18 Weeks!

Every Tuesday I try and take a picture to document what I look like for that week.  I was 18 weeks this last Tuesday, and although this is a little late, here is a picture of me!  I've been crazy anxious all weekend, because on Monday, March 31st, we get to find out what this little baby will be!!  I can't wait!!!

Week 17

According to all these different pregnancy sites, during week 17, my baby should be around 5 oz, and about the size of an onion/the palm of my hand.  Pretty crazy!  I'm still feeling totally great!  Here are the biggest changes I've noticed in the last few weeks:

-My belly button sometimes looks like an outie instead of an inny... I REALLY don't like that.  It looks so weird!

-I have gotten a couple charlie horses!  No one has ever told me until about two days ago, that getting a charlie horse is a possible symptom!  I guess I'm supposed to eat bananas...too bad I've never liked bananas!

-I'm often short on breath...but it's not too bad.

-My belly is finally starting to show...a tiny little bit...depending on my outfit, and oddly enough, the day.

-I have no food cravings really, but unfortunately, right now, pizza and baked potatoes/green onions, sound absolutely disgusting!  Too bad eating pizza pretty much happens every week in our home! :/

16 Weeks!

16 Weeks

                                                

                                                   

Today at 17 Weeks

I feel like you can never tell as much in these pictures, but apparently today I looked extra pregnant at school.  I still hadn't told my 5th graders yet, and we planning to right before spring break. (which is about a week from today).  However, we were practicing a song for our DARE graduation in the multi purpose room as a whole 5th grade, and my coworker asked if I had told the kids.  I think she was hinting that I was starting to look a little more obvious.  When we got back to the classroom we had about 10-7 min. before we rotated classes, so I decided today was the day to tell them!

It was so fun!  I got to tell my three different classes today, and it's crazy how similar and different their reactions were.  First off, they were all VERY excited, and apparently, about half my kids were wondering!  I still don't know how/why though!  I usually look very much the same as always.

So, in my first class I told the kids I had to tell them something, and one kid blurted out, "You're pregnant!", and I was like, actually, yeah!  Then half the kids said, "I knew it!"  In my other two classes, no one blurted out that I was pregnant, but always about half the kids claimed they "knew it!" haha.  Here are the things they had been noticing:

-I wasn't as skinny as I used to be...but they didn't want to ask, because they didn't want to be rude.  (I teased them that I really had just been eating too many doughnuts.  haha.)

-Half of them noticed today while practicing the DARE song, and then some would notice when I turned to the side to write on the board.

-They said I had been sitting down a lot more.

-I guess I've been putting my hands on my tummy, and folding my arms over my belly a lot?

-And apparently I've been wearing more skirts, and less pants.

haha.  I haven't done any of these things consciously, so it's just funny what they think they've been picking up on.

Last thing before I end this super long post...I had the kids guess what I was having!  They were all mad that I've waited about 4 months before telling them!  haha.  But they're super excited that the day they get back from Spring Break, I can tell them.  I had about half and half for each guess, but some girls claimed that my forehead is more pale than usual...and that means I'm having a boy.  BUT...they also said if your hair gets darker, you're having a girl..and...well...I haven't highlighted my hair since Thanksgiving, so that one's kind of hard to tell.  Another girl said if you're sick a lot, it's a boy, and if you're tired, it's a girl.  So, I have mixed ideas there, since I'm pale..meaning a boy, but I'm not sick, just tired...meaning a girl.  Oh well!  Basically, no one knows.  But it's cute that they have their little ideas.

Well, if you stuck to reading this, great!  If not, it's kindof for my own memory too.  :)

Peaches and Oranges

Apparently when you're pregnant, they love to refer to your baby as being the size of different fruit.  Last week it was the size of a peach, and this week, it's the size of an orange.  That's okay though, because it gives me a little perspective of how tiny this little baby really is!  And how much it is growing!  Jevan still teases me by saying it's still just the little bean it was when we got our first ultra sound, but my body knows better!  I'm 15 weeks today, and decided I should probably start taking pictures.  So...here is a picture of me today.  Not the best pic...and I know I look pretty much completely the same as always, but if you were me, you would be able to tell that my tummy really is growing!

This is me just standing normal....

And this is me trying to highlight my tiny tummy...but my arm is in the way.  Oh well!

I get to find out what we're having on March 31st at 9:00 a.m.!!  I can't wait!

I've also added some pictures below of our first ultra sound.  I've been so entirely lucky and blessed to have such an easy and nice pregnancy.  I never had to puke!  I just felt slightly nauseated constantly for a week or two.  But, it wasn't anything I couldn't handle.  I also would fall asleep super easily while watching t.v., take lots of naps, and I've had to pee...like, all the time..and still do.  But it's getting better.  :)

I was really excited, and couldn't wait for Jevan before I took a picture.

We took a million trying to get a decent one.  I just thought this one was kind of funny.

I think this is the pic we put on a Valentine's card to announce to our parents that they were getting a new grand baby!