Oh the Joys of Pregnancy

Being pregnant is all in all an awesome experience. Growing a human being inside of you and feeling them move is so fun! But there are a few things about being pregnant that are not so glamorous.....You know you are ready to not be pregnant anymore when...


1. You go to the bathroom so much that you actually start to dread it and wish you could just get a catheter
2. You wake up in the middle of the night and your leg is numb from sleeping on it, but its too much of an ordeal to roll to the other side so you just try to ignore it
3. You grunt and groan like an old woman every time you get up
4. You don't remember what your feet look like
5. You can't get your wedding ring off your finger
6. You look at pictures of yourself earlier in your pregnancy and think, "Gosh I was skinny." HAHA
7. You can't remember what it is like to have a flat stomach
8. You frequent Sam's often to enjoy all the free samples
9. If you sneeze or cough you sometimes wet your pants, even though you JUST went to the bathroom
10. You are hot all the time
11. You have to stand in the kitchen every morning with the freezer and refrigerator door open to try and cool down for a minute. As soon as you close the doors though, you begin to sweat.
12. The thought of taking a hot shower makes you want to die. Instead taking an ice cold shower sounds absolutely divine.
13. You came up with a genius idea to fold your clothes for the day and put them in the freezer. That way when you are all ready to go, and sweating like a dog, you can put on your ice cold frozen clothes and have a moment of pure bliss.
14. You have to go to the bathroom so much that you made a fun little game of it. You make a tally mark in your planner each time you go, and see if the next day you can beat it. (For the record I am currently at 9 and its only 2PM)
15. You waddle like an old lady
16. Your feet are so swollen that even your flip flops leave intentions on your feet when you take them off
17. You cannot sleep enough.
18. You are wishing and hoping and praying that the doctor will tell you they made a mistake on your due date and you are actually due 2 weeks earlier than planned
19. The days drag on and on and on and on and on and on and on.....
20. You started out your pregnancy being nervous to give birth and now you can't wait because it means you won't be pregnant anymore!!!!

Nursery Progress...

Here are a few pics of the nursery progress. It has come a LONG way and my sweet husband has worked SO hard!!!! We still have a good bit to do, but I thought I would post just a few pictures of it so far....

Painting the walls...

Taping the stripes

My sweet husband working hard

Dresser we are going to use as a changing table. We bought it and then I painted and distressed it. I am really pleased wit how it turned out although this isn't the best picture...

After painting the stripes and hanging the chair rail

32 weeks! It has FLOWN by!

Time is ticking away........

32 weeks! WOWSERS has it gone by fast! It is hard to believe that in just 8 short weeks (or less) I will be meeting my sweet little girl! I am so excited! I went to the dr. last week and he said I was measuring 2 weeks ahead so he wants me to have another ultrasound at the end of the month to see what is going on. I am excited because I wasn't supposed to have another ultrasound! Although by that point I will be 34 1/2 weeks so we probably won't be able to see alot since she will be so big.

My first shower is July 24th and I am so excited! My friends Magen, Stacelle, and Deborah are throwing it for me and I know that it is going to be so cute!

The nursery is 90% done. All that is left to do is hang stuff on the walls, hang curtains and cornice boards, buy and put together the crib, and then Tim's dad is building a table and a bookshelf. It is so fun to look in there and be able to envision what it will look like finished! For so long it was a torn up construction zone and I would about have a heart attack when I looked in there and think HOW IN THE WORLD IS THIS EVER GOING TO BE A NURSERY?! But my awesome husband has worked SO hard and made it look great. I will post pics as soon as I can find out camera cord to upload them to the computer......

I am feeling pretty good for 32 weeks. Starting to notice more swelling in my feet and ankles by the end of the day, and my stomach just feels really heavy like I need to hold it up haha. Sleeping is getting harder and harder. Inbetween the frequent nightly bathroom visits, it is so hard for me to get comfortable, not to mention I am SO hot at night time. Well I am hot all the time, but it seems to be worse at night when I am laying there trying to go to sleep. Oh well...this too shall pass....

Beach Vacation

Tim and I just got back from a week at the beach. We went to Destin and had so much fun!!! I am so glad we got to take a little get away before Hadley gets here! We literally sat on the beach all day, every day. It was glorious! The weather was absolutely beautiful everyday. I want to go back! Thankfully the only part of me that got fried was the front of one of my shins, genius me forgot to put sunscreen on that one part of my leg. I am a genius sometimes.

Sitting on the beach

Playing putt-putt

The beautiful beach in Destin

We went to Seaside/Rosemary Beach one day. It is such a beautiful little town, and is absolutely picture perfect. The Truman show was filmed in Seaside. The grass is perfectly green and manicured, the town square looks like it is out of a movie, everyone rides their bikes everywhere and waves at everyone. Its just perfect. I want to have a house there one day....

Tim standing in front of the house where the Truman Show was filmed

In the town square at Rosemary Beach

In other news, I am now 24 weeks preggo and feeling great. I have weird little things that happen every now and then, like my right thigh randomly just goes numb, but other than those few things, the second trimester has been great. I can't believe I am so close to my last trimester! We have a TON to do on the nursery, so sometimes I have random freak out moments, but I know we will get it done. Hadley is moving around like crazy, and Tim could see her kicking for the first time while we were in Destin, it was so fun!

24 weeks

Things no one tells you about being pregnant:

Being pregnant is definitely an adventure. Your body changes, your hormones rage, and your emotions change every 10 seconds. Its exhausting! People love to tell you their opinion of everything related to pregnancy, mothering, nursing, etc.-but there are some things people never tell you about being pregnant.



Here are just a few things I have discovered about being pregnant that I never knew:



1. You have to pee ALL the time.

I knew before I was pregnant that you would have to go to the bathroom more during pregnancy, but no one tells you how frequent this is. I get up at least twice in the night EVERY night to go to the bathroom. The most annoying thing is you will suddenly feel like you are about to wet your pants if you don't get to a bathroom and so you rush in expecting to release a river and two little drops come out. I mean seriously?!



2. Your nails grow like wildfire.

I used to cut my nails about once a month, I am now cutting them once a week. RIDICULOUS.



3. You sweat alot.

I mean alot. Maybe its just me. I am hot natured anyways but now that I am pregnant I sweat all the time even when I am not hot. Oh and I normally just sweat consistently from one armpit. Its lovely. I have thought about stuffing toilet paper under one armpit to absorb the sweat but I am scared it would creep out the top of my shirt or something and that would be really embarrassing.



4. If you get a bug bite on your toe, too bad so sad. Forget about scratching it.

When pregnant, your body suddenly thinks it is 85 years old and you lose all flexibility. I can barely lift my leg up anymore to scratch my toes, nor can I sit down on the floor and expect to be able to easily get back up by myself. Again, maybe its just me.



5. You cry alot.

Over nothing. I cry at the drop of a hat these days. Tim will ask me why I am crying and I don't have an answer. It can be because I dropped something, because we ran out of milk, because I forgot to get something when I was at Walmart. Its so stupid, but I can't help it!



6. Your nose runs alot.

I am sinusy by nature anyways, but since I have been pregnant I am constantly blowing my nose. Annoying.



Excuse me while I take a bathroom break.........



7. Everyone wants to touch your stomach all the time. I mean really there is a lot of skin/fat/etc between your hand on my belly and the baby. So in reality you are really just touching my fat stomach not the baby. Its so annoying. Even more annoying/freaky when its a stranger that just feels the right to rub your stomach. It creeps me out. I feel like having a tshirt made that says "No Tocar" ("No touch" for all of my English speaking friends)

8. Having a stomach virus while pregnant is about the worst thing you can ever imagine. I would know. I am just getting over a TERRIBLE 24 hr. stomach bug. It was MISERY. I could not keep anything down, and all I could do was just writhe in pain, hoping and praying it was not affecting Hadley. Thankfully by the time morning came around and I was able to get a hold of my doctor, he called in some prescriptions for me that made me feel SO much better.

9. Random people will stop you in the grocery store, at the post office, or at a gas station and just feel compelled to tell you their birthing story. Apparently I am wearing a sign on my forehead that only other women can see that says, " PLEASE COME UP TO ME AND TELL ME YOUR BIRTHING STORY". That's all I can figure as it has happened to me MULTIPLE times. I don't know about you but hearing about some strange woman's placenta and c-section scars makes me want to vomit. I don't feel it to be a bonding experience rather it makes me really queasy and weirds me out, especially when one woman began to lift up her shirt to show me her c-section scar. A complete stranger. WEIRD.

10. Did I mention you have to go to the bathroom ALOT???


I am sure there will be many other funny/weird things that happen in the next 18 weeks...and I will be sure to share!

Things You Should Never Say to a Pregnant Woman:

Since I have been pregnant, people have been so very kind in their comments to me. Or not. It baffles me that women who have been pregnant before and know what it feels like to get huge and have nothing fit and feel miserable, still feel the need to comment on how large you are getting, how big of a baby you are going to have based on your size, etc. I have come to the conclusion that no woman no matter how big she is EVER wants to be told "You are Huge!" I mean I really don't care if I am 12 months pregnant and have gained 300 pounds, please tell me I look great. Sure I will totally know you are lying, but its much better than hearing some of the following things I have heard since being pregnant:

(These are actual word for word quotes of things people have so kindly told me)

"Wow you are HUGE!"

"From the looks of it you are going to have a BIG baby" (I mean really don't blame it on the baby, just tell me you think I am gaining alot of weight)

"You look like you are already retaining alot of water. By this summer your going to be as big as a whale" ( hey,at least they were honest!)

" Your only 20 weeks? WOW!"

" So, you probably had to start wearing maternity clothes pretty early huh?"

"Hopefully you will lose it as fast as you gained it!"

"Oh just wait till this summer, you're really going to blow up"

I mean in all honesty, I have started to just laugh. People have no tact! It really hurt my feelings at first to be called huge, because I feel huge and I am fully aware I am gaining weight, but now I just have to laugh at how stupid people are. I have only gained 16 pounds, according to my doctor I am not retaining water at all, and the baby is average size as of now.

Just thought I would give you a little laugh today, and let you know that if you ever see a pregnant woman, huge or not, just tell her she looks wonderful. It will make her day. Honesty is not always the best policy :)

It's a.....

Well we had our ultrasound last Wednesday to find out what we are having and we were both quite surprised to find out that

It's a GIRL!!!!!!!

We are SO excited! I can't wait to buy lots of cute dresses and bows and decorate a sweet, girly nursery!!!!! I wanted a girl so bad-so I didn't want to be let down so I had just convinced myself we were having a boy, and I was totally ok with that. So, to find out it was a girl was a shocker! Tim is excited too, a bit nervous to have a daughter, but he knows she will have him wrapped around her little finger! His first words after they told us we were having a girl were, "Well this is going to be expensive!" HAHAHA
We have decided to name her Hadley Grace. Hadley is a name I have LOVED for a long, long time and Grace is my middle name and was my great grandmothers name.

I am halfway there-20 weeks! I can't believe in 5 short months I will be holding my sweet baby girl!