Baby Belly #2 19 weeks

It's been awhile since I've had access to "our" laptop... seems Ryan has comandeered it for work lately. grrr. At least it's for a good cause. But I have some catching up to do.

Let's start with my belly shall we?

This is my 17 week belly with Addison

                                                     And this is my 17 week belly with Baby #2

Notice a difference? I sure do. I am a heck of a lot bigger this time!

Here's the stats so far:
Pregnancy week: 19 weeks tomorrow

Size of baby: 6.5 inches from head to bum. About the length of a cantalope plus arms and legs

Weight gain: 12lbs already!!

Sleep: Getting more and more uncomfortable. Thank God Addison finally decided to start sleeping through the night three weeks ago, and we've only had one night of setback, but I tend to sleep really restlessly one night and then the next night I am so exhausted from being up all night the night before I sleep really well. So every other night is a good sleep night.

Gender? Tomorrow is the big day to find out! My guess is girl though.

Names? We've got nothing.... every time we think we agree on something, one of us changes our minds. One thing we do agree on, is Baby Ta. Addison was looking at the baby name book one night and Ryan asked her if she was picking out a name for the baby. She looked at him very seriously and replied "Baby Ta" so we're going with it.

Mama's feeling: I am feeling really good lately. My back is really starting to hurt in the evening, especially if I do a lot of bending, which is much earlier than I had back pain with Addie, but hey, no morning sickness, and I have a healthy little baby growing so I am not complaining about a little back pain!

Movement: Baby Ta is very similar to Addison. Not so many kicks, but a lot of wiggling and flipping around. Much stronger than Addison was at this point too. There is no mistaking that it's baby movement.

Belly Button: Still an innie

Cravings: No real gotta have it cravings, but I can't stand anything fast food, all I want is fresh food and I eat grilled chicken pitas with tzatiki literally every work day. The guys at Extreme Pita all know me by name

Milestones: I am a week away from being halfway through the pregnancy already! I can hardly believe it! And I am super excited to have my anatomy scan tomorrow morning. I can't wait to count all the little fingers and toes, and to find out if Addie is getting a brother or a sister. To be honest, I will be thrilled no matter what.

Wordless Wednesday: Addisons fall photos

 

I really wish we could have gotten a professional photographer for this years fall pictures. Addison is so quick these days, it is really difficult to get her to sit still long enough to take pictures of her. Although we never did get a family picture like I had hoped, I think I got some good ones of Addison. Here's Addie's fall photos.

Y3W: Halloween Night Out!

Scooping seeds out

Putting seeds back in....

Making sure it's empty

Onto the next one

My little cow

First house with Daddy

Trick or treat!

Okay I got this guys, see you later!

I'd say she did pretty good for her first Halloween out!

Wordless Wednesday: Fun at the pumpkin patch!

Y3W: Christmas is Coming!!!

Christmas is Coming!

I LOVE Christmas. It probably has something to do with how much my mom loves Christmas and always went out of her way to make it so special for us, but I just can't get enough of the season, and love planning early for it. First on my list of Christmas planning? Addison's gift list of course!
Here's what we plan to buy the little monkey this year:

Her BIG gift:

The Step 2 walk in kitchen
 Addison has the little FP Laugh and Learn kitchen, she got it for Christmas last year and it is still one of her favorite toys. We figured although she may be a bit young for it yet, this is a great toy she will get lots of use out of  and be able to grow into instead of out of.

The Fisher Price Stand and Play Rampway
Addison learned to say "car" recently and has been playing constantly with her ride on car, and the little match box cars at daycare. She is also playing with her little FP racetrack that she got for Christmas last year, but is starting to outgrow it a little and mostly just runs the cars around the floor. Ryan and I agree that Addie would LOVE this!

Plasmart Plasma Car!
This was not on her list until last weekend, when we were in Chapters and she got to ride on one. She LOVED it, and motored around the store for quite a long time. It is so easy to maneuver and GREAT for her motor skill development.

Fisher Price Little Mommy Doll Stroller
Addison LOVES her babies, and takes very good care of them. She is always feeding/burpring/kissing/playing and napping her babies. She has a little umbrella stroller that she constantly marches them around the house in, but it's a cheapie and the fabric is always coming off, and she is much too little to figure out how to put it back on. So she really needs a new baby stroller. I think this one is a good size for her for now.

Those are the bigger gifts. We are also going to get her a few new books, some new bath toys (the little squirties aren't doing it for her anymore) and some craft supplies since Grammie and Grampie are getting her this craft table:

This table is so cool. It has the craft paper on the end of the table so you can just pull it accross for crafts. Addie will have 4 different coloured chairs. LOVE this!

We are so excited to spend Christmas morning in our own house this year. I can't wait to decorate and bake, and most of all, to see Addie's little face light up when she comes down the stairs on Christmas morning and sees what Santa has brought her.

Babyproofing 101

                                                         Look what we got this week:

                                                                         See why?

It's kind of hard to see in this picture, because it's starting to turn yellow, but this is Addison's first (and hopefuly last) black eye. In the mornings, I keep Addie in my bedroom with me while I shower and get ready for work. After that she watches TV or plays with her toys while I get her snacks ready for daycare and have breakfast myself. Monday, I forgot something upstairs, looked over at Addie who was completely immersed in Caillou on the couch, and ran up to get what I needed. Within seconds, I heard Addison climbing up the stairs. Addie knows how to go up and down the stairs, we haven't had gates because we wanted to teach her how to use the stairs and we wanted her to learn how to navigate her own environment. BUT she is NOT allowed on the stairs by herself. She knows it, and when I looked over the railing from upstairs, she saw me, smiled and continued up to me (little bugger). So I went to grab her. I hadn't even made it down the first step when I saw her lose her balance and go down. I am pretty sure my heart stopped beating entirely in that moment, I have never been so scared in my life. She was on the 5th step, and she knocked her head off the step she was on, then continued down on her back. She held her head up, and stuck both arms and legs out, and kinda starfished it down to the carpet.

I rushed down to her and as she was crying, I saw the little bump by her eye, which was already starting to swell, then I checked her over head to toe to make sure nothing was broken. She actually didn't cry for too long before she was up and playing again. About an hour went by and it was time to go to daycare. I was confident she didn't have a concussion or anything, and she was acting very happy so we went. I told her daycare provider to keep a close eye on her and I would call at noon. When I called, Addie was running around and playing and acting like herself.

So when I picked her up from daycare, her bump had become a black eye, and it has progressively changed colours daily to this nice yellow/purple/blue colour. Amazingly, there is not one other bruise on her body, but that was enough for me. That was NOT going to happen again. So after dinner that night, I went to get the gates. I went with the wood so it would somewhat match our stairs, and they're not bad. I actually don't mind them, and they do the job.

We put them up while Addie was in bed for the night. Her reaction when she came down and saw them? Went right over, pulled on it, and tried to stick her leg through.... haha better a stuck leg than a broken neck.

We are now gate people.

Y3W: My 1st Ultrasound

Y3W: My 1st Ultrasound

Guess who this is: OUR NEW BABY!!

I had my first ultrasound for baby #2 today, and I was amazed at how incredible it was. I don't really know what I was expecting, I have been soo excited about this baby, and have been in love with him or her since I first saw those two pink lines show up on the test, but I somehow thought that maybe after having been through it already, that it would lose something. I was so happy today to realize that nothing is lost on the second baby. Not only am I just as excited as I was with Addison, but the experience is just as special.

I was actually luckier this time around, because with Addison, when we refused the NT scan, we opted out of the 12 week ultrasound and I had to wait until 18 weeks and 3 days to see her. This time, due to my heart shaped uterus, they wanted to see where the baby was, and get an exact date, so 12 week ultrasound it was.

I don't even have my first real Dr. appt until tomorrow, so up until today, I hadn't even heard a heartbeat. You never know what is going on in there until you at least get a doppler on your belly. I was thrilled today when the tech showed me a very squirmy, very active, and very beautiful little baby. I was also thrilled that there was only ONE in there!

I didn't get much info out of the technician, she was very nice and let me watch the baby for a long time, but she really couldn't tell me much, they like the Dr to do that. She did tell me the baby was too small and squirmy to even guess at the sex, and she did tell me the heartbeat was strong, and that baby was very active. She also told me that Baby P was measuring AHEAD (though she didnt tell me how much) which surprised me because Addison always measured at least a week behind. At one scan, she measured almost two weeks behind!

So tomorrow I get to hear all the details from the scan, I am very eager to hear how far ahead I am measuring, and see if my due date gets changed, and I also get to book my next ultrasound, which will be my anatomy scan where *hopefully* Baby P becomes baby girl or baby boy.

Tonight, Ryan is away for work, and Addison is spending the night with Grammie and Grampie, and I will be home dreaming of that little hand that kept waving at me, the little arms that kept snuggling up to a very little baby neck, and a little body that kept curling up when it was poked.

Baby P, I already adore you, you already have just as big a piece of my heart as your sister, and I can barely contain my excitement of hearing your little heartbeat for the first time tomorrow morning.

 Baby P at 12 weeks 1 day