16 and 17 weeks

Getting behind once again. This job is killing me! I was telling my co-workers that I have NEVER worked so hard in my life. Someone asked "Not even your first year of teaching?" I said "Not even my first year of teaching....." I keep telling myself that something has to give, but then I ask myself, what? And I can't answer that question because I need everything that I am doing....oh well.
Pregnancy is going smoothly. I don't know if I said anything in my last post but I'm real frustrated because of my 55+ hours that I am putting in at work I am unable to get to the gym as much. And when I do get there I am just exhausted. I have noticed that my back as been KILLING me and I really think the gym will alleviate some of the pain off my lower back.
We go for our 18 week check up on Tuesday to find out the sex! Yes, folks we are finding out. We were first going to put the sex in an envelope then have them use that color frosting in the cake and find out as a family with Paul's mom and my parents this coming up weekend. But, if I am going to find out, I want to find out then and there. Paul agrees because when the doc says the sex, Paul wants to be able to ask "are you sure?" I think we will still keep it a secret from our parents until Saturday.
Sleeping sorta sucks. Turning over in the middle of the night when you have to pee is the pits.
I have to pee all of the time. I feel movements at night. As soon as I put my hand on the movements they stop. I still have crazy heart palapitations at night also. Have you noticed a pattern? Everything is happening at night...weird right? I am STILL eating like a horse. :)

15 weeks. :) :)

So I cannot believe that I am already 15 weeks. I was telling my mother in law yesterday how crazy fast this time is going! Insane.....
Boy am I feeling a lot of stuff going on in my body, I feel flutters and sharp pain down low in the abdominal area. I got a body pillow from my friend Jennifer that I am in love with. It seems to be helping me get a better nights sleep. It's hard anymore to just turn over, I am having to hold my stomach in place as I turn over, I feel like my stomach is ripping off otherwise. My co-workers have told me many times over the last week that I am really popping out. That's exciting to hear. Because let me tell you what....I am real over the fat look.
This week I am starting to wear maternity pants. They don't quit fit but I defiantly can't fit into regular pants anymore. I have been getting really out of breath, even just sitting down I have to take a deep breath to "catch" my breath. I have also been noticing heart palpitations when I lay down. I looked both of the symptoms up on the web they say that they are both normal due to all of the blood I am now carrying.
Paul felt the baby flutters the other night. I woke him up to feel my stomach and he wasn't impressed. It could be because I woke him up from dead sleep at 2am to feel them. We had a nice long talk the next morning about no matter what time he feels the baby flutters he needs to ACT excited. He's a jerk face sometime but I'll have to say I am too.
Speaking of jerk faces....poor Paul. The mornings are HORRENDOUS for me. I am soooo cranky to Paul, he has done an EXCELLENT job putting up with me. Doesn't get mad and just takes everything that I whine and get mad about in stride. Gotta love the guy.
Oh and my poor kids. I am not in a good mood in the afternoons after lunch either. They seem to be taking everything in stride as well. Thank goodness.


1st baby purchase of the year.

me trying out the first baby purchase of the year.



12, 13, 14 weeks!!

omg.......3 weeks have gone by. Oops. Let's just say I've been a tad bit busy, actually "a tad" is an understatement. The past 3 weeks. I have moved into a brand new school, I have begun and ended my first AND second week of school, I have also had my 12 week sonogram (which was soo cool.)
School: School has been tough, exhausting, rewarding and fun all at the same time. It has been hard not being with my Northwest family. I miss them tons. At the same time I have made some GREAT friends here at Barron. I love my team, I am slowly enjoying the kids. When I say that it's been tough. I have been thrown into a completely new enviornment, not knowing ANY of the kids except for the handful that are from Northwest, and my classroom doesn't quit feel like "home" yet. I know it will there. :)


oh this is just a fun pic that paul took. After he took it he said "pregnant, barefoot, in the kitchen." Just the way I like my wife.....nasty man, I know.

Pregnancy: It's been going really smoothly. I finally entered into my 2nd trimester this last Thursday. I have felt the flutters from the baby. It's mostly at night when I am still and REALLY concentrating. It's a pretty strange feeling. My boobs are still SUPER sore and itchy (which means they are growing, don't know how they can possibly grow any bigger.) School has kicked my butt, I don't know if it's pregnancy mixing in with the whole exhaustion thing but I am soo tired. Yesterday was Friday, I came home wanting my bed so bad I could taste it. You know how you are so tired your body aches and have a headache? Well, that's how I was feeling.
Something that also struck me and keeps me thinking. I was in a meeting the other day they gave us a layout of our testing dates. I looked at the testing dates for March, April and May. And thought to myself "wow, I"ll have a baby then." It's weird how things make other things "real."

Sonogram: Paul and I had our 12 week sonogram. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool! They did the sonogram outside my stomach this time. The baby WAS real low in my abdomen. It's finally starting to look like a lil human being. It was moving up and down and sucking its thumb or maybe just putting it's hand up to it's face. We also got to hear the heartbeat. I continue to look at the sonogram pics and just think "wow." Oh we also got a DVD. So neat. Can't wait to go back.
Well that's my life in a nut shell so far. I forgot to add my face is sooo broken out.