oh, baby!

so, again, i have gone missing for quite awhile. i have to say that i have a very good reason this time. a lot of you probably know already, but allan and i are expecting a baby again! we found out just after christmas, on december 28. we were watching a movie that night when i couldn't understand why i was feeling so tired. it was late and i usually get pretty tired just caring for the kids and stuff, but i was unusually tired this night. allan made a joke and said, "maybe you're pregnant!" i said, "whatever." but once he suggested it, i couldn't get it out of my head. i needed to know. so, i sent him to the store to get a pregnancy test (at 12:30am) and after taking it, we saw a second very faint (but there) pink line. i thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me because it was so late, but allan saw it, too. we decided to sleep on it and test again the next morning. the first thing i did when i woke up was head to the bathroom to take the second test that came in the box. again, faint (but there) second line. i still couldn't believe that i was pregnant (emma was only 7 months old!) so i went into my doctor's office to take an "official" pregnancy test. allan was right, we were pregnant!

well, since then i have been really sick with nausea. it has just started to subside but i still feel a little twinge of it every now and then, especially when i get too hungry. these last three months have been pretty hard for me. the nausea and throwing up and being more tired than i could remember in a really long time really took a toll. but now that i'm out of that, i feel great and am really excited about our newest addition!

i didn't know my due date, but found out at my first doctor's appointment that it is 9/13/2008. i had my first ultrasound on january 22 and learned that i was 6 weeks and 3 days (6w3d) pregnant. we got to see our tiny bundle of joy for the first time. i had a second ultrasound on february 26 and i measured 11w4d pregnant, which was consistent with the estimated due date (edd) from my first appointment. my doctor asked me if i wanted to know what i was having, and without thinking about the fact that allan wasn't with me, i blurted out "yes!" my doctor seems to think i'm having a boy. but my friend, an ultrasound technician, looked at the picture and thinks it could be a girl. 11 weeks is pretty early to tell, so i guess i'll just have to wait until my next ultrasound to know. i'll be sure that allan is with me this time. :)

i started showing really early with this pregnancy, and i feel like i'm already 6 months along. yikes! here's a picture of me from easter. see my protruding belly? i told you i was showing quite a bit already! in my defense, i'm not wearing a maternity top here so it's especially tight around my belly. i'm sure we'll have some fun and exciting stuff to share in these coming months. stay tuned! (a funny thing is that we were just talking about changing the name of our blog to something different because the title didn't really fit anymore. ha!)