My Goal

Okay my goal for this pregnancy is to keep everyone up to speed on this website. So I am going to try to blog every time I go to the doctor and let everyone know what happened at my appointments and such. So here we go:

My first appointment was on February 12, they did a sonogram and found out that I was 7 weeks and 3 days, so not quite 8 weeks. They told me that my due date would be September 27th. I know another September birthday for the Anderson/Armstrong families, as if we didn't already have enough. For those of you who aren't family members we have 6 (one of those is Jon's best friend, so he's not blood family but family still), and we are adding in number 7.

I will pause here to add, before I had gone to the doctor I had been having dreams that I was having twins, and Kaylin kept insisting that mommy was having two babies not one. The sonogram technician said that there was only one baby in there, praise God, I don't think I could handle two newborns and a 3 year old.

So the sonogram technician said everything appeared to be okay and she was able to let me listen to the heartbeat and is was 152. It didn't really look like a baby, it was more or less a little blob. After my sonogram I went back to the doctors area and they checked my weight (and no I don't know what it was, I didn't want to know what it was, I think if I start gaining too much weight the doctor will politely say something but he didn't seem to have an issue with where I was starting out at) and they also checked my blood pressure. My BP was 116/70 which was fantastic! Then I went into his office and we had a little chat about my pregnancy with Kaylin and the issue I had with her. He told me that since I had BP problems last time that started around 20 weeks that we would start doing appointments every two weeks once I hit the 20 week mark, unless I have issues before then. He also told me that if I have BP problems then we would automatically do a C-section again but, if I don't have BP problems then I could possibly deliver naturally.

Now let me pause again to say that, a part of me would love to deliver naturally just to have the experience but...I will be doing another c-section. With Jon and I both working full time and having Kaylin it is just easier for us to know exactly what day this baby will be here. Plus, as my mother-in-law so wonderfully put it, people don't win awards for going through labor and to me it just seems like it would be easier to just do the c-section to begin with and not go through the laboring (like I did last time) and then end up having to doing an emergency c-section.

So after my little chat with Dr. Atkins, he did the rest of my exam and said everything seemed to be going well. I went and had my blood work done and went home feeling fantastic (aside from the nausea and vomiting). Unfortunately that didn't last....I had to go back to the doctor two days later because I was bleeding and cramping.

Come to find out I am Rh negative, which in the back of my mind I knew I had negative blood but at the same time kind of forgot. They did another exam and sonogram and everything looked great. The baby's heartbeat was 159 and I wasn't showing any signs of miscarriage (which is what I was worried about). The just gave me a shot and put me on some restrictions, which I've done pretty good with. So my next appointment is tomorrow March 10 and I will let you all know what the doctor says. Kaylin is going with me to my appointment so she can hear the baby's heartbeat and I hope she does okay and doesn't freak out.

By the way overall, this pregnancy has gone better than it did with Kaylin. I have been sick but not as sick, if you asked Jon he would say it is just as bad but what do men know. I have been extremely exhausted which I don't remember from last time but I also wasn't working 40 hours a week at a job where I stood all the time and I didn't have a two year old to take care of on top of that. All in all, I must say that this has been a somewhat pleasant experience up to this point and I hope it continues to go that way. And for all of you who are wondering what Jon and I are hoping for, we really would like to have a boy but seeing as we don't really get a say in it we will be happy with whatever God has chosen to give us.

BIG NEWS!!!

So as some of you have already heard we are going to be having another baby!!! I am 8 weeks and 2 days today. The baby will be coming in September. We are very excited that we are finally able to tell everyone that we are expecting again. It has been a rough year of trying and some loss but we know God has everything under control and that he has a plan and a purpose for everything.

Kaylin is doing really well so far with the idea of there being a new baby. Everyday she askes if she can see the baby and she doesn't understand that she can't see it right now. I told her that mommy would bring home a picture for her to see on Tuesday after I have my appointment. Our biggest concern about having another baby was having Kaylin potty trained before the new baby came and that is one less thing we have to worry about. Yes that is correct our two and half year old is fully potty trained. She sleeps in her underwear at night with no problem and it has happened soon enough into this pregnancy that I don't think there will be any backstepping when the baby comes. She is pretty funny when it comes to talking about baby stuff. Before we found out that I was pregnant I was talking to Kaylin and asked her if she wanted mommy to have another baby and she said yes, so then I asked her if she wanted mommy to have a baby boy or a baby girl and she said "No baby turtle!". I thought that was just the cutest thing!

Also, we were in the car on our way home from eating dinner on Friday night and we asked Kaylin what she wanted to name the baby and she just said "Um....., booger". Jon and I started laughing and said you want to name the baby in mommy's tummy booger and she said "No the baby in Kaylins tummy...Booger." It's amazing how since mommy has a baby in her tummy now she thinks she has one in her tummy too. She told me the other day that her tummy hurt and I asked her if she felt sick and she said " No baby in tummy!" It has been very cute so far and we can't wait to see how everything goes for the next 7 months.

Keep tuning in regularly and we will try to keep you updated with every appointment we have!

Christmas Picks

These are pictures from our family Christmas.

Okay

So it has been a long time since I wrote anything. Life gets so busy with work, family and all the holidays that fall so closely together in the winter. We had an awesome Christmas, we went to church Christmas eve and then spent the rest of the night with Jon's family. Kaylin loved Christmas this year, it was her first year that she really got the concept of it all. Before we went to sleep we put out cookies and milk for Santa, and her face the next morning when she saw that Santa had eaten all the cookies was priceless. The next day we drove down to College Station and spent time with my family. It was really nice to get together with all of the family.

So not much else went on, we have just been busy with work and life. Kaylin has been potty training and it didn't really seem to be going anywhere until recently. Kaylin is now in big girl underwear. She has worn them for the last three days, and wore them last night to bed as well. She has only had one accident and that was the first day she wore them. She slept through the night last night and didn't wet the bed! We are so excited that she is doing such a good job. Everyone kept warning me that potty training is difficult and it has been really easy for us and for Kaylin. She is growing up so fast, I wish it would slow down!

Botanical Gardens

Kaylin and I went to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens on Monday, November 19 and I took some pictures of Kaylin in her Christmas dress that Kay got for her. My mom and dad also came and I took some pictures of her with them as well. I have been playing around with the photos in a photo editing program and i hope you guys like them.

Oh how I miss her!

On Friday November 23, Kaylin (along with Tim and Kay) got on a plane to go to Minnesota to meet her great-grandparents for the first time (Tim's mom and dad). We are now going on day three (last time we saw her was Thursday) of me not seeing her and I am miserable! I am so in love with that beautiful little girl, and I am so greatful that God has placed her in our lives. We are so undeserving of such an amazing child. I've spent a lot of time lately being upset with God, as some of you know we are trying to have another baby and have yet to be successful. Some days I am okay with everything we have been through this last year and other days I am out right MAD! It has been hard for me to comprehend why people who either aren't trying, or teenagers, or people who can't afford it, or people who are just sleeping around with whoever are getting pregnant and we aren't. It is in these last few days that I have realized how truly blessed we are. We were able to have a beautiful, healthy little girl and at the time we had her many people could have said the same things about us as I have been saying about the people above. We were not trying to have a baby, and we definitely couldn't afford it, but God knew what he was doing when he blessed us with Kaylin. Many couples go their entire lives and are unable to have children, so I should be thankful for the one that we were given.

Kaylin comes home tomorrow night and I can't wait to hold her in my arms, hug her and tell her how much I love her and how she is our greatest gift that God has given us, aside from the gift of everlasting life!

I hope you all have a fabulous week! And remember to be thankful for all things in life whether big or small!

Happy Birthday To ME!!!!

Okay, so I was going to save all my money from my birthday and christmas to buy a new camera. A Nikon D40, it is a small, cute, digital slr. Well, Jon surprised me with it for my birthday, so played with the camera some on Friday night (since Friday was my birthday), and then we went to the park today and took some pictures of Kaylin. So here are some of the photos I took. Some of these we are going to send in as head shoots to try to get Kaylin into modeling and maybe even some tv.......we will see what happens.