My last update at the beginning of January was that we were sick but still feeling fantastic from our new diet.  Feeling better now, thank goodness, but still kind of congested.

Have I ever told you the story of our Baby’s first Christmas stocking?

Jeremy and I met the very beginning of January 2008.  By the time Christmas rolled around we were pretty serious.  We decorated together and also bought some decorations together.  We went to Hobby Lobby, if you don’t have one I’m really sorry, to buy some stockings for each other.  We picked out some really cute red and white velvet stockings with sequined  snowflakes, our stockings were inverse colors of each other so we knew which one was which.  I had the mostly white one and he had the mostly red one.  We hung our stockings and filled them.  We were just finishing opening up our stockings, getting ready to move on to the boxes.  Jeremy says, ‘There’s one more thing in here.’  I’m thinking….ummm….no?  That’s it, what else is still in there?  He pulls out this little pink stocking and just stares at it.  I look at it and my mouth just opens.  I know I didn’t put it in there, but what a great ‘I’m pregnant!’ moment?  Of course I wasn’t and Jeremy did not get that at all, thank goodness.  He says ‘Where did this come from?” For some reason someone must have stuck it in the stocking we bought and we stole it on accident.  We took it back to Hobby Lobby after the new year but they didn’t want to fool with it, they said to just keep it, odd… I know!  So we carted it back home, stuck it back in Jeremy’s stocking a left it there.  Every year we pull it out and giggle about our first Christmas together.

I made a mental note to use that stocking whenever I had to announce to Jeremy I was pregnant.  I mentioned earlier that we started trying to conceive in the beginning of November.  When we pulled all of our stuff out of the attic I very stealthily rummaged around in the stuff, while still in the attic, grabbed the stocking out of it’s storage place, aka Jeremy’s stocking, and stuffed in my coat pocket for safe keeping until I could officially use it.

Well, I finally got to use it!

Yes that is a Star Trek onesie.  Jeremy saw it on Think Geek and said it was a ‘must have’ for baby.  I folded the onesie  and stuck it and the pee stick, in a plastic bag of course, and jammed it in the tiny stocking, that was a chore.  I’m not sure why I tested that Tuesday night, but I’m glad I did.  I waited patiently outside of the bathroom door, yes I went there, for Jeremy.  He came out and I was sitting on the bed with a Christmas bag.  I said that it was a late Christmas present that was just now ready.  He was terribly confused, but he opened the bag like a good husband….and was still slightly confused.  He pulled the onesie out and looked at it and said ‘What does this mean?” “I’m PREGNANT!”  I used an internet cheapie and a digital.  The digital wasn’t sensitive enough to pick up my HCG level.  I said I needed to run to Wal-Mart to pick up some more tests.  I’m a scientist, I completely understand how these types of enzyme tests work but there was a bad batch of the cheapies that I bought and while mine wasn’t that batch I couldn’t chance it.  We did however buy 2 different  test types, 5 in total.  I still had 4 more cheapies left and I took 8 tests over the next 3 days…that one I have no excuse for.

To tell our families we wrapped this onesie and told them all it was a late Christmas gift that had just came in:

We were walking through Bally’s in Vegas and decided to stop in a little baby shop and inside was this onesie.  I went straight to it.  Jeremy decided that it was our month and we should get it.  I couldn’t help but agree so we bought it hopefully.  As luck would have it, it WAS our month!  Everyone absolutely loved the onesie, vulgar as it may have been.

We decided to document our journey with a white board and super lose black shirt.

I look a lot bigger in the 6 week picture, it’s late, I’m tired and can’t suck it in!

I’ve also decided to keep a running log of all the fun things of pregnancy:

Maternity clothes? I’ve bought 2 sweaters and 2 henleys.  I’m kind of in need of some pants, but I’m going to hold off.  My rubber band and DIY bellyband are doing the trick on the pants so far.
Stretch marks? none
Sleep: Sleeping well for now.  Every once in a while I wake up at 4:30 and can’t go back to sleep, that sucks
Best moment this week: The morning sickness!  I’m ridiculous for wishing it upon myself, but it makes me feel a little better
Miss Anything? Nothing yet
Movement: Too early yet, unless you consider stretch pains movement, hehe
Food cravings: I’m craving everything, but it’s because I’ve cut out white sugar and white grains
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope, just being awake some days
Sex Prediction: Girl
Labor Signs: Not even close
Symptoms: Nausea and headaches
Belly Button in or out? in
Wedding rings on or off? on
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to: our first appointment on Feb 6!

I’ll leave you with our first family picture:

Oh yea, this obviously isn’t facebook official, so if I know you in real life (I really don’t think I do) please be discreet!  Thank you!