New Beginnings

It's a lovely day to start talking about our future plans.

Today is Tuesday June 28th 2011.
Christopher and I conceived on Sunday April 24th 2011. Our due date is Sunday, January 15th, 2012.

65 days have passed since the conception,
and I am 201 days before our due date.

I am 11 weeks into my pregnancy, with 29 weeks to go.

I am in the 1st trimester.

24% of your pregnancy has passed, there is 76% left to go.

I am 11 weeks pregnant with our second baby. We've had a total of 7 pregnancies; 2 succesful and 5 miscarriages.

I was hesitant to talk about it until closer to the end of the first trimester for obvious reasons. My body has a habit in flushing pregnancies at 8 weeks. I don't generate enough progesterone on my own to sustain the pregnancy (to develop the umbilical cord). Luckily we had suppliments with Isabelle and the current baby. :)

Anyway, for the good news, It seems like a completely different pregnancy from Isabelle. I kind of dreaded what pregnancy was going to be like again - considering the complications last time, but so far it's completely different.

I'm completely exhausted - and when I mean completey exhausted, I don't mean just tired. I mean, my body doesn't want to move. I fall asleep at 4pm on the dot (basically). I'm sluggish throughout most of the day. My brain is going full speed but my body can't catch up. I'm not sleepy, I'm just extremely tired - as if i'm recovering from running a marathon. Even all my joints and muscles are sore.

As far as morning sickness, I'm regularly nauseous but no involuntary puking, really. I have better days and worse days, but overall - I have nausea, but it's not like with Isabelle where it was 6 hours a day of involuntary heaving then completely fine afterwards. I'm just slightly sick the entire day.

I honestly don't know what's worse. It doesn't feel like a 'hard' pregnancy so far, although i feel like I can't give as much to Isabelle right now because Im so exhausted.

She's such a wonderful baby. She's a great listener, super smart, and loving. She just started walking a few months ago - we didn't push her at all. She went at her own pace and it's such convenient timing. Her friends all started walking at a year - as did she. And when I say walking, I mean - not taking steps, but like...going, going, gone.

We were at the San Francisco airport at the terminal waiting for our flight. There was a guy at the terminal with a handheld luggage scanner thing for strollers and so on. Anyway, she sees this light and she bolts towards it. She had been taking steps for a few months before that, but she completely got up on her own and speed walked after that laser light thingie, LOL. It was hilarious. I was absolutely horrified because the SF Airport is not a really safe place to bolt after red blinky things. Freakin' glass everywhere, balconies, and steep escalators (well for babies they'd be steep), not to mention the TONS of people. LOL, nevertheless, it was really cute. :)

I wonder what this baby is going to be like? :) I wholeheartedly think it's a boy - just based on my symptoms. "It's gotta be a boy because he's sucking the life out of me!!!" haha <3

I'd love another girl or boy. We really don't mind it either way, although Christoher has a soft spot for little baby girls. He wouldn't mind another girl. I wouldn't mind a boy. :)

If we did have a girl, her name would be Addison Rose. If we had a boy, his name would be Kesler Jacob. :)

Haha we KNOW it's not twins. We've had two ultrasounds that have confirmed a healthy SINGLE egg. Although I already feel like a whale and I'm still in my size 0 pants, although I do have to use a bella band now because I can't button the front comfortably!

On another note, we're getting some bids on our home this week (according to our realtor). Looking to purchase a home in the Cinnabar Valley area of Nanaimo. I'd sure love a home in Hammond Bay, lol - but it's way out of our price range. :) ONE DAY...one day.

I'm so spoiled by living here. It's hard to downgrade just because of location. DUDE, I want to keep living in 1700sqft and on 2/3 of an acre with a freakin' U shaped driveway. Living in the city won't really allow us to have that much land unless we pay the price for it. Our new home is less than half an acre on a slope (against and on a hill). It has a great view of the valley & forest, but it doesn't have much of a backyard. Eh, whatever right? At least we're in TOWN and there are Parks and Recreation there. :)

I just hope the babies & Kitty will like their new home as much as we do. :)

Anyway, that's a lot of blabbing for now. Maybe I'll upload some pictures later. I'm still waiting for my Dad to courier me my camera charger!! UGH, freaking t3i with no batteries!! Now THAT's a sad story. :(