Week 13: Surprise Visit from Mom

This past weekend my my mom found a really cheap ticket online and was able to fly down Friday night and leave Monday morning.  It was great - we got to finish up some things around the house that we didn't get to the last time she was here.  We added some shelves in the garage and got some of the heavy boxes that were just sitting around, driving me nuts, out of the house.  We still have some pictures that need to be hung that Scotty and I need to work on.  Mom and Scotty hung the heavier pictures and put some heavy stuff in the attic that I couldn't help with.  Mom says that I work her to death when she is here and Scotty is now complaining that his back hurts.  Guess I am a bossy boss but I think they are just being wimpy : )  Just kidding - I am very thankful for all the work that they did.  Next on my list of things to do is get a china cabinet and dining room table for the formal dining room before the gender reveal party.
 
Speaking of the gender reveal, I have picked out invitations and I hope to get those ordered this week.  Scotty and I have decided that we will cut a cake that will have pink or blue inside at the party but Scotty and I are going to find out before everyone else.  My mom had mentioned the idea of taking the envelope with the gender (right after leaving the Dr.) in it to a store and picking out a pink and a blue onesie and asking the clerk to wrap the correct onesie with the envelope and to keep the other onesie in the back so we don't see it!  Then we will open the package at dinner or at home together to find out what our baby boo is.

Mom and I went to a couple of baby stores and it is overwhelming!  There is so much stuff out there! But I am so excited to start picking things out!  I feel like the end of April is so far away but it really isn't.  When you start to count your life in weeks it seems like it goes by a lot faster.

Well I am 14 weeks tomorrow.  This past week brought some nausea back.  It now happens at night after I eat rather than all day when I'm hungry.  I am dizzy and lightheaded often and get tired easily - but that's not new.  This week baby is getting fingerprints and vocal cords.  And if it is a little baby girl (which I still think it is) then she already has 2 million eggs in her little ovaries. How crazy is that!!!  I absolutely love reading about how my body and the baby's body is changing.  It is so awesome.  Growing a baby is an amazing thing.  How blessed we are as women to get to experience this.  I know that labor is going to be awful but men should be really jealous of us. 

My belly is growing by the day it seems like.  Some of my outfits showcase it more than others but I am getting comments and belly rubs at work so I am glad that others are seeing it and not just me.  So I will leave you with the weekly pictures and you can decide for yourself if you think it has grown.





The Belly



Sign for the Week

 





Mom and I



The Hubby



My View of the Growing Belly, and Henry our boy cat