It's a ......

BOYYYY! YEY!

We told my extended family on November 26th.
We went to Ultrasona on December 3rd.
We went to the OB on December 8th.
We will be testing for birth defects through blood work on December 13th. I won't know the results of this until my January OB appointment.
Our next OB appointment is January 5th. We will be getting an ultrasound and meeting with the nurst this day.

Tessa and I told my youngest cousin, Keirsten, on Friday that we had a secret but she'd have to wait until Saturday to hear it. So it was perfect timing because the whole family was sitting in the living room at Mamaw and Papaws. I asked Keirsten if she wanted to know the secret because I was ready to tell her. So I whipsered in her ear and told her that I was going to have a baby. She was of course excited and I asked her who she wanted to tell and she said MY MOMMY, so I told her to go and tell her. She did and her mom was excited, and clapping and stuff. Then my uncle Kent said I know the secret, Babette is pregnant! I was like uh, no actually I am, and everyone heard me and was excited. We borrowed a doppler (which is where you can hear the heartbeat) from a girl at work. We let everyone hear the heartbeat. Keirsten wanted to take a picture, she was the only one that got a picture from that day.
We, also, took the doppler over to Tony's moms house and let them hear the heartbeat also. They were excited and amazed that we could hear it.

This is the doppler. I know it looks weird, but the heartrate was 163. It stayed between 160-170.

Here's Keirsten. Lovin on the baby. :)



 When we went to find out the gender it was such an awesome experience. We went to Ultrasona, which is where they do 3D and 4D. We got to hear the heartbeat, and see our little baby. Weighing in at a whopping 5oz, our little baby is healthy as can be. There was a huge room, with a sectional, and a bed. I, of course, was on the bed. Tony sat on the sectional beside me. We seen the little guys penis before she even said anything. She did some measurements and was measuring his femur and then went over to his other leg and let me just say, he wasn't shy. It was the most amazing feeling to see him moving around inside of me. Although I can't completely feel him yet, which I'm sure will be even more amazing then seeing him move around, it was one of the best days of my life, so far. I can't explain the feelings I had when I seen him up on the screen. I can only say that my heart grew bigger and I am so happy to say that I am going to be a mother to this little baby boy, Brody. The 2D pictures that we got of him 'showing off his stuff' weren't the best so the only ones we have where you can see it are in 3D, which I'll post. After we left Ultrasona we went to Party City and got some balloons, because the way we told our families was by putting balloons in a box and letting them come up as we opened the box.
When we got to his moms house we let his two younger sisters, Ali and Morgan open the box. They were all shocked because everyone was expecting girl. We looked at the pictures and watched the DVD and talked about how Ultrasona was.
When we got to my parents house I had the big box and everyone wanted to peak inside. We had to wait on Tony to get back with the pizza, so it was like a lifetime went by before they could find out. Brooklynn kept asking what was in the box and kept wanting to see the balloons. I let her help me open it, just like at Tonys moms house everyone was surprised because they thought it was going to be a girl. We watched the video and looked at the pictures, Brooklynn loved the video. She kept saying 'I really like this. He looks like Brayden. It's like a movie.' Also, she kept posing like Brody was in the video.

These are the balloons that were in the box. :)

Mommy and Daddy with the announcement.

Lovey Dovey <3

His hands were up by his face the WHOLE time..

Doin the Heisman.. our little football player already!

Oh Hey, Everybody! Can't wait to meet you!

Imma Boy! , but please stop taking my picture! (you can see his little penis at the bottom of the picture)

We have a thumbsucker already!

Waaaaaass uuuuppppp :)

Sweet little profile <3

At the appointment on the 8th we met with the nurse and she let us hear the heartbeat. His heartrate was around 153. They also did my blood pressure, it was 120/50. They also had me do a urinalysis. Which I was kind of annoyed about because I had peedright when we got to the doctor and they didn't mention anything to me. Good thing I have to pee all the time!

This is only on here because a couple girls at work call my little baby a caniac because I loooove canes haha. I thought it was pretty funny that when we got it our cups said 'raise a little cane' because that's what we're doing. Raising a little *caniac. :)

Going to see the doctor..

Yesterday, 11/9, I had my first appointment with the doctor.
Tomorrow, 11/11, I will be 12 weeks.
We will find out the gender on 12/3.
Our next appointmet is 12/8.
I think I felt the baby on 11/8, but the doctor told me that it could be a little early for that. Mostly since I haven't been pregnant before.


Now that you have an update on when everything is, I'll let you know what happened yesterday.

This was our first time seeing the doctor. For anyone of you that have already had kids you know that this is just the appointment where they do the pap, of course Tony came because he doesn't want to miss anything.
The nurse came in and took my BP, it was 128/68. She also told me that some blood work didn't get done at my first time through so I have to go back and get MORE taken. We're also doing some other blood tests, so that will be a fun trip. We heard the heartbeat again, it wasn't with an ultrasound, it was just with the doppler. The doctor said it looked like the heartrate was somewhere around 150s, but he couldn't tell because the baby kept running away and wouldn't stay still long enough for him to find it good enough. Hopefully that doesn't mean it's going to be stubborn.

I'm so excited to find out what the gender is in THREE WEEKS. It's hard to believe that it's so close, but it still seems so far. What are your predictions? :)

Here's just a few pictures from Halloween :

Tony did all the work because he picked a HUGE pumpkin.

He can still hold me, for now :)

Me and Brucey on Trick or Treat!

Just some belly pics..

I have taken pictures basically since before I found out, not on purpose.. I just take a lot of pictures.
After 9w, I'm just going to start posting pictures every couple of weeks, maybe even longer. If you want to see a 'weekly' picture just tell me because I have them all on my phone.

I was about 2 weeks right here. This was Sept 6th. I know, I was wearing a tank and shorts, but it was obviously warm.

This was at the family reunion, I was about 3 weeks here. Still didn't know.

This was at night. So after I had ate all day, my stomach clearly was swollen. I was about 5 weeks and 6 days. I knew for about a week and a half at this point.

7w, see caption on picture below.

In the two pictures above, I was 7 weeks. Although I didn't have much of a belly, I was for sure feeling the pregnancy. This has been one of the most amazing times of my life, and also one of the most sick times of my life. I'm not sure how to explain how I feel about this whole being pregnant thing just yet.

I was 8 weeks here. As you can tell in the picture, I'm wearing the same thing I was in the previous week. I change weeks on Friday and it's Ohio State day at work, this is the only shirt I had and the only pants that were comfy!

Here I was 8 weeks and 1 day. I know you can't really tell much but I have a picture of me and Heather on here, so I wanted one of me and Tessa. Also, I have none with Tony in them!

This is today. I am 9 weeks, see caption on picture below.

Again, I am 9w. As you can tell I am starting to get a little more of a belly, but not much. Just like a normal, chubby person haha. I have totally started feeling the whole pregnancy thing. It's been killing me lately on top of feeling like I'm getting a cold. But it'll all be worth it in the end.

First Doctors Appt

We had our first appointment on Monday, October 17th.
Our next appointment is Wednesday, November 9th.
I would have to say this was one of the happiest days of my life. I'm sure Tony would agree. It was obviously annoying waiting to be called back but once we got called back things went by very quickly. We went into the ultrasound room and I, immediately, asked if it was going to be interal or external because I had heard stories. Of course it was external so that calmed my nerves. I got on the bench and she immediately found the baby. It was on my left side and just the size of a little peanut. :) We also got to hear the heartbeat which was awesome. Sadly she didn't print off any pictures with the heartbeat on them, but she did give us 2 pictures.

Sorry these aren't the best pictures & that they're sideways.. I couldn't figure out the image scan at work. But the last one says that the HR was 178, which I hear is pretty fast.. and fast = girl. My due date is 5/25/12 which is what we expected and I was 8w3d on the day of my appt.

I hope you all are as excited as we are! :)

Telling our immediate families..

We told our families on Tuesday, Sept 20.
We got the blood work back on Wednesday, Sept 21. They called me and said that it had came back positive, as if we didn't already know. I made our first appointmet/ultrasound appointment for Monday, Oct 17th. We will be meeting with the nurse practitioner, and getting our first ultrasound. I should be about 8 weeks by then. After that we'll schedule to meet with the OB.

As I said before, Tony was gone the day that we found out we were pregnant. So when he got home he made me take two more tests, just so that he could be there with me.
Telling my family - We had already told Heather and Mark so our next step was telling my parents. We were planning to go to my parents to tell them, I had to make up some excuse as to why we were going over. We hadn't got the blood work back yet, so I was kind of hesitant about telling them before it came back. Tony encouraged me and we went over to my parents. When we finally worked up the nerve to tell them, the TV was already paused and we were looking at our family pictures. It seemed like the perfect time. So we just told them we are pregnant. Mom got some tears in her eyes and dad, of course the person with the least reactions ever, just kind of sat there. We talked about some things and I realized there was no real reason to be scared to tell them. Tessa wasn't home when we told my parents so we had to wait for her to get home to tell her. She didn't believe us at first and she didn't know what to do once she found out it was real. She actually said imma do a flip, which was probably one of the funniest things I had heard in a while. We had decided to wait to tell mamaw and papaw until the blood work came back. Luckily, mamaw made veggie soup, my favorite, and invited everyone over! It was almost too good to be true. I didn't really want to tell mamaw and papaw in front of everyone else, but we didn't make it over in time to tell them before and I wanted them to be able to share the happiness with everyone while they were there. We were out on the porch and everyone but my mom and dad had gone in.. I knew there was no way of getting them inside, so we decided to tell them in front of mom and dad. We let them know they were going to have another great grandchild. Mamaw asked when, and papaw asked if we were going to find out the gender. It was shocking, just as it was telling my parents but it's so nice to know that I have such a supportive family that I can lean on.
Telling his family - Tony is a blabber mouth and he couldn't keep it to himself. He called his mom as soon as he found out, she was of course excited and she told his step dad and step-grandma. He called his dad about work, and told him. I had talked to one of his younger sisters on the Saturday before we found out and said I had a feeling. So he called and told her. He also called and told his older sister a couple days later. The only one I got to be there with was his other younger sister, she's 11. It was cute to see the way she reacted. Tony also called his grandmas and let them know. I'm so happy that he has such a supportive family as well. It makes things a lot easier on us. They're not happy about not being able to say anything until November, but I think they understand.

Below : These are all three of the tests that I took. I keep them all together as a simple reminder that we're bringing a life into this world.

The day we found out..

I found out that I was pregnant on Monday, September 19th, 2011 at approx. 10am.

I'll start out by saying - I am pretty regular, and I was supposed to start on Friday and hadn't yet. I didn't think much of it, I had a lot of stuff going on at work so I thought maybe stress was pushing it back. Saturday we had a car show at work and I had noticed I was eating a lot more than I usually do, but I just brushed it off and just thought it was because I was out in the sun and playing games all day. On Sunday, Heather, mom and I had planned to go to Jeffersonville to go shopping. I woke up feeling well rested, unlike I had been feeling, so I met my mom at Heathers house. While shopping I noticed I was getting very fatigued, and usually it doesn't bother me to shop all day. Heather even waved her hands in front of my face a couple times like WAKE UP. By this time I knew something was up. On Monday at work, I was talking to Tony and one of my co-workers and they kept telling me to take a test, blah blah blah blah. I didn't really want to while I was alone, but I was like well, it's better to know then to just let it go and keep stressing about it. We have pregnancy tests at work because we work with foster youth, and we have to keep them on their feet. My co-worker said that she had used one before and it was good. So, I went up to the front, and got one. I went into the bathroom, and took it. As I was wiping, it turned positive, I knew then it was real. I was in total shock and couldn't stop crying. I took a picture of it and sent it to Tony. He called me freaking out, saying is this real? over and over. I told him yes, it was and we talked about it. I, also, sent the picture to Heather and she also freaked out, but she was calm with me about it and told me if I needed to leave work and come over I could. Needless to say, I did. I couldn't concentrate on anything at work. I cried the whole way to Heathers (which is about 20 minutes) and of course when I hugged her when I got to there. Little miss Brooklynn, always knows ways to make people who are crying smile and happy. I was happy to spend some time with Brooklynn, Brayden and Heather. It was nice to surrond myself with people who I know love me and are supportive. I asked Heather what I should do. She told me, so I called my OB and told them that I took a test and it came back positive and I'd need to go get blood work. After what felt like 500 hours for them to call me back, I finally went to pick up my lab slip and went to get blood taken. The lady was very supportive and nice to me while I was getting my blood taken. Later that night, since Tony was gone all day and the whole next day, I went back to Heathers and ate dinner with them. Heather and I went shopping, it was nice to keep my mind off of everything that had happened - even though she took me to all baby stores!

Below : This is a picture of the test that I took at work. I know it's not the best picture, but it does what it needs to do.