She knows and She's Glowing

When I first got pregnant I was adamant about not knowing the sex. I love the idea of a full on surprise baby. However, at the time I didn't know my mother would be in the hospital my whole pregnancy. When hubby and I went for the anatomy scan, I still didn't want to know. However, I then started thinking about my mom and whether or not she would still be around for the birth, and how she mentally hasn't been alert in forever. I thought that maybe knowing the sex of the baby would bring her some joy so I said ok, yeah, tell me what it is. That's when I found out it was a girl and I could not WAIT to tell her! I mean, I wanted to skip work so that I could run to my mother and tell her that her grandbaby is what she's been dreaming of! Except I got there and discovered she didn't want to know. She said no five times! Le sigh, fine.

Skip to last night. My mom is really present, having a full on conversation with me. She knows the date, the time, where she is, everything! Can I just tell you how good that felt? These moments are so rare, and you want to eat them up for days because you know that when they're gone...they're gone..and it's back to black. So anyway, my mom tells me that I'm not carrying very big and I say I know, that's what they say! She tells me she thinks I'm having a girl but deep down she thinks it's a boy. I say "do you want to know? I mean do you really want to know what it is? Because you were certainly adamant about not knowing last month." She says yes, tell me. So I tell her it's a girl. I should've been ready. I should've had a camera, no, a video camera, on standby to capture that moment. Her face absolutely lit up. she was so incredibly happy. She whispered "a girl?" with her eyes wide and bright. Best.Day.Ever. She said she would love to see her. I would love for her to see her too.



I'm 27 weeks as of Tuesday. Tomorrow hubby and I go for the 3d ultrasound. Cross your fingers, toes, and say a prayer to sweet baby Jesus that all is well with the baby. I'm scared every single time we go to an ultrasound. I keep thinking "nothing was wrong because we were just lucky this time". In a minute I'm gonna fully understand that nothing has been wrong because we are blessed.

~LAJ

We Have A Winner!

Today as I was adding even more stuff to our registries, it hit me. The bedding that I love, that makes me tingle, that I keep being drawn back to...

I LOVE it! You never could've told me that I would go for pink and green, yet, there it is. I was creating a registry on Amazon and saw this again. Along with a lamp and other things to match it. I about fell over I was so inlove with it, le sigh. I'm thinking of painting the nursery walls a soft green and putting up pink and brown accents *swoon*. So there it is folks, the bedding I've apparently been dreaming of.

~LAJ

Baby Bedding - Help Us Choose!

Now that we finally have the crib picked out and delivered, we need to figure out the bedding. I've been driving myself crazy over the past several weeks trying to decide what kind of bedding I wanted until it finally dawned on me - Just go to Target! So now that I've narrowed down a store and a couple of choices, I would love some help figuring out which set is THEE one. I have to post the links since Target is such a butt about letting you download the pics.

1. http://www.target.com/Bananafish-Lily-Bedding-Collection/dp/B001MVM24S/ref=sc_ri_1?ie=UTF8&node=15810471         

2. http://www.target.com/Trend-Lab-Maya-Bedding-Collection/dp/B001BO21DS/ref=br_1_7?ie=UTF8&id=Trend%20Lab%20Maya%20Bedding%20Collection&node=13794711&searchSize=30&searchView=grid3&searchPage=1&sr=1-7&qid=1286998671&rh=&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&searchRank=pmrank&frombrowse=1

3. http://www.target.com/Bananafish-Brooke-Bedding-Collection/dp/B001P8IIFK/ref=br_1_14?ie=UTF8&id=Bananafish%20Brooke%20Bedding%20Collection&node=13794711&searchSize=30&searchView=grid3&searchPage=3&sr=1-14&qid=1286998744&rh=&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&searchRank=pmrank&frombrowse=1

4. http://www.target.com/Tadpoles-Toile-Collection-Pink-Brown/dp/B0018Q5V5Y/ref=br_1_16?ie=UTF8&id=Tadpoles%20Toile%20Collection%20Pink%20Brown&node=13794711&searchSize=30&searchView=grid3&searchPage=3&sr=1-16&qid=1286998744&rh=&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&searchRank=pmrank&frombrowse=1

5. http://www.target.com/My-Baby-Sam-Paisley-Collection/dp/B002NLG440/ref=br_1_8?ie=UTF8&id=My%20Baby%20Sam%20Paisley%20Collection&node=13794711&searchSize=30&searchView=grid3&searchPage=4&sr=1-8&qid=1286998773&rh=&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&searchRank=pmrank&frombrowse=1

Thanks so much for participating!

~LAJ                                                                                                                   

Pink or Blue, What Say You?

Oh how I would love to write a real entry, but this migraine prevents me. Please go guess the gender/date/height/weight of our baby! http://www.expectnet.com/games/PinkorBlueWhatSayU

~LAJ

Breathing Fire

This is stressful! I simply cannot stop obsessing over whether or not the baby is ok or whether or not I'm going to miscarry. Being pregnant has made me way too aware of how many women have miscarried. I myself have had two, but, I don't know, I feel like I deserve to carry this one to term. The first one was when I was 16 and no clue I was even pregnant. The second was with J when we were dating. Ok, fine, they happened to me then, I wasn't ready, but now we're married so I feel like this one should be mine to keep. I was reading someone on here that said they are afraid they are going to sneeze the baby loose and I started lmao because I feel the same way! Geesh, I hate doing anything that doesn't involve sitting or lying down . I'm scared to stretch, walk, etc. I know that's craziness, but ugh.

I'm cramping. I've read a million times on the net that that is normal and a million more women have said they cramped too with a couple even stating that it happened to them their whole pregnancy, but for me it's just scary. I didn't have all of these symptoms the other two times. I think that is because I miscarried when my period was coming on so the period was just really really intense and painful. I haven't had my cycle since April so already this kid is staying longer and that makes me happy. What doesn't make me happy? The fact that I'm breathing fire, or atleast that's what it feels like. This heartburn has been out of control. I took a Pepcid tablet last night and that allowed me to sleep through the night, thank God. My breast are tender as heyuhl! Ugh. And I'm so sleepy. I just want to sleep all the time.

Besides that, dot and I are good.

I have a doctors appointment on July 6th to get my blood work done and to listen to the heartbeat. I go back on the 16th for the ultrasound and then I go back on the 19th to talk to the obstetrician. The person I'm seeing on the 6th is who I was going to keep originally, but now I want to go with the second doctor as his reviews are stellar.

That's all for now. I have a ton to write about, but I have to nap. I feel like an old woman.

~LAJ
 New Baby Comments

A Place to Lay Her Head

Soooooo, I ordered the crib today! I'm way too excited, but ahhhhh, it's the little things! Just something else to scratch off my list.


What do you think? I'm, of course, in love! I think it's perrrffeecctt! I can't believe we have a crib, which means that soon there will be a baby, eek!

~LAJ