Baby number 2!

I was just having fun looking at Prego pics and comments from my last pregnancy and I was sad I hadn't done it so far with this one. So here is the first post of my second pregnancy. I am 22 weeks already! And it's a girl!!! I couldn't be happier. I am already much bigger than I was last time. Not only bigger but experiencing all the lovely symptoms earlier (restless legs, sleepless nights, heartburn... Lots of heartburn!). What is so different about this time is that I really haven't been dwelling on it every second and time has gone by quickly. Of course the more pregnant I become the harder it is to ignore. Patton has kept me busy! I have so many crafts and clothes I want to make and I want to redo the nursery. The only problem is the lack of spare time. Of course Patton has been so kind as to help me out by trying on Alice's clothes so I can guess sizes. We just don't tell daddy ;). I am currently in bed not sleeping otherwise I would post a tummy picture. I will get on it soon! See you in a few weeks!

last post!

Patton was born on April 23rd 2011. The day before Easter. We had some complications and Patton had to taken to a NICU in Sacramento, where he spent the next nine days on oxygen and then two more days trying to gain weight and prove he could breathe on his own. He left the hospital with a clean bill of health. He is such a miracle to us and brings such a beautiful spirit to our home. We are glad to have him here and healthy! We love you Patton!

40 weeks!!

So I'm due tomorrow. Still no contractions or anything so I'm gonna guess at my dr. appointment tomorrow he is gonna say that we are gonna set an induction date. I'm hoping it's by the end of the week! Meanwhile it's just a waiting game.... hurray up and get here before I go crazy!! Also, Im so swollen everywhere! I'm ready to be back to my old self!

The Nursery pictures!

The nursery is finally complete. We are officially done buying things until the baby gets here and so everything is tucked away. So, I realize that part of it looks really crowded but everything has a purpose and I think it will be very functional and easy to stay organized so here it is...









So this is my little nursing station. I have everything (including chocolate for mom) to nurse or pump within reach. Also, Parker bought me this glider for Christmas and the crib he bought me for my baby shower... He is the best husband ever !


In this picture frame is a copy of a poem Parker wrote about love when he was 6. It is the sweetest thing ever.



The diaper station. The underneath is well stocked and ready to go!

Last but not least, the closet! I have so many outfits that I'm not sure he'll get to wear all of them but what else was I supposed to do for the last 9 months but buy cute things?! BTW all the clothes on the right side of the closet are newborn size... I'll have to change his outfit 4 times a day to make sure he gets to wear them all :) And I hung his socks on the wall because they are too cute not to look at!

36 week picture that I promised...

36 weeks

I know I haven't posted in a hundred years but I have been so out of it that I really haven't done anything in a while. Also, I dont have a picture yet because I haven't gotten myself together enough to look decent for a picture but I promise to get one going for tomorrow.

So this post is a depressing one. If you were hoping for sweet thoughts and all that then it's not your lucky day! haha.

I am so tired of being pregnant and today was one of those days ( which I don't have very often) where I can't stop thinking about how miserable I feel. I want this done! I always have aches and pains but today I just want to cry about them...

I am tired of being tired all the time. Even when I have a rare night that I sleep well I end up really needing a nap in the middle of the day. At night I am so exhausted from just holding myself up all day but I lay down to go to sleep and my back starts to hurt and my ribs hurt, man do they hurt! I lay on one side until the pain is unbearable then try to switch to the other side and wait for it again. The other problem is, is that my belly is so heavy and huge now that it requires a huge effort just to turn over. It is so painful. Not to mention this whole time I can't breath so you can imagine how out of breath I get by flopping around all night.

My new thing is to try to sleep sitting up... what a joke. So, I just lay there miserable looking up things on my iphone like, " What are the possibilities of early labor?"or " How can I convince my dr. not to let me go past my due date?" or I try to find baby blogs with women who are just as miserable as I am.

So, during the day all I can do is try to stay awake long enough to accomplish at least one thing... do the dishes, fold the laundry, pick up the living room... some days all I can manage to do is text Parker that I appreciate that he is understanding and working so hard while I just sit here.

I think emotionally that has been the hardest thing, feeling completely useless. I know I am very pregnant but I still want to live... I want my husband to come home to a clean house and dinner ready. I want to tell him all the things I did that day. I want to look pretty for him when he gets home. I feel like right now it's impossible to do all those things everyday. I hate it.

Not to mention that when you can't do anything, when all you do is sit and think about how much time you have left and wishing it were over, it makes it 10x worse!

Wow, what a pity party. I'm sure anyone who has ever been pregnant is thinking... "ya join the club, that's just what happens" and they are right. I just needed to vent and this seemed like a good place to do it so that way if it's too annoying you can just stop reading! haha.

I am way excited to just have my baby here and I am so grateful to be pregnant at all but today was just one of those days!!

31 Weeks

I hadn't taken another picture in a while because I didn't think I had really changed but I have changed quite a bit. I'm surprised. I kinda rounded out.

So up til now, whether I knew it or not, has been all peaches and cream because that pregnancy misery I had been hearing about is here.

My whole tummy is sore all the time and the baby is up in my lungs and it's hard to breath. Also, my hands and feet are way swollen, I am itchy like crazy, I have restless leg syndrome so bad that I can't sit still or lay down for longer than a couple minutes, I am starting to not be able to bend over and I feel like my " baby bump" weighs 100 pounds. Also, I have started having some problems with my blood pressure being too high so now I have to rest before and after everything I do, which is less fun than it sounds.

Have I mentioned that I still have 9 weeks to go!! Nine long weeks!

Also, I am super excited!!! I only have 9 weeks to go! I have baby showers coming up and that will be super fun! Parker is working on finishing our crib. The baby room is pretty much done. And I can't believe that I get to have a real baby in there soon! hurray!

Week 28... Third Trimester

I don't know why my picture is so blurry but there it is, my supposedly HD camera. Anyway, I finally made it to the third trimester! I am really hoping time starts to go by faster because I can't wait! On my calendar I have each week written down what number week I am. It's nice to start seeing some higher numbers!

I am really working on moving more and eating as good as I can because I would love to stop packing on the weight each month :) What a lovely side effect of pregnancy. My other new fun things include not being able to sleep at night, hot flashes, leg cramps, and heart burn. I realize it could be worse but ew!

The best things are... actually looking pregnant instead of just fat, feeling the baby really move and getting better kicks, and going to get pedicures since I can no longer comfortably reach my toes.

I know I am totally weird but lately when I am just laying there feeling the baby doing weird turns or whatever, I start feeling really sorry for the baby and having no room and being squished. I get that it is natural and it's not a problem but I can't help really feeling bad!

I also have really vivid dreams. They used to be about always leaving my baby somewhere or forgetting to feed it and that sort of neglectful thing. But in my dreams I didn't really care and this "baby" and I had no attachment and in fact I resented it for being such a nuisance. They were bad. Not the lovely dreams I had thought an expecting mother should have. BUT, just in the past couple weeks that has totally changed into dreams of having my baby that I actually love and I have real concern for it when I neglect it.... like when I left it at the grocery store, laying on a pile of apples. Boy, I'm gonna be a great mom! Hopefully, the dreams will just get better.

Anyway, I am getting Patton's room really put together. I don't want to post any pictures until it is totally done. So, I am trying to get that done. Trouble is that we stated to paint the crib but it looks like we will have to sand it down to keep it from chipping. So, we have to start all over again on that one. It might be a little while!

almost 25 weeks

Everyone keeps saying that time will fly, well looking back... it hasn't. I can't believe I'm only a little more than half way there! Right now the focus is staying healthy despite my urge to eat everything in sight, all day long! I have started getting serious about putting together Patton's room. Once Parker's computer stuff is out of there I will take and post pictures :).

This Saturday is my cousin Rachel's( who is in the picture with me) baby shower and she is due February first which is really exciting! I can't wait to have my own though! It makes it harder when all my friends and now cousins are having their babies, it makes me more impatient if that's possible. I am just grateful to be having one at all.

Patton is kicking a lot more these days which is really fun. He's kind of a stinker because anytime someone wants to feel it he stops. Maybe he's just modest and doesn't like the attention. Must not be related to either Parker or me.

I'm getting bigger and more uncomfortable. I don't sleep well at night and I have a hard time sitting in our couch that kind of sinks in. I have to keep scooching to the edge and sit up straight so I can breathe. But all in all it not bad. I don't mind being pregnant... yet. I hope it stays pretty even like this because I am planning on having a lot more!

My little nudger :) * 20 weeks

So far I have only been feeling little bumps and nudges but this morning I felt real kicks. It was so cool. I am excited to feel kicks more often and I am excited for Parker to be able to feel it too. We'll see.

I am a little jealous because I have two friends who are being induced tomorrow. Good luck to Janice and Jacklyn!

It's a BOY!

We finally hit 19 weeks and we went in for our ultra sound. It was just Parker and Mom and I and it was so cool!! He actually look like a baby now. We got to see all around... His head then feet and back... It was really neat. When Mom was allowed to come in the nurse zoomed right up in between his legs and there was no denying it was a boy.


It's weird because I think I was actually shocked because for some reason I always assumed that it would be a girl. I don't know why I bothered thinking that because you only get boys in the Humes family. We will be making an even 10 grandsons on that side. What are the odds!

We are both really happy and we are excited to meet Patton Anthony.

Week 17

This week I finally went out and bought some maternity jeans. I realized as it was getting colder that I didn't have a pair of pants that fit. Can I just mention how comfortable they are?! They should make them for everyone not just pregos. I am anxious for the end of the month because we will find out what it is. For some reason this week I have been way overly tired like I was in the beginning. Which is weird because I haven't had that in a while.

My other peeve is everyone telling me I don't look pregnant. I can kinda see what they mean but I feel like I'm just getting super fat and it's hard to remind myself that I'm not fat I'm pregnant but it's hard to keep saying that when everyone says I don't look pregnant. Which means I just look fat. I am starting to wonder if I'll ever look "pregnant".

On other news...I think Parker and I have come around to a girl's name finally.
Alice Minnie Humes
We actually shook on it...we'll see. ;)

My first Dr. appt ( 14 weeks)

I had my first real Dr. appointment 2 days ago on Tues. I found out that I was right and I am 14 weeks. I had previously posted that I found out I was a week behind. Nope, I am right where I thought! Hurray! I didn't like going back a week. Our Dr.'s name is Dr. Lindeken and he is really great! We got to hear the baby's heart beat really clearly which was really cool. I go back in 4 weeks and at that point he is going to order and Ultrasound that I take to a place where they do the Ultrasound and then we will find out if it's a boy or girl! So, technically we will find out in about six weeks. I can't wait!

here is a new 14 week picture...



I have also discovered the weird thing that I crave... Grape Soda! Oh, Grape Soda why do I love you so?! I have never really cared for grape soda mostly because I have spent my whole life thinking that non- diet soda is the greatest waste of calories that there is ( which I still believe). But now I can't help it. I love it!

little late...

This is a picture of me at week 11. Taken September 29th.

week 10

Ok So we went in for an ultra sound on "week 9" to find out that it is only week 8... Lame! So this is officially week 10 and the new due date is April 26th. We are really hoping that it comes earlier because then Parker will be on spring break instead of if it comes late then it will run into finals.


This week was AWFUL! Almost every year I come down with what I call the Mega Cold. It is not like a regular one that you feel bad but you make it through the day. No, not with Mega cold. I get asthma so bad that I can't breath along with all the other symptoms that seem to be way worse than normal. I have a fever that will come and go for about 4-5 days and I am completely knocked off my feet, completely miserable and useless. Not to mention the 4 boxes of tissues I go through. Then to finish it off I will have a terrible cough that hurts my lungs for about 2 weeks afterward. It sucks. Well, this time I was not allowed to take any "real" medicine because I am in my first trimester still. Everything says "may cause birth defects" or " may cause miscarriage". Everyone online said stuff like, " a couple days of suffering is worth it to have a healthy baby", and while I completely agree, they were not suffering from Mega Cold! So, have I complained enough? Do I sound like a pregnant woman? With that being said I am thankfully on to the hacking cough stage meaning I will only be in this state of misery for another week or two! And an honorable mention to my outstanding husband who took excellent care of me!


Next news. I am searching for a doctor and I am calling tomorrow to make an appointment (after I find them of course!) I am hoping they do another Ultrasound because I never posted picture from the other one because it is really to dark to see anything :(


We did see it really well on the monitor though. He/she is a squirmy little guy. It was super cute to see! The lady had to wait for it to stop moving around so she could measure it. They gave me a pin that I love, that shows how big your baby's feet are at 10 Weeks so this is the week! Here they are... So precious!

Week 9

This week was awesome! I never got sick and I don't think I took a nap this whole week! Not to say I haven't been way tired it's just better.

While all this is good news it kinda made me sad because today when I told someone at work that I was pregnant, it almost sounded weird. Like I almost forgot that I was pregnant because I hadn't thought about it much this week without the constant reminder of nausea and sleepiness.

I do have another Ultra sound this week. The first one they did was at 5 weeks and we really couldn't see anything but the sack. I am hoping this 9 week one will have more to say! I can't wait until it looks like a real baby. My cousin Rachel said her 9 week Ultrasound looked like a chicken nugget. So, we will have to wait and see! I will post pictures if I get them this time.

First 7 weeks!

I think that I am seriously lucky! I really haven't had all of the horrible side effects of pregnancy. All I have is extreme fatigue and I get a little nauseous after meals but for the most part it has been no problem!

I do take at least one nap a day. I usually wake up exhausted and I can't wait to get back into bed. It was ok at first but now it's just getting old! Luckily I have the best husband in the world who is very understanding because I am useless!

It is mostly smells that make me nauseous. I will be starving and then the smell of the meal makes me sick and I have to force myself to start eating it. I have discovered that if I keep sipping on Ginger Ale it helps a lot!





And I don't care what anyone says I can tell that I'm showing. I'll admit it's not a lot but it is enough to make all my clothes uncomfortable. So that's nice! I know I'm fat but it's different.

I am excited for all the different steps to come... really start showing, finding out what it is, feeling it kick and of course I really cant wait for him or her to get here!

Oh names... here are the names we are looking in to... We place a disclaimer that they could change at anytime... we still have 7 months to decide. As of right now if it's a boy we are sure that he will be named Patton Anthony Humes. and If it's a girl we can't stop arguing but we are thinking about the names Alice or Annie and middle names are still up for debate. I, of course, have the perfect middle names but Parker is a stinker and hates all names apparently. :) We are open to ideas but will have no problem telling you if we hate it! haha

Baby time!

I am super excited to be pregnant but now the REAL waiting game begins. I have been waiting almost 4 years for this so I feel totally ready minus the baby stuff I need to get. I won't get stuff til I know what it is though. I will find out in November. We are already battling out baby names. I go for my first ultrasound on the 25th. I will definitely post pictures!