17 Weeks (and 5 days)

Well.... Nothing really exciting has happened this week. I found out that one of my oldest friends (Jessica, who I've known her since grade 1!) is also pregnant. She is 12 weeks along, so i have a pregnant buddy, lol. but i also found out that my cousin (Jodie) is due 2 days after me! so another pregnant buddy. But she lives in a city 2 hours away from where i am, so we cant get together for regular chats. but we text and e-mail each other all the time. so that works too. we will just have to make sure that we dont plan our baby showers on the same day, as we share family members, and would want to have to make them choose. so yeah. Next week on Friday is the ultra sound. I've very excited!!!!! i cant wait to see it. and see what it is. and get pictures to send to everyone. i know how to add pictures to my blog now (its really not that hard) so i will be able to put them on here.

i was at Kyle's parents house the other day and found the cutest picture of Kyle when he was a baby!

isn't he just the cutest ever! i love this picture so much. i hope that our baby is this cute. once i find one of my baby pictures i'll put it up too. maybe it'll give us a idea of what our baby might look like. lol.

so anyways. i dont have anything else to say. i'm so just excited for next friday. this next week will either drag on or will go by super fast. we'll wait and see.

oh yeah, this is what my baby center update said for this week.....

Hello Amanda!
17 weeks pregnant
You may be gaining weight rapidly at this point, even if you're not eating much. Experts say that the amount of weight you put on during pregnancy is dictated primarily by your genes, so don't necessarily blame yourself if the weight's accumulating faster than you'd like. Your baby's movements are felt as a gentle, fluttering sensation at first, but get stronger and more obvious as time passes. Some babies kick vigorously and often, others are quieter. And many seem most active at night!

Bye byee for now.

Baby Ticker

Week 16 AKA 4 months

Things are still going well. Nothing has really changed. I had been having some weird pains, kind-of like cramps, just not as bad. and i had no idea what it was... Untill i got a e-mail update from 'BabyCenter Canada' that said........
Your baby's about the size of an avocado now but in the next three weeks, he'll go through a tremendous growth spurt — doubling his weight and increasing his length. In the meantime, he'll be playing with his umbilical cord and practising breathing by inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid through his lungs. You're going through a bit of a growth spurt yourself. Your uterus has expanded so much that the ligaments in your abdomen are stretching to make room for it. If you feel any twinges of pain now, that's why.
I get these every week, they are very interesting. I think its cute that they will say either he or she when they talk about the baby, it changes every week. I cant wait till i can say he or she. I'm very much looking forward to the ultrasound on the 28th. I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. we will get to hear the heart beat again, i'm going to see if she (my doctor) will let me record it onto my phone. then i could listen to it all day. We bought one of those at home heart dopler things, but its not powerful enough to hear through all the layers (lol). the booklet that came with it said it would work at around 24-30 weeks, i wanted it to work before that. but guess not, i'll try every once and a while and think that i can hear it, but most of the time i think its my own heart beat, or my stomach making noises.

(Getting off the baby subject now)
Heather (my sister) had a 'Pampered Chef' party on the weekend. Pampered chef is a product line of kitchen items created my a woman in Texas that wanted to spend less time in the kitchen and more time with her family. So anyways. Lindsay (my sisters friend who sells Pampered Chef) and Heather put on a little show and everyone watched them prepare some little snacks and drinks. We had Jerk Chicken Nachos, that were so good i ordered the jamican jerk rub/seasoning. she also made jalapeno pizza popers, and me being pregnant gets heart burn really easy so i didn't try those, but by what everyone else said they were good. we also had triple citrus mojitos, no rum and vodka in mine! and those were SO good.
i think there were 10 ladies there in total (including Heather and Lindsay) and everyone bought something (not Lindsay though). So i guess one of the perks of having this party was that depending on how much your party go-ers spend you get free stuff! for example, Lindsay sold just over $700 worth of product, which ment that Heather got $145 worth of free product, and 3 items at 50% off! she got a bunch of free stuff. so this got me thinking. I SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE A PAMPERED CHEF PARTY!!! Heathers party was on Sunday, and on Monday morning i had mine all planned and ready to invite people. so yeah. i'm quite excited for my party, I've invited a lot of family members, a few people from work, and some ladies that live across the street. so far there are 6 people coming (not including me or Lindsay). some people that i work with cant make it, so i brough them copies of the catalog and order forms, one lady has ordered $141 worth of stuff, and the other $152! that will count towards my party total! so yay, free stuff for me! anyways. thats all i could think of to write.

Bye byee for now,

Amanda

Pregnancy Updates...

So I’ve been writing in a booklet (kind of like a journal) for the past 3 months about how things are going and how I’ve been feeling and what not. Then as I was writing today I realized that I could just put it here on my blog! DUH!!! And because I’m board at work I figured that I could type a few of them up so that whoever wants to can see how I was feeling at that current time. So here goes... *****Started writingMay 26, 2009
Had a doctors appointment, we talked about a bunch of stuff. She will refer me to a different doctor for delivery. She doesn't do that. I asked that I be sent to Peter Lougheed (?), as it’s easier to get to.
Booked an ultra sound (two words?) for June 10 to see exactly how far along I am. Booked a physical for July 2.

June 1, 2009
I'm not sure if its because I haven’t been sleeping well, or if its because of the baby but I’ve just been really tired. It doesn't help that it’s hot in the house.

June 5, 2009
I felt sick in the morning all week, I didn't ever actually throw up, and I sure felt like I could have. No food cravings, just hungry all the time. I get really hungry in the mornings, I never use too. Fruit will usually fix it.

June 9, 2009
Tomorrow is the ultra sound, I’m so excited. My doctor thinks I am 12 weeks along, I don’t think so. I just want to see it. And know that it really is there. I think I’m only like 6-8 weeks. So we'll see.

June 15, 2009
We had the ultra sound last Wednesday, very exciting. I defiantly wasn't as far along as my doctor thought. I’m only 7 weeks. As of today I will be 8 weeks. By the time we go to Kyle’s cousins wedding I will be at 12. So that'll be good. And I’ll go in for my 18-week ultra sound because we go to BC. So we can tell Kyle's aunt Heather, she wants to know the sex of the baby so she can buy us stuff. Nothing else to report, feeling okay, just tired. I think my due date is January 25th.

June 26, 2009 (week 9)
I have no idea what my due date is. Now I think its December 28. I’ll ask the doctor when we go. If I remember, I’ve been forgetting a lot lately. I’m having problems keeping my suppers down. I’m thrown up a few times, and every other time I’ve been really sick and wanting too. Oh well, I don’t mind because it’s leading up to something awesome.

July 15, 2009 (week 12)
I forgot to ask the doctor when my due date would be. Oh well. I am now past my 3 months, YAY! I haven’t gotten sick again for a while, so that’s good. I don’t really feel different, I think I will once I start to be able to feel it move.

*****Today

July 27, 2009
So..... My real due date is January 26, 2010. I was really close with my first prediction. So now instead of my thinking I was going to have a Christmas baby it will be a my birthday present. Depending on when it wants to show up.
We heard the heart beat on July 23! At my doctors appointment. it was awesome, like a horse running (trotting). 150bpm I think she said. I cried, no really I did, and I know I never cry, right? Haha, wrong, I’m a crybaby.
I booked my 18-week ultra sound for August 28th at 11:45am! I really hope it’s in the right position that we can see what the sex will be. I NEED TO KNOW!!!!! Well I don’t need to, I just really really want to. And I think a lot of other people want to know as well. I would like it to be a girl. But I’m not going to be sad if it’s a boy. As long as it’s healthy then I don’t care. I have another doctor’s appointment August 17th, I’ll be able to hear the heart beat again!!!! I'm going to record it this time and send it to my mom! She will love that.

So those are my 'journal' entries. I’ll post them on here whenever I do them.

We are going to my mom's house this weekend (long weekend). And we will go to waterton for a hike and camp there one night. It’ll be nice. I know that we will go for a hike on Saturday, I’m not sure what we will do Saturday night, maybe play cards. Who knows, I think it will be fun. It’ll be nice to get away. And its brooks' birthday this weekend, so that’s another reason that we are going.
Not much else to write about. We are slowly cleaning out all the rooms in our house to make room for baby. I had no clue how much junk we had till we started cleaning it. Anyways, bye byee for now.

Amanda

I'm such a liar...........

So on my last post I said 'no baby yet' when actually at that time I was 3 weeks pregnant! I know, it’s amazing. I had no clue till I was 8 weeks. The symptoms that I was having were also side effects from the medication that I was taking, but once I stopped taking the meds and the 'side effects' were still happening I decided to take a home test. And to my shock the little purple line showed up right away. I couldn't believe it, and neither could Kyle. Luckily I had a req. form to get a pregnancy test though blood work, so we grabbed that and went to the lab place that’s about a 3 min drive from our house. So about 2 hours after I got home I called the fertility clinic (because they would get the results, and they usually get them right away) and talked to one of the ladies there. She went and checked and said that they got them and that they were positive!!! YAY!!! She told me to book an appointment with my family doctor and then we would go from there. So because we found all this out on a Saturday I couldn't call my doctor and book an appointment. So instead I called my mom... this is how that went... (A being me, and S being my mom"
A - "hi mom"
S - "hi Amanda, how are you?"
A - "I’m good, guess what"
S - "what?"
A - "guess"
S - "your pregnant"
A - "YUP!"(Me starting to cry)
S - "oh my gosh" (she totally wasn't expecting that)
A - "I know"
S - "are you crying?"
A - "yeah" (sobbing)
S - "happy crying?" (As she starts to cry)
A - "yeah" (sob)
S - "okay"
A - "you can tell Brooks"
S - "okay"
A - "but not a whole bunch of other people"
S - "okay"
A - "I’m going to e-mail every one"
S - "okay"
A - "talk to you later"
S - "love you"
A - "love you too mom"

That’s how that went. On Sunday I decided that she could tell whomever she wanted. I guess she tried to call everyone but no one would answer, so she e-mailed all her family. She was very happy.

As something fun I wanted to tell Kyle’s parents (and my dad and sister) in a different way. So we went to wal-mart and bought 4 coffee mugs and some special markers that can write on ceramic (?). And wrote "#1 Grandpa" on 2 and "#1 Grandma" on the other, and "#1 Aunt" on the 4th. We went to Kyle’s parents house first, gave it to them and Mike (Kyle's dad) burst into tears, he cried for probley 45 min's like a little girl, and Cheri (Kyle's mom) cried too, just not as much as Mike. So we were there for a bit, Mike called his Mom and talked to her for a little about it. He was very happy. So after we left there I called my dad to see if he was home. He said that he was working in the back on his truck; I said that we might stop by because I needed to drop something off. Then we made our way over. When we got there he was under his truck. We then waited for him to get out and I gave him the mug, told him to look at the other side and then his eyes went huge "REALLY???" and I said yeah, he got all teary eyed and gave me a big hug. He was so happy that he too called his family members right away, at least the ones that would answer. He talked to my aunt for a while, and then I talked to her. It was nice to see him so happy. Now it’s all he talks about. Which I’m okay with because it’s all I talk about too.

So now that I am at 12 weeks (3 months) I’m letting the whole world know. I figure that I am either due December 28th or January 18th. I have no clue. Because if you think about it, December 28th is 36 weeks. Which is 9 months, but because some months have more then 4 weeks in it it’s confusing... I’ll be 40 weeks on January 18th, so I think that would be my due date. But I don’t know. I’ll have to ask my doctor when I go in 2 weeks. I have a little list that I keep writing questions down on, and that has now been added. I didn't think to ask when I was there last week. So anyways. My doctor doesn't do the whole delivery thing, she said that the only baby that will be waking her up at 3am will he her own. She will send me to someone at the peter lougheed hospital, its about 15 min’s away from my house and really easy to get to. But until I go see that person I will go and see my normal doctor every 4 weeks.

So that’s my super exciting news that I wanted to share with everyone. We are SUPER EXCITED about it. So anyways. I better be getting back to work.

Amanda

So...no baby yet.

So...no baby yet. I got a call from the fertility clinic and they said that the results of my blood work showed no ovulation. Oh well. But apparently i'm not ammune to Rubella!?!?! So now i have to go get a vaccine for MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella). And because its a live vaccine we have to not get pregnant for 30 days after the shot. and once i get the shot and its been 30 days i will call the clinic and they will give me a new perscription for the clomid(higher dose) and then we get to start the process all over again. So maybe we will be pregnant in 2 months. who knows...
and really sucky news...Kyle got laid off. about 2 1/2 weeks ago. we have e-mail/faxed/dropped off countless resumes and nothing! he got one call for somewhere that was only going to pay $8/hour. and that was just a joke, who can live off $8/hour??? maybe someone that doesn't have a mortage to pay. but whatever, eventually something will come up. we can afford all our bills and mortage on just my salary. and i'm getting a bonus through work so that'll help too.
but anyways. i dont have anything else to report on. bye byee for now.

End of March already?????

It has been way too long… It has been over 2 months since my last post. I don’t think there is all that much to update people on though…(I was wrong)

We finally got our shower in the down stairs bathroom put in. with assistance from my mom and Brooks. Kyle and Brooks did all the work, my mom and I just watched. But we did clean the house and got rid of a bunch of junk/garbage from the back yard. And we put a “new” toilet in the basement and in the up stairs bathroom. So with that being done we will soon re-do the counter top down there as well, and lastly the floors and that bathroom will be done! For the upstairs bathroom we just need to put in the new counter-top (sink and taps), and then that will all be done.

We will start finishing the baseboards next weekend I think, or maybe this week sometime. We are having people (my cousin Kim, her husband Andrew and baby Brianne) over for dinner on Thursday so it wont be that day. Maybe Wednesday if I think we can get it all done, we’ll have to wait and see. We are going to Edmonton this weekend so it won’t be Saturday that we get it done.

There are now new doors on the 2 bedrooms and the 1 bathroom upstairs, and wow did it ever make such a difference. The only problem was that the house was so old that everything shifted, so the square doors didn’t fit the doorways. So we had to sand the doors down till they would close. And now all I need to do is paint them. I would really like to just go home today and get my can of white and finish all the trim that’s up right now. Maybe that’s what I will do. First cook dinner, then paint. Good plan.

We are now looking for someone to cut the trees down in our front yard. I have a plan on what I’m going to put there, and I wont have to get the stumps grinded out, so that’s good. We can leave the stumps in, what I’m planning on doing is build really bid planters boxes around them. And then put flowers and shrubs in them. It’s a really good plan, its just going to take a while to get it done. Eventually I will have the out side of the house looking how I want it to.

I think that’s all the house stuff… if I think of anything else later I’ll stick it in.

So now I’ve started my hormone therapy, YAY!!!! I’m taking clomid. Its weird. I’ll explain it in not to much detail, and if people want more info, e-mail me. Haha, so on day 3 I take a blood test to see where my hormone levels are at, then from Day 3-7 I take 1 pill at bed time, because it makes me dizzy, then day 10-16 “like rabbits” (some people might get what that means, if you don’t, think dirty), hahaha. Then on day 21 more blood work to see if hormone levels changed, if there is a good increase then that means that I ovulated. And then wait 2 weeks and take a pregnancy test. If preggers, awesome, if not start from day 1.

I’ve also decided that I’m not going to look for a new job. I’m going to stay where I’m at. Because what if I go get pregnant? Like every place that you work you have to be there for a year to qualify for mat leave. So I’ll stay here till I get pregnant, and then go on my mat leave. And maybe come back here. If I really want to. That is undecided. I’m sure that I will work again, Kyle’s mom doesn’t work, so I’m sure she won’t mind being the baby sitter.
So that’s just about it for now. Nothing else that I can think of that I want to tell the world. Spring should be here. It snowed like 15 inches Saturday night, so it doesn’t feel like spring. But a lot melted yesterday and today. But apparently its going to snow more this week. I just keep telling my self, that all the snow is really water and its going to make all my flowers happy, and the grass green. Maybe if I tell myself that enough it will come true, haha. Anyways. Its almost home time, I didn’t think it would take this long to type out my blog, but I kept getting interrupted by work. Oh well. Bye byee for now.