17 Weeks!

17 weeks here we are! I am not crazy about his picture, but I have been asked many times over the past weeks to see the baby belly that I have going on. So here it is. We are very excited about our doctors visit next week and we have both Grandmas Nana(my Mom) and Mima( Jacks Mom) going with us! This pregnancy has been so much fun so far! I have felt great and I also have two really good friends that are pregnant too! My friend Carrie, that I have been friends with since high school, is having a girl Baby Abagail and she is due at the beginning on November. Also we have become great friends with our neighbors Katie and Kenny and she is due the day after me! So we are having a lot of fun waiting to find out what we are having and picking out names. We are even going to register together in a few weeks. It is so much fun having someone be right there with you ever day!

We found a crib!

For a few weeks now , we have started looking for a crib. I have heard if you have to order one it could take months to get it in so I wanted to get started. After we moved in our house, I was at a thrift store one day and found a beautiful black changing table for way cheap and it was brand new. So later in the day, I took Jack back to make sure he liked it and he did so we bought it. So for awhile now we have been looking for a black crib to go with it. This was not as easy as you would think. A lot of crib makers are no longer making black cribs and now they and making them with out the drop down because drop downs don't convert to full size beds all the time. So since they aren't making the drop down side, they have lowered the whole crib closer to the ground so the you can reach the baby easier. Well that is unless you are as tall as Jack and I. We had looked many time and only kept finding cribs that were way too short for us and then on Saturday we took so of our friends Mandy and Bill and their kidos and went on a crib hunt and look what we found! We LOVED this crib when we found it and it was taller than most and came in black! Here is the website so you can see it in black..

http://www.munirefurniture.com/savannah_05.htm

We haven't ordered it just yet but will by the end of the month hopefully and should get it in 8- 10 weeks after that!
And here is the bedding if it is a girl:

I found this set at a model home sale over a year ago for $30 and just couldn't pass it by. It came with everything and curtains and I was so excited. I was even more excited that when I got home and looked it up online and saw that it was selling for over $280! I am a huge deal shopper so this was awesome!
And for a boy:

Jack and I decided a long time ago that if we had a boy we wanted to have a surfer/beach kinda room. So once again this was not easy to find. I looked forever and finally found this on online and loved it. So if its a boy my mom and I are going to make this!

Vote for Sophia!

My oh so sweet niece Sophia is in a beautiful babies contest in Florida and we need lots of votes for this beautiful little girl! You can click on the link below and it will take you to the website and you have to register ( this only takes a second) then you can vote for her. For the grand prize she could win $5,000!! This only takes a few min to do and all the votes are a huge help! Oh and you can vote EVERY DAY! Thank you for your votes and we should find out what Sophia's cousin will be on July 30th and we are super excited!

http://beautifulbabies.trb.com/wsfl/babies_home_gallery,0,501676,permalink.ugcphotogallery?u=swtcheecks

Second Trimester Here We Come!

So we have made it to the second trimester! I am so excited! The baby now is about 3 1/2 inches from crown to rump and is moving around like crazy. I went to the doctor last week feeling a little off and worried so I took my mom, aka Nana, with me. The baby and I are both doing great! Everything was fine and I was very happy to hear that. My mom got to see an ultrasound of the baby and see and hear the heartbeat. In the picture above you can see the baby kinda laying on its neck and its hands and face on the right and legs on the left. This is the second ultrasound I have had where the hands have been in front of the face like this. And we have a little ham on our hands! They started the ultrasound and the baby was so cute just laying there wit their hands in their face and as soon as it realised that we were talking about it and looking at it, it started doing flips and dancin! It was the cutest little thing and it already loves the attention. Jack and I are already in big trouble!! haha! I am feeling wonderful. Still a little tired sometimes but I'm not working right now so I try to get as much sleep now as I can because I know this isn't going to last for long. My clothes no longer fit and I need to buy some new ones just haven't yet. I haven't gained any weight but I do feel like I am. I have been feeling the baby move for about two weeks now and one of the first night's I did feel it, Jack want's to feel it move so bad, and he had his hand right over where the baby is and as soon as he did that the baby went crazy moving around. He couldn't feel it of course, but this baby already knew that was him! I go back to the doctor and the specialist on July 30th and I can't wait for this visit cause we should find out what it is! I am kinda convinced its a boy and Jack wants a boy and we have boy names picked out so I don't know what we will do if it is a girl. Which I would love!! And on the right of this page you can see how far along I am and how many days I have left. You can also click on the box and it will tell you what the baby is doing and how it is growing for the week.

On Monday I was super excited to call one of my best friends Rebecca, who I worked with in kindergarten for three years, and tell her I was as pregnant as she was when she told me that she was pregnant with her first daughter, Schella, who is now almost 5. I had been thinking about her all day for some reason so I called her Monday afternoon and left her a message that I had been thinking about her all day and just wanted to see how she was and just to call me back. As soon as I hung up the phone one of my other great friends Robbie ,who I also worked with the same time as Rebecca, called me and told me that Rebecca's mom Joyce had passed away. She had been fighting cancer for a long time and was a wonderful woman. So please keep the Lipschutz/Sprowl family in your prayers this week.

Sweet little Peanut!

I already feel like the proud Mommy who loves to show off new pictures of their babies! The top picture is of a profile shot. Its kinda hard to see the face is on the right and you can see the little nose and mouth and a little hand next to the face. I went yesterday morning with Mima (Jack's mom, Maureen) to the specialist and everything right now looks great! They did and ultra sound and said my cervix looked great and we got a lot of new pictures of little peanut! They said the baby was also measuring perfect and is about the size of my thumb right now.

Here is a pic of Peanut rubbing their eyes and you can see the show of their feet. And the one on the bottom is part of the very long legs we have! Last time when Jack and I went the baby was very active but we never really got a good shot of the legs and arms. Today the baby was way to comfy to move too much we got it to move around just a little and then they went right back to sleep. It was really cute because the nurse was having me cough so we could try to get it to wake up and it just did that little jumpy thing babies do when they are sleeping where they just jump and go right back to sleep. But we did get to see the very long legs we have right now and the very long arms! I don't have to go back to this doctor for six weeks but go back to my regular doctor in two. But the very exciting news is next time I go to the specialist I am going to drink a coke first so the baby will wake up and we can see what it is!

Here we go again!

So my day started off pretty normal. I had a job for the day so here I am on my way to work and for all who don't know what the that red and white sign is that has the big letters that say YIELD on it it means watch out for other cars! Here I am minding my own business in my own lane and this lady in a minivan decided she was going to just come on over into my lane and hit me! (And I even went into the next lane over to avoid her) I am just fne and so is my car. She just left some black marks on my car that I'm sure can be buffed out and pushed a tiny corner of my back bumper in. Something that you would NEVER notice unless you were looking for it. So yeah I am now taking applications for a personal driver! Except for the fact I don't have a job and don't go anywhere so this might be hard to find someone! HA!

On another note, I can't wait until Friday! I have another doctors appt. with a specialist and get to have another ultra sound on my sweet peanut! I had some surgery a little over a year ago and they just want to watch me, along with my regular midwife, for the first 22- 24 weeks or so. So sometime on Friday or this weekend I will post new pictures of our new peanut if I get some!

Exciting news!!

After five LONG weeks of not being able to tell many people, Jack and I are happy to announce that we will be adding to our family in December! This has been one of the hardest things not to tell a lot of people because we found out of Jack's birthday! This was also before my accident which makes it a miracle baby since it made it through that just fine! We went to the doctor yesterday and saw the heartbeat and the baby dancing around doing the hokey pokey. It was so cute! we also found out that my actual due date is December 26th so we will be having a Christmas baby. I LOVE Christmas so it can't be better for me! I have been feeling great and was only sick for about a week so I am very lucky!

So what else have we been up to...... We do have a new car. We bought a 2009 Honda Pilot. It is wonderful and I love it! It is also great cause we now have a third row so when we go places with some of our friends we can all ride in the same car. I would have a picture of it on here cause I did take some... but.... after a nice relaxing trip to Blue Ridge last weekend, I was taking a picture of the nice tree lim Jack caught fishing and dropped it down a set of stairs. So no camera for now. We haven't really been up to much more. I am jobless right now so I need everyone to pray that Mark finds a job so I can have my boys back again. I have a job in August when Nickole ( the girl I was working for) when her sister Andie goes back to work in August as a teacher. She took the end of the year off to have her sweet baby Campbell. So we just have to make it though the summer!