I'm Sick!

I woke up yesterday morning to the worst sore throat EVER!  Of course I haven't had a sore throat since having my septum surgery last April, so it took me by major surprise!!!  James has been sickly since Thursday, so I can only assume he is the one who gave this horrible sore throat to me.  I was going to try to tough it out, but then I started thinking "What if it's an infection...and What if the infection spreads to the baby?!?!?!"  AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!  So I went to the doctor and sure enough...SINUS INFECTION!!!  Boogers!  Are you kidding me?!?!?!   AND on top of that....the vomiting is back.  The doctor warned me that could happen because of all the drainage going into my tummy, but I never actually thought it would happen.  WRONG!  I'm miserable!  My throat is seriously on fire and my head feels like it weighs 100 pounds.  He put me on amoxicillin, which is supposed to be safe for "pregnant girls"....but that doesn't stop me from worrying sick about little baby Brinkley.  What if he decided he wanted to be allergic to amoxicillin????  It could happen you know!  Khaim is allergic to every antibiotic under the sun!  Oh the joys of motherhood!  I know this is just the beginning of my long life of worry ahead of me.......

OMG! I'm Exhausted!

I registered today!  Ugh!  So much stuff that I need....I'm overwhelmed!  I took two new mommies with me and they showed me EVERYTHING they needed the first few months of their little ones' lives.  I really had NO IDEA of everything that I would need.  THANK THE LORD they were willing to help me!  As of right now, my Babies R Us registry is 9 pages long....and NOT FINISHED!!!  LOL  I haven't picked out any baby monitors yet because I didn't see any there that I particulary liked.  Plus I know I really need to register for some items from Wal-Mart since we have one of those in town.  All of my bedding and nursery decor is registered at Baby Depot.  So here are my two registry numbers for y'all to go check out!  Let me know if you notice anything else missing!!!

Babies R Us Registry #78633982 

(http://www.toysrus.com/registry/index.jsp)

Baby Depot Registry #13158952 (http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/Registry/Home.process)

PRESENTS!!!

Well, after receiving the amazing news of a HEALTHY BOY Friday, I wanted to go buy Baby Brinkley's first presents from his parents and pick out his crib.  Unfortunately, that didn't happen for reasons that will remain unsaid.  ANYWAY, I did head out Sunday and bought baby boy's bedding and a few outfits for him!  I just wanted to share the pics!

I LOVE the bottom of the feet on this last one!!!  I didn't even notice the football feet until I got it home and was showing it to James!!!!  Aren't they cute!?!?!?!

It's a BOY!!!

Yep, that's right!  We saw a little weenie today!  LOL!  Baby Brinkley was just PERFECT!  He had both hemispheres in his brain, all four chambers of his heart were visibly working, and both kidneys looked good as well.  He was measuring four days ahead of schedule, and they COULD move my due date up to April 13th....but  Dr. Thompson said they won't.  I'm just SO THRILLED that everything looks great!  He was moving all over the place.  James couldn't believe how much he was moving....and he was even more surprised that I couldn't feel any of it.  That did make me sad.  The tech even commented on how "active" he was.  She said I should be feeling movement ANY DAY NOW!  I can't wait.  It was so cute....about half way through the scan he got hiccups.  Every time he'd hiccup, he'd punch his little fists.  ADORABLE!   Hopefully James and I can agree on his name soon.....but until we do; take a peek at Baby BOY Brinkley!!!! (OH...and I lost a pound since last week :)

Finding Out the Gender!

I AM SO EXCITED!!! I went to the doctor Tuesday for my 16wk check (and the doc said I was almost 17 weeks...who am I to argue??). Anyway, we heard the heartbeat, still nice and strong! I tried to get an ultrasound that day; begged even, but she wasn't having it. Dr. Thompson wasn't very personable. I much prefer Dr. Jarvis or Dr. Brass! ANYWAY, she did say we could get our anatomy scan in the next week or two...SO we scheduled it for next Friday (November 14th) at 9:15am!!! I feel like next Friday will NEVER get here! Yesterday seemed liked it dragged on forever! I'm not going to complain though, because I thought I was going to have to wait until the first week of December! THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETE TORTURE!!! I can't believe James and I can start picking out a name and buying stuff for the nursery in 8 days!!!! SO EXCITING!!! Remember to vote in the gender poll on the left hand side of the blog before next Friday!

BELLY PICS!!!

Ok, against my better judgement...I'm going to post all the belly pics that I have been withholding!  I don't feel like I look pregnant...I just look fat (in my opinion).  You don't have to say anything to make me feel better; I know I look fat.  Alright, without further ado.......

PRESENTS!

Baby Brinkley recieved his/her first presents recently!  I'm so excited!  They are both small and very non-gender specific, but they are the first presents from other people and will always be special!  The first came from our nephew Spencer.  James' family just got back from a road trip to Maine and Spencer wanted to get the baby a present.  So he got the baby a little stuffed moose!  Now this is very exciting to me because when I was a baby my dad gave me the  nickname of Moose and called me that forever!!!  He still likes to joke around about it.  James just took a "business trip" to Chicago (I use the term business trip lightly because he attended a conference for one day and spent the rest of his time there touring the city!  Must be nice to get paid to tour Chicago!!!).  Anyway, he brought back a little teddy bear from the Chicago Harley-Davidson shop.   He named the bear Knuckle-Head.  I LOVE IT!   I, of course, bought the VERY FIRST present MONTHS and MONTHS ago.  Because I LOVE my blankey so much, I figured my baby would want one too!  So can you guess what I bought.......???????

Anyway, yes I am STILL very behind on my belly pic posting.  I feel like I'm just starting to look fat so please no fat comments!  I'm exactly 16 weeks today so as soon as James gets up, we'll take todays picture and then I'll post all the ones that I have (10, 12, 13, 14, & 16 weeks......11 & 15 weeks never got taken).