19 weeks and the anticipation is building....

because on tuesday we will finally know the sex of our baby, YAY! I am so excited, I am trying not to think about it too much because I will get myself all in a tizzy over it, lol. We had a good weekend this week, we had our friend Chris and Heather's son Christopher's first bday party, he is so adorable and so is their daughter Ava. It was great to see our friends and have some great food! It also made me so excited because soon we will get to have our little baby at the party, only a few more months :)
Then today we just did a lot of things around the house, there are a few things I would like to do to the house, minus the baby's room, before july. It's like a never ending process!
As usual, here are my weekly pics:

We have been getting a lot of snow lately, on Tuesday it snowed allllll day and left me stranded inside with Sadie. Here are a few pics of the snow, it was a heavy snow and stuck to like every single branch on the tree I tried to capture how awesome it was, but it was hard to!

  

 

I will be sure to update asap as soon as we find out on tuesday, yippeeeee!

18 weeks

Today is 2/15 and we are getting yet more SNOW, ugh. I really really REALLY can't wait till winter is over and at least it starts getting warmer, I am starting to go stir crazy! Anyway, I didn't take 17 week pics because I forgot and really I didn't notice much of a difference but here are the 18 weekers....

 

The belly is growing! And only 1 more week till we go to find out the sex, I really can't wait!

wowzers

so i think i finally have a belly, all of a sudden last week it was like WHOA. now i basically need to wear my maternity jeans or leggings and most of my normal shirts feel very tight and uncomfortable when i wear them. here are some pics i just took, i think they will explain for themselves!

 

i forced sadie to take some pics with me too. she's so cute! we go to the doctor on wednesday and might be able to find out the sex, i hope so, i am getting super impatient :) feeling very lucky and blessed though, definitely no complaints here!

almost 16 weeks...

My baby belly is almost visible to people who don't know I am pregnant, so I am super excited for that. I am even wearing these maternity jeans I got from Gap and I LOVE THEM. Elastic waists rule :)

Here are my weekly belly pics:

I discovered photoshop for free online so I hope you like the fun words I put on the pictures. I am trying to become a little more internet savvy so I can make this blog more fun!
Next week we go for our checkup appointment where we might be able to find out the sex! If baby cooperates and the doc can tell, we shall see! If not then we go back to the specialist doctor on feb. 23rd for the anatomy scan so we will definitely know then if not next week. I can't wait!
I want to post all of the fun furniture and bedding and room ideas I have, I will do that soon.
It's hard to keep on top of blogging!

some updates...

we had our 2 doctor appointments last week and everything seemed great. at the 1st trimester screening there was a flat screen tv and it was pretty cool to see the baby like that, on a huge screen and in a lot of detail. it was moving around a LOT, the u/s tech was laughing because we could barely freeze the screen to get any pictures. the legs were pushing off the 'walls' and doing almost flips. it is crazy that they have fingers and toes that you can actually count and all the other little body parts that are formed and now just have to grow. here is one picture from our normal ob appointment, the screening appointment only printed pictures out on paper and they are hard to scan.  it's waving its little hand at us :)

another thing i have been thinking a lot about lately is the nursery! we went to look at furniture over the weekend and i am glad we starte because there is a lot of stuff to choose from, but i think we narrowed it down to a few options.
other than that, life is as normal. i think my bump is starting to show, i will take another picture on friday. and sadie is turning 3 years old on saturday, i can't believe my little girl is going to be 3! i can't wait to see how she interacts with the baby, i think they are going to be best friends :)

time has been flying!

i can't believe i am already 12 weeks pregnant! so much has happened in the past 6 weeks since i have updated this, i suck at updating it but now that work and school have calmed down significantly i will have a lot more time to take pics and keep this thing current!
so we went to the doctor just about 3 weeks ago and had another ultrasound, the baby grew SO much and instead of just being a dot on the screen it was an actual little person with a head, arms and legs plus it was moving! here is a pic from the appointment:

he/she is upside down but its a good shot!
now here are a few pictures of me at 10 weeks, i am getting bigger but still looking just fat in my opinion!

today is a HUGEEEE jets game so i am of course wearing my jersey for this photo session, lol 12 week pics:

this week is going to be a BIG one. we have our normal check up appointment on tuesday with the ob then on wednesday we go for the nuchal transluscency scan, it is a big ultrasound and we will get to see the baby for awhile and maybe even in 3D. i am excited but also nervous, i will be in 2nd tri on friday and once these appointments are over i will feel a lot better! i will update with new pics every week from now on, promise!

been so busy!

it's been a couple weeks, but lots has happened since the last time i updated!
we went to the doctor last tuesday and we had the first 'real' ultrasound, we saw the heartbeat, it was a tiny flicker on the screen, it was awesome! here is a picture of it:

we go back on dec. 15th for our next appointment and this time we should really be able to see something more than just a little blob!
i took a pic on week 6 but forgot on week 7, not like there's much change but this week i am starting to feel bigger. i haven't gained any actual weight but all my clothes are super tight on me, its kind of annoying!
here is the week 6 pic:

please don't mind the see through pants lol. i will be updating soon! until then, fingers crossed!

5 weeks

So it's been a week since we found out, and it feels like the longest week ever! I went to the doctor on Wednesday, he did an ultrasound, here is the picture we got:

It was awesome, but obviously it was wayyyy to early to see anything in there! I go back on Tuesday for more bloodwork then again on the 24th for another ultrasound. I really hope this time we will be able to see something and we might even be able to hear the heartbeat - oh boy!
It's such a weird feeling to be pregnant so early on because it doesnt feel like it, no belly, no real symptoms yet and I can't even tell anyone! I have been stressing out about everything being ok but I am trying to just be positive and know that everything will be ok.
So I also decided that I wanted to take pics each week of my growing belly. Here is week 5:

I think anything that resembles a belly is bloat, if that's a symptom, I have been majorly bloated!!

That's all for now, I will be back next week with blood results and in 2 weeks with another ultrasound, woo hoo!!!

finally... baby scicutella is on its way!!!

We are completely in SHOCK!!! On saturday morning I woke up and decided to take a test, I had a few laying around and wanted to make sure I wasn't pregnant since I would be having a drink or 2 the rest of the weekend. WELLLLL I could have sworn I saw the FAINTEST line basically ever so I called John to help me and make sure I wasn't losing my mind... He saw it too but wasn't convinced and I guess even though a line is a line, neither was I. I went to the mall, went to CVS for more tests, and 3 hours later heres what I got:

SO I AM FREAKING PREGNANT!!!!!!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
We are so thrilled, 7 months and here we are. Unoficially my due date is July 16th, 2010.  A summer baby :)
I am calling the doctor today to try to get an appt sooner than later. I am anxious to get in there!
We told John's mom on Saturday and I went to see my family yesterday and told them. Needless to say, everyone is super happy and excited!
I'm going to keep this blog as a log of my pregnancy and our future little babies early years :)