More Ice Cream!!!

This is the first time in my entire life that anyone has ever told me that I need to gain more weight and eat more ice cream! Wow....how exciting! I guess I didn't really realize but when I went in for a doctors appointment yesterday, he said to me, "you realize you haven't gained a single pound right"? He told me I need to eat more! I feel like I'm eating all the time, so this could be interesting.
Some exciting news though, he said that we could come back in 3 weeks to have a sonogram and that's when they can tell us if it's a boy or girl. I cannot wait! Everyone just pray that that baby is spread eagle when they do the sonogram, because last time it had it's legs crossed...and if anyone knows me, they know I am a little impatient and don't think I could wait longer than 3 weeks.
Teacher inservice started yesterday, and I have to admit, it's kind of nice to be back into the swing of things. I'm sure I'll change my mind in a couple weeks, but it's better than sitting around the house being bored! Now I just have to get used to these long days without taking naps, boy was I tuckered out yesterday when I got home!!

This kid is already being a brat! ha!!

If this kid of ours is showing us what it's going to be like in time to come...we are in trouble!! Had a little bit of a rough weekend and the cause of that, my doctor has now decided that I can't go to YoungLives camp. UGH!!!!
I woke up in the middle of the night on Saturday with horrible cramping and felt like my kidney was about to explode, probably the worse pain I've ever had in my life. With that said, Nick took me to the ER and found that I had an acute kidney infection and was severely dehydrated. Basically the cause of the kidney infection was because I was so dehydrated and I'm blaming the dehydration on this dang 107 degree weather we are having...that's my story and I'm stickin to it!
The doctor said they probably should have admitted me to the hospital for a day or two, but I responded well to the medicine and promised I'd stay hydrated. All I know is that whatever the nurse gave me in my IV was the best thing in the whole world, it pretty much knocked me our for several hours, letting me get a few hours of sleep. I'm feeling a ton better, not 100%, but anything is better than how I felt Saturday!
The real bad news to the story is that I had to go into my OB today and tell him what happened over the weekend and without any hesitation, he said..."nope, you aren't going to camp, sorry". I was supposed to be leaving Wednesday morning for YoungLives camp for a week with our girls and I was so looking forward to it!! It was in upstate New York and I think the thing I was most excited about was that the high temperature is going to be 79!!! Oh, I couldn't wait to get out of this heat....but no, now I'm stuck in Dallas. The doctor said if camp would have been a week later it wouldn't have been an issue, but he still wants to run a couple more tests and keep an eye on me over the next few days.
The good thing that came out of it was that they made me get a sonogram and we actually got to see something that resembled a human being. Our last sonogram just looked like a blob, but now you can
actually see limbs, head, spine, etc.

Here is one of the pictures. The lady doing the sonogram was laughing b/c she said the baby had it's face smooshed on the bottom of the uterus with it's butt up in the air. She also said that she may have been able to tell the sex, but it's legs were crossed and tucked up into its body. Hopefully in 6 weeks at our next sonogram it isn't doing the same thing.
So I guess the most important thing is that baby is fine and I have to keep reminding myself that it's not just about me anymore....:0)

Bye Atticus!!

Over the past week, Nick and I were dog-sitting for Atticus, and besides my dogs, he's one of my favorites! He is a 7 month old chocolate lab and he is the sweetest puppy ever! We were tempted to steal him, but I don't think his mom would have liked me too much. Atticus had to leave yesterday and we are all pretty bummed, however, I think deep down our dogs are glad to see him go :) They didn't like our attention going to any dog but them!

Last Friday I hit 13 weeks and throughout the pregnancy, all my friends would say, "once you get into your 2nd trimester, you'll feel like a whole new person"....but I was convinced that was all bogus talk and I was going to feel like poo-poo the rest of my life. WELL....I swear that once I hit that 13 week point, I DID feel like a whole new person!!! And Thank God!!! I'm still not 100%, more around 80%. I'm just so thrilled, mostly because we leave for YoungLives camp in a week and a half and I really wanted to feel good for it, so yay!

Last week when I went in for my 2nd doctors appointment, I got to hear the heartbeat and that was pretty cool! He said the little kiddo is the size of a giant shrimp and the eyes are no longer on the side of it's head...haha! Doctor said everything else looks great, I do have to go to a Neurologist in 2 weeks because since I have become pregnant, I have had bad numbness and tingling in my right leg and it's really starting to bother me, especially when I'm sleeping. He said it's probably just a nerve blockage and hopefully some physical therapy will fix it.

That's all for now.....

New to this

I used to always read my friends blogs and love seeing what was going on in their lives, but never in a million years think that one day I would join in on the blogger lifestyle. I normally wouldn't do this, but since Nick and I have a little kiddo joining us in January, I thought it would be a fun way to keep family and friends updated, especially with all the pictures!

So as of now, little Seeman is the size of a LIME, holy cow!! I will be 12 weeks tomorrow and go in for another doctors appointment on Monday. I won't get a sonogram or anything, but I will get to listen to the heartbeat. I won't get another sonogram till I think 20 weeks where we'll find out if it's a boy or girl. Other than that, that's about all the news as of now....I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying that in the next week or so that I regain some energy and my aversion to food goes away. If I'm not around food, I really feel pretty good, but that's hard to do when so many of our friends want to get together for dinners....why is that the only thing to do in this big city?? Certainly there is other stuff to do besides eating....we could go get snow cones and play putt putt or something, oh wait, that would require us to be outside....ugh, I hate Texas right now! :)