Update finally

How far along are you today?: 23 weeks exactly
How have you been feeling this week?: Pretty good overall
Any morning sickness?: None!
Gender prediction (if you don't know yet): It's a girl! :)
Food cravings?: Fruit, lots of fruit
Food dislikes?: Same as before. Nothing in particular right now though
Smells dislikes?: Not really

So it's been a little while since I haven't updated. Been kind of busy. I started a scrapbook for baby girl though! I spent last weekend doing that. I still have a lot of catching up to do on my regular scrapbooks though. I am supposed to go scrapbooking on Friday though with my friend so that should be fun.

We did finally buy our stroller as well. I found one we liked and had good ratings and reviews so I decided to just buy it. We have plenty of other things people can buy for us! So that's one thing down, 8000 to go :) I'm very excited about registering for our shower though! We are waiting until after Easter though because they usually reset stuff after Easter so I just want to be sure everything will be available come time for our shower so I don't want to register too soon. We are going to register at Babies R Us and Target. Plus the Babies R Us by our house is in the middle of a remodel right now and we can't register right now anyways because they have limited inventory until that's over. So we wait. Hopefully the end of this month we will be able to register. Still working on the rest of the details for the shower - I think we have the date but we are still trying to confirm that it will work for our church since that's where we want to have it. If not, we will probably have to move the location because it's the only day that will really work for us without me being further along! So June 13th it is hopefully!

I had a doctors appointment yesterday as well. I think I was only up 2 lbs from my last appointment but I forgot to ask for sure. I think my total gain is only about 3 or 4 lbs from pre pregnancy because of the weight I lost in the beginning. I am starting to show pretty well now but I would hope so since I'm almost 6 months! Heartbeat sounded good and was at about 150. Everything else was going well - my next appointment will be the glucose appointment so I will be sitting there awhile! I will have to remember to take a book to read while I wait. After that appointment I will start going every 2 weeks. I have some travelling coming up but they said that was ok. Still makes me nervous since I don't like to fly as it is but they say everything will be ok so I trust them :)

We also got our air ducts cleaned on Monday. We found a coupon in the paper and we have been wanting to get it done for a little while now because we get so much dust in our house. Unfortunately, I haven't noticed a difference yet with the dust but maybe it takes a few days to clear the air?? I am hoping to be able to open the windows tomorrow and the rest of the week to air out the house some since it's supposed to be warmer. Maybe that will help with clearing the air. We ended up spending additional money to get an extra main duct and our furnace cleaned to help with the air with the baby on the way and my asthma, we are hoping it was worth the extra money because it was a hefty bill after it was all said and done with!

Oh and finally I think we finally have a name for our little girl - took us a while to decide on one that we both wanted. The name we choose was Patricia Grace. I will either call her Tricia, Trish or Grace. Patricia, Pat, Patty, Patsy all just sound too old for me. So that's what we have settled on for now.

17 weeks and counting!!

Just wanted to pop in real quick

and give the results of our ultrasound yesterday. It's a girl!! Mixed feeling of course on it but happy the baby is healthy and fine!

We wanted a boy for family name reasons and of course we have agreed on a name for a boy. No name has been agreed upon for a girl. Ben won't budge on the name thing which is starting to annoy and upset me. But he doesn't care. So this is oging to be a long few months...

Update for the week - 19 weeks

How far along are you today?: 19w5d
How have you been feeling this week?: Doing good. Still worrying a lot as usual!
Any morning sickness?: Nope
Gender prediction (if you don't know yet): I still keep going back and forth. EVERYONE thinks it's a boy but we find out tomorrow so that will hopefully but this debate to rest finally!
Food cravings?: Fruit still
Food dislikes?: Nothing new
Smells dislikes?: Nothing new
What are you looking forward to?: Tomorrow to find out what we are having!

I also wanted to post that Ben finally got a promotion at work! That means more money which we really could use right now!! We don't know how much, he should find that out tomorrow which will be nice but I'm just excited he finally got something! He has been acting manager of that store for weeks now and it's nice that they gave him some credit.

Can't wait for this appointment tomorrow. I just hope everything looks good with the baby and that they tell us everything is good. I worry too much :) And hopefully baby cooperates and we can see what baby is!