Pregnancy update

How far along: 9 weeks 4 days (My new due date is April 19th)
Maternity Clothes: I wear some maternity pants
Stretch marks: nope
Sleep: same as always
Best moment this week: Nothing pregnancy related-went to my future sister-in-laws bridal shower
What I miss: queasy-free days
Movements: nope
Symptoms: Still nausea, food aversions, and the occasional heart burn.Still getting fatter (though just my belly! My hips have actually slimmed down! woohoo!)
Food Cravings: Caramel, chocolate (Caramello candy bars anyone?), and cafe rio chicken salad.
Anything making me queasy or sick: Everything I've already mentioned plus garlic and onions
Have you started to show yet: not enough to look pregnant!
Gender prediction: I don't know...A few days ago Eventide said to Mitchell, "Hey Daddy, I have a baby brudder in Mommy's tummy." So maybe it's a boy!
Emotions: I'm feeling pretty good as of this moment.
Looking forward to: bedtime!

Pregnancy update

How far along: 7 weeks 6 days (My last ultrasound pushed my due date back 4 days to April 20th! woohoo!)
Maternity Clothes: sometimes...for the record, I don't need to wear maternity (though I am getting a little fatter) but maternity pants are sooo comfortable.And with how sick I am, I can use all the comfort I can get!
Stretch marks: nope
Sleep: same as always
Best moment this week: I found a dress for my sisters wedding that looks good on me now AND will accommodate a 4 months pregnant belly! Also, I stuffed my face at a bbq on Saturday and went like 4 hours with out feeling sick. Awesome!
What I miss: eating
Movements: nope
Symptoms: Still nausea, food aversions, and the occasional heart burn. I'm also getting fatter as mentioned above. Just enough for me to notice, I think....I hope. My stomach is more sensitive this week. I use to be able to eat like 2 or 3 peaches in one sitting and feel fantastic after, and now I can't keep them down...my stomach can't handle them. So fruit is out. My sense of smell has strengthened as well as my food aversions.
Food Cravings: Mitchell figured out why my cravings were so wacky last week- I was craving all salty things, so I went to the store and bought (mostly) unhealthy really salty foods. I think my number one craving now is fries or baked potato slices (salted) with fry sauce. yuuummmmmy! Last but certainly not least: Cafe rio chicken salad. mmmmmmm.
Anything making me queasy or sick: added to last week are sweet corn on the cob, summer squash, malt o meal, peaches, and pears.
Have you started to show yet: not enough to look pregnant!
Gender prediction: I'm leaning more towards boy this week.
Emotions: frustrated with nausea and the rate that my stomach is rejecting foods. Excited because the baby's heart rate went up from last week to a healthy number and the baby was double the size than last week and Eventide got to be there to see the ultrasound, and she has been carrying the ultrasound picture around the house for several days, which is super cute.
Looking forward to: My midwife appointment on Tuesday, the end of the trimester,  our trip to Las Vegas for my sister's wedding in November, and bed time. :)

Pregnancy update

How far along: 6 weeks, 3 days

Maternity clothes: no, thank you very much.

Stretch marks: not counting the ones from my last pregnancy, right? Nothing new so far…hopefully it stays that way.

Sleep: Memory still wakes up 2-3 times a night which I'm used to. Otherwise, great!

Best moment this week:  An ultrasound at ichoice. Telling my family about the pregnancy and also inhaling a large order of Super Nachos from El Rodeo and feeling nauseous-free for 2 hours!  

What I miss: I miss not being sick and not having a bajillion food aversions. Regardless, if things go as they did with the last pregnancies, this will be over at the end of the 1^st trimester! Fingers crossed!

Movement: I have DREAMS about the baby moving, which are fun. Too early for real life baby movement though.

Symptoms: Nausea and food aversions. Slight heartburn a couple of times.

Food cravings: I’ve had super random cravings that only last a brief time. So far I’ve craved: Salty bacon (I know, weird), nachos from El Rodeo, Chili cheese hot dog (I think I would’ve even settled for one from 7-11, but I was thinking of the ones from Sonic), and Curly fries from Arby’s. The only craving fulfilled was the nachos. And then I have a whole list of cravings that are only in Las Vegas like Café Rio chicken salad (w/ house dressing), Panera Bread chicken salad sandwich, my dad’s roast and mashed potatoes with gravy, In-n-Out cheeseburger, and Lucille’s Smokehouse bbq. I think about food a lot.

Anything making you queasy or sick: Several repeats from the last pregnancies, like tomato/spaghetti sauce, eggs, the smell of my refrigerator. A new one is Top Ramen. I can’t even look at it without gagging.  

Have you started to show yet: not yet. Hopefully I show sooner since this is my 3^rd pregnancy. That would be cool.

Gender prediction: I think it might be another girl. My sister Ashley said she has a feeling it’s a boy. I’m happy with whatever gender. We’ll see!

Emotions: I’m really excited! I’m also at that point where it feels like I’m going to be sick forever and there’s no end in sight, but so far my “morning” sickness is not nearly as bad as it was with my girls, so that’s really nice!

Looking forward to: I have another ultrasound at ichoice on Tuesday, because the baby’s heart rate was a little low (which isn’t abnormal because it’s at about 6 weeks that the heart rate picks up speed, and I was just barely 6 weeks), so I’m looking forward to that. I’m also looking forward to my first appointment with my midwives in a week and a half.

 

Our Summer

Obviously I've gotten a little behind. So I'll catch you all up on our lives with a bunch of pictures.

Our summer started out with a bang...Eventide got a terrible case of Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease.  Memory got it too, but not nearly as bad.

The white stuff, btw, is calamine lotion we put on to ease the itch.

We look relatively happy though a bit tired. The first 2 or 3 days were terrible, and Eventide was finally coming away from the worst-enough to be silly.

About 4 or 5 weeks after the onset of the disease, Eventide and Memory's toenails and fingernails began to fall off-Eventide's more than Memory's, which apparently is another common symptom of Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. Luckily, it was not painful. It is just recently, several months later, that the old nails are just about done coming off.


With all that terribleness aside, we still had a really great summer. Lots of time for silly shenanigans.

Learning how to do a somersault

Eventide giving it a try

success!

Mitchell just recently shaved off his beard. We took pictures of the different stages.

classy!

I don't have a final results picture, but be assured that Mitchell shaved off the Hitler mustache right after this picture and is now clean shaven... :)

 

Are they sister or what?!

We had lots of pool time at the Cheney kiddie pool (and the park too, though I don't have any pictures):

Despite her expression in this picture, Memory actually LOVED the pool.

YELLOWSTONE!!!

Yellowstone really deserves its own post, which will come along after this one....so stay tuned! I know how excited you are...

 

All of us (except Forest's family who arrived that evening) in front of Old Faithful

Playdates 

Eventide and her friend Oni

Babysitting

 A good chunk of the summer, I babysat a little boy about a year older than Eventide. Eventide really likes him, so we had a lot of fun. I'd post pictures, but I'm not sure if his parents are okay with me posting pictures of their kid on my blog.


Trains, trains, and more trains

Playing with cousins:

Eventide and Laney

Memory just snatched a piece of bread from Nnamdi. Nnamdi clearly was not too pleased.

Eventide & Hannah. Hannah's family just moved to Utah and we MISS THEM!!!

  APPLES

About a bajillion apples fall off that tree every day

And so I make lots of these! yum!

One more thing...

Due April 24, 2013!

A good investment

For Christmas of 2010, we got Eventide a baby doll stroller. It was $10 from Target. To this day, it has been one of the best and cheapest investments we have ever made in a toy. Eventide usually takes it along with her when we walk to the library, post office, Zips (for ice cream!), to pick up Oliver (a boy I babysit) from school, and etc. Every time we take it to Playgroup, it's a hot commodity. Eventide, and now Memory, pushes it all over the house, and Eventide frequently uses it to cart toys from one room to another. This toy has traveled miles and is showing it!

Walking to the Post Office

Birthday BBQ

My niece Nampohn's birthday was this last weekend, so we had a family bbq to celebrate. I LOVE getting to together with family! Great conversation, great food, and I LOVE seeing Eventide enjoy herself so thoroughly with her cousins. Memory loved sitting in the camp chairs and even sat in one for over 10 minutes...which really surprised me because she's always got these ideas and she's so busy. We invited our friend Rickea (I'm unsure how to spell her name) and she made and ate S'mores for the first time, which she really liked (who wouldn't?) After stuffing ourselves with dinner and S'more, we then had cake and ice cream! I ate so many s'mores that I passed up on the cake and ice cream...anyway. We had a good time. :)

Hannah, Gabe, Eventide, Kara, Nampohn- Do you see Hannah, Gabe, and Eventide holding hands??

Hannah (the furthest away), Gabe, Eventide, the three amigos.

Making S'mores

Gramma and itty bitty super adorable little Jacob

Gabe, Eventide and Hannah, again. Hannah is 8 months older than Eventide, and Eventide is 2 months older than Gabe. They get along SO well and it's fun watching them play and run around together.

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Precious little Mems in a camp chair, just her size!!

Nnamdi and Mitch. Babies love that beard hair!

Memory's 1sy S'more...it was a big hit!

Memory's face was all sticky from her s'more and so the balloon kept sticking to her face. She'd pull it off, and then stick it on again, then pull it off, then stick it on...to test it out or something.

Gabe, Eventide, and Hannah, eying the birthday cake.

Nampohn blowing out the candles. Happy Birthday, Nampohn!