She Likes Lovely: July 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

19 Weeks

How far along? 19 Weeks
Total weight gain: 7 lbs gained... Definitely only going to be reporting this section once a month now.
Maternity clothes? I scored some Gap skinny cropped pants this week. Also - I got these cute pants from ASOS - but they are a little more legging-like than pants if you're interested in ordering.
Stretch marks? nada
Sleep: Still sleeping good... but we need to train Walter and Max to sleep somewhere other than our room. They wake me up a couple times each night. My poor babies, they're not going to know what hit them.
Best moment this week: We had our 19 week ultrasound last Friday and it was so fun to see the baby moving around. I also can't believe how much he already looks like a little human being! On another note, I went to the JT and Jay-Z concert with a couple of my girlfriends yesterday... it was awesome!
Food cravings: Sweet Factory strawberry sour belts... boom
Looking forward to: dressing the baby... I did a little shopping for him last week. Baby Gap has 40% off sale stuff right now, got some great finds for Baby!
Baby item of the week: Look at this cute wood alphabet piece of decor I got for the nursery. I love it!

Awww... they're so tiny!

Friday, July 26, 2013

IT'S (Officially) A BOY!!!

We had our gender ultrasound screening today where we confirmed what we were told at 15 weeks. IT'S A BOY!!!

We didn't care either way what we were having, we are just really excited to be starting our family. We did have a little back and forth in the early stages where our Dr. and nurse were guessing what baby was so it feels good to have it confirmed 100% BOY. I'm excited for Tim to have a little buddy and hopefully I will get a little momma's boy. :) I decided to celebrate today by buying baby B a cute little outfit.

Monday, July 22, 2013

18 Weeks

Woo hoo! I'm at 18 weeks - ALMOST half way there. :)

Since most of you who read this are family and friends I'll give you some updates here on how we're doing each week. Also, wanted to point out that I got the idea to do a chalkboard and track progress from the Baby Garvin blog. Her blog is adorable and she has so many cute, creative ideas!

How far along? 18 Weeks, 3 Days
Total weight gain: 6 lbs gained... But it also depends on where I set the scale on the floor, our scale is prob not very reliable since my weight changes depending on which tile I set it on, therefore I go with the smaller number
Maternity clothes? My MIL got me a belly-band which I've recently been using more and more. It's been my lifesaver since I def can't button my pants now.
Stretch marks? none yet... been using my lotion and Mustela religiously
Sleep: Sleeping great with bathroom trips in between
Best moment this week: feeling the baby move and not having to question if it was baby or indigestion
Food cravings: Fruit roll-ups, cereal always sounds good to me
Looking forward to: decorating the nursery!
Baby item of the week: I've been looking at strollers and I've pretty much decided on the Baby Jogger City Select.

What are your thoughts or opinions on the stroller?! I'm new here so could use all the help I can get.

Baby B Belly Diaries

This is my week to update all the old belly shots so I can start posting my up-to-date ones! We've been getting lots of good use out of this chalkboard.

At 14 weeks I was feeling really good. I also started to notice more of a bump at this point. And if what they say is true about heart burn, then my baby will have TONS of hair (especially if he takes after his father)...

At 15 weeks I was just getting over another cold (blah). I didn't get morning sickness but what I did get this pregnancy were colds that KNOCKED ME OUT. I can't remember the last time I got colds this bad, yes, multiple colds. I was on drugs from the Dr. and I even got a netty pot - anyone know what these are? Well after that cold, I don't ever want to use one again. But... I did get a humidifier that we can use for the baby! One thing down :) Oh and PS... yeah we found out it's a BOY!!!! Which is another story all on its own. The condensed version is at 11 weeks they guessed a girl, then at 15 weeks, they guessed a boy... so we will get 100% gender confirmation at our appt this coming Fri (19 weeks)!

At 16 weeks we made our "official" announcement on Instagram/Facebook. Will post the announcement pic on another post. Even though all our family and close friends knew at that point it felt so good for it to be out in the open. I celebrated the Fourth of July with my 16-week belly in a bikini with burgers and fireworks.

Week 17 was pretty uneventful. I kept thinking I felt the baby kick, but really I'm still not sure if I felt it that early. I kept describing it as a tickling, tapping from the inside. So small that it could have easily been my stomach growling/growing/digesting.

Whew!!!! We're almost updated here! :)

Thursday, July 18, 2013

My Doughnut Belly (First Trimester in a Nutshell)

I've been really into documenting the pregnancy with pictures each week. The early ones are eh, but then I decided I wanted a chalkboard to document this experience. I nagged Tim for a good month to make the chalkboard so that I could take weekly pics to see the progress and growth of our baby. He's amazing and made me one, I'll have to write in another post how he did it, so easy! So now let's play catch up...

Tim & I were just starting to get into crossfit and the paleo diet before I got pregnant so my pre-pregnancy picture was during that time (prob taken in Feb or March). I was extremely lucky and never really got morning sickness (something I was worried about before becoming pregnant since my mom was sick her entire pregnancies). I felt nauseous and definitely had to pass on certain foods but no horrible throwing up all the time experiences. Bowls of cereal and bread were my go-to's in the first trimester.

And then Tim made the CHALKBOARD (YAY!)

oh and here was Tim at 11 weeks... he didn't want to be left out.

We were in Maui from week 11.5 - 12.5 (yes, I count half weeks). We couldn't quite fit the chalkboard in our suitcase so we did belly shots on the beach (haha, that sounds funny). Above is me at 12 weeks.

Took the pic on the top when I was 12 weeks 5 days but we were still in Hawaii, had to get one more beach belly pic in. Pic below it is legit 13 weeks.

Since these pics have been taken, I've gotten more of a real belly and not an "I look like I ate too many doughnuts belly." I'll be sharing those pics too!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Floral Bliss

I am so excited. Patterns, specifically floral patterns make me especially happy. And I totally scored on finding this rug from Anthropologie on a mega sale. They no longer carry it but if you like the style they do have it in another color (not on sale though).

Here it is in my house. What do you think?

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Maui... A month later

I may be just a little late on posting about our Maui trip but wanted to share some photos of our vacation. It was amazing. Tim and I went for a good friend's wedding so there ended up being a large group of people there. We had so much fun snorkeling, eating and just enjoying all that Maui has to offer. Get ready for a picture overload...