20 weeks

Today i'm 20 weeks and 6 days pregnant. Piki is the size of a banana and is working on tastes buds and now drinks the amniotic fluid.


This has been quite an interesting week. On Wednesday D wasn't feeling so good so I took her to the doctor. I'm pretty sure she was misdiagnosed but she's doing better now. Because she wasn't feeling well I was holding her throughout a lot of the day, most of it standing because she'd cry if I sat down. I think that and being out and not drinking water/eating caused my body to be wore out and dehydrated because later on that evening I had some bad braxton hicks and some back pain and went up to L&D. I was up there a total of 4 hours and got an IV with fluids, but started feeling better. Baby Piki was perfect and if anything got annoyed that monitors were invading his space. He would constantly kick them trying to move them out of the way. Other things that happened this week was getting to go to a family members birthday party and having Christmas pictures done of us and the girls. I can't wait to see how they turn out!!

I had a doctors appointment today. I'm not very happy with my weight gain, but everything looked great and we picked up the heart beat right away. I guess the nurses up in L&D were quite excited about someone working with a male couple because my doctor told me he heard about it last week. I think i'm probably going to be one of the first doing that which is cool. Thankfully I now have my 20 week ultrasound now scheduled for the 3rd even though i'll be almost 23 weeks then.

I also figured i'd share a picture from last week that I had forgotten to add. Such a cute profile!

It's a.....

I said I wasn't going to find out, but before I could fully make that decision it was made for me. I had been going back and forth and when talking to D&J about it they said they'd pick something either feminine or masculine and give to me later to find out. So we went to the ultrasound, got situated with everything, and started looking around. Within the first minute the tech told me to close my eyes and I did which she pointed out the gender to the guys. I don't remember how the comment was made but as I heard something along the lines of "Baby is showing the goods right away!" I knew immediately. Being a been there done that mom we know a few things about ultrasounds and the nature of those little people. 

    So without further ado.....

19 weeks

Today I am 19 weeks and 5 days pregnant. Baby Piki is the size of a mango and is about 6 inches long and 8.5 ounces (240.971 grams for those outside of the US) and is working on their senses. I'm sure soon Piki will be enjoying the foods i'm eating.


So currently D&J are out here. They got into TN Friday evening and stayed overnight and came to town that morning for the ultrasound. I'll post the results in another entry. I will say that there was so much excitement going on. After that we took them for bbq and that evening we had a Thanksgiving Dinner in their honor. My friend K came along with her daughter as well as my mom. K is like the best cook ever and I am in love with her cranberry sauce and the pecans she made. I've eaten them all already!

Then on Sunday we went to Memphis. We stopped at Graceland (Elvis Presley's home) first. While it's very interesting I definitely do not recommend it if you have children under 2. My time there was spent having D pull me around everywhere and getting wore out. It's a beautiful home though and even though i've been once before I liked getting to see his home and cars.

After that we went to get some food. My favorite burger place in Memphis is Kooky Canuck. Not only have they been on Man vs Food for their 7 1/2lb burger, but their regular sized ones are just amazing. I wish we had one here so I could go whenever. We also went to Beale street for a short period of time because at that moment it started pouring cold rain. Before it got bad D & D got to enjoy some live music.

Today so far all that's happened is breakfast here (and I feel like I need to be making this everyday) of ham,cheese, and egg croissants and fruit salad. We then went over to the hospital so they could see where they'll be going when Piki is born and get a tour of the room. They've updated it (I think because of a new one coming in) and i'm so looking forward to baby time! Labor and Delivery has always been my favorite part so it just hypes it up. As well I found out that babies 33 weeks and older can be born here unlike before where if it was 35 weeks or earlier I would fly to Little Rock. It gives a lot of peace of mind to me since being separated from my girls for a long time with a long distance scares me. I don't think i'll deliver that early, but I know anything can happen in a pregnancy.  Tonight i'm hoping we'll go out one last time before saying goodbye to D&J as they head back home. I'll miss having them here and I know the girls will too. D really warmed up to them and was having them read her books and play games with her.

18 weeks

Today I am 18 weeks and 5 days pregnant. Baby Piki is the size of a sweet potato and is making all sorts of movement in there. 

Week 18 started off with Halloween which is a special Holiday too us. Besides the fact that it's a lot of fun to dress the girls up and take them trick or treating (and then eating candy), it's also my 4th wedding anniversary. The two reasons that date was picked was because 1.It makes it a lot easier to remember because of the fact that it's also a Holiday and 2.to me October 31st feels like the last day of fall and November is more of a winter month even if the weather isn't cooperating this year.  

I picked out their outfits the beginning of October so I didn't have to worry about it later. D was little Red Riding Hood and R was an owl. 

 D wasn't feeling the costume at first, but by Halloween was happy to have it on. She also got into going door to door and would happily say "tweet tweet!" aka trick or treat to the home owners passing out candy.  We had a pretty good selection of candy and both girls went to bed happy.

Besides the braxton hicks this week has been decent. As the information giving about this week says baby starts really moving and doing stuff in there and I have seriously been feeling it! I've felt Piki move around for a few weeks now, but this week was the first time I was able to feel from the outside. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's been quite a bit especially in the  morning. D&J will be traveling out here  this weekend to see their baby and check out the area so I really hope Piki cooperates and lets his/her daddies feel the movement.

Week 17

This week baby Piki is the size of an onion and his/her bones are starting to harden. The umbilical cord is also getting thicker and stronger.

On the day I turned 17 weeks my baby R turned 1 years old. It's been amazing watching her grow this year and accomplishing things are at different pace than her sister. Besides walking like a pro she can say mama, dada, ju (our dog), bye bye, uh oh, cheese, and her name. She loves food and will eat almost anything you give her. She also loves giving me kisses and hugs.  While it's scary right now knowing I currently have 2 under 2 (yup, 2 1 year olds!) I really can't wait to see what she accomplishes this year.

There really wasn't much going on for the rest of the week. I'm still feeling pretty good except for the times each day I have get braxton hicks. For those who have no idea what that is it's basically a practice contraction. They're never painful, just annoying. I start getting a really tight feeling. With D I started getting them around 27 weeks, R was 23 weeks so I knew it would happen soon. Other than that though things were pretty good for the week!