Renovation Wednesday

Yay all the concrete is poured! Now Matt just has to remove the extra rocks and then put this concrete leveler down and then we can start getting walls up. So on Monday night I tried to see if I could email Disaster DIY to Bryan to come to our house and finish this up. But I don't think I found the right spot. All I found was a contact page so I emailed them to see if they can let me know how I can enter a submission. Wouldn't that be crazy cool if we got to go on Disaster DIY!

Weekend Recap

Friday

Today I got to leave work a little bit earlier since I had come in earlier and had stayed later the day before. It was really great to be off earlier because tonight I get to babysit Henry again! Things went well during my baby sitting time even though Henry was teething, he was a really good boy. After when John and Rachel got home I headed over to the church because there was youth there already from Edmonton for our youth day tomorrow. I just stayed for a short time since it was late and I needed to get to bed because tomorrow is going to be a busy day!


Saturday

Today we have a Youth Day at our church which started at 8am! So I was there early to start getting the breakfast ready. To recap the day there was a lot of activity going on, there was games played, Christmas shoe boxes being put together, choir practices (since in the evening the youth are putting on a coral choir for the congregations) Oh it was a very long day. I didn't get to watch the choral program because I was in the kitchen preparing food and cleaning up from dinner. But it sounded good from what I did hear.


Sunday

We had service in the morning and the Edmonton youth were still at the church so they joined us for service here. After service we had fellowship and then cleaned up and home we went. It is always so exhausting after a youth weekend or day just because there is so much that goes into it.

Bumpdate

How far along? 22weeks

How big is baby? The baby is about 11 inches long from crown to heel and weighs almost a pound and will steadily be gaining weight.

Gender? GIRL!!

Total Weight Gain? Still at about 10lbs like last week

Maternity Clothes? Yes to both bottoms and tops. I still can wear some of my normal shirts but some of them are just getting too short now. The crazy thing is my shirts before were longer shirts so will my expanding belly they just keep riding up.

Symptoms? Still things are going well which is great.
Food Cravings? I think of stuff that I want to eat or would be good and then I totally forget about it.

Food Aversions? There is nothing that has been unappealing.

What I miss? Nothing! Even if I did miss something it really wouldn't matter because I'm getting a baby at the end of the pregnancy.

Sleep? Sleep has been great.

Movement? I can totally feel her moving now it is so amazing. Sometimes when she is really flopping around it feels like I'm on a roller coaster.

Stretch marks? None yet. I have been putting lotion on before I go to bed. I am the type of person where I never put lotion on my body except for my legs sometimes. So this putting lotion on thing is hard for me to get used to.

Belly button? Kind of looks more "open" I'm not really sure how to explain except that I can put my finger in it?

Milestones? Making it to 22 weeks, saying 5 1/2 months along seems so crazy, time is flying by!

Best moment of the week? Knowing for sure what I am feeling is the baby moving!
What I am looking forward to? Having Matt be able to feel our baby too!

Pregnancy moments with Matt: So Matt had his head resting on my lap and then he decided to listen to my tummy. He said "Our baby girl sounds like popcorn". It was kind of funny because well for me I can't listen to my own stomach but it was cool to find out what he thought he was hearing.
Belly Photo: 

Weekend Recap

Friday

Today after work not a whole lot happened which is fine with me its nice to not have to do anything sometimes.

Saturday

Today in the afternoon we had a youth coral choir practice since next week is our coral choir concert. It went well, we were missing quite a few people but what can you do.

Sunday

Today Matt and I went to two different churches. He went to the one that we usually go to and I went to a different congregation since we had been invited a while back to go there for this Sunday to celebrate a friend's birthday. It was really nice to be there and there was really good food after. Matt wasn't able to make it there after service because his service that he was at went longer then the one that I was at. Oh well I wished our friend happy birthday for the both of us.

Bumpdate

How far along? 21weeks

How big is baby? The baby is about 10 1/2 inches long from crown to heel and weighs about 3/4 of a pound and will steadily be gaining weight.

Gender? GIRL!!

Total Weight Gain? Still at about 10lbs like last week

Maternity Clothes? Yes to both bottoms and tops. I still can wear some of my normal shirts but some of them are just getting too short now. The crazy thing is my shirts before were longer shirts so will my expanding belly they just keep riding up.

Symptoms? Last night I had a leg cramp in my calf, it woke Matt up too and he helped me rub it out.

Food Cravings? I think of stuff that I want to eat or would be good and then I totally forget about it.

Food Aversions? There is nothing that has been unappealing.

What I miss? Nothing! Even if I did miss something it really wouldn't matter because I'm getting a baby at the end of the pregnancy.

Sleep? Sleep has been great.

Movement? I think I can feel her moving around like last night at church Matt was serving and I think she was moving around.

Stretch marks? None yet. I have been putting lotion on before I go to bed. I am the type of person where I never put lotion on my body except for my legs sometimes. So this putting lotion on thing is hard for me to get used to.

Belly button? Kind of looks more "open" I'm not really sure how to explain except that I can put my finger in it?

Milestones? Making it to 21 weeks time is flying by!

Best moment of the week? I have had a few patients stop me in the hall or when they come into the office comment on my belly its really fun having a belly that looks pregnancy like! 

What I am looking forward to? Feeling my baby girl move even more!

Pregnancy moments with Matt: Oh goodness once we found out we were having a girl that night Matt decided to start looking up names. How ever he went to a website and was naming off all these names that we can't name our daughter. He googled stripper names! So we have a whole list of names now that we can't use which should help in the process of elimination (not all the names on there were the typical Candy sort of names but just regular names that I never would have thought were "stripper" names).

Belly Photo: 

Renovation Wednesday

Yay progress on the basement! So on Friday Matt's brother Kris now had time to come and do our plumbing for us after we had to try and contact about 5 other people to see if they could get this done for us. But we are happy and grateful that it is done. Of course I do wish that it had been done sooner so that we could have already been in the framing stage but hopefully that is not too far away now. We still have a bit more concrete work to be done but that should hopefully get done this week and then maybe by the weekend we can start getting framing done. My dad is going to come over on Saturday to help Matt move the crib to their house so maybe he can come back and stick around for a bit and help Matt get some more thing done in the basement. But here are a few more photos of the progress.

I wasn't home before Matt finished filling in the trench with the gravel again so I missed getting the pictures of the plumbing lines.

All filled in again!

Matt had to make some boxes for easier access to some stuff.

Yay concrete!!!

Matt had to leave an open space for the where the plumbing will go for the shower.

Almost there!

Our Crib Arrived!

So as I had posted before that I had ordered our crib on November 7th because it was $100 off and it was on back order till December sometime (which was fine with us). It ended up coming today! Yesterday I had gotten a phone call from Sameday Delivery and they had the crib already and wanted to set up a time to deliver the packages. So I told them that today (Tuesday) would work and they said between 4pm and 8pm. Which is fantastic because then we don't have to worry about taking time off from work. I was still on my way home when Matt called me to let me know he was almost home and this was at about 3:50pm. As soon as he had turned the corner to get home he saw the delivery truck just parking, perfect timing!
Here is what I saw when I came home.

Unfortunately the nursery is no where near ready to have a crib in it as it is still our office. But luckily my parents are fine with us bringing the crib to their house to store for now until we are ready to set it up at home.

Weekend Recap

Friday

Today Matt and I didn't have to work because it is Remembrance Day. So I went over to my parents house because my mom and I needed to make the perogies for Christmas Eve this year. We ended up making around 140 or so, we kind of forgot to keep count. But it went really quickly once we had everything prepared. Here is a picture of the end result, we had 2 containers full.

While I was at my parents Matt was at home with his brother Kris. Kris decided he had some time now so he put our plumbing in. Don't get me wrong we are really happy this is getting done by him, we just wish he would have done it when he originally said he was going to do it.

Saturday

Did some clean up around the house and Matt continued to work on the basement. He filled in the floor about halfway with the concrete that we had but took a break because that is a lot of work to do on your own. That stuff is heavy I remember caring in those bags of concrete from the truck. 15 pounds each and I think we had about 12 or so.

Sunday

Today we had church in the morning and then after we didn't do anything too crazy. Matt continued to work on the basement with the concrete with the help of my brother and finished the bags that we had. It didn't fill up all of the trench but it was pretty close. My brother has some extra concrete at his house that he is going to give us so we can get it finished.

Bumpdate

How far along? 20weeks

How big is baby? The baby is about 6.5 inches long from crown to rump and weighs about 9ounces and will steadily be gaining weight.

Gender? Well we had our ultrasound on Monday and we ended up finding out what the sex of the baby is while we were there. Our baby is a .......... GIRL!!

Total Weight Gain? About 10lbs now, it does change by a pound or 2 when I check it in the morning.

Maternity Clothes? Yes to both bottoms and tops. I still can wear some of my normal shirts but some of them are just getting too short now. The crazy thing is my shirts before were longer shirts so will my expanding belly they just keep riding up.

Symptoms? Nothing really.

Food Cravings? I can't really think of any.

Food Aversions? There is nothing that has been unappealing.

What I miss? Nothing

Sleep? Sleep has been great.

Movement? Well I'm not sure if I have felt movement yet or not, I find it hard to tell. But from our ultrasound I know our baby is moving like crazy! She was making the ultrasound tech really work to get all of the pictures.

Stretch marks? None yet. I have been putting lotion on before I go to bed. I am the type of person where I never put lotion on my body except for my legs sometimes. So this putting lotion on thing is hard for me to get used to.

Belly button? Kind of looks more "open" I'm not really sure how to explain.

Milestones? Making it to 20 weeks half way there!

Best moment of the week? Having our ultrasound appointment that was on Monday

What I am looking forward to? Actually feeling the baby move.

Pregnancy moments with Matt: At our ultrasound appointment, once we found out our baby is a girl Matt said "this baby is going to get away with murder. If it was a boy he wouldn't get away with anything." I'm just thinking that I will need to take away all of Matt's cards so he can't go buy every little thing for our daughter.

Belly Photo: 

We bought our crib today!
Yes I know its pretty early still but our crib wont be arriving until december anyways so it's all good. The only reason I bought it today was because from November 7th to the 20th it was $100 off, so we might as well buy it now then later and have to pay the extra $100.
This crib is really awesome because it comes with a mattress and conversion kits to make into a toddler bed and then into a double bed. We would just have to buy the mattress for a double bed once we got to that stage.

Here is the picture of the toddler bed, you don't have to have the side railing on if you don't want to, there was a picture of it just as a day bed.

Here is the double size bed, three beds in one!

Weekend Recap

Friday

This evening we went to a funeral for a sister that passed away after she lost the fight of breast cancer for the last 12 years. It was a beautiful service and her husband shared the story of how they had met, it was so sweet. Unfortunately we had to leave very soon after the service because we had to pick someone up at the airport.
We got to the airport and checked his flight and it was still going to be about 20 minutes before he landed. So we had a snack at Tim Horton's since we really didn't have time to eat between work and leaving for the funeral. Once Sam arrived we didn't have to wait too long for his bag and then we headed home. We stayed up and chatted for a while, I went to bed earlier then the guys though, but they had a good time catching up.

Saturday

This morning I got up and made the guys breakfast before their seminar that they had to go to. Sam came into town because he was the one holding the seminar. So off they went and I stayed home and did a few things around the house and then went out and got a few groceries, I know super exciting!
After I got home from getting groceries I started to make supper and good thing I did because the seminar ended earlier then what it was suppose to and then Matt took Sam to a few places but didn't tell me that they had finished early. So supper was definitely not done by the time they got home.
We had dinner around 6:30pm, they said dinner was good so I hope they weren't just saying that to make the pregnant lady feel good.
Then a little bit later we had our friends John, Rachel and their son Henry over as well to chat away the evening and for dessert too!

Sunday

Today was service, but it was a special service because it was for the souls in the relms of the departed. I'm not sure if you remember me talking about this from other posts when we have had this service in the past but it happens 3 times a year. It is to invite those souls who have passed on to the service, but don't think of it as we are summoning the dead, that is completely not what we do. For me it just really helps me focus on those in my life that have passed on before me and really makes me remember and think of them.
After service we went out for lunch and then headed to a store quick before heading home for Sam to pack his things and for Matt to take him to the airport.
All in all it was a fairly busy weekend.

Bumpdate

How far along?  19weeks

How big is baby? The baby is around 6 inches long from crown to rump and weighs about 9 ounces.

Gender? too early to know, but Matt is wanting it to be a surprise so we may not be finding out

Total Weight Gain? Since I didn't gain any weight last week I am up 2 pounds so 9pounds in total.

Maternity Clothes? yes I have maternity pants and skirts, its a lot easier sitting with out having your pants dig in to you. I still wear some regular shirts but I did go and buy a few plain maternity t-shirts since they are long enough and I don't have to worry about them riding up.

Symptoms? I feel little "cramps" in my lower belly- I read that it just means your muscles and ligaments are stretching to be able to support my growing tummy.

Food Cravings? I've been liking eggs (the weird thing is I have read other women's blogs when they were pregnant and a lot of them said that eggs were their food aversion)

Food Aversions? There is nothing that has been unappealing.

What I miss? Shopping any where and having it pretty easy, now I really have to look at items and see if it will be long enough to cover my growing belly. They make shirts too short, I have a long torso in the first place and now with a growing belly a lot of my shirts are already getting short. (but I have a baby growing in me so it makes up for it)

Sleep? Has been great!

Movement? I still can't feel any movement yet sometimes I think I'm maybe feeling something but then I just can't help but think its just my intestines. Like before I probably wont be able to feel any movement until closer to 20 weeks, they said my placenta is at the front so that kind of hides the "early" movement.

Stretch marks? None yet. I have been putting lotion on before I go to bed. I am the type of person where I never put lotion on my body except for my legs sometimes. So this putting lotion on thing is hard for me to get used to.

Belly button? Still seems normal for the most part, I some how think it is getting wider? Its kind of weird but I think I can see in it more then I could before since I have an inny.

Milestones? Making it to 19 weeks

Best moment of the week? I received my Costco magazine in the mail on Monday and it has the crib that we were looking at in it and it will be on sale at the beginning of November. I know we still have a lot of time before we really need to buy a crib (plus our office has not budged out of the nursery yet) but who can pass up a deal, even if its only $100 off it is still $100 off then. (I don't actually know how much it is on sale for until it gets posted on their website)

What I am looking forward to? Our next ultrasound appointment is on MONDAY!

Pregnancy moments with Matt: Oh Matt was pretty funny this week. My friend Sokhim had bought me Palmer's Tummy Butter, and this is what Matt said " Does this mean I can eat your belly?" Oh the things he comes up with. I just gave him a funny look and we laughed about it.

Belly Photo:

Lovely Surprise in the Mail

Matt and I received this gift in the mail today. So cute right! I love getting things in the mail and this was just so unexpected.