Monday 13 May 2013

Rain

Praise God for rain! And praise God for my two skylights. I may be alone in this, but I seriously love the rain. One of my most favourite things is to sit in my living room, wrapped up in a blanket and listen to the rain falling on my skylights. I find the rain soothing, like if I listen long enough it will just lull me into a sweet slumber.

Plus, how great is it that we don't have to water our gardens or our lawns because God gives us the rain!

I also find the rain romantic, Justin does not indulge me in my desire. But I LOVE walks in the rain, I just find it incredibly sweet. And honestly, what girl does not dream of having that movie moment making out with her love in the pouring rain?! Okay, maybe that was a TMI, but it is getting late.

Anyways, I just wanted to pep up anyones dreary day with a rant about my love of rain! Woohoo!

Now I will go fall asleep to the glorious sound!

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Baby Pool!!

We set up a baby pool online for everyone to play with!! I have enjoyed other people having them so I figured we should, plus it will be cool to see everyones guesses and how close the winner gets to being correct!! We have also decided to send the winner a gift! Not too sure what it will be, but we are planning on candy or something delicious and a couple other fun things! Plus then there is incentive for doing our baby pool! Hehe! This is the link for the baby pool: http://www.untilithappens.com/lamarchebaby

We had our 20 week ultrasound on Tuesday and there is nothing better than seeing our baby on a screen! I was worried about my ultrasound tech because you hear horror stories about cold awkward tech's but mine was amazing!! She explained not to read into her calling the baby a him because she calls all the babies him, and that she talks to the babies too! We chatted as she took all the measurements and clarified that the baby has all of its vital parts and that they all look good and work! She also said that baby is already head down! Wahoo!! And that it was the only baby she had seen all day that wasn't breech so hooray for not having to worry about it flipping later on! When Justin came in she showed us our baby's brain, pumping heart, kidneys, bladder and all the other goodies! She made sure to skip over baby's lower regions, but showed us baby's feet! Here is what baby looks like for those of you who haven't seen my profile picture:


For any of you McCracken's reading this...check out baby's nose! Its a total McCracken nose! I think it is hilarious that the picture we got of our baby it's mouth is WIDE open. My Mom also thought it looked like the white glow from the ultrasound above the baby's head looked like a unicorn horn...so baby has now gained the name "Baby Unicorn"

I'm feeling good again and haven't gotten sick in a while, and am able to eat sort of healthy things again!! Wahoo! The baby has been moving a lot more and realized that what I thought were kicks the whole time are actually punches, vicious little peanut! Justin even thinks he felt a little "punch" the other day too so that is really exciting! I can hardly wait for it to start moving more and for him to feel it all the time, and maybe even see it!

Here is my most recent belly photo:



We finally set up our backyard for summer too and I am so excited for it! I spent a good amount of Monday relaxing in my hammock, and realize as the months progress that it won't be as easy to get in and out of it as last summer so I'm going to enjoy it with ease while I can. I've heard lots of negative things about being pregnant during the summer so I have decided to be positive about it and maybe it will make my experience a happier one! Here are the reasons I am excited to be pregnant during the summer instead of the winter:

-I get to wear flip flops and easy slip on shoes all summer
-I do not have to worry about stuffing my swollen feet/legs into boots for our freezing winters
-I get to wear maxi dresses and comfortable cute clothes
-I don't have to layer and wear thick clothes outside, just to get inside and fry to death
-I don't have to buy a maternity coat
-Not being able to reach my feet is a fantastic excuse for regular pedis
-I get to go to the PNE and eat all their delicious food while pregnant(obviously WAY better than while not pregnant)
-I will have a baby to keep me entertained this winter while I'm trapped inside during snow storms
-I don't have to worry about sucking my tummy in, or my muffin top in my cute summer clothes this year
-I will have a cute baby bump for my bathing suit

And I'm sure there are more that I could come up with so I feel excited, not uncomfortable about the thought of being pregnant this whole summer long!

Plus in the end our baby will be so stinking awesome that it will be worth it!

Well,  I should go get ready for work. Have a fantastic day & happy baby pool guessing!!

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Almost half way!

Woohoo!! I can't believe I'm already 19 weeks! It's crazy how fast time has gone so far! Next week we have an ultrasound again and I can hardly wait to see our baby looking more like a baby than a blob with limbs! :)

I've been getting sick more in my 2nd trimester than I ever did in my 1st, which is strange. I'm wondering if it is from my prenatal or if my baby just hates healthy foods! I've gotten sick a couple times this past week and it has been after I have eaten something healthy or taken my prenatal. It's weird, I get sick after eating chicken and veggies but can eat McDonald's and have NO problem! Silly little peanut.

This past weekend was my best friend Vanessa's wedding in Surrey. Justin and I spent the latter half of the week in Surrey visiting and getting ready for everything. It was such a gorgeous wedding, and such an honour to stand beside her on the day! The weather, however, was not super nice for the first part of it. It was pouring for the first set of our photos but on the upside we won't have glare in our eyes and have squinty eyes! I barely even looked pregnant in the dress, and Cindy didn't even have to put in a belly panel!

She looked so stunning, and I am super happy for her and Joel to be married! Being engaged, I feel like is the hardest time on a relationship. You are kind of in between dating and spending forever together, and planning a wedding is such a strain on any relationship. So yippee for a new life beginning!! 

Oh.my.word. Let me write a little paragraph about the most amazing thing I have purchased thus far...a SNOOGLE! When you are pregnant, or maybe even when you're not pregnant you should own one! I am a belly sleeper and was beginning to get a little uncomfortable during the night. Thankfully we have a 1.5 inch memory foam topper on our bed so I've been able to get away with it. But when we went down to visit my parents and I went to fall asleep and felt like I was laying on a board...not comfortable. So I used a couple pillows and managed to sleep on my side not so comfortably with kicking them out a few times during the night. Then the next day we went to Toys R Us and scanned a registry...mostly because I heard you get a sweet gift bag, but I saw my snoogle and purchased it! Now I sleep like a baby on my side and LOVE going to bed with it every night. It is a super weird looking pillow but it works like magic!!! Okay, I'm done my rant of love! 


Well, I should really go finish tidying my house and making Justin's lunch. He's on night shift AGAIN. Which sucks because I'm all alone, but is also good because I got to rest up from my weekend. OH and I get the WHOOOOLE bed to myself. Just me, my fuzzy dog, and my glorious snoogle! hehe! I will update next week after our Ultrasound on Tuesday! Yippee!!