Was that the baby?!?!?!?!?! Part 2

Well I have been feeling baby pretty much everyday several times a day for a week or so now. But on Thursday I was watching TV and my arm was laying across my belly and when Mackenzie kicked I was just about positive that she kicked hard enough to feel it on my arm not just from the inside! I was super excited because that meant that Trent might get to feel her kicking soon! So I texted him (he was at the station) and told him and he said "Yes!!" lol as you can tell he has been wanting to feel her since I have said that I can feel her. So that night when he came to bed he laid his hand on my stomach and he says either I flinched when he put his hand on my stomach or she kicked him or it could've been my heartbeat because something moved his hand as soon as he touched my stomach! Of course he doubted it was the baby because what are the chances she kicked the exact moment he put his hand on my belly! So since then he has been telling Mac that she needs to kick him and he even would try smushing around on my belly (trying to make her mad I guess) so that she would move and he could feel it. Well no such luck!

Then yesterday we went to dinner with mom, dad, Dianna, and kyle and had a great time hanging out and mom returned a book that I got for Christmas that I have been waiting to read! So when we got in be he grabbed the iPad and I grabbed my book. Well I hadn't been laying in bed long when she kicked pretty hard so I moved over close to Trent so we could still relax and his hand could just rest on my belly. Well at first Trent was like pressing on my stomach and I was like "you don't have to push her she will kick in a couple of minutes" well because he was pushing he started feeling my heartbeat and then couldn't decide if he could feel her and since I was reading my book I wasn't paying enough attention to whether it was my heartbeat or her kicking around. Well he finally stopped pushing and she kicked a little but it wasn't hard and so I moved his hand a little to where she kicked and not 2 minutes later she kicked nice and hard and he got to feel it! He said "WAS THAT HER!???" and I said "Yep that was baby Mac!" and he was so excited!

Of course after he felt her he concentrated on his youtube videos and I went back to my book! But it is exciting that he has finally gotten to feel her!

So now we are at 21 weeks and just enjoying the second trimester! I can't believe that we are more than half of the way there! :) Ps... I am totally going to end up one of those ladies with the huge popped out belly buttons! I am not excited about that!

Its a......

GIRL!!!!!

Yes we are having a Mackenzie Marie Tobola! and we couldn't be more excited!!!

We had our appointment set up for Thursday at 3 pm, but the doctor called me right before 10 and said they were going to cancel all of their afternoon appointments because the weather was going to get bad! So I was scrambling to find a way to get in earlier because I didn't want to wait any longer to find out! So I got one of my teachers to cover the first part of my 2nd period class and I would leave right after 1st and be gone during lunch. Well as it turns out NOTHING happened with the weather so I would've been able to go at 3! But that's okay it all worked out and we got to see our beautiful baby girl!

We actually didn't have to wait long once we got to the doctors office and the sono tech started looking at baby and she was just precious! When we first got to see her it looked like she was trying to take a nap! She had one arm across her body with the hand under her cheek like she was using it as a pillow. It was so cute! We got to see her amazing heart pumping blood and you wouldn't imagine something so small doing all of that! Then the sono tech let us know that its definitely a little Mackenzie in there with no ding dong! and while she was taking pictures of that she stretched out all the way and her legs looked so long! (which they are almost 4 inches long at this point!) The sono tech took a picture because they kind of looked like frog legs! haha She is already becoming a horned frog! So after doing lots of measurements and such the sono tech left and said Dr. Papa would be with us soon.

So Dr. Papa comes in and uses three words more frequently than any others "perfect" "gorgeous" and "great"! Well of course she would! Its our adorable baby she is talking about! haha However most of them were more like "The heart is beating great" "The kidneys are the perfect size" "Her body is growing just gorgeously" haha so it was all medically speaking but hey I know Mackenzie will be perfect, gorgeous, and great in just 20 short weeks!

Dr. Papa also tried to get a 3D picture while we were at it but Mackenzie was being shy and pushing her face into the placenta so there wasn't enough amniotic fluid around her face to get a good picture, but of what we got to see... she is ADORABLE!!! and "her lips and chin are perfect! No cleft lip" as Dr. Papa said! All we could see with the 3D was her chin and lips and at one point I kind of poked at her and said "Mackenzie move around so Mommy and Daddy can see you... " and she SMILED! No joke smiled... and boy was it already a mischievous smile! (She will have her Daddy wrapped around her finger in no time!) It really looked like "No Mommy, I am not going anywhere you will just have to wait to see me!" kind of smile! It was precious!

So now we just get to wait around and let her grow and bake some more for 20 weeks or so and meet her!

We are officially half way through the pregnancy and man oh man am I getting fat! haha but according to my pregnancy apps I am supposed to have gained 12 pounds by now and according to the doctors scale I have gained 5 so I am obviously not too fat! Don't worry I will keep stuffing my face every chance I get!!! :)

Dr. Papa said Mackenzie is about 6 inches crown to rump and about 10 inches from crown to toes! And she is weighing in at about 11 ounces! So according to my apps she is half an inch short for her "age" and half an ounce heavy! Sounds like she is definitely my child! Short and fat ; )

As some of you may know I had a friend at work who's wife gave birth to their little girl 15 weeks premature. Mom is doing well and baby is progressing, but they have had several scares in the short week she has been here. So while "I can't wait to meet our little girl".... I can definitely wait until she is big enough and developed enough to be healthy when she gets here. So while I am definitely counting down the 140 days left till her due date I will also be telling her to sit tight until its really time for her to be here!

Last but definitely not least.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DIANNA AND SANDY!!!!

Was that the baby?!?!?!?

So I meant to post this last night, but I wasn't feel good all afternoon and then I watched Vampire Diaries.... hehe :)

So we will pretend it is last night!

For starters...... HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDI! :)
For seconders..... ONE WEEK till we find out for sure if its a GIRL or a BOY!
Woo hoo!!!!

So I finally remembered what I forgot to put in the last post... I told y'all a while back about a blood test called CSV that tests for the cold virus since I work with kids. I wanted this test to come back positive, because if I were to get a cold the baby could contract it and that would be no bueno... well the test results came back POSITIVE! :) meaning I already have the antibodies for it so the baby shouldn't be affected even if I do catch a cold!

On to the even more exciting news..... I HAVE FINALLY FELT BABY MOVE!!!!
This started Tuesday night. Trent went for a run and I went to bed. Well when he got home and took a shower and everything I was already sleeping, so when he got into bed it woke me up. When I snuggled in to fall back asleep I am "almost positive" that I felt the baby stretch out too and felt like a rub type feeling on my left side of my belly (which was pressed against the bed so nothing else could have rubbed my stomach) So of course this woke me all the way up! and I told Trent and he wasn't sure about it and so then I started to second guess myself. Well I started trying to be more conscious of what my belly was doing and I have felt several flutters in my belly since then!

I have been waiting to finally feel the baby move and so I am super excited about it! And remember just a week until we find out for sure if baby is a BOY OR GIRL! :)

Almost 18 weeks!

Okay Okay Okay! I know it has been literally a month since my last post... and don't worry I have heard plenty of "why haven't you updated" "when are you going to update" and so on from my family haha

So we will start back from around my last post.

I think the last time I posted we were just starting the second trimester with baby and we had an appointment to see if baby had a chance of down syndrome and everything came back good :)

So now it is 4 weeks later and we are now 9/20ths through the pregnancy :)

Since then we have had Christmas and new years and plenty of family time! We had so many Christmases with family.... Sylvester Christmas, Tobola Christmas, granny Tobola Christmas, Johnson Christmas, and granny Johnson Christmas! However it was tons of fun being with everyone and getting comments on my growing belly! I know I'm not that big, but because I didn't have all of the "normal" pregnancy symptoms it kind of seems surreal that I am really growing a human in there!

So although it was exciting getting all of my presents for Christmas, I think it was just as exciting getting present for baby! For starters Mary and Rusty got baby a TCU beanie! so cute! Aunt Carla and her family got us a "gender neutral" onsie! baby is going to need lots of clothes :). Then at Tobola Christmas we received several outfits, TCU sockies, and cute stuffed animal! Angela got baby some squishy blocks, Dianna got baby a cute outfit, Granny made a pretty purple blanket that we will probably use in baby's room, and mom and dad got us seat protectors for the car! and cute onsies! so baby got plenty of fun presents and it technically wasn't her first Christmas! haha

Our next exciting news is that between Christmas and New Years Trent and I put a bid on a house in White Settlement... and they accepted the bid!!! We are super excited that they took our first offer and even more excited that we will be paying our own mortgage and not someone elses!! :) We won't close until February, but I am already starting to imagine how the house will look once we move in!

Then we had new years and yet again I didn't make it to midnight! but Trent woke me up for a kiss! and surprisingly.... this was mine and Trent's first midnight kiss in the 4 years we have been together! He has always had to work new years eve! Then to truly start 2011 on the right foot... TCU WON THE ROSE BOWL!!! :) GO FROGS!!! its true.. I bleed Purple!

As much as I wish the break could have continued (it was nice on the days when neither Trent or I had to work and we could just relax at home and get things done around the house!) but, I did have to go back to work... baby is going to need diapers so mommy needs to get paid! Luckily this week hasn't been too bad and my kids aren't going completely crazy even with all of the time off.

Today we had our 18 week check up with baby! Dr. Wagner came in and said she was glad I have finally gained some weight! According to their scale I have gained 4 pounds, however I was wearing my coat and my purse.... so I think I probably only gained 1 or 2 pounds haha. Which I am not bothered by because that means that baby is growing! She then got the doppler out so we could listen to baby's heart beat. However baby kind of wanted to scare mommy and hide at the back of her uterus. Dr. Wagner wasn't worried because we could still hear baby moving around kicking and punching and summer-saulting (so she must be alive)... but after a couple of minutes baby decided to come inspect what the crazy fuzzy noise outside of mommy's tummy was and got close enough for us to hear! Heartbeat in the high 130s- low 140s. So baby is doing fine! Whew! Please don't scare mommy anymore with hiding from the doppler... (I know I can't just say please don't scare mommy because I am sure I will have many a day of baby scaring me... jumping off chairs, flipping on couches, climbing on counters... especially since I did all of those things!)

So now we are just counting down the 2 weeks till the anatomy appointment!!! :) We go back on January 20th to find out if we will be welcoming Mackenzie Marie or Tracen Anthony on June 11th! Can't wait to go register and start picking everything out for decorating the nursery!!!

Here are the two latest pictures! It looks like I am really pregnant!!! :)

Until next time!

(I will try to be better I promise!)

2nd Trimester Here We Come!!!

Here I am at 13.5 weeks!! That means we are officially in the second trimester!!! We are super excited that that means we are 1/3 of the way there!!!
I had an "easy" first trimester compared to most women. So I can only hope that the next 6 months are as great as the first few!
The main thing that has happened since my last post is that I am an emotional basket case!!! I cry all the time!!! And for silly things! For example... Folgers commercial! The sad one where the guy comes home from the military for Christmas and he gives his little sister a present and she pulls the bow of and sticks it on him and says "you are the best present I could get" I just boo hooed! Trent thinks it is so silly and kind of funny!






Trent and I also made the decision that we would like to have early screening for down syndrome. We knew that it wouldn't matter whether the baby had down syndrome or not we were going to keep the baby, but we want to be prepared in any case. So Dr. Wagner recommended a specialist in her building to do the sonogram to measure the skin at the back of the neck. Well that appointment was today!!! We got several great pictures of Pebble!!


Here are two full picture of Pebble! The first one you can see the nose and mouth in profile! and the little foot! Then in the second one Pebble has her hand up by her forehead! Luckily Dr. Papa came in and confirmed that we have a very happy and healthy baby! She said that Pebble was very cooperative and was always in the right position for each picture that needed to be taken! The normal range for the skin at the back of the neck is anything below 3 mm, well Pebble's is about 1.5 mm so she says we are looking good for no Down Syndrome, but that we will do all of the different blood work and more sonos as the pregnancy progresses. She kind of had me worried for a couple of second when she said "Most people don't think they need this test if they are younger than 35 because the percentage goes up when you are over the age of 35. However more women below 35 give birth to a Downs baby than those over 35 each year, simply because most women having babies are younger than 35" So this made me think oh shit she is glad we had the test because Pebble has Downs! but then she said but everything looks good for you! haha THANKFULLY!

You can't see this one very well but that is baby's adorable little hand!!! In the print offs you can see the little bitty knuckles and finger definition! I counted... just 5 fingers! :) Also a little while after this picture she opened up her and and actually waved at us! It was so amazing to watch! I couldn't stop smiling!!!

These are Pebble's little feetsies!!! We can already tell that they are going to have daddy's feet! The big toe already looks too big! haha If anyone has seen Trent's feet you know he has a massive big toe!


We also got to hear the heartbeat (153) trent says that is normal or good or whatever :) It was so amazing hearing that little bitty 3 inch long baby's heart beat so fast!

We are just 13.5 weeks along, but you know I couldn't resist asking... Can we see if it is a girl or a boy yet??? The sono tech said "I have no problem looking, but I won't confirm or deny any suspicions from you two, because I don't want you to come back upset that we were wrong next time!" So she moved over to the butt area and this is what we saw....

The little white dot is the sono cursor pointing at the whoha.... All the sono tech said was... "Well it sure doesn't look like there is anything there!"

So she went ahead and typed girl up in the corner of the picture! So we are tentatively having a baby girl!!! :)

We will find out for sure in about 6 weeks but now I can't help but calling Pebble a her!

12 weeks and counting!

Hello Hello! I haven't posted in a while it seems so we have a bit to catch up on!

I guess I should start by showing my baby bump! Yes you can already see my baby bump! Trent tries to make me feel better and tell me that its because I was already so skinny that I had to start showing early haha he is the sweetest :) but I think it may be because I eat anything and everything around me ALL the time!

I have started to crave sour... for example lemons... At both Tobola Thanksgivings they had sliced lemons for the tea. Well I didn't drink any tea but I ate just about a whole lemon at each place! They were so delicious, but my lips were a little chapped after the fact, but way worth it! I am also definitely craving salty still and for the most part sweet just doesn't sound good at all. Mom made really tasty brownies "for Annelise's birthday" and I had one bite and decided meh not really worth it... I would rather have potato chips! Mom and Granny were laughing at me on Friday because I was eating potato chips and pickles together! I used to do this when I was younger and it is still yummy! So far that's how my cravings are going so far!

We also finally got to tell the Tobola side of the family on Thanksgiving Day with this cute shirt! Right after Trent and I found out we were pregnant he knew this was how he wanted to tell his family! So we found this shirt online and ordered it. Sadly, Trent had to work on Thanksgiving so he didn't get to tell his family, so we let his dad tell everyone after prayer and I lifted up my sweater to reveal this shirt underneath. The shirt ended up being too big but Sandy helped me pin it back and it makes me excited to be able to wear it when "I have a beach ball" as Trent says.

We also set up our very first Christmas tree together! I don't know if you can tell or not but we have Red, Black, and Silver ornaments on the tree. Trent didn't really want to set up the tree since nobody will see it but he ended up being really helpful! I am not a very good fluffer and he helped fluff the tree! Then he put the hooks on the ornaments while I put them on the tree. It was a great system! And for our first time I think it looks pretty good!

Well our next doctors appointment is just around the corner December 10th! And then it will be Christmas already! I will try to post again soon :) Just 28 weeks to go!

10 weeks and going strong!

We are 10 weeks along!!!

Here is my baby bump... I think I look bigger in this photo than in real life! but oh well!!

As I said in my past blog I want salty and spicy! Well I bought Flamming Hot Cheetos and that was a bad idea... I ate the whole bag in two sittings and Trent was very disappointed that he didn't get any! Haha I told him "Too bad.... I'm building a human here!"

Therefore... this is my new excuse for everything! :)

Also I have been going to bed before 9 pm everyday this week which Trent doesn't like very much. Monday (i blame on the time change) I went to bed before 8 o'clock! Well I woke up several times with the TV being so loud. One time Trent was laying next to me, the next he was walking out the bedroom door, and another time I couldn't find him but I heard crinkling and was super confused! (turns out he was eating oreos and milk on the floor because he didn't want crumbs in the bed, so sweet) and then I woke up again when he finally turned off the TV. Then the next couple of nights he was up late studying and I was dead to the world and he would come in and wake me up and say its too early to go to bed! lol It was about 9 o'clock :) Oh well I am enjoying all of this extra sleep... and I need it... I AM BUILDING A BABY HERE!!!

Well I officially joined the pregnancy club this week! Tuesday morning I woke up at 7:20 (my normal time for Tuesdays) and started getting ready but noticed I was feeling a little more nauseous than normal but kind of pushed it off. Well then I went to brush my teeth... and oops not a good idea! I started gagging! and ended up throwing up some stomach acid but because I hadn't eaten anything it didn't last long at all (maybe a minute) and I was good. So I rebrushed my teeth and headed to school. I think this was again because of the time change! Usually I am at school by 8 so I eat when I get to school and since it was already "8:30" with the time change my stomach really wanted to eat! Oh well it hasn't happened again so that's good!

Today was our first SONOGRAM!!! :)

Here is Pebble's first photo!

According to measurements Pebble is 9 weeks and 4 days which is right on par for our June 11th due date!

First the doctor told us about the fact that I have a negative blood type so I may have to get some extra shots later in the pregnancy and after the baby is born to make sure my body doesn't build up antibodies against my future babies! But she said since we aren't stuck in the 50's its no big deal these days!

Then she asked if I wanted to get a blood test to check for "CSV" which is actually just the Cold Virus. So we actually want a positive on this blood test because that way my body already has the antibodies for it. If it comes back "neutral or negative" we will have to keep a closer watch since I work around kids if I get sick. It could be super harmful if Pebble catches CSV! so let's hope I test positive!

Then she revealed all of my previous blood test results for all of the possible genetic traits I could pass to my baby that may cause birth defects. Luckily, I have very low risk for any of these traits! So we are in the clear so far! Yay!

Then of course we had the sonogram!!!! and it was so AMAZING!!! Pebble's head is definitely bigger than his body! but while we were watching he started kicking around and waving his arms around!!! it was the coolest thing getting to see how active Pebble already is!! (Trent then felt the need to call his sister and tell her that our baby could beat up her baby since ours is such a fighter! haha)

Our next appointment is December 10th for our 14 week appointment!