Baby Sister is still Baby Sister

Today we had our anatomy scan and got the results of our blood tests (we do blood tests for Down Syndrome, Spina Bifida, etc). Thank you Lord that Baby Sister looks fabulous and all the tests run came back negative. We checked to make sure she was still a girl and sure enough she is! She is a wriggly little thing. She was moving all over the place. She was drinking the amniotic fluid and appeared to be rubbing her eye. Bella went with us and was quite nervous at first. She is not a fan of going to the doctor. She kept saying, "Baby Sister gonna be ok." "Mommy gonna be ok." She also thought I should take my clothes off and go weigh. That part was actually hilarious. Apparently she remembers that part of her own doctor's appointments.

The doctor that we go to for our ultrasounds is a high risk doctor. They have awesome equipment and you actually watch the ultrasound on a 37 inch flat screen TV. Bella pretty much talked through the whole thing. Mostly she just wanted to go back to the waiting room and look at the fish in the fish tank. She did get really excited a couple of times. At one point she said, "Baby Sister is coming!!". I think she got much more excited after seeing her on the TV today. The doctor even gave her her very own picture of her feet!

At this time I do have placenta previa. I will go back in 6 weeks to check on it. I have had this since the beginning and they thought it would move. It has not moved yet. If it doesn't move I will have to have a C-section. Not really sure how I feel about that!

She's a mover! I'm feeling her move ALOT and I LOVE it! By far my favorite part of being pregnant! This picture shows her heart rate which was at 150.

16 weeks

How Far Along: 16 weeks
Size of baby: about 4.5 inches/size of an avocado
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained about 11 lbs (yeah, not good!)
Maternity Clothes: I'm pretty much into maternity clothes now. Definitely in the pans area. Although my favorite pair of jeans still fit with the rubber band trick. I can still wear most of my regular tops but the belly is getting snug!
Gender: It's a GIRL!
Movement: I'm feeling some movement. I really love that part.
Sleep: Getting better if I could just get rid of this cold and keep it gone.
What I miss: Dr. Pepper.....
Cravings: I'm hungry most of the time. I'm finding myself craving dairy. That is the same thing I craved with Bella.
Symptoms: I am dead tired!
Best Moment this week: Felling the baby move and getting to hear the heartbeat at the doctor's appointment on Monday. 154 beats per minute!



Oddly I think I looked bigger in my 12 week picture than I do in this one. Who knows. I must have eaten alot that day.

Think Pink

On Friday we had our nuchal translucency screening. This is a screening done between 11 and 13 weeks to look for Down Syndrome. Everything looked great! At the end the sonographer asked us if we wanted to take a look at the gender. Of course we said yes! As soon as she started looking around the little turkey flipped over facing away from us. The sonographer was doing everything she could to get the baby to turn back into "easy access" position. She was shaking my stomach, making me cough, and turning me on each of my sides. After about a good 10-15 minutes little bit finally decided to show us HER stuff. That is right, another little girl is joining our household. Of course we were told this early it is only 80% accurate but I had a feeling it was a girl all along so we are going with it!

Our newest beauty!

We have been asking Bella if she is going to have a little sister. Her answer is "no". Oh dear! Mom and I went shopping Friday afternoon and bought both girls some clothes. I showed Bella her clothes and showed her baby sister's clothes. She said they were ALL Bella's clothes. Looks like we have some work to do to prepare our big for our little. I did ask her today were her baby sister was and she said, "In Mommy's belly."

Needless to say we are excited to be adding a little more pink to our household!

12 weeks

Here we go....pregnancy posts!!

How Far Along: 12 weeks

Size of baby: about 2 inches/size of a lime

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Gained about 5 lbs

Maternity Clothes: I wear a couple of pairs of smaller maternity pants but everything else is regular.

Gender: I can't wait to find out! I'm happy with a boy or girl!

Movement: I'm not feeling anything yet but at our doctor's appointment we heard the baby kick the doppler when listening to it's heart beat.

Sleep: I wish!

What I miss: Dr. Pepper.....

Cravings: I'm hungry most of the time. I'm finding myself craving dairy. That is the same thing I craved with Bella.

Symptoms: I am dead tired! I was nauseated but that has pretty much gone away in the last week and a half. I'm also having heartburn....woohoo!

Best Moment this week: Hearing the heart beat and the little kick.

(I stole this from another blogger. I'm sure some of you recognize it :)



These pictures are not all that great. I waited to late so the light in the house was yucky and I had just gotten out of the shower. Oh well!

As I'm sure lots of you have already figured out I posted the time line of the beginning of this pregnancy in a link at the top of the page. It is under baby #2. We chose to keep this to ourselves this time because it relieved alot of the pressure we (or I) felt before. We are so thankful that everything worked out for the best and so far everything looks great. We went to the doctor on Monday and baby's heart rate was 155. It had dropped but she said that was no big deal and not to worry. We have an ultrasound scheduled for next Friday for the down syndrome test and several others. We are taking all precautions because we want to be prepared in case something comes up unexpected. We expect everything to be fine.

I am not sleeping very well at all and it is beginning to take a major toll on my already tired body and mind. Last night I was awake from 1-4. Yikes! Bella is sick so I kept hearing her whine plus I just cant get comfortable. Needless to say I finally fell back asleep and my alarm went off. I accidentally hit the off button instead of the snooze button and woke up at 7:25. That would be 5 minutes before I'm suppose to leave!! Good thing it was a jeans day!

I'M GONNA BE A.............

Christmas Day

On Christmas day we woke up and headed to Dallas. Our first stop was in Corsicana to have Christmas with Terry's family.



By this time Bella was really starting to get the hang of opening presents. It really didn't matter if it was hers or not.



Bella got to see all of her cousins. Again, I just didn't do a very good job of taking pictures this year. This is her cousin Stephanie.



Bella being silly with cousin Jordan. Our stop in Corsicana was quick because we were double booked on Christmas day. Thank goodness they were only a little over an hour apart!

We left Corsicana and headed further North up to Denton to spend Christmas with my dad's side of the family. More family time!




Bella was showing Papa her new book that he and Mema gave her.

The whole gang was there except my brother and his family. Normally we take TONS of pictures of each family. All the cousins. It irritates all the boys to death. This year we somehow did not take any of those pictures. I'm not sure how this happened. Kinda disappointing. I know all the boys were probably devastated.



I however HAD to have our picture. This was the only picture our little family took in front of the tree all season.

Sunday we all got up and went to church with Mema and Papa. We took up a whole pew and there were 11 of us missing. Our family just keeps growing!



Bella cooperated for a few pictures in front of the tree! I'm not real sure where the curtsy came from but it was too cute not to post.

And we snuck in a picture of Bella with her great grandparents.

We had a great holiday season. The tree is now put away but I can't wait to get it back our again next year!

Christmas

This year we moved Christmas Eve and Christmas Day up by one day. We did our family gifts on the 23rd. I must admit I did not do good at all taking pictures of Christmas this year. I suppose I just wanted to actually be in the moment as opposed to worrying about preserving the memory on camera. We still got a couple of cute pictures.

Bella is VERY into My Little Pony right now. She also loves mermaids. These are My Little Pony Mermaids. They are also very small with lots of little pieces. I'm not sure WHAT we were thinking!!



She is also VERY into the Disney Princesses. She was beside herself that she has all of them now. They are constantly being undressed and redressed. They all share clothes but she knows which dress belongs on each doll. Smart girl!



Christmas Eve morning was our Christmas Day morning. Santa brought Bella a new kitchen and some new food. So fun. The night before we told her that Santa was coming and she was so excited. I got the feeling that she thought she was going to be able to see him. I gently told her he would be coming while she was asleep and she wouldn't get to see him. I broke my baby girls heart. Her whole face fell and big-o tears started streaming down her face in a silent cry before she fell into her daddy's chest. It was so sad but fortunately short lived.



Last year we started a tradition of my parents coming over Christmas morning and watching Bella get her Santa gifts, then cooking breakfast. They came again this year! Somehow I missed getting pictures of them being there.

What a MESS!! Oh well, At least she was having fun.