16 Weeks/Updates

I'm 16 weeks 6 days along. I'll be 17 weeks tomorrow. Everything is going great. On Monday(March 21th) we got to see the baby. The baby was all over the place. He/she was VERY hyper. Samantha looked amazed watching her little brother or sister. Baby was sucking it's thumb and baby waved Hi to Samantha and Samantha waved and said Hi back! :o) Grandma tried to find out the gender, but that was a no go. But we were able to get a couple of good pictures. On Tuesday, I had my 16 week OB appointment. Quickest appointment I've ever had. Heard the heartbeat, which was 148bpm. And we got the okay to schedule our 20 week ultrasound!! The big day is, April 18th!!!!!!!! We are all so so excited! Especially Seth! He can't wait to see that thing in between "his" legs. LOL. We will see. I just hope he won't be too disappointed when he finds out it's a girl. :D
Around 12-13 weeks, I swear I felt the baby move. It felt like little twitches.  Then it stopped, until last week. Last week this baby has really started kicking and moving around. They are just little, adorable kicks. But I love it!!!!!! Seth has been trying to feel it, but he said he can't yet. Hopefully he'll be able to feel it soon. He loves the feeling just as much as I do. :o) I love the 2nd trimester!

Here are the pictures of Baby Mize

His/her hand on his/her mouth

Sucking his/her thumb!

16 Week Belly

Samantha is amazing(as always!). I cannot believe she will be 18 months next month!
She has learned SO many new words. She has actually started saying little 2 word sentences. She has finally(kinda) got the idea that not every animal is a puppy. LOL. She's very much in love with puppies! She loves the word "no"!! Everything is no.  But that could be because Seth and I tell her "no" A LOT! I've never said "no" so much in my entire life then I have in the past couple months. lol. She loves "Moe, Moe"(Elmo)! She always gets excited when Elmo's World comes on, on Sesame Street.
Last week we decided it was time to take Samantha's binky away from her. Permanently! No more binky for this big girl! She didn't have it very much anyway. We only gave it to her during her nap time and bed time. I really wasn't too sure how it was going to go. But (as usual) she proves me wrong! She's doing amazing!!! I am so proud of her!
Seth is doing okay. He's still having his stomach issues. He's still on his bland diet(which he HATES). He hasn't been losing as much weight as he has been, which is good. He has been eating a bit better, but he's still feeling sick a lot. He was seeing a doctor about it, but he wasn't helping much. He said it was acid and he put Seth on some acid meds, but it didn't help. He hasn't had a decent nights sleep since this has been going on, so about 4 months now. I feel horrible for him. He needs to find a "stomach" doctor, or something, and hopefully someone can figure out what's going on with him so he can get some relief!
On a good note, Seth was in the Polar Plunge on Saturday. It's where you run into the freezing cold water for a good cause, which was the Special Olympics. He signed up through the Sheriff's Office, where he's a reserve for. I was so proud of him. It was absolutely freezing out.  It was 30 some degrees and super windy, which made it even more cold. The water was 37 degrees. He did it. I wasn't too sure if he would really do it or not. He did say that he would NEVER do it again! lol. I was very proud of him! :o)

2nd Trimester/12 Weeks!

We've finally made to the 2nd trimester in this pregnancy. Felt like it was never going to get here!!
We had our 12 week check up on Thursday. Seth met me and Samantha at the doctor's office.  This was the exciting appointment...We got to hear the baby's heartbeat!  The heartbeat was 156bpm. Which is perfect! :)  Everything is going great! I gained about 5 pounds since last appointment. I'm starting to feel a lot better. Still pretty tired though. I hope I get some more energy soon!
Our next appointment is March 22nd. I'll be 16 weeks along then. Which reminds me, if I remember right, I have an ultrasound that day too. So I may have to do some rescheduling. My sister in-law told me about this clinic in Cedar Rapids starting to do free ultrasounds for their clients and they needed some pregnant women to practice on. So of course, I volunteered to help them out! ;)  I'm totally excited!!

Here's my 12 week belly

10 Weeks

Today we have reached the double digits in pregnancy #2. Everything is going pretty good! Although, I still don't have a whole lot of energy. But day by day I seem to be getting a little bit more pep in my step. My back is KILLING me! I feel enormous!! The past couple of nights I haven't been able to sleep that great. I've been waking up 2-3 times a night, but I am able to fall back asleep pretty quick. I can't stop eating! I'm absolutely in love with subway right now, I can't get enough of that stuff. We had it 2 nights in a row last week. So yummy! I still get a little nauseous here and there, but it seems to be tampering off. *thumps up* I have gained some weight. Which is good....I guess...lol.
Well there are my "joys of pregnancy" lol
Oh, our appointment has changed to February 24th. I am TOTALLY excited to hear the baby's heartbeat!

Here's to a growing belly! :)

Snow Snow Snow

We had a HUGE snow storm come through our state last night. I believe we got about 12-14 inches of snow. We can't quite tell since it has been blowing all over the place. We've been under a blizzard warning since last night and it's still in effect until noon today. They have actually mentioned that it was a life threating blizzard. It was pretty scary stuff last night. I couldn't imagine being out in that crap!
Needless to say Seth, Samantha and I are snowed in for the day. We have about 3-4ft snow drifts in our drive way and our street hasn't even been plowed yet (when they do come plow, I'm for sure not going to be able to make it out of our drive way!) and, we have a 5ft snow drift in our back yard.
Here are some photos

During the storm around 4pm-ish

Our back door around 8ish

 Back door around 10pm-ish

 Around 11pm-ish

 Our HUGE snow drift in our back yard

 This morning around 9am

 Our vehicles! can't even get in my car

1st Doctors Appointment

Yesterday we had our first doctors appointment. Seth was able to come to the appointment since there's no work for him right now(which is a little scary, but it was nice he was able to come along!) It was a pretty boring appointment. Just a lot of answering questions and a lot of test taking. No ultrasound. Which I figured. And it was too early to hear a heartbeat. They said they usually don't start that until your about 10 weeks along. So our next appointment we'll be able to hear little peanut's heartbeat! I did end up asking about my weight. She didn't seem too concerned about it. She told me(which she said she doesn't really tell anybody this) to eat high calorie foods. `So I will be taking the doctors advice! ;o)
But all and all, everything seems to be going great so far! :o) Our next appointment is March 1st!
Not a very exciting update.

8 weeks(tomorrow)

Tomorrow I will hit the 8 week mark. Things have been interesting. I have been VERY exhausted! Morning sickness has been somewhat manageable. Friday night and Saturday have been the worst days so far. But today is going good and yesterday went well also. I feel as though this pregnancy is going by sooooo slow. I feel like I should be in the 2nd trimester already. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow!!! Seth's mom will be coming along with us to this appointment. I'm hoping to get an ultrasound, but I'm not counting on it. After our scare a couple weeks ago, it would be great to have that reassurance again that everything is okay. I'm losing a quite a big of weight, which I'm a little concerned about. I know it's normal to lose some weight during the 1st trimester. But I've lost about 10+lbs. I'm going to mention it to my OB tomorrow. I'm sure it's alright but I'd feel better to hear that from the doctor.
Now about Samantha. Man, she already shows the signs of a future class clown. She's absolutely goofy. She can make me laugh all day long. It seems that she learns new words every single day. Her most popular words are, Dada, Mum, Puppy(every animal is a puppy), Bye, Hi,eye, here, Ma(grandma), mmmmm and NO/No-No. She's still a talk-a-holic! You can sit down with her and have one long conversation.  She knows exactly what she's saying, some things we don't quite know what it's. Which I know frustrates her(and us).
She's a very "monkey see, monkey do" kind of child. She will imitate anything you say/do. So we really need to watch what we say and do around her. She has picked up a few nasty habits that she certainly did not get from me *cough* Daddy *cough*.
She's going through a big Daddy faze right now. She's so in love with her Daddy! It's the most beautiful thing in the world! When Daddy comes walking in that door in the evening it's all about him. Mommy doesn't exist when Daddy is home. Whenever my phone rings she shoots up and says "Dada Dada Dada". She always has to talk to him. I love how close they have gotten!!!!
She's growing up so fast! I can't wait to see her as a big sister. I know she will be such a big helper for Mommy and Daddy. She's going to love her little brother or sister.
I'm starting to get a little panicky. This house is so small. And we have so much CRAP! I really don't want to rent a storage unit but I'm thinking we're going to have to whether we want to or not. I'm also thinking we'll have to get rid of our dog, Molly. We love her so much. But she doesn't do too well with Samantha and she's not getting as much lovin as she used to. She needs the attention she deserves! I can only imagine what it will be like for her when another baby comes along. Seth is not to thrilled about the idea but he agreed to it.  I just wish we could buy a new, bigger home and not have to worry about any of that stuff!
Anyway...
I will update after my appointment tomorrow! :o)

7 Week Belly