The Night That Baby Kicked Dad

Good morning, all :)

Yesterday while I was observing a class during school, I felt the baby kicking, and I thought to myself, "Wow, this baby is going to town in there! I wonder if I could feel it from the outside?" I put my hand on my belly, and sure enough, little pulses could be felt from the outside each time the baby kicked!

Right before Ian got home, the baby was kicking like crazy, but then as soon as Ian tried to feel, the baby stopped! Well, I had heard from someone else, and done a little of my own research, that when I eat something, the baby gets all pumped up on the sugars in the food and will be active then - so, I decided to pop a mini-Twix bar and sure enough! Baby started kicking again!!

Ian was on the phone with his Dad, so I called him over and just had him sit on the couch with his hand on my ever-growing belly - the baby kept kicking and I kept asking Ian if he had felt it, but he just kept shaking his head. Finally, the baby gave me a few good whacks, and Ian asked, "Is that it?" I just nodded and smiled! It was pretty exciting! Ian told his Dad he was feeling the baby kick as they spoke and was able to feel a few more good kicks before the baby settled down off of his 'Twix' high :)

So awesome! What a fun thing that we can both have a sense of our baby now! Wow....

On a different note, I am loving that this is the last school day in February - bring on the nicer weather! And as I wrote on John's Facebook page... his Degree recital is now in the 10 day forecast on weather.com :) So exciting!

Have a great Friday, everyone!
Love you!

22 weeks!

Good morning everyone! Thursday, already! I can hardly believe how fast these weeks go! And being that it's a Thursday, that means another little baby anniversary! So Happy 22 Weeks Baby Bally!! On Laura's calendar, it's the 5 month mark, BUT in the pregnancy world, 5 months isn't until next week (They count each month as 4.5 weeks)... so for this week, happy week 22!! :)

Today my principal is subbing for me in the morning - His goal is to sub one morning for every full-time teacher in the school so he can get an idea of what it's like to be in their classroom. What fun! Anyhow, it's kind of funny because I remember planning this back in November and thinking "Hmmm... by February I'll be about 5 months pregnant and I should be pretty big! It will be a nice break!" Well.. silly me should have waited longer, I suppose! Although I'm just starting to 'look' pregnant, I know I have a LONG way to go!

Part of the planning was that I also gave him two of my most difficult classes :) So that will be a nice break for me!

Let's see... in the dream world, I had some of the worst nightmares EVER last night - They are the stuff that people would pay to see in a scary movie! But I HATE scary movies, so it was horrible! I know that pregnant women have vivid dreams, but pleasant, vivid dreams would be so much better!

Anyhow, hope everyone has a good Thursday - tomorrow is Friday! And then the weekend! yay :)
Then... in about a week is my brother, John's Senior Recital- so exciting!!

Have a good day :)
Love
Laura

ps.. Jill, I'm so happy that you read this blog! They're fun to write, even they're a bit silly! :)

Horrible Dreams!

So... I've read a couple of places that when women are pregnant, their dreams become more vivid to them. I don't usually share dreams... but... last night I had one that I honestly thought was real until I woke up, and it was horrible!

Basically, I had just had my baby - a beautiful little girl - perfect! I went to some sort of birthday party with some friends of mine (family oriented) and when I got back to the car, I realized that I had left my new baby in the backseat the whole time! I went in without the baby!! The dream basically kept going like that... everywhere I went, I would accidentally forget her! It was terrible.... ahhh!! horrible mom dreams!! I know in real life that won't happen - but it was still so sad :(

I also went to a yoga class last night - pretty interesting :) I basically did about 75% of the moves - modifying some for the 'almost 5 months pregnant' woman I am :) I also had a tiny breakdown with Ian when I put on some of my more form fitting clothes to go to yoga - something along the lines of how huge my middle is getting and how I'm just too short for this to look cute!!! Sigh... He just calmly hugged me and said, "But Laura... you're growing a human being in there! That's what supposed to happen.... you look fine..." What a nice husband :)

Alrighty - off to school. Hope everyone has a nice Weds - 51 degrees here today! Whoo hoo!
Love you all
Laura

I think it was the sweater....

Good morning, everyone :)

Yesterday I had a few teachers say to me, "Wow - you look really pregnant! There's really even a difference from Friday until today!" My response, "Thanks!" (I want to look pregnant! That way it doesn't just look like I'm eating too many donuts!!) I think it might have been the sweater I was wearing though... I told Ian that theory and his response was, "Uh huh...." (Like, okay, whatever you say crazy person!) Even he's been commenting that I'm really looking pregnant lately :)
I suppose I'll just keep getting bigger from here!!

Not much is new - I'm thinking about going to a yoga class with a friend tonight - but I'm not sure if it's okay for pregnant ladies? I'll have to investigate a little...

Today is my knitting club at school - I LOVE this club. The 5th grade girls actually sit around a couple of tables and talk and knit like little old ladies - it's SO cute! And today we're starting hats with the yarn they got to pick out from Hobby Lobby (we took a field trip) so it should be fun!!

Have a great day everyone :)
Love
Laura

Some little things

Good morning everyone :) Last Monday, I was getting ready to spend the day with my Dad and my sister (even though I didn't know she was visiting yet!).... This Monday, off to school again - definitely not as much fun! I'm happy though because March is beginning to show in the '10 day forecast' on Weather.com. The temperatures aren't really changing yet - but we'll get there!

Ian made a lot of progress on the room this weekend - the floor is beautiful! We have one more coat of stain to put on it and then the finishing stuff, but it just looks great. It's so neat to see rooms in this old house that are getting completed... I walked in there this morning just to look at it again!

Let's see... in terms of baby news... My mom is getting me a stethoscope and a good baby information book for my half birthday (I finally just decided) so that should be fun! I'll be able to hear the baby's heart soon on my own! The baby is definitely kicking more - last night I was making dinner, and I just felt the baby moving around like crazy! Ian and I can't feel it from the outside yet, but hopefully soon!

Last night I also had an average sized dinner, and then a little more spaghetti, and then at 11pm - I turned to Ian and said, "You are not going to believe this, but I'm hungry again!" So Ian, being the good father he is, suggested I go down to eat another snack. I felt a little guilty eating so late at night, but Ian was just like, "Hey, it's a lot of work to grow that baby - he's going to be hungry!" hehe... Anyhow, silly stories, but that's what's going on in my life!

More pictures of pregnant Laura will be showing up soon.....

Have a great Monday everyone :)
Love you

Strollers!!!!

Well, I spent probably 5 or 6 hours today researching strollers - I think I just might be going crazy! One of the downfalls of Peoria is that the stores here just don't have that many strollers on display - our Target only has one!! Baby Depot has a fair amount, but researching these strollers has now let me see that there are actually 'cool' strollers out there - so now I'm conflicted! :)

Sigh... I think I'm turning into crazy-psycho-mom.... and I still have 4 1/2 months till I meet the little person!

Have a great weekend :)

Happy Friday!

Well, it's Friday- yay! Except that this is also my most challenging day of teaching - but I suppose at least the reward of the weekend is on the horizon :)

Onto some other updates I suppose - Ian has a mandatory day off work today (kind of weird) so he's going to be upstairs sanding down the floor in the baby's room! (guest room). Kind of exciting! And kind of a super pain for Ian too - he's working so hard! Once he sands it, then we finish it (add color), then we can start putting baby things in it and getting it ready!:) I like that he's home though because then we get to see each other for a little bit in the morning - something we never get to do during the week!

I hope everyone has a great weekend - please be thinking of Mom/Martha :)

Love you all
Laura