Life Goes On

Life Goes On

As much as I want to eat, sleep and talk baby...I know that this is unrealistic. Outside life must go on. However, it seems like no matter how hard Jake and I try, we are always talking nursery, labor & delivery, the next doctor appointment, how we will discipline little Wyatt, how we will edify him... and the list goes on and on. To add to the constant baby talk, I am around a lot of preggers {I believe the count is 6?} so I get to talk pregnancy a lot! And even better, I have been blessed with many new moms surrounding me that give me countless {and GOLDEN} advice.

But the world doesn't just stop because I am suddenly pregnant. It doesn't revolve around this pregnancy, even though my world revolves around the family God has blessed me with and I KNOW every bit of my world will revolve around our sweet boy for the next 18+ years. My prayer lately has been for God to show me the areas I need to work on before becoming a mother but to not forget my most important role as wife. I so desire to be the crown of my husband and not the rottenness in his bones {Proverbs 12:4}.

With equipping Jake with the {not so pretty} details of child birth & infant raising, preparing my heart for motherhood and organizing our home to fit a little one...I also have the joy of being in 2 weddings this year! In fact this last weekend was my sister-in-law's bridal shower that I had the honor of throwing her! As soon as I have Jake import the pictures {I am so lost without him} I will be posting a non-pregnancy blog about the shower and all the super fun details. Also as an added bonus you'll see some outside projects we have been doing too! So stay tuned as the world turns with or without my pregnant belly!

Also to come...blogs on how Jake and I are setting up our home to be a family church, the things no one tells you about pregnancy, and the benefits to having a boy...Ok, ok...and I promise to throw in some profile belly shots for those who have been waiting so patiently. {SPOILER ALERT: I've seem to have popped! So beware!}

Quick fun facts:

=I am almost 18 weeks pregnant.

=My uterus is the size of a cantalope, and the baby is a sweet potato {boy am I hungry!}

=I seem to be hungry...all the time.

=Dr. P has me on a iron supplement which is just another pill to remember taking. But will apparently help my low iron levels and hopefully handle the dizziness and headaches I am experiencing.

=I have become a byproduct of pregnancy brain. {Seriously what has happened to me?!}

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What's in a name

What's in a name

As many of you know, Jake and I are high school sweethearts. We met when I was 14 and he was 16. I was immediately attracted to him, his sweet personality and well, his car. {I walked everywhere!} By the next year we were secretly talking marriage and our future. We didn't want to sound foolish to those skeptics, so we kept it to ourselves. On dates we would dream up our life and talk about the kids we would someday have together. We would even go as far as to talk about names. Now here we are 16.5 weeks pregnant and picking names out for real.

If you read our last blog, you know we were told we were having a girl, but it changed and we are having a BOY! The girl name was easy...it had been thought up long ago and simply stuck. Boy names on the other hand were a bit more difficult. I had a list going with a few favorites and when the ultrasound tech told us our first born would be a son, my favorite emerged. I turned to Jake and told him the name that just had to be our sons name {which, thankfully was one of his favorites too} and it was settled. Then came middle name troubles...this part wasn't so easy. But with lots of internet searching and much discussion {or shall we call it "vetoes"} we had named our son.

Curious?

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Here are some reasons we fell in love with his name...

Wyatt {pronounced WY-ut} is of Old English origin, and the meaning is "little warrior" or "war strength". Jake especially liked it because of the Wild West Sheriff Wyatt Earp {boys?!}

Asher {pronounced ASH-er} is of Hebrew origin {fitting since Jake is half Jewish} and the meaning is "happy". It got that meaning from the bible in Genesis 30:13 When Leah {the mother of Asher} said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher. To make Asher an even cooler name, he is the 8th son of Jacob and was promised a life blessed in abundance. {As for Asher, his food shall be rich, And he will yield royal dainties. --Genesis 49:20}.

Now as I hold my ever growing belly {pictures to come} I feel even closer to my happy little warrior. I feel at peace being able to pray for him by name, that my Wyatt Asher would grow bigger and be ready to brave the real world. That his name that Jake and I gave him would be written in the book of life. {Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who esteem His name. --Malachi 3:16}

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Mother's Intuition

Mother's Intuition

Here are a few quick but fun facts...

=I am now 16 weeks pregnant.

=Our baby is the size of an avocado, measuring in at 4 to 5 inches long and weighing an impressive 3-5 oz.

=Our baby can apparently hear us now and see light...meaning its ears and eyes are in the right place.

=Its legs and arms are proportionate to the rest of the body. However, its head...not so much.

=I have started to feel a light fluttering, but it is super soft and I have to concentrate really hard to differentiate between the baby moving and my normal stomach noises.

=I can not get enough of chewy fruity candies...Hi-Chews, Starbursts, Mambas...YUM!

=I am begin to show more like a early preggers and less like a fatty.

=We are having a BOY!

Yes, you read that right! At my 12 week doctors check-up Dr. P was late to our appointment because he was busy giving birth to a new baby {how dare he, right?} thus not having time to do my 12 week ultrasound. However, I got to hear the heartbeat and was reassured that I had a healthy baby growing inside me, I still feared that maybe our baby had a lack of limbs or maybe even a surplus.  So we decided to wait a few weeks and go to an elective ultrasound clinic.  And here is what we got to see... {Beware at this stage in the pregnancy the baby looks a bit like an alien...but a really freakin' cute alien!}

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Not only did we get to see that the baby growing inside me had all 4 limbs, but it had reflects and moved to all the poking {OUCH!} the ultrasound tech was doing. It was amazing! Here was this little thing {the size of a lemon that week} moving and growing inside me! And then the lady proceeded to tell us we are having a girl. Pointing out at all the female parts and different angles. Jake, having felt that was the sex, was ecstatic! Me...I was doubtful. I kept asking the lady, "what's the chance of you being wrong," which she'd reply with, "I'm not. I'm 100% sure it's a girl. But you can come back in 2 weeks and comfirm." And of course, we did.

Now if you had asked me if we knew the sex of the baby, my reply would go something like this..."Well, the ultrasound tech said we're having a girl, and I know she does this everyday, all day long, but you never know. So we will see." and the response usually was, "just embrace it, she's probably right." Meanwhile, I have been guarding myself from getting too excited for a girl and also looking at some of the little men in my life thinking how much fun boys can be.

Fast forward to today... 2 weeks and still doubting the gender prediction. The confirmation appointment went something like this...

Ultrasound tech: "Oh you're definetly having a boy...what did I say last time?"

Us: "100% sure, GIRL"

U/S Tech: "Well it's a boy...I thought so last time..."

Us: "mmmmm....ok....."

Me: "I told you so! I knew something would grow!"

So here's the proof... the money shot...

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And we got a peek at our growing BOY!...

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So I guess the whole mother's intuition thing is real. I just had this gut feeling that it wasn't a girl. So I wasn't shocked but immediately started thinking names and nursery colors. Jake, having believed it to be a girl was slightly disappointed but when I made mention of vans, converse and guns, he got even more excited with the prospect of having a little mini-me.

Here's our first baby purchase made at 5 weeks pregnant... FATHER like SON!

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And to get an idea of just how ridiculously cute and tiny they are...

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To wrap things up, next week we go in for our next check-up and tomorrow I get to have my first blood work done {Bleh}. And now I am embracing my future as a mom {MOM?!} of a son that I hope grows up to be the gentleman and Godly man just like his father. I pray that he finds a God fearing woman that loves the Lord like I pray he will, so he can then follow his dad's great example of a loving and compassionate husband. In the last 4 months I have fallen more in love with my hubby because he has taken on a more emotional, tired and ever growing wife with a joy and desire that is a true gift from the Lord. So here's to toy guns, dinosaurs, trucks, board shorts, vans, and lots and lots of faux-hawks!!

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