IT'S A....

GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucy's going to have a little SISTER in November!

My doctor appt to find out the gender was my 3rd appt. It was on June 4th and I was 16 weeks pregnant. We were really fortunate to have a doctor that does a gender test at 16 weeks, instead of the typical 20 week appt. I had previously had dreams that it was a girl but I wasn't trusting them because I just felt like it was too good to be true. I have ALWAYS wanted a daughter but I knew Drew had always wanted a son. We would have been happy with anything as long as it was healthy.

One dream in particular that I had was a "gender revealing" party at our house. In the dream the way we announced to our guests that it was a girl was I had tied a pink bow around Lucy's neck and let her run out into the crowd at our house. So I knew it was the perfect thing to do to announce our wonderful news of our expecting DAUGHTER!

This appt was *extra* special because Drew had not been able to come to the other two appts. Since we had decided to find out the sex that day, he HAD to come! After the routine part of the appt of weight, blood pressure, taking more blood for the rest of the genetic testing, hearing the heartbeat again (which was again very high... 163), it was FINALLY time to go to the ultrasound room. Drew and I were on pins and needles with excitment! I laid down on the table and the technician asked me what I thought the baby was. I told her I had dreamed it was a girl. She asked Drew and he just said he wanted the baby to be healthy and didn't have a preference. After looking at the baby move for awhile on the screen she says, "Well... you're dreams are coming true... It's a GIRL!"

I started crying right away and Drew just squeezed my hand. I couldn't believe it. Right then and there we decided we were going with the name we had chosen if it was a girl. We can't wait to meet Charlotte Grace Dueitt this coming November.

16 Weeks... It's a GIRL!

First Trimester... Nausea, Burps, Exhaustion..OH MY!

My first trimester was completely by the books. I was extremely nauseated ALL THE TIME! I would wake up and feel sick to my stomach. No food sounded appetizing and not to mention I kept burping these awful manly burps. What in the world was going on with my body??

I also was extremely tired all the time. Since this was the end of March/beginning of April, I was trying to wrap up the end of the year with my first graders. There were times when I would just lay my head down and my kids would ask me, "Mrs. Dueitt, did you not get a good night's sleep last night?" It was really cute. I didn't want to tell them yet because it was still very early. It wasn't until the beginning of May when I started showing a small bump that one of my student's asked me, "Are you having a baby????" I figured I couldn't hide it from them anymore. After telling them, literally every day they'd say things like, "Oh you're eating grapes as a snack... now you're baby is eating grapes!" They also had a running competition to see who could guess what it was, boy or girl. I wasn't finding out until summer so I kept telling them, "you'll find out soon when school starts in August...."

Because of my nausea and not wanting to eat ANYTHING but fruit, fruit & more fruit... cheeze-it's, pickles and drink anything citrus like orange juice, I lost almost 8 pounds. I was getting a little worried by my doctor reassure me everything was just perfect.

I had my second doctor's appt at the end of April. Because I had decided to do genetic testing and rule out any kind of worry, I was able to get another sonogram! We still didn't know what our little sweet pea was yet but it was amazing to get to see the baby again.

On May 3rd, we decided to tell the world (including FB world), that we were expecting a little miracle. We posted the picture above with, "Every good and perfect gift is from above"-James 1:17

Drew and I are blessed to announce this Thanksgiving we will be expecting our first little sweet pea!"

I finished up the school year the last week of June and was so happy to finally be reaching the 2nd trimester point. I was ready to be done with all of the sickness (it has mostly tapered off). I also was anticipating the date of June 4th when we would find out if sweet pea was a BOY or GIRL???



We're PREGNANT!

I wanted to document my pregnancy as much as possible on our blog but time has just slipped away. Let's go back a few months so I can share with you our wonderful EXPANDING news :)

On March 24 (Lucy's 3rd Birthday) I was at home and I had a feeling that morning that I could POSSIBLY be pregnant. I had taken pregnancy tests before and they had come out negative, but I decided to take one anyway because of this gut feeling I had AND... it was POSITIVE! I took 4 more later that day just to be sure. :)

Drew and I had been planning to try soon for a baby and this was definitely earlier than we had expected but nonetheless, we were THRILLED to be expecting our first little sweet pea in November.

I told my parents right away but we wanted to wait to tell anyone else until I had gone to the doctor for the confirmation. Since this was a Saturday I had to wait until Monday to call my doctor. It was the LONGEST weekend of my life. After going to the doctor on Wednesday of that week and we had the confirmation that we were definitly having a baby, I was already 6 weeks pregnant!

I made a copy of the sonogram. Drew and I wanted to surprise his parents (since this was their FIRST grandbaby). I put the copy of the sonogram in a cute little picture frame that had baby booties on the bottom and wrapped it up. We drove to Corpus that Friday after work and as soon as we arrived I told them we had a present for them and it was from Lucy. After opening the bag, they were completely surprised and filled with excitement! They even made the comment, "Lucy's going to be a big sister!" We soon after called Drew's sister, Codi, and my sister's, Amy & Katherine to spread the news. We were waiting to tell all of our friends though until my second doctor appt 4 weeks later just to be on the safe side.

Our sweet little miracle... due November 18, 2012

Welcome to our NEW and improved blog! Since we are starting a new chapter in our life, I decided to start a fresh blog to document all of the exciting moments since we've started to expand our family. Stay tuned for updates on Sweet Pea :) More to come SOON!

XOXO,

Rebecca