OH Baby!

Here is a new picture of our precious baby. This was taken at my 14 week appointment. Can I just say my doctor is awesome! She just randomly said "Hey do you want to run back and see if we can take a peek between the baby's legs?" I was like, "UMMM...YEAH!" Most of the time you only get two sonograms throughout your pregnancy unless you are high risk or have an awesome doctor. She said that at my next appointment we can take another look to get a better answer. We couldn't get a really clear look but she didn't see anything poking out down there! I sure hope it stays that way! I would love to have my big boy and little girl. How perfect would that be! I also don't think it would be too bad to have two little boys either. I just want to keep balance in the household you know! I can't wait for Dec. 11th to get here! Hopefully we will have a definite answer then!

Christmas Presents!

Hey Everyone! I have a friend of mine that just started making really cute signs. Check out her website. She is very reasonably priced and makes a bunch of really neat items. They would make great Christmas or birthday gifts! Who doesn't like things to decorate with! Enjoy!



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In other news....



Things have been getting a lot better! I actually feel good most of the time. I wish I could say my appetite was back to normal but it isn't there yet. I can't stand the sight or smell of anything beef related! Although I can eat spaghetti with meat, but I think it is because it is covered in sauce. I recently purchased a heart doppler to listen to the baby whenever I want. I love having it! I listen about twice a day. At night I let Cannon listen and he loves it too! He will sing to the baby and then hug my belly and says "I love you baby." It melts my heart! Hopefully he will feel that way in about 6 months when his mommy is holding that baby! I am getting so excited about finding out the sex of the baby. I have this feeling that it is a girl. I don't know if that is because I really want it to be a girl or if it is my maternal instinct but that is what I am feeling. I have also done numerous tests with the wives tales and they all point towards girl too. They baby has a high heart rate. I conceived on a girl month according to the Chinese birth calender and my hair has looked horrible lately. They say little girls still their mother's looks. Hmmm....yep I'll just pretend that is what is wrong with my appearance lately! So we will see in hopefully 4 weeks. I will feel just as happy if they say it is a boy though! I love my first little boy and I will absolutely love a second! I will just have to start planning all the boy stuff because I already have everything planned out for a girl! :) Silly me!

Halloween

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! Oops! I have just had a lot going on. But let me catch everyone up on what has been going on in our little world...

Our Halloween plans ended up being quite different than we planned. My mom was suppose to be coming to Dallas to spend halloween with us, but instead we made an emergency trip to Oklahoma. Thursday night I got a call from my step-dad telling me they thought my mom was having a heart attack. Talk about scared! I didn't know what to do! I didn't know if I needed to get in the car right then and drive or what. I waited it out to hear her condition and they said she was stable. So I decided to wait until the next morning to leave. Well of course everything that could go wrong did that morning. Not with my mom, but just with me getting ready for the trip. So I didn't end up leaving Dallas until about 1:00. By the time I got to Tulsa my mom had been released from the hospital, Praise the Lord! They said it was a result of really high blood pressure and stress. They found no damage to her heart which was amazing! Sp she of course had to take it easy the next few days. But on halloween we headed over to Aunt Stacey's house to let Cannon and Gage go trick or treating together. Cannon was a pirate and Gage was a dinosaur. They both looked so cute. Cannon would go up and ring the doorbell. He would great the person who answered with "ARRRGGG! I'm a pirate!" He is such a little ham! I don't know where he gets it! Talk about personality!

Cannon has been talking non-stop it seems. He says some of the most random things too. I hate to admit it, but I let Cannon watch a little too much tv at times. But hey, I am pregnant and tired so sometimes that is the easiest way to distract him while I get some rest! I feel somewhat justified in this decision because I only let him watch educational shows. He doesn't get to watch just random cartoons. He watches Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Dinosaur Train, Little Enstiens, etc. He is actually learning a lot from these. In the past few weeks I have heard him talk about hexagons, ovals, machines, he drew the number 6, and countless other things. I am shocked everytime he tells me something like that! Last night we were cutting up potatoes and he told me "Hey, Mommy those are ovals!" Wow! Smart kid! I can't wait to see when he starts school. He is going to be a fast learner I can already tell.

As far as baby news, as you can see by the ticker at the top I have reached the 12 week mark! Hooray!! Things have been good. I don't get nausea as often now. I still have a hard time eating somedays. Nothing sounds that great to me. I know this will pass soon though and I will be stuffing my face constantly! Next month we will find out what we are having! Can't wait!