Week 6

Well this is pretty funky. But technically they say I'm in my 6th week. Come Saturday I'll be in my 7th week. But the babies age is only 5 weeks and 5 days old today. Complicated I think..but whatever!

Anyways this week was a pretty good! Just getting restless and excited about that first doctors appointment on August 10th!

Here's the rundown for Week 6, I tried to give you a nice outline instead of narritve so your not so bored with reading :)

What's up with Baby J:
Well this week our little nugget was about the size of a sweet pea and soon to be turning into the size of a blueberry! It's amazing how fast lil Baby J is growing!


Hows Mom? :
Well to be honest, I'm not sure! Some days I think I'm crazy, mean, or just plain ole funky!  These hormones have really got the best of me! Colt can vouch for that. Seems like I can cry or get frustrated at the drop of a hat. My gosh I'm wiped with exhaustion!

Symptoms: -Super nauseated...all day! But I'm still eating..no yacking..yet! Yay!
                   -The boob pain has let up a little..thank god!
                   -No round ligament pain really this week. I guess I'm taking a break! wooowhoo!
                   -Oh the headaches!! They are killing me smalls!
                   -Back pain is finally dwindling down a bit!

Food Situations: So I'm guessing I'm going through the whole food craving thing. I'm not really craving one thing in particular, but the last couple days I have to "try" foods before I finally find the snack I want..LOL!  Sometimes thinking of food can make me nasueaued though..eww! Eggs are on the hot list. Poor Colt, it may be a while before I make him eggs!

Things to buy: BIGGER BRAS!..yes already! I'm double bumpin already.

Complaints I'm happy to make: I really didn't want let this pregnancy slow me down, but boy has it! The exhaustion level is awful!

Belly Button: Still in! :)

Weight Gain: 2 lbs..eeek! I do not like this at all! It's a little to early. Praying its all water weight and the boobs!

Favorite Memory of the Week: My sweet husband talking to my belly telling Baby J to stop making mommy sick. I love the sound of "mommy".

What I'm looking forward to the most: Well August 10th..duhhh. First doctors appointment. But I'm really looking foward to our beach trip in two weeks!!! And Colts suprise braves game I'm taking him to on the 29th!

Other things about life: too much to write! But all is going well around the homefront! Oh I'm super stoked that my parents are giving me a treadmill and cycle from their gym! Hello winter time cardio!!

awww...WHAT!!!

Is the response we got from Cheryl when we told her the news. Of course Terry did a great job at carrying the secret all week but he was busting at the seems and so was Colt the moment they stepped foot in the house. So of course I had the room all decorated with a banner and baby balloons! We recently did lots of decorating with Colt's grandmother in town a few weeks prior and he took the time to show her all the new things in the house while I snuck off to turn on the video camera. Terry also popped his head in the room to see what was in store as youll see in the video. After I quickly returned Colt informed her that I had painted the second guest bedroom a little darker color just to see what it would be like (he lied). So off she goes to look while we stayed in the living room. It took her a minute or two to really catch on. But once she did we were all so happy!!! :) Such a great day around the James house! Check out the video, sorry we accidentally chopped her head off. I was in a hurry when setting up! (Also note, that I choppped parts of the video out so you didn't have to wait forever for her to come in and come back) I gave you the shortened version in about a minute!)

So we had a fanstastic relaxing weekend around the house celebrating, we even bought our first piece of baby clothing . A sweet little gray jacket/hoodie that says "Always 1st" with a little checkered flag! Baby J says "Thanks Grandma Honey" :)

(A picture of the suprise room)

Week 5

Wowie has it been a cool week! Saturday 7/9 marked the start of 5 weeks.

Baby J:
Well right now our little Baby James looks somewhat like a tadpole and is the size of an apple or orange seed....really it's so tiny??? This week the baby is developing it's heart (while it steals mine) and it's brain and spinal cord. Grow Baby J grow!!



Family News: So for the weekend we took off to South Alabama Speedway for Colt's race. Man oh man, was it HOT!! But Colt was such a good husband he tried to make sure I stayed cool as much as possible, as I had heard it was dangerous to get my body over heated. So for the first weekend ever I just sat around in the hauler with fans and lots of bottled water and didn't really get up for my chair. I can only imagine what Wes and Big J were thinking. "Man she's lazy this weekend".  I'm pretty sure Terry (Colt's Dad) was taking good note as to the difference. A couple hours into our day at the track, Colt finally came and told me that he just had to spill the beans to his Dad. He just wanted his Dad to know what was going on, and I guess another person to make sure another person knew to take extra special care of me. (Insert true princess feeling here..haha) Colt wasn't quiet sure before he told his Dad  how he would take it. But was excited to find out. We were both thrilled so that his Dad was beyond excited. Not that he wouldn't have been, but it somehow took us by surprise his amount of excitement. Now the hard part. He has to hold it for a week until Cheryl flies in next Friday.


As for my parents: My mom had good speculation. She and I are so close. But she was beyond herself when I told her the good news. My Dad, I think he's still in shock, but I think once we get further in he'll be more excited. He's begged for grandkids and talked about having them for years..the day finally came and I kind of expected cartwheels. Like I said, I think it's just shell shock. He was just bummed he couldn't tell anybody yet. But understood how important it was to see that lil heartbeat first.


What's up with me:
Saturday my Aunt Flow never showed and still hasn't. So I guess that was really mental confirmation for me that yes, I really am prego! Of course I went and bought more pregnancy test and took another 2 test on Sunday just to confirm I was still pregnant. This time I had Colt do the reading just because I was so scared my body might have changed it's mind.  This week I made my first trip to the OB/GYN not for the pregnancy part, but because I thought maybe my bladder infection came back and I called them and they told me to just come in rather than going to my family doctor. I had such a crazy amount of back pain (not intense..but like a period back pain) that I was worried maybe my kidneys were bothering me.  So I went go all that taken care of. Nothing major. I was kindly hoping they would have did something with the pregnancy to give me confirmation. But nope. LOL! Oh well! So anyways turns out the back pain is really just an early pregnancy thing. This week has been filled by sooooo much bloating. I've noted my weight every morning and by the afternoon I've gained almost 3 to 4 lbs from bloating and water weight. So uncozy. I've been kicking the exercise routine. Finally got back up to walking 2 miles with the exhaustion level finally kicking in. I even started going for swims at my parents since it's a good exercise. No morning sickness...well yet. Every morning I've woke up and felt a small level of nausea, and it's been building stronger and stronger each day. Today I finally felt like I could toss my cookies but didn't. Wheeeww, that was close. I wonder how much longer before I actually do?  Another thing as I'm wrapping up week 5, round ligament pain. Owie! Not too painful but not exactly fun. That sharp second of pain below my belly button in intervals is not exactly what I expected. By my neighbor said its perfectly normally, and I'll go through spurts of growing and stretching in there.  Colt said if I'm already complaining I might not make it the 9 months. LOL! Then I had to explain that I'm stretching internally and how it all works then he understood.  I did take my first pic this week. It will be a while before I start to show, but I have noticed I have a small raised area enough to feel right at my pelvic bone. You can't see it really, but defiantly feel it. It's my favorite thing! No food cravings yet, just trying to make myself eat super healthy with lots of veggies and fruit.


Oh tonight we're telling Cheryl!! We've decorated the future baby room with balloons and a banner and asking her to go get something out of it. Colt and I are going to try and secret code word it so that I can set up the flip camera in the room to record her reaction! I'll post pictures and video if we get it soon!!

The end of week four..

So week four was the week we found out....Not a whole lot changed from my last post. Symptoms kind of took a backseat. The heartburn died down, but hot flashes took over. The week gave us a little more time for it to all set in. Still crazy to think about! It all just happened so fast! Saturday 7/6, is the day I should miss my period. So keep your fingers crossed. I guess right now were both excited but not trying to get our hopes up too high.....I think week 5 it will all set in!

Our little Baby J this week is so tiny! He's only the size of a single poppy seed.

More pink lines and changes...

Okay so I didn't sleep a wink on Tuesday night..I tried to hold my tinkle time as long as I could so when 5am rolled around I felt like my eyeballs were floating. I ran to the bathroom and took test #2. Sure enough 2 pink lines. Finally relaxed, I cooked Colt some breakfast tacos and went back to bed til about 10am. Then I was so excited when I woke up I took another test...2 pink lines again. Wowie! At this point reality has finally set in! WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!! Wait, really?? Sometimes it's still hard to believe but I think our first doctors visit will really help it all set in.

 Speaking of doctors appointments. From my previous post my yearly pap smear check up with my OB/GYN is Monday. Of course I called the doctor on Wednesday to tell them my good news, and the lady informed me it would be pointless for me to come in Monday that they would do nothing as far as pregnancy goes and I'll need to wait until I'm at least 8-10 weeks for my first info session and hopefully ultrasound and look for the heartbeat!! So I went ahead and rescheduled our appointment were set to go in on August 10th Wed at 11:45. Colt will be taking off work to come with me :) Boy he has no idea what he's about to see. LOL! But I guess he'll need to get used to it.  But were both getting more and more excited as the days pass by!

As far as changes go; my appetite has disappeared...odd!! I thought for sure it would start to pick up soon. But I'm still kindly nauseated from time to time, but not enough not to eat. The heat right now normally does the trick on kicking off the nausea. Were about to head to South Alabama Speedway for the weekend, I just pray with bringing the biggest fans out there and lots of water I can keep from tossing my cookies at the track .LOL!

Over Achiever

For the last year or so I've been tormented by all my friends, coworkers who have babies. They've given me baby fever! Even our neighbors kids have did their number on Colt. So following the announcement of my new teaching position, we decided why not jump in the boat too! So last month was our first month trying. Well if any of you know anything about Colt. You know that he is naturally good at everything he does the first time. Everything I try to beat him in, he naturally always wins.  Well there was no difference in this task either :) We were not really expecting it to happen so soon, but were both very excited!! I feel so lucky and blessed beyond belief!  This past week I've been nauseous on and off, bad headaches, sore ta ta's, just things about my body that were just odd, but thought maybe it was just Aunt Flo trying to make an appearance. So today just for giggles I purchased some home pregnancy tests, and what do you know, test number one was two pink lines. I plan to take more in the morning to just double check. (Still in shock)

So of course you know I was ecstatic to tell Colt. So I wrote on a  note "Mom thinks she has a baby in her belly because she told me she saw two pink lines" and placed it in the shop cats food bowl to where he wouldn't miss it.  He read the note and was so excited.


So here we are, I'm guessing 4  weeks along. Lucky for me I have a doctors appointment for my yearly pap smear on Monday. So maybe I'll have more juicy details then. Were deciding to keep it a secret for a while from the world just because it is so early, but plan to tell our parents next weekend if all goes well with the doctors appointment on Monday.