Baby update

My baby's heartbeat is 136. :)

Ultrasound next Wednesday.

All is well right now. To God be the glory.

Catching up

As promised, here are a few pictures from the "photo shoot" the other day for Christianna's 1st year pictures. As you can tell, I played around with some photo shopping for a few of the pictures. I'm looking forward to warmer weather when I can get outside and take some pictures in some natural lighting. Chilly weather kept us indoors for this session.


As for me, I'm sitting and typing away at a lesson plan. I have one more week of winter (theme), and then we move to a forest theme for the remainder of January. I'm very blessed to work through Family Resource Agency where they have prop boxes available for us to use in our pre-k classrooms. Other themes we will explore for the rest of this year will be insects & bugs, animals (zoo, pets, farm, etc.), and space & weather...not in that order. There are many more to choose from, and if possible, my co-teacher and I will probably line ourselves up for all the boxes we want to use next year as soon as possible.

Many people have asked lately, "How are you feeling?" I'm doing well, with just an occasional bout of nausea and/or gagging. I have been fortunate (so far) not to actually find myself hugging the toilet. I have noticed that my sickness jumps around from morning to evening, with tonight being a less than desirable evening. I got mad earlier today as I was having a rough patch of dry heaving, and I was just like, "Bring it on...Puke already!" lol. Pregnant lady is a bit hormonal tonight.

I've been tired, of course. I look forward to Thursday when Josh & I go to hear the heartbeat. I'm in the strange part of pregnancy where I don't completely feel pregnant yet, but I'm having the occasional symptoms. I look forward to the weeks ahead where I can actually feel the little one moving around. I can't believe I'll be at 12 weeks already this Friday.

I'm still excited, of course, and my enthusiasm is shared by many friends and family around me. I have noticed that I am already quite protective of our little one, and I'm in a bit of a touchy time (probably brought on by the hormones. lol) when it comes to remarks about our baby, parenting, and so forth. I was telling Josh about my feelings this evening, and he asked me if I'm crazy. No, I'm just a pregnant woman. Haha. I'm hoping my weirdness passes soon so I don't end up screaming at someone, "NO, you may NOT touch my belly" and "Did I ASK for your advice?" I'm not quite at that point yet, but I did have to politely tell one of our teens tonight that she could not lift up my shirt to look at my belly (which is just fat right now, not baby bump). Bless her.

Anyway, I have to finish up my work so I can get myself on to bed. Monday morning will be coming too early as usual.