Pictures Posted

I finally got around to posting my two and three month pregnancy pictures! 

Hopefully I will have a productive weekend with James being in Michigan until late Sunday.  I hope to get the house straightened up a bit and finally get my Christmas decorations put away.  So far today I haven't done a lot, but I put together a list of daycare providers from the Stearns County website.  I will start calling those providers on Monday to see who has openings and who has the hours that we can work with.  Then we will just have to narrow it down from there to choose the best one. 

I meet with my doctor again on Monday just to see how things are progressing.  Just four more weeks until we can hopefully find out the sex of our baby!!!!!!!!!  ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lack of Motivation!

At 15 weeks, I feel there are things that really need some brainstorming and researching. 

Daycare is one of them!  I know I have to start looking for a daycare, but I dread making the phone calls required to find one.  My sister gave me a list of questions and has been a big help and I finally made my first call today.  I was super excited about this one...but was somewhat disappointed in the end.  I was excited because she lives just a few houses down from us...she has good hours (5:00 a.m. start!), and she has 8 years experience.  All in all, she gave an "uninterested" attitude and the impression she caters to teachers and/or friends first.  She said I should call back in April because she wouldn't want to have somebody reserve a spot too early because "many things can change" ...whatever that means.  I took it as she would rather hold the spot for a friend or a teacher that needed it! 
So I guess I'll move onto others for now and get more of a feel for what is out there.  I realize I can't go with the first one I call anyway...but I was hoping we'd get lucky!

James is going to look into the possibility of working more hours from home or adjusting his hours to correlate more with daycare hours.  With both of us starting before 6:00 a.m., finding a daycare to cater to that is difficult!

My lack of motivation continues with looking at strollers, carseats, cribs, etc.  Part of me feels like it is too early to even look at the stuff because it is definitely too early to buy!  But part of me knows that this time will go by very quickly and that research is needing to start now.  James is also seemingly uninterested right now, which doesn't help my will. 

I have started taking pictures of my belly, which I will eventually get to posting on here.  I intended to add them right now, but I'm tired and I didn't sleep very well last night.  Two coworkers and I were stranded in Montevideo overnight last night.  We drove there to work and the roads closed before we were able to get back.  There was basically zero visibility in that part of the state yesterday, so spending the night was the best option anyway.  It just doesn't make for a good night's sleep.

Check in again soon for my first two belly pictures to be posted.  I have my two month and three month pics!

Excited!! (Can't take the smile off my face!)

So I got the best news this week!  My friend Jackie is also pregnant!  That's three friends that are due within about a month of our baby!  This news would only be better if she lived closer to me than Chicago.  But that's okay, I'll have to find a time to meet up with her and share our baby bump/belly stories in a few months!

I'm in my 13th week now and things are going great!  I officially I am just starting to show (barely). I still have plenty of room in my jeans, and hopefully I will be able to wear my own jeans most of the time (with the help of my BeBand belly band that I got as a birthday gift from James' sister's family.  So thank you Sarah!

Finally it hit me that maybe I should start putting some thought/research into being a parent.  Daycare, nursery plans, researching baby stuff, breastfeeding....oh, but the name search is on hold until we know if it is a boy or girl.  It is hard enough deciding on one name, much less a boy AND a girl name!  So yes, we WILL be finding out the sex of our baby.  Our next ultrasound appointment is on March 2nd, so hopefully they can tell us then!!

This weekend James is making plans to take me out to a special dinner to celebrate the end of our 1st trimester...a moment I have been waiting for!

Have a great weekend, enjoy the warm up of our MN weather, and watch the Vikings win on Sunday!

12 weeks!

Had a great and easy appointment today with my physician. 

The highlight was listening to the heartbeat, which was 163!

My next appointment will be in four weeks.

Well, I don't know what else right now, so I'll check in again later!