January: Not much to say about this cold, long month. The new year started off good with a trip down to Georgetown on new years eve with our friends Brian and Amber. We stayed at Amber's parents house and ate too much food and played games. Her parents are really welcoming and made our stay so fun. The next day we watched football, slept in and just relaxed. That night, we met up with my old roommate Katie and her husband Tommy for bowling. It was a blast and we ended the night with dinner at The Parkette Drive In which was featured on Food Network's, Diner's, Drive-In's & Dives. I can always count on Katie to show me where to find good food. As for the rest of the month? Keith spent it either in class or studying (for real I loathe 2nd year of dental school), Kenzie has been building her vocab with phrases such as "Stop it Mom!!" and I spent it sick on the couch.
February has been so much kinder. The weather has been hitting the 60's and (knock on wo0d) we haven't seen snow yet. Blessed sunshine, I've never been more grateful for an early spring so I can let Kenzie out to run around. As you can see above, Kenzie got a new bed. She was SO excited when it came and plays in it all the time. I was really scared for the transition, but she hasn't missed her old crib for a minute. I don't miss it either, her room seems twice as big with it gone and I don't plan on putting it up again for another year. The second picture was just funny. Keith went to check on her a few nights back and that's how he found her. She loves to cram her bed with toys and dolls.

We have continued with our Friday night baby swap. We have 5 other couples in it so our turn doesn't seem to come around too often. Kenz is buds with one boy in particular named Parker. She asks for him almost daily and added his name into a little song we made up about her friends. Keith and I loved the face she's making in this picture.

The Best Christmas Gift

The best gift we received this Christmas was a positive pregnancy test. I woke up feeling like I had morning sickness. I couldn't open anything until I had something in my stomach and the thought of the chocolate I bought for our stockings made me sick. I went ahead and took a test knowing I probably wouldn't be able to get a positive result because it would be such an early result. I could see a glimmer of something on the stick but wrote it off as nothing. A couple hours later the feeling kept nagging me so I took another test and within five minutes I had a very faint positive line. I took it to Keith in a bit of disbelief but neither of us let ourselves get excited, I think we were both afraid something would go wrong. Well the nausea continued day after day and my blood work came back good every week. At about 8 weeks I went in for an ultrasound and everything was good, just measuring a little smaller baby and one very big uterus.

I went in for another ultrasound today and everything looked wonderful! They determined a due date of September 6th which puts me at 12 weeks tomorrow. This ultrasound was amazing to see such a tiny, perfect baby kicking around inside my belly. The heartbeat was nice and strong at 150 BPM. I've been feeling like it's a boy this past month but Kenzie keeps saying she wants a sister and because she's closer to Heaven then I am, she will probably be right.

This pregnancy has been really different from Mackenzie. The nausea started before 4 weeks and continued constantly throughout the day with peak times being about 3-4 hours in the afternoon and sometimes evening. I'm tired but not nearly so much as I was the first time and I've only put on 3 pounds. With Kenzie, I felt sick all day every day for most of the pregnancy with the worst of it being in the first 16 weeks. I'm already feeling much better, just getting headaches now and I'm still having a really hard time working out because it makes me so sick and tired. I feel like my belly's about the same as last time. Even though I haven't gained nearly so much, my stomach is obviously not as tight this time so my jeans have been uncomfortable since week 7. I'm so glad I invested in a belly band because it's really stretched my wardrobe. I am having a hard time with chocolate and sugar just like I did with Kenzie which is crazy for me because I'm normally a chocoholic. I've been craving PB&J's and fast food which I try not to give into often.

This isn't the best picture but I loved Kenzie in it so here was my belly at 10 1/2 weeks. I love winter for the layers, I think I wear sweatshirts at least 5 times a week.
Now that I finally got this post taken care of, I'll try to catch up on January and February.