Finally! The morning sickness has let up and I have been feeling much better the past week or so. I still feel tired the majority of the time but it has been kind of nice to get so much extra sleep that I am not used to. We still have not scanned in the first ultrasound picture but I plan on doing that this week.. I promise!My pants are starting to get tight and I have been online window shopping for maternity clothes. Some of that stuff is so expensive but I have found some decent priced clothing online and at Motherhood Maternity. Some of my friends have also chimed in on store that offer affordable maternity clothes.Today we let Maggie open up her Christmas stocking. Since today and tomorrow will be that last days that we will both be home we decided to let her have at it! She loves all of her new toys and had trouble deciding which ones to play with. She will get another stocking at my parents house on Christmas so we are sure she will be excited about more toys and treats coming her way. Cory is not so excited about the prospect of picking up the torn up pieces of her toys that are usually littered across the living room floor every day.
On Friday, Cory called me when he got home to let me know that Maggie had chewed up the back of one of my tennis shoes and had dragged about 6 books off the bookshelf and destroyed them.. and by destroyed I mean ripped them to shreds including the hardback books. I was glad that I was not home to have to punish her because I am not good at handling that. I end up cuddling her and apologizing thinking that she understands that I am hurt more than her when i swat her muzzle.Our next prenatal visit is on January 5th. I will try to update the blog before then if I remember and have time to. Cory is going out of town on Tuesday and I will be following him after I work a half day on Christmas Eve. We don't plan on being back until Sunday I believe. We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and a great New Year! C&C
If you haven't heard yet, we are expecting our first child in early July of 2009! We decided to steal the idea of a family blog from some family members and so here we are! We plan on keeping everyone updated about the pregnancy and our new addition when he or she arrives!We had our first prenatal visit on December 3rd. Everything looked good according to the doctor and we were very excited to hear the heartbeat and get ultrasound pictures of our little peanut! The heartbeat was 176 and everyone I have told says that means we are having a girl. We will see if they are right about that when we find out the gender in late February or early March. Our exact due date is July 7, 2009 according to the doc.
We have tried explaining to Maggie (our dog) that she is going to have a little brother or sister, but she doesn't seem too excited yet!We are a little worried about how she will react to no longer being the center of our universe when the baby arrives, but we are sure that she will adjust just fine and be the best big sister ever!Thankfully, my "afternoon" sickness has been letting up in the past week although I am still tired most of the time. It hasn't helped that Cory and I have both been sick for the past week or so. We are gearing up for Christmas and almost have all the gifts wrapped and Christmas cards sent out. Cory was very excited to get Christmas cookies from my mom and has been unwillingly sharing them with Maggie. (It's hard to say no when she gives us those puppy dog eyes).Hopefully we will be able to update this blog once a week to keep everyone in the loop on what is going on in our lives. Cory only has one more week of school then he is off for two weeks for Christmas break. He is very excited about break. I'm sure he won't be so excited when I give him a list of chores to accomplish while I am still slaving away at work! Hopefully on the next post I can put up the ultrasound photo from our first prenatal visit. I have been lazy and haven't scanned it in yet. :) We hope everything has a great week!C&C
