Week 21

21 weeks

November 29, 2011

Size of baby: a carrot or a banana- depends on where you look

Total Weight Gain/Loss: big news: last Tuesday I was up 2 pounds!!! Woohoo!!  

Maternity Clothes: just pants. I totally have a big ol bump in normal shirts now. : ) However, even today with my undershirt, sweater and coat you couldn't tell I was preggers.

 
Gender: Still a Precious Baby Boy. 


Movement: <3 feeling him move even though sometimes his kicks hurt. I love when Justin gets to feel him move and when I look down and see my stomach move! I love that!!! Crazy to think their is a little human moving around and growing in there

Sleep: my sides have been KILLING me. Like yesterday I cried almost all day- not fun at all. So therefore my sleep is being limited because I can't get comfortable because my sides hurt SO bad. They have hurt before but the past few days have been almost unbearable. Thankfully today they settled down. Maybe tonight I will sleep without waking up.


What I miss: sleeping on my stomach & my clothes fitting

Cravings: still no cravings. just wanting hot chocolate and pizza never sounds bad but I wouldn't say either one were a craving as much as it was just me wanting both. 

Symptoms: side aches- BAD on the right side, stuffy nose (could be the weather), back aches, burping like crazy- no onions for me 


This week we also went and looked for baby furniture & found some we think we have decided on & its on sale right now and everything and will ship to the house for cheap. We also decided on bedding as well. : ) Hoping that this weekend we can empty some of the nursery so I can start nesting. hehe


here is week 21: 

one of my best friends told me it looks like a football is shoved in there. : ) I'll take it. Maybe it means he will be good at football...haha! A mom can dream right!? and one more photo for fun- of me in front of Christmas tree with no ornaments on it- its up, just not decorated yet. 

Kirklands :)

Today I got out of school early. Our principal gave us "a gift of time" for Christmas and we got to leave one day at 1:30 so today was my day. Well Kelly called me and said Come to Kirklands with me! How could I say no right?! I am throwing a cookie swap on Sunday so I should have some new Christmas decor. Well...we have a really cool nativity scene from Mr. Coker (Eric's Dad) and I wanted to add to it. I am obsessed with my purchases and the fact that I got both for under $30!! Woo-woo!!!

Whirlwind Holiday (Thanksgiving a little late)

Wednesday:
Justin and I both had off this day so we got up and got busy for the day. Justin headed to campus to help set up the tailgate and I headed to the grocery store. (Yes, I waited until the day before Thanksgiving to go to the grocery store) I was super annoyed with myself for waiting until the day before and already being crabby and hormonal I was very happy when I turned down an isle to park and the VERY FIRST car was pulling out. (It's the small things right?) I got what I needed and headed home to get cooking. Before long Justin was back and he mowed the lawn real quick while I was still cooking. The Jamesons arrived at our house and we hung out a while before they went to check in at the hotel. I put everything in the oven and finally sat down. We headed to the Cokers for our Thanksgiving meal. It was a lot of fun. We all just filled our tummies and enjoyed being together- all 22 of us. (and thats just immediate family) I didn't take any pictures other than when Cambrey gave us the cutest little shoes for Baby Knight.

and we got to meet our nephew for the first time too! He is ADORABLE! I just love loving on all these babies- great practice right!? : ) 

We had a wonderful night and headed home to get some sleep because Thursday morning would be coming fast!! 


Thursday:
Thanksgiving day we got up and headed to campus. Yes the game was not until 7 pm but apparently we have become hard core and we went at 8:30am! We spent the day eating and hanging out. I had a new best friend for the day-- a sweet little puppy! After tailgating all day we headed back to the Cokers again to watch the game (it was getting cold tailgating and I was getting exhausted) Here are some pictures from our day.

Daniel & Megan 

Brian frying turkey

Me & My new best friend

Happy Thanksgiving from Justin & Me

I even ran into Kimberly before the game! : )

Friday: Friday morning we got up and headed to the Cokers for our family gift exchange and family photos. We had a such a good time. I love watching the excitement from the kids as they open their presents from their cousins & aunts/uncles. Not to mention when one of the adults gets really excited about their present. (Yeah I may have freaked out when I opened my Shark Cordless Vacuum cleaner) When do you become an adult that gets excited about cleaning supplies? I wanna get excited about barbie princess!! : ) Here are some photos of the family (in order from oldest to youngest of siblings)

K-Dan & Gigi

Taylor, Eric, Cannon, Gunnar, Grayson, Ella & Emerson

Joe, Cambrey, Adam, Zachary, & Samuel

Justin, Me & Baby Knight

Brad, Ragan, Avery & Kinley

Kason & Carla

the whole clan

here are some present photos:

Samuel with his baby bullet 

Ragan with her girls

Zachary & Me opening his present

Joe & Kinley

deep fryer for Carla

sooo excited

Ragan was just as pumped for her weekly planner

Taylor was super excited about her candles that light without a flame

Eric was elated about his new PS3 controller

and Gigi could hardly contain her excitement about her soda stream

and K-Dan finally caught a break from getting hit with marshmallows after  being pegged a number of times

So over all our holiday was a success. The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing, catching up on sleep, and getting ready for Christmas. It was a perfect holiday. 

Week 20

20 weeks

November 22, 2011

***HALF WAY THERE****
(if I make it all the way to 40)

Size of baby: a cantaloupe

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I didn't weigh myself this week. I think I am doing good though. I eat a lot more than I have been. 

Maternity Clothes: just pants. Normal sweat pants & PJ's still fit but regular pants are out of the question. I know I'm not that big yet but for me I'm huge! Shirts I still am wearing my regular shirts. Also, the fact that it is getting cold hasn't made me feel pregnant in public because I'll have so many layers on and then add a jacket or sweatshirt by the time you add all that you just look warm and large. Whatever-I'm freezing all the time.I know there is a baby in there even if everyone else doesn't. However, people are starting to notice my bump. Thankfully he is a basketball and not fat everywhere. 

 
Gender: Precious Baby Boy. He has a name too but Justin wants to keep it a secret. We will see how long I last. I absolutely LOVE his name. It just fits. 

Movement: all the time!!! The more active I am the less I feel him but when I sit down at night, when I get in the bed or right after I eat breakfast it is like a kicking fest in my tummy! I love it. Oooo right as I wrote that he kicked. : ) Happy momma- I just adore feeling him move. Last Saturday we were all sitting on the couch and he was moving so I told Justin come here!! So he stuck his hand on my stomach and I said did you feel it? and he said No? And right after he said he Justins face lit up almost in shock because he kicked SO HARD. We said it was like he heard that Daddy couldn't feel him so he kicked hard just for him. ; ) 

Sleep: well considering it is cold outside the warm bed is my favorite! I have been sleeping good lately. Not even getting up to pee that much. And my snoogle is still my favorite. I would totally recommend it!


What I miss: being able to sit cross legged comfortably and my back not hurting so bad

Cravings: I really haven't had any cravings. : ( I had kinda been looking forward to craving something. 

Symptoms: backache (bad- I broke my back when I was 18 so it is just making regular pregnancy backaches worse), getting some nice little pimples on my face, sleepy, is feeling fat a symptom? : ) 


here is week 20: 

and I took one with the blocks : ) 

19 weeks

19 weeks

Size of baby: mango

Total Weight Gain/Loss: at the doctor I was only down a quarter of a pound!! Woohoo!! He did say he would like to see me gain at least 10 more pounds. 

Maternity Clothes: mostly normal clothes still- I like my shirts to be tight so you can see my bump, otherwise I just feel fat.

 
Gender: baby boy

Movement: Daddy felt his son move today for the first time!!!!! I was thrilled. So neat! I love that we both can feel him now! He has been moving like crazy. On Thursday my entire stomach moved! It was crazy to look down and see whats inside you moving! EEK.

Sleep:  ok- still loving my snoogle. still have hard time getting comfy though. if I want to roll over its quite the ordeal considering the snoogle is so big.

What I miss: being comfortable and having energy. I want so bad to start nesting but this week I have been out. I think I caught the bug the kids had at school. Throwing up, fever, just overall felt gross so hoping next week will be better.

Cravings: nothing really- but today I HAD to have a snickers ice cream bar and some chicken express. it was delish and I inhaled it all. 

Symptoms: no energy what so ever, felt gross all week (not sure if it was baby or sickness either way it was long week), uncomfortable stretching, constant full feeling

Here is 19 weeks:

and check out this comparison...

Lauren's Reaction

I was looking through my downloads and came across this video. It is the weekend I told the girls I'm pregnant. Lauren had gotten there late so everyone else already knew so she had all the cards and read them one at a time. Jordan was secretly videoing so we could watch her reaction. I cry every time I watch the video. I know hormones...

The cards read:

1. I'm from Mexico

2. I'm the size of an olive.

3. I don't like bananas

4. I recently lost my tail

5. I will be arriving April 6, 2012, what am I?

Then the last card had a ultrasound photo that said I love my Aunt Lauren!

11-11-11 Friday Afternoon

After our appointment we came home and packed up. Mom headed back to Kingwood with Pip while Justin and I headed to Katy to register. We don't have a Babies R Us and my friend, Colleen was going to come with us to register since she has a one year old she could tell us what was good, what was a waste, etc. We went and picked up her and Ava, her daughter and ate at Chik-fil-A before our journey to Babies R Us began. I was really worried Justin wasn't going to be a trooper but once we got there he did an excellent job and was being a great daddy! : ) Colleen was a tremendous help. She cut down so much time when we were on the cups, bowls, etc. All the tedious little things. She also documented this special day. : ) Here are the photos she took. I love them all!! 

Ava was such a good baby the whole time.
We went in the middle of nap time and she was happy the whole time!!

so excited!

Justin has the scanner. Happy man.

Justin scanning bottles. : ) So sweet 

Test driving strollers

still test driving

Don't I look like a pro? haha