17 Weeks

Into the fifth month, I go!

We have picked out baby bedding. It's from http://www.modpeapod.com/. We love it! Thanks, Shelly!!

Obviously, we will have a "L" embroidered. We had a hard time picking out fabric to have someone make it, so I found this lady off Ebay. She is from New York and does this for a living.

I don't have much to update this week. We go for our anatomy ultrasound next week, so I'm sure to have plenty of updates then. Once again, thanks for all of your prayers and support!!

Belly Shots:

16 Weeks

WOW! I'm 4 months already! I am really am really starting to show through my clothes now. People are commenting on my little bump. I love that people know I'm pregnant, but I'm sure that feeling will go away when people make comments after the baby is born - HA!

We are waiting for Kris's mom and Rob to come into town tomorrow. I haven't seen her since we found out! We are excited to see her and Robin.

Lately I've been finishing up my internship for my administration degree. It's a lot of work and hard for me to maintain an equal amount time for work, class, and sleep - oh, and housework. It is such a blessing that it took more time than we had hoped for us to get pregnant. I couldn't imagine throwing a baby into that mix as well. So God has HIS timing and I appreciate that more than anything right now.

We are getting more excited about our cruise in June and waiting for it to come. Only 5 more weeks of school (work) left. Can you believe it?! Time goes by so fast!

We go to the BIG ultrasound on May 6th where they check all of the anatomy on the baby. My mom, dad and Kris will all be there and everyone is getting excited! It's been longer than ever since I've seen little Landyn so it seems like forever for May 6 to get here.

Thanks for your continued prayers and blessings :)

BELLY SHOTS COMING SOON

Landyn's Room

April 18 & 19

Day 1 - Saturday: Prime the walls and ceiling, Paint the ceiling and all four walls.

Day 2 - Sunday: Give the walls and second coat, Paint the stripes, clean the room

***SPECIAL THANKS TO MEREDITH FOR HER DEDICATION AND TALENT!!!

After several trips to Lowes and an entire gallon of paint spilling in our garage, we finally got exactly what we wanted for Landyn's room! We left 2 parallel walls solid and the other 2 parallel walls striped. We plan to go with Black and White, printed bedding and hang a black chandelier from the ceiling. My intention to is to stimulate her as much as possible and contrast does that very well. It's the teacher in me :) I hope you like it!

Bubbles and Butterflies

Last week I felt the "bubbles and butterflies" feeling everyone describes as the baby moving. I knew it was her, but the feeling only lasted about 10 seconds.

This morning when I woke up I felt Landyn for like 5 minutes! She was moving so much and I felt like I had Moody Gardens Butterfly Garden in my belly!! It was so neat and I wish Kris could feel it! I can't wait to have these Bubbles and butterflies again!!

15 Weeks

Well another week has past and has it been a week to remember! I have been feeling great until this last week. I got a 24 hour bug on Friday. it was horrible! I ran a fever and got pretty sick a couple of times. With the love of Kris and my mom and several Tylenol I got much better by Saturday! I felt so bad because I didn't eat for a whole day (I couldn't hold anything down) and poor little Landyn was probably so hungry :(

I'm trying to catch back up on nutrition and weight gain. I haven't gained any more, but I'm trying. I'm supposed to start eating 300 more calories each day, which is going to be hard.

Kris and I are working hard to pick out bedding and furniture. Hopefully in a few weeks we will have something picked out. We bought the paint colors and are ready to start. We just need days off together.

Thanks for all of your prayers and well wishes!

14 Weeks

So I have gained my first of many pounds! I got queezy the other day so my doctor put me on iron pills. She said they aren't necessary, but it may help with the queeziness or it could make it worse. I think I'll keep doing what I'm doing for now. Here are the most recent belly shots:

Getting Ready for Landyn

Over the weekend we cleaned out all of our closets, put a bunch of stuff in the attic, moved our old guest room into the old "fouton room", and sold the fouton and entertainment center. So now we have a new guest "suite" complete with Astros memorabilia and a computer with internet that also can be used for movies for our guests!!

Landyn's room is ready for paint and furniture. We can't decide what color furniture to get because we want to do black and white bedding with purple walls-not pastel, not bright- a really pretty purple. I guess we'll have to go and look.

Once we start going with the room I'll start posting pictures. If you have any ideas, please share :)

14 Week Doctor's Appointment

It's Official- It's a GIRL!!

I went for my 14 week appointment today-without Kris (he was moving stuff around to get ready for Landyn! As soon as I saw a nurse I asked if they had my gender results (I've been calling at least once a day to the "results message system" with no luck). She looked in my file as we walked down the hall and she looked at me- "Is it a girl?" I asked. "It's a little girl!" she said. I was so scared for a split second there-haha!

I gained my first pound. Landyn's heartbeat was still 162 bpm. The nurse said I was carrying low. HELLO!! I have like a 2.5 foot torso! Dr. Thompson came in and said everything looked good as far as my bloodwork and everything else. She is still waiting on genetic blood test results. She told me I should cancel the next genetics test and ultrasound because they could do the bloodwork in her office and an additional ultrasound in not necessary. Oh well.

So my next appointent is the big "Anatomy" ultrasound which will lst 50 minutes (the actual ultrasound part-not including the waiting). It's on May 6th. They will check everything on Landyn from the bones, to the organs, to the face. Let's pray they'll "flip the switch" and let us see her in 3D! My mom and Dad are able to go to this one with us so I am really excited about that! After I go to the imaging center, I'll head over to Dr. Thompson's office for my 18 week appointment.

Keep us in your prayers. Thanks for your support thus far! We love you!

**Belly shots will be posted when I haven't just eaten Taco Bell (I know it's bad but it's opening day for the Astros and we are trying to pretend we are there).