15 Weeks

I officially started back to work on Monday. So, I am TIRED!!! Dragging is more like it, I have lived a VERY low key summer, sleeping and napping, and being sick for over 8 weeks with morning sickness. So, getting back in the "school routine" has been tuff on my body, and I don't expect to adjust back very quickly. The main problem is I stayed up LATE with Lance every night during the summer, like mid-night or later, and now I need to be in bed at 9:30 p.m. to get up by 6! Quite a change!!! No more sleeping till noon! Or sleeping off the pregnancy queeziness, which is getting MUCH better.

I'm feeling MUCH bigger this week, and know that I have GAINED weight this week. This is due to my new found LOVE of food. I'm now VERY hungry and want to eat a lot since I am no longer sick. Which is good, but sure to pack on those pounds I've to this point not gained.

I am posting some pictures because I think my belly or the MABE BABE has grown considerably in a week! I'm getting more and more excited everyday, and can't wait to really feel those baby movements and kicks.

Daddy (Lance) lays his head on my belly with his ear stuck up to my belly button area trying to hear the baby! I told him he's not gonna hear anything, but he's so excited to hear/feel/see something. He talks to the baby, he says "Hello little baby, it's your Daddy!" It's so sweet, then he'll kiss my belly.

Ok, here's the 15 week pics....Enjoy!

What to name the Mabe Babe?

This is my FIRST list of names I like for boys and girls, some of them are for middle names, some of them are for first names, I'm not telling which. Just want to get some feedback on what you think of the names in general.

Girls' Names:
Christene or different spelling Kristine
Crissy or different spelling Krissy
Julianne or different spelling Julieann
Kamille or different spelling Camille
Kira
Laci
Lilian
Lily
Naomi

Boys' Names:
Luke
Connor
Edward
Collin or differnt spelling Colin
Aiden or different spelling Aidin or Aidan
Kurt or differnt spelling Curt

Nursery pics

This is a rug and night light in the nursery. These are accesories that will be hung on shelves around the room....
and a throw pillow! This is my completed dresser/mirror project. I refinished/painted these and put new hardware on. I'm very proud of how good it turned out! I am going to use the dresser for a changing table!
This is a cork board for pics!

These are the baby's big cousins, waiting on their new play partner to arrive! Chloe (a month shy of 6 years old) & Montana (10 months old). And, Kim in the back ground...their Momma! Kim is my little cousin!

14 weeks, 2 days along

This is my growing belly at 14 weeks pregnant....
14 weeks, 2 days in the progress.....
These are some decorations on the wall in the western themed nursery...so far! Boy or Girl....they are going to be a cowgirl or cowboy!!!

Baby Movements...

Well, I finally discovered what that weird sensation was in my lower abdomen today. It's my baby! I started feeling this feeling a couple days ago, but it has taken me this long to discover that I am feeling my baby move. It's a small, bubbly feeling, and the baby likes to move and let me know about it when I move/get up/change positions too quickly or bend over (painting my toenails) where it is uncomfortable for the baby and me! Most all the articles I've read say I should start feeling the first signs of baby movement around 16-20 weeks, and I'm only in week 14, but I know this is the baby I'm feeling. It is a very neat feeling! My belly seems to be poking out at a RAPID pace. Which is fine with me, but I'm beginning to notice that some 20-30 week along momma's don't look as pregnant as I. Maybe, I have more than one in there??? (My Mom and Granny made that comment tonight at dinner, "Are you sure there is only one in there?") It is such an increadible process to be growing a baby! I don't care if my belly is poking out more than most at this stage and I don't care if I get big, because I'm growing a BABY!
Frustrations as of lately seem to be this. I feel as though people don't enjoy being around me as much right now, mainly because I am very straight forward and opinionated (more than usual) and not as happy go lucky as I was. The hormones have really made me crazy in certain aspects. I want to cry for no real reason a lot. I get mad really easily, like at people who work in stores, trying to do a return the other day I completely lost it on the lady. I want what I want when I want it and nothing else. I feel more responsible and like a real adult now. I think everything through WAY to much, and try to make the best decision. Yet, when it comes to things like picking out a bunch of bananas to buy at the grocery store, I may stand there for 10 minutes trying to find the most perfect 4 bananas to buy! Cravings have officially started this week, I am no longer sick! Now I eat...and eat...and eat! So, far I love bananas, milk (has to be Chocolate), pasta, bread(toasted anything), pizza, steamed vegeatables, ice cream (which I typically never eat), potatoes (any way they are prepared, which I never eat). I don't know, pregnancy is a weird thing! My prenatal vitamins still make me sick, and I have cut down to taking them once every two days most the time for this reason. And, yes, I've tryed taking them at night, and in the morning, and at noon, and with a meal, and without a meal, and I've tryed 6 different kinds the doctor gave me, they make me SICK!!! I will try to post some pics soon of the ever growing belly, and the baby's room, we've made some progress!!!