13 Weeks

I had my first "fun" doctor appointment today. She had to do a full exam, but that went really fast and then came an ultrasound! Yay! Baby was MOVING so much, that we really didn't get great pics, but here are the best two.

Measuring baby from butt to top of head - 7.06cm. Looking at baby's back.

3D pic - the body parts are listed at the height of the actual body part. So go from the word to the left and there is the part. The hand is covering its eyes and forehead, bump of nose right under wrist.

If you were looking very closely at the first picture, you may have noticed that at the top it says 7.7cm and I listed the baby at 7.06. I don't know exactly what the 7.7cm is, but this picture cut off the bottom right of the actual picture which lists the CRL (crown to rump length) as 7.06 cm and GA (gestational age) at 13 weeks 2 days. BUT, she takes the average of three measurements to come up with how far along I am, and it came to 13 weeks and 1 day. Which changes my due date from February 8 to January 27! They first determine your due date from the last time you have your period, but mine didn't like to keep a very good schedule, so that's why I was off by more than a week. Better to think you are behind schedule than to think you are ahead of schedule!

Another thing I learned is that this baby is from my left ovary! Owen was from my right one. They can tell because your ovary grows a cyst on it every time it releases an egg, and the cyst acts like a placenta until the real one grows and takes over.

All in all everything looked good and I go back in another month. The only bummer was that Ryan wasn't able to go with me because of work, but the appointment went great and I'm happy that I'm farther than I thought. Also, seeing the baby makes it more real! The first trimester is always so boring because you don't look pregnant and can't feel any movement. The only signs of pregnancy are bad ones! Nausea, fatigue, lots of peeing (especially at night!), being crabby and OUCHIE boobs!

Owen looked at the pictures of the baby and I think he is a little confused. First he asked if that was him, and then he just kept asking, "Who is that?" Maybe when I start to get a big belly, he'll start to really understand. He keeps saying he wants a baby sister. Last night he told me he thinks there is an Isabel in there (a baby from daycare). So cute. And I hope he's right!!

4th of July

This year, Independence Day fell on a Wednesday. It's very strange to get one day off in the middle of the week. Wednesday night felt like a Sunday night and Thursday felt like a Monday to me. Luckily, they weren't!

A friend of ours had some people over to her house to grill and play games outside, so we went over. It was HOT! So hot that when we were loading up our truck with our grill, I had to go inside twice because I was getting light headed. Luckily, our friend had a baby pool, we brought a beach ball that sprays water, another friend brought a sprinkler and we had a few tarps to put down as a slip n slide! And honestly, I don't know who had more fun on the slip n slide - the adults or Owen. He was the only kid there, but had a BLAST!! But so did all the adults, pretending to be kids again : ) Of course, I was unable to participate in the slip n slide since falling to the ground and sliding on my belly would be very frowned upon right now, but I got to take some pictures and spray everybody with the hose.

Owen's maiden voyage on the Slip n Slide. Had to have Daddy go with him : )

Another time. Daddy goes down much faster! And Owen mostly just ran all the way down and slid the last few feet.

Going solo

He was always last : )

The adults that participated were all very sore the next day (and probably today and will be for awhile!).

We also played bags, beerbee (a frisbee game), grilled burgers and dogs and had some yummy dips. If you like Pickle Rolls and have never had Pickle Roll DIP, here is the recipe. Make it, enjoy it, and thank me later. YUM!

1 (8oz) container sour cream
1 (8oz) block of cream cheese, softened
Ham or corned beef, diced
Dill pickles, diced

I just combined the sour cream and cream cheese and cut up some Oscar Meyer ham into little squares and dill pickles into little chunks and just kept adding until I felt it was a good combo. I also added some of the pickle juice. Make it and refrigerate it for awhile before serving so the flavors settle into it. It's so good. Serve with crackers or chunks of plain bagels. I might just have to make another batch. "Pregnancy craving".

Anyway, there are fireworks in town tonight and tomorrow night, and I told Owen we could go tonight and he's so excited. He loves fireworks and if you ask him, he'll tell you he likes the green ones. : )

Owen Has Something He Wants To Say...

That's right! Owen is going to be a BIG BROTHER! I'm only about 9 weeks right now, so we are looking at an early February baby. Things are going pretty well - some nausea and lots of fatigue, but that's to be expected. I went to the doctor about a week ago, but nothing fun or exciting to share yet. Hopefully at my next appointment (July 23) they will do an ultrasound.

Owen changes his mind just about every time that you ask him if he wants a girl or boy baby, and I do too! A boy would be nice because we already have the clothes and toys, but a girl would round out the "perfect" little family! So I guess we will just pray for HEALTHY!! (I'm still really anxious to find out, so I know if I can get rid of all Owen's old clothes or not!)

As for an update on Owen: we made it about a week and a half in the big boy bed before deciding it wasn't worth the nightly fight. He did GREAT for about a 5 or 6 nights, and then for whatever reason decided that he wanted to sleep with us. NO, THANK YOU! I finally asked him if he wanted his crib back and he told me yes, so we put the side back on and he said, "Thank you, Mommy!" and went right to sleep. Must have been a security thing. But now that we have Baby Burke #2 on the way, I'm getting nervous about how the switch is going to go the next time around. We are going to have to get a whole new bed, since we will use the crib for #2. 


Otherwise, Owen has been learning so much and LOVES to be outside, to camp, to swim, to play cars and everything else a little boy would like to do! He talks up a storm, is awesome at counting (and the ABC's, but he's been good at that for awhile now), and loves to sing and dance. His favorite song is DJ Has Us Falling in Love by Usher. He just can't help but dance to it! :) He also really likes Rumor Has It by Adele. He's a silly little punkin.


His daycare took a little fieldtrip to Hansen's Dairy Farm in Hudson last Friday and he had so much fun. He got to pet baby calves, milk a fake cow, and feed grass and flowers to a wallaby! (Wallabies are like kangaroos, only smaller.) Johnna said he thought the wallabies were big rabbits! He's been talking about the cows and wallabies ever since the trip. I just wish I could've gone, too! It's so fun and funny to see how excited he gets. The same goes for going to the pool in town. Ryan said he was going to tell me that I should take Owen to the pool after work one day when he had a meeting, but he didn't because he wanted to go, too, because he loves how excited Owen gets and how much fun he has. What a sweet Daddy!


And last, but not least, Owen finally sat still long enough for me to cut his hair. It was getting pretty long, but I bribed him with a brownie last night. You can see in the video that it's cut, but here's a cute picture, too!