So....

Dr. Dr. Give me the news

Had a dr appointment yesterday! Baby is growing great and I am healthy as a horse. I finally gained 3 lbs since my last visit so that's somewhat good news but they want me gaining more! I feel like a whale already but I guess I need to be more whale like hahaha! Baby is still breach so we hope it moves sometime soon but who knows. Got another appointment in 3 weeks for the super not so fun sugar test and an ultrasound with the specialist at 28 weeks :) Still sicker then a dog somedays like today, but at getting better. 

Put your hip into it.....

3 days now of terrible hip pain. It sucks and add me being a vomit zombie today hasn't made things any better. 23 weeks and baby still hates me! It's very active and I've  been able to catch it on tape and send it to James now that we're coasts apart.

 My sister has the baby shower totally planned already! She has had made the gender revealing invites, games, crafts, foods, decorations, you name it. She's pretty excited and I'm amazed she got it all done ! 

But I'm done and over today and need to go to bed since I feel like death....

Lets hope tomorrow is better! 

I'm home!!!!!

I am back in Portland an couldn't be happier! Flight was good, very sore the next day but I have to remember I was only 8 weeks last time I traveled. Tomorrow I will be 22 weeks! Had my first baby appointment here in Oregon and everything was great! Met my new doctor, asked all the questions I had and got all the paperwork to register for delivery. I also made my first baby purchase this past week, a cute little onsie and pants. Still haven't told everyone what this little one is and I know certain people are going crazy! It's just a nice little secret that James and I have right now but I'm sure we will have to share sooner or later. The name we are not telling anyone and I definitely won't let that one slip since we don't even have one figured out yet :) I got another appointment in a few weeks but baby is healthy and big and growing wonderfully! 

To the left, to the left.

Baby seems to be most active when I want to sleep and when I lay on my left side. But the other day I was sitting down and noticed my big ol belly move to the left. Baby is getting bigger and stronger! I'm officially 20 weeks today which means Ive made it to the halfway point....thank god! Baby still hates me and makes me sick but its not as bad as it has been. Its hard to put on my shoes, and my feet are slowly starting to disappear, and Im milking my normal clothes as long as I can so I dont have to wear those dreaded maternity clothes. My baby belly is pretty high so I am able to wear a belly band and fit in my regular pants, but its not gonna last much longer. I see some pants crafting in my near future, or Im just gonna live in dresses for the rest of the summer. Although I totally suck at being a lady so that might not be the best idea....hahaha

Kicking and Screaming

Baby is just fine and obviously getting bigger since I can now feel kicking on the right side which I wasn't able to feel before. I swore I felt it with my hand the other night so James has been constantly rubbing le belly to try and feel something. The baby and I have conversations while its kicking and James often asks are you talking to me or your tummy. I scream at it when it won't calm down or let me get comfortable, its pretty funny.
I am still the vomit zombie which realllllllllly sucks and is getting old. I swear I'm not making up how often it is nor how aweful it is. So glad this is going by fast and won't ever be happening again!
Found an obgyn in Portland, so I'm getting ready for my big move back home. I'm excited yet nervous since I'll again be away from James but its what's best. A few more appointments here in Virginia, then I'm done with this terrible place!

There's an app for that....

Never did I realize how many pregnancy apps there were! And they all have contradicting information...it makes things very confusing. For example, the size of your baby. One week its an apple, the next week its a peach, then the week after that its an avocado? I've seen some peaches that get much larger then apples and since when is an avacado bigger then a peach...James and I are highly confused! Needless to say, I've kinda stopped using them since some are very graphic and just freak me out. At times I don't wanna know what's happening to my body... I already know its changing! But onto more exciting news.....

We had a 16 week ultrasound and saw the baby! You could count the little fingers and toes which was pretty cool. It kept making fishy faces and waving its little arms which was unreal...it also has a very cute little nose....I think it has mine :) You could fully see the spine and ribs which James thought was pretty cool and we saw how it was laying in there. We hadn't seen it since it was a little 8 week old gummy bear so seeing how much its grown in just 8 more week was insane! It's growing and healthy and all my labs came back normally. I have not gained any weight in all of this, since I'm still so sick, so they hope I put some weight on soon! Baby Buchanan is taking everything from me! It's officially Sunday so I'm 17 weeks and time is just flying by!

Under Pressure

16 weeks
It's starting to get uncomfortable and very crampy or tight I guess. Ob said its normal since baby is growing! Had my tummy measured at my last appointment and its official: I'm bumpin! I've felt the baby move since about 10 weeks but its getting stronger and more frequent. Poor James still can't feel it but I hope it happens before I head home here soon!
We went to Baby R Us and looked around and registered for a bunch of things since a lot of the family has been asking. It's was overwhelming and really nerve wracking....I think its all just becoming real! I think it'll all set in when we find out what it is at around 20-21 weeks.
And I'm just gonna say it now, since there is always someone that has something to say about everything and I'm getting tired of it:
Yes we know we can do it early we are choosing not to!
It gives us time to plan a gender reveal, and whatever else we want or need to do.....but don't worry you all will be informed what it is when its time!

I've got a party in my pants!....well uterus....

Baby is a mover! I've felt it for a while now but today it is happening a lot. If I could best describe it, it feels like popcorn kernels hitting the bag . Pop! Pop! Pop pop pop!
I think its funny that it starts moving the moment I try to get some sleep. It also gets really active when I listen to music which is pretty cool. In the beginning I couldn't really tell the difference between it moving and gas bubbles and was always saying "stay clear! Its gonna be a bad day down there!". Then nothing would happen. Hahaha!
I really hope James gets to feel it before I head home since I know that's a big deal for him and I don't want him to miss out on these kinds of things, but for now I just let him know "its moving" and he just smiles and rubs my belly :)

"How did you name your blog?!"

So Ive now had a few people ask how I came up with the name for my blog. I am totally obsessed with Toni Braxton and their family show on  WE TV. The family is hilarious and I looooooove how they bust out into song for everything (just like me, I wish I had a choir following me all the time hahah) Anyways when I found out I was preggers (and after the shock wore off) I would always find myself singing this! And thus came the name of my blog! (I apologize if you are on mobile reading this the videos don't show up and every time I try to fix it it won't save the settings!)

Once upon a time, there was a little thing called sleep...

I have not been able to sleep for the life of me. Ever since I hit my second trimester, its proving more and more difficult to get comfortable and I'm constantly peeing! I tried withholding liquid like an hour before I go to bed....does nothing. I am still up woken up, every two hours on the dot, to go pee....
Unisom, tea, baths, James rubbing my back, music, totally dark room, nothing works. I'm starting to feel like I'm going crazy.

Get up on this!

I dont know why, but James and I have always had a place for this song in our hearts, so every time I start dancing, one of us starts singing this. I feel a remix or recorded preggo dance to this song coming on....hahahaha

Oh this song never gets old.....and whats worse is James said hes going to start playing this when I go into labor...ugh...the song will never be the same!

First look at Lil Nasty!!

At 8 weeks we got our first look at the gummy bear!
Even for being as sick as I was, I still am in denial about being preggo and had a massive freak out at the Doctor office.  But with the amazing staff and of course James, I calmed down enough to get everything done, and we got our first look!

Ready or not here I come!

Week 4
We found out we were preggo! There were no other tell tale signs other then I was 2 days late for my period and I'm always on time.
We ran to walgreens and bought about $50 worth of tests, Redvines and Swedish Fish, all the essentials! Earlier in the week I had scratched my eye so I was wearing my glasses, which I really don't function well in. As I was trying to pee on the first test, my glasses fell off and I totally missed the stick. James was playing video games and said "Only MY WIFE would totally mess up a pregnancy test!!" So 30 minutes, and alot of water later, I peed into a cup (like a champ!)
I sat on the tub and waited the 3 minutes it said to wait and I saw the first little line was blue and I screamed "JAMES??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Don't play with me right now!!!"
"I'M NOT GET IN HERE!"
I, still sitting on the tub started crying in shock and James just came into the bathroom, looked at it and smiled.
"WERE HAVING A BABY, BABY!" is all I remember then I went into my ugly Oprah cry (that full on mouth open, snot and tears running down your face cry)
"I'm gonna get fat, and I cant go back to work, or school, my life is ruined, I'm gonna look like a cow, or a manatee, or whatever is big and ugly!"
Alot of reassuring and cuddling I finally calmed down, we talked over a bunch of things, and figured out what we had to do from there.

Week 5-8
Week 5 was very crampy.
Week 6-8 was hell.
I was one of those oh so lucky women to have ALL DAY SICKNESS! First, let me start off by saying everything came up. Water, ginger ale, gatorade, lemonade, yogurt, oatmeal, granola bars, nuts, crackers, preggie pops, tea, potato chips etc etc etc. I have a list of about 40 things we tried and I will never eat again.

Vomiting in the Buchanan house hold is an event it went a little something like this :

1) Start feeling sick
2) Yell "JAMES"
3) See James run
4) Puke my guts out (While this is happening James is rubbing back and being an amazing puking coach)
5) Get me washcloth
6) Walk me back to bed, get me to drink some water, tuck me in and
7) Repeat

I love that now, we are so in sync, that all I gotta say is JAMES and he comes a runnin' to the bathroom, from no matter where he is :) ( Yes ladies hes an amazing man. And no ya cant have him)
At the first visit to the obgyn I got some meds, they sometimes help, but alot of the time they came up too.  After this experience, I am not lying when I say this will be my one and only. I aint doing this shit again!