Excited!

Well, let me tell you - I am just so excited! It seems like so much has gone on in our little world in just the past few days! Now, If only my poor pregnant brain can remember all of it!

Shane and I had discussed a while ago about getting a fetal doppler - For those of you that might not be aware, this is the device that the doctors use to listen to the heart beat.  You can rent the better hospital grade ones from lots of places online, or you can also buy ones (that of course aren't as "good") for about the same price as renting one! So, Being the crazy lady that I am... we got one :) We ordered it late Friday night and got it mid day Monday!! We were so excited to receive it so quickly and right away I went to town listening to our baby's little heart. It is so fun - haha who would guess listening to a "thumpthump thumpthump thumpthump" could be so entertaining.

The girls we are "home parents" to are just so curious and interested in the baby -  "What's going on with the baby today?". They ask hourly. Every Monday night we have "spiritual night" or better known as FHE. We have a time we call family business where anyone can share exciting news for the week or  just tell what is going on with them. So, I asked them if they would all like to hear the babies heartbeat and they all went crazy! You would have thought I told them I was in labor they were so excited!  Most of them have never had the opportunity to hear that before - so they were just in awe! Heck, I've heard it a million times by now and I am still in awe!

We are so happy we got our little doppler - now we can have it for all our babies to come. Talk about bang for your buck!

Yep, That's our babies heartbeat...insanity!

Alsoooo, We got a stroller this week! I know, I know - What "mom-like" news! Isn't it hilarious that these are the kind of things that make me excited - kitchen items and baby items....one happy lady!
Shane and I have been looking for some time at strollers - browsing everywhere we go pretty much. We have looked so many places and I was getting pretty bummed out because for a basic, heavy, ugly stroller it's always in the $300  range. I was bummed we would have to spend so much for something we didn't really even care for. So we were at BuyBuy Baby on Saturday night  (this is what we do with our Saturday nights....haha) looking at the usual  - cribs and strollers. There were very few options that came with a car seat or even looked compatible with an infant. So we looked at what we thought were our options and found a Gracco one that we like "best". It was ugly- but not the ugliest, and weighted around 25 lbs rather than the standard 30-40 lbs. Out of all the places we looked, this was our best bet yet.  I was pretty excited that we had even found one that was halfway decent. We had a man who was working that was so helpful and oddly excited about showing us strollers, who started boggling our minds with all the options we never knew we had. He showed us that these strollers, that we thought wouldn't work for a newborn, actual could work for us. I was half way listening to him, because of course this meant the price was sky rocketing by the second to a number we could never reach...We of course liked these strollers way more. We were crunching numbers, thinking of coupons we had- What could we do to get this ever so awesome stroller and car seat??

Well, Sunday night Shane was looking online at reviews, and top baby strollers online - and the one we were in love with, was on there. So, after reading reviews and watching videos- I was convinced...this man wasn't just oddly excited about strollers - It was actually a really great stroller and a lot of other people were crazy about it too. To our great pleasure...we found this stroller and car seat as a travel system package on amazon for $150 less than it was in the store (not to mention no tax and free shipping) - this put it right back in the range of all the other strollers we were looking at. ...SO..... I BOUGHT ITTTTTTTT! This stroller is seriously amazing - So compact. Only FIFTEEN POUNDS, you can fold it up and carry it with literally one hand and it has super good safety ratings. I am STOKED.  It is on its way to us, and hopefully will get here sometime next week - then I can drive it around my house and test it out haha! Luckily, It's just all black and not some hideous pattern like all the others. Yes, of course there are better strollers out there - but for us this was untouchable and like the holy grail of strollers

Here it is, in all its glory!!!

Still no crib or glider - but we are working on them. Glider will come next, and crib last. We figure we won't use it until the baby is a few months old anyways which just gives us more time to save up.

And probably the most exciting news of all... I am starting to feel the baby MOVE!  Let me tell you, it is so amazing and fascinating. Last week, I would feel little flutters and I was super confused. I thought It was the baby. I knew it wasn't my body and I had never felt this before, so what else could it be? Well, I still wasn't convinced. But this week, probably just with in the last 2 days or so, the movements have become much more noticeable and much stronger. They are still not huge kicks, of course, but definitely undeniably the baby. It is just crazy. I can put my hand on my belly and literally my hand will feel the movement as well as my stomach. I have even had a few "bulges". My stomach will get really hard - and literally a little spot will poke out for just a few seconds and then slowly sink back in.

Tomorrow we head to the doctor - This is the first time I will actually be meeting my doctor. She has been on maternity leave so I haven't been able to see her yet, but finally she is back and we are crossing our fingers that she will do an ultrasound and we will get to see if we are having a boy or girl! I have another appointment with ultrasound specialists on the 7th for other reasons, but hopefully if I can't convince my doctor to do an ultrasound and tell us we will be able to find out on Monday! Cross your fingers the doctors aren't stingy and will look for us!!!!

Our family just recently discovered Cherie and Cory(my brother and sister-in-law) will be adding another girl to the mix! YAYY! So it will be fun to know what little baby we will be adding next!

Shannon, Shane's sister will be coming up at the end of the month - I am definitely looking forward to having a sister here to do fun baby things with!

This is a picture of me from last week - For those in Texas who are curious. I'm just barley starting to show. I mostly just look like I had a huge lunch :/