16 weeks!

16 Weeks

July 27, 2014

Hello! Critter is the size of an avocado this week! I'm not sure if I'm feeling him move yet- at night I feel something that feels like a bubble popping.  Otherwise, we are out of our old apartment! Starting to feel settled, which is really nice.  We are almost finished with the mother in law remodel.  Will post pics when we finish!

Love,

Betty

Time lapse photos - haha. Stephanie asked why I'm always in stripes - the striped shirt is a control variable so we can see what changes happen!

Giant pillow that Ahnalee recommended for preggos. Ahn is giving us her baby carriers! We are so excited!

Gratuitous Ender photo - he's enjoying the sun. Told Tom we need to post more pics of Tom. He says Ender photos and bump pics better reflect our readership. Ha.

Week 15!

July 20, 2014

15 Weeks!

Hola! I am still exhausted at night, but I'm getting a lot more energy during the day! I've been able to submit a few paper revisions, so things are moving right along at work. I told a few people at work about Critter, and I got some good information about daycares and maternity leave. I checked out the GSU daycare, it seems great! The only catch is that the waitlist is 12 - 18 months long. So, in the meantime, we are meeting with a random couple that lives in the area about a nanny share. I will keep you posted about that. We are having brunch together next weekend. 

We're still not quite moved out of our old apartment, but we think we have just one more trip to make. There were so many delicate things over there that we gave up on Saturday and went to see Chef instead. Chef was ok, kind of cheesy with no plot, but not terrible.  Here are some pics from the week!

The baby book I'm reading. Pretty helpful, but they are nuts! They breastfed some of their kids until 3. In one part of the book, they talk about a debate they had with their three year old about when they wanted to breastfeed next. When your kid can debate with you about breastfeeding, it seems like it should be ok to stop breastfeeding.

Critter's first baby blanket! Love it! Made it today, along with learning how to do blind hems on the sewing machine. Hemmed two pants. I was going to take my new maternity pants to the tailor, but Tom said, "What is that sewing machine for?" Ha!

Woo! Bigger every day. Critter is the size of an apple this week!  Looks bigger than an apple to me!

Week 14!

Week 14

July 14, 2014

That's a lot of 14's!  Still crazy eventful here in ATL!  Redid the carpet last week. It looks much sharper.  Probably would have helped if we had taken the "before" picture too.  We went to Home Depot yesterday to redo the counters and appliances in the Mother in Law apartment. I usually hate asking for help, but I'm really glad we did yesterday. The woman at Home Depot saved us a few hundred dollars! Woo!

Here are some pics from the week:

New carpet! Makes the place much brighter.

Week 14 - Lis says it's ok to stick with the stripes, so I'm sticking with it for now.

Pregnancy exhaustion! This is me at about 4pm on Sunday. I am really starting to show! Had to buy maternity tops - and I've switched to yoga pants on the weekends. Got so tired on Saturday I started crying.  I called my mom saying I was tired. She said, "Go to bed!" Hahah. 

13 weeks!

13 Weeks

July 8, 2014

 

So much has happened this past week. We found out Critter's gender, we got to see more pics of Critter, and then Jeanne, Lee, and Frances came to visit! We had a blast. It was so great to see everyone! We celebrated July 4th, and we also went to the Botanical Gardens. We took a forced march down the Beltline, and we grilled out a few times. Everyone got to try the waterslide! Here are a few pics from the week.

Critter at 12 Weeks.

Gender reveal cake - we had to make three batches of frosting to try to cover up the color of the cake.

We're having a boy! So exciting!

This shirt is really unflattering - may be time to just switch to a new shirt. Ha.

Family in the garden - the dog is not real!

Gorillas in the mist.

Posing with Froggy.

In the jungle.

12 Weeks

June 27, 2014
12 Weeks

Time is moving by very quickly and very slowly.  For example, every day my pants are just a tiny bit tighter.  It is just like a Roald Dahl book.  I finally gave up and ordered maternity pants. I got tired of being scared that my unbuttoned pants would fall down (haha- TMI)!  At the same time, Critter has leapfrogged to the size of a lime, and we already got our Harmony tests back. Thankfully, they said the results are "within normal limits." I called back to ask if they would leave me a voicemail with Critter's gender. They said no problem, and now I have an 11 second voicemail from them! Tom and I want to find out the information together, so I know the rest of the day is going to crawl by soooooo slowly.  Also, I'm a little worried they might not have left the gender on the voicemail (given that it is only 11 seconds long).  I've tried to think of other information that could be conveyed in 11 seconds - meeting times, phone numbers, happy birthday wishes?  It seems like 11 seconds is too short for a message of this great a level of importance.

I'm not sure if we'll tell other people the baby's gender - maybe it'd be nice for other people to be surprised! My mom says if we can find out the gender, we should. "Why do you need more surprises? The baby comes with surprises already!"

Love,
Betty

Wearing a dress underneath - so perhaps that is cheating a little bit!

Eleven weeks!

June 21, 2014

11 Weeks!

Wow! The weeks are flying by! Tom and I both think I'm starting to show. Not sure when I will tell people at work, but I may not be able to hide out much longer. I went shopping for new pants today, because my current pants feel tight. But Loft and Ann Taylor didn't have any maternity clothes. Ended up buying a belly band because I leave for a conference in Colorado tomorrow. I will have to dress a little frumpy, but oh well!

We are waiting on our genetic testing results. They can isolate the baby's DNA from a sample of my blood. Crazytown! We also tried a new game today- ticket to ride. It's pretty fun! Good strategy involved in the game. 

Much love,

B

10 weeks- and in our new house!

June 17, 2014

10 weeks!

We are living in our new house! It's awesome! We are going swimming every day, which makes me feel much less tired, counterintuitively.  I got a blood test this week, and they took six vials of blood. I've been feeling super tired ever since. I came home today and laid on the floor! Haha. 

The baby is the size of a green olive- it really feels like a miracle. How does all of this happen without us even doing anything? Thank goodness for sonograms- I probably wouldn't believe so much was going on without it! My dad says the baby "looks healthy with a strong heartbeat."  We hope so.

Much love,

B

Starting to show a tiny bit - my mom said she was showing at 3 months. Also - I am in my favorite monkey pants. I think I will wear these a lot now that I'm preggo!