9 weeks Baby #2

Week of March 5, 2013! :)

How Far Along? 9 weeks

Due Date: According to my calculations, I will be due on Lincoln's second birthday Oct 8, 2013!

Total weight gain/loss: still down 2 :)

Maternity clothes? for the most part

Stretch Marks? I'm forever going to be scared!

Sleep: I'm tired all the time, but can't sleep at night! 

Best moment this week: Finally feeling a little better!!

Movement: I can't wait for this!!! 

Food cravings: Outback steak house; smoothies

Food aversions: None yet

Gender: We won't be finding out

Labor Signs: none yet thank goodness

Belly Button in or out? never went out with little man...so still in!

What I miss: Being skinny. But that's more from being preggo Linc

What I am looking forward to: Going to the doctor and hopefully getting to see our little booger!

Size of the Baby:

**No picture this week due to the doctor moving up my due date and Adam being gone so I couldn't take a picture until he came home and I was 1 day away from being 10 weeks so I skipped it!

Baby's now the size of a green olive!

Your little embryo has now officially graduated to fetus-hood. Adding to the excitement, a Doppler ultrasound device might be able to pick up the beating heart. With basic physical structures in place and increasingly distinct facial features, baby is kind of starting to look like...well...a baby!

8 Weeks Baby Chafin #2

Week of February 26, 2013! :)

How Far Along? 8 Weeks

Due Date: according to my calculations I'm due 10/8/13

Saturday March 2, 2013
8 weeks 4 days

Total weight gain/loss: 

Maternity clothes? Yup I feel majorly bloated and don't want to make myself feel worse by trying to fit into other clothes. 

Stretch Marks? I'm forever going to be scared!

Sleep: Yeah no not really. I'm tired all the time but I can't sleep at night

Best moment this week: feeling a little better than last week. I think this virus is finally leaving me. 

Movement: I can't wait for this!!! 

Food cravings: nothing just yet

UGGG i look so terrible! Why did I not work
harder at loosing the baby weight!

Food aversions: None yet

Gender: I don't think we'll be finding out

Labor Signs: none yet thank goodness

Belly Button in or out? never went out with little man...so still in!

What I miss: Not feeling so bloated, nauseated and having headaches all the time.

What I am looking forward to: My doctor appointment in a next week

Size of the Baby:

Baby's now the size of a raspberry!
Baby is growing like mad, putting on about a millimeter every day and continuing to straighten out in the trunk. Though you can't feel it yet, baby is moving those little arms, legs, and (now only slightly) webbed fingers and toes like crazy.

7 Weeks Baby Chafin #2

Week of February 19th

How Far Along? 7 Weeks

Due Date: According to my calculations, I will be due on Lincoln's second birthday Oct 8, 2013!

Total weight gain/loss: I'm down 4lbs actually. Thanks to this nasty nausea and bug going around our house

Maternity clothes? I wear sweatpants or scrubs, but if I wear "normal" clothes yes they are maternity. No need to make myself feel bad about myself for not fitting into anything

Stretch Marks? I'm forever going to be scared!

Sleep: Due to this bug, I've slept A LOT!

Best moment this week: Surprising Adam's mom for her birthday. I worked the night before and when Linc got up we drove the 3hrs to her house to surprise her. she was speechless and it was the perfect moment! SO glad we did it. Even though Linc was still recovering from his bug and I think he got everyone sick :(

Movement: I can't wait for this!!! 

Food cravings: Just food in general. My nausea has been out of control this week! I forgot how much this sucks!

Food aversions: None yet

Gender: I'm hoping boy since all the clothes could be the same. I sorta feel its a boy too...

Labor Signs: none yet thank goodness

Belly Button in or out? never went out with little man...so still in!

What I miss: not feeling so bloated

What I am looking forward to: My sister coming this weekend to celebrate her birthday! 

Size of the Baby:

**No picture this week due to all of us having the flu! EEK!

Baby's now the size of a blueberry!

Baby's brain -- both hemispheres! -- is growing fast, generating about one hundred new cells every minute. Arms and legs are emerging as joints start to form, and a permanent set of kidneys (baby's third!) is now in place.

6 Weeks with Baby #2!

Week of February 12th

How Far Along? 6 Weeks

Wednesday February 13
6 Weeks 1 day

Due Date: According to my calculations, I will be due on Lincoln's second birthday Oct 8, 2013!

Total weight gain/loss: I'm still at 0 if not down a few...

Maternity clothes? I mean I never really got out of them...

Stretch Marks? I'm forever going to be scared!

Sleep: I'm so freaking tired it's ridiculous!

Best moment this week: Adam coming home and getting to celebrate with Adam and Lincoln! We are so excited!

Movement: I can't wait for this!!! 

Food cravings: Just food in general. Nausea is picking up though!

Food aversions: None yet

Gender: I'm hoping boy since all the clothes could be the same. I sorta feel its a boy too...

Labor Signs: none yet thank goodness

ew!

Belly Button in or out? never went out with little man...so still in!

What I miss: not feeling so bloated

What I am looking forward to: I scheduled my first official OB appointment today! I actually had a bit of a scare today. I had a little bit of spotting so I called my OB and they had me get blood work done, which I did after Lincoln's doctor appointment for his shots.  Since my numbers came back really high they wanted me to come in. So Lincoln and I went during his nap time (talk about nightmare) and waited the 45 minutes to get called back and another 45 minutes before the doctor came in. He did an ultrasound and since I'm still so early there was no heart beat but he also did an internal exam and he saw no bleeding. He told me to go home and relax. He reaffirmed me that if this a viable pregnancy there is nothing I can do cause a miscarriage and vise versa if it's not, there is nothing I can do to save it...so i'm really looking forward to my appointment in a few weeks so I will feel a little better about everything!

Size of the Baby:

Baby's now the size of a sweet pea!
Growing like crazy, baby is starting to sprout eyes, ears, nose, cheeks, and chin. Those little hands and feet -- still webbed like paddles -- might wiggle by week's end, the heart is beating (almost twice as fast as yours!), and blood is starting to circulate.

5 weeks with Baby Chafin #2

Week of February 7th, 2013

How Far Along? 5 Weeks 2 days

February 7th, 2013
5 Weeks 2 Days

Due Date: According to my calculations, I will be due on Lincoln's second birthday Oct 8, 2013!

Total weight gain/loss: 0 right now, I still have 20 lbs to loose from Lincoln!!!

Maternity clothes? Was I supposed to have been in "normal" clothes since having Lincoln?

Stretch Marks? I'm forever going to be scared!

Sleep: There are not enough hours in the week for me to sleep. I guess now I know why

Best moment this week: Finding out Lincoln is going to be a big brother

Movement: I can't wait for this!!! Come on MAY!

Food cravings: none really this week, I'm too tired

Food aversions: None yet

Gender: I think we Will keep it a surprise again...sorry ya'll

yes I know I'm fat!
**read weight gain section**

Labor Signs: none yet thank goodness

Belly Button in or out? never went out with little man...so still in!

What I miss: Not feeling nauseous!

What I am looking forward to: Adam coming home so I can share the news with him. He convinced me to take the test even though he wasn't home...so now I just want to hug him and share our news together. One huge downfall to him being out of town all the time. :(

Size of the Baby:

Baby's now the size of an appleseed!Your embryo, which doesn't look like much more than a tadpole right now, is actually starting to form major organs (heart, kidney, liver, stomach) and systems (nervous, circulatory, digestive). Baby's presence in your uterus triggers production of HCG (the hormone detected by pregnancy tests), which triggers the production of other hormones like estrogen and progesterone, which triggers all those great symptoms you've probably been noticing!

A picture is worth a thousand...gigabytes?

If you know me at all you know how much I love to take pictures. It sort of goes along with my desire to capture EVERYTHING!!!

For my birthday/nursing school graduation 2 years ago Adam bought me a new camera! I even did a post about it here. I'm slightly obsessed with it. I take it with us everywhere and thanks to its multi shot mode I can capture some really great pictures of Lincoln as he is oh so quick to move when I am taking pictures. The downside is that for an ammeture like me there are a lot of not so great pictures. Also My husband like's to just snap away when taking pictures. One time he took nearly 150 pictures in a 20 minute period trying to get a good one.

Anyways, even before my new camera I was like this. My friends would often "make fun" of me for how I always had a camera with me. But then again they relied on me to take the pictures at parties and post to facebook so they could have copies.

All of this picture taking has lead me to an unfortunate event. I am out of room on my computer....I seriously have NO MORE ROOM to take my pictures from my camera to my computer. Also my phone is now full so I can't even take more pictures on it!

I'm not someone one who can just take a picture, post to facebook, delete it and call it a day. No I have to take the picture, post to facebook, upload to my computer, and back it up to my hardrive and then pick my favorites to print and put into albums. This being said I don't delete any of my pictures... which has lead me to my predicament.

I want to have my pictures stored one more place before I start deleting them from my computer. I have started to upload them to shutterfly which I like because I can also upload my pictures from my phone directly to there. But I've been told I can't get them off of there once I do. So I'm at  loss of what to do next...

I have been documenting this pregnancy with my blog posts as well as my weekly pictures, but have been taking the pictures with my camera, so therefore I haven't published my posts yet because I can't add my picture to them...

Anyone else ever run into this problem and have a way I can fix it? Any suggestions are appreciated!!

thanks stephanie

Perfect day!

Yesterday was by far the perfect day. Rarely do Adam Lincoln and I get a day just to ourselves. We usually are with family in some aspect. But this weekend was a bit different. We had no family commitment and rather than make plans with friends we decided to make a weekend of just our little family of 3.

Saturday Adam had to work so Lincoln and I just hung out while we waited for him to get off. Then the 3 of us went to church and dinner. We went to Abuelo's, it's one of Adam and my favorite Mexican places and Lincoln love dipping his chips in the salsa and queso (the kid actually likes spicy food) we then just had a relaxing 20 min movie night watching Finding Nemo (20 min was all Lincoln would last).

throwing rocks in the "river"

Sunday (yesterday) Adam got up early and went to play 9 holes of golf while Linc and I slept. When he got up Adam came home and we decided to take Lincoln to the park. Adam found one that was close to our house so we headed there...
Well lets just say it wasn't a very nice park and had one trail and a creek that was so full of algae it was gross! But we let Lincoln throw rocks in the creek and he loved it.

We decided to take our picnic lunch of fried chicken from marsh, chips and sandwiches to a park we knew was nice so we headed to cool creek park which is close to my parents house and park I went to a lot while I was in high school. They have a nice grassy area and some trails with a creek.

We ate our picnic lunch on the grass and Lincoln loved it. He has so much fun eating chips and chicken and cheese.

Lunch at Cool Creek Park

After lunch we hit the trails. Adam had Lincoln on his shoulders and we had fun time just walking the trails. They have a really nice clean creek that runs through it and we let Lincoln put his toes in the water. He just loved that. It was still a bit chilly so he didn't last long but it was still fun.

baby toes in the water...butt almost in the dirt...

After the park we went to Adams brothers house to help them with some stuff and on our way home about 5 pm Lincoln fell asleep, he'd done so well all day without a nap, but he finally succumbed. We decided to let him sleep for about an hr while I made dinner. When Adam woke him up it was the worst idea he'd ever had. Lincoln has never been so fussy! EVER!! It took him about 45 min to become our loving little one once again!

But we had a lovely dinner of grilled chicken with yummy salad with home made balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

It was the perfect end to the perfect day. So much so that Adam I decided that once a week we plan to do something like this just us. With Adam gone a lot and me wanting to sleep my life away working nights, it's important to keep focus on what's important and why we are working ourselves so hard....OUR LITTLE FAMILY :)

I hope everyone's weekend was as great as ours!! :)

Happy 18 months to our beautiful big brother to be! we love you so much and you enlighten our life in so many ways!!! :)