14 Weeks

I am 14 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 128 lbs. today. I was super excited, but also nervous because I am worried that since I haven't been gaining that maybe something is wrong. I do feel like my waist/stomach is getting bigger because my jeans all feel tight. I had to break out my 'fat girl' jeans from  after I had Jax and they are still a little loose but they fit me much better than they did. My heartburn seems to be a little worst this week especially when I eat too much. I ate 5 peppercinis with my pizza on Saturday night and I paid for it all night long with heartburn. I took a ton of tums and nothing helped. I have been craving hearts of palm lately and I am almost out, so I desperately need to go to the grocery. I have been wanting english cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and hearts of palm. I have also been wanting fresh pineapple and chicken salad with celery, grapes, and pecans on a croissant. I am so ready fro warmer weather I could just go insane. We had a teaser of it last week and it was wonderful and now it is so cold again! I am so ready to grill out and sit outside in the warm sun. As far as the gender reveal goes I think right now we have decided to go with having the boys wear big brother shirts and then have a pink onesie with lil sis on it or a blue onsie with lil bro on it and have the ultrasound tech put whichever one it is in a box and then we can wrap it later and have the boys open the box at the party and pull out the onesie to reveal what it is! I love the balloon idea so much and it makes such a great picture, but I like that the boys will all get to help reveal this way too and the balloon thing makes me nervous on taking it to the place in case something would be left out as a clue. We also I think have possible decided on a boys name. I know I definitely want the boys middle name to be Jourdan. This was my great grandma schmitt's maiden name. I was so excited when I found this out! I really wanted to name our next baby after my Grandma Folz's side in some way. Jason likes jourdan for a middle name but he wasn't crazy about the spelling. I actually like the different spelling the most about it. Now for the first name…. this is not set in stone, but it is the only name we can both agree on at the moment…. we both like Elijah. This is after the show Vampire Diaries and The Originals, so I am still sticking with naming our boys after TV show Characters that I like. We both are still liking Junelyse Gail for a girl. It feels good to have at least a name for a girl or a boy that we both can agree on and like. Now I need to get shirts ordered for the boys! I have also felt like maybe I felt some movement but then nothing has been strong enough or distinct enough to tell. It could just be gas. I am so ready to start feeling the baby move. That always makes me feel so much more at ease about things!

13 Weeks Hello Second Trimester

I am 13 weeks pregnant today! I am now in my second trimester and I am so glad to be done with my first trimester! I weighed in today at 129 lbs. I am just getting over the flue so  that helped me keep my weight down this time. I didn't eat much this weekend and then I ended up sick Sunday night and all day yesterday. This has put a damper on getting things done this past week. I know I won't get much done this week because I am so busy at work this week! I am not looking forward to that at all. I am so ready for to have energy and motivation to get my house deep cleaned and cleaned out and organized. There is no point in deep cleaning the house until Jason is finished with hanging our new interior doors. That is making everything a mess around here. I am going to have to say that my goal again this week is to clean out my bedroom and bathroom and clean out the boys' rooms and organize. As far as cravings go this week I have been craving chocolate covered strawberries, so I made some Friday night and they were delicious. Jason grilled stuffed shrimp and filet mignons for dinner friday night also. I normally always eat new york strips when I have steak and I haven't had a filet in a long time. I have to say I really loved it and I might have to start getting those from now on! Since I was sick the last couple of days nothing has sounded good to eat. I am feeling better this morning and eggo waffles sounded good for breakfast this morning with Simply orange juice. I have been on a bit of an orange juice kick the past week also, but it has to be the Simply orange juice for some reason. I am not sleeping very good at night. For some reason my left shoulder has really been bothering me and I am sure it is how I am laying on it. I also have to get up once at night to go pee and then it takes awhile for me to go back to sleep. I am looking forward to feeling the baby move and I am thinking that should be happening in the next couple of weeks. That is my favorite part of being pregnant and honestly probably about the only thing I like about being pregnant. We are no closer on names for a boy either. My top names are Michael and Jacob. Jason throws random names out all the time and usually I am looking at him like he is crazy. The names he comes up with I feel like are perfect dog names, but not something I want to name our son. Right now he is stuck on Tucker and I am not a fan at all of that. As of right now we are still liking Junelyse Gail for a girl and calling her Elyse. I am leaning toward just June Gail for a girl also. I am really starting to like the name June by itself. I just think Elyse is such a pretty name. We still have not decided on how to do the gender reveal party yet and we haven't really talked about it much. I am really hoping it works out to do it the last weekend in March, so that Christian can be at the ultrasound with us. He is so excited to have a new little brother or sister. Well that pretty much sums up this week, hopefully I can be more productive and get something accomplished around here before next week!

12 Weeks

I am 12 Weeks today! I weighed in at 129 lbs. this week. I am really not looking forward to seeing that 130 mark on the scale again. I have felt  a little more sick the last couple of days when I wait too long to eat. I still have not thrown up yet. I am still doing the gagging and dry heaving thing when I feel nauseous. I am still able to wear all my regular clothes, but my jeans I have had to start using a ponytail holder for the button to give a little more room and some of my sweaters are a little too short now. I am finding that the clothes are quickly becoming too small. I went to House of Blues and Saturday and got some amazing fleece lined leggings that are more stithy feeling and so comfortable. I also bought some longer sweaters just to get me through this next month of cold. I can not tell you how ready for spring I am. I am hoping to not have to buy any maternity clothes this time. I didn't buy any with Lucas and managed to make it through wearing regular clothes that were longer in the top and my bella band for my jeans. I am nervous about this one being in the summer though that I might be bigger and swell more. I have been walking 4 miles about 4 times a week lately so hopefully that will help me too not get too big. I also plan on swimming laps in the pool at our house and at my parents house for some added exercise! I am also thinking that tanks, maxi skirts, and sundresses will help me out this summer. As far as cravings go this week for breakfast I ate a sugar free applesauce bar from Maxine's everyday. I love those!  For lunch I had either pizza or chicken salad and dinner I was kind of all over the place. Just recently I have been in the mood for grilled chicken breasts that I can cut and dip in a wing sauce and ranch dressing or even make a wrap out of it. I think Jason is going to grill chicken breast tonight to have for the rest of the week for dinner and lunch! I have also been craving some chocolate. I was craving cheesecake and I got that for dessert when Jason and I had our date night Saturday night, so now I am onto chocolate. Not a lot of chocolate, just a piece here and there and I of course am loving my oreo cookies again! I am dying for my girl scout cookie order to come in! I have been wanting to stop into libs and pick up some chocolate from there, but haven't got around to it. I have not been in the mood for steak at all and chinese, mexican, or seafood has not sounded good either. I did eat some cooked sushi the other night and it was great! I am still getting up at night at least once to pea and I have a hard time getting back to sleep after I am awake. This makes me really tired during the day and I am fine if I can take a little nap in the afternoon but if I can't I am asleep on the couch by 8:00 on the nights that I don't work and i am completely worthless to get anything done around here. I will say though I have been a little better this past week on accomplishing some things. I pretty much have Jax and christian all moved in to their new room. Their new furniture got delivered today. I still need to have Jason hang a couple of pictures in their room and in Lucas' room. Jason has been busy hanging new interior doors lately and I love the look of the new doors but man does it take forever for him to get one door hung! My goal this next week is to finish organizing Lucas, Christian and Jax's rooms and hopefully get what will be the nursery all cleaned out, so that once we know what we are having Jason can get to work in there! I also want to get my room and bathroom cleaned out and deep cleaned this next week I have really let that go and I can't take it any more. I need to go through my clothes and get rid of some of them. I was so excited after my appointment last week that I had to order something for the baby. I ordered a carseat canopy and car seat cover set  that I am excited to get! I went with a grey and white chevron print so it will work with a boy or a girl. Even though I am almost positive I am having a boy. I have also started thinking and planning for the gender reveal party. I don't have anything decided for certain yet on it, but It will with be the last friday in March or the first Friday in April. It all depends on if my doctor is going to be in over spring break or not. And I won't know that until my next appointment because I forgot to ask her at my last one. I am leaning toward doing the box with balloons in it for the reveal, because I just love how the pictures turn out for that. I would love to think of something creative or different but It is hard since Jason and I want to find out with everyone else and I don't want anyone at the party to know ahead of time either. I haven't decided for sure on food yet, but right now I am leaning toward finger type foods and doing a slider bar and having lots of different appetizers. It will probably depend on what I am craving at the time on what we have to eat! i am really hoping for nice warm weather so we can be outside for it. Now that I have the boys' rooms pretty much finished I need to be looking more at nursery ideas. I know if we have a boy I am going to do a vintage car theme in his room and I am really excited to that. I have no idea what to do if I have a girl. I do know that I do not want pinks or purples in the room at all. I will probably have to go with grey and turquoise or some girly shade of blue. I am looking forward to being in my second trimester next week! In a way I feel like this first trimester has taken forever but then in a way I feel like I can't believe I am almost in my second trimester.

End Of First Trimester Doctor's Appointment

Today was my first doctor's appointment with my doctor and to hear the heartbeat on the doppler. I weighed in today at 128 lbs. And overall I am happy with that. I think it is a pound or two heavier than when I was pregnant with Christian, but it is 6 lbs. less than when I was pregnant with Jax and 8 lbs. less than when I was pregnant with Lucas. I was glad to see that I only gained 2 lbs. this time also. I would love to only gain 1 pound at my next appointment but I am sure that I will probably gain at least two. I was so nervous going to this appointment and once we got in the room I was even more nervous. Luckily it didn't take long for her to find the heartbeat! It was beating in the 150's which is a little slower than Jax and Lucas at this appointment. I can not tell you how relieved I was to hear that heartbeat! Jason, Jax and Lucas went with me to the appointment so they could all hear the heartbeat also. After they heard that Jason took the boys out to the car so I could finish my appointment in peace. We talked briefly about a V-back. obviously we are not going to decide anything right now. She wants to leave it up to me and I want to leave it up to her…. I think we will just see how everything goes with the ultrasounds. One thing that I was relieved to hear was that if we do decide to do a C-section then I can have another person in the room with Jason and I. I was really happy to hear this! We also talked about what hospital I should go to and some of the pros and cons of both hospitals. I asked Jason what he thought after the appointment and he really didn't care, but he said that the women's hospital felt like home to him. The convenience of St. Mary's is nice. The good thing is that we don't have to make a decision until we are on our way to have the baby. Going by how the heart rate has been and how I have been feeling this first trimester I have to say I am 90% sure that it is another boy! I am perfectly happy with another boy! I love my boys more than anything and another boy would fit in perfect with our family! The only problem is picking out a name! I do know if it is a boy I will do the nursery in an antique car theme! I am super excited about this! I am just so excited to plan things and find out what we are having! I am thinking we will do a gender reveal either the last weekend in March or the first weekend in April. My next appointment is in 4 weeks and then the appointment after that will be the gender Appointment!  I hope this next month goes by fast! I am tired of winter and ready for spring!

11 Weeks

I am 11 weeks pregnant today! I weighed in at 129 lbs. this morning. I am really hoping that the doctor's scale doesn't weigh me more than this. I am so nervous for my appointment on thursday I could just die! I felt sick Friday night, but then I felt fine on Saturday and Sunday. Then I felt sick yesterday. I haven't really felt that strong sense of nausea for a while though. It seems like I have just really bad gag reflexes right now. In the evenings I will out of no where just gag and almost throw up. I have managed to not throw up at all so far. I have definitely been more tired in the evenings. If I don't take an afternoon nap then I am struggling to keep my eyes open at 8:00. My boobs are still pretty sore. Strong and different smells still bother me but not quite as bad as they were. I just feel like overall this first trimester hasn't been quite as unbearable as it was with Jax and Christian. After reading my posts with Lucas I am thinking I felt more like this with Lucas, but maybe feel even a little better than I did with him. This all makes me nervous that there won't be a heartbeat on thursday. I will be so glad when that appointment is over and we can move on one way or another. I am so anxious to plan and talk about this baby! I have just been too nervous and don't want to get my hopes up too much. I haven't even been able to hardly talk about names with Jason, because I am too worried. I will say I know for sure that I will use Gail and June in the girls name if we have a girl. I want her to be named after my Mom, Aunt Susan, Grandma Folz and Grandma Emilie. Jason and I both like the name Elise for a girl, so we might try and tie that in there also and actually call her that. Jason's vote is to name her Elise Gail June Pickerill and my vote is to name her Junelise Gail Pickerill and call her Elise. I am also thinking about just naming her June Gail Pickerill and forgetting about using Elise. I don't know why I am even wasting my time thinking about a girls name because we all know it is going to be another boy and Jason and I can not agree on anything for a name! I want the name to be from a TV show that we watch and I really want to use the middle name Gail but jason is saying no to the middle name and he thinks I am stupid for wanting to name him after a tv show. My favorite name right now is Michael. Christian likes that name also, but Jason of course does not. The middle name will of course be a family name but we have not really gotten anywhere on that! I will post back on Thursday with a doctor appointment update and I am praying for good news!