Lessons Learned….

Danny and I had the fun this weekend of spending time with two couples who both recently had a child. Charlotte is between 3 and 4 months while Annabel is almost 14 months..

Top 5 lessons
5. There is no such thing as a perfect baby product
4. Teaching a baby to sleep through the night requires letting them cry...
3. Breastfeeding is not completely natural and can be quite painful…
2. Learn to take naps whenever you can the first 6 weeks...
1. Our life as we know it is over but it’s all worth it! (Just check out the pictures below!)























Isn't Charlotte the cutest!! Great job - Dave and Jenna!!




Cutest One Year old ever.. our favorite was the Baby Signs...



Please mommy can I stay up just a little bit longer??

















Hopefully we are as good of parents as both of you!! We love ya!

Just checking in..

Just thought I would drop a quick line.. all is well at this point in my world.. Feel good, eat like a horse and besides getting really tired at 8pm and the no alcohol thing.. am starting to enjoy the pregnancy.. Still hard to believe that in about 3 months I will be responsible for baby..

I had the fun of hanging out with Aimee and her little boy, Jake, last night and can't get over how quickly he is growing up.. here are a few of my favorite pics of Jake as he turned one last month..

So nice and clean..

and then the fun begins!!

I WON!!! I BEAT THE CAKE!!

Quick Update: Doc Appt

We had a doctor's appt this morning as a follow up to last week's "fun" visit to the hospital and the doctor said all seems well to her.. the heartbeat is fast and strong at 150 beats per minute (which they say is normal) and she could tell the baby has grown quite a bit since the last appt two weeks ago..
I thought I would include a picture two from our trip to the lakehouse for those few of you who have been asking how big am I - as you can tell from the picture below I am not too big yet but somehow already feel huge :) and here is one of my favorite pictures from the water relay..

Slight Scare...

It seems as though I went from the proud pregnant person to the slightly paranoid pregnant person.. Last Wednesday night/Thursday morning, I awoke with what seemed to be horrible cramps.. but as it did not fade I got up for awhile and did a little interneter research on the internet and convinced myself it was likely just the pain of my uterus stretching and so I tried to force myself back to sleep. However, after a night of tossing and turning the pain did not seem to subside so headed off to work and then called my doctor. He advised I put a heat compress on my stomach, take a Tylenol and drink lots of water. However by 1PM they had not gone away and with the knowledge that I was headed out of town for the weekend and would not be near a doctor I put another call into the doctor to see if I might be able to come in for a quick appt that afternoon. However, much to my surprise they decided that I needed to go straight to the hospital to check if I was actually having contractions. So after 3 hours of being strapped to a machine that checked for contractions and a few calls to the my doctor, they sent me home with little more information then what I walked in with.. as they said I may bed having very mild contractions or it was just an irritation, that I should stick to a bland diet and that I should make an appt with my doctor for early next week.. However, unfortunately I was still in pain (and now with a small idea of how painful labor will be if this was mild) but am happy to report I woke up feeling 100 times better and have had no similar pains..

Woohoo! Watch that baby kick!

I'm afraid I am already turning into one of those parents who thinks their kid is amazing and mine isn't even born yet.... I must say I am amazed at the strength of this little 1+ pound baby to kick/punch or whatever he is doing in there. Danny was able to feel the movements last week and now at night you can actually just sit there and watch my stomach jump..

The 20 week sonogram went great.. according to those measurements they are estimating my due date to be Nov. 6th - a full week ahead of where it was before.. so at least that means the baby is growing quite well. I have only added 5 pounds so far and according to Danny (and a few of this friends) that would be mostly in the chest area.. :)

Well I will have Danny add the sono pics soon..