Exciting News!

I am finally back and I have some exciting news to share!  If you haven’t already noticed a new tab has been added above, baby #2!

Luke and I are expecting our second child and Lakelyn is going to be a big sister!  We could not be more excited!!

As you know we were trying for this baby.  I think trying for a baby is a lot harder than the opps baby!  So much thought goes into thinking about when the right time is.  I think you can always find reasons for why you should have a baby or why to wait. 

On Aug 12^th my period hadn’t come, which was unusual.  I had bought a pregnancy test over the weekend and took it first thing in the morning, it was negative.  That afternoon I had a dermatology appointment to have a mole removed.  While there they asked if I could be pregnant, I said there was a possibility, so they had me take a pregnancy test, it was negative.  Although all signs said negative I just felt like I was.  No symptoms just an internal gut feeling.

That weekend was my work summer party which I knew I would be drinking at.  I wanted to make 100% sure before the party that I wasn’t pregnant so I felt comfortable drinking.  I took another test on Aug 15^th over my lunch break and saw this:

Luke and I were so excited!  I called and made my first OB appointment, which was on September 16^th, this past Monday.  I was guessing I was around 8 weeks along but I have irregular periods and was guessing when my last one was.  We went to our appointment on Monday and were told they had scheduled my appointment 2 weeks early and probably wouldn’t be able to hear a heartbeat.  We were a little frustrated by this.  All I was looking forward to was hearing that heart beat to confirm at this point our baby was healthy.  Since my periods are irregular and I wasn’t 100% sure when my last one was my doctor scheduled a sonogram for the next day. 

Tuesday we went to our appointment and got to see our baby and its heart beat, 171.   They also confirmed I was only a couple days off from guessing my due date.  My due date is April 25^th, 2014, which makes me exactly 9 weeks pregnant today.

I wanted to try and come up with a creative way to announce our pregnancy.  There are tons of cute ideas on Pinterest, eviction notices and only child expiring.  I decided I wanted to buy Lakelyn a “Big Sister” book to “read”.  Her book finally arrived last night and so we had a little photoshoot!  Surprisingly I had quite a few good ones to pick from.  Below are the top three I liked best.  I had also made a sign but Lakelyn wanted nothing to do with it and threw a HUGE fit.  Luke is going to send out an email today to his work with one of the pics, then I will forward to my work and then finally we will post on facebook.

So far this pregnancy has gone about the same as the last one.  No morning sickness or major changes.   I never had morning sickness with Lakelyn or Braxton hicks, it was a very easy pregnancy… up until it came time to deliver.  That’s a whole other post!  I would say though with this pregnancy I have had a lot more heart burn and am super tired!  

I am not going to do weekly updates until maybe the last trimester.  And I didn’t do bump pictures with Lakelyn, which I kind of regret.  However, this time around I am starting out 25lbs lighter than I did last time.  I felt like last time I just got fatter rather than a true bump.  So maybe this time I will actually get a bump and take some pictures!

TGIF!!!