14 weeks

The last week has gone by uneventfully. I am officially in my 2nd trimester. Already. I was hoping for that magical tired switch to finally be turned off but it's still on. I feel like I'm not as tired as I was but still tired. I have a hard time if I go to bed too late (aka 930) or if I don't get that small respite during the kids nap. obviously this won't happen all the time and I just have to deal with it. Perhaps the more kids you have the longer this particular symptom lasts. I will have to test this theory I guess when we continue on this baby making path.

Dexter still loves to talk to my belly and feels like he isn't REALLY talking to the baby unless my shirt is pulled up and my belly exposed. He says this means the "door" is open. Dexter really doesn't like shut doors so he assumes the baby doesn't either. He has also been pretty consistently telling us the baby is a boy now. Typical man, can't make up his mind.

  I can't sleep on my belly comfortably anymore. This seems really early especially since I am a stomach sleeper. I was able to last a lot longer with the other two. It is possible, yes, but not comfortable. I'll miss it very much.

I have made the switch into maternity clothes. I was not looking forward to this and still don't enjoy it. I am not quite big enough for them but my regular clothes are just too tight and uncomfortable. I also stretched out all my clothes when I was pregnant with Dexter and dealt with it but I have gotten new clothes since and I don't want to ruin them. I know I have said I look forward to the 20 weeks belly and I am still, for more reasons now, looking forward to it.

I spent some time with my little niece recently and it made me really look forward to having a wee little one around the house again. Yes they are more work but oh, the cuddles! I am having a hard time really believing that is in my near future. Obviously I know I am pregnant and we have started to get junk we need but to actually be around a baby was a different type of eye opener. Simon has just grown so fast it's hard to remember him as just a little one. Uh oh, I better stop there. I'll start to get teary thinking of my kiddos when they were babies.

13 weeks

The weeks are going by pretty quickly!  I just know this pregnancy is going to whiz by and before I know it this baby will be making his/her way out.  I can't picture having 3 kids yet so I'm glad there is time!  Plus, it will be winter when this baby comes and I'm definitely not ready for winter.

I'm having all the same symptoms as previous weeks... well ONE symptom.  Exhaustion.  Tired, tired, tired.  I can't get enough sleep.  I have never been blessed with the ability to take a nap so I need my 11 hours of sleep a night to make it though the day.  I also need the kids 2nd nap to be able to collapse on the couch and recover from the morning.  Every pregnancy you have the more tired you are it seems.  I remember being so tired when I was pregnant with Dexter and I couldn't even believe the lack of energy I had.  I spent so much time on the couch.  Now I look back and laugh at myself.  This brief amount of time I get to write this blog is about how much time I'll get sitting down until 2nd nap.

Max and I started getting some stuff for Cookie.  A couple weeks ago we bought a newborn stash of cloth diapers for Cookie so I suppose we started preparing then but this week we bought our new infant seat for the little mister/misses and we bought a new car seat for Dexter.  We plan on keeping our Camry and shoving everyone into the back seat so we needed to get some different car seats so they all fit.  Again, Max and I are on crazy pills.  Max is an incredibly gifted debater (especially against me, who cannot argue my side for anything) and he says that 2-3 car seats are going to cost us a heck of a lot less than a van.  I guess I can see the point in that. 

Anyway, so Cookie gets the Graco Snugride 35 in Orlando and Dexter gets the Diono Radian R100.  We will start with these two seats and hopefully one of the seats we already have will continue to work for Simon.  If not, well then I guess Simon gets a new seat as well.  All the research I did on 3 car seats in a small car showed that to have 3 seats across you need a Diono Radian.  It is the narrowest seat with the best safety rating.  Spendy freaking bugger let me tell you. 

I'm still waiting to feel Cookie for the first time.  I am thinking that the little bops I'm feeling is probably just my muscles stretching.  I'm excited because I felt Simon at 14 weeks so if that holds again, I only have to wait a week!  THEN things will really seem real.  Another little baby to cuddle and love.

My poor boobs only get an 8 month break from breastfeeding.  Poor things.

I feel like I'm quite big for 13 weeks.   I did a comparison of all the kiddos. I guess my uterus never gets a break either :)

12 weeks

Not too much new to report.  The first trimester is pretty boring isn't it?  Well, not if it's your first go-around but once you hit #3 it's boring. 

With the closing of the first trimester next week, I hope to report a giant increase in my energy and the need to sleep for 11 hours a night to be behind me.  I do daycare people.  These kids just don't understand I can't go go go for 14 hours straight.  Crazy buggers.  I'm so, so, so tired.  I could easily have fallen asleep a 1/2 hr ago.  I can't wait for this part to be over.

I swear, SWEAR sometimes I feel the baby but I tell myself there's no way.  It's way too early to be feeling this little one.  I felt Simon for the first time at 14 weeks.  I feel like it would be around the same time but if I keep feeling those little bops then I will just have to admit that I am feeling the baby.  I just really don't think I would so soon.

My belly- aka gut- seems to really fluctuate.  It's always bigger after I eat.  In my "reveal" on FB I looked gigantic.  I have had so many people comment on how large I looked.  I do believe it was all due to angle and the fact that I had baby in there and food baby in there.  We took the photo right after dinner.  I'm already looking forward though to the 20 week look.  That is always my favorite.  You look pregnant but are still cute pregnant.  You haven't quite reached huge pregnant but you can tell there is a baby there.  Plus the baby is moving much more strongly at that point and that is so much fun.

No cravings this week.  I made myself a chocolate shake yesterday with the Magic Bullet and that thing HIT. THE. SPOT.  I will probably be making one all the time now.  Cookie likes his/her sweets.

The name game sucks.  I'll leave it at that.

Ranch Chicken Enchiladas- AKA Ranch Taquitos

I got this recipe off Pinterest (of course) and it was a HUGE hit in my house.  It is fairly simple to make and tasted delicious!

I put some boneless skinless chicken breasts in the crockpot in the a.m. and come dinnertime, shredded it up and rolled together the tortillas.  Into the oven for 30 minutes and you have a delightful, ranch filled taste bud fest to devour!

After I had cooked it in the oven, I found the tortillas got crispy and not enchilada-like so we think they are more like taquitos.  We will see how it turns out next time since Max is already requesting this for dinner again.  I just made this last Tuesday. 

If you would like the recipe click here!

11 weeks

Baby A3 is a cooking.  Already!  I have barely written in this blog in a while.  It's been so long that when I pull it up my 38 week blog from Simon is still showing!  And he is now 1 year old! 

I have heard that with each baby you have you do less than what you did for the previous kid/kids so I am determined to have the same things for each.  I have little boxes for each of them with all the precious little knick knacks I don't want to get rid of.  I don't do baby books but I have a journal for each of the kids that I write in periodically and I have written weekly blogs for both Dexter and Simon so of course, baby A3 (whom will be further known as Cookie) will have weekly blogs as well. 

My pregnancy so far has been very easy.  Except for mind numbing exhaustion there hasn't been much difference at all.  My body poofed out right away so I have had to suck in my gut for quite some time since people are always giving me the once over to see if I was pregnant yet.  We finally told everyone this past Saturday so it is nice to let it all hang out!

My first cravings were cookies and strawberry cream cheese.  Hence, Cookie's nickname was established.  We will not be finding out the sex again so Cookie will remain his/her nickname until February 14th-ish when baby decides to make his/her arrival.

We had our ultrasound at 10 weeks and that was to establish a firm due date.  I wasn't sure when we got pregnant since I had been breastfeeding but amazingly, we were fairly accurate.  Only a few days off.  There was only one baby in there (thank the Lord) and Cookie was very healthy.  Heartbeat was at 176 and due date was set for Valentines Day.

Max and I both feel that with how easy my pregnancies were the first two times, and with how difficult it will be to get to the doctor now that I do daycare that going every 4 weeks is unnecessary.  We have made our next appointment for 15 weeks and after that will wait until the 20 week ultrasound.  Not sure what our plan of action will be post ultrasound but that is plenty of time away.

Dexter and Simon are 21 months apart and Simon and Cookie will be about 18/19 months apart.  Max and I are on some sort of crazy pills.  We love this little Cookie though already.  Dexter loves to talk to my belly and give it kisses.  It is SO cute. 

Schmuck-bag

You know when you have those days or even weeks when you just feel... well, like a schmuck-bag?  You feel fat, or dowdy, or fugly dugly or whatever.  I am having one of those times.  I don't like it much.  My husband calls me crazy which is very sweet and really, I only need him to find me attractive but human nature calls for the want to feel good.  Pesky business.

Poo. 

Even after all this time.

I know I haven't wrote in forever and I can't promise that I will even write more after this but I just wanted to say...

I had lots of options of things to do this weekend and people to do things with but I just wanted to spend time with my husband.  Even after 10+ years, no one makes me laugh like he does.

I'm a lucky girl.