Joan Ellen Cornell

I FINALLY didn't wake up at 4:30am for once! I slept until 9! WHOA! Felt sooo good!

Here are some pics from last weekend...

Our baby's first Yonder Mountain String Band experience (in my belly of course) :)

It's kind of hard to tell what's in the picture, but the baby is the little bit of white in the right side of the big black spot. After doing the ultrasound and measuring the baby, they pushed back my due date to April 17th...so really i'm only going into the 7th week right now instead of the 8th. Speaking of they, this was my first appointment with my new doctor and I really like her a lot! She was really nice and helpful and I felt really comfortable there.

People keep asking me if we want to know the sex, and I do...but Jeremy's not sure yet. So if anyone wants to help me talk him into finding out, it would be greatly appreciated :) Haha...I just can't imagine knowing that I can find out and not finding out. Maybe we can just keep the name a secret and that can be a surprise...we'll see I guess. Not that we've even starting considering names, but when the time comes...

I've been really tired...considering I wake up at 4:30am for no reason every day and can never fall back asleep. I've been taking naps (which I NEVER normally do) but it's been much needed! I also got some "Preggie Pops" (suckers) to help when i'm feeling morning sickness coming on...and they WORK! WOoHOoo! :)

my doctor's appointment went so awesomely today!

we went to yonder tonight...so much fun. it's a lot easier than i thought it was going to be going out with everyone who is partying. except i get soooo tired by the end of the night i'm almost falling asleep in the middle of everything, haha. i think i can't stay out that late anymore, just not possible.

on that note, i'm going to bed :)

Up at 6am this morning...and wide awake.

I decided yesterday to switch doctors...gonna use Jeremy's sister in law's doctors :) She talks about how much she loved/loves them, so i'm going with them now. My first appointment with them is on Monday.

The breast specialist also called me this morning and I have an appointment there tomorrow afternoon. The woman who called was very nice and reassuring that usually it's nothing and it could just be from my underwire. Hopefully that's all it is. I'm glad i'll get to find out tomorrow, I hate waiting! Grrrr.

I've already been online looking at things to buy :) Also, reading other "mom to be's" blogs. They are full of cute ideas! I am def going to buy an Angelsound Fetal Doppler, so I can hear the heartbeat of the baby whenever I want!

The story of how I found out:

I was supposed to get my period last Tuesday, and it didn't come. Now, this is not abnormal for me at all, so I disregarded it. Then my boobies got really sore, which wasn't a big deal to me as well because that's not abnormal at that time of the month :) But Friday, I was nauseous and threw up for no reason. As I did on Saturday. My stomach felt weird all weekend. Then yesterday morning, I woke up from my hives (which I will talk about in a few) at 4am and then couldn't go back to sleep. An hour later I was getting sick again. I thought to myself "enough is enough, i'm going to the store to get a pregnancy test because there's too many signs..."...so I went...

and...2 blue lines! Positive! At this point, Jeremy was still sleeping and I didn't want to wake him up, so I called my sister (whom I knew would be up with her 3 year old). We talked for an hour until Jeremy got up, and he came into the spare room (where I came at 4am when I was wide awake). I asked him to lay with me and he did. I told him I had something to tell him and when I did, he had a huge smile on his face and hugged me. He was so happy too! WOOHOOO!

I went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. I'm 7 weeks :) So I am being sent to a special lab to get my bloodwork done (I have to go sometime in the next couple weeks), and I also have to go to a breast specialist to get an ultrasound of my boobie that has a weird lump in it...or weird according to the doctor yesterday. Because for all she knows, it's normal anyways. Just making me worried for no reason hopefully. So i'm waiting on them to call me to schedule an appointment.

So about my hives. I've had them for almost 2 months now, numerous times a day. I had an appointment at an allergist tomorrow but...yesterday morning, when they woke me up at 4am, was the last time I've had them. So odd. I found out I was pregnant and they magically disappear. Odd, but AWESOME! So I figured that they started around the same exact time as I got pregnant. My body was telling me THAT long ago...

Katie bought us some books yesterday to read and I already finished mine :)

Jenny McCarthy is really funny, and talked about quite a few things about being pregnant that I had no idea. I don't even want to go into them, some of them are SO DISGUSTING. Haha. No wonder it was the first time i've heard of them...haha.

So besides the morning sickness (which does not ONLY happen in the morning, by the way), I am pretty emotional. Pretty little, stupid things make me cry. Great. And I thought it was bad before. Hopefully Jeremy realizes this baby is taking me over!! Haha.

Anyways, enough for today :) More tomorrow...