Baby Clothes

So, I won't post every outfit I get, but these were some of the first, so I thought I should document them! They are from my mother-in-law and will be perfect come May!

18 Weeks

How Far Along: 18 weeks

Size of baby: sweet potato

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +3

Maternity Clothes: not yet but getting close!

Gender: GIRL!

Movement: nothing :( but soon I hope!

Sleep: Pretty solid this week. I can fall back asleep easier when I do wake up.

What I miss: Coffee, especially when waking up to COLD mornings like this one,

Cravings: Nothing in particular, I have a big appetite though.

Symptoms: Feeling good this week!

Best Moment This Week: Getting my first baby girl outfit! I can't wait to hold her!

17 weeks

How Far Along: 17 weeks

Size of baby: onion

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +4 lb

Maternity Clothes: not yet but getting close!

Gender: GIRL!

Movement: I may have felt some flutters, not really sure though.

Sleep: It's ok, I wake up every night feeling like my bladder is going to burst and then barely any thing comes out!

What I miss: sleeping hard through the night. I guess I can kiss that goodbye for a long time. :(

Cravings: I hate water. Can't stand to drink a drop of it! I'll drink anything, but it even when I am extremely thirsty.

Symptoms: Headaches, starting to feel the belly stretch!

Best Moment This Week: Finding out it's a girl! I had two dreams that it was a boy, so my guess was boy, but I was wrong! So much for mother's intuition.

Problem though, we have no names! We don't even have any we are thinking about. This could be a loooong process. If you have any good ones let me know!

How Far Along: 16 weeks

Size of baby: avocado

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +1 lb

Maternity Clothes: not yet

Gender: Find out in a week!

Movement: None yet!

Sleep: I've been waking up every night, but the past few nights I've been able to fall asleep again, so that's good.

What I miss: nothing right now, I love that I am eating like crazy and not packing on the pounds...yet.

Cravings: Milk...yes I am a milkaholic. Yogurt.

Symptoms: Headaches, and way thirsty all the time

Best Moment This Week: Jacob saying, "Hey!" and smiling since he can finally see my belly pouch out a little bit. :)

14 weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:
How Far Along: 14 weeks
Size of baby: orange
Total Weight Gain/Loss: Seriously? Who decided this would be a good question to have pregnant lady post every week! Umm 0 at this point.

Maternity Clothes: None yet
Gender: maybe find out Dec. 1st
Movement: nada

Sleep: It's touch and go. I wake up and flip sides and wake up and flip sides.

What I miss: sleeping on my back, not having asthma, drinking lots of caffine!
Cravings: tomatoes, Braum's milk, cold apple sauce
Best Moment This Week: Well it was last week, but finally telling and showing my students my ultrasound!

They are excited for me!

Still not showing at this point. I know I need to start taking pictures soon. Hopefully with the next post I'll add one.

Thanks for reading!

Love Jen

Big News!

So it's taken me awhile to announce this, but......

I'm having a baby!

Due 5-8-11!

I'm 14 weeks today and feeling pretty good.

I hope to post regularly about the whole thing!

Love you all!

-Jen

Fall Break

So my fall break is coming to and end. I'm really not ready to go back to work, but in a way I guess I am. I am ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I more excited for the holidays this year than I have been in awhile. I'm not sure why. I just love the snuggly warm feeling of it all. Thank God for family to spend it with!

Teaching is still... well it's going. I got my first benchmarks and they are awful! No exaggeration. Terrible. Depressing.

We start back with multiplication when we get back. Yay. That should go over well. I'm working on descriptive writing with them right now. I plan on bringing in a pumpkin to gut for them to write about. It all sounds very messy and like a lot of work. Blah. But I have been kind of lazy and my kids need to do something fun so I look like I'm a good teacher. ;) I'll let you know how that goes.

Parent teacher conferences went really well. I talked fast, had lots to discuss and resources to share. So the timing went well with no weird pauses. I think I may have been a little to nice about some of my students. I had 24 of 26 show up! So I think that is a pretty good average.

That's all for now. 4 weeks till Thanksgiving break, then 3 till Christmas break. I can make it!