3D ultrasound

Here are a few pics of the most recent ultrasound. She looks like a real baby and we are so excited!

10 Weeks to Go!!!

I am really looking forward to getting this baby out. Only ten more weeks to go and I can hardly wait. I have had some difficulties in the past few weeks, but I guess they only make the adventure more exciting. Three weeks ago I got to check out the hospital I will be going to for delivery and they even let me spend the night. Following in the footsteps of many Armstrongs, I had problems with my gallbladder. Because I was in the third trimester already, they didn't want to do surgery. Lucky me will get to have my gallbladder taken out after the baby is born. At least I will have about a month or so to recover before going in for surgery. Besides that, I am at high risk for preterm labor because of all the pain I am already in. I only have three more weeks of school until Christmas break and then I will be taking maternity leave from then. Each day I make it through, I consider it a success.

We are finally starting to accumulate some baby stuff. We just bought our stroller/car seat online last night and are anxious for it to come in the mail. A friend in the ward has given us some baby clothes that she never used (still have the tags on them) and they are so stinkin' cute.

I am hoping all goes well and that I can fly to Utah for Christmas and my sister's wedding. It will be nice to spend time with family.

Prego Pic

This is 26 weeks!

Week 24

This week we bought a dresser/changing table for Lil' G. We found it on craigslist for only $50 and it came with a changing table pad. I also am trying to make a baby blanket while I am off for Fall break. Here is what it looks like right now. I still have a lot to do, but it should make for a good project. I have decided on pink and brown theme for the baby's room. We won't do much to the room because we are probably moving in June. But that doesn't mean I can't get excited about decorating. One of these days I will get a picture of my prego belly on here. That takes remembering when my hubby is home, which is not that often. In the meantime, I enjoying feeling her move around pretty much all day every day. Feeling her kick is still pretty fun, but I am nervous about when she starts to kick hard. I read online that from here on out, she gains about a half a pound a week. By the end of this week she will be almost 2 pounds and about 12 inches long.

Week 22

I am officially past the half way point. Lil'G has definitely started moving around quite a bit. It is a lot of fun to feel her kick. Curtis can't wait till he can watch her leg go across my tummy. That probably won't be for a while because right now it's hard for others to feel all her movement.

So Em asked her Kindergartners what I should name the baby and they gave some great suggestions such as; beauty, flower, Junie B. Jones, and little chihuahua. I thought it was pretty funny. My visiting teachers suggested I start giving Curtis some terrible ideas, then maybe he will go back to the ones I really like and think that they sound pretty good.

I got to watch the Relief Society broadcast last night. It was so good. We have such an amazing prophet. It was kind of funny because I cried...sorry, bawled... through the entire first song. Curtis was asking me if I was ok and why I was crying. I told him I thought it was because of the beautiful music. Who cries like a baby because of some women singing a song? I don't know what it is about music, but it makes me cry. We had the primary program today and as soon as the kids started singing, I cried. I sure did enjoy the program though today.

Well, bed time for me even though I took two naps today. Take normal Armstrong tired and multiply it by at least 2 (some days 5) and that is my pregnant tired. I think it was this Thursday I got home, took a two hour nap on the love sack and when I woke up, I was too tired to even move my body. I texted Curtis and told him I couldn't bring him dinner because I couldn't move. I felt so bad about not bringing him dinner, that I just laid there and cried. I sure hope this emotional stage goes away once the baby comes or I am doomed.

PS- One of these days I will post a fat picture of me. We haven't taken one for a few weeks now and I seem to grow at a very rapid rate. We will get a new one up soon.

It's A Girl!

3 Lunches!!!

Pregnancy update this week: our baby is now about 3 1/2 inches big and I think she is working on eyebrows and eyelashes this week and finally has a neck. They say I can start feeling it move around any time between now and the next 4 weeks. I am hoping its sooner rather than later. I think that will be the exciting part. Another 3 1/2 to 4 weeks and we will be able to tell if its a girl or boy.
So I think this was on Wednesday but I had a pregnancy attack. That is when my extra hormones take over and do things out of my ordinary normal self. I was walking in to the classroom after recess and all of a sudden a caught a smell of pizza in the oven. It smelled SOOOOOOOOOOOOOo good it was all I could do to not go steal a piece before lunch. It was pretty much all I could think about for the next hour until lunch time. Finally it was lunch and I went outside and asked if there were any extras because I NEEDED a piece of pizza desperatley. About two minutes after I finished my pizza I was ready for round 2. LUckily Em brought lunch that day and I ate a complete serving of beef stroganoff. Along with the stroganoff I ate some fruit. I was still hungry but decided to not over do it. Two hours later I was ready for lunch number 3. I was sitting in the teachers lounge thinking "man, I really NEED some fries and chicken nuggets." Hey, why not. So I drove to McDonalds and ordered fries chicken nuggets and a smoothie (which was supposed to be for Em but I drank most of it before giving it to her). 3 Lunches in one day- not sure what my problem was but I was just so stinkin hungry.

Trimester 2

So I am now 13 weeks and in my second trimester. I don't know how it happened but its like a got fat overnight. Yesterday my pants were a little tight and today I have this pooch. Well, I have always had a pooch, I mean, I am an Armstrong and we do really well with big tummies. But all of a sudden I can't hold it in anymore- it just sticks out. I knew this was going to happen and that its kind of the way pregnancy works, but I am not ready to be fat and have all my clothes not fit.


I had a major pregnancy day yesterday. I don't know what got in to me, but I was complaining up the wazoo. And to top it off, I started having this huge craving for a ham sandwich. I was laying on the love sack saying to Curtis "I really need a ham sandwich". Then it became "Its hot in here, I am tired, Are you ready to go yet? I REALLY NEED A HAM SANDWICH!!!!!" Yeah, it was a little much, incredibly dramatic and over the top. It wasn't my fault though, its the fault of this baby growing inside me.



We went and saw the third Twilight last night. I think it was a moderate form of torture for Curtis. It was just a little to slow for his liking....or rather a LOT too slow. I thought it was ok.



I went to church by myself for the 4th week on a row. I don't like that my hubby has to work so many Sundays. I came home and took a two hour nap. I am so not ready for the summer to be over. Today is it...its history....kiss it goodbye...! My students don't start for a week, but I have meetings all this week including meet the parents on Tuesday. I don't think I am going to be able to hide the fact that I am pregnant. Then again, maybe they will just think I am getting fat :-)

No longer a spec!

This is Lil' G at 10 weeks. She was quite the wiggler during the ultrasound, I couldn't help but laugh. The doctor said its a predictor of what is to come.

Let's try this again!

I orginally started this about 2 years ago thinking I would actually write on it. Obviously that never happened. Now that I am married and pregnant with my first kid, we have had requests to start a blog so that people can follow what is going on with us. My husband has also been encouraging me to journal about the pregnancy so I figure this gets two birds with one stone. We are going to give it a shot...but I make no promises :-)