Yesterday was my 2nd Mother's Day! And also my 2nd Mother's Day being pregnant!  It was a great day even if I did have to work. Whitney hugged me when I got home and said something that I'm sure meant "Happy Mother's Day" and the baby told me Happy Mother's Day by moving in just such a way that I could feel it!!!  Yes I really felt the baby move! Some might say it was gas but I've been talking to other Mothers who said that they felt their 2nd babies move much earlier than their firsts. And I have no doubt in my mind that the little bump I felt yesterday was him or her. So yeah I had a great Mom's Day!

Oh just an update on my ever changing body. Bending over is starting to feel strange. It's like when your bloated and you have to bend over and you feel like your squishing your insides out. Also picking up 20ish pound objects up is starting to bother me. It doesn't hurt persay but I can hear my muscles or ligiments or whatever telling me to lay off the weight lifting. That is something I'll need to discuss with my Doc when I see her next week since I can't just tell my 22 pound child that I can't pick her up anymore. That would really really suck. Plus I have nephews that weigh that much too. Not that Reggie will let me pick him up anyway, little stinker.

Anyway, my Doc's appointment is in one week. I'm very excited and still kinda scared. I think I'm just really ready to finally see the doctor. If I had stayed with my old doctor I'd have already seen him at least twice and I'd have already had at least one ultrasound. But he sucked so none of that really matters, does it?  So yeah I'm a bit nervous but I'm doing ok. And since I'm so ok I'm going to go take a nice little nap before Whitney wakes up. NAPS ARE YOUR FRIEND!

I would have never suspected that I would be 30 and pregnant but here I am. It's been very hectic and crazy over the past week or so. I'm finding it harder to sleep but more tired than I've ever been in my life. I guess I just need to push through to the end of my first trimester cause if I remember correctly during the 2nd trimester the energy comes back!! Whitney has been pretty good other than putting anything she can get her hands on in her mouth. It is much harder to be pregnant and take care of a toddler than just to be pregnant with your first. The waking in the middle of the night and still having to get up and go to work the next morning is getting to be a bit much and also I'm starting to feel things pull in my "womb" when I pick of this 22 pound monster so I'm trying to remember to sit down and then pick her up but anyone with a toddler knows that that is impossible to do all the time. 

I have only gained about a pound so far. Which according to so websites is a bad thing. "They" say I should have already gained anywhere from 3 to 6 pounds. Crazy!!

Did I mention that I had a surprise party Saturday night?  Well, I did. Wicked Witch and Clanny Clause Surprise party!!  Too funny! The cake had a picture of the Wicked Witch of the west on it and she said " I'll get you my pretty and your youth too."  I got news for her she can't have my youth cause I'm gonna need it as long as I can keep it to keep up with 2 hyper/crazy kids.

Now back to the real world.... I have to go clean some house and entertain this kid for another hour and a half (until naptime). My doctor's appointment is May 19th and we should be able to hear the heartbeat. I'm excited and scared but I guess that's normal for all Moms to be. Josh is going with me and I guess we will need to go ahead and preregister at the hospital when we go too. Gotta do that before the 4th month and that is creeping up on us pretty quickly.

Ok for real I have to go now before Whitney breaks through this window with her hair brush.

So everything I said in my last post still stands but I just have to say that if I can't get this child (aka: Whitney) to go to sleep on her own and stay that way all night, you know sleep like her Mommy and Daddy, then I'm gonna go crazy when I have to get up every 2 hours to feed the little baby and then rock her or God forbid stay up all night with her like I had to last night and this morning. I am now having visions of not only my freetime being gone but also my sleeptime. I wonder how long a person could survive with absolutely no sleep whatsoever. She was up from 12:30am to 4:30am this morning and then the rest of the day she acted like her sleepless night was all my fault and she meant to make me pay for it. I can just see me with 2 small walking children running around, getting into everything even though they know good and well not to. I have no clue where she got that little attutide of hers (shutup). 

Anyway, I'm really tired so I'm going to bed. BTW it took about 2 hours to get Whit to sleep tonight. Yeah this entry had little to do with pregnancy but I had to get this out somewhere. Here's a pregnancy tidbit from today, I was so queasy today I had to have a sprite and I turned down Peanut M&Ms.

GOODNIGHT!!

Ok so I guess my first entry should be about how I found out I was preggo and all the joys and horrors that go along with that, huh?

The week of our Anniversary (March 19th) I started having a funny feeling and by funny I mean not funny at all. I got sick a few times that week and brushing my teeth was becoming an over the toliet job instead of the sink. But I just kinda ignored it and went on with my life. Well, on March 25th when Aunt Flo didn't make her regularly scheduled visit I decided that I may need to start worring. March 28th and 29th I took the first 2 HPT's and guess what?  Big Fat Negative. I was a bit relieved and yes a little disappointed. I was shocked about the disappointment too. Well, I continued to feel like something wasn't right so on April 2nd I took another HPT and bam there is was, the faint little plus sign that made my head start spinning. After looking at it for about 15 minutes, while trying to keep Whitney from playing with it, I grabbed my phone and called for backup. LeAnn's voice mail picked up and I had a meltdown there, then I got in touch with Joslyn. She laughed with me as did Chad who automaticlly said "it's a boy". No one could come look at this thing with me to make sure I wasn't just imagining things. Fast forward to later that day. Josh is home and has found the Wal-Mart reciept and is reading it aloud. He reads "Home pregnancy test" and I calmly said "it was positive by the way"  He responds "Your kidding." Blah blah blah blah. 2 more Positive HPTs followed on the 3rd and 4th and then the official Doctor's Positive on April 7th. By that time Bubba and Shaunda knew and some other people too. They freaked out too. LOL 

So life goes on and now the Grandparents know and lots of other people too. We are waiting till her party to tell the TuTu.

I had my bloodwork done yesterday (4/21) and my 1st actual prenatal appointment is May 19th I'll be 11 weeks 4 days and we should be able to hear the heartbeat. Which I can hardly wait for.

How am I doing now?  Better. Even though I had those 2 negitive tests I knew that they were wrong. I'm totally unprepared for another baby, absolutely scared to death, unsure of if I can do this or what's gonna happen but I'm happy. It's not everyday that you get to wake up and know that there is a little person growing inside you. And when I look at Whitney I can't imagine how having another child could be a bad thing. I hold no delusions that this is going to be very hard to adjust to and I realize that what precious little free time I have now is going to vanish but loosing the free time pales in comparison to the thought of 2 little ones running around screaming "Momma" and reaching for me. This is going to be great.