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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
 
Not much to update right now. No more work has been done on the nursery. I still can't feel the baby moving or kicking. I'm still feeling very good and am showing a little bit more. I have pictures that I took at 15 weeks (two weeks ago already!) that I want to upload. There still on the camera though waiting to be transferred. Hey, maybe I'll have them uploaded by the time I take the next ones at 20 weeks!

Posted by Kristina at 3/24/2004 09:14:00 AM

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Monday, March 22, 2004
 
Kris and I have cleaned out about 90% of our offices now! Yay! This means we just have a little bit more to go and we can condense them into one. You know what that means...That means we can then start decorating the nursery! I've had one person (a guy) ask me if we're going to go crazy with the nursery. I'm not sure what he meant by crazy but we are going to decorate it. We're going to buy a crib. I'm going to paint the old dresser I'm using now because Kris and I are going to order ourselves new bedroom furniture. This old dresser I used when I was a baby! It's a dark brown color and I'm going to paint it white. Depending on the color of the baby's room, I might paint the knobs of the dresser different colors to match. We're going to paint the walls of the nursery and probably buy a rocker/glider kind of chair to put in there as well. My mom is going to help sew the crib bumpers, valance, bed skirt, etc unless we find something we just love and then we'll buy it instead. That's about it though. No murals on the walls. No thousands of dollars spent on baby furniture. Just the basics - crib, dresser, glider chair.

Now that we're so close - I'm getting antsy to get it the office furniture moved. I want to get started on the decorating!!! We probably won't though until the second weekend of April. This weekend I have two Pampered Chef shows and next weekend I have a Pampered Chef booth at a craft fair. I just need to calm down - this will get done eventually and sooner rather than later.

I'm also really antsy about the baby. I want to feel it move so badly!! I heard it move on the doppler last week but I can't feel anything yet. Every evening before going to sleep, I lie in bed watching the news or some other tv program and I just pay attention to my tummy, trying to feel anything. I can't yet and I know it's still a bit early. I'm only 16 weeks 5 days. I know a lot of first time mothers won't feel anything until closer to 20-24 weeks and that second, third, etc time mothers can feel things a lot earlier - either because they know what to look for or because they are showing more earlier due to the uterus being stretched this way before. Once again, I just need to relax and eventually it'll happen. See a theme here with me? I just need to relax. Relax.

Posted by Kristina at 3/22/2004 04:09:00 PM

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
 
Here's the e-mail I sent to our parents today about my 16 week appointment:

Hi Parents!

I had my 16 week doctor appointment this morning. All is well. I've gained 2 pounds total since my first appointment which she said was fine. My blood pressure was excellent. We (Krystle went with me) heard the heartbeat again. She was able to find it right away this time and it was a strong 156 beats per minute. We were even able to hear the baby kick and move - it comes across as static on the Doppler. My next appointment is scheduled for Friday, April 16th at 7:45 am at the Robbinsdale clinic. I'll have my screening ultrasound then and meet with the nurse practitioner. (no OB's come in that early! Ha!)

Love you all,
Kristina

So, want to hear a funny story? Yesterday as I was getting ready for work, I put on my new black maternity pants and a white short sleeve cotton tee. Then I went to my closet and got out a nice black and white button down shirt to wear as well. Guess what! I couldn't button my shirt! It was too tight over my chest (ha!) and belly and was pulling. So, I buttoned it once at the top of my tummy and went to work. It actually didn't look to bad like that. It looked like I buttoned it like that on purpose to be fashionable or something. This morning I struggled to find something to wear as well. I'm glad I bought 3 t-shirts from gapmaternity.com the other day along with a new spring jacket! I'm running out of clothes at an alarming rate now!

Posted by Kristina at 3/17/2004 10:59:00 AM

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Monday, March 15, 2004
 
Guess what I'm wearing today? Maternity pants! I was down to 2 pairs of pants that fit me and one of those was starting to get too tight. Yesterday, Kris and I were out shopping and I found 3 pairs of pants; a pair of jeans, a pair of black pants and a pair of khaki-colored pants. It is so nice to be able to wear all the shirts in my closet again! The one pair of regular pants that still fit were a pair of gray slacks. Not everything in my closet goes with gray pants! I do need to go through my closet and get rid of a bunch of clothes though to make room for the new ones I'm going to be needing in the next few months.

I was wondering last week if I was just putting on weight since I'm not watching as carefully what I was eating or if I was truly beginning to show. I bought the maternity pants because I figured I'd need them soon enough anyway. Then, last night I get my weekly e-mail from epregnancy.com. It said that at 16 weeks (which is what I'll be on Wednesday), that the baby is typically around 12 centimeters from crown to rump. That's 4.7 inches long! In my belly! No way! Yeah, I guess I'm not just gaining weight! I really am starting to show! Of course, those that don't know I'm pregnant will probably think I'm just gaining weight, but they'll know soon enough! This secret won't be a secret for very much longer!

Think good thoughts for my doctor appointment on Wednesday! I just keep praying for a healthy pregnancy and baby!

Posted by Kristina at 3/15/2004 10:21:00 AM

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Thursday, March 11, 2004
 
OK, I need to step away from the computer. Just back away slowly and maybe nobody will get hurt. So, you know that whole second trimester your miscarriage chances goes way down stuff? Well, today I've read of two different people who miscarried, one at 16 weeks and one at 19 weeks. In order to not freak myself out anymore than I already am, I'm just going to log off the internet and go do something else. The heartbeat will still be there next week at my 16 week appointment, right? RIGHT!!! Man, does this anxiety ever go away? According to my mother, no, and that I better get used to it for the next, oh, xxx years - you know, the lifetime of my child(ren) and I.

Posted by Kristina at 3/11/2004 05:02:00 PM

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I just registered for a bunch of baby classes. The woman on the phone was glad I was calling so early! :) Apparently, a lot of people wait until the last minute and then the classes are full and they have to scramble. Me, being the control freak that I am, needed to register early so I could get the exact class I wanted when I wanted it. Here's what we'll (I'll) be taking:

4 Week Childbirth Preparation Series (both Kris and I)
July 10, 17, 24, 31

Breastfeeding Your Newborn (Just me!)
August 2

Caring for Your Newborn (both Kris and I)
August 11

Basic Life Support for Infants and Children (both Kris and I)
August 14

This weekend my family on my Dad's side will find out our secret! My dad wanted to throw a family party and tell everybody. Fine with me! Should be a fun time. My Mom wanted to send out announcements to her side of the family. Earlier this week I made some announcements (that I'll post pictures of later) and I'll be sending those out in the mail tomorrow. I don't even feel pregnant (I don't look like I am, my energy levels are normal, I'm not sick anymore, yep, completely normal!) so it will be weird to have our family know that we are.

Posted by Kristina at 3/11/2004 01:27:00 PM

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Monday, March 08, 2004
 
I'm back. Sorry again for being gone so long. I was out at training all last week again. There's nothing much going on anyway.

I'm not sure if I'm showing yet or not. I'm definitely getting bigger but right now, to me, it just looks like I'm putting on weight. Since I'm always so weight-conscious, this is hard for me. The old me (the before baby one) would immediately watch my diet, limit calories, etc until I came back down. The new me knows I can't do that, that this is normal, and that I just have to accept it for now. So, I am going to watch what I'm eating to make sure I eat healthy but I won't be limiting anything. And I will still be exercising to combat any unnecessary weight gain.

Wednesday will be 15 weeks. 15! Pretty soon, I should be able to feel the baby move inside. By pretty soon, I mean anytime in the next 5 weeks. I'll be paying closer atttention to my stomach to try and feel those first flutters of movement. I can't wait until Kris can feel it from the outside. He, unfortunately, is such an outside spectator to this whole thing yet. He wasn't able to make my last doctor appointment, so he hasn't heard the heartbeat yet. I'm hoping he can come with next week. If he can't, my sister is patiently waiting in the wings. :) She has the day off that day and would like to come to an appointment with me at some point to hear the heartbeat and stuff. My mom would like to as well. I'm going to ask my mother-in-law if she'd like to come too. I have enough appointments left that I should be able to bring them each with me at least once. Anyone else want to come? :)

Posted by Kristina at 3/08/2004 01:34:00 PM

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