December 20th...waiting for Christmas!

I am just over 17 weeks pregnant now and am starting to show more!  Dave and I went to the doctor last week and discovered that my weight gain is on track!  I've only put on 5 pounds since finding out we're pregnant although it feels like 20!  Baby R is about 5 inches long and weighs about 6 oz.  That is nuts!  My little onion (about the size right now) is fluttering around in my belly.  I've felt a few flutters but can't wait for the definitive kick!  Feeling good the last 4 weeks!  We've been busy with my new found energy and appetite!  We cleaned the house, went shopping for gifts, wrapped them, made 5 different kinds of cookies,and decorated the house all in anticipation for my parents and family to come this week.  Tomorrow in fact!  Yippee!  Then it is off to Milwaukee and Madison to see the rest of my side of the family.  Finally, we head to Miami to see the Rothes!  What a great end to our Christmas break!  As we think back on 2010, we have so much to be thankful for.  I absolutely can't wait to feel the little kick of our Baby Rothe!  He or she is really there!  We scheduled our 20 week ultrasound today so we can see our baby again on the big screen.  It has been almost 12 weeks since we've seen the little one on an ultrasound.  The heartbeat is good and we know that Baby R is gettting bigger, but it will be such a wonderful sight to see our baby!  Dave's outside snowblowing from the 2nd huge snow storm of the week...18 inches last Friday and 7 tonight.  If you add the 8 we already had, we're up to about 3 feet here! Yikes!  So his blog attempt hasn't happened yet.   We're both so thrilled to celebrate our first married Christmas together and our last Christmas as a family of 2.  Have a great holiday and we'll write more after the holidays! 

16 weeks and counting

Can you believe it is almost Christmas already? We spent all day yesterday Christmas shopping after being snowed in by a huge 18 inches of snowfall on Saturday!  Most snow Minnesota has had in the month of December in a LONG time. Bitter cold today and hoping for a snow day but no such luck.  We were the only school in the area to still have school!  Baby Rothe and I could have used a snow day!  Baby Rothe is busy growing inside me and my appetite shows it.  At night I am bloated and round with pregnancy but in the morning, my belly is back to just a small bump.  I am getting anxious and want my baby bump big now!  I guess they say it takes the 20 week mark to really pop in your first pregnancy so I will have to patient.  And eating more isn't going to make me rounder, just fatter! As you may notice you in my belly shots, they are taken at night so my bump looks grand but in the morning not so much!  This week is our 16-18 week appt. with our doctor for a progress check and then in a few weeks we can finally get an ultrasound.  It's been since week 7 we've seen the little one so that is exciting.  I hope we can get in after the new year to see him or her. Newest news is that I once again have acquired a cold, complete with stuffy nose, sore throat, and lovely sinus pain!  Let's hope it goes away soon!   Dad Rothe really wants to blog on here to so be on the lookout for an update from him also!  Happy Holidays to you all!  Christmas letters should be in the mail by Wednesday so check your mailbox for one from the Rothe Family!  Till next time....

Into December we go...

So here I sit, almost 15 weeks pregnant!  We scheduled birthing preparation classes for February, All about Babies class for March, and coping with labor class for the beginning of April.  It seems so crazy to me to be doing these things.  We started looking at daycares also...daycares for our little one that isn't even born yet.  But there are already waiting lists.  We're thinking we may need our relatives to move here so we don't have the outrageous costs to contend with!  Wowza!  And you thought college was expensive people!  Planning lots of things over the next few weeks including our many Christmas'.  We really need to get shopping.  This year is almost over already.  Can't believe it. 
Still feeling good the last few weeks.  Lots of fun symptoms that I won't divulge on here because I will spare you the embarassing details.  My body is changing too and people are noticing, including my kiddos at work.  One child asked why I was getting bigger today, so I sat down with my class and told them the news.  Twenty minutes later and a missed writing lesson, I think I answered all their questions except, of course, the one about how I got pregnant.  I'll leave that to the parents.  They are excited but then again, they are only 8 so after about twenty questions, we ended the baby talk with. "when's our next fieldtrip?"  There minds can't stay on one topic too long!  Happy December!