baby listening!

     at 20 weeks gestation the baby is able to start hearing and at 30 weeks is when its memory starts. i have a couple weeks to go until the baby can start hearing my voice, and everything else for that matter! i already told thomas that every night he will have to start reading the baby a story when we go to bed! so i will have to make sure i watch what i say so the baby doesnt hear anything it shouldnt! that also means no more arguing with thomas! ha! that is much easier said than done, but i will try :)
     when i get to 30 weeks and the baby is able to start forming memories im going to get some bellybuds!! bellybuds are headphones for pregnant women to put on their tummies so their baby can hear family members or listen to prenatal music! my plan is for the baby to get use to listening to certain music in the womb and then after its born i will play the music at bedtime, to help baby revert back to its safe and comfortable days in my tummy. hopefully my plan works!
     the belly buds are cool because you can plug the headphones into anything! it is definitely a must have baby product! so if you have a baby shower coming up anytime soon it would be the perfect baby shower gift!

boy or girl?

     i will be finding out the sex of the baby in about four weeks but i keep trying to figure out if i can tell if its a boy or girl!
     in a book i read, it said if you find you are eating like a teenage boy then you are probably pregnant with a boy, boys tend to eat more and boys are mostly born with a higher birth weight than girls, believed to be because of the extra food that is consumed during gestation. so with all of that being said, i do not have much of an appetite recently and dont eat very much so it must be a girl..?
     BUT i also read in a pregnancy magazine that if you have a dream about the sex of the baby than you will most likely be correct. and so far i have had three dreams that is been a boy, so it must be a boy..?
      this is such a frustrating waiting game! i do not know how women can find the patience to keep it a secret until the baby is born! i would go insane if i had to wait the whole pregnancy to find out the sex of the baby! i will be counting down the days until i find out! but what are your guesses??

   

hello again!

     so much has changed in the last couple months and not a day goes by that i dont think about the need to blog about it and let everyone know what is going on! so i guess the biggest news that i need to share is that i am pregnant!
     my due date is September 11th and i'm already so anxious for the day to come! i found out January 12th and the first thing i could think of was that my wedding dress wouldn't fit me, which turns out i was correct. i had already purchased my dress and a week before the wedding i needed to go in and get a bigger size!
i was so embarrassed to tell them that i needed to get a bigger size, especially because i had originally planned on losing weight before the wedding. so i told the girl who was helping me that i was pregnant and turns out she was too! it made it a lot less awkward. i ended up having to get a dress 2 sizes bigger!!! ugh! but everything turned out perfect!
here are my first ultrasound pictures at 13 weeks! 

babys head and body!

my favorite! the babys feet!!

i am 16 weeks along now and according to an app that i have my baby the size of an avocado, 4 1/2 inches long! every week it tells me the size of the baby and compares is to a food!

this is going to be the craziest year ever!