Two Pink Lines!

I know this is very over due, but, for a few months I have not been able to open my mouth except to a select few!!  As almost everyone knows by now: Matt and I are expecting our first Baby Kelly!! To say we are thrilled is a gross understatement!

So how did we find out?

Well, Matt left on a Tuesday morning to deploy. I remember him saying that the perfect send-off gift would be for us to test positive on a pregnancy test.  I took a couple and they kept coming back negative (which, honestly, every time you get one line and you've been trying...it's disappointing).  I took another on Wednesday and, possibly, again on Thursday...you know..just in case! Negative. Negative.  Friday came around and I hauled booty around the outside of the house gathering all the stuff outside to put away for Typhoon Bolavan.

Saturday: I wake up, the storm is brewing, and I make a cup of coffee (and play with the new laptop). Come 1pm-ish I go upstairs to use the bathroom. Apparently I like to pee on sticks when I'm bored and going through a typhoon alone because I saw the very last test sitting under the sink. I thought, "well, Matt won't be home for months and this won't be put to use for a while, so might as well use it!".  Every time I took the test I stare really hard, because they say even the faintest of lines means it's positive. I really thought it was just another wasted one. Then I look down again and what do I see? The faintest of pink line #2! I swear my heart stopped, my body went numb, I smiled and said aloud, "holy shit. oh-my-God...oh-my-God..holy shit..oh-my-God" while pacing around not knowing what to do next! I look in the mirror and think to myself, "you're pregnant! You are no longer Lauren, Matt's wife. You're now in charge of a teeny tiny of cells forming into a cutie little baby that will change your life forever: you're a mommy."   I try Face Timing my bff, who obviously was in bed and didn't get my messages, so I Face Time my older Sissy. I was in shock! All of a sudden I just start crying! Haha. It was great to unload the huge news and have someone to laugh and cry about it with. Then, out of the blue, Matt calls literally 5 minutes into the call and my clever savvy planned way of telling him went out the window. I just cried. He freaked out, got in him concerned Marine husband tone asking who did what..then I told him. Silence. Then a laugh. I think he was more in shock than I was! I can't even remember the rest of the conversation..it's all really just a blur!

The upcoming weeks were still very surreal. Is there really a baby in there? They won't give me an ultrasound until I'm at 11 weeks so waiting until then was torture. How do I know if it "stuck"? How do I know if it's developing? My two weeks of morning sickness were the only proof my body was changing. Well, that and my boobs really hurt.  For the most part, I just felt nausea and didn't actually get sick sick. It's awful going through that and not having my husband here to baby me. The last thing I want to do it get in the car, with all that motion, and go to the store to get the only foods that appealed to me: popsicles and applesauce.

Yes, they spelled our name wrong..so now we call it Baby Jelly Belly 

Finally, week 11 came about and I got my first ultrasound!! My friend, Lex, came with me so I wasn't alone and she took a few pictures of me going through the appointment!  They caught me a little off guard bc this exam was not the wand and jelly rubbing over the belly, it was a wand that was inserted internally and pushed way up to the uterus. Talk about uncomfortable. The baby kept wiggling around so the nurse had to keep adjusting the wand, rotating this way and that, pushing further up. I did not like that!!   The first view I saw of Baby Kelly was of it kicking it's legs so fast and then "swimming" away out of the picture! The nurse jokingly asked me if I had coffee right before the appointment haha! We finally were able to get a good shot of the little one and measure the heartbeat, which was fast and strong, going at 150ish. Oh, and baby is due May 4, 2013! (or that would by May 3 back in the states).
After week 8 or so my nausea went away so I've been feeling great and like an actual human!! Of course, I have the symptom of being tired a lot, but I push through it. These days the dizzy spells are kicking in. I am also starting to show! Some days more than others..and that's thanks to gas and some bloating, thanks to those hormones a'soarin'!

I am now 14w 2d and all I can think about is my husband coming home to us and being able to share at least some of the experiences with me :)  The countdown is so close!!