13 Weeks

13 weeks (5/8)

It is pretty much impossible to hide that belly anymore! On Easter I got a lot of comments on my the shirt I was wearing but I could tell they were trying to figure out if there was a belly under there.  I had my first appointment with Kim just after Easter (4/23 10w 6d). The only thing better than seeing that little pixel flicker on an ultrasound is hearing the heartbeat on the Doppler! It was a strong 140 bpm. When Kinsley heard the heartbeat she said "choo choo train!" At my appointment Kim said she wanted to check another sono in a couple of weeks to check on size. I didn't think much of it at first but then I thought back to when I was pregnant with Kinsley and I didn't remember have a 12 week ultrasound. So then of course I got a little worried about it.  Did my uterus not feel like an almost 11 week uterus? I went for the second ultrasound on 5/6 and everything looked great! I'm sure it was all routine and I was worried about nothing.

It actually looks like a baby!
5/6 12w5d

Sunday May 11th (13w3d) was Mother's Day. With two good sonos and one good appointment out of the way I figured it was time to tell the extended family. I sent most of my aunts a text that said "Happy Mother's day to you from this soon to be mother of two". Of course they were all excited
I've noticed a few things are different with this second pregnancy. First, the time is flying by! Second, I'm not as eager to tell people I'm pregnant. I have the attitude 'if they ask, I'll tell them'.  Third, I don't think I have that "pregnancy glow".  It's more of an "exhausted mom of an almost two year old dullness". The point is, people have been finding out slowly but surely.

How far along: 13 weeks-last week of the 1st trimester!

Total weight gain/loss: Only 1 pound! (At my almost 11 week appointment)

Maternity clothes?: I am in that awkward 'my big jeans don't fit but my maternity pants are too big' stage. Even though they are too big, the maternity pants are way more comfortable!

Stretch marks?: nope

Sleep: I'm thinking it's about time to break out the body pillow!

Best moment this week: Telling more and more people, movement!

Movement: Yes! I have felt movement for a couple of weeks off and on. Sometimes I feel like I'm just imagining it but I'm almost certain that little shrimp is swimming in there.

Food cravings: Tacos, taco salad, chips and queso, Mexican. I might have had it 4 times in one week. 

Gender:  Still thinking girl. (the italics are back!)

What I miss: Caffeine, energy, laying on my stomach.

Milestones: First trimester almost done!

From BabyCenter:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (about the size of a pea pod) and weighs nearly an ounce.
See what your baby looks like this week.
 

9 Weeks

9 weeks (4/10)

Chris and I had a great time in San Antonio. Luckily the nausea and complete exhaustion hadn't kicked in yet. I was certain my aunts, who were with us at the conference, were on to me. I don't know how many times they asked when Kinsley was going to be a big sister! While we were in San Antonio I got a phone call from the Dr's office that they wanted to schedule a 6 week ultrasound. I was so excited to get to see this little bean and make sure everything was fine.
On 3/18 I went in for the ultrasound. It is such a relief to see that little pixel blink! The Heart rate was 112 which is normal for that early. According to my dates I should have been just over 6 weeks. When they did measurements they measured the baby at 5 weeks and 5 days. Just a little earlier, again pretty normal. They gave me a due date of November 13th. Such a relief!

Chillin' with Willie from Duck Dynasty at the Line-X conference.
It's a good think I took the time to curl my hair!

For the past several weeks I have been working on a Shutterfly book for my parents of their two granddaughters. I thought this would be the perfect way to tell them they were getting another grandbaby! I was too early still to feel comfortable enough to make the announcement an official page of the book so I just made a separate page and added it to the back. It was almost perfect timing. We were throwing a 60th birthday party for my dad and Jessica, Chad and Audrey were making a surprise visit. It was the perfect time to tell my whole family at the same time in person. Unfortunately, the book didn't arrive until Monday and of course I didn't have the announcement page ready to slide in there and Chad was leaving that evening. Friday (4/4) the girls spent the day together and got Audrey and Kinsley's Easter pictures taken. That evening we went to Cici's for dinner. Just before everyone was getting ready to leave I gave my Mom and Dad the shutterfly book that had the surprise in the back. Of course my mom wanted to just look at it all later and JanMarie wanted to run next door to Target. People! Don't you understand I'm trying to tell you a secret? Luckily, the page that was inserted in the back of the book fell out. It literally took my mom several minutes looking at the page and me explaining it to her before she realized what the page was saying. Everyone else figured it out right away and were very excited.
Palm Sunday was the following weekend (4/13) and Kim and Josh were going to be in Town. We had Kinsley wear her "Super Sister" shirt to lunch and waited for everyone to catch on. Everyone was very excited! We texted a picture of Kinsley in her "Super Sister" shirt to Nick and Danae.

The "announcement" page

How far along: 9 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: hopefully none yet! :)
Maternity clothes?: Not yet but soon
Stretch marks?: None
Sleep:  I am already having ligament pain when I turn in bed. I didn't get that until my third trimester with Kinsley.
Best moment this week: Sharing the news with family!
Movement: Nope.
Food cravings: Tacos, pizza, anything unhealthy!
Gender: Chris is hoping for a boy
What I miss: Energy, the ability to control my emotions, sleeping all day like I did when I was pregnant with Kinsley
Milestones: A good sono!
From BabyCenter:
New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

Round 2

There is no doubt that is positive!

Well, I wasn't expecting to be back quite so soon! I didn't quite have "the itch" yet but Chris and I decided if we wanted our kids to be 2-3 years apart we'd better start thinking about having another one. The first of the year I ran out of my birth control and didn't have anymore refills so I figured it was as good of time as any to just quit taking it.  I had it all planned out, I would get pregnant in May, June or July and have a baby in February, March or April. Kinsley would be a good 2 1/2 years old but not quite 3. Chris and I had a Line-X conference in San Antonio the middle of March. I told him I didn't really want to be pregnant while we were there, and that is when my plan fell apart. The last week of February Chris and I got a nasty stomach bug. It was not fun at all. That weekend I still felt yucky and had to be careful with what I ate and how much. Monday, after my morning workout, I got really nauseous. I thought it was from my illness the week before but was starting to question it a little. I had had other symptoms like increased smell, swelling in my hands, and getting teary-eyed over a silly show. I even commented on my symptoms but eventually passed them off as nothing or reading into it too much. So, Tuesday morning (the day my friend was scheduled to arrive) I got up to go to the gym and no signs of my dear friend. I thought it was probably just early in the day but since I needed to start medication right away I thought I had better double check. Of course I did not have any pregnancy tests at home. So what do I do? I head to Walmart, then the gym, then back home, eat breakfast with Kinsley and wait until Chris leaves before peeing and taking a test. I obviously did not have enough to drink the day before! Before Chris left for work he made a comment about my dear friend not showing her lovely face yet. He was quite concerned since we were going to San Antonio the next week. I assured him she was supposed to come that day but I did buy a pregnancy test just to check. So I took the test and within a minute I can see a faint line. I kept saying "no way! no way!" and then Kinsley started repeating me. I called Chris and of course he doesn't answer! I finally got a hold of him and say "It's totally positive". He couldn't believe it either. The more I looked at it the darker the line got. The whirlwind of emotions started- excitement, disbelief, anxiety all while trying not to get my hopes up too much.

I called the Dr.'s office immediately. They wanted to check labs to confirm pregnancy but did not need to check my progesterone level. She said if I wanted to recheck it in 48 hours I could but they would call me Wednesday to ask all kinds of questions and order more labs. Since I was already on the progesterone with Kinsley they just started me on it again. Chris didn't remember giving me my medication every morning for 2 months with Kinsley. I quickly reminded him and told him that he could do that job again! :) Kinsley and I went to have my blood drawn Tuesday just before lunch. She was so patient and waited very nicely for me to get done. Wednesday afternoon the Dr.'s office called me back and said that the lab to confirm pregnancy was only 86. They wanted repeat it in 48 hours to make sure it was doubling and no other labs or questions would be done until we knew everything was ok. When she said that my heart sank a little, even though this is the exact position I was with Kinsley and I knew it was coming, it was discouraging. 

 

Thursday was my birthday. Kinsley took me shopping in the morning, JanMarie took us to sushi for lunch, Kinsley sent me for a pedicure in the afternoon while she napped at Nana's (Chris's mom), and Chris took us to Paisano's for dinner. It was a great day! While I was out for my pedicure I snuck in a trip to the lab. For some reason I was really nervous about the results, I didn't "feel" pregnant. Even though I wasn't expecting to be pregnant so soon and it wasn't how I had planned it and it came as a complete shock I was already excited and attached to this poppy seed growing inside of me. I didn't want to lose it and start over! I was ok with and excited for a fall baby instead of a spring baby. I tried to be so pt waiting for the results but I couldn't take it anymore, I had to know what they were that day! I called the office and the secretary tells me the results are in but she will have to have Kim's (my midwife) nurse call me back who was not the same nurse I originally talked to. She called me back and told me they weren't in and Kim wasn't in the office so they would have to call me on Friday. I felt like they were lying to me about the results not being in and something must be wrong if they are wanting Kim to call me with the results. Friday came and still no call. I tried to take a nap but I dreamt about not getting the results and having to wait until Monday. I finally called them and they said they had gone up to 280! Woohoo! It more than doubled! No more labs for now.

Birthday dinner

 

Oh my little yellow friend...

1 Year old

1 year

Well, the time has come...I no longer have a baby, I now  have a toddler! I am excited to see Kinsley grow and see her little personality take shape. I am also a little nervous about the attitude. Kinsley is already a drama queen!

So much has changed in the last month and there have been a lot of firsts. Kinsley met her first and only cousin, Audrey. She wasn't too impressed and sure didn't like when her Momma or Grandma were holding baby Audrey. Kinsley seemed like such a big girl while we were visiting in Colorado. Not only was she so much bigger than her new cousin, but she actually new what was going on and even helped a little. It was a long 8 hour trip each way but she did awesome and it was well worth it!

Aren't they just so cute with their matchiness!

Kinsley is over it. Cuteness!

Kinsley had her first swim lessons the first week of June. The water was frigged but she LOVED it! She didn't care that she was shivering and her lips were blue. We are still working on blowing bubbles instead of breathing in the water...

Waiting patiently to get in the water

Kinsley stayed at both Grandma and Grandpas' houses for the first time while Chris and I went on vacation with 3 other couples. It was nice to get away but I sure did miss that little girl, attitude and all!

The girls at Lambert's

While we were gone Kinsley got her first tooth! She took her first steps the Sunday before we left. I am really glad because she took more steps while we were gone and was ready to practice when we got home.
The day before Kinsley's birthday she got her first haircut. She did a great job! There wasn't much that needed cut but it helped to even the ends up.

First haircut

On Kinsley's actual birthday 20 of us went to a Royals game. Karissa made Kinsley a sign in hopes of getting us on TV.

Not the best picture but cute sign!

I didn't see it on TV but... we got it signed by the Shortstop Alcides Escobar! It is a cool story, but kind of long so skip on down if you don't care about the story. Here it is:

So Chris, Kinsley and I were in the truck waiting to pay to park and a guy in another truck rolls down his window, yells at us, and asks if we have a parking pass. We tell him no and he hands us this purple parking pass. Since we were with other people I felt like we needed to park by them but we could at least use the parking pass as a way to get in and not pay the 10 bucks to park. We get to the booth thing and the lady scans our purple pass. Chris asks where we are supposed to go. She looked shocked and said, "have you never parked here before? You are in for a treat! This is as close to the stadium you can get, it's where the players park." When were heard that we said forget about the rest of our group we are parking in this lot! It really was so close. It was amazing. After the game (the Royals lost 9-1. Terrible!) while we were getting ready to put Kinsley in the truck we saw these amazingly nice cars driving out of a back lot and people running to their window. They all yelled that it was Escobar. I grabbed Kinsley and her sign and ran to his window. I felt a little bad that I was bothering him especially after a loss like that so I made sure he knew it was Kinsley's birthday and then I told him he had a sweet car. He said "Thanks" and rolled up his window.

Kind of a girly autograph but whatever

Kinsley's birthday party was the Saturday after her birthday. She will also have one tomorrow night (a week later). The party went really good. Kinsley had fun with all of her friends and got a lot of new toys and outfits.

Birthday girl!

I hate that you can't see her dress in this picture! It was the inspiration for the theme of the party. The dress was pink and green polka dot. She looked so cute in it!

I made the cake to match the theme. I was pretty proud of it!

Birthday cake

Surprise polka dots on the inside

Kinsley hasn't really ever had sweets so I was excited to see her reaction as she dug in to this delicious cake! 

That is what I got...just picking at it...no smashing or anything...disappointed. She really didn't even make it to the cake part, just the icing. I guess it's not a bad thing that she doesn't have a huge sweet tooth yet.

                                   
Kinsley had her One Year pictures done tonight! I can't wait to see how they turn out. Pretty sure she is clapping in half of them...

I almost forgot! Kinsley got her ears pierced on her birthday! She cried a lot but now she doesn't mess with them at all and they look adorable!

Age: 12 months (it sounds better than one year!)

Weight/percentile: 20.2 pounds/34th percentile 

Height/percentile: 29.75 inches/69th percentile

Head circumference: 17.5 inches/31st percentile (so Kinsley bonked her head really good a couple of days ago, I think the nurse measured the bump too. Otherwise her head grew a lot!)

Eye color: Blue, sometimes green if you look deep into her eyes

Hair color: Light brown. It is getting long and thick in the back. I even pulled it back into a little pony tail. She looked adorable

Teeth: 2!! On the bottom right in front. Those little boogers are sharp!

Diaper size: Size 3 

Clothing size: 9 month clothes fit fine but she wears a lot of 12 month clothes too. Except in shorts, I have to get a 6 month size or smaller for shorts. Size 2-3 shoes

Favorite food: Kinsley will eat any fruit. She isn't liking green beans at the moment and is loving carrots. Maybe she got burned out on green beans. She transitioned over to vitamin D milk a few weeks before her birthday. For the most part she is a good eater!

Favorite activity: Swimming! Playing outside, playing with new birthday toys

Movement: Kinsley practically runs around the house with her little walker. She has taken quite a few steps but I think she is still a little chicken to do too much. 

Sounds/talking: I Anytime she sees Chris she says "Hey Dada!" It is cute. I love how excited she gets to see us!

Well, I guess I can't blog on here anymore since I don't have a baby!  I'll just have to start over... just kidding!

***Update
I thought I should add a few of my favorite pictures from Kinsley's birthday parties and her one year pictures.

The inspiration dress

Blowing out her candle

Party #2 Luau

One of my favorites!

Love this one too.

Man, this kid is cute!

11 Months old

11 Months

 These pictures are getting harder and harder to take. She doesn't want to sit still and smile for a camera anymore.
I am so sad that this is her last "month" picture. Next month she will be one year old! Ugh! It is so hard to believe how fast this year has gone.
Kinsley has become such a big girl over the last month. She crawls everywhere, stands up on everything, and is walking with her little toy walker. Kinsley eats everything and always wants whatever we are eating. Girl gets so excited when she sees a straw! I have tried really hard not to let her have anything sweet or fried. I will let her have cake on her birthday but I really want to hold off on the fried stuff for as long as possible.
Kinsley has gone back to sleeping through the night. Once in a while she will still wake up but if we let her cry for a few minutes she usually puts herself back to sleep. Thank goodness!
Working part time has been amazing! It has given me more time to do things like go to the Zoo, take walks and go to the library. Kinsley doesn't care too much about the animals at the Zoo but loves to be out and about with other kids. I think Kinsley is happy that I'm working part time too. :)

I just realized she had animal print on to go to the Zoo. How cool is she!?

Watch out world, crazy driver on the loose!

Chris, Kinsley and I went to a Royals game a few weeks ago. It was quite chilly but we stayed warm and the Royals won! Kinsley loves watching Chris play softball and really enjoyed the Royals game. She has the clapping and cheering part down!

We had awesome seats! 6 rows behind the Royals dugout

I had my first official Mother's Day. Even though I had to work it was a nice day just hanging out with the family. Kinsley even got me a present:

Love it!

Happy Mother's Day!

Silly faces:

 

And the best part of the month...I'm an Aunt and Kinsley is a cousin! Baby Audrey (X"ticia) was born on 5/22 and 1:36 a.m. She weighed 7lbs 14oz and was 20 inches long.

 Kinsley, my mom and I will leave Sunday to go see her. Kinsley is so excited to meet her cousin.

Age: 11 months

Weight/percentile: 18lbs 8oz

Height/percentile: 28.5 inches

Head circumference: Probably small

Eye color: Still blue

Hair color: Light brown. I might trim it just a little right around her birthday

Teeth: Nothing

Diaper size: Size 3 :( Switched her over on 5/16

Clothing size: Still 9 month clothes. Size 2 shoes

Favorite food: Kinsley is liking fruit and meats more. She loves green beans and juice boxes. She had her first Popsicle last week. It was homemade so no extra sugar or anything.

Favorite activity: Playing with anything she shouldn't play with, eating paper, going for walks and being outside.

Movement: Kinsley is standing on her own for really long periods of time. She also loves walking behind her walker.

Sounds/talking: I taught her how to say "huh uh"... oops. She is telling us all kinds of things, we just don't quite understand her yet.

10 Months old

Miss Sass

She got the sticker so now she is happy

My last post was only 2 1/2 weeks ago but so much has changed! For example, on 4/9 I walked in to Kinsley's room and saw this: 

Standing after a nap

I totally let her stand there crying while I ran grabbed my phone and snapped a few pics. We lowered her bed all the way down a few weeks later. Kinsley has also mastered crawling! She is pretty fast and very rarely reverts back to army crawling. Just this week Kinsley started pulling up on all the furniture and is even doing some cruising. This girl is growing way to fast! 

At her last appointment the Dr. said she could eat anything, as long as she didn't choke on it and it didn't contain honey she could eat it. We have let her eat pretty much anything and she loves it! She loves feeding herself and won't eat "baby food" anymore. 

She ate the whole frozen waffle!

I am so excited to be going part time next week. I can't wait to have more time to spend with Kinsley. It worked really well for her to go to the shop with Chris when she was younger but now she is getting more mobile and does not like being contained. With the nicer weather coming (wish it was already here!) we will be able to take walks to the shop and meet Chris for lunch. 

I'm not sure what happened to my awesome sleeper but I WANT HER BACK!!! I really don't know what happened. One night she just started waking up in the middle of the night. She isn't hungry and nothing appears to be wrong. She just wakes up crying, I go into her room, give her her wubble (binky), rock her for a few minutes and lay her back down. Sometimes it's just one time through the night, sometimes it's 4 or 5 times. If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to them!

Age: 10 months

Weight/percentile: I'll weigh her next month

Height/percentile: I'll try to get her height too

Head circumference: we'll see about the head

Eye color: Still blue. Some days at the right angle you can see the green come through

Hair color: Light brown. It is starting to get long in the back

Teeth: Where are they!?

Diaper size: Size 2

Clothing size: Mostly 9 month clothes. Size 2 shoes

Favorite food: Kinsley will eat almost anything as long as she can feed it to herself. She loves scrambled eggs, most veggies especially carrots, crackers, waffles, pasta, dry cereal, yogurt, beans, and all kinds of other things. She doesn't really care for fruits so much and won't eat mushrooms or yellow squash.

Favorite activity: Pulling everything out of the diaper bag, dirty clothes, my purse, whatever. She is fast at it  too. She will pull something out and throw it then go for the next thing, then the next. It's kinda funny to watch actually. 

She also loves laughing, especially when I tell her "no". 

Movement: Like crazy. She crawls on her hands and knees, pulls up on furniture, does a little cruising on the furniture, and climbs all over  Mommy and Daddy

Sounds/talking: I love how it sounds like she is having conversation with us. The other day she started crawling down the hall and I said "Where do you think your going?". She said, "Dadda". I told her he had gone to work and she made a squeal like she was sad he left. So funny! 

9 Months old



9 Months

I know this is a terrible picture but Kinsley had a really bad upset tummy and I was not going to chance getting one of her nice outfits dirty. Poor thing was sick for a good 5 days. I took her to the Dr. when she decided to only eat 1-2 oz of her bottle instead of 6! He (not my regular Dr.) said it was just a virus. UGH!
I am kind of slacking this month. We have had a lot going on the past month and a half. We celebrated birthdays, St. Patrick's Day, Easter and just had a baby shower for X""ticia (Jessica and Chad's baby-that's not her real name). We spent a lot of time at the church during the Passion Play that Chris was in.

St. Patrick's Day

Passion Play. Kinsley was a little unsure of Chris with all his make up on.

Easter

Family Easter pic.
Notice Kinsley's little bracelet I made her?

Jessica's shower.

Kinsley is becoming less of a baby every day. It make me so sad but so excited to see her little personality come out. She is still army crawling but is trying to for real crawl. She gets up on her hands and knees and takes two little "steps" then goes back to the army crawl. She is also trying to pull herself up on the couch and her bed. We already moved her mattress down once, may have to do it again. Kinsley is eating all kinds of things and even drinks from a straw! I am trying to teach her a few things in sign language like "more" and "thank you". She uses her own sign language for "more" by pounding on the table!

"I love asparagus!"

"Grandpa let's me finish off his beer"
It was just root beer and there wasn't anything left in the bottle.

Age: 9 months (9 1/2 by the time I get this posted)

Weight/percentile: 17lbs 2oz/ 17th percentile (She lost weight!? Maybe a difference in scales or time of day? The Dr. wasn't concerned)
Height/percentile: 28.5in/ 87th percentile
Head circumference: 16.5in/ 10th percentile
Eye color: Still blue
Hair color: Light brown. The back is darker than the top. She has a little bald spot where her headband sits :/
Teeth: None!
Diaper size: Size 2
Clothing size: She still wears a lot of 6 month onsies but definitely needs the 9 month pants. Her Easter dress was 12 month.
Favorite food: She is starting to get pickier. She used to love bananas and avocados but won't eat them anymore. She ate a whole spear of asparagus one night and loved it. She screamed when I took it away. The Dr. told us to try anything we wanted except milk and honey. So maybe we will try some meats soon.
Favorite activity: She loves walks. The weather has been nice enough lately to go for walks! She also likes playing with the dogs at my parent's house.
Movement: Still army crawling but trying really hard to for real crawl. She loves to throw herself back and look at things upside down. She is squirrely sometimes
Sounds/talking: She says momma! It's more like momomom, but I'll take it! She also says what sounds like "bye" when she waves bye-bye. If you ask her "What does the doggy say?" she makes a high pitched "bark".  She is one smart cookie already!

On my Birthday. 8 1/2 months postpartum

Finding time to go to the gym or do an exercise video at home hasn't been easy. Maybe it's motivation that I'm having trouble finding. I weigh less now than before I got pregnant and wear a size smaller in jeans but I really need to start toning! We are going on a boating trip in June and if you can't tell in the pic, my butt has completely disappeared.  That oughta look real nice in a swimming suit. All in all I am pretty proud of how I look after gaining so much pregnancy weight...until I sit down...