15 Weeks!

Boy oh boy, it's a BOY! 

15 Weeks (Hurray for bump! Hello Jack!)

How far along? 15 weeks

Total Weight Gain: 5ish lbs (Hard to tell since my normal weight is 135 and I dipped a tad below that after having Harry).

Symptoms: None. Nausea vanished by week 13.

Stretch Marks: none....yet.

Sleep: Great!

Highlight This Week: Finding out we have a little Jack William on the way and seeing Jack in 3D up on the big screen at Stork Vision Chandler! He's an active little man! He was moving all around just like Harry and I didn't even have a drop of sugar that morning. Jack be nimble Jack be quick!

Movement: YES! None that I can feel while standing, though. If I lie down on my back and feel for the baby with my hands I can feel the baby flutter underneath my fingers. Well, I have twice so far but movement is movement!

Cravings: In the beginning I was craving milk and cauliflower and even once allowed myself to consume an entire head of RAW cauliflower. Yeah, I nixed that habit real quick for my husband's sake. I do still like milk but I always have. I also really enjoy food in general, healthy and junk alike, so it's hard for me to tell the difference between pregnancy cravings and just the daily preferences of my flavor-loving tongue. For example last night I told my hubby we should have Cup Noodles for dinner. That wasn't a pregnancy craving (at least I hope not) that was just me craving the nutrient-barren hot and soupy noodles. One major craving difference that I have noticed this time around is sugar. When I was pregnant with Harry I needed sweets. NEEDED. As soon as I walked past the bakery in Fry's or Sprouts my jaws would ache and my mouth would water the way they do before I bite into a big fat ribeye and it wouldn't stop until I was satisfied. I'm not normally a sweets person AT ALL, never have been even as a child (I would donate all of my Halloween candy to the cause of Dad) so combatting that temptation was very difficult since I wasn't used to having to resist and well, let's just say I didn't resist very well. That might be why I gained almost 50 pounds with Harry! With Jack I craved sweets in the very early weeks, along with milk and cauliflower but that's all gone now.

What I Miss: Wine. Ah! I know that sounds awful but I was just finally starting to let myself have a little wine here and there while we would cook and we found out our amazing news shortly after. But wine or baby? Baby any day!

What am I looking forward to: Finishing our kitchen! We are trying to get our kitchen done before February 23rd (Harry's 1st birthday) but I don't know if that is going to happen. Sigh. I will remain hopeful! Right now we are still trying to finish the ceiling after we vaulted it. It's taken up 3 weekends now with no end in sight.

Milestones: Starting this blog!

How is Daddy? Loves that he can call me "ol' pregnant ass" again. Sounds mean but it's an innocent tease. He just loves when I am with child so he has a grin from ear to ear every time he says it. I don't mean to use a curse word but when I look back at my baby blogs I want to remember everything! Especially this because it will make me smile.

How is Harry? Great! He is learning so much so fast I can't keep up with the accomplishments and milestones! I'm seriously sad that I have forgotten to write a few of them down. Just recently though he has begun sounding out words. So far in his learning-to-talk vocabulary he has "boo" for book, "pu pu" for puppy, and just a simple "p" sound for pig. He also hisses like a snake when he sees a snake and woofs like a dog when he sees a dog, either in a book or in real life. So sweet!

Here is my 6 week baby belly photo. I am using this as my before. In this photo I am almost 10 pounds lighter than I was in high school. Not normal for me and kind of freakish. As you can see my butt had almost left me entirely! Anyway, I haven't taken a belly shot since because not much was happening and I just wanted one good before photo.

6 weeks