Sweet Moments, all for my head...Christmas, Toddlers, and the little mango!

This weekend is one of those that 1,000 beautiful pictures should have been the result. Christmas with Forrest is truly a great experience this year. And yet, we're having a camera crisis currently. Our two newest cameras, (one of which is only 4 months old....grrrr...) have their automatic focus on the fritz and won't even function enough to give me the opportunity to try a blurry shot. Technology at its best.
And, my fish loving hubby if off duking it out with the salmon again and took our oldest digital.
So, the result, lots of beautiful "memory" shots for this mama's head.
And the best follow...
***Forrest decorating sugar cookies for the first time! I can't say it was an entirely peaceful and fun experience. We went from exhilarating shrieks to tears in a matter of seconds as I tried to "control" the situation as best as I could. This morning I still found red sugar in my ear...No Joke!!!
***Forrest "helping" put up the Christmas lights around the hearth. He kept holding the lightbulbs up to his nose, you could see the twinkle in his eye!
***Our search today for a Christmas tree on our property. He was dressed in a cute sweater and despite the lack of finding the "perfect" tree we had a blast.
***Forrest dancing to Christmas carols. His little jig cracks me up! This one HAS to be a video when the camera situation gets solved.

So, still no camera. I might take matters in my own hands and shell out for a new one...
As this means no belly pics for all of you of the newest Fultmeyer baby!
I do happen to have a two week old pic....I think I was 15 weeks here. Still a crappy picture. And I now realize that taking a belly shot in black, with a black window backing you up just does NOT do you justice. But again, it's what I have!

 I am of course a tad, (okay a LOT, in my eyes anyways!) bigger with my belly currently, but this is close...
Feeling great. Really in the "Honeymoon stage" of my pregnancy I believe. I just have to make sure to drink enough water, (always a fault of mine!), eat when I'm hungry, (or I CRASH...like on our Christmas tree walk today, I was ready to eat the bark off the trees...) and get my sleep. The rest is easy at the moment...sweetness....

A little surprise the Turkey left...!!!

Can you guess what it is....??? Can you, can you???!!!

                                        

SURPRISE!!! (I bet you thought you were in for MORE salmon pics didn't you!)

Our Thanksgiving bird decided to coax us to let all our family and friends in on our little secret, as yes, we're pregnant! Fultmeyer babe #2 is due in May and we are very excited. I'm approaching 17 weeks along, feeling well, and all is happy and healthy in this body and household....

A few thoughts earlier in my pregnancy are listed under the label Fultmeyer #2 and were posted earlier this fall.

An early Christmas present to be delivered in late spring is a nice way to look at it! We are excited to add a sibling to our crazy cute little family.

Much love from our family comes with this news...;-)

12 weeks

Almost to my second trimester! Already! Last week was rough, mainly on the work front. One super late night with a crazy case till 2 am and my whole week was shot. I didn't make it home till Thursday and compensated by eating crap...it's hard, this pregnancy thing. A non pregnant Katie would have downed the caffeine and survived with a smile on her face. The preggo PA eats whatever sugar and junk she can find, (pizza two nights in a row, fudgy brownies, the list could go on and on,) which may indeed keep her awake and alert to keep to the task at hand but leaves her feeling shitty and not so smiley to say the least.
Oh well, just makes me wonder what really is worse for baby, more caffeine on one night once in awhile, or too much sugar, fat, grease, etc.
Regardless we survived and all are doing well.
I'm feeling better, other that the fatigue factor. My only pukey time was after I ate about 5 packages of smarties in a row on before mentioned late night/early morning. My belly didn't like that so much and rejected it. I'm glad, tells me my body knows that that junk just isn't good!
Speaking of said belly, it is ever expanding already. Of course, that brownie/smartie overload I'm sure has something do do with it, but I also know your second kid can pop quicker.

12 weeks

This little tike is still under wraps, but not for long as I think I'm already getting unusual glances towards my belly...might be my imagination, but I think the cat will be out of the bag this week at work with the rest of the world to follow...
We are really excited for this little babe to come, though these early days when the secret is still under wraps are nice too...

Fultmeyer #2's first photo shoot...

Today I had my first ultrasound of our little blueberry. I was anxiously awaiting this date as my due date has been a bit allusive. I knew I was pregnant, but how far along I was was a bit of a mystery. I like being able to plan ahead, (I know, those that know my messy and chaotic ways are laughing....) but it's true. Weather it's a trip, or a our second child, I like KNOWING....
So....everything looked fabulous! I found out I was 9 weeks, 3 days along and have a due date of May 15th, 2011. A late spring baby! So, even if I am early, or, more likely, late, I most likely will have our little bean in May.
We are very excited about the news. I told my two sisters the news just after the ultrasound, and updated my parents as they are really the only ones we have told yet. I think we're going to try and keep our little secret for another few weeks.
I'm actually feeling better than I was 2 weeks ago. Less nausea and no vomiting, thank goodness. Traveling down to my parents was exhausting, but thankfully I never had the nausea in the plane, which was a fear of mine. The exhaustion is overwhelming though...I can make it through my work day BARELY...with an extra cup of coffee, (I know, I'm weaning myself down....currently at 1 1/2 cups/day....) and crash at 9 to get up at 6 and do it all over again. The night I actually get the 9 hours of sleep my body suddenly craves is rare, thanks to, well, life...sick kids, company, you name it...
But, I know this to shall pass. 10 weeks is around the corner. And my 2nd trimester will be soon to follow!

Feeling the pain...

Or maybe not PAIN per se, but man am I getting my butt kicked. My newly pregnant, super snotted up sicky head, feeling like I suddenly don't have the energy to lift a finger much less care for my crazily energetic kiddo all while continuing to work which normally is an exhausting task in itself.
The nausea this time is intense, or can be. I'll be feeling great one minute and then WHAM, the feeling swoops over me and I quickly try to divert my mind, stay on my feet, and figure out how to quell the monster in my stomach. Is it food? Sometimes. Is it the toilet? Sometimes as well though I've only succumbed twice thus far. Most of the time I just continue doing what I'm doing and pray to the pregnancy gods that yes, this too shall pass. And no cravings though...nothing sounds good though food does often quell the nausea somewhat.
I'm 7-8 weeks along at this time, won't know my dating for sure until that first ultrasound in 2 weeks, and I know I've got a ways to go feeling like crap, to be blunt. I am glad I feel this way in that it helps me know my body is doing what it needs to be doing to create another human life. I've been reviewing a few pregnancy books I have and it is truly SO amazing to think about the organs and organ systems developing inside me at this very moment! For all I know my truly crappy day today could have resulted in my sweet pea #2 having her/his nervous system close, having the fourth chamber of her heart be completed, or by having the 2nd lobe of her liver fully develop! CRAZY!
I'm a bit more worried this time around as well. I have my explanations for this but on a particularly good day last week with only minimal nausea and fatigue I started worrying myself thinking that something had happened, my baby had stopped developing, and this was why I was feeling good all the sudden...
Craziness I know...
Today I made it through a Saturday on call. I made it through a 3 hour OR case, and another case full of stinky pus. I literally gagged in my mask. But I made it. Normally I've got an iron stomach when it comes to these things, but with my pregnant body, suddenly I become vulnerable. Lets hope tomorrow is a bit better.
No one knows yet about our little pea pod #2, though I've come close to telling the surgeon I work with simply out of necessity...you can't have a puking lightheaded assistant and expect good results.
With Forrest my problem was suddenly becoming lightheaded and nearly passing out in the middle of cases, and this didn't happen till the beginning of the 2nd trimester...I'm dreading that one...lots of fluids, lots of sleep...
So for now my secret is safe and my mind tells me to try and roll with the punches for now. I am hopeful I can conceal my lovely secret another few weeks....
wish me luck...:-)
And lets wish for my cold to go away FINALLY. Simply put, snot sucks...