Baby Bean is a ..........................

So you wanna know what baby bean is? :)

We had our very much anticipated gender u/s last week and I was so anxious I could hardly contain it. Josh and I headed out to our appt. that Monday morning as giddy as a 5yr old on Christmas morning. After getting checked in, we waited a bit... I played some stupid game on my phone to try and pass the minutes which seemed like hours, then we were called back to the u/s room.

I lay down on the chair-thingy and the u/s tech, after squeezing some warm jelly on my belly, started moving the wand over my belly and immediately we saw our little beany-bean.

Then after scanning around a few seconds the u/s tech said 'Sooo are you ready to find out what the baby is!?'.

YES!

Beany-bean is 100% Girl!

I almost cried. I always knew I wanted our second to be a girl, to have one of each. To actually hear the tech tell us and to see it confirmed on the u/s was just so overwhelming and really filled us up with joy and that much more excitement.

Now that we know we are having a girl, I couldn't wait to start.... shopping!

This weekend we went out to the outlets to get J some new clothes {the kid is seriously growing like a weed!} and of course we had to pick out a few outfits for baby girl.

We also stopped at Target and I was so happy to see the stroller I wanted, in the colors I wanted, was there and there was only ONE left, so we picked that up as well.

The room however needs some work. I just haven't had the urge to go through all my stuff and purge it into the office with the rest of the stuff I had already moved in there. Today was a rainy day and we did get our room cleaned out and also went through J's room, through all his old clothes and really just deep cleaned everything. Am I nesting? I'm not 100% sure just yet but I know it's coming, slowly but surely, the nesting will really kick into full force!

Re-energized

Hi everyone. Another hiatus with no updates, I know but to be honest, and im not going to sugar coat it... I have felt like shit. Serious shit. This pregnancy hasn't been hard but it certainly has been a lot harder then my previous pregnancy. I will be 19 weeks tomorrow and up until about 2-3 days ago, I finally feel like I am getting my energy back. ...I know, I know, my last post which was quite a few weeks ago I said I was getting my energy back but ya, it stalled and conked out and went away. This time though, I think it's for real and here to stay {at least till my 3rd trimester anyways lol}.

So with that said, just a few photos to share. Nothing to spectacular but I ♥ taking photos!

Easter weekend at the in-laws house in Mississippi. They had a crawfish boil, Josh got pulled over by a sheriff for riding one of the 4-wheelers down the dirt road lol {no ticket though luckily}, and just some good time catching up with family.

My little boy lost his first tooth! I saw him last night picking at a tooth {or something} in his mouth and being discrete about it. When I asked him what he was doing he sort of shied away and when he answered I noticed his front tooth didn't look right and that's when I knew he was picking at his loose tooth! He was a little freaked out at first because he didn't know why his tooth was falling out but after me and Daddy talked to him about how and why it happens and that it happened to us and happens to everyone, he started to be more keen on the idea of a baby tooth falling out and a big boy tooth coming in. It didn't fall out last night but up until it did {this morning} he was regularly wanting to see our 'big' teeth because he thought it was cool. This morning he was eating his cereal while Josh and I were in the Kitchen and he interrupted loudly with 'Well guys, here it is!' as he held up his tooth. Just another reminder of how my little boy is growing up!

This weekend we started working on enclosing a section of the backyard for the dogs. They have been evicted from roaming the entire yard freely {if we are out there with them they can roam freely}. No this is not mean, this has to be done. The state of our backyard right now looks like complete trash. Chloe is a chewer. A big time, hardcore chewer and has chewed on everything in the yard. ALL my plants and bushes she has chewed up or dug up, the pillars at the end of the patio she has chewed on, the pool accessories she has chewed on and has chewed on any and every toy Jayden has had outside. Not to mention the digging of the holes throughout the yard and chewing on the patio furniture. So, ya, no more free roaming when we aren't out there with them {she doesn't do it when we are near her and yes, she has lots of chew toys and chewies to chew on}. Another reason we decided to enclose part of the yard is not only to keep the destruction under control but also for when people come over. Chloe isn't a mean girl but she is strong. Very strong and thinks she's a little lap dog and when she see's the kids playing she wants to join on in, in the fun and well, she doesn't realize how strong she is. After the fence is done we plan to build them a nice dog house too {they don't stay out all night, come night time they come inside}.

While Josh and J were working on the fence, I started cleaning out the veggie bed. Raked out all the leaves, tilled the dirt and just cleaned it up some. We won't plant anything until the dog fence is done {because as stated above, Chloe will just dig anything we plant right back up}. After this little project I did I had to go inside and take about a 45min. nap... Oh the joys of being pregnant lol!

The bump.

I am so ready for Summer to be here. Granted it already feels like Summer, living in the South and all but it's not Summer because the humidity hasn't showed up in full force yet. That is about the only thing I am not looking forward to. The stinkin humidity. I don't know how I feel about being pregnant in the dead of Summer but luckily we have the pool and I think I will be using our pool more so this summer then I have any previous summers since moving into this house! :-D

P.S- We find out if bean is a BOY or a GIRL tomorrow morning!!! Stay tuned!

Quick Thursday Update

Happy Thursday friends!

Just wanted to pop in and say im still here! There won't be a bump update every week. I decided I am going to do one every '5 weeks' {at least for the blog anyways}. So my next Bump update will be on Monday where I will be exactly 15 weeks :)

I have my first appt. with my new doctor on Monday as well. I can't wait. This is my new doctor that I switched to, the one who agreed on a vbac. I secretly hope she does an ultrasound in which I will casually ask her what she 'thinks' the gender is :) We shall see!

I don't want to jinx myself but I think my nausea and vomiting are finally on the outs. I had a rough weekend of it along with a massive migraine that started Sunday and lasted right through to Monday, but so far the rest of the week has been pretty good otherwise.

In shop news {in case you are wondering}, basically the shop has been on hiatus since finding out I was preggo. I have been so sick my first trimester that all I ever wanted to do was sleep and be lazy or I was attached to the damn toilet. Also, we are in the process of moving everything out of the studio and into the office for the future baby room so all of my things are all mixed up and all over the place. I am hoping sometime within the next month and a half I will have everything more organized and ready to start on some new designs {I have even thought about bringing back some sewing items as well!}.

Other then that, nothing else to report. Just same ol' same ol' in the McCoy household :)

Baby Bump - 13 weeks + Good news!

How im feeling? - Slowly but surely my nausea and morning sickness is fading ... um.. ya did I say slowly? cause I seriously meant slowly. Luckily I don't have that constant feeling of wanting to vomit all day and all night but now it's more so just random. But boy, when it hits, it hits and it hits with a vengeance and I have also noticed if I overeat, my nausea and vomiting kicks it into high gear and 'kindly' reminds me 'hell no!'. I still have my days of feeling tired and I still find myself snuggling into bed with my Kindle around 9pm sharp {oh wait, who am I kidding. I did that before I got pregnant too}.

Craving? - This week? Bagels and cream cheese. My goodness, carbs just need to go away. For good. Other then that I haven't been craving anything really. I do have to have ice chips in my water. Have to. I find that, that is the only way I can drink my water, as long as it has the ice chips in it.

Weight Gain? - Ha! Let's not even go there yet. I am short and well us short people? Every little lump, bump and 0.5lb gain is gonna show. Ya. It sucks. My fingers retain water a lot easier these days. Every where else is fine {ankles, calves, legs... etc}. Just my hands. But even before I got pregnant my hands always, very easily retained water. Not cute {at least I have the bump now to distract the attention away from the sausage fingers O.o}.

Mood? - For the most part, same as always. Although today I seemed to have quite a bit of mini-meltdowns. At the dog for chewing on an old chair that was going to be thrown out anyways. At J for kicking his door and at Josh for saying the dogs should stay outside {no!}. Aye....

Sleep? - Eh. It could be better. It's not bad but I do seem to wake up quite a few times during the night for no real reason, besides having to use the bathroom {which right now during the night im at 1-2 times}. Sometimes the nausea punches me in the gut during a sound sleep and wakes me right up. Last night the dogs decided 1AM was the perfect time to just randomly start chewing at each others faces playing and well that woke me up and so I played a few word games on my kindle in bed until I felt like I could go back to sleep again.

And so you all can see this bump has a 'face' ;)

In other news. Well I should say fantastic news... I found a new doctor! If you read my 12 week update then you would have read where my doctor informed me that with her and the hospital, a vbac would have been a big NO-go. Well... that's a big NO-no for me. I did some research and I believed I had found another doctor/hospital that would do them. I called the doctors office that following week and after speaking to a nurse on the phone and answering some questions about my first pregnancy and c-section, she called me back after speaking with the doctor and told me that she {the doctor} will allow me to try for a vbac {yay!}. Make a long story short, went and broke up with my old doctor, signed the release form for my records. New doctor received my records a day later, called me and scheduled me for my first appt {with her} which is in about 2 weeks.

I am so relieved. Honestly, a vbac was something I truly wanted. I wanted the ability to at least try and so thankful I found a doctor who will let me do just that... try. I feel like now that, that's out of the way I can relax a lot more and really enjoy the pregnancy now.

Yay for second trimester!

5 Years

Yesterday we reached a big milestone in our household.

What milestone you say?

Our little guy turned ...... wait for it ....... wait for ... it ..... 5!!!

Ya I still can't believe it. Even my coworkers were in disbelief in the fact that he was 5 already. Heck... seems like just yesterday I was pregnant with him. It for reasons like this, the fact that he is 5 already, that this pregnancy and this new baby, I will have to step back every so often and remind myself just how fast time goes by.

February 21, 2008

February 21, 2013

I was going to keep him home from school yesterday but he had a field trip that he really wanted to go on. They went and visited the Fire Station and got to see all the fire trucks.. etc. The night before I made him some dino-style cupcakes.

And we brought them to school for yesterday, so not only did they have the Fire Station field trip but then they came back, had lunch and then cupcakes!

I knew I wanted to make him a cake. We bought a small 'store bought' cake at Publix when my Dad was still here visiting, nothing big, just something but I was not impressed with the cake. It tasted dry, but whatever. 

Yesterday though. The BIG day, I wanted to make him his very own cake. So I made him a rainbow cake and his face lit up when we cut into it. 'WOW!! Colors Mama, all them colors! That's so cool!!'. 

So what did he get? We got him a Lego set he has been wanting, a pack of hot wheels cars, some candy {of course we put them up after he opened them and reminded him it was only for a treat every once in awhile}, some markers, coloring book, letter writing book and some racing cars and since it was during the week and we don't have much family that live near us {well any family actually}, it was just us. Which is fine by me. This weekend we might take him and some friends {and their kids} to see 'Escape from Planet Earth'. 

Happy Birthday to my little guy!