Tuesday, November 30, 2010

It's a....

I have a secret.
I snuck down to the ole Ultrasound stop last night because I absolutely couldn't wait another second to find out what we're having. The second my doctor told me last month that for $25 extra I could find out at 16 weeks, I knew David and I wouldn't last until 20 weeks to know what we're having. I'm very glad I married someone who is as impatient about these things (and everything for that matter) as I am. It would be very inconvenient if he wanted to wait and made me do the same. If that had been the case, I probably still would have snuck out one night to find out and just not mentioned it to him. I am under STRICT STRICT instructions not to tell a living soul what the cutie is until Christmas, but now is the time to place your predictions. Trust me, I bursting at the seams to tell EVERYONE, including random strangers on the street, but I agreed because it was the only way David would let us find out. I would rather keep a secret than not know. David's vote was a boy, mine was a girl. Who is right?? Please guess in the comments area. Any name suggestions are also welcome. We are pretty set in our ways about names, but if a suggestion was good enough, we might be persuaded to reconsider our options. :)
Let the debate begin!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Little lime update


SO, since so many people asked the same questions about the pregnancy, I'll just give you all a little update. First of all, as you can see from the little baby ticker, I'm 12.5 weeks along and the baby is doing GREAT. We had an ultrasound and saw the little bean and HER blinking heartbeat and heard HER heartbeat again last week. I'm starting to relax about it and feel confident that everything will work out this time. Freaking out is not going to help I decided.

Secondly, I've been DEATHLY sick since week 6 on the dot. Hello 24-hour nausea and barfing. Whoever said it was "morning" sickness lied. I took off like 2 weeks straight from work because I literally couldn't get out of bed/stop throwing up/ sit up straight without losing breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For Conference weekend, we went over to Melissa and Brandon's house and I threw up all over our car as David drove down the freeway. That's after he already pulled over 3 times for me to stop and do my business. Needless to say, I don't get in the car now unless I absolutely need to. Basically the couch is my new BFF except for the 5 hours a day I'm forced to be a work.

I've had a few mental breakdowns from the nonstop nausea...poor David. Finally, at week ten I broke down and went to the doc for medication because I coudn't take it another second. She told me that the medication isn't risky and I was at way more risk from being hospitalized for dehydration. The whole appointment was so embarrassing because I literally bawled my eyes out the entire time. She just kept handing me more and more kleenex and I just keep crying. I was so embarrassed but thrilled when she let me get the miracle medication. She prescribed me 2 different kinds of meds--one that makes you really drowsy and one that doesn't. When I went to Walgreens to pick them up, I found out that the drowsy ones were covered by insurance and the nondrowsy ones weren't (and they cost $10 a PILL!!!) I tried the drowsy ones and they were awful. It knocked me out for 5-6 hours straight and then I couldn't wake up from this awful daze/hallucination. I haven't touched them again since. It scared me to death.

I finally decided to bite the bullet and try the other ones so I forked over $100 for 10 pills to see if they worked. I took one pill and within 15 minutes: VOILA I'm fixed. I have never felt so good. I only allowed myself to have one a day (during work hours) because of the extreme price. I was SO mad when I found out last week that Costco sells them for $1.00 each from my doctor. Why she failed to mention that in the first place make me SO mad. $250 BIG ONES down the drain and I could have only spent $30. Oh well, live and learn. Now that they're cheaper, I get 2 a day. :)

The baby is due May 15th and we get to find out if it's a GIRL or boy right before Christmas and are so excited. Im dying to have a girl but we'll be happy with just a healthy baby. I think David secretly wants a boy but he thinks baby girls are cuter too. I'm restraining myself from buying anything pink until we find out. I still don't feel good by any stretch of the imagination, but at least I can control the barfing to once a day or less. I eat the same things every single day because I HATE 99% of food. It's embarrassing to admit that I eat an entire bag of potato chips by myself every other day. I don't really care though because they are the ONLY thing that consistently tastes good and doesn't make me sick. Besides I've lost 4 lbs so I'm not worried about it anyhow. I can NOT wait until I feel good all the way. If I'm one of the 10% that's sick all 9 months, someone will die. Anyhow, that's what's been going on in my world lately.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Costumes delivered

As promised, here are pics of our costumes for Halloween 2010. Let me just say, I think they are the best yet. I thought last year would be hard to out due, but this year's were much better...in my professional opinion. We had such a fun Halloween this year. David's mom and dad and sister, Cassie, came to visit us. We took them to the Haunted Forest Friday night and then costume bowling on Saturday night, along with going out to dinner all dressed up. David and I got some dirty looks from the older generations, but they just don't know what's cool. I don't care what they say, our costumes were tight! Hope you had a blast too!

In case there's any question as to what we are: I'm a pimp and David's my ho. And Yes we went there. lol