the week!

Rain Rain go away!

It was my complete intent on writing a post this morning catching you all up on pregnancy related news, but alas something else came up.  I'll be 17 weeks tomorrow, I can hardly believe it! We had an appointment last week and all went well.  We're scheduled to find out if it's a boy or girl on August 2nd! CAN.NOT.WAIT! We are super excited and these three weeks cannot go by soon enough!

Anyway,  this morning, I woke up to head to a dentist appointment and looked out the back door as I was letting Bear out.  Turns out, we had a creak running through the backyard.  We've had so much rain in the past couple days, it isn't even funny.  We've had about 7 inches of rain int he past two days and are suppose to get another 1-3 this evening  Talk about not fun.  Anyway, we have one corner in our basement that gets a little bit of water in it when it rains very hard.  Well, because of the amount of rain and the quickness in which it came, we got a LOT of water in our basement.  I mean, we probably had an inch in the "unfinished"* portion of our basement but it went further and was much more than we have ever had before.  The drain in our basement wasn't draining because the water table was full and that is also why our backyard had such a large amount standing water in it.  I had to leave to go to my dentist appointment, so I did what I could and hubby had to come home from work for a few hours to clean most of it up (bless his heart!).  I got back home after my appointment and helped clean up, then we cleaned the gutters (yes, in the rain) and finished cleaning the basement as best we could.  What a pain I tell ya! 

So, the basement is drying up, slowly but shirley, however; we are still suppose to get more rain tonight, so I have a feeling we'll be doing some clean up again tomorrow.  :-(

*I say "unfinished"* because it has those sticky tiles in it and now because of the water, they are all coming up and it doesn't really look very good. 

It's been yet another week, so I'm going to have to postpone the belly updates until week 18! so sorry!  Hope you all have a great rest of the week!

Happy Birthday!

Happy 28th Birthday to my wonderful Husband!  

I am so lucky to be able to spend birthdays and other holidays with this man!

He is hardworking, kind, generous and we have so much fun together!

Here's to celebrating many more years together!!  

I cannot wait to see the amazing father you will be in December!  I'm sure I will fall even more in love with you then!

Happy Birthday from Mommy & Baby! :-)

Blogging day of Silence for Cohen

Sending Love and Prayers to Cohen 's family

Quote for the day

"You can tell more about a person, not by what others say about him/her, but by what he/she says about others." Unknown

Running

Did any of you other mama's or mama's to be run during pregnancy?   (Or anyone else that has something insightful to say about this topic!)

If so, how high did you let your heart rate go?

I've been trying to run, to keep my weight down and to just stay healthy.  I'm  not going far, maybe 2 miles, 3 at most.  My heartrate goes up pretty quickly, especially when it's hot or humid, so I've been trying to slow it down from time to time.  I have to walk a bit just to keep it down where I feel it should be.  The doctor told me that if I ran before I was pregnant, that it was safe to continue running as long as I was comfortable and that my heart rate could go to about 170's.  Doesn't that seem quite high?

I know exercising can make pregnancy, delivery, and recovery much easier, but it's kind of scary when my heartrate gets too high because I'm not exactly sure how that effects baby Crane. 

Any ideas, thoughts, words of wisdom?

Happy Tuesday!!

Only 5 more days of my last summer grad class EVER!!

My apologies!

Hello all of you lovely ladies (and any guys who read this, doubt it),

It has been so crazy around here lately with class that I have been slacking in the commenting department.  It is nothing against any of you and I still try to keep up with your blogs, but I am falling behind... And by behind, I mean that, I have about 522 on my blog roll that have yet to be read.  So, if I haven't commented in awhile, I swear I'm still here and I'll try to catch up soon! 

  I've had class M-Th every day in June so far and I still have 2 more weeks to go!  I get home on the weekends and I have to catch up on cleaning & laundry and homework.  So, there isn't much time for anything else.  I'll be back soon! Promise! June 30th cannot come soon enough!!

Thanks for your patience!

Sincerely,

Kayla :-)