IT'S A BOY!! 17, 19, Gender Reveal, 20 Weeks

It's been a little busy. Not really, I'm just exhausted. I taught Extended School Year the month of July and it wore me out! Here are belly pictures from the past few weeks. We had our gender reveal party right after we found out that we were having a boy. We went to the Dr. on Monday right after 18 weeks. While we were there baby L had hand in the way and Dr. was unable to determine boy or girl. I was devastated since it seems that everyone has been finding out at 14 or 15 weeks. We ended up going to a 4D ultra sound place that same night and were able to tell, we were having a boy! I highly recommend the ultra sound place we went to. Super friendly tech, very relaxing and exciting to see everything on the big screen.

 

We've never had more than 10 people in our home at a time...we ended up with over 28 and had a blast! We were so glad that so many people could come and share our exciting news.



This was my chalk board as guests walked in. I found this on pinterest.

 

 

 

 We "played" old wives tales to see how real these tales were since I had been super sick this whole time. There were many people who were set that it was a girl because of how sick I had been. In the end, the tales pointed to a girl but we shocked everyone when Michael and I sprayed each other with blue silly string. (Bad mess to clean up after, vacuums up though)

 

 

 

My friend Julie made the peep cupcakes. The peeps were lemonade flavored!

I ordered the straws on Etsy after my favorite blog has them all the time.

 

We were so glad the Maranos were able to attend. We went to their gender reveal party last year Labor Day. The only person missing in this photo this time was Tansley.

 



How far along? As of 7/31/13- 20 weeks 5 days
Total weight gain/loss: Last appoint (18 weeks) I was up to 133. I think up 6 pounds now.
Maternity clothes? Holy cow; Yes! My pants, shorts, everything are so uncomfortable. I've been living in maxi skirts and sun dresses. I'm going to have to shopping before fall.
Stretch marks? Not any new ones that I know of
Sleep: Not very good. I've had the craziest dreams and end up waking up at 3:30 to go to the bathroom every night. Hoping now that ESY is over to sleep better before school starts again.
Best moment this week: Taking naps on the couch after work
Miss Anything?  Still missing iced coffee
Movement: Lots of movement! Random throughout the day.
Food cravings: I'm not craving Lucky Charms but that seems to be my go to. I'm craving pumpkin anything though. I had to make a pit stop at Starbucks for a slice of pumpkin bread and a Carmel apple spice yesterday. It was so good!
Anything making you queasy or sick? None I can think of
Have you started to show yet? Yup, had another teacher tell me this week that the bump looked good on me =)
Gender prediction: IT'S A BOY
Labor Signs: Not yet (thank goodness)
Belly Button in or out? Still in, but it feels likes it's moving out
Wedding ring on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time? Happy!
Looking forward to: Not being "sick" anymore