Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Miscellaneous Updates

Wow, I feel like things are happening so quickly, now.

I'm still at negative 3 pound overall weight change but suddenly, I am starting to look pregnant. To most people I still probably just look fat, but I can notice differences in the weight, skin texture, etc. I've regained some of the weight I lost and it's all come back in my tummy area. I find myself walking differently, feeling differently, being more sensitive about movement of my belly, etc. My stomach feels harder and to DH and I, looks differently. I feel like the change happened literally overnight because just last week I was telling my friends that I really haven't changed that much. I've always carried my weight around my tummy, and I still weigh less now than I did at my heaviest point, so for the most part, I've just felt like the same old me. But this week, I'm really noticing a difference. Maybe it's all in my head! :P

I've taken swimming back up the last couple of weeks now that my vomiting has finally started to subside (only two episodes since Labor Day--yay! And one was migraine related, so technically only one NVP episode!) and I REALLY feel better. It seems so counter-intuitive because when you feel exhausted and crummy, the last thing you want to do is exercise, but I've found it makes such a difference!

We've done a little more buying for baby. We bought his bedding set and it's so cute. We didn't intend to buy it so early, but we received word that it was discontinued by the manufacturer and several stores were already sold out and the remaining stores that still had it had inflated their prices, so we found one store that still had it at regular price, and we snatched it up. Isn't it cute? It totally fits with the fact that DH is a 4th Generation Car Guy and Matthew will probably be 5th if his dad and grandpa have anything to say about it!

Isn't it cute?


We also ordered his bedroom furniture, because it's backordered until almost Thanksgiving, and we want to be able to put his nursery together in December. I just think this furniture is lovely, don't you? The changing table top removes and the piece becomes a nightstand. The crib is solid wood. I've loved this set for years and years and I just think it's beautiful.







We still want to get the matching bookshelf, but we'll hold off on that til later.


And I think we're done with purchasing for this month at least. It's a really nice feeling though to just check things off little by little. We worked really hard to pay off all of our debt so now the money that was going to credit card bills every month can go to baby expenses. I like that we can do a little each month and take advantage of sales as they come up (I got his furniture for almost $700 off!) rather than being overwhelmed with expenses right at the end.

We've received some fun gifts. Both of my sisters in law know of my obsession with Gymboree so one sister sent him this:

along with a matching hat.

The other one, who lives in cold weather, sent him this for when he comes to visit them:

along with some matching socks.

Aren't they both so cute? I'm just so tickled pink with all these cute things. Thinking about him in them makes me want to clap my hands and squeal like a little girl. I just can't believe he's really coming.

But the MOST exciting news of the week is that I'm finally starting to feel him. I'd had like 2 and a half or 3 weeks where I'd felt these little flutterings. They felt like butterflies, or bubbles popping inside, or something. But I wasn't really sure if it was him, or an overactive digestive system :D Saturday night, I was talking to my best friend on the phone and told her that exact thing when she asked if I'd felt him yet. Shortly after we hung up the phone, he gave me two swift, unmistakable kicks, as if to say, "Yes, Mom, it IS me!" It's the coolest, most surreal feeling in the world! He does it a few times a day now, most often around 11:30 at night. I'm going to have a talking to with him about how daytime is playtime, and nighttime is for sleeping. But considering that I'm a nightowl too, I'd better start leading by example! :)

Anyway, that's what's going on in our corner of the world! Hope you all are well!

Bloggy friends: Please leave me your link in the comments again. The gal who designed this blog template had to move things and in reinstalling the template, I unwittingly lost all my links (again!). Some I have memorized, and others I don't, so if you could help me out and post them again for me, I'll get my list added back and make my rounds through your blogs again :) Thanks!

15 comments:

  1. Congratulations on feeling him from the inside! That is just amazing! I cannot wait to be able to say that I've felt that first fluttering of baby movement!

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  2. So glad you are feeling better and having fun preparing your nursery! You have made beautiful choices.
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  3. Such wonderful news all around!!! SO happy things are heading in such positive directions, Jen! Love and miss you!!!

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    Love the baby kicks from inside. There's nothing like them!

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  5. I'm glad to hear that you are starting to feel better as your pregnancy progresses - and feeling him move! Exciting! :)

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  6. Shouldn't you say "tickled blue"? :) I noticed last night that you're really starting to look pregnant. That was so cool watching you be able to share EA with someone for the first time. Here's my blog address for your blog roll: www.j-birdsnest.blogspot.com

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  7. Love what you've picked out for him! Funny- the bedding that's on your furniture pictures is one of my choices! Enjoy those baby kicks!

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  8. OH HOW AWESOME ABOUT THE KICKS! AND I LOVE LOVE LOVE that furniture! TOO AWESOME JEN! HUGS!

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  10. I love, love, love that you are finally feeling him! Isn't it the most awesome feeling? My baby is almost 25 years old but I can still remember exactly what it felt like to feel her move and kick the first time. Thanks for sharing!

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  11. I definitely think you look pregnant!

    And the bedding set is super cute! I really like it! I'm so excited that you're going to have a baby and I'm going to get to meet him and you can feel him now and everything :) It's so good that the nausea has been so much less, too! Now you can enjoy being pregnant! (Not that I know anything about that.)

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  12. I don't think there's anything more amazing than feeling a kicking baby inside the belly....a feeling like no other!

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  13. love you and still on vacation! Will touch base in a day or 2 to update when I know a bit more on our side.

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    Shannon

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  14. Jen, The nursery is going to be super cute!

    Oh, the little flutterings and kicks! I bet you are smiling from ear to ear, as you should be! Congrats! A great milestone!

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  15. Beautiful!

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