Anyone up for Mexican food?

No I am not have any of those dreaded cravings that you hear that so many people have but my baby is the size of an avocado this week! And when I think avocado I think guacamole!!

3 1/2 ounces and 4 1/2 inches long don't sound like much until you go back and look at week 4...

 

Now that was a seriously small thing growing then! It seems like  it's been sooooo long but at the same time it seems like yesterday when I was waving the positive test in Michale's face! :-D We are now for weeks away from possibly knowing what if she is a she or a he and we are very excited in anticipation!! We have been looking a cribs and bedding, but I am such a planner that it really depends on the sex. White Munire Bristol collection for a girl http://www.munirefurniture.com/bristol_05.htm and Newport in Espresso for a little boy! http://www.munirefurniture.com/newport_03.htm More decisions to come...after November 15th!

We have a super busy weekend coming up and we can't wait! My little brother, Buff and her hubby Garrison will be staying with us and one of my favorite former students Torrey and many of my pledge sisters are coming in town for the game too!! :-) Now I just hope we play amazingly and then it will be perfect!!

Saturday night the pups have a Halloween party at Dog Party USA and then off to a yummy dinner with Jana and Elizabeth and our other halves at Jana and Bret's in Rogers. I am even going to be crazy and try to make a cake that a dear friend Meredith posted on her blog http://meredithsadams.blogspot.com posted last week! Fingers crossed!!!

I will be sure to post some presh pictures of my pups in their costumes!! Be looking for cuteness! ;-)

Be blessed!

Jill

The "apple" of our eye

You guessed it...little Wheeler is now the size of an apple!!

 

Week 15 is off to a great start! Feeling really good but I am not sleeping to well. I had a normal check up yesterday and Dr. Partridge told me that I can take a Tylenol PM or a Benadryl if I go several nights with restless sleeping. Since I was already on my third night of tossing and turning I took her advise...and PRESTO I slept until 6. I could have slept until 6:30 like normal but Brinkley wanted to tell me that it was time to rise and shine! ;-)

I learned that she is now 4 inches long and 2 1/2 inches long and while I can't take fluid up my nose, apparently it is perfectly normal for her and it actually helps her lungs develop. (No you didn't miss anything...I don't know that it's a little girl but I am tired of calling it an "it" in this blog so for the next 4 weeks she will be a her and if we learn something different on November 10th then I will change my terminology then!) She is moving around now and soon I am told I will be able to feel her! :-D Her legs are finally longer than her arms and she just floats around in her happy little home! Her eye lids are fused shut but if I wanted to make her move I can shine a flashlight on my tummy and "they" say she will try to get away from the beam. All I can think about is Look Who's Talking Too Look Who's Talking Too trailer
When Julie is still in the belly. It's not even that great of a movie but thinking of her in there talking to me when I talk to her is just too exciting!!

On a non baby note our family has experienced a loss this week. Michael's Aunt Kitty passed away this week after a more than 5 year battle with cancer. Please keep her husband, daughter and son in your thoughts and prayers. They have been through a lot over the past few years but she is now at peace and no longer in pain. I pray that the family she has left behind soon are able to experience the same peace too.

I leave you with a neat list by Rebecca Woolf:

1. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.

2. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.

3. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.

4. You respect your body ... finally.

5. You respect your parents and love them in a new way.

6. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.

7. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child.

8. You lose touch with the people in your life whom you should have banished years ago.

9. Your heart breaks much more easily.

10. You think of someone else 234,836,178,976 times a day.

11. Every day is a surprise.

12. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)

13. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.

14. You become a morning person.

15. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.

Have a blessed week!!

Jill

Squinting to see

Week 14 is upon us! So this week many new developments are occurring in my belly. The little guy or girl can squint, grimace, pee and possibly suck on their thumb!! Baby Wheeler is now 3 1/2 inches from head to bottom and is about the size of a lemon and weighing only 1 1/2 ounces!!

At 5 foot even I can say that I am starting to show...not much but it's there. I am meeting with a personal trainer for the next 6 weeks (and maybe beyond too) to make sure that I gain weight appropriately and that I stay toned and fit throughout the remainder of my pregnancy. I want the delivery to go a smoothly as possible and the recovery after to be swift as well! By making sure to do the proper exercises correctly throughout my pregnancy I will keep up my energy and my spirits!

This week myself and four of my co-workers went to an Advising conference in Orlando, FL! It was a wonderful experience filled with laughter, fun and learning too. With all the excitement (and a trip to Magic Kingdom) I was still so ready to be back home! I missed Michael, my puppies and the comforts of home. It was a lot harder to find things I wanted/could eat while I was on the road and I ended up making more poor food choices than healthy ones. BUT I am back on the wagon and working hard to get all the good fruits and veggies this little guy needs to grow up big and strong! 

Oh and if you are a friend that I have EVER emailed from my hotmail account I want to let you all know that I am OKAY!! I was not robbed at gunpoint in Wales and you should not send money!!!! My hotmail account was hacked into this Thursday and the good criminals have locked me out of my account all together. I am working hard to cancel the account but until then DO NOT RESPOND to the email!! I am afraid even replying could potentially infect your address book! :-(

This weekend will be relaxing for the both of us! We are going to try and work on getting rid or things that we no longer need in the garage and maybe even go see the movie "Life as we Know it"

This week was short and sweet! More to come later!

Have a blessed day!!

Jill

13 weeks and counting...

Little Wheeler has fingerprints! And if she is a girl...which for some really strange reason I think she is...she has more than 2 MILLION eggs in her little ovaries!! Amazing! God never ceases to amaze me with the wonders of his creations!!  The visual for week 13 is a medium shrimp but for the life of me I don't know a medium shrimp that is bigger than an lime so I am a little confused. Maybe it's because if you stretch the baby out they will be long like a shrimp. ;-)

I had dinner with some of my wonderful pledge sisters this week and it was great to see them and the different stages they are at in their lives. Out of the 6 of us at dinner 3 are pregnant, two have children, 2 are single and 4 are married! It was wonderful to talk to people who have gone before me in their pregnancy to give me a glimpse into what it could be like for me. Food and fellowship both blessed me so much and it reminded me how much I need my friends along with my family during this time in my life!

They also introduced me to Rhea Lana  http://www.rhealana.com/  I am not at a point where I can even wrap my head around buying things for this little life inside of me but I think that Michael and I may have to go and check it out since it's here for the fall. I guess that when we know the sex of this little guy for sure I will feel more comfortable purchasing things for the nursery. Michael thinks that we can get gender neutral things or even look at cribs that we can paint but I really want to wait and get exactly what I want...even if that does mean a higher price tag in the end.

Well that about sums it up for me for this week. More to come soon! :-)

Have a blessed day!

What's with all the "week" talk

I am the first to admit that when people say "I'm 23 weeks" I say "So what does that mean in months??"  I had always been under the impression that people were pregnant for 9 months not 40 weeks but now that I am prego I realize I was wrong!! I am slowly but surely getting on the "week" bandwagon but my mom refuses to ride so I will find myself switching back and forth when I call home!

I am now in my 12th week (ending my 3rd month) and finishing up my first Trimester!!! I am reading several different books about pregnancy but I get most of my information from www.babycenter.com  Here is the skinning for this week!

      "The most dramatic development this week: Reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over two inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce."

This little life is growing leaps and bounds!! So far I have gained 3 lbs and for most that would not seem like that much...but on a 5' tall gal it's quite a bit. I celebrated my birthday with my family this weekend by buying my first pregnancy cloths. I got some pants, shirts and a pair of leggings and I was soooooo happy. Since my growth is only making me rounder in the waist it's reeking havoc on my pants!! :-) I am not quite ready for the maternity pants but I can see that in the next few weeks I will be needing these new purchases like no other!! Also for those who know me well, I have always been blessed in the chest area and most shirts I owned pre-pregnancy no longer fit my chest even though they still fit my stomach. All in all I can say that the shopping trip made me feel so much better about myself so thank you to all those who contributed money...Mom, Dad and my wonderful husband Michael! My MeMe also gave me the gift of make-up! She suggested I enjoy taking time with my make-up now because once I have a little one the time just disappears! ;-)

On a non pregnancy note Michael had oral surgery this past Friday! He had two permanent teeth removed and steel rods put into his bone!! :-( He was a trooper and now has 4 months to heal before his permanent teeth get put in. Until then he has what the dentist calls a "flipper" with to fake teeth attached. He hates it!! He has had the weekend to try and get used to it but for the most part he just keeps them out. This works at home but when he feels good enough to get back to work he will have to keep his teeth in. Due to his surgery he was not able partake in the Little Rock fun but he had fun of his own. (while not wearing his new teeth!) He got a friend to help him unload his truck that was filled with cabinets to organize our garage!! When I came home it looked GREAT!! I had plenty of room to park and there was even a new stand up freezer. :-D


And lastly it's my birthday today! It's a great day to turn 29 and I can't believe how fast the first 29 years have flown by!!! Something tells me that it won't slow down anytime soon!

Thanks for reading and have a blessed day!!

Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

                                                                                                                               Colossians 1:10

Home Remodeling

Wow...hold on...I am posting twice in one week! This is truly a big deal!!

Michael and I have decided to do a little remodeling around our house. We have decided that two tiny feet should do the trick!

You are reading that shirt right!! We are going to be parents!!!! The due date may be a little earlier or later but you know what they say... "it'll come when it's ready!" We are soooo excited for our first child and so far things are going great. I have been truly blessed not to have the morning sickness you see on the movies and no real cravings to speak of yet. (I know that they can still come!!) Our whole family is excited about the first grandchild and the next 9 weeks until we know if it's a he or a she are going to be soooooo long!


More to come when there is more to tell!  Until then..... WE ARE GOING TO BE PARENTS!!! :-D

And so it goes....

The fall semester is now in full swing. I never thought in my wildest dreams I would be 28 years old and still gauging my time by semesters but that is the life a someone in higher education! The students are now settled in their classes and awaiting their first tests so it's fairly slow around the office but that will not last long!!

Football is now in full swing and that means Michael is one happy camper!! His favorite part of football season is the tailgating! This year we started it off right with 10 folks coming by our set up including 2 there for their first Razorback game!! We are looking forward to the next home game. :-)

Michael bought me my first SLR camera this year for our anniversary and for the past few weeks I have been in a photography class at Bedford Camera to learn the fine art of photography. I can't say that I have it down yet but at least I am being exposed to it now!  Here are a few shots that I did for homework that I thought didn't stink. ;-)

Something "square"

Trying to "stop motion"

Here is something "square" and trying to "stop motion".  Hopefully with practice I will keep getting better and with enough practice I may even develop an "eye" for a shot. 


I really hope to start blogging more regularly but I want to have something to talk about when I do so it may be a while!! 


Have a blessed day!!