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Highlight of the Week
We had our 20-week ultrasound yesterday! Everything is perfect – baby is measuring spot on at 20 weeks & my due-date remains exactly December 14, 2018!
Here’s the trick (& to answer the one big question): YES! Derrick & I found out if we’ll be adding a little man or a little lady to our family, but it’s our little secret!! We want to be able to tell our families in person, and since most of my family is away this weekend, and most of Derrick’s family is on vacation in South Carolina, we are holding off on telling the whole world until we can see & tell our entire immediate families in person! We have a “mini” gender reveal party planned for my immediate family tomorrow evening and then we’ll see Derrick’s family on Thursday night! After that, we’ll share our exciting news – pinky promise!
Yes, This Happened
- I am now 20 weeks pregnant & baby is the size of “large banana”. Half way there!! YAY!
- I had a bit of a panic attack moment this week. I went into a bit of a cleaning frenzy on Thursday – we had nowhere to go, nothing super important to do, so I decided to clean the entire house. No big deal, right? (Can we label it as “nesting”? I don’t know, because I’ve never been pregnant at this stage and had my own house before!) So, as I was methodically moving from room to room, cleaning up things that have just been sitting & staring at me for weeks (months?), I realized that I didn’t have my phone in my pocket. No big deal – I had been using it to control Spotify that was playing on our TV just a few minutes before, so it was around. I had a few more tasks I wanted to complete before making lunch, so off I finished those off & then created the most delicious lunch of PB&J and cauliflower you ever did see. It was then that I realized it had now been about 45 minutes since I’d last seen or heard my phone (some of my sisters had been texting me earlier in the day). I got up to look around, assuming I had left it in the kitchen or somewhere close by – nope. I couldn’t find it anywhere. I looked all over the downstairs of our house with no luck. That’s when I got the terrifying thought: What if it was on the tablecloth that I scooped up about 45 minutes ago & tossed in the washing machine? I shook the thought off as I can’t be that dumb and continued looking. I popped upstairs (even though I hadn’t cleaned up there yet – it was next!), did another sweep around the downstairs – nothing. This is when I’m really starting to panic: What if it’s in my washing machine?! I can’t find it anywhere else! Where could it be?! My wash had about 10 minutes left to it, but that didn’t stop me from stopping it & pulling all of that dripping, soaking laundry out to look for my phone. Thankfully, it wasn’t in there. Panic attack averted, I continued looking & almost instantly found it, hiding next to the tissue box in the dining room.
- Can I just say, that being on vacation for a full week (even if it is just at the Lake House) is so wonderful, but coming home to reality is really really tough. I saw a meme on Facebook this week that said, “I hate it when I’m waiting for Mom to cook dinner & then I realize: I am the Mom.” SO TRUE.
- Braelynn has hit another milestone this week! No more diapers at night!! Ever since potty training really clicked with her a few months ago, (how long has it been? 8 months? Longer?) she’s been really good about staying dry all night long. But Mama over here has been so nervous about her wetting the bed, that we’ve just consistently put her in a diaper every single night after bath time. It’s always dry when she wakes up in the morning – so this week, I got brave enough to leave her in panties all night long. And up until Thursday night – she had been doing fantastic! No accidents! But then, something scared her on Thursday and she crawled into our bed in the middle of the night. And about an hour later, she woke up crying that she was wet. Boo. I honestly think it was just a weird fluke though – she woke up dry this morning! Every little kid has accidents every once in a while, right?
Feeling Blessed
I just can’t stop thinking about the ultrasound yesterday – and more than that, just how different this pregnancy is than when I was pregnant with Braelynn. Yesterday was the very first time we’ve seen our little babe. We’ve heard it’s heartbeat twice in the doctor’s office, but this is the first time we’ve seen the little munchkin. It was so wonderful to see the little babe moving & squirming around (and waving at us)! I’m not sure if it’s just because the outside circumstances of this pregnancy are so different from the last, but I didn’t cry when I saw Braelynn for the first time up on the ultrasound screen – but I cried when I saw this baby – I was just so happy.
And when I say “the outside circumstances”, I mean – when we had our 20-week ultrasound with Braelynn, we came home that day to finish packing up our house, have a gender reveal party the next morning, and then immediately pack our entire house into a moving truck & to say goodbye to our first house forever. We literally moved the very next day. I didn’t have a nursery to plan or a place I could call my new baby’s own – we were going to be living with our parents temporarily as we moved across the state & looked for a new house (knowing full well that even though we wanted to find & buy a new house before Braelynn arrived, that the likelihood of that happening was extremely slim).
This time, there is no moving! We have a house (that we love) & we have a space for our new baby. Everything is so different. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m ungrateful for the circumstances surrounding Braelynn’s 20-week ultrasound, because without them, we wouldn’t be where we are right now (and I can’t lie, I love where we are right now). I’m extremely thankful for every ounce of help & the fact that my family literally squashed into crazy tiny living spaces so that we could have a place to stay. But having lived through those circumstances & now living through a 180º different set of circumstances, I am just overwhelmingly grateful & excited for this new baby!!
