date night.

last night we had a little date night to old town for mike's work holiday party. we had the best time hanging out with his partners & also announcing my pregnancy more publicly! i sipped happily on coke the whole evening and laughed a lot with the other wives, and was so glad to feel well enough to go to one of their social events finally (we missed one in early november because i couldn't drag myself off the couch in the throes of early nausea).  yay for nearing the end of my first trimester!

12 weeks or 13?

we had bloodwork & an ultrasound today.  because i'll be 35 at delivery, we qualify for extra genetic testing and the AWESOME news is that we'll find out the gender sooner (in a couple weeks hopefully).  anyway, since my 6 week ultrasound showed baby with a different gestational age than my period dates suggested, we adjusted my due date from 6/24/15 to 7/3/15.  however, at today's ultrasound the tech said baby is measuring a full week ahead, making the due date 6/26/15 and obviously closer to my period dates.  so i'm not sure if i'm 12 weeks tomorrow, or 13 weeks, but i'm going with 13 in my mind! i'll find out from my regular OB in a couple weeks if we'll keep that adjusted date.  fingers crossed.  however...WHEN will this nausea subside if i'm really further along?!

i think baby apostle is already really cute:)

'tis the season.

i absolutely love this time of year, the lights and the fireplace, and naps on the couch taking it all in. even maggie was up for a nap today!

entertaining & surviving.

my nausea strangely gets worse as the day goes on, and the only relief i have is eating every 90 minutes to 2 hours.  by the end of the day, i'm usually barely keeping my food down (so far, though, no puking- thank goodness!) and coming up with ways to entertain bubs isn't easy.  mike works or has school a lot of evenings, so we do a lot of couch snuggles, reading, and ipad "purple" time.  i'm not ashamed to say i've plugged him in often just so i can lay on the couch and read or watch tv or something else to distract myself from the relentless nausea waves. the nausea stopped with brady around 12 weeks, and i'm almost there now, so hoping it starts to subside soon...thankfully i have figured out that eating does help, so i just keep snacks close by and it's manageable for the most part. at this point, whatever we need to do to survive our evenings together is a-okay with me!

december thaw.

this week has been absolutely beautiful weather, so this afternoon before naptime we took the golf cart up to the tavern and got fries for mama to snack on along with a purple gatorade (brady's fave) and enjoyed the perfect blue sky and some golf practice together. i love these days together so much!

beautiful weather.

we enjoyed a long walk to the playground today with lindsay & her girls for some play and lunch. the weather has been in the 60s and is really refreshing for me to get out of the house (and distracted from the nausea) for a bit. i think for brady too, he was happy as a clam at the park!

8 weeks.

we had an ultrasound today to check on baby & the subchorionic hemorrhage i had at 6 weeks. the good news is, it's all gone! hooray! baby looks good, and i think - already very cute :)

i'm feeling terrible at all hours of the day, nausea nausea nausea. and exhausted. doesn't help chasing after a 2 year old all day, haha. much different than with baby #1 when i can lay on the couch all day if i want! i'm thankful for feeling poorly though, to be honest. i never felt bad with my second pregnancy and then miscarried; this time around i am actually grateful for the signs of a growing pregnancy inside.  i'm grateful to feel sick because it reminds me every day that baby is still in there. and it was so nice to be able to see the little heartbeat and have that extra confirmation. rate was in the 170s, which is great. i'm not feeling like boy OR girl yet, waiting for that "feeling" like i had with brady. i would honestly be thrilled with either!!

i didn't even know this was possible so early, but we got a 3D view today! that's the little gummy bear baby with the umbilical cord attaching on the right.