9 weeks tomorrow!

I will be 9 weeks tomorrow and the baby should be about the size of a green olive!! Friday was a very stressful and crappy day but this weekend has been a good one. Yesterday was a full day between helping my soon to be sister in law set up for the engagement party, my niece's suprise b-day party, and my brother's engagement party. It was a very fun day. Today I went shopping with mom. We looked at nursery furniture and got me a pair of maternity jeans & maternity capris!!! We also bought the cutest little onesie for the baby! Tomorrow is my 4 week check-up! I’ll update tomorrow night with how my appointment went. Here is a pic of my belly this week!!

Exercising?

Well today I was really showing and had lots of comments about my belly! Then I went down to fourth grade and was asked by a 4th grader that obviously doesn’t know I’m pregnant if I exercise. I said yes, I do sometimes. She then said that I looked like I was in shape. I laughed so hard because of how much my belly is poking out today! I think she was really thinking did you stop exercising because you USED to be in shape and now look really pudgy! HAHA!

I am going to check into the prenatal exercise class that the local hospital is doing. I’m not sure what time or day it is… it just says to call and find out the info. I am feeling much better today than I have in a while. I really want to try to get into a little more exercising now that I’m feeling a little better.

8 weeks (give or take a day)

Tomorrow I will be 8 weeks so I figured I'd post my updated belly pic. I figured it would be fun to make a little collage of my progression from week 4 until week 8. It is funny to see that it seems to get bigger then smaller then bigger again. I think it is all the bloating and then that going down and increasing again. Anyway... here is the pic!

I haven't felt very good all weekend. It all started Friday when I just felt so weak and tired that all I did when I got home was get in the bed and watch tivo. I got up only to eat my dinner that dh brought home! Saturday I felt ok at times and awful at others and got really sick around lunchtime. Today I have gone back to just feeling weak, tired, and nauseas. I took a nap this afternoon then felt worse because I woke up too hot! Ok complaining over!

Last night we went and ate Japaneese & it was super yummy!! We have leftovers that we are going to have for dinner tonight so I'm really excited about that!! We went for dh's aunt's birthday and dh's cousin noticed my belly! Haha... it looked bigger last night than it does today! I told them that I will be so glad when I just look pregnant and not like I just ate too much! I hope everyone has a wonderful week!! XOXO!

Your Belly is Getting Bigger!

So today I was told by one of my students that my belly was getting bigger. It was too funny! Some days you can really tell that my belly is bigger and some days you can’t. Apparently today was noticeable. As we were leaving one of my kids touched my stomach to tell the baby bye and another student (one of my boys) said “Your belly really is getting bigger!” I said “I know!” He said “I can see it!!” I thought it was soo funny because he looked like he was so shocked!

Today I have also had a very strange and somewhat gross symptom start. I didn’t know that it was a pregnancy symptom and thought I was just crazy but I looked it up when I got home and sure enough it said it was common during the first and third trimesters. I have had excess saliva. I mean tons of it. I feel like I’m going to spit on people when I’m talking to them and I’m constantly having to swallow to keep from drooling… lol!

I hope you are all having a great week!

7 weeks!

Ok… I won’t be 7 weeks until tomorrow but it is so much easier to take the pic and update on the weekends and since I have been doing it every Sunday I figured I would continue! I think my stomach has gone done a little. Maybe some of the bloating is gone. I have been eating like crazy lately. Yesterday we went to my best friend’s hubby’s b-day party. On the way back to their house (we were staying for the night) I saw a Papa John’s delivery car. I HAD to have Papa John’s so we ordered it when we got back even though we had just eaten (a lot) at the birthday party. Luckily everyone else went along with it and ate some along with me! Today after getting back I wanted something for lunch. I had made some mac & cheese that we had leftovers for. I told dh I wasn’t so sure I wanted that but I didn’t feel like fixing anything else. Apparently that wasn’t a good idea because one bite and I had to run to the bathroom and throw it back up! Anyway, here is my pic. Oh and the lines on today’s pic is because I had been laying down on my side before I took it!

Almost 7 weeks!!

I will be 7 weeks on Monday! The morning sickness has really kicked in the last few days. Thursday it was all day sickness. I felt so nauseas ALL day long beginning from the time I woke up until when I went to bed. Yesterday it was better because I woke up feeling fine but then when I was trying to find something to eat for breakfast I started gagging and had to run to the bathroom. I don't know when I'll ever be early for work again because it always hits me right as I'm about to leave... haha! Oh well!

I told my kids at school Friday. I put up a pic of the ultrasound for morning work and told them to write a paragraph about what they saw. They were too cute & excited!! Later I found out that a lot of them actually already knew (which I thought they did) when one of the kids blurted out "my mama told me" followed by "so and so told me" and "so and so told me" and so on. Over half of the class already knew and didn't say anything! I told one of them that I knew she knew because she was smiling at my belly the other day... she giggled and said "I know I was!" They were too cute. One of my kids who can be the sweetest kid in the world one minute and awful to the point of having to call a resource officer on her (yes that did happen this year) was SOOOO excited!! She kept saying "I'm so shocked" and rubbing my belly. When we went outside she said "Are you sure you can go outside? You don't want the baby to get cold!!" Then during science when we made edible layers of the soil and I fixed me one she said "Are you sure you can eat that? You know pregnant people can't eat certain foods!" Haha! She was too cute!

Oh and I also told my nephew the other day... that was too cute! I told him "I've got a baby in my belly!" He said "COOL!!" He also asked what it was going to be and I told him that I didn't know. I asked him what he wanted it to be and he said a boy and asked me what I wanted it to be. I said I didn't care and he says.... yeah I don't care either!! haha! What a sweetie!! :)

I'll probably go ahead and post an updated pic tomorrow for 7 weeks because it is just easier to do it on the weekend vs when I'm back at school and trying to function through the week! Some days I'm really showing and others I don't look much different than I did before. I think it is really the bloating. I did have to wear a belly band on Thursday because I couldn't even zip my pants but it has gone back down some since then. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!! :)

Well today I went for my first ultrasound. Dennis & mom went with me. Because I was so early they did an internal ultrasound which was a little weird. Anyway, the woman kept saying that it was really early so I didn't think that I would be able to hear the heartbeat but then she turned the sound on and it was STRONG! I couldn't believe how strong it was to be so early and so tiny!! She said I am 6 weeks 1 day which is one day less than what I thought. Here is a picture of the ultrasound!

The tech also told me that my cervix is tilted. She kind of got on my nerves because she said this laughing and then led into which will cause it to hurt when they do the final exam or if they have to break my water.