Sneak peak

Things to come:

Courtesy MckMama.

8 Months

Baby girl, you are 8 months old. When I realized it this past Thursday, I couldn't hardly believe it.

You are growing up so fast! But I'm loving every minute of it :)

You are at an unbelievably fun stage! Your crawling now.

And you know how to clap. So you clap a lot. :)

You have recently been teething pretty heavily the past couple of days.

You can spend more and more time playing and entertaining yourself.

But you like to know your mommy or daddy is right there. In case you need us of course.

I'm so ready for the warmer weather so we can spend more days outside, on walks, at the park and pool.

Although, you are much for swinging at the park, we play on a blanket and soak up the sunshine.

Mommy and daddy are both anxious to see how you interact with a little sibling.

Soon we shall see!

We love you, baby girl!

♥ Mommy

Mac'n'cheese

Tonight little lady had some of my mac'n'cheese.

And after the fun of wearing and smearing eating dinner...

It was bath time!!!

*Please ignore the less than great quality of these photos taken using a phone camera. 

Taste of Spring

We went to the park today. It wasn't E's first time to the park though, we went to one right by our house on Monday afternoon. It was a little chillier then and she couldn't do much on the equipment, being so little still.

The park we went to today was a lot bigger and even has a spray park that will be open this summer! I really loved the park, even though it was a drive from where we live.

We had fun, but it was a little disappointing to learn that cupcake doesn't really like to swing, or even sit in the swing, or be with in feet of the swing. I'm not really sure why! But that's all she would really be able to do as far as the equipment goes.

We ended up on a blanket taking in the grass and wood chips sunshine. I didn't take a camera and so therefore have nothing to show for our morning at the park... Sad day.

Actually we haven't taken much of any pictures lately. I'm not sure why except we just don't think to do it. To be honest it's hard to remember to grab one more thing on the way out the door and little lady is quite the busy lady, always on the move it seems, so I don't often think Darn, this would be a good picture moment. But I'm afraid I'm going to look back on a period of time and be missing pictures to document. Better get on it!

On another note, the sickness from this pregnancy has been SO much more manageable this week. I keep expecting to be sick when I smell or eat certain things but I just don't. I do feel blah on and off through out the day, and terribly exhausted. But I feel like this might be a little (dare I say a lot) easier this time. We shall see!

Tired

UPDATE:  The ultrasound picture! The longer bean shape is "baby bean" and the balloon looking thing off to the right side is the yoke sac and the cause of my constant nausea... Isn't he or she cute?!

ORIGINAL POST:
I'll be honest, I just haven't felt like blogging lately.

I guess it could be the fact that I'm tired. I'm tired all the time, all day long. I'm tired when I wake up in the morning.

But wake up I do. Then mere seconds upon waking shortly after, the feeling sets in... That feeling of morning sickness. And it seems to be taking all I can do not to throw up. I'm determined not to throw up, at least for as long as possible. Although my mind tries to tell me that "I'll feel better if I just give in" cause I know after being pregnant with E that just isn't true. Even after I throw up, I'm still pregnant and the object of my sickness is still growing inside me, making me feel sick! So I'm just not going to give in...yet.

We had another OB visit on Wednesday! We got to "see" the little bean AND hear a heartbeat!! Highlight of my week so far. I also learned that I'm actually 7wks along which is a week ahead of what they thought the last time. This means hope! For a shortened time of sickness that is...

Now we are looking at the end of October for "baby bean's" arrival!

We did get a picture of new little bean but I just haven't had the energy to get it scanned into the computer, but I'm hoping to get that done tomorrow, even if I have to enlist the help of my honey-do! He is actually pretty willing to help and his help has spoken mountains of love to me the last couple weeks. He just does what he knows helps me out when I'm just not feeling up to doing anything. I love him so much.

The other great part about our appointment on Wednesday was getting some great advice for sickness relief from NP. A couple things she suggested

1. Sipping on flat ginger ale. Never thought of that before, but it helps because the carbonated drinks cause me to burp and that does not help me feel better.

2. She also took me off of the prenatals and just told me to take folic acid, that's the most important thing for the baby to get right now for brain development.

3. Herbal teas, like peppermint or chamomile help as well.

4. And she encouraged me to just eat bland foods, the white foods to be exact. Crackers, rice, noodles, etc. and having just a little bit every two hours really helps.

So far these things have really been helping. The Zofran I took all last pregnancy just hasn't really been doing much this time, so she gave me another prescription to help with nausea. It works. Only side affect is that it makes me drowsy. Not a great combo for someone who is already tired... all the time. So I've been taking in the evening, after baby girl is down for the night. Last night I slept so hard! I woke up groggy but... rested!

And on that note... I'm off to dreamland again. Night, night.

Sweet smiles and sunshine

I love, love, L♥VE what awaits me on the other end of nap time...

These sweet smiles are sure to melt my heart every time I greet cupcake after awaking from a nap! 

And today was such a beautiful day, we went for a walk and so enjoyed the long overdue fresh air...

and sunshine!

And the rest of the afternoon...

we just lounged around and played the day away!