A little obsessed am I...

So, I have been scouting 'etsy', which I have only recently discovered. Really I've been looking for cute and unique baby items, and I found these hats, which I am totally buying for my little one. The maker calls them Mini Monkeys! Since our little one is coming in the winter time, they seem about right...babies need hats, okay?! :-D You can get them with little bows on them for girls too, haha.

Apparently, Dustin thinks these are the ugliest things he has ever seen...I guess I am going to have to try and convince him, lol.

Etsy user name: Citefuzz

Link: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=87711

The price tag is a little hefty but I think they are just too cute :)

Next funny one, this lady makes these little terry cloth 'monsters' on onesies...they are too cute! I'm thinking more for a little boy, but yeah...username nissalisa

Okay, 15 weeks and more to share :)

Okay, so I was a bit embarrassed but I figured I would catalog my 'belly' pics so someday I could look back and see them :) I have lost 8 lbs since becoming pregnant, more or less not because I'm eating less but because even still a bit of it comes right back up after it's been eaten. Yes, the bane of my existence right now is that I still have morning sickness! :( But it's alright! I look at it as a blessing that the hormones causing this are helping my little one to grow!

SO here is the fun part...

We get to find out if we are having a little boy or girl on June 10th. That means you are free to take a gander at it, because the results will be posted in 2 and a half weeks! If you believe the old wives tales, I kind of have mixed results. The baby's heart rate was 171 at the last checkup, I don't know if I am carrying high or low (I don't think I look pregnant yet), The chinese gender chart and my basic intuition says boy. But we will see what is right on June 10th!! :) So please, feel free to guess just for the fun of it and we will post results soon!!

In the meanwhile, what we are up to...

We are both enjoying the changing weather of Boise, it is looking more and more beautiful every day. The only downside is yard work but this is a blessing that we have a beautiful yard in which to tend to! I am busy getting ready to greet a new bunch of 3 year olds as this is the time at work when we lose those turning 4 and gain a new class! It's always a bittersweet thing, as I become quite attached, almost a second mom, to some of those little ones, but I guess it's time for them to spread their wings and fly! :) Dustin is just being his usual busy self but promises that he will post Peru pics SOON!!!!

So...the question of the week my friends is...

Happy Mother's Day!

Dustin's mom, Sandy :)

My mom, Wendy :)

So I thought I'd take a moment and write a little homage to my mommies :) on this Mother's Day! This is the first Mother's Day where I too can technically consider myself a mother, though my little pumpkin is only like 4 inches long, lol! 

I am so grateful, first, to my own mother who taught me good morals and taught me compassion for others and how to serve. I hope I can be half the mother she was :)

I am grateful, second, to my wonderful mother-in-law who raised such a wonderful son who is so good to me and takes good care of me and our family.

To mothers everywhere, you are the heroines of the world :)

I can't wait to stay at home with my little ones and make being a mother my career too!

I have the best husband ever :)

So I wanted to pay tribute to my wonderful hubby, who has been so good to me for my pregnancy! My nausea is THANK HEAVENS (!!!!!!) going away now a little bit at a time, but a lot of days it's particularly hard to bear in the evening around dinner time, so a lot of times Dustin will drive and get me something to eat and let me relax on the couch!

WELL, the other day I was feeling particularly sick and felt that the only thing I could tolerate was a baked potato. Also, I had been mentioning to him some of my biggest cravings, the biggest lately (and I had been mentioning it quite a bit) was...

Well, he was gone awhile and I wasn't sure why, but when he got to the house he not only had the potato but also a whole bag of dried cherries and blueberries for me!! :-D AND he had gotten me a chocolate covered berry tart from Fred Meyers too (which is sinfully good)! 

THANK YOU BABY for putting up with me and being sooo good to me!

CLICK PICS TO SEE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK PICS TO SEE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK PICS TO SEE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK PICS TO SEE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLICK PICS TO SEE THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry the pictures are so big! The top is me doing my 'belly shot'. As you can see, not much yet to fuss over, but we took one at 5 weeks and there is a bit of a difference! I have lost 5 lbs so I know it couldn't be extra weight :) We went in for our appointment today and it was so cute to see the baby, who was facing us. You can see the face in some of the pictures pretty well, it's kind of freaky! Looks like an alien still, but we were able to see a lot! :) Everything looks good, we are still set to be due November 14th!

Intelligender???

Alright, so Dustin is in Peru and I was in Walgreens looking for Seabands for nausea. Today was my first day off of Zofran and I wasn't very sick, just a bit nauseated, so I decided to not refill my prescription and try something more natural. So far, so good! But the wicked part of the story is this...

I saw a test near the medication that said, "Pink or Blue"? I grabbed it and looked, it turns out they have a pee test (probably not at all accurate but we'll see) to see if you're having a boy or girl and it can be taken after you are 10 weeks pregnant. Well I hit that mark a few days ago so I thought, what the heck :) (Dustin is going to kill me) 

I followed the instructions and waited 10 long minutes, then came back and got my result...

In case you can't see it very well, it says "BOY!" :) (it's a mirror image so says it backward) We'll see if it's right! (Honestly, I do believe I am having a boy, always have thought that, so we shall see if Intelligender and mommy's intuition are right!)

Gender determination methods also tried...

- Ring over belly (boy)

-Old wives tales (mixed, mostly girl)

-Chinese gender chart (boy)

-Statistics (70% girl, 30% boy)

???????

Our first ultrasound :)

So first off, I have to apologize about the pic quality, we don't have a working scanner so this is a cell phone picture of a picture :) But this is our little jelly bean at 8 weeks, 6 days! We were measuring just one day behind the due date, which is perfectly fine :) My parents came with us to Fetal Fotos and we went in to the ultrasound room! I was really nervous but excited! She put that goop on and it seemed the minute she put the little ultrasound wand thingy on my tummy, there was a baby on there! She was a pro and found it right away, lol!! :) It was then that we saw our little bean wiggle and move its little butt around, and we saw the heart beating. She zoomed in on it and turned the sound on, and we heard its heart beat at 172 bpm! Dustin and I were both amazed to hear it, it was such an amazing thing!! We absolutely loved it!

Our next ultrasound is in a couple weeks after Dustin gets back from Peru! We can't wait!