57 days!

I'm about to BURST.  I think I'm actually anticipating our Disney trip more than I am our 20 week appointment (pretty sad huh?).  We LOVE LOVE LOVE Walt Disney World (seeing Rachael's pictures is making me itch even more - I wish she would shove me in her car!)

 

I get excited when I see the signs for "Discounted Disney Tickets" at those Florida Visitor stands along the expressway...even though I never stop, it's a sign that we're getting closer.  Then seeing the signs for it on I-4 ahhhhh.  Of course the BEST BEST part of pulling in...is this:

 

 

It gives me goose bumps every time.  I can truly say there's no other feeling like the one I get when we pull into Walt Disney World.  Let me just say, Toys R Us is not the ONLY place where a kid can be a kid, in fact I'd like to believe THIS place is better :)

 

In the words of Spongebob Squarepants (yes I know he is not a Disney character)

 

I'm ready

I'm ready

I'm ready

I'm ready

 

 

 

 

Week 9

Pregnancy Highlights

 

As of Saturday, you were about the size of a grape!

 

 

 

By the end of this week, you'll be the size of a prune!

 

 

 

 

How Far Along?

9 weeks - 3 days

 

Size of the Baby?

A grape

 

Maternity Clothes?

Not yet

 

Gender?

May can't get here soon enough.  It would be great if we found out the sex just before our trip to Disney!

 

Movement?

Nope

 

Sleep?

Getting to sleep is no problem, in fact I'm in bed before 9:30 most nights, but I toss and turn all night long.

 

Cravings?

None, I would actually say there's a lot of food that doesn't appetizer me.  It doesn't necessarily make me sick, but I find myself not eating much.

 

Symptoms?

Unforgiving headaches, that is all.

 

What I Miss?

Nothing right now...I'm feeling relatively good.

 

Baby Center Update for week 9:

Your new resident is nearly an inch long - about the size of a grape and weighs just a fraction of an ounce.  He/she is starting to look more and more human.  The essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months.  Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form - as do their tiny teeth.  The embryonic "tail" is completely gone.  Your baby's organs, muscles and nerves are kicking into gear.  The eyes are fully formed, but the eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks.  There are tiny earlobes and the mouth, nose and nostrils are more distinct .  The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones.  Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, he/she is poised for rapid weight gain.

Oldies via Instagram

I found a scrapbook this weekend and was overloaded with memories!

From one of my first Disney trips, my OCD with Hanson to my first years with Hardy and fun times with friends :)

Wish I had a camera...

Are you ever driving down the road and see something so beautiful you wish you had a fancy camera to capture it with??

Well I do that often...and all I ever have is my iPhone.

These are a few photos I've captured with my phone...not all were while driving except the first two.

I call this first one "The Calm Before The Storm" since I took it today.

Week 8

Pregnancy Highlights

 

 

 

How Far Along?

8 weeks - 4 days

 

 

Size of the Baby?

A jellybean!

 

 

Maternity Clothes?

Not yet

 

 

Gender?

Won't know until sometime in May, but the heart rate was high yesterday (168)

so here's to hoping it's a girl (although we'll take whatever PJ is meant to be)!

 

 

Movement?

Nope

 

 

Sleep?

I love sleep, but I wake up at least once a night to pee

 

 

Cravings?

None

 

 

Symptoms?

Nausea only occurs when I don't eat breakfast on time.  Horrible headaches. 

Sore boobs, but those seem to have subsided for the time being.

 

 

What I Miss?

Nothing right now...I'm feeling relatively good.

 

 

Milestones?

The baby is now officially a "fetus" instead of an embryo.

 

 

Baby Center Update for week 8:

Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his/her eyelids practically cover the eyes,

breathing tubes extend from the throat to the branches of the developing lungs, and the "tail" is just about gone. 

In the brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. 

You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other,

but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether or not its a boy or girl. 

Either way, your baby (about the size of a kidney bean) is constantly moving and shifting though you still can't feel it.