Baby Kevern #2

We found out that I am pregnant! Monday, November 14:

Nov 14th: Jolie has a terrible cold and so Skyler stayed home with her today. I have been having some weird pain so I called the doctor and when I told them that I was 8 days late the nurse said to take a test and find out for sure if I'm pregnant and get an over the counter medicine for the pain and infection. I went to the grocery store on my way home for lunch and grabbed the medicine and a pregnancy test. I hurried home because I had to go to the bathroom. I even texted Skyler to have him unlock the door so I could get in fast. I hurried in, gave Jolie a big hug and kiss and went into the bathroom. She came in with me and asked what I was doing as she saw me peeing on the stick haha. I said I'm doing a test to see if there is a baby in my tummy and skyler said oh my babe stop wasting money on pregnancy tests. This being 1 year and 10 months since I got my iud out and having no luck getting pregnant so far. I told him the nurse told me to take the test cuz it determined which medication I could take for the pain. I was telling him about things that had happened on my drive home and was glancing at the timer on the test, fully expecting it to be negative. So much so that when the word Pregnant popped up on the little screen I gasped loudly from the shock of it and then immediately burst into tears. I stepped out of the bathroom and Skyler knew it was positive from my reaction haha. I was so shocked and overwhelmed by my emotions. We have been trying, sometimes halfheartedly and sometimes aggressively, for so long that I didn't really know how to feel now that it is happening! It doesn't feel real! It just feels like it's pretend. Jolie was so cute she kept saying mama why you cryyyyin? With a little silly smile and skyler kept telling her I was happy. After I burst into tears initially I stepped out of the bathroom and just kind of collapsed in the floor and was hugging Jolie and telling her there's a baby in mommys tummy and she kept smiling and saying I wanna see. And skyler got up off the couch and came and sat on the floor with us and we hugged and kissed and just talked about how I really didn't think it was ever going to happen! It still feels not real! We are going to tell Skyler's family on Sunday with a shirt Jolie is going to wear that says big sister and I'm going to try to wait to tell my family on thanksgiving when we talk about what we are thankful for and say I'm thankful for our new baby :) my due date is July 11th, my Dad's bday! 

We did tell Skyler's family exactly how we had planned. It was really fun and they were excited. I kinda snuck into the party at Jenny's house, grabbed Jo and went to the bathroom to put the shirt on her. We showed Nana first because I was helping her get in and out of the other bathroom. Then we went up to were Kim and Whitney were sitting, kind of in the center of everyone, and Jolie said "Mimi, look at my shirt!" 

On Tuesday, two days before Thanksgiving, I was so sick and I didn't want my mom to figure out that I was pregnant. We went upstairs and she was on the phone for FOREVER! We went in and Jolie told Grandpa, "there's a baby in mommy's tummy!" When my mom finally got off the phone, Jolie told her as well and she was really excited and surprised! Then we called Aunt Lissa, Aunt Jill, Aunt Brinna and Uncle Trevor and Jolie told each of them. We tried to call Mandi and Lauren but neither of them answered so we sent Mandi a Marco Polo with a text telling her to watch it and we called Uncle Kenyon, who also didn't answer! He called me back so Jolie told him as well! I had already told Garrett on Sunday and Andria on Monday night. I also told all my Book Club girls on Sunday which was really fun! They all pretty much cried and were so excited for us! Rose is only 2 weeks ahead of me so we are both super sick and going through it together! This is her third baby. Chantel is going to have her 2nd little boy, Jude, in just a few weeks too!

On Thanksgiving, some of our Bell cousins had joined us for Thanksgiving so I didn't really want to say anything because I am still only 7 weeks along. But after we ate, Laraine, Andrew and Knox came over and Knox was wearing a shirt that said "Mommy's got a little Turkey in the Oven!" She is 14 weeks along! I had kind of known but wasn't 100% sure so I had been putting off telling her because I wanted to wait until she told me first. I grabbed Jolie and told her to tell Knox that there's a baby in mommy's tummy. Laraine thought that she was talking about her baby until Terran said "oh you are having a baby too?" She said, "Too??" And was looking around and I just gave her a guilty smile haha. She and Jordan both asked me if I was pregnant the day that I found out and I lied to both of them and said no! I felt bad but I had just found out!

So I was pretty sick the first week that we found out but it wasn't too bad. This week, however, has been AWFUL! This pregnancy is already so different than with Jolie! With her, I was mostly okay during the day but I would get horrible headaches every afternoon and go home and sleep for a couple hours after work every day haha! I was also SO congested with her right from the beginning but so far so good! Of course with a 2 1/2 year old that isn't an option this time around! Every morning is really rough because I get really hot when I am carrying her, her bag and my bag up the stairs and out to the car. The worst days are Skyler's early days when he is already at work so he can't help me get her in the car. On Wednesday, I had to pull over in the neighborhood and dry heave. I definitely would have thrown up but there was nothing in my stomach yet to throw up. The whole time Jolie was like "where you going? why you going outside? what's happening mama?" I said "hold on, Jo!" When I was finished I told her that the baby is making mama sick and throw up. Then she asked, "why your eyes crying mama?" and I said "Because throwing up is no fun and it makes my eyes cry" haha! She is so funny and so aware of what is going on all the time! Whenever we ask her if it is a boy baby or a girl baby she answers that it is a boy without fail EVERY TIME! Once she said girl, and then immediately laughed and said, "I teasing, boy!" It will be so funny if she is right come January!!

The only thing that is not great is the timing with work. I am due in July! The busiest season for an Air Conditioning company! I am afraid that Jim and some of the other people at work are going to be super rude about my pregnancy :( I'm not going to tell them at least until after I get my Christmas bonus.

Okay, now on to the questionnaire: I'm going to try really hard to actually do this for this pregnancy!


How far along? 7 weeks 4 days
Size of baby? size of a blueberry
Total weight gain/loss: nothing so far, This summer I lost 25 pounds in preparation for our trip to Hawaii so I am only about 3 pounds more than I was when I got pregnant with Jolie =) Not too shabby!
Maternity clothes? Nope, I gave them all to Chantel to borrow about 2 weeks before I found out I was pregnant haha! i hopefully won't need them for a while.
Pregnancy symptoms this week? MORNING SICKNESS, most of the day, every day. I tend to have a few hours of respite in the afternoon and evening some days.
Stretch marks? Just the old ones from Miss Jolie
Sleep: I wake up a lot and roll over, I think I am just having a hard time getting comfortable
Best moment this week: Telling everyone about the new little BEBE! Thanksgiving was really good and fun too!
Miss Anything? Feeling good, being able to eat haha, 
Movement: nope too tiny
Food cravings: not really, more like aversions to most everything
Anything making you queasy or sick: Yes, everything haha
Have you started to show yet: nope
Gender: unknown, 7 weeks until we can go to fetal fotos
Belly button in or out? in
Wedding rings on or off? on
Mood? whiny hah 
Looking forward to: Feeling good enough to get back on track with my eating and exercising. I am determined to NOT gain 55 pounds this time. Shooting for the healthy range of 25-35. But right now, I am getting light headed really easily and I can only stomach eating a few things so thats what I am eating haha