In the process of loading this video which was slightly too large, I learned how to trim videos!! score for me! :)
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Big girl bed addition!
When we were prepping Evelyn for her big girl bed, we were searching for sheets. She decided which ones she wanted and naturally could hardly wait until they were delivered! :) Well 'Gaga Chris' was home and caught her on video opening her bedding set! I found this video so cute and funny, I had to share! What kid gets so excited about sheets and bedding? She is such a goof, got to love her! :)
In the process of loading this video which was slightly too large, I learned how to trim videos!! score for me! :)
In the process of loading this video which was slightly too large, I learned how to trim videos!! score for me! :)
Big girl bed!
So we have transitioned Evelyn to the larger room, we have her 'big girl bed' in there covered in the frolicking fairies from Tinker Bell, per her request! :) She did super the first night, slept in the bed no problem the whole night, but most nights since, she has woken up in the middle of the night looking for mommy (I have been laying down with her in bed so she feels safe and comfortable in the bed). So this is a learning process for the whole family, but we will get there! Last night she actually wandered into the living room looking for Mike and I (Mike found her out there just talking to herself!), Yikes! Hope that doesn't become a norm! So left to do in her room is get some wall decorations, move and sort her clothes in there, and then we can move on to getting everything else ready for BBS! :) Here are some pictures of the new big girl room! :)
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| Yeah her full size bed looks huge with her tiny self on it! :) |
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| So happy about her big girl bed! |
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| Admiring her bed. |
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| Toys fitting pretty well, all the baby doll stuff! :) |
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| Laying down next to the fairy Rosetta on the pillow, they almost look alike! :) |
Sunday, August 18, 2013
The little things in life! :)
So our nephew Aidan is going to be in middle school this year! Yikes! That is just so crazy! he is so big now! Finally he is getting a boy cousin on the Rettler side of the family and he will be 12 years older than the little guy! :( But I know he will be a great big cousin to show his new little cousin all the ropes! :) Ok, but anyway, Aidan is starting middle school and they have a band/choir requirement now, so his dad played the saxophone way back in the day, and his uncle Mike played the saxophone too! Well Mike happened to keep his in pretty good condition over the years, even though he doesn't really take it out to play. Prior to handing it over to the next generation of Sax players, he wanted to see if he could still remember to do it, and sadly Evelyn has not really been exposed to instruments all that often and never seen daddy play anything before, so naturally she was very very curious what daddy was doing! Well I managed to capture a few of these pictures, and I just think it is so darn cute, the curiosity of children and the trip back in time for Mike! I just love these pics and these two people! :) Life is good!
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| This might be one of my new favorite pictures of all time! Love these two! :) |
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| 'What is this daddy?' |
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| I think he was trying twinkle twinkle little star here... he still has it, just a little rusty! :) |
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| Really thrilled with all my pictures! :) He loves me... really he does... or I just keep telling myself that! :) |
Friday, August 16, 2013
What a cute little Packer fan!
Here is our little sweetheart at the Packer family night. I had to take a video of this cause it was just so darn cute! I love the ability to take the little videos, you get so much more of the moment! :) Enjoy!
Oh and if you can't quite catch it all, she is first telling the guys to go here and there, and do different stuff, but at the end of the video she says: "go Packers, go Packers, go Packers, go Packers!" just so flippin cute! :)
Oh and if you can't quite catch it all, she is first telling the guys to go here and there, and do different stuff, but at the end of the video she says: "go Packers, go Packers, go Packers, go Packers!" just so flippin cute! :)
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Packer Family Night!
Well a few weekends back we went to packer family night up at La-la-la-LAMBEAU FIELD! We had a great time. Mike, Evelyn and I went, but also my whole extended family went, two of my siblings work at an insurance company near us and their work picnic/party was to host a tailgate thingy for the employees families! How nice, right?!? Well it was lots of fun and we were at Lambeau all day pretty much! So here are some pictures of the family fun at Lambeau!
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| Daddy's girl! |
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| Nice lady next to us offered to take a picture of us! There are really nice people in the world! |
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| So stinking cute! :) love her little Rodgers jersey we got her! |
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| Yeah I am probably the only weirdo to take a picture of Ted Thompson! :) In Ted we Trust! |
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| There is our favorite guy! Pretty close! |
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| Fireworks at the end were pretty great! Family night is a really good time, and people should go if they like the Packers and get a chance! :) Love it! |
Monday, August 12, 2013
Few days, and new things!
Sorry it has been a few days since my last post, and I did promise to be better with my posts! Sorry about that! :) So really my excuse right now is that I finally got a fancy phone! Yes, after years of feeling like a second rate technology person, we finally upgraded to iPhones!! :) And yes I love it just like I thought I would! :) So like many of the people out there, the iPhone has become our camera, and let me tell you, I have taken plenty of pictures... the problem is I have not downloaded them to the computer so I can put them on here! Sorry!
So we do have a computer, but currently our house is a little more disorganized than normal (yeah I know it is crazy normally) But since we have our wonderful BBS joining us in less than 3 months (EEK!) we are currently under some re-arranging ciaos in our house! :)
The plan: we have a three bedroom house (yes we would like to upgrade in the near future, but it needs to be perfect lot and house so we look every now and then but we are ok where we are at, for now) so the 3rd bedroom or really the second largest has previously served as our spare room/collect all room (with full sized bed) and also office (with Mike's desktop computer/picture storage & back-up center). We are now converting this room to Evelyn's (drum roll) Big Girl Room! :) :) She is so excited about it, and wants to sleep on her big girl bed already but did you know there are lots of fun options out there for big girl bed sheets, so we had about a week last week of trying to determine what big girl sheets to get! :) That was pretty funny, and brings up an interesting conundrum.... do you push your own interest and likes onto your very impressionable young child? Let me explain, I was a huge little mermaid fan, yes, liked it very much, and to my extreme happiness, Evelyn likes little mermaid too! :) SO naturally I found some super cute, way fun little mermaid sheets and comforter!! :) Yay! But Mike very gently informed me that I might be a bit biased here and there might be something she likes better... Drat! :( Well fine, I let her choose for herself, well the options we had included: little mermaid (of course), princesses, Sofia the First (she loves LOVES this show!), and Tinker Bell fairies. Well she chose Sofia the First, which was fine, cause it is cute... but OOPS! Mommy screw up! They only had the sheets for toddler bed (yeah right? silly!) not the full size bed we are putting her in! UGH! So she had to pick again, and pretty much she says she wants everyone of them, but she decided on the Tinker Bell Frolicking Fairies... so that is ok, cause I am actually a big Tinker Bell fan too! :) hehehe mommy win (maybe we can still get little mermaid in the future?)! So we are super excited to make Evelyn's room her own and she is excited too! Pictures will be shown in the near future, I promise!! :)
Evelyn's old room, or the 'baby room' is going to be the baby room once again, it is still decorated in it's neutral jungle/animal theme which will be fine for BBS. So the next few days we will be finishing moving things into Evelyn's room and setting that up nicely, weeding through the bazillion toys and clothes, and setting aside baby stuff for BBS! :) Then after that the exciting task of getting a bunch of stuff out of storage! The baby swing, bouncer, baby floor gym thingy, bumbo, boppies,etc!! Also getting out those highly useful neutral clothes we had for Evelyn too! :) But we have been blessed with wonderful friends and family and we are already accumulating a good supply of boy clothes! :) Let the less than 3 months countdown continue! We will be ready (or close enough)! :)
Sorry for lack of pics... will try to get to that soon! :)
So we do have a computer, but currently our house is a little more disorganized than normal (yeah I know it is crazy normally) But since we have our wonderful BBS joining us in less than 3 months (EEK!) we are currently under some re-arranging ciaos in our house! :)
The plan: we have a three bedroom house (yes we would like to upgrade in the near future, but it needs to be perfect lot and house so we look every now and then but we are ok where we are at, for now) so the 3rd bedroom or really the second largest has previously served as our spare room/collect all room (with full sized bed) and also office (with Mike's desktop computer/picture storage & back-up center). We are now converting this room to Evelyn's (drum roll) Big Girl Room! :) :) She is so excited about it, and wants to sleep on her big girl bed already but did you know there are lots of fun options out there for big girl bed sheets, so we had about a week last week of trying to determine what big girl sheets to get! :) That was pretty funny, and brings up an interesting conundrum.... do you push your own interest and likes onto your very impressionable young child? Let me explain, I was a huge little mermaid fan, yes, liked it very much, and to my extreme happiness, Evelyn likes little mermaid too! :) SO naturally I found some super cute, way fun little mermaid sheets and comforter!! :) Yay! But Mike very gently informed me that I might be a bit biased here and there might be something she likes better... Drat! :( Well fine, I let her choose for herself, well the options we had included: little mermaid (of course), princesses, Sofia the First (she loves LOVES this show!), and Tinker Bell fairies. Well she chose Sofia the First, which was fine, cause it is cute... but OOPS! Mommy screw up! They only had the sheets for toddler bed (yeah right? silly!) not the full size bed we are putting her in! UGH! So she had to pick again, and pretty much she says she wants everyone of them, but she decided on the Tinker Bell Frolicking Fairies... so that is ok, cause I am actually a big Tinker Bell fan too! :) hehehe mommy win (maybe we can still get little mermaid in the future?)! So we are super excited to make Evelyn's room her own and she is excited too! Pictures will be shown in the near future, I promise!! :)
Evelyn's old room, or the 'baby room' is going to be the baby room once again, it is still decorated in it's neutral jungle/animal theme which will be fine for BBS. So the next few days we will be finishing moving things into Evelyn's room and setting that up nicely, weeding through the bazillion toys and clothes, and setting aside baby stuff for BBS! :) Then after that the exciting task of getting a bunch of stuff out of storage! The baby swing, bouncer, baby floor gym thingy, bumbo, boppies,etc!! Also getting out those highly useful neutral clothes we had for Evelyn too! :) But we have been blessed with wonderful friends and family and we are already accumulating a good supply of boy clothes! :) Let the less than 3 months countdown continue! We will be ready (or close enough)! :)
Sorry for lack of pics... will try to get to that soon! :)
Monday, August 5, 2013
BBS due early November! Part 4
So this post I want to talk about the big question (even though I really don't think it is that big) which seems to be what everyone always asks and wants to know. "Did you find out what you are having?" To know or not to know... that is the question! :)
So with Evelyn, we did not find out. I was the main advocate in our relationship for not finding out, and Mike respected my wishes and went along with me for the surprise. Practically, not finding out the baby's gender for the first one was a good choice for us, because we knew we would have at least 2, so then the things, especially big things we got as gifts were gender neutral (that is coming in handy now!). But for me, I really wanted that big exciting surprise. Side note: they say women who don't know what they are having ahead of time, work harder, or are more productive during labor (I can't be factored into this due to my c-section) but I can see where a mom is so excited to find out boy or girl that they really push that baby out! :) But seriously how many really good surprises do people get in life? I actually like to be surprised a lot, I don't like to read spoilers, or read the last chapter of a book first, know what I am getting for presents ahead of time, things like that which Mike does. I just like the whole feeling of suspense, anticipation and surprise, and with a baby, it is good no matter what, so it is awesome! :) That was a pretty amazing thing, even though I had a c-section, the surprise of 'Its a girl' when she came out... there is nothing as exciting and just happy as that moment... not that knowing makes it not exciting, but you could argue that it might dull the excitement a bit.... I have had many women and friends having babies lately that tell me I was crazy for not finding out and that they couldn't believe I would want the surprise... many of them said they had to plan, or they were too much of planner. Which might be a big thing for me, I plan a bit, but I really am NOT a big planner at all.... I actually stink at it and Mike does most of our planning. Maybe that is why he wanted to find out more than I did?
As a funny little add on, I like to think about why people think the way the do, and I feel there are many things in everyone's life that impacts their thinking and actions. Maybe because I have always seen myself as more of a tom-boy, or at least not very girly, but I always thought there are way to many gender stereotypes out there. I know I get teased that I am all 'women power' but I do feel that way, women can do whatever men can do, but see I also think men can do whatever women do... I don't feel like genders should be treated much differently. During my 'well-rounded' college education, I had to take some general degree requirements... now many if not all student I went to college with would usually complain about these courses... sure I didn't like them all, but I like to think I did not complain much, mostly because I am really interested in so many things, and love random facts. Well we needed to fill a 'minority' requirement, and I took this women's studies class, I thought how silly is this, what will I learn in this silly class! Well it might be one of those classes that did do it's job, it made me think differently and outside of the box and it is one that I feel earned me that 'well-rounded' label that comes with college. In this class we talked a lot about gender stereotypes and it was very intriguing to hear the different aspects of gender issues. I feel that finding out the gender of the baby is very useless... do you need to have a pink swing, or all boy clothes or any of those gender specific things? If I put our baby boy in an outfit that is the color pink, is it going to make him less of a boy? Or make him gay? NO! that is just silly! Just like Evelyn wearing some boy clothes that we had did not make her a boy or less of a girl... SO for me knowing ahead of time was not something I needed to know.
Ok now enter this baby... well since we had a c-sections with Evelyn, I felt like wow, the day of my kids birth will now not really be a surprise... so I wouldn't have any surprises if we found out, so I really did not need to find out again with this baby. However Mike did want to find out this time, and my scientific nature, I need to also experiment with this method to truly know which is the preferred method. Well it was sure a good thing we found out, cause well he was not shy and we might have seen his privates even if we did not want to see them! :) SO I will not lie, it was exciting to know, and to know 100%, since I was worried that they would only be like 60% sure or something, and that would drive me crazy! But Mike (to my surprise) agreed with me, that the surprise is better! We know now, great, but the baby is not out here, we can't hold the baby, it was kind of like ok, cool... it is a boy... now what, we still have to wait. Anticlimactic is an accurate word. Now comparing the surprise to finding out ahead of time... what a difference! And we have decided if there are any more babies to join our family, we will not find out their gender ahead of time. So that is a little piece of our experience, and I am sure most people will still go on finding out their baby's gender and that is great! I just wish they could experience the suspense, anticipation and excitement of knowing when they can feel their baby and see them in all their physical glory! :)
I am now 26 weeks, getting close! Today, August 5th is exactly 3 months till my scheduled c-section! We will have our second little baby in 3 months! AAAHHH! :) excitement! :)
So with Evelyn, we did not find out. I was the main advocate in our relationship for not finding out, and Mike respected my wishes and went along with me for the surprise. Practically, not finding out the baby's gender for the first one was a good choice for us, because we knew we would have at least 2, so then the things, especially big things we got as gifts were gender neutral (that is coming in handy now!). But for me, I really wanted that big exciting surprise. Side note: they say women who don't know what they are having ahead of time, work harder, or are more productive during labor (I can't be factored into this due to my c-section) but I can see where a mom is so excited to find out boy or girl that they really push that baby out! :) But seriously how many really good surprises do people get in life? I actually like to be surprised a lot, I don't like to read spoilers, or read the last chapter of a book first, know what I am getting for presents ahead of time, things like that which Mike does. I just like the whole feeling of suspense, anticipation and surprise, and with a baby, it is good no matter what, so it is awesome! :) That was a pretty amazing thing, even though I had a c-section, the surprise of 'Its a girl' when she came out... there is nothing as exciting and just happy as that moment... not that knowing makes it not exciting, but you could argue that it might dull the excitement a bit.... I have had many women and friends having babies lately that tell me I was crazy for not finding out and that they couldn't believe I would want the surprise... many of them said they had to plan, or they were too much of planner. Which might be a big thing for me, I plan a bit, but I really am NOT a big planner at all.... I actually stink at it and Mike does most of our planning. Maybe that is why he wanted to find out more than I did?
As a funny little add on, I like to think about why people think the way the do, and I feel there are many things in everyone's life that impacts their thinking and actions. Maybe because I have always seen myself as more of a tom-boy, or at least not very girly, but I always thought there are way to many gender stereotypes out there. I know I get teased that I am all 'women power' but I do feel that way, women can do whatever men can do, but see I also think men can do whatever women do... I don't feel like genders should be treated much differently. During my 'well-rounded' college education, I had to take some general degree requirements... now many if not all student I went to college with would usually complain about these courses... sure I didn't like them all, but I like to think I did not complain much, mostly because I am really interested in so many things, and love random facts. Well we needed to fill a 'minority' requirement, and I took this women's studies class, I thought how silly is this, what will I learn in this silly class! Well it might be one of those classes that did do it's job, it made me think differently and outside of the box and it is one that I feel earned me that 'well-rounded' label that comes with college. In this class we talked a lot about gender stereotypes and it was very intriguing to hear the different aspects of gender issues. I feel that finding out the gender of the baby is very useless... do you need to have a pink swing, or all boy clothes or any of those gender specific things? If I put our baby boy in an outfit that is the color pink, is it going to make him less of a boy? Or make him gay? NO! that is just silly! Just like Evelyn wearing some boy clothes that we had did not make her a boy or less of a girl... SO for me knowing ahead of time was not something I needed to know.
Ok now enter this baby... well since we had a c-sections with Evelyn, I felt like wow, the day of my kids birth will now not really be a surprise... so I wouldn't have any surprises if we found out, so I really did not need to find out again with this baby. However Mike did want to find out this time, and my scientific nature, I need to also experiment with this method to truly know which is the preferred method. Well it was sure a good thing we found out, cause well he was not shy and we might have seen his privates even if we did not want to see them! :) SO I will not lie, it was exciting to know, and to know 100%, since I was worried that they would only be like 60% sure or something, and that would drive me crazy! But Mike (to my surprise) agreed with me, that the surprise is better! We know now, great, but the baby is not out here, we can't hold the baby, it was kind of like ok, cool... it is a boy... now what, we still have to wait. Anticlimactic is an accurate word. Now comparing the surprise to finding out ahead of time... what a difference! And we have decided if there are any more babies to join our family, we will not find out their gender ahead of time. So that is a little piece of our experience, and I am sure most people will still go on finding out their baby's gender and that is great! I just wish they could experience the suspense, anticipation and excitement of knowing when they can feel their baby and see them in all their physical glory! :)
I am now 26 weeks, getting close! Today, August 5th is exactly 3 months till my scheduled c-section! We will have our second little baby in 3 months! AAAHHH! :) excitement! :)
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| See the arrow? yep that is pointing to his parts! No doubt about it! :) |
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| Here imaging him squatting over your face... that is what you are looking at! calves, little thighs and his privates, not hidden out to show the world! :) |
Friday, August 2, 2013
BBS due early November! Part 3
The last entry I gave a hint that I would be talking about the guilt I have felt during this pregnancy. Seems weird right? Why would I feel guilty?! Well don't worry I will explain! :)
While pregnant with Evelyn (#1) this was obviously a whole new experience, I was so infatuated with knowing exactly what was happening inside me at every moment! I mean I went to the lengths of acquiring a highly in depth human development book because the 'What to expect while expecting' and the 10 other books and websites I was reading were not good enough! I loved to read about how big baby was, how big my uterus was, what fruit/veggie baby is compared to.... everything I wanted to know it all! Well this poor baby... I get a weekly email that I look at briefly (if I have time). I mean I probably didn't dig up the pregnancy books until I was like 14 weeks... and I looked at them maybe twice! Also with Evelyn, of course I had to take belly pictures, I was so proud of this baby growing inside of me, and wanted to document it... well this poor baby... I am just hoping people don't mistake me for just having a huge lunch or something! :) How terrible am I! I feel like it seems as if I don't care about this pregnancy and baby, you and I know that I obviously do! Enter the guilt feeling... why am I not more excited, or looking up and digesting all this stuff, documenting everything? Sure, I can argue that I have looked at it already, and remember it and all that, but really I think it might boil down to less time and more confidence.
More confidence is an interesting thing that has come along with this pregnancy. Yes, I am slightly worried/nervous about having a second child to grow/support/love/care-for but at the same time, the newness of the whole experience is gone. I am confident that I can carry a baby to term (done that), I am confident that I can care for a newborn (done that), I am confident that I can breastfeed (done that).... it is all those little anxiety inducing emotions I had last time that I don't this time.... I am simply more confident! :) I like that! Also I think I am and will be less hard on myself, with Evelyn I feared if anything I wanted to do or planned to do went wrong, that it was my fault and I was a faulty mother or something, now I know that I can't control it all, I won't beat myself up if I have to feed my baby some formula or if the kid sits in some poop for a little while cause I didn't notice it... I think I am and will continue to be easier on myself, and that is very liberating! Sure, the new anxieties include, juggling 2 kids, toting and caring for a baby at events with a crazy little girl to also keep alive (lets face it, that is the biggest concern right?), and well mostly in one piece! :) That really is where my biggest concern is right now. Sure there are a lot more things I could fret about (and I might later) but one great thing about having Evelyn has helped me with... I have learned to chill a little more, and realize 'no, I can't control everything' I can try to be prepared (I am personally not good at that, Mike is more our planner in the family), but I really have to take things as they come, and that is what we will do when we have two... simple as that. I don't want to worry about everything... that will make me die young! My cousin had a good facebook quote thing that said something like: worrying is as pointless as walking around with an umbrella all the time because it might rain. I like that... I am trying to not put up my 'worry-umbrella' until I see that there is some rain coming... right now I will bask in the sun of the awesomeness of parenthood, and go headfirst and confidently with my wonderful partner-in-life Michael into this next grand adventure! :)
Life is good, I am going to keep living it to the fullest!
While pregnant with Evelyn (#1) this was obviously a whole new experience, I was so infatuated with knowing exactly what was happening inside me at every moment! I mean I went to the lengths of acquiring a highly in depth human development book because the 'What to expect while expecting' and the 10 other books and websites I was reading were not good enough! I loved to read about how big baby was, how big my uterus was, what fruit/veggie baby is compared to.... everything I wanted to know it all! Well this poor baby... I get a weekly email that I look at briefly (if I have time). I mean I probably didn't dig up the pregnancy books until I was like 14 weeks... and I looked at them maybe twice! Also with Evelyn, of course I had to take belly pictures, I was so proud of this baby growing inside of me, and wanted to document it... well this poor baby... I am just hoping people don't mistake me for just having a huge lunch or something! :) How terrible am I! I feel like it seems as if I don't care about this pregnancy and baby, you and I know that I obviously do! Enter the guilt feeling... why am I not more excited, or looking up and digesting all this stuff, documenting everything? Sure, I can argue that I have looked at it already, and remember it and all that, but really I think it might boil down to less time and more confidence.
More confidence is an interesting thing that has come along with this pregnancy. Yes, I am slightly worried/nervous about having a second child to grow/support/love/care-for but at the same time, the newness of the whole experience is gone. I am confident that I can carry a baby to term (done that), I am confident that I can care for a newborn (done that), I am confident that I can breastfeed (done that).... it is all those little anxiety inducing emotions I had last time that I don't this time.... I am simply more confident! :) I like that! Also I think I am and will be less hard on myself, with Evelyn I feared if anything I wanted to do or planned to do went wrong, that it was my fault and I was a faulty mother or something, now I know that I can't control it all, I won't beat myself up if I have to feed my baby some formula or if the kid sits in some poop for a little while cause I didn't notice it... I think I am and will continue to be easier on myself, and that is very liberating! Sure, the new anxieties include, juggling 2 kids, toting and caring for a baby at events with a crazy little girl to also keep alive (lets face it, that is the biggest concern right?), and well mostly in one piece! :) That really is where my biggest concern is right now. Sure there are a lot more things I could fret about (and I might later) but one great thing about having Evelyn has helped me with... I have learned to chill a little more, and realize 'no, I can't control everything' I can try to be prepared (I am personally not good at that, Mike is more our planner in the family), but I really have to take things as they come, and that is what we will do when we have two... simple as that. I don't want to worry about everything... that will make me die young! My cousin had a good facebook quote thing that said something like: worrying is as pointless as walking around with an umbrella all the time because it might rain. I like that... I am trying to not put up my 'worry-umbrella' until I see that there is some rain coming... right now I will bask in the sun of the awesomeness of parenthood, and go headfirst and confidently with my wonderful partner-in-life Michael into this next grand adventure! :)
Life is good, I am going to keep living it to the fullest!
Thursday, August 1, 2013
BBS due early November! Part 2
Ok, well last I left off with Indy our pregnancy detecting dog. So from there, things were pretty normal, I did not really have any morning sickness (just like Evelyn, thankfully) although with both pregnancies I always get very hungry in the morning... almost nauseous hungry. Once I even gagged myself brushing my teeth, but that was the complete worst of it.
So this might be amusing, I know my one good friend totally thought I was crazy, but I did notice some 'signs' or whatever you want to call it, that made Mike and I think 'hey, this might be a boy'. So first thing I saw was an increase in acne or pimples... I felt like I was a 14 year old boy or something... I think I was getting more pimples with this pregnancy then I did when I start puberty! My doctor even said she does see that more when women are pregnant with boys. My good friend who had a boy, thought this was silly and a total old wives tale. Be that what it may, that is what I noticed. Also I felt like I had more 'whiskers' growing... ok so we are animals after all, and it is normal for us to have hair on our body and women also unfortunately can get some rather longer hairs on their face and chin, much to our dislike... well that is what I noticed, thankfully I have blondish body hair so my little whiskers were not that noticeable, but I noticed an increase in these whiskers! :) So these signs happened early in the pregnancy!! So right off the bat Mike and I thought maybe we were going to have a boy! :)
Other than that, my pregnancy with #2 was not too different. I was (still am too) tired, maybe slightly more tired since I have a little one already to wear me out and I still obviously have to take care of her... but I can go to sleep at the same time as her and I have no guilt and I don't care if it makes me 'old' I like and NEED my sleep! :) I started to feel those nasty round ligament pains that are low down or under your uterus (my friend Matt hates when us girls talk about our uteri, so it makes me giggle to even type it!) those pains stink. I also felt like I did start to show (well at least to me) earlier. This time I definitely did not want to, or should I say was not as excited to get into maternity clothes, so much so that my pants/bottoms supply is dangerously low right now and all maternity bottoms are ticking me off! :)
One of the maybe the greatest things about pregnancy with a #2 or probably all subsequent babies after #1 is that you can feel the baby earlier!! :) That really is the coolest thing! SO I am a person that feels like being pregnant is very surreal, and I am always saying 'are you sure I am pregnant' probably for like the whole first half of both of these pregnancies! I see and hear the baby at the doctor, but it isn't till you really feel him or her that it sets in for me, that WOW, I am growing a little human! Amazing! :) So it might be crazy but I did think I might have even felt a somersault as early as 14 weeks this time! But I really started to feel him regularly at 18 weeks and he is one active little guy! :)
Ok stay tuned for part 3 which I will talk about the guilt I have felt with pregnancy #2 and part 4 I will talk about finding out baby's gender.
So this might be amusing, I know my one good friend totally thought I was crazy, but I did notice some 'signs' or whatever you want to call it, that made Mike and I think 'hey, this might be a boy'. So first thing I saw was an increase in acne or pimples... I felt like I was a 14 year old boy or something... I think I was getting more pimples with this pregnancy then I did when I start puberty! My doctor even said she does see that more when women are pregnant with boys. My good friend who had a boy, thought this was silly and a total old wives tale. Be that what it may, that is what I noticed. Also I felt like I had more 'whiskers' growing... ok so we are animals after all, and it is normal for us to have hair on our body and women also unfortunately can get some rather longer hairs on their face and chin, much to our dislike... well that is what I noticed, thankfully I have blondish body hair so my little whiskers were not that noticeable, but I noticed an increase in these whiskers! :) So these signs happened early in the pregnancy!! So right off the bat Mike and I thought maybe we were going to have a boy! :)
Other than that, my pregnancy with #2 was not too different. I was (still am too) tired, maybe slightly more tired since I have a little one already to wear me out and I still obviously have to take care of her... but I can go to sleep at the same time as her and I have no guilt and I don't care if it makes me 'old' I like and NEED my sleep! :) I started to feel those nasty round ligament pains that are low down or under your uterus (my friend Matt hates when us girls talk about our uteri, so it makes me giggle to even type it!) those pains stink. I also felt like I did start to show (well at least to me) earlier. This time I definitely did not want to, or should I say was not as excited to get into maternity clothes, so much so that my pants/bottoms supply is dangerously low right now and all maternity bottoms are ticking me off! :)
One of the maybe the greatest things about pregnancy with a #2 or probably all subsequent babies after #1 is that you can feel the baby earlier!! :) That really is the coolest thing! SO I am a person that feels like being pregnant is very surreal, and I am always saying 'are you sure I am pregnant' probably for like the whole first half of both of these pregnancies! I see and hear the baby at the doctor, but it isn't till you really feel him or her that it sets in for me, that WOW, I am growing a little human! Amazing! :) So it might be crazy but I did think I might have even felt a somersault as early as 14 weeks this time! But I really started to feel him regularly at 18 weeks and he is one active little guy! :)
Ok stay tuned for part 3 which I will talk about the guilt I have felt with pregnancy #2 and part 4 I will talk about finding out baby's gender.
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