4 month pics are here!!!!!!
I know you have all been waiting anxiously to see how huge i'm getting :)
so i had steve take the monthly picture.
we take it in the baby's room, which is now a guest room. it was steve's idea- so we can kind of see how the baby's room changes too! cute
anyways, so Saturday i dressed up, put some makeup on, thougth i looked pretty decent. Had steve take some pictures of me. Not so much. I made him wait while i reapplied the makeup and straitened the do' a bit. still wasn't in love with them.
so i re-took them the next day when i had time to straiten my hair. i swear- i used to be photogenic!!!! the whole baby glow that i'm supposed to have? thats a bunch of BS if you ask me.
Anyways, here are the pics i like (enough anyway!)




i look super proud mama in this one. kinda funny. diggin the roots too. oh dear.....
SO those were my "decent" ones. after taking seriously like 15. i kid you not. and no, i won't post the rejects. just a few, where i look oooooooooooookay










oh, and here's one of me to show you all that, if i don't hold my belly, im' just barely starting to reach that- yeah, she's pregnant phase. its kinda still- is she pregnant? or putting on a little extra tub?


i also think it may just be the lighting in the room that makes me take not so fabulous pictures. so i made steve take a picture of me in the hallway..........

ahhhh, much like my old fabulous self. just a bit frumpier........

anyways- Dr. appointment went well. My chin just about hit the floor when i saw the scale. lets just say i'm packing the pounds on!!! need to curb my pizza craving addicition....... luckily the dr. didn't say anything about me gaining too much weight. so that was good. and we heard baby's heart beat again. this time it was louder, steve said it was a little slower (which is what is supposed to happen) and we heard it for a longer time. i could just sit and listen and talk, soo cool!!! baby's getting bigger :)
still feel the baby, but very randomly. i can't wait till i get to "count" how many times i feel baby move!!!!
well, enough of that today. i think you've see enough pics of me to last a month now, don't you :)
oh!!! and leave comments. even you non-bloggers- just say you're annoymous (but dont' forget to sign your name!). it'll make me feel better. remember, i'm super sensitive right now ;)
have a fabulous tuesday all!!!!!

i felt the baby move!!!!!!
for the first time on tuesday night. i wasn't sure if it was the baby or gas bubbles, but since i could feel it the last two nights also, i'm going with baby :) its such a faint, slight feeling, if i weren't trying so hard to feel it i wouldn't have noticed. i was sitting in bed reading, and i felt kind of like a heart beat thump-thump down where the baby is. i guess it is kind of like a fluttering feeling. very cool. but i had to have everything quiet, and i couldnt' move. i almost held my breath so that i could feel it (probably not the BEST thing to do) cause its sooooo faint. i can't wait for it to get stronger so i don't have to concentrate so hard to know that baby is alright!!!
i found the baby carrier i want:

"monaco" is the print. i think its cute. will go with most outfits, and its the most comfy looking one for both the baby and the mom. its on sale right now at BabyCenter.com, so i'm gonna buy it! woo hoo. i'll test it out on some of my preschool kiddos ;)

i have my 4 month appointment on saturday. i'm a little nervous that the dr. will tell me that i'm gainign to much weight. oy, that would be embarassing!!!
my tummy is pretty much getting to a point where i can no longer hide it (not that i was trying to) with baggy clothes or anything. i put on one of my "baggy" cute shirts- and yeah, not so baggy anymore! at the rate i'm going, i bet my belly will be hanging out at the end of the day!
this weekend i will take my 4 month picture, and i'll post it on monday. don't worry, i'll have my hair done and makeup on, so i'll hopefully look decent!
until then, hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!!

I went to my first prenatal yoga class this weekend. It felt great! The first "real" work out I've gotten since I found out I was pregnant! I love doing yoga, but hadn't been able to really go to any classes since the wedding. Basically I couldn't afford it. But the year before my wedding I was going twice a week, sometimes even three times! I could almost stand on my head- crazy stuff. But I really loved it, more for the mental aspect than the physical- though I do love a good stretch : ) So anyways, this class was a lot different than the astanga yoga that I was used to doing, but it was good. And I'm sore! It was fun being around other pregnant women who had the same mind set as I do when it comes to childbirth (the natural approach). The yoga teacher also teaches a Bradley Method Class that I wanted to take, but it won't work out with our schedules. But she was very nice, and all the other preggo's seemed nice too! They were all a lot further along then me- i was jealous of all their obvious bellies. One lady couldn't do a certain position with out her baby kicking her! And you could actually see where the baby was- so crazy!!!!!! At the end of class, after the meditation (aka mini-nap ; ) ) the teacher read this poem about motherhood, and gave everyone slips of paper with pregnancy advice. so thats super cool. i'm very excited. and sore. but stoked to have found this class. woo hoo!

i've gotten a few requests for more pictures of myself. which i understand- i know you all want to see my baby budda belly! but honestly, right now, i'm not feeling photogenic. my face has totally broken out. its starting to clear up (thanks amelia for the tip!) but still, not so pretty. and my belly, well i just think it looks fat. not like an obvious pregant belly. this weekend my dad was visiting, and we all went out to dinner with steve's parents. i got dressed up in my cute new gap jeans (the pregnant panel has a fun patern on it, can't find a pic of it online) and cute black maternity top- and my fun, funky vans. straitened my hair, did my makeup (which, since i'm a preschool teacher and work at home, i NEVER do). i felt really cute. and i took some pictures. and when i saw them, just made me sad. i didn't look as cute as i felt. sooooooooooooooooo that being said, i'll post my monthly pictures for sure, and more pictures when i feel cute pregnant and not just fat pregnant (don't worry, i know i'm never going to feel skinny! i just want the obvious preggo belly first). but, this saturday i will be taking my four month picture. so that will be posted next week.
and thats enough of that.
i'll leave you with a fabulous little poem my friend Margo wrote me (thank you margo!!!!) DEFIENTLY made my day :)

Your dream's comin' true
Ain't no need to be blue
No more, for sure--
'Cuz that baby's gonna love you
Just like the rest of us do,
You wild one, Kat Ballou.

And when you bring your baby
Into this World Crazy,
Just remember that it's easy
To frown so just throw it down,
And smile, laugh, and take a deep breath--
'Cuz that baby's gonna love you
Just like the rest of us do,
You crazy Kat Ballou.

(Reference: "Cat Ballou, " 1965 starring
Jane Fonda as one rough gunslingin' mama--figuratively)
(baby song: copyright2006margobee)

Lucky

This layout was inspired by a Circle Journal I worked on the other day (for those of you who aren't a scrapbooking nerd like me, a circle journal is a scrapbook that is passed around a group of scrapbookers all over the country with a specific theme, and everyone adds one layout/page. fun stuff). The topic was "lucky"- and i'm more than lucky right now to be pregnant with baby!!!!
so here's the journaling:

"words cannot describe how incredibly lucky, how incredibly blessed and fortunate i am to be pregnant with my first child. not only has this been a life long dream, the only true goal i had for myself, or even saw myself doing, it was also the root of my deepest fear. I was so scared of not being able to get pregnant. So, the fact that it happened with out even trying- makes me know it really is meant to be. i thank god for making me so lucky"

now I'm not the most religious person. but becoming pregnant has been so incredibly amazing to me, I don't know who else to thank. But i do know that i am so incredibly lucky

its official!
i've now made the official announcement. we've told everyone we could in person, then phone and emails. i think we have one friend out there that we're trying to get a hold of, but i don't think he reads my blog so its ok. everyone has been pretty excited and happy for us. if they weren't, they were good at hiding it! defiently fun news to tell people, especially since most everyone knows how badly i've always wanted a baby. very exciting time
my tummy is constantly expanding. really weird and hard to get used to. parts of my tummy are sticking out that never do, like right under my bra. guess its only going to get bigger so i need to get used to it!!!

my first maternity outfit
i had to wear nice clothes this weekend
nothing fancy, but something nice
so i went to kohl's and got a pair of capri jeans for under $20. score. and they were comfy! a bit big, but i had the belly band thingy to hold them up. but i realized that even though most of my shirts still fit (the baggier ones that is) they look funny with maternity pants. so i had to wear a maternity shirt. so i wore one of the cute ones that got donated to me by the fitness frenzy lady (she comes to my preschool and teaches a fitness class, super cute!) and was all set to go!!!
(horrible pic of me, by the way. and i dont' even look pregnant in the picture! irl i did though, i swear...........)

3 months.....
when i saw these pictures on my camera, i thought i looked all cute. then i saw them on my computer- omg i look pregnant!!!! seriously, happened overnight. like in all the books i read. the skirt i'm wearing? just last week i could fit in to it. in these pics its "rubberbanded." oh dear. so i'm totally at that awkward stage where none of my old clothes fit, but maternity clothes are a bit to big. and i just look fat. dang. at least my boobs look good :)