Weekend/Week wrap-up and.....pregnancy you are kicking my BOOTTAAAYY!!!

So....I planned on writing this post on Monday about what we did last weekend and a week 19 baby update. Well, thanks to some funky virus I came down with plans changed. Sometimes I feel like this whole pregnancy thing is a walk in the park...then I get a reality check like I did this weekend and I wonder how I will ever do it again. I don't want to complain because I know so many women struggle the ENTIRE 9 months (10 really) with puking and fatigue; but when you are sick and pregnant it is NOT FUN! Friday I decided to clean the house top to bottom like the good ole days (before the whole with child thing) and ROYALLY messed my back up for the second time in a month. I know I just need to space the cleaning out instead of going all OCD crazy lady like I am so used to doing. I just need to relax and remember that once the baby comes I won't be able to spend hours and hours cleaning because he will need me; and I don't want his memories to be filled with me always having to clean before I can play or give hime attention. It is easier said than done, but I am learning to try not to sweat the small stuff. So Frank was pretty frustrated with me when he came home to a nice clean house but a crippled wife. Ha! He watches me when I bend over to do things and is always saying, "see, your not bending your knees!!" He is like a little pregnancy nazi sometimes. He just cares about his wifey and babe.

Anyway, Saturday I was feeling better so we headed out to run some errands and pick up the paint for the nursery. We got home and cooked out and started taping things off. Frank started painting and I tried to sew a bib. HA! First, I am clearly not the smartest kid on the block bc the pattern was half a bib (because your supposed to tape two together) and I just started cutting away....then was like..um where is the rest! DUH!!! So I started over and things were going ok until I tried to attach the bias tape to the edges with a zigzag seam and it was a HOT MESS!!! The machine was only doing zigzag on one side and some funky seam on the other...then I tried to take it out and ripped the fabric. It was like midnight and I was over it and of course Frank's room was coming along beautifully so he rubbed it in that he is the crafty one! He is probably right. So we went to bed and within an hour I woke up feeling like CRAP!!! I was up probably 10 or 15 times through the night achy ALL over. I seriously thought I was getting the flu. Finally around 7 I woke Frank and took some Tylenol. It helped and I slept till 3. When I woke up Frank had finished the room (it looked so good) I hated that I wasted the day. I took it easy for the rest of the night and continued to take the Tylenol and Monday morning I thought things were getting better. I was WRONG.

On my way to work my entire body started aching again. I swear my hair even hurt (dramatic right?). I was getting a little scared so I called the doc and she said a virus has been going around so I should keep taking Tylenol every four hours and rest (not possible when your working 7pm-7am). The Tylenol helped a little but it was NOT fun feeling like that. After taking it easy and just sleeping and working the past three days I am feeling much better. It is just hard when you don't know what is wrong with you and want to make sure the baby is ok too..oh the JOY!

Weeza was due to get her yearly check up today so we went to the new vet out where we are now living and poor girlie got all her shots. She was so good. Amelia is due next month. They took her to another room to do them and I didn't really like that. HA! I am sure I will be such a mess when Cash gets his shots. I am always saying how annoying parents are when we are trying to stick for an IV, but I totally understand why they are. It is sad to see your baby being poked and prodded.

Just a quick update on week 19....(even though it is almost 20...YIPPEE!!)

• I have been feeling him a little more lately. Kind of just a strange gas bubble feeling and some slight swooshing movement. No kicks yet
• He is the size of an heirloom tomato and weighs 8.5 ounces.
• I don't know if it has been because I am sick or because he is getting bigger; but I get more full faster these days. A couple times I ate my usual dinner and felt like I was going to explode after. This is a good thing. Hopefully the all day/night hunger fests won't come back or I am going to end up 500 pounds by November.
• I ordered his first two monogrammed John Johns today. One is a brown gingham TURKEY one to HOPEFULLY wear home from the hospital. It will be pushing it since his due date is 11/22 but if he comes late he might just have to be an expired turkey bc it is too cute. His Nanna is NOT going to like or understand why his southern mother won't stop putting his name on EVERYTHING...when I told her it was big in the South to monogram she said she worries he will get abducted! I LOVE her crazy self!
• We are counting the days until next WEDNESDAY when we get our anatomy ultrasound. Prayers are welcome that everything looks perfect.

Sorry for such a LONG post..that is what happens when you do the post a week late. We don't have much planned for this weekend. Just going to take it easy. Frank is SUPER busy with work and school these days. He is such a hard worker and a wonderful husband too. He sent me a text the other day that said, "The bed looks so great. I sat there and stared at it for a few minutes imagining our son will be sleeping in there in 5 months." Melt my heart.  Here are a few pics of Cash's beautiful room, my awful bib, and the girls hanging in his crib.

Frank bringing the crib upstairs and putting it together....

The finished product...LOVE!



Frank working so hard to get those stripes straight!

They had to try it out....

My disaster!



Can't wait to see my baby boy in these two numbers!!! He is going to be so stinking cute!!!

Baby Boy WILSON CASH CONROY!!!!

So I am already starting off as a BAD blogger! I know I said I would post about the baby on Tuesday but just didn't have enough time with working three nights in a row. Good thing I waited though because our baby bedding was delivered today. I am super excited!!! I LOVE the bedding even more in person! It is so soft and the colors are really pretty. The crib should be here in the next couple of days and we are planning on painting the nursery and guest room this weekend so I will post pics then. I know it is pretty early to decorate but with all our traveling this summer I want to go ahead and get things rolling. Plus, who doesn't want to look at a pretty nursery every day instead of an empty room???

Above is the crib blanket and below are the bumpers....I LOVE!!!

The room will hopefully look like this soon....

But for now it looks like this..HA...

We luckily were able to buy a TON of baby clothes for little Cash from a friend at work who is all done having babies and had two boys! We got such a great deal. I think I have secretly been leaving them all out like this so I could go in and look at all the sweet little things!


This is the crib I ordered (it does NOT have a drop down side). It is the Jenny Lind style crib. I slept in a crib just like this when I was a baby. I am planning on painting it a Tiffany blue color and am going to try to antique it to make it look a little vintage.

I can't wait to see it all come together, but most of all can't wait until our sweet little boy is here!


Weeza and Amelia can't wait either but I think would prefer us NOT to put his bibs on them! HA!!!

Here are some STATS on baby boy Cash and Momma so far....

• We are 181/2 weeks so far
• We found out you were a baby boy at 16 weeks but had an idea at around 13.
• We have known what your name would be for a LOONG time! Wilson is my maiden name and Cash is for Johny Cash (I know...weird huh?)
• I am wearing mostly all maternity clothes. I can wear some of my flowy dresses and tops but only maternity pants and shorts! It has been this way since around 13 weeks. Sad I know.
• I feel great!!! I only felt sick/VERY tired around weeks 6 through 8 but have felt GREAT ever since.
• My only complaint is my skin is AWFUL..pimples, pimples please go away...so much for glowing skin the entire 9 months. It is all worth it though.
• Cravings...in the beginning all I could stomach were CARBS, CARBS, AND MORE CARBS! No cravings anymore. I actually have started feeling full pretty fast lately. I still LOVE to eat most anything...esp. candy, fruit, and Mexican. That isn't any different than before I was pregnant.
• I have not felt you move yet. I sometimes feel what I think may be a flutter but can't really tell. I listen to your heart beat regularly on my dopler so I know you are in there just growing and growing.
• You are the size of a sweet potato this week and weigh only 6.7 ounces. All your organs are formed and now you are just growing. Your bones are growing stronger this week and your inner ear is getting strong enough for you to be able to hear your mommy's heart beat and growling stomach (even though I eat so much I can't remember the last time it growled..ha).
• Your daddy is over the moon excited for you and it makes me so happy to see him this way. I know he is going to be the BEST daddy in the world. I can't wait to see what the future holds for us three.
• We have our BIG 20 week appointment in two weeks. I am anxious to see that you are doing well. I know it is all in God's hands. The nurse in me worries constantly though but I know God has a plan and that is all that matters.

Well that is it for now folks...Sorry such a long post. I guess I am a little excited.

So I am finally taking the plunge!!

Hello blog world! More like the three people that will most likely read this thing (my MIL, husband, and maybe sister, ha!). I have been an avid blog stalker for a couple years now and never really thought I had enough to say to have my own. Let me rephrase that...I ALWAYS have more than enough to say but I most likely don't have enough interesting things to say. My husband has always said I should start my own and I always replied..."maybe when we have a baby." Well the time has come and I guess I am feeling all sentimental and hormonal lately; so here we go. I should probably start this blog off with a disclaimer....

Disclaimer......I am not a good SPELLER or someone who watches her run on sentences. My handwriting is at times almost unreadable (even to me) so I feel using this as a kind of baby/life journal is much better so that I can look back and remember the good times (or the bad). So sorry ahead of time if you are one to correct grammatical or spelling errors. If you are have fun! HA! I know that my MIL (who will be my #1 fan) will not care about either of those things as long as I include LOTS of pics of her first grandbaby!

So, in short this blog will most likely be a place for me to write down all the funny and strange things that happen to me and my family as we go from four (me, the hubs, Weeza Wiggles and Amelia Bedelia..the pups) to five. We will be welcoming our first child into this big CRAZY world in late November if all goes according to plan. We can't wait for our new adventure! I know it will be hard at times; but also so rewarding.

I am 18 weeks preggers today! I will do a post tommorrow about how things have been up until now and how the baby is growing.

Brittney