Slacker

I have been slacking on my blog.  I know.  Work, derby and actually taking care of Ms. Mama have been taking up all of my time.  We found out 2 weeks ago we are having a girl and it has sort of sunk in.  We call her "her" all the time now.  I love that. 
We got a metric crap-ton of stuff from our friends who are moving to Tennessee.  Steph, Mandi and Sandi- You guys are amazing.  We got a huge box from our friend Nina a while ago, too.  We have loads of NB and 0-3 month clothes now.  I think we are going to concentrate on shopping for bigger clothes.  We also got a badass pink studded belt from our friend Natalie. Ooooh and a little black and white striped convict onesie from our derby sister, Felony Frankie. Seriously, the spoiling of her is already out of control and I LOVE it.  I will try to curb it someday, but for now I am just excited and ridiculously thankful.  I've always been the one getting excited for my friends' kids.  Now they are all getting excited for mine and that is SO FREAKING COOL.  It's all very strange, too.
Lauren started feeling flutters a couple weeks ago.  Those have turned into stronger kicks and movement.  I could sort of feel it tonight for the first time.  I can't wait until she is punching and moving all the time and I can see her doing it. 
We started taking belly pics a couple weeks ago.  We took one at 13 weeks and one at 16.  The difference is remarkable.  Pictures are necessary every week now.  I don't want to miss anything.  I make her wear the same shirt in each picture.  I want to really be able to compare the pictures.  Plus at the end, I can put them all together in a slide show and watch her belly grow! 
Shower planning has already begun.  (Thank you, Meg and Mom!)  I think we are going to do a Rockabilly theme.  More specifically, I like the idea of Crybaby.  Lauren can be Pepper and I can be.... I dunno, Traci Lords.  I've had the song Crybaby stuck in my head ever since we talked about it.  We'll see. 
As bad as I want her belly to get big, to feel all the moving and kicking and to finally meet her, I kind of want time to slow down a little.  Time seemed to creep by during the first trimester.  We just wanted to make it through that and know that everything was ok.  Since then, time has flown!  I can't believe she is 17 weeks already.  How did that happen??? 

On Cloud Pink....I mean 9

I’m still working on the vacation post.  I haven’t touched it in days.  I was almost done and my laptop died (I didn’t realize it wasn’t plugged in) and I hadn’t saved it.  Autosave was about 3 paragraphs behind me, so I have to retype quite a bit.  I have to leave it alone for a while or it will be super short and I will leave a lot out, just because I am annoyed. 

We have been having fun looking for girly stuff.  I LOVE knowing what we are having.  I honestly was ok with either a boy or a girl; it’s just so nice to know.  We bought a bunch of clothes on Friday.   Momo and Popo (my mom and dad) bought us a jogging….well, skating stroller.  That way when we go skating out on the trails next summer, we can take her along.  Popo also got her a little train toy (he works on trains.) 

So, it seems that our friends and family are just as excited to spoil our little monster as we are.  Not that the gifts are necessary, but it’s so incredible knowing how excited everyone is!   About 10 minutes after I told one friend she sent a text saying to expect a present in the mail this week.    It’s so crazy knowing some people are almost as excited as we are.   

We started our registry this week.  It was fun, but exhausting!  Babies need loads of stuff!  The registry is basically for the practical stuff.  After all, you can’t find “Future Derby Girl” or Blondie onesies at Babies R Us.  I started a wish list online for all the non-mainstream things I want.  I can just slowly buy things off of it as we go.  I just have to try not to keep adding too much. 

We had another Doc appt. today.  Her heartbeat was 152 BPM.  The doctor said the baby sounded happy.  We didn’t tell him we knew it was a girl.  We have an ultrasound in 4 weeks (@20 weeks!!!) where they check the measurements and do a gender check.  We can just let them tell us again!  I started to say confirm, but that sounds like we are doubtful.  We are not.  

Team Pink

We were joined by my mom, Lauren's dad, Lauren's step-mom, our friend Sam and our niece Syd at the ultrasound this morning.  Everyone was very excited to see a very active little GIRL on the screen!  We have some really great pictures and the tech said she is 90% sure it is a girl.  I looked up a bunch of pictures and I would say it's closer to 95-99%.  She was very cooperative.  She was also waving, sucking her thumb, kicking and crossing her legs.  So we are officially having our little Stella Lucille.  Let the shopping begin!!

Birdies or Monsters

I am working on a really long vacation post to make sure this trip is burned in our memories forever.  And so Little One can read all about it.  However, in the mean time, I know it has been a while since our last post, so I will give a brief update.  As of Tuesday, we are 15 weeks.  It's hard to believe we are here already.  Next week is 4 months!  Well, those 3d ultrasound places offer gender identification at 15 weeks and we made our appointment for tomorrow morning.  There is no guarantee we will find out tomorrow, but we are hoping.  If we do find out, we may hold off on telling the whole world until our close friends and family are told.  However, it's not a secret we can hold on to for long. 

Second Trimester Awesomeness

Looks like Lauren is one of those lucky pregnant women who ditches the crappiness in the first trimester.  Just like clockwork the puking stopped, she has tons of energy and is getting her appetite back.  She is not only holding food down, but the nausea disappeared, literally, overnight.  I think it may have been the day she turned 13 weeks.  The following two days she cleaned the whole house.  Twice.  She couldn’t sit down.   And now she is starting to want more food and different types.  I  figure it’s her body making up for all the puking.  Even if she wasn’t barfing, she could only eat a few bites before she started feeling like crap.  Oh, how quickly things change.  Seriously, these were not gradual changes.  I am SOOO happy for her that she can finally start enjoying the pregnancy.  On top of all this gloriousness, she is pretty sure she can feel the baby moving.  Yeah, it’s really early, but she said it feels like she is getting butterfly kisses on the inside.  I can’t wait till this gremlin is big enough for me to start feeling the movement.  Also, I can’t wait to find out if we are having a boy or girl.  I need a pronoun for this lil bugger.