First belly photo

So I thought I should take a photo tonight even though most of my make-up has worn off and my curls that looked great this afternoon are coming apart,lol. I regret not taking as many photos of me during Kaiden's pregnancy, I always thought "why do I wanna take a pic when I look horrible?" but now I plan on taking them, for memory's sake....ugly day or no =)

When I went to my sister's place for Thanksgiving dinner everyone was SHOCKED to see that I'm showing already....and a lot! My sister is 21 weeks and according to a pregnancy calculator (we'll see what the doctor tells me when I see her, but I'm going by this for now!) I am 5 weeks and 5 days pregnant. Our bellies aren't that much different! Mine is well over 1/2 the size of hers! I was told this is because my abdominal muscles have already been stretched with my first pregnancy and also since I had to have a c-section with Kaiden that those muscles are weaker and will stretch out easily. So, yeah I look about 3 to 4 months pregnant,lol. Sorry~ I'm totaly slouching! my back is killing me! Check it out:

Here's a close up of just the belly! Sorry for the bad quality of both photos, I took them on a whim and didn't do my best. My bathroom is not looking it's best either,lol.

So there they are....my first belly photos with the new baby!!

Sweet deal!

I am so excited. In one day (yesterday) I have gotten a big chunk of the 'must have' baby items checked off the list! They're all gender neutral, so they work even if I don't have a girl like I think I am (so far,lol)I looked it up online and the average price of the items I got totaled $250.86 (minus shipping!) guess how much I paid?? $70.00!!! I am so thrilled, I just had to share my bargains! I love seeing/reading about stuff like this, I dunno about you,haha. They are in almost new condition! I love Craigslist =) I got:

Fisher-Price Nature's touch papasan swing~






Fisher-price Rainforest bouncer (amazing features and so comfy! love it)










Fisher-Price rainforest 3 stage bath center:








And for warming up breast milk or even jars of baby food! The 1st years day and night bottle warmer:

Testing testing 1,2...3? (yup,pregnant!)

LOL. So my first real post to my blog will be the story of when I tested and found out I was pregnant. It all started 10 days ago......

On 11/15/09 I woke up excited to test thinking it probably would be a negative, either because it didn't happen this cycle (even though I was like 99% sure I was pregnant I could just 'feel' it.) or because it was too early to test at only 11DPO (days past ovulation) but of course I try anyway! This is what the test looked like:




Can you see the line? It's really hard to, right? So a few hours after I took it seeing that barely there shadow of a + line I go to the girls I know and love on webmd's TTC:JSO (trying to conceive:just starting out) message board and ask them what they think. One girl says to take a pic, (which is what you see above taken a few hours after testing)then to invert it on photoshop, so I do which makes it sooo much easier to see! check it out:






Well,they all saw it for sure! I was really afraid that is was just a fluke, and I was wrong about being pregnant, so I planned on retesting the next morning. I was about to go to bed that night, and remembered the story of how you could use an OPK (ovulation predictor kit) as a HPT (home pregnancy test) b/c if you're pregnant it would show up as a very positive OPK. So I thought "why not?" and at about 11:45pm took an OPK. It turned + the second the pee hit it! I was so excited I went to grab it to look at it and knocked it onto the cup of pee,lol! I immediately opened up a HPT and dipped it in, and a darker line then the one from the morning showed up very fast, and since I was so excited I opened up a digital test I had and dipped it in too! it went "beep!beep!beep!" about 3 seconds and bam~ a reading came out on the screen "PREGNANT" I WAS SO HAPPY!! After a minute I ran to get the camera (you know me...I'm a scrapbooker and want to save this precious memory!) This is what I saw~OPK is the green one on top. Notice it's all pink from the dunk into the "sample" cup,lol:








After I got ahold of myself I called Jesse at work at about 12:20am and when he answered "Thank you for calling Moneytree how can I offer you great service tonight?" I greeted him by saying "well hello there father of TWO!" he was like "no way, really?!? wow!" it was great knowing our "hard work" had paid off,haha. We started TTC at the end of August, so the third time was the charm!


That's the story, the whole LONG story ;)

Work in progress!

I am just opening this tonight, and will customize it tomorrow! Welcome =)