I FELT A "KICK"!!!

After everyone had gone home on Christmas Day, and Toby had gone to bed... I was sitting on the chair watching TV, just rubbing my belly.

All of a sudden, I felt something. It was a combination of a flutter & gas bubble feeling.

I just stopped and looked at my belly.

I continued to rub... it happened again.

I jumped up, ran upstairs and said "Toby! Toby! I felt the baby!!!"

It was such an amazing feeling to feel that little life inside of me. Above and beyond any material items I received for Christmas, this was the most amazing gift!!!

Merry Christmas to me!!!

18 Weeks

Almost half way there...














Thanks to mom for my new maternity wardrobe, which includes this awesome tank...

On Saturday, we went to see Grandma... to wish her a Merry Christmas, bring her a few gifts and show her my "bump." Although it's hard to tell what she's thinking or feeling, I'm sure she was very happy for me. While there, we had her laughing and smiling, and that's always a good feeling to see her happy.

Mom made sure we got a picture of the "four generations"...















I love you, Grandma!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Wishing you and and yours a very wonderful holiday!!!

As they say in England, "Happy Christmas!"

Love you all!

Yep, it's definitely growing...

I was in the kitchen the other day, pouring myself a glass of milk.
I put the glass to my mouth to take a drink, and of course missed, spilling a bit.
I continued to drink the milk, thinking to myself "crap, now I'm going to have to bend over and clean up the milk off the floor!"
I finished my drink, set the down the glass and looked at the floor... only to find there was no milk spilled on the floor...
IT WAS ON MY TUMMY!!!

Yep, it's definitely growing...

LISTEN UP!

Toby and I were called in to see the doctor early b/c we're expecting a huge snow storm tonight... so we got to hear the baby last night!!!

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While listening, I had a HUGE smile on my face! I looked over at Toby, and he too had a HUGE smile... and a tear in his eye!!! It was soooooooooooo cute! He was hearing his baby for the first time!!!

The doctor said everything looks great... the baby's heart beat was everywhere from 150-162 beats per minute!!! Very fast!!! She said he/she sounds great! All my vitals are great... and I've only gained 3 pounds! I say "only" because I feel like I've gained 10+!!! She said I look great and I'm doing very well.

Our next ultrasound is scheduled for January 22nd... but we're still not sure if we want to find out the sex. I really want to know; Toby really doesn't want to know... so we'll see what happens!

It's a Basketball!

I kept waking up last night because I was really uncomfortable. I've been avoiding sleeping on my stomach, for obvious reasons, but I'm so used to sleeping that way, that I tend to naturally go to that position. Well, as you can imagine, it's becoming increasingly uncomfortable. Last night was worse than normal... and when I woke up this morning I could see why... It seems the baby grew a lot over night... it looks like there's a basketball in my stomach all of a sudden!!

You can't really see it in these pictures, but when looking at me straight on, there's a distinct "roundness" to the baby area.



































I must say I'm very glad that I seem to be (so far) carrying the baby front & center. Everyone carries different, and every baby carries different. But, so far, it looks like I'm going to be carrying a basketball... which is fine by me!!!

Cheese curds?

Katie Kruz was eating Culver's today... and she had some leftover deep-fried cheese curds. She came out of the studio and said "cheese curds anybody?" Out of nowhere I say "ooh, yeah!" She asks "Really? You like cheese curds?"

My response: "No. Not really. But apparently the baby does, because now I want a cheese curd."

I ate it. And it wasn't bad.

Silly baby.

15 Weeks

I'm getting bigger!

Toby calls it "Baby Chunky," which is cute, I guess. He keeps telling me that I'm getting "cute fat" -- how romantic! ;o)

My next doctor's appointment is December 18th, and I'm VERY anxious to hear the baby's heartbeat again! Toby hasn't heard it yet, so he's very excited to hear it. It's truly an amazing experience and I'm so excited to finally share it with him!

I plan to take a digital recorder along, then I can upload the audio so you all can hear Baby Simpson!

Hope you're all having fun prepping for the holidays... I know I am!

Yo-ga! Yo-ga!

It's kind of like "To-ga! To-ga!" Okay, not really.

I went out and bought a prenatal yoga DVD that was recommended to me, and did it for the first time on Sunday night while Toby was out blowing leaves and putting the plow on the 4-wheeler.

I popped in the DVD, got my props (blanket and chair) ready on stand-by, assumed the position and began. They recommend at the beginning that you only do it for about 15-20 minutes your first couple times, so I only did two segments. Breath, stretch, breath, relax, breath, repeat.

Afterwards I was soooooooo relaxed. So relaxed that I moved to the couch and fell asleep... for 3 hours!!!

I'm going to try another segment tonight, so we'll see if I fall asleep afterwards.

"Namaste."