Worst Blogger Ever- it is official

Well, I did warn you when I started this new blog I would be completely awful, and I am.

We are having a boy, named Grayson, incase you are very much out of the loop. Lately I have been getting the nursery all sorted, and I have made a blanket, three pillows, a name sign and am halfway through crocheting a grey and white rug. I purchase a rocking chair that I love and an orange ottoman that opens up for extra storage.

Ashli moved home to California, so if we can get a new basement tenant during the summer, Scott and I will move upstairs and occupy the two rooms with the shared Jack and Jill bath and Grayson will officially have his own room. We will keep him by our bed in a little bassinet or something of the sort for the first few months when feeding comes every three hours, but after that he can have his own space (Lucky).

Feeling good, have my next appointment on Thursday- so far so good, no hiccups or concerns, baby boy has been healthy so keep your fingers crossed for another good appointment.

A few stats:

We are 27 weeks pregnant and Grayson weighs roughly 2 lbs and is over one foot long.
Mommy looks about the same as she did at Christmas time, but apparently has a uterus the size of a basketball....

To date I have gained 15 lbs, so still have lots of room to grow, but right on target for a healthy pregnancy. My back is starting to hurt a little bit more and it is getting harder to get in and out of bed, but for what some people go through I really cannot complain.

Scott and I head on our babymoon over Presidents Break, after the crazy month of January I am very much looking forward to a break :)

Creepy Dream

It wasn't a nightmare because I didn't wake up in a panic with beads of sweat dripping down my face, but as I am starting to remember it, it was quite creepy. I dreamt that my child had been replaced with a demonic entity that was pretending to be my child- how is that for a creepy halloween weekend dream? Are my hormones in the spirit or what?

Not much has changed in the last few weeks. Still taking my B6 and Unisom every evening, went one day without it and learned my lesson. Not feeling any bigger or any different, some days I even still wonder if there is something really in there. Everyone says that the changes will come quicker than I expect but they really aren't. I don't have a bump yet, I don't even feel like my clothes fit differently, I guess I have a tiny little itty bitty bump but it is not significant at all. I have started to get more regular cramps as the uterus is expanding and getting ready for a rapidly growing baby, but other than that I don't really feel any different than I normally do.

This weekend is moving weekend, I have been packing as I can all week, and today will be the big push- cleaning the current apartment, then driving to logan to clean the new place- I also need to do laundry, get all the linens packed up, finish loading my car with kitchen stuff since I am taking up a load of all those loose awkward appliances that never pack well, and am also taking up all the fridge food so I can get that out of here and clean the fridge.

I wish I had excited news or better things to say, but this is what it is. Have a safe and happy halloween, I am sure I will enjoy the holiday more next year!

Our baby the golfer

My dad has always loved golfing. I used to go play Caddy for my dad and grandpa when I was a child and loved putting around the course. I even took a golf class in high school, and enjoy going to the range to hit a bucket of balls.

In the last year my in-laws have really gotten into golfing too. They bought a net that they set up in their garage and bought a turf mat to drive from, and practice all the time. My father in law is even going to refurbish an old set of clubs for my husband, as he has started practicing with his dad and really enjoys the sport. So, because of the many wonderful ties to golf in our family, and because I think baby golf clothes are the cutest, Scott and I decided our baby will be on the golf course from a young age. Scott and I still think the baby is a boy so when we told Rod, my father-in-law that this was the plan, his response was, "If its a girl she will be a golfer too."

So that settles it. Baby Kirby, the cutest thing to ever hit the green.

First Trimester Check-up and Ultrasound

I went to my first appointment yesterday afternoon with Scott. I was nervous, but only for the blood draw, which would come at the very end of the appointment, and I ended up being just fine (last time I had a blood draw I had to do a 24 hr fast and I get sick when I don't eat, so I threw up and practically fainted- not fun) this time I told Scott I wasn't going to look, he just needed to hold my hand and talk to me and it wasn't the worst. I still prefer a finger prick any day.

My doctor, Kristen F. Craig (Initials KFC, I got a chuckle out of that) was so nice, very laidback and down to earth, she even told me that I could eat sushi if I wanted and so Scott and I went to Takara right after for Dinner and I had a little tuna roll.

We got to see our baby for the first time, and it was amazing how clear the ultrasound was. The photos below really don't do it justice, we could see things so clearly, it really looked like a tiny little baby- and it was moving up a storm! Kicking and rubbing its eyes, its funny that I probably won't feel any of those kicks until the baby is almost one foot long! Right now the baby measures 4.2 cm and is very healthy. Everything looked to be just fine so we were really pleased with the appointment.

The first picture baby is kicking at the "cramp" in its space, and the second picture, the 4D image, baby is rubbing its eyes- so cute!

Birthday Designs- got bored :)

10 down...30 to go.

Okay so officially ten weeks in, which is exciting, only four weeks or so more to go until they say things are supposed to feel much better. I am looking forward to trimester 2, not that trimester 1 has been awful, but I want to feel like myself again and I just don't quite have that right now, but I think I am coping quite well.

Spent Conference Sunday at my Grandparents in Bountiful and I have really discovered that I want to be anywhere but my current apartment. I just hate it here, we live in the worst complex (okay that is an exageration, but I really don't like my apartment complex). I never feel like my apartment is clean, I have pretty much given up on trying to make it spotless because even when I get things clean the house smells like smoke so I don't feel like it is clean. I am terrified of my neighbors, seriously, the cops are at my apartment on a daily basis, and as Scott so kindly mentioned to me when he came home this weekend, "We made the news."

Turns out some lady asked her neighbor to watch her newborn while she ran some errands, and the neighbor, irritated by the crying baby ends up shaking it to death. I swear, these apartments are beautiful brand new apartments, I thought that we would have decent neighbors, albeit that none of them would understand me, but they would still be good people, and I am sure there are still some good people, but they probably hide out in their apartment like me, scared to view the latest freak show that is going on in the parking lot. I am counting down the days til we get to move back to Logan, I can't wait to live in a nice new place with normal neighbors, and not the creepy tattoo earring guy who lived on the first floor and sits on his porch all day watching people come and go from the parking lot. Seriously, his view is the parking lot and he sits there for HOURS.

So while I have 30 weeks left I also have 30 days living in this terrible apartment, so count down with me and wish me luck that they will fly by.

I think it's a boy.

I have had lots of comments that we are having a boy, but when you look at the cold hard facts it is hard to argue that it is a girl.

1. Morning sickness is generally worse if you are having a girl. Since you also typically seem to have a pregnancy similar to that which your mother had, and because she had all girls and bad morning sickness it leads me to deduce that I am having what she didn't have, and thus did not experience- symptoms of a woman growing an Adam, not an Eve. Now don't get me wrong, I am still sick and hate the idea of food in general, but I have heard horror stories about morning sickness, and I won't even begin to pretend that my sickness even holds a match to those tales.

2. Hello Carnivore- I am not a big meat eater, typically, but lately meat seems to be one of the best things to eat, since it is one of the few things that sounds good, on the rare occasion that food sounds good at all. I know that this is not a cold hard scientific fact, but it just made sense. Boys=Meat.

3. Dry Skin- my mother got acne when she was pregnant, but I have been experiencing very dry skin. I went and purchased a very nice Olay moisturizer and have been applying it regularly and my skin is doing much better. I am just applying the opposites rule here.

Basically we won't really know til around Thanksgiving, or a few weeks after, whether we are having a boy or girl, but right now I am placing my bet on boy.