21 weeks

I'm a little late getting this posted. He's kicking a lot harder this week and has been waking me up early in the mornings feeling like he's going to push through my stomach. My cravings for this week have been Simply Orange Juice with Calcium and powdered doughnuts! YUMMY!

Click here to see what he's up to his week.

Monday Night

Tonight after school we went to get Jessica's hair cut. It was getting pretty long and heavy and pulling the curl out of it. She got a shampoo and everything. I'll post an after picture tomorrow after I get her ready for school.


After her hair cut we came home and had dinner and our friends Chelsea and Payton came over to make Thanksgiving cookies with us. Here are a few pictures:

Weekend update:

We had a good weekend, we helped Amy and Jason move into their new place on Friday and part of Saturday. I went to a birthday party with my nephew, Layne, and I realized that was the first time I had ever done anything with him by myself. We had a good time and it was pretty cute to watch him bowl and carry the ball all by himself (he's only 3). He was getting tired while we were there and he kept coming back to sit on my lap and cuddle up with me - such a sweetie!


Saturday after we left Amy's went to Hobby Lobby and picked out letters to hang on the wall in the baby's room. We decided this weekend on a name and since we bought letters it is now official!


We got a phone call later in the day from Jessica letting us know that she lost her second tooth! She's growing up so fast!!!


Saturday night we went to Sherri's 50th birthday party, it was so much fun. The food and music were amazing and some of the dances/dancers were quite entertaining.

This is a picture of Papa and I, can you tell who is farther along?

20 Weeks

We are half way there! Click here to see what Brody/Jett is doing this week.

We had an appointment with our doctor today, I've been sick for about a week now and ever since Saturday I haven't felt Brody/Jett moving very much, I was also feeling a lot of pressure in my pelvis. I had a scheduled appointment next Monday so I called yesterday to see if I could get it moved up a few days, just to check things out. When I told them why I wanted to move the appointment up they kind of scared us by telling me to stay off my feet last night and drink a lot of water. They said if the pressure wasn't gone this morning that I should go to labor and delivery instead of waiting for my appointment. The pressure was a little better when I got up this morning and since my appt was at 10:50 I went ahead and just kept that instead of going to the hospital. After getting checked by my doctor we are happy to say everything is fine. She said the pressure I am feeling is probably from a pulled ligament or muscle from coughing so hard, she said to wear a belly belt (those are SO hott!) and it should feel better soon. We heard his heart beat again today and it was in the 140's, we weren't able to hear it for long because he was on the move and didn't want to be bothered!

Daddy got to feel him!

This morning Daddy got to feel him! Kevin swears he's going to be a soccer player! Jett/Brody was very active this morning and even though it was early I thought I could get away with waking Kevin up, since it was for the baby. The first few kicks he wasn't sure if it was his bones creaking/moving in his hands (yeah I know, he's getting old) but there were a few hard kicks and there wasn't any question.

I guess it's my turn

I've had a horrible headache for the past two days and last night before bed I started in with a little bit of a sore throat. By 3 o'clock a.m. I was almost in tears and could barely swallow. I went to the doctor this afternoon and needless to say...Jessica gave me her nasty strep germs! Thankfully I was able to get in to see the doc before it got too unbearable. Hopefully the antibiotics will start working quickly.

Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy

I bought this book last night at Target and I had it finished within 3 hours. I have never laughed so hard while reading a book before. For any of you that have ever been pregnant, are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant, this is a GREAT book! I plan on reading the other two books in this series as well...Baby Laughs and Life Laughs.

19 Weeks..almost 1/2 way there!

I've gained between 7-10 lbs depending on when I weigh myself and my belly seems to be getting bigger by the minute. I've gone a little over a week without vomiting (except when I had my chocolate milk shake so that was entirely my own fault...chocolate and ice cream haven't worked well for me at all so I was just asking for it.) Anyway, I'm feeling pretty good now. I'm not queasy anymore, the heartburn is pretty manageable for now, and I'm able to get through the entire day without a nap! HUGE improvements!

Click here to learn about Brody/Jett this week.

Weekend update:

Friday afternoon Kevin and I were sorting through some of the Christmas presents we ordered for the kids, we had a pile for "Jess" and a pile for "Jett." After a few presents it became a little frustrating trying to determine if we were saying Jess or Jett. SO....we are having MAJOR second thoughts about attaching that name to our little boy since he has an older sister with a very close name. We also like the name Brody and are seriously considering that name, I'm just having a hard time letting go of Jett since I've been calling him that for the past week or so now.

Friday afternoon/evening we met my Aunt Tanya who was in town for a couple days. We met up at the mall and then headed to Gordman's. I found the CUTEST snowmen Christmas decorations and now I'm struggling to not dig all my Christmas decorations out! After Gordman's we headed to Houlihan's and got stuffed mushrooms (for those of you that haven't had their stuffed mushrooms they are to die for!!!). After we were all stuffed we headed out for more shopping and went to the Great Mall and hit up a few stores there. Then after we were shopped out we went to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert! YUMM-O as Rachel Ray says.

Saturday I got up and cleaned out the basement as much as I could, we are in the process of finishing it so we can move my office downstairs and make room for Brody/Jett upstairs. After that we headed over to Amy & Jason's new place to help them get it ready for them to move into at the end of the month. Sunday was pretty much the same, I peeled wallpaper until I couldn't handle it anymore and then we went to Nana and Papa's and played their new Wii game and ate dinner with them.

All in all it was a good weekend, we hope all of you enjoyed your weekend as well!

She's all better!!!

FINALLY!!!!!!! After six days of a high fever and feeling pretty awful she woke up this morning bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready to roll. Her temp was right at 98.6 and she has been playing dress up and coloring all sorts of pictures this morning. I'm SO glad she is feeling better, while it was pretty awful for her, it wasn't all that peachy for Mom either. She gets kind of demanding when she's sick-for the life of me I can't figure out where she gets that!

Misc Updates

Jessica is still sick, I just took her temp a few minutes ago and it was 103.4. She is absolutely miserable and completely tired of being sick. She is bored, hungry for real food, tired of feeling bad etc. and I can't say I blame her one bit. This is now day 4 of this sickness, she has taken two quick strep tests, she is on an antibiotic and has been for 3 days and she is showing no signs of improvement. We are going to be heading back to the doctor tomorrow I think. They told me to bring her in tomorrow if she still wasn't better and they would look at other possibilities.

Also, here is a recent picture of George. He hasn't made the blog lately so Kevin wanted me to put a picture of him up.

Week 18

I'm actually feeling pretty darn good! Aside from the occasional queasiness and heartburn I'm actually feeling "normal" (and I use that term loosely). I'm feeling Jett kicking me quite a bit, especially in the early morning, and my belly seems to be growing by the day.

Saturday I actually felt great and Kevin and I got a lot accomplished around the house; cleaned the bathrooms, dusted, swept the floors, cleaned the windows, vacuumed, hung the rest of the pictures/shelves on the walls, fixed a big breakfast and dinner, etc. By Saturday evening I was hurting though, my tailbone/sciatic nerve was killing me and I could barely walk...BUT at least our house was all clean at once!

Click here to see what Jett is up to at 18 weeks.

Sick girl

Unfortunately, after her great Halloween, Jessica woke up Saturday morning complaining of a headache. As soon as I felt her I could tell she was running a fever. Her temp was 101.6 so we got some Tylonal in her. A few hours later we went to the walk in clinic to have her checked for strep throat. Last year she had these same symptoms several times and ended up having strep. The doctor we saw was very nice, she said her throat was red and inflamed and her lymph nodes were enlarged. She did a quick strep test on her which came back negative (same thing that happened last year). She was nice enough to write us a prescription so we didn't have to go back to anyone else later on if she wasn't getting better. By 5:30 she was getting worse and feeling pretty miserable so I went and got her antibiotic filled. She has pretty much just been laying around the house all weekend reading stories and watching cartoons or movies. She's tired of toast and applesauce but still complaining of stomach ache and still telling me occasionally that she feels like she's going to throw up, thankfully she hasn't yet though! She slept through the night except when I had to wake her up to give her more Tylonal.

Pippi Longstocking-Happy Halloween

Jessica had a great time for Halloween, she got to see her baby brother for the first time and then went trick or treating and got lots of candy. Can't beat a day like that! She had quite a few compliments on her hair and all the adults knew who she was right away...some of the kids weren't so sure. Someone asked her if she was the Wendy's girl!