I imagine it was odd for Ashley and Ryan to knock on the front door when they came over for dinner the other night. Ashley lived with me for 7 months while Trevor was deployed and, thus, had her own house key. Since I had been feeling awful and keeping the big pregnancy secret, we'd been procrastinating getting together with them since Trevor got home.
I knew Ashley from school and mutual friends. I actually ran into her at the post office when I saw her sending out five flat rate boxes with some confusion on the customs forms. I assumed they were going to an APO/FPO so I sent her a Facebook message. It turned out her boyfriend, Ryan, was in Afghanistan and she was also looking for a place to live in town, so that was that. Ryan was an active duty Marine and just had a short time left to serve after this last deployment. He moved back to Owatonna in December so I got to know both Ashley and him very well.
So we snacked and talked, then talked and ate. It was good to see them and catch up, and great for them to finally meet Trevor and for him to meet them. And just in the nick of time since they're moving to the metro area in a couple weeks.
-A
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Second OB Appointment, 12.5 weeks
Hooray!! OK, so we're a few days shy of the official 2nd trimester, but we're calling it good. We just had our second OB appointment today and all is well!
For those of you just finding this out, obviously, we're pregnant. Click here to read from the beginning. If you skip that part, let me just tell you I won't be posting these to Facebook (to spare everyone the pregnancy details if they're not interested) but you can type your email address in the "Follow by Email" box to get updates when there's a new post. I've been taking "belly" photos, but really there's nothing to see yet. I was pretty bloated for a while, it went down, now I think it's back, but I'm not sure I can call it a baby bump yet.
Baby Gibbs is due January 25, 2013. If you do the math, it will appear I got pregnant before Trevor got home. For those of you who haven't been down this road yet, they start counting pregnancy with the first day of your period, not when you actually got pregnant. But, again if you do the math, we really didn't waste any time!
Here is the post about our first appointment. As for today's appointment, it was a quick one. Well, after almost an hour and a half of waiting it was quick, gotta love the doctor's office! The doctor came in, asked a few questions, then got out the doppler. She assured us sometimes it takes a little bit to find the heartbeat, but it really didn't take long at all, phew! A solid 160 beats per minute and we were happy :) As for symptoms, they've been gradually getting better the last couple weeks...for the most part. I'm off the Zofran completely and surviving on half a Unisom in the evening. Luckily, my "morning sickness" is actually "evening sickness" and Unisom helps with nausea and happens to be a sleep aid-works very well. My boobs are sore, especially when I wake up, but I can deal with that. My gag reflex is as bad as ever. That's the only thing that's caused me to actually throw up...6 times now. I gag on pills or food quite a bit, but if I gag twice-bad news! Fatigue is getting better, but I'm getting the occasional headache and lightheaded at times, usually after a shower. All in all, much more manageable than a few weeks ago!
We quickly started making phone calls and it's been so fun to share the news! For those of you who continue reading, I'll be posting some first time mom questions-I'm sure I'll have plenty-I'd love some input in the comments.
-A
For those of you just finding this out, obviously, we're pregnant. Click here to read from the beginning. If you skip that part, let me just tell you I won't be posting these to Facebook (to spare everyone the pregnancy details if they're not interested) but you can type your email address in the "Follow by Email" box to get updates when there's a new post. I've been taking "belly" photos, but really there's nothing to see yet. I was pretty bloated for a while, it went down, now I think it's back, but I'm not sure I can call it a baby bump yet.
Baby Gibbs is due January 25, 2013. If you do the math, it will appear I got pregnant before Trevor got home. For those of you who haven't been down this road yet, they start counting pregnancy with the first day of your period, not when you actually got pregnant. But, again if you do the math, we really didn't waste any time!
Here is the post about our first appointment. As for today's appointment, it was a quick one. Well, after almost an hour and a half of waiting it was quick, gotta love the doctor's office! The doctor came in, asked a few questions, then got out the doppler. She assured us sometimes it takes a little bit to find the heartbeat, but it really didn't take long at all, phew! A solid 160 beats per minute and we were happy :) As for symptoms, they've been gradually getting better the last couple weeks...for the most part. I'm off the Zofran completely and surviving on half a Unisom in the evening. Luckily, my "morning sickness" is actually "evening sickness" and Unisom helps with nausea and happens to be a sleep aid-works very well. My boobs are sore, especially when I wake up, but I can deal with that. My gag reflex is as bad as ever. That's the only thing that's caused me to actually throw up...6 times now. I gag on pills or food quite a bit, but if I gag twice-bad news! Fatigue is getting better, but I'm getting the occasional headache and lightheaded at times, usually after a shower. All in all, much more manageable than a few weeks ago!
We quickly started making phone calls and it's been so fun to share the news! For those of you who continue reading, I'll be posting some first time mom questions-I'm sure I'll have plenty-I'd love some input in the comments.
-A
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday the 14th.
I've been looking forward to this weekend for some time now. Thankfully, I have no Friday the 13th horror stories to tell, but what I can tell you is I'm a fan of Saturday the 14th.
Trevor was sick last week. I'll spare you the details, but luckily he was feeling better by Saturday. Rowdy let us sleep in a little Saturday morning, then we got ready to head to Stillwater for my cousin Drew's graduation open house. We got there shortly after my dad did and had a nice visit with my dad, Drew, my aunt Karon and a few of the other guests. Drew made a great photo slideshow and it was fun looking back at all the photos. Tony, his brother, had some awesome cornrows back in the day-I had forgotten about those.
After the graduation party we stopped home to let Rowdy out and meet up with David, Jenny and their dog, Tripp, before heading to party #2. One of our very good friends Adam fell for a lovely woman, Meg, he met while vacationing in Mexico. After he made two trips to visit her in the Boston area, it was finally her turn to come visit him...and meet a lot of people! Someday I'll devote an entire post to their cute, mushy, romantic love story, but today let's focus on the slip 'n slide party.
Now when I say slip 'n slide, I'm not talking the standard premade type you can buy at Target. This thing required 30 pool noodles, two (or three?) sprinklers, baby oil and a huge yard. I took this photo at about the 2/3 mark, so this isn't even the whole thing.
If I told you Adam's parents made him chug this beer while slip 'n sliding, would you believe me? You should.
We moved onto a few rounds of bean bags that dragged on forever and ever. It was fun regardless and we had some good laughs and great conversation. I love getting to know new people. Meg and I have been emailing for a while now so it was fun seeing the person I have gotten to know via email come to life. Does that make her sound like Pinocchio? She's totally cooler than Pinocchio.
As the night went on, there were more laughs, more conversations, and more slip 'n slides.
These two went down wrestling-what a sight that was. David and Jenny spent the night with Tripp. The dogs played hard this morning and, bonus!, Rowdy has been napping all day.
I hear our kabobs are almost done-perfect timing.
-A
Trevor was sick last week. I'll spare you the details, but luckily he was feeling better by Saturday. Rowdy let us sleep in a little Saturday morning, then we got ready to head to Stillwater for my cousin Drew's graduation open house. We got there shortly after my dad did and had a nice visit with my dad, Drew, my aunt Karon and a few of the other guests. Drew made a great photo slideshow and it was fun looking back at all the photos. Tony, his brother, had some awesome cornrows back in the day-I had forgotten about those.
After the graduation party we stopped home to let Rowdy out and meet up with David, Jenny and their dog, Tripp, before heading to party #2. One of our very good friends Adam fell for a lovely woman, Meg, he met while vacationing in Mexico. After he made two trips to visit her in the Boston area, it was finally her turn to come visit him...and meet a lot of people! Someday I'll devote an entire post to their cute, mushy, romantic love story, but today let's focus on the slip 'n slide party.
Now when I say slip 'n slide, I'm not talking the standard premade type you can buy at Target. This thing required 30 pool noodles, two (or three?) sprinklers, baby oil and a huge yard. I took this photo at about the 2/3 mark, so this isn't even the whole thing.
If I told you Adam's parents made him chug this beer while slip 'n sliding, would you believe me? You should.
We moved onto a few rounds of bean bags that dragged on forever and ever. It was fun regardless and we had some good laughs and great conversation. I love getting to know new people. Meg and I have been emailing for a while now so it was fun seeing the person I have gotten to know via email come to life. Does that make her sound like Pinocchio? She's totally cooler than Pinocchio.
As the night went on, there were more laughs, more conversations, and more slip 'n slides.
These two went down wrestling-what a sight that was. David and Jenny spent the night with Tripp. The dogs played hard this morning and, bonus!, Rowdy has been napping all day.
I hear our kabobs are almost done-perfect timing.
-A
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Independence Day.
We had a great 4th of July-both the day of and the weekend afterwards. We both had the 4th off and it was miserably hot. I spent most of the day inside because heat and I do not mix. I did get Rowdy's pool out for him so he could splash around in it. Trevor, on the other hand, mowed the lawn and hoed the garden. Bless his heart. We had a nice quiet afternoon before the whole family arrived for potluck dinner then fireworks. Everyone brought good food and the house was packed. My dad brought some firecrackers and Elliot and Parker got a kick out of those. Speaking of those two, they got pretty dirty playing in the sandbox so we washed their clothes and put them in Trevor's tan army shirts. They looked like little Monks. Anyway, we found a spot to watch the fireworks here in town and they were really pretty good! Parker (5) even said "Woah! I bet the fireflies are saying this is even cooler than our light!" He was pretty impressed, jumping at each firework, saying it was his favorite, with many "WOAH!"s in between. (Trevor took some photos on the 4th and I've been procrastinating this post waiting to get them from him, but we've been pretty busy. I'll add them later.)
Since I don't work Fridays anyway, I took Thursday off too and just made a big, long weekend out of the 4th. Trevor had to go back to school Thursday and Friday though. Saturday we joined John, Mari, Calen, Linnea, Jon, Moe, Jon, Nicole, Kourtney, Shannon and all of the kiddos on Elysian for some fun at the cabin.
We started the day on the water trampoline while some of the others went out for a boat ride and tubing.
Then kayaking and paddle boating.
And when the bugs got too bad, we headed inside for game time. We started with Trivial Pursuit, a very old Trivial Pursuit, but that didn't go so well since many of the answers were as old as the game itself. We switched to Mad Gab which was much more entertaining.
Hopefully you all had as much fun this past week/weekend as we did!
-A
Since I don't work Fridays anyway, I took Thursday off too and just made a big, long weekend out of the 4th. Trevor had to go back to school Thursday and Friday though. Saturday we joined John, Mari, Calen, Linnea, Jon, Moe, Jon, Nicole, Kourtney, Shannon and all of the kiddos on Elysian for some fun at the cabin.
We started the day on the water trampoline while some of the others went out for a boat ride and tubing.
Then kayaking and paddle boating.
My dad got us some fireworks a couple weeks ago and we knew it would be best to save them for the lake...good plan! They were awesome!
Hopefully you all had as much fun this past week/weekend as we did!
-A
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
10 weeks, 4 days
No photo with this post. I've been procrastinating the post because I've been waiting to take a photo, but that's just not happening. No worries, there's really nothing to see yet aside from varying levels of bloating. The good news is that by varying levels of bloating I mean it's actually gone down some. Let me back up a bit...
A couple days after that first appointment we headed to visit family in Wisconsin. I had been feeling pretty good minus the constipation issue. I was still in need of nausea relief so I was taking Zofran, but the side effects of that were no good. I decided to give it a shot without Zofran and have now been off it for about 10 days. Throughout the day I feel good enough without it (at least to make it worth getting rid of that yucky side effect), but evenings are no fun. Evening sickness is probably better than morning sickness because I can be lazy and just go to bed. Also, I've started taking Unisom to help with that which is a sleep aide, much better to be taking that at night than in the morning. All in all I've been feeling pretty darn good, relatively speaking. I have to really make an effort to drink plenty of fluids and my appetite isn't completely normal, but I don't feel like death all day. Oh, one more fun tidbit: my gag reflex is awful. I gag on my pills, supper, yogurt, when flossing my teeth, you name it. Twice I've thrown up from gagging, not nausea, gagging.
Less than two weeks til our next appointment. I'm feeling pretty good about things, but still anxious to make sure there's still a solid heartbeat! I'm sure I'll be nervous in one way or another the whole time, but I'm hoping my mind will be at ease to know we made it to 12.5 weeks and all is well. And, bonus, that's when all of this stops being a secret. CAN'T WAIT. We have a couple get togethers/parties coming up that are going to be very tricky to hide. I can come up with excuses not to drink, but no hot tubs, no slip n slides, no water skiing/tubing and no drinking get a little obvious.
I'll do better on an 11 week photo this Friday.
-A
A couple days after that first appointment we headed to visit family in Wisconsin. I had been feeling pretty good minus the constipation issue. I was still in need of nausea relief so I was taking Zofran, but the side effects of that were no good. I decided to give it a shot without Zofran and have now been off it for about 10 days. Throughout the day I feel good enough without it (at least to make it worth getting rid of that yucky side effect), but evenings are no fun. Evening sickness is probably better than morning sickness because I can be lazy and just go to bed. Also, I've started taking Unisom to help with that which is a sleep aide, much better to be taking that at night than in the morning. All in all I've been feeling pretty darn good, relatively speaking. I have to really make an effort to drink plenty of fluids and my appetite isn't completely normal, but I don't feel like death all day. Oh, one more fun tidbit: my gag reflex is awful. I gag on my pills, supper, yogurt, when flossing my teeth, you name it. Twice I've thrown up from gagging, not nausea, gagging.
Less than two weeks til our next appointment. I'm feeling pretty good about things, but still anxious to make sure there's still a solid heartbeat! I'm sure I'll be nervous in one way or another the whole time, but I'm hoping my mind will be at ease to know we made it to 12.5 weeks and all is well. And, bonus, that's when all of this stops being a secret. CAN'T WAIT. We have a couple get togethers/parties coming up that are going to be very tricky to hide. I can come up with excuses not to drink, but no hot tubs, no slip n slides, no water skiing/tubing and no drinking get a little obvious.
I'll do better on an 11 week photo this Friday.
-A
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