Peanut can kick!

I'm lying in bed on Dec 23rd and Pete's tucking me in (only cause i go to bed so much earlier then him, lol) and I had my hands on my tummy and all of a sudden I felt Peanut move, it was like Peanut had turned on it's side. I told Pete to pull the covers off and put his hands where mine where, waited.... nothing =( So Pete plugs in my heater blanket and he sat back down and waited and FINALLY he felt the baby move, was a small movement but he felt it, was very cool!

On X-mas eve we went to my Mom & Dad's house for dinner and I was on the couch sitting next to Ann (my brother Todd's wife) and I felt the baby move so i had her put her hands on my belly and and as we waited all of a sudden Peanut kicked HARD! Ann squealed and jumped, shit is scarred the crap out of me! Ann and I got teary eyed and she said "I haven't felt a baby kick in a long time and to think that could have been me". If I was unable to get pregnant Ann was going to be our surrogate. It was so awesome to have shared that with her and reminds me of the special bond that Ann and I share, she truely is more like a sister then a sister-in-law.

Ann & me in Cancun Mexico, Jan 2005

Detailed Ultrasound Dec 12th 2007

Peter and I went for our detailed Ultrasound today at BC Women's Hospital. This was a lil more exciting cause the baby of has grown so it was all about seeing what changes have there been!

We were hoping to find out the sex of the baby but it all depends on the technician, a mother is more likely to tell you then a male. Well I figured if I got some guy I'd flirt with him and get what I wanted, worked in the past, LOL. So I should of had Pete in a low cut top and flirting cause the tech was male and gay so that was a waste of my flirting, hee hee hee. Probably thinks I'm a wacko (little does he know, lol)

Peanut gave us quite the show. It was kicking and moving it's arms and at one points rolled on it's side so we had a direct view at the face and then... Peanut yawned, awwww.... Peanut is bored with us already, hee hee hee. The freaky part was to see all that movement and NOT feel a thing???

Was so facinating to see at the different working body parts, my favorite was watching the heart. They check for 6 different markers at this point to see if there is any chance of anything wrong with the growth or developement of the baby. Good news, all 6 are negative so the tech told us that if there is a 1 in a 1000 chance that there is chance tht something is wrong, that with all 6 markers being negative then it doubles to 1 in 2000. So are very happy about that.

So he goes to check the placenta and informs me that I do not have enough fluide in my bladder so he has to send in a female tech to do the next part.... well knock my socks off, she put a camera up Sherwood! (for those that do not know, this is a nick name that my Boss of 6 yrs Gail, aka. Mother Tick, has called the female area, LOL) I have to say when I saw the length of the camera I was a little freaked but it's just got a REALLY LONG handle. Oh yeah, did I mention that they put a condom over the camera, HA HA HA, priceless.

So here are the 3 newest pictures of Peanut. Side view, face side view and foot!

Peanut's new Ride!

Well they say good things come to those who wait (or drive a hard bargain, hee hee hee). But after many weeks of searching and looking at Nissan Murano AWD SE fully loaded with leather seats (vomit cleans so nicely of leather then cloth, BA HA HA) we found the one we wanted just to have the salesperson at Dueck sell it without telling us that there was an offer already on it, but then a few weeks later I found the exact same one at Blue Star Motors, with a few more extras (love the dingle & bells) and once we were all said and done we saved, get this... about $9000.00!!! WHOOT!!! So I'm so excited to have saved that kind of money with Peanut on the way.

Love the new ride and so does Pete =D Now we have to get him an upgrade, ha ha ha.

Surgery????

Well so much for a rib being out of place.

And after a visit to my family GP for a mis-diagnoses (claims it was the breast tissue irritated by my under wire on my bra, yeah right).

I saw my OBGYN and he confirmed that it is in deed my Gallbladder. Sent me off for an ultrasound to see exactly what's going on. So no meats, dairy and oil, o.O are you kidding me...what am I going to eat, fruits, veg and TOFU, blah.

They can't due surgery till after Peanut is born so I have to live with this pain for the next 4.5 months =( not happy about that. And it is painful, no matter what I eat it seems to give me grieve, kind like Pete, hee hee hee.

So much for a cake walk pregnancy, I think I spoke too soon, lol.

HOT MOMMA!

Look who's redhead now =D

Pete loves it of course, new women in the house, hee hee hee. Next thing you know I'll cut it all off after the baby comes! Heck did that one month after getting married 7 yrs ago but I'm a sucker for a big FAT paycheck for being a hair model.

Haven't been red for at least 5-6 years.

Almost looks a lil pinkish here o_O!!! But I'm sure that would be my expensive crappy Nikon digital camera that I'm going to replace ;p

Oh my Belly (17weeks)

OK, I'm not sure but I feel like my belly is going to explode today o_O

I think I'm carrying low (apparently a sign of a boy), it feels like you have to pee really bad, all the time! And yes I have to pee really bad ALL the time, LOL! The pressure it constant and I measured (after dinner) and it said 35 inches o_O !!! I normally get an extra inch after dinner, hee hee hee (carbo loading for 2) and about one or two weeks ago I was at 33 inches. But just to throw you for a loop one wife's tales says that it's a girl if the belly got bigger before your butt, which is still the same =D So that means I still have a 50/50 chance of a boy or a girl =)

Peanut weighs about 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and is around 5 inches long.

We have been talking about names and I should find out how I can do a poll or take suggestions for names but here are a few we have



Boy

Talan (D&D character Pete had in high school)

Chase (Pete likes the names ever since he heard it on the TV show "House")

Alexander (Scottish family thing on my side)



Girl

Taylor (my dad's middle name and I've always wanted to use it)

Alexandria (female vs. of the Scottish family thing, lol)

When I saw Pete's list he had Leroy on it and I thought I was gonna have to kill him, after all no kid of mine is gonna be called Leroy (ever heard of Leroy Jenkins?) and Pete's theory was "bad, bad, Leroy Brown" OH DEAR GOD! He did tell me he was joking to tease his mom, whew, that was a close one.

Let me know if you have a good name for us =)

Ultrasound

Peter and I went for the first ultrasound tonight. Was very cool, if you don't take into the fact that you have to have a full bladder and I had to pee for about 2.5 hours but your not aloud and you have to keep drinking more fluids o_O !!! I seriously have no clue how I did not pee my pants. I've gone from being the Queen of holding it to "I have to pee NOW" and running for the loo, lol.

We got to see a very nice side shot of the baby (HOLY HUGE HEAD!) takes after it's father already, hee hee hee. The technician got a full on frontal view of the baby's face and the baby had it's hands up beside the it's face and was sooo funny looking. Good news is there was only one baby so no twin =) whew!
















OK, I now it looks like it may be a boy but it's just the umbilical cord ;)

I took a picture of the picture to upload the shots. You can see it's fingers, nose, eyes, heart (140 bpm), spinal cord, umbilical cord, thigh bone (looked more like a piece of toothpick), brain matter and bladder but no bits (we have a yet to know the sex of Peanut). They were also able to tell by the size of Peanut that my due date of May 2, 08 is correct.





Funny, Pete's still looking for the beer can in Peanuts hand, hee hee hee, after all it is his child!
He wanted to have one superimposed in the picture, ROFL.

We went for a very nice dinner to celebrate seeing our little bundle of joy for the very first time =)

First OBGYN appointment!

(Well I got to met the man in charge of Peanut & me for the next 26 weeks plus of the pregnancy and he's really cool so I think I'll stay with him, doesn't hurt that he's easy on the eyes, LOL.

Basically he said, and I quote, "your one of my typical tall skinny white girls"... with my body type that it should be an easy pregnancy and that even the delivery should be fairly easy. Due to my frame I won't get very big and when I'm almost at full term he said I could be sitting next to someone due the same time as me and they could be almost double my size! The down fall of it is I do risk having a 8 pound plus baby cause I'll be ALL Baby. He also recommended the drugs... this was a funny moment as he said "why suffer when we have drugs, I recommend you take the drugs". Drugs being the epidural at delivery time, why suffer when they can make it a more pleasant experience. This sounds tempting when he said 8 plus pounds! o_O

So just when I thought it was all done he took me into an exam room and checked my blood pressure and then my tiny lil belly and then I did not even know but he put the Doppler on my belly and you could heat the baby's heart beat, Soooooo cool. 144 beats per minute so a good strong hear beat. For those of you into wives tales a faster then 140 heart beat is suppose to be a girl. Only heard one so hopefully there will be no surprises when I go for my ultra sound on Tues. I'm so gonna bring Pete cause it was cool. Got a lil teary eye'd, you can laugh at me, I'm used to it or throw up cause i'm a suck, LOL.

Hopefully on Tues I can get a picture to post or the baby's ultra sound.

12 Weeks or 3 Months

Either way I'm finished my first trimester and have entered the second trimester!

I really should say that I have had a great pregnancy so far with on the one horrific day of morning sickness and a small pulled muscle on my tummy that gave me a scare in the middle of the night rolling over (and away from Pete, lol) but Doc says to keep an eye on it so that I don't get a hernea.

The belly is growing and I'm now sporting a 33 inch belly! (when do the boobs catch up???) It's finally starting to show and my weight is good but I've yet to hit the 130 pound mark. This skinny bitch is trying TRUST me. Those who say their eating for two have not seen me, you'd think I was eating for a litter the way I'm devouring food. No really I'm gonna go broke at this rate.

I don't see the OBGYN till Nov 2nd but I'm pretty excited cause I'm sure once he book my the Ultra sound it will really sink it when we see it. Hard when it looks like you've got a beer gut to think that a baby is in my belly the size of a lime!

We are still calling the baby Peanut and I think it will be a nick name it will have for the rest of it's life, hee hee hee.

Morning Sickness

OK, so here I am pluggin along with no real symptoms other then sore boobs (stop laughing I can hear you). They say I'd be tired but with my hyperthyroid disease but I'm exhausted all the time so I really can't tell.

But on my last day of work at the Wessex location on Friday Sept 14th, around 11 am I start to feel funny, almost like I needed to eat. But hell no I had no clue what was in store for me. As the day goes on I feel like shit and swear to god I'm going to barf! Oh yes morning sickness is here even if it's the afternoon!
They have my going away cake and party in the lunch room and I feel a lil better after eating cake covered in sugary sweet white icing and fat! But this only lasts about 30 mins. I go down stairs and I can't take it, I have to lie down. They cover me so I can go back upstairs to lie on the couch. I can't move & I feel like death warmed over and it's like the flu minus the aches. One of the girls says that I don't look good and I should go home. She gets someone to cover the department for me so I can go home, yeah great but I can't get off the couch! If I move I think I might see that cake I ate, as well as my breakfast and lunch!

My Pharmacist (Gertie) sees me lying on the couch and mouths the words "you're pregnant", in full denial I say out loud "I wish" cause I don't want work to know (especially since i got a latteral promotion from a low volume store to one of our top doors!) and it's helpful that everyone else at work has been sick the last week so I'm working that angle.

I finally get off the couch and make it home, I force myself to eat and lie on the couch till 11:30 pm at night only to move to my bed.

The next day I feel rough and my tummy hurts =(

Well like clock work a week later on the next Friday I get a repeat but this time it's not as bad, just a lil queasy, thank god as I really don't want to deal with going home sick my first week in my new store (Robson St.). This really does suck and I feel for anyone who ever had it bad.

Oh yeah and why won't my boobs stop hurting! This sucks! I'll pass on the growing boobs thanks, cause they are heavy and hurt! Pete has a totally different opinion on this but he can't even touch them without getting a smack, ohhhh poor baby! I really should kick his ass now while I still have the chance and apparently can still see my feet, ROFLMAO.

Oh the stories you women love to share and SCARE the shit out of the newbies!

OMG! I'm Pregnant!

It all started on Friday August 31st when I had a funny feeling I might just be pregnant. But then again I have thought this before and it was nothing so I really did not want to get my hopes up yet again (almost 3 years of this). Hell after all we had pretty much thrown in the towel at this point in the game.

I went on-line on the Thur night and looked up symptoms and the only one I had was sore boobs (OK you can stop laughing now...) so I looked up pregnancy tests and read who had the best one (I love to do my research).

So try buying a pregnancy test from your Pharmacist and play dumb... after all they all know me so no matter what store I went to they'd all have their idea's. So why not just go to my home store and get it there, LOL. I love to play with fire (a true Aries at heart).

I get home from work and in the back of my mind I keep thinking if I am I'll wait till I get it confirmed by the Dr before I tell Pete. Yeah good plan, ha ha ha, jokes gonna be on me after all I'll be all calm cool and collective right?

So I can not for the life of me figure out which way I'm to hold this stick and pee on it! OMG are you kidding me! There are two indents for your thumb, one on each side, and I'm to hold my thumb on one and hold it a certain way. Well I've got two thumbs and can not figure this shit out and I really don't want to screw this up, UGH.... So I re-read the instructions again and decide to go with option "B" pee in a cup and dip the stick. After all I'm not a guy and have never practised peeing on things so my aim could be off, ya think? I do the test, place it in the cupboard and go upstairs to go pack my bag for the long weekend away to Todd and Ann's cabin in the states at Mt. Baker.

So I'm so caught up with packing that I forgot about the test (yeah for about 2 seconds) I run back downstairs to check it and if it's one line it's negative =( and if it's two lines it's positive =) and I'm officially knocked-up. I look at it and there are two little pink lines staring back at me, HOLY SHIT! I scream and yell for Peter (oh ya remember now I'm gonna wait till I see a Dr to tell him, yeah right. And I'm gonna be all calm cool and collective, BA HA HA). He comes in and I'm standing their with my arms behind my back and say "you're never gonna believe what I'm going to show you." He looks at me and says "Is it a spider?" Good guess Pete, ha ha ha. "Ummm nope but it may freak you out" I answer. "Is it a pregnancy test?" (what are the odds he'd guess that???) I hold it up in his face and we both have this look of total disbelieve on our faces (kinda like when you find out there is no Santa Clause). So we are jumping around like total dorks but I have to be the sane one (and why do I think I'm the sane one) and say "we have to get it confirmed by a Dr first" He wants to call his mom ASAP. "No we can't tell anyone."

We talk it over and call their 1-800 number and they tell me that their test is 99.9% accurate. Ummm that still leaves a 0.1% chance that I screwed it up!


On the Tues after the long weekend I go to the clinic and get to pee in another cup, lol. I think my aim is improving. The Dr comes in and says "So we have a positive pregnancy test." That's all I needed to hear. We go over the day I conceived and no more caffeine (Nooooo......) and booze and to take my prenatal vitamins. I had a date in mind but I didn't know for sure so he told me to go and look up a pregnancy calculator on the web and key in my dates and it would tell my the day of conception as well as a due date. Just by my math I thought it would be around my birthday April 12th but it's not 9 months it's really 40-42 weeks is the times frame. So that made it May 2nd, 2008. Turns out that for my 7th Anniversary August 12th I got a gift from Pete that even he didn't know he gave me but it truly is the best gift he has ever givin me. Pete says it was the red wine, I say it was the bottle of Champagne. A friend of mine says he says that if I check with the Dr, he'll probably say it was the penis, hee hee hee.
Peter and I went to Season's in the Park Restaurant for our Anniversary since we got married right below it in the small quarry in Queen Elizabeth Park. The picture I posted of the Happy Couple was taken after dinner and before we made a baby (by only a few hours, LOL)

So there you have, how I got knocked up! Remind me of this )how happy I am right now) if I ever call you crying saying the baby is driving me nuts and I hate Pete, lol.

NOW TO TELL THE FAMILY...
Pete and I are pretty freaked out by it all and it's very surreal. Wed night we go for dinner and I wonder when Grandparent's Day is.... Would you believe it's the up coming Sunday Sept 9th! What are the odds. So I bought Grandparents cards to give to the parents on Sunday.

My Mom and Dad where so cute when we told them and Dad even said "I thought to myself when you where standing there that you looked pregnant." Yes I do tend to look like I have a lil belly but that's from all the beer Pete and I drank in Thailand, they call it a beer gut, ha ha ha.

Pete's Maw and Paw where excited too and it will be his step Dad's first official grandchild so he's very excited. She's pretty stoked as her birthday is April 30th and it could be born on her Birthday. Pete's Mom said they have to come over and move my computer upstairs cause I can't do the stair in my condition, hee hee hee (hey Maw, the washer and drier are down their too, any chance that you want to do our laundry in a few months... PLEASE).

Next on the hit list was Todd and Ann. I have had this all planned out for years on how I'd tell Ann and Ann's Birthday is Oct 31st and their is no way in hell I'd be able to contain myself till then (remember I'm all calm, cool and collective, NOT!) so here is what I did. Pete and I went over on Sunday night after we tell the grandparents and we all sat outside and after a good hour or so I say to Ann "I found this gift and I couldn't remember who or what it was so I opened it and realized that it was for you and I forgot to give it to you at Christmas. So I re wrapped it and here you go." I sit back down as she opens up the gift. Inside is a long jewellery box, is it a watch, a necklace??? No it was the pregnancy test that said I was pregnant. She looks up at me with the most loving look of elation as the tears are only a blink away she tilts her head (I think she said "for real?") and I can't remember to much after that but we where hugging and laughing. We sit back down and she asks, "Does Todd know?" "No." Todd comes out and sits down and Ann tells him about another forgotten present between Ann and I and says "look at what your sister gave me" and passes him the box. He opens it up and it's so funny cause at first it's like what is that??? Then it kicks in and more tears and hugs. We all are so excited and call out their two boys Greg (16) and Trevor (13) and pass the box to them. Trev goes to open it and says "is it gonna bite" we all laugh as I tell him not yet but it will one day. They open it and look at it and have no clue what it is and asks them what is it?, Trev gives the most puzzled look and Greg looks over and we say what is it and Greg says "a dog whistle?" ROFL (thanks god he doesn't know what is it or we might have to have a chat) I ask Trev "what does it say?" He reads it and say "pregnant?" "Yup your gonna be a cousin" Todd laughs and says "Again." lots of cousins on Ann's side.

So that's just the beginning of it all I'm so looking forward to all the other things that this journey will have in store for Pete and me.
Sucks cause Pete gets to carry on while I have to make changes and deal with the fact that their is a peanut sized human in my belly! And let me just say I'm totally freaked out by this. We have already nicknamed the baby "Peanut" and it's funny cause I automatically refer to it as a her, lol. But whether it's a boy or a girl we just want a healthy happy baby that will sleep through the night (OH come on, let a girl dream and stop laughing so hard, you might pee your self!)