Sometimes I think God has moments where He likes to look down and laugh at us and moments He knew were coming. Case in point- my Monday. I woke up and got ready dreading working due to horrible rainy thunderstorms we were having and it was projected to rain the entire day. Mike and I searched the house and only found 1 umbrella....I do not know how I came upon this umbrella, but it was made for a child. Seriously the diameter stretches from one shoulder to another! I am sure I looked pretty ridiculous heading into my accounts! The only thing it is good for is keeping my hair wet, and well the rain was coming from all sorts of directions with wind so instead of looking like a drowned rat...I settled for misty frizzed hair. fabulous. Along with the lack of an actually working umbrella, I had the day off. Yes people I woke up and went to work on MLK! Thanks to my lovely co-worker Lauren, I would have worked the entire day if she hadn't texted me wondering why I was up so early on a day off! Thanks Laur! So as God chuckled upstairs I headed to the salon to get my nails done!

On another note I got the fetal heart monitor in the mail today. After a couple trys and with my mom's help I was able to make it work. Her heartbeat is lovely music that I could listen to all day long!

And on another note we have been preparing the house for the baby and first up was getting the grout clean in the front portion of the house and replacing the carpet in the baby's room, guest room and Mike's office. Grout was done and cheap- floors look uber clean ;) Carpet...well that was an experience. My mom came over in the morning while I went to work for the installation. When I came home for lunch I was surprised when I saw the carpet in Mike's office. We signed up to get regular looking carpet (these are rooms that are rarely used and we went the cheap route)..and to my amazement I had really nice berber carpet! I was shocked and gave my mom an eye- you know the "OMG this is not the right carpet..." eye. I quietly mouthed "this is nicer carpet than I ordered". I brought her in another room and explained the issue- I didn't want to say anything yet because if I could manage to score berber carpet for a cheaper price my lips were sealed.with super glue. The only hang up- the color. We wanted a light cream color. We got a color 8 shades darker. Our couch is a light chocolate and when you put a piece of the berber next to it, it blended. Sad that I knew I would not get to keep this major upgrade I went to Lowes to figure out what to do. Solution- the installers messed it up and installed someone else's carpet in our house and had our carpet at their warehouse. So they are coming back Thursday to rip out and install the right stuff. I am so happy that this is happening so quick. My house is such a mess with my dining room filled to the brim with all our home's decorations....

These are moments where I usually would have popped a bottle of red and poured a glass (or two) of vino. No vino for this preggo...so I am going to drink my special reserve (aka H2O) and watch 20/20. Hope God and you got a laugh...I did.

Helloooooo in there....

Hellllooo baby girl...are you in there???? I haven't felt flutters in a few days :( BUT I did feel a "blob" move in my lower ab the other night! I have been wanting to feel a kick soooo bad. In attempts to connect to this little alien in my belly I went and got a heart monitor at babies-r-us....major let down. I could not hear a thing. Reading into the instructions it says that it only works after 28 weeks...say what??? 28 weeks.....boo to that! I went online and found a slightly more expensive one (not by much!) and I am anxiously waiting for it to come in the mail! This new monitor says I can hear the heartbeat now until the end! I know I will feel her kick sometime soon, but I can't wait...typical me!

*FYI to anyone out there I bought the Summertime heart monitor*

TEAM PINK ;)

It has been a while since I have updated this blog...and I need to and will update more often to have a better record for my daughter when she gets older......yes DAUGHTER!!!! We found out during week 16 and we are thrilled! We would be happy no matter what the sex it would have been, as long as the baby is healthy...but now we know that we are team pink and I have had so much fun finding adorable clothes for the little girl ;) As for names....who knows! We have a few that we are thinking about and when The Bean has an official name we will make the announcement...but for now, she is The Bean!

I am almost 18 weeks and the baby is doing great! We got results back from the quad test and she is healthy ;) As for me, I look preggo for sure! I popped about a day before we left for Christmas break and over the past two weeks I have gotten bigger and bigger!!! A few days ago I finally felt "flutters"' for the first time. It was amazing. Sadly, I do not feel them all the time and so I patiently wait for the moments when I do. Soon, hopefully, I will feel a kick...and it will be worth the wait... I am having back pains if I am standing for too long and my feet throb almost everyday....and I have "baby brain"....I forget words and sometimes when I walk in a room I forget what I had wanted in that room! I will keep these pregnancy symptoms any day over the nausea! I haven't experienced that for a few weeks now, THANK GOODNESS!!! 

We go back this Thursday for another ultrasound and we will upload those pics of The Bean and our old ones too! 

I hope your 2011 has started off on a great foot, Mike and I wish you all a happy and healthy 2011 :)