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I'm having some of the symptoms they are saying comes with this month.... like increase in hunger... heck yes! Backaches and dreaming of puppies o.0 Never dreamed of puppies with my girls it was funny. Also dreaming of food too lol. And because of not sleeping good at night i've been terribly tired during the day. Napping while the girls nap kinda sucks cause it my one good time during the day to get things done... or watch grown up TV shows hehe. But i have felt like i have to have naps. Like right now it's 9:30am and i feel like i am about to pass out... which i might do, sometimes the girls let me snooze for a bit while they watch cartoons.

Been feeling the baby a lot... mostly at night after dinner but also sometimes in the morning.

Oh my... i think i have to go lay down.... pardon me!

Gift ideas for the girls. Trying to keep links so i don’t have to search again. I want to turn a dresser i have into a little bakery display for the girls but i don’t want to buy a bunch a stuff until i get to working on it cause i am a procrastinator! I want to also build a wooden three tier dessert display.

Some of the other items would be the kitchen set hubby is building the girls.

KidKraft Espresso Baking Set $23.09 (here)	KidKraft Espresso Toaster Set $25.48 + free shipping (here)
Haba Soft Petit Fours Set of 9 Dessert Toys $14.84 (here)	Haba Soft Toys Set of 6 Pieces of Cake: Desert Toys $14.84 (here)
Haba Biofino Sweet Pastries $12.65 (here)	Haba Biofino Assorted Ice Cream $16.64 (here)
Haba Biofino Sweet Trio Muffins $13.97 (here)	Haba Biofino Petit Fours Set of 4 $9.16 (here)
Educo Healthy Gourmet Food $27.95 + free shipping (here)	Haba Biofino Wiener Schnitzel with French fries $15.74 (here)

A big surprise! I hadn't been out there since i became preggo and felt terrible.... i just gave it up! Figured everything had died down. Not only where their potatoes but also there was nice looking cherry tomatoes too. Fun to find a little surprise back there.

This is only half of the potato bed and i didn't dig down to far cause i started getting stomach cramps. Not use to to much exercise. I'll have to go out and do more!

Definitely having the increase in appetite and the headaches issue the websites say come with this period of pregnancy. I don't remember getting so hungry with my girls... or having these headaches! Crazy!

I am feeling the little guy a lot more lately and it's getting stronger. It's fun. Bob has tried to feel but i told him it's to early for him to feel it, plus he wiggles his hand to much when he puts it on there to feel. You got to be still and focus on feeling it, silly man :)

Yesterday (Sunday) Bob decided we would miss church so we could sleep in. We hate missing but we both really needed some extra sleep.
It was so nice to wake up in the morning and there be my hubby! I had that Friday morning too since there was no school. Very weird but very nice. Sunday's i usually get up before him so yah he's there, but not the same as waking up with him. We were able to lazily wake up together, nice :)

Then the girls woke and we had to get up and get moving, getting food and drink and such. Bob ended up falling asleep again on the couch.

He had to go into football practice at 3pm and i had to be over at a ladies house at 3:30 to pick up some boy cloths i had bought over a facebook swap site. Then i headed on over to wal-mart to pick up some fruit and my Sunday newspapers.

Once home i started in on the house cleaning. Not to far into that Bob called me saying he was coming back, i was very pleased! House cleaning continued after that. It was nice to get so much done!

Then we had our show come on, The Walking Dead, which was fun. Then later that night when the Talking Dead came on our friends came over to watch it with us :) Which was very nice!

So i found this site http://www.morphthing.com and decided to put me and bob's pictures through it and see what i got.

16 weeks today! 4 months along. It doesn't seem like far saying it like that but for me, i feel like i'm very far along >_< lol I have so much more to go!

This last week brought me headaches and i've been getting them every day now. I'm done tons of research and tried tons of different things but i haven't found that one thing that helps expect pain pills :( I have symptoms of tension and sinus headache. I've tried extra water, eating something with sugar, ice packs, hot baths, dark chocolate (something about it being dark), tried coffee, laying down, naps.... lots of things they recommend. Not sure what my issue is.

I keep looking at my belly and like to rub it. I think i am a lot bigger this go around then the other time, yet i've only gained 2 pounds o.0

This morning started out a little more active then usual. When we got downstairs i started right in on making breakfast. Girls got the left over cinnamon roll waffles i made last night along with apples and sausage with some milk. I had my strawberry smoothie, eggs with cheese and some sausage. Huge breakfast for me since usually i only do the strawberry smoothie.

Now today i said i wanted to start back on my schedule. Since my schedule has us getting up at 7am (that is when the girls use to wake up) and today they woke me up at 8:30am, we are kinda behind. But i'm not going to worry about it. Next thing at 10am is the girls school so that will get done and be fun. We are going to do are normal books but i also am going to try ABCMouse.com and see if it's any good and if Anabel likes it. The cleaning i didn't get done this morning because we woke up to late, i will probably try to get done during my scheduled 'free time'.... or something.

Yesterday we thought we were going to have company over so we worked on the house quite a bit, so it's in better shape then it has been in a long time. So happy about that, even though company didn't end up coming over at least i got a cleaner house out of it.

Also yesterday evening went and did some grocery shopping. I loaded up on my snack stash cause i have been craving a lot of things. In my snack stash now is: Chex, sunflower seeds, beef jerky, and granola bars. So i'm excited about that! Also snagged me some new undies... normally $10 and was marked down to $6, but they rung up for $1!!! So exciting! lol

Also last night i had another idea for the babies nursery. We haven't been able to come up with something we both like. Online i saw this children's book i remember bob said he loved as a kid. The Corduroy Bear book.

And i mentioned doing the room themed kinda off the bear books. He seemed to really like that idea.

So that is an idea and i really like it. Wouldn't be to terribly themed but could do greens, tans and whites in the room. Maybe some green crib bedding or something. Get a really cute corduroy bear stuffed animals and some of the corduroy bear books. Just some ideas.

I had written about how bad my day had been going but by evening things started to get better. I looked up 'headaches while pregnant' and they said tension headache are super common while pregnant, also that with all the hormones and extra blood it's easy to get headaches too. Some remedies i read was ice packs and hot baths. So since i couldn't take a bath yet i went with the ice pack. I grabbed a long strip of material out of the craft room, filled a ziplock with ice and put it in the material. Then i tided the material around my neck so i still could clean and do dinner. I had also taken some pain pills about then too.
My neck started feeling better and i ended up doing a lot of kitchen cleaning. Remember how i said everything was pretty much dirty in there? LOL Well we have some dishes now! Thank goodness!
I just made a fast dinner because i wasn't up to cooking, so i threw in a frozen pizza. Girls LOVE pizza! They both finished all their food which is kinda rare.
When the girls went up for bed i went to soak in the bath. I added my stretch mark oil to the water so i would be soaking in it the whole time. I also set up my laptop in there with some soft classical guitar music playing. It was nice. I surfed the web and soaked, very relaxing. I was in there until Bob came home (late) from the football game he coached. When i got out i used the oil on myself and then my stretch mark lotion on top of that, so i was very greasy lol.... but i love the smell of the stretch mark oil so i thought i smelt great! LOL I haven't been putting on the stretch mark stuff so i'm glad i did then and hopefully i'll start doing it.

There is still a tiny nag of a headache in the back of my head, so i might fill the ice pack again just cause... cause i don't want to get into pain like that again!

I'm still not feeling very good these days, especially the last couple days. I've been having a hard time eating, having headaches and doing house cleaning. Sucks because i just had a spree of doing really good. I was doing house cleaning and getting things done and then boom.... headaches and feeling terrible. I guess that comes with the territory. They said second trimester could bring headaches, but i don't remember that being a big issue with the other pregnancies so didn't pay much attention to it. Haaa

I had boasted about getting my kitchen way cleaner and things looking good... and then wednesday came and i haven't been doing hardly anything in the kitchen and now almost all the dishes are dirty... something i'm going to try and break into this evening. What a heavy weight on my shoulders!

Also thinking about all this i want to get back into doing the girls schooling again... that has slacked off these last couple of weeks. Come monday i'm going to really try hard to do my schedule again and get the girls schooling going again. Hopefully the schedule will help me with the house as well since i have chores on there too.

Please pray for me... i need help with all this. Need help with these headaches. I really don't want to take pain pills, i like to stay away from them with i am pregnant even though they are safe... still feel better if i don't take them. But with this pain, i need some sort of relief.

15-16 weeks along now.

I'm so glad i did some research on drinking coffee while pregnant. Still having issues with being extremely tired and hard to get up off my bum and do things. Then one night i had a latte (thought i was being really bad) and BOOM i had all this energy and got a lot of cleaning done in the kitchen. It was so nice. That's when i looked up online to see if it was ok... cause i liked the energy and feeling half ways normal.

So since reading that it's fine to drink one coffee a day, i have been for the last couple a days and i'm seeing things slowly get picked up around here. So nice! It's been a life saver!

I added a new page to this blog on the right ---> Called Matthew's Check List. It's where i'm going to keep a list of things i might want to buy for the baby. Cute ideas on there and also a list of things I've already bought. It's going to be fun to shop for a boy :)

I have been eating up my lovey girls attention. Abby is incredibly cuddlily. She is constantly coming up to me with her arms open wide with a 'Mommy i want you!' and she will want to come up and cuddle. She eats up kissed and big hugs. Sometimes she will be in my arms and still say 'want you!' cause she want to be even closer.

Today she let me kiss her cheek over and over again for probably 5 mins. She just had a huge smile on her face and her hand on my cheek. She usually wakes up from nap time before Anabel and she spends the whole time up in my lap cuddling.

Anabel isn't as cuddily but she has her days where she is.

But they both love to give the baby some loves too. They both love to rub my belly and lately they have liked to hug and kiss my belly. Abby will say 'love you baby Matthew!' and kiss and hug my belly.

Anabel took a long time today rubbing and patting my belly and talking about the baby. She said he was in there kicking and shaking his hands. And she talked about him coming out and how she wanted to help take care of him. She wanted to know why he didn't come out now, so i had to explain.

They are going to be great sisters! No shortage of love for this little boy!

I love for my belly to be rubbed when i am pregnant (by like Bob and the girls... not everyone mind you... it can get awkward for others to do it LOL) and sometimes i will ask the girls to rub my belly and they rush over to do it lol. They are so cute!

They are so lovey to each other too. I love to watch them play together!

I'm having a rough day today. Not feeling so good. I had a hard time eating this morning, everything kept turning my stomach. Then rushed out to the salvation army cause i'm suppose to be helping with something at our church that needed old cloths for.

Haa once at the store it was a bad situation. I got light head and felt like i was going to pass out. I wanted to look at the store for myself because they were having a store wide 50% off sale. I had kneel down on floor like 3 times because everything was turning yellow. It took everything to get the girls out of the cart and out into the van, i thought i was going to go down. It was bad. Then i sat in the van for awhile with my head bent down trying to feel better before i started driving again. Usually when i have felt like passing out it passes quickly... but then again i am usually home and can lay down.

When i did get to feeling good enough to drive i started making my way home... but then i realized it was almost lunch time. So because of how bad i felt i decided i would go grab something out. So i went to Sonic for the girls a corn dog, their favorite and then went over to Arby's to get mine. Then we drove home to eat the food at home.

Got home and opened the food... so bummed! I order a roast beef with swiss and instead i got a roast beef with extra cheddar o.0 haaaa so not what i wanted but to late, i wasn't running back out to return it. I managed to get it down.

I had put Despicable Me on for the girls while we ate. After i finished eating i ended up falling asleep until the movie was over. Still my stomach isn't feeling that great and my head feels not so hip.

14 weeks along... or could be 15 weeks if i go by what the baby measured at the ultrasound.
It was so fun to see the baby yesterday :) Little Matthew is about the size of an apple now they say, or the length of a kit kat bar.... man kit kats.... might have to go eat me one of those!

Now since the clips where so short i repeated them twice. So happy i got to bring back a video of my little one moving :)

Anabel and Abby seems to really enjoying watching the ultrasound as it went on. I'm so glad they got to join me along with Aunt Jessica!

I yesterday (10/3/12) i got my ultrasound! So exciting!
The Life Care Center i've been going to for ultrasounds with all my kiddos just got a state of the art machine donated to them so i was able to hear the heart beat and she made me a CD of the of all the images she took and was even able to capture video of the baby moving too.

From my calculations i would have been exactly 14 weeks that day but from measurements of the babies head she said the baby seemed to be more 14 weeks and 5 days along to 15 weeks along. She said from that the computer is saying my due date would be March 28th but she said these things very so she thought it would be safe for me to keep my April 3rd due date.

Baby had a strong heart beat of 150.

Video's will be coming later, it will take me a bit to upload them all up to the internet but here are some pictures:

I love this one because you can see that the baby is looking ---> that way and you can see the eye sockets and the nose socket. Also you can see the hand and where the legs are.

Nice little leg and foot :D



Little rib cage

Kept arching it's back and pushing up.


And guess what this is? This is a bottom view of the bum and legs... hmmm what is there?

This is a side view of the bum and legs in the air... lady who did the ultrasound was positive from this one that is was a BOY!

And inside was these two cute boxes, which i will be saving for future gift packing cause they are really cute!


Upon opening, greeted by the cute hand written sticker.


And all the clothes piles up:


Everything looked just like the pictures on the site! 4 pairs out of the 5 i got for Abby had the inside built in belt thingy... LOVE those! So that was an awesome bonus! I was hoping some of them would have that.

Only thing is just looking at the clothes, they look kinda big for Abby; but i wouldn't have felt comfortable buying a smaller size for her. she's just so skinny! The 18mon jeans look like they will be huge on her.... but I tried them on and was pleasantly surprised that all of them FIT! Guess my girl is just growing!

The cloths for Anabel fit too!

So yay!

Inside was a ThredUp bag where it said i could fill it with gently used cloths and send it back for site credit. Might just have to do that! It said free shipping on the bag too which is always good! :)