It’s a….GIBBY-GUL!

Yes folks, you heard it right! Our doctor’s GUESS says GIRL....

My very own GibbyGul. Mi Amora. (Husband thought of that one!) My Aurora. (Auntie KK) We LOVE making up silly names and songs for the babies in this family, so these rhyme with her name which will be revealed later-even though most of our friends know already! On that fun note, we don’t call any of the babies by their birth names-how boring would that be?!

Now, some discussion for this week….talk amongst yourselves: (SNL, Mike Myers, Word.)

Lean Pockets, Strawberries and E.L. Fudges: Holla. My Monday night dinner consisted of: 2 Lean Pockets (NOT back to back!), a container of strawberries and 4 E.L Fudge cookies. So here comes that baby prego weight!

Making My House Smell Better: Found an AMAZING blog on Pinterest (linked below) and now obsessed with making all of my own cleaning supplies and laundry detergent. I got all of the ingredients on Amazon-so easy and my house smells AHH-MAH-ZING.

The Usual Prego Update:

How Far Along: 17 weeks-baby girl the size of an onion

Total Weight Gain: 4 pounds. Let me clarify: the SAME 4 pounds as last week. When I stepped on the scale at the doctor's office and it said “Why Sarah Prego-Gul, only 4 pounds since your last appointment”, Chase’s comment was “Whoa! Another 4 pounds!” No my DARLING, THE SAME 4 pounds as last week. So 4 pounds in 4 weeks. DEAR. (Feel free to sub some words for what you think I was really saying in my head.)

Maternity Clothes: Still using the belly-band for pants and got some cute shirts over the weekend! Can’t wait for Spring dresses, skirts, and shorts! Hmmm...note to self: figure out how to shave your legs soon.

Stretch Marks: LOTS-O-LOTION everywhere.

Sleep: On a pretty good schedule besides going to the bathroom every couple of hours. I have now cut myself off around 5:30pm, which sucks because I am so thirsty, but Mama needs some SLEEP.

Best Moment This Week: Call me CRAZY-I’ve been making my own cleaning supplies! Our house finally smells good again! Awesome blog with all of the recipes: http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/

**And of course finding out Baby G Nugget is (most likely) a GIRL.

Miss Anything: Lunch meat, Sushi, Red Wine, Margaritas, COLD Mexican Beer

Movement: Nothing that I can feel yet…come on sista! Give Mama some love!

Food Cravings: Hot pockets, E.L Fudges, Cold Fruit, PB & J with crunchy PB, Chili’s Queso (And we all see how that turned out-double date dinner night with Christi and Aaron!), random things on random days…

Anything making me sick or nauseas: the smell of our hallways at school, reheated food, the dog smell of our bedroom (working on that with all my new cleaning supplies)

Gender: Girly Girl, so far!  

Labor Signs: Hmmm…laundry, cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming…does that count?

Symptoms: Still some stretching pains all over the place (NIV, right Emmy?!), Sleepy. Prego Brain.

Belly Button: In

Wedding Rings: On

Happy or Moody: Happy/Lazy/Moody/Lazy…take your pick.

Looking Forward To: Girl’s Dinner Friday, Guest blogs from Aunt Molly and Courty (Next blog!) and getting this GibbyGul’s room put together! 

*LINKS to click on: talk amongst yourselves, onegoothingbyjillee.com

My Bump…My Bump, My Bump, My Bump!

(Oh come on, I had to!)

Drumroll please… Nugget was the size of an apple this week! Anxiously waiting for feeling some sort of movement. I have been “thinking” I feel something, but the lovely feeling ends up as gas. (Nothing new to our household.)

Now, onto the goods for this week….

Cottage Cheese: ( Yes, still!) Oh. My. Goodness. Tuesday afternoon for my pre-dinner snack, I sucked down a corn dog, then saw the BRAND NEW container of cottage cheese in the fridge. Of course it was lit up like an angel and everything else around it was dark. I thought, "Eh, throw a little dairy in there to balance out my corn dog." Less than 20 minutes later, I am calling the husband in to physically remove the cottage cheese from my hands. "Why?" You must be wondering….because this chick ATE HALF THE CONTAINER-then I polished it off Wednesday after school. Yup, JEALOUS?! ( love Amy Poehler in this SNL skit.)

*On a side note about my crazy snacking after school: I eat lunch at school at 10:50am and a small snack at around 1:45pm, so by the time I get home from school around 4:15ish, my tummy is ready to PAARRTTAAYYY, with the best of them…and I'm gonna go down to the river* (Please see scene from Bridesmaids. I watched it 3 times last weekend.)

The Usual Prego Update:

How Far Along: Almost 16 weeks-baby the size of an apple

Total Weight Gain: About 4 pounds (used the fancy scale in the clinic at school with some of the office staff standing right behind me-it was lovely)

Maternity Clothes: I look pregnant. Clothes are becoming my main battle in the morning because I’m not quite prego enough for some of the maternity but starting to bust out of my regular tops. Going to do some shopping soon for some shirts to wear to school, but my belly band is keeping me in all of my pre-prego pants which is awesome.

Stretch Marks: All I can say is been doing LOTS-O-LOTION on the belly!

Sleep: On a pretty good schedule besides going to the bathroom every couple of hours. (SIX times a night to be exact-and I cut off all liquid at about 7:45pm-Just call me a Golden Girl)

Best Moment This Week: This BELLY! I love putting my hands on it and asking it questions like “Do you like this song?” 

*Excuse the 16-year-old-Facebook-take-your-own-picture-in-the-bathroom-mirror, the Hubby was working late and I had to show this thing off!*

Also, ADDICTED to some blogs from a TV show on WE: Texas Multi-Mamas. I am catching up on Casey and Suz’s blogs daily. It’s my crack of the week, especially when Chase is working late.

Miss Anything: Lunch meat, Sushi, Red Wine, Frozen Margaritas

Movement: Nothing that I can feel, but hopefully within the next couple of weeks.

Food Cravings: cottage cheese, PB & J (hubby makes the best, besides my Mom of course!), random things on random days…

Anything making me sick or nauseas: the smell of our hallway at school, reheated food, the dog smell of our couch and bedroom (working on that)

Gender: It’s a boy. Or a girl.  

Labor Signs: None, but still waiting on that epidural or some giggle juice.

Symptoms: Still some stretching pains in some interesting areas, but nothing too bad. Always Sleepy. I get full really fast and now staying that way until someone could just roll me around. I feel like I have a sumo wrestling suit on after I eat.

Belly Button: In

Wedding Rings: On

Happy or Moody: Mostly happy except when the kids go crazy and I say “Don’t make me go all crazy-prego-Mrs. Gibson on y’all” and it seems to work well. *They are very good during my 2-3 restroom breaks per class period*

Looking Forward To: Guest blogs from Aunt Molly and Courty (coming up guls!) and we find out the gender FRIDAY! Ahhhh!

Clothes, Cucumbers and Cottage Cheese. OH MY!

Our little nugget is busy growing away! He/She is the size of a lemon this week and doing all sorts of crazy stuff in there! *Putting a belly picture sometime this week*

Now, onto my topics of discussion for this week….

Clothes: Holy Bologna! (Gosh, I miss bologna!) My closet has filled up FAST with maternity clothes! I put a bow around all of them because what an AMAZING gift! I am seriously so lucky to have friends who got knocked up before me and are cute dressers. Molly, Kellie and Steph have given me a ton and I bought a few little things for myself that I can wear into the Spring and post-nugget. Thanks dolls!

Cucumbers: Not to get too graphic for you dirty minds out there, but I’ve eaten 2 entire cucumbers in 2 days. BAM-cleared it! Dipping them in whipped cream cheese with some dill seasoning is my “crack of the week.” (hehe!) Also, been making cucumber sandwiches for lunch, which are helping me get over my “I miss lunch meat so bad and Chase gets to have 2 turkey sandwiches everyday and I freaking hate/love him” mood. I bought 3 more at the store last night. I’m sure next week they will make me sick, but as of now, love them like cake. Hmmmm cake….

Cottage Cheese: Oh. My. Goodness. Cottage doubles (with peaches) are another obsession of the week. *See picture somewhere* I bought 4 on Sunday thinking I would spread them out all week. HA. JOKE. I ate one after the store on Sunday, we both wanted them in our lunches Monday, and I ate the last one for my “pre-dinner snack” Monday afternoon. So, another trip to the store it is. The grocery store I went to didn’t have the exact pre-packaged “cottage doubles” so I bought 2 big containers of cottage cheese and 4 cans of peaches. Not as good…but gets the job done. *And yes, I checked the label and the cheese IS pasteurized, so don’t worry!*

 

Done with the novel, now the usual prego update:

How Far Along: 14 ½ weeks-baby the size of a lemon

Total Weight Gain: I’ll have to get back to you on that one! I’m sure it’s something now that I like food again!

Maternity Clothes: The same jeans, belly band and some shirts that I just bought in a bigger size. Breaking into what I got from the girls and very excited about looking “pregnant” and not “Oh, Sarah ate a big burrito for lunch and downed it with a 6 pack!”

Stretch Marks: Keeping my eyes out! Still very itchy so trying to “rub” instead of actually scratch and LOTS-O-LOTION on the belly!

Sleep: On a pretty good schedule besides going to the bathroom every couple of hours. (Which isn’t very different than pre-prego)

Best Moment This Week: Laughing SO MUCH at GULS Christmas with Molly, Court and Hillary. Milk for your coffee anyone?! Molly has also turned me on to Texas Multi-Mamas on WE TV. Found an amazing blog by Suz! Thanks Molls!

Miss Anything: Lunch meat, Sushi, Red Wine, Frozen Margaritas… the list could go on for days…

Movement: Nada. Hopefully within the next month or so!

Food Cravings: see above

Anything making me sick or nauseas: the smell of our hallway at work, reheated food, being over-tired or up too late

Gender: Still debating. We ask the dog and he barks at both. Go figure.

Labor Signs: None, but I wouldn’t mind an epidural for the next 6 months.

Symptoms: Still some stretching pains but nothing too bad, Sleepy (I miss my holiday naps!), I get full really fast and hungry not long after being so full-waking up around 4am and my stomach is growling!

Belly Button: In

Wedding Rings: On

Happy or Moody: Spur of the moment laughing, then crying, then just mad, circle back to laughing. This should get VERY interesting for the hubby.

Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender, modeling all of my cute maternity clothes, and an upcoming guest blog by my GUL Molly, who has a precious almost 11 month old baby girl, The K Bear.

Life is Peachy

After 13 (well, a little less than that) LONG weeks of keeping quiet...we are excited to announce Baby Gibson is on the way! Our little "nugget" will be here in early July, right around my birthday! Chase said that will be an expensive holiday, but we are worth it. (Duh.)

I'm not on Facebook, and after keeping up with some good "mommy" blogs through Pinterest, I decided to give it a try.

So far, so good.

Now for the prego update....

How far along: 13 weeks (baby the size of a PEACH)
Total Weight Gain: Nothing yet! Hehe, I know! BUT, I was SO SO SO SICK my 5th week up until literally last night, so food has not been my friend. A lot of plain bread, Sprite, Ginger Ale, Seltzer, Soda Water, and lemonade.
Maternity Clothes: A pair of jeans (thanks Steph and Zela!), and my belly band.
Stretch Marks: Not yet but itchy as all get out....thought I had one and sent the hubby down to look. That ended with a bump on each of our heads. Not the best timing.
Sleep: It's all I want to do besides pee and drink Sprite while watching Lifetime.
Best Moment this Week: Hearing the heartbeat again and seeing my growing belly! Also, NO hangover on New Year's Day, even though I spent it in bed watching 2 Lifetime movies and a Designing Women marathon.
Miss Anything: lunch meat (cold!), Red Wine (which I hated before nugget came along!) and scheduling my meals whenever I want. Now they are scheduled around my nausea meds.
Movement: I can't feel anything yet, but while they were doing my Ultrasound for the heartbeat, nugget gave a litte kick!
Food Cravings: Cold fruit, Chocolate Milk, Cereal
Anything making me sick or nauseas: Pretty much everything...giving Nugget pep talks everyday that it's about time to be over it, but does Nugget listen? Nope. Preview of what's to come.
Gender: We find out January 27th. Everyone says boy. Or girl. I'm down with either!
Labor Signs: Nope...got some baking to do before then ;)
Symptoms: Some stretching pains in my belly, constant trips to the bathroom (which I did pre-prego anyway), nausea (mostly at night now), and I AM TIRED ALL THE TIME.
Belly Button: still in (pre-preggers)
Wedding Rings: still on
Happy or Moody: Seriously, changes within a second. But then I remind myself I am cooking a Nugget in there and it melts my heart, so happy until more nausea comes my way.
Looking Forward To: January 27th so Mama can start SHOPPING.