22 Weeks

22 Weeks Now

22 Weeks With Meyers

How Far Along: 22 weeks

Size of baby: size of a spaghetti squash, 11 inches long from head to heel, and weighs 1 pound.

Maternity Clothes: I don't think I wore anything (except maybe a stretchy skirt) that wasn't maternity this week.

Gender: We'll find out in January!

Movement: Yes!!! All the time and very low! John was actually able to feel the baby move this week, so that was neat!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom at least once. Even though I am so tired each night, I've had trouble falling asleep some. That's frustrating! A couple of times this week I've woken up around 3:00 am or so and not been able to go to sleep!

What I Miss: I know this sounds completely shallow, but I miss my thin face. I'm not being conceited. I would NEVER typically say that I have a thin face, but compared to my pregnant face....my non-pregnant face is quite thin:) I was looking back at some pictures and realized that my face is so round right now. I just get pregnant all over.....my face, my arms, my legs.

Cravings: I can say (for the first time in a while) that nothing particularly sounded good this week. I didn't "HAVE" to have anything.

Symptoms: I am still having CRAZY dreams!! My sciatic nerve has kind of been hurting off and on, which is better than it did with Meyers. When it started with her, it hurt for about 4 weeks straight!

Best Moment This Week: I am still just loving feeling this baby move!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

We went to the zoo with some friends today. Meyers was the "big kid" there, so she enjoyed being around baby Amelia and baby Keylee. She talked about them all the way home! We grabbed some lunch after the zoo and both took naps when we got home.

Meyers wore one of my favorite shirts from the summer, this peasant top from Blessed Be the Name. I actually bought it from a friend, but I will be getting Meyers another one next spring. I made her pants. The material is so fun and she looked so cute in them today:)

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Tornado Warning Sunday

Geez!!! I thought we were done with tornadoes until the spring. Ugghh!! They are so scary! I really, really want a shelter in our garage floor!

Meyers spent the afternoon at Mimi and Poppy's house this afternoon with her cousins. We were going to leave to go to Gran and Pop's house for dinner, but we had to wait it out at my parents' and put the cousins in the bathtub!

I know these pictures are blurry. My phone takes terrible pictures:(

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21 Weeks

21 weeks now

21 weeks with Meyers

How Far Along: 21 weeks

Size of baby: size of a carrot, 10.5 inches long from head to heel, and weighs 3/4 of a pound.

Maternity Clothes: I don't think I wore anything (except maybe a stretchy skirt) that wasn't maternity this week.

Gender: We'll find out in January!

Movement: Yes!!! All the time and very low!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom at least once. Even though I am so tired each night, I've had trouble falling asleep some. That's frustrating!

What I Miss: I know this sounds completely shallow, but I miss my thin face. I'm not being conceited. I would NEVER typically say that I have a thin face, but compared to my pregnant face....my non-pregnant face is quite thin:) I was looking back at some pictures and realized that my face is so round right now. I just get pregnant all over.....my face, my arms, my legs.

Cravings: I bought MORE Keebler Samoa cookies this week. Yum! I also bought some Nerds today. What can I say? I love kid candy!

Symptoms: I am still having CRAZY dreams!! My sciatic nerve started hurting yesterday. It didn't start with Meyers until I was about 30 weeks. But it didn't not hurt today, so maybe it won't start hurting quite yet.

Best Moment This Week: I am still just loving feeling this baby move!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

We had a busy day today. It was MOPS day, so we were there all morning. After that, we came home and ate a late lunch.

We had friends over for dinner tonight, so I spent the afternoon making a dessert that looked pretty easy, but ended up being difficult for me. I need to stick to crafting and sewing. I do not excel in cooking:)

Today Meyers wore a pink gingham Just Ducky jumper. I love these jumpers because she has been wearing it as a dress for a year. And this spring, I'll make some shorts or bloomers to make it a top. Love that!

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Sunday

Today, Meyers and I are at home. We did not go to church......for the second week in a row:(

I hate missing church! I feel so disconnected, and I need to be filled up on Sundays.

Meyers is still not feeling great, and I'm not feeling great, either. She is sitting beside me right now reading her Bible, though:) She's looking for Moses in there!

I was looking through my phone and remembered that I was trying to at least get one picture of Meyers on Sundays. Sundays are hard because I'm a single parent. John helps in the youth group and leaves before we do. So I get Meyers and I dressed and out the door.....usually on time by myself:) There is not time for pictures, though.

This summer I had nursery duty, so I was actually able to get some pictures on my phone of her all dressed cute for church....so these are from this summer.

Maybe next week we will be all better and able to go to church!

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20 Weeks

20 Weeks Now
(I finally got my hair cut, but didn't fix it for this picture. Looking at it now, I probably should have!)

20 Weeks with Meyers

How Far Along: 20 weeks

Size of baby: size of a banana , 6.5 long from head to bottom and 10 inches long from head to heel, and weighs 10.5 oz.

Maternity Clothes: I don't think I wore anything (except maybe a stretchy skirt) that wasn't maternity this week.

Gender: John wanted to cave at the ultrasound and find out. He was partly kidding. If I had said yes, I don't think he would have wanted to!

Movement: Yes!!! All the time and very low!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom at least once. Even though I am so tired each night, I've had trouble falling asleep some. That's frustrating!

What I Miss: I know this sounds completely shallow, but I miss my thin face. I'm not being conceited. I would NEVER typically say that I have a thin face, but compared to my pregnant face....my non-pregnant face is quite thin:) I was looking back at some pictures and realized that my face is so round right now. I just get pregnant all over.....my face, my arms, my legs.

Cravings: Well.....Meyers's smarties are officially gone. I will not be buying her anymore because they didn't seem to motivate her to tee-tee, and I am the one who ate them ALL. Who knew that Keebler made cookies that taste just like Girl Scout Samoas???? Not me, until last weekend at least.

I never knew these existed!!! Because I have no will power, I do not even go near the cookie aisle when I'm not pregnant. If I do go near it to get Meyers some goldfish or animal crackers, I go straight there and don't look at anything else. When we were at Target last weekend, I perused the cookie aisle and made this "Coconut Dream" discovery. They are soooooo good and taste just like the Girl Scout cookies!

Symptoms: I am still having CRAZY dreams!! I'm having some round ligament pain. I never knew the name of that when I was pregnant with Meyers, but I had it with her, too.

Best Moment This Week: Seeing this baby on the ultrasound and getting a good report!!!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

I had my 20 week ultrasound today, so we all went to my doctor's appointment this morning. Everything looks great with this little monkey in my belly, which is always such a relief to hear.

Meyers has been not feeling great since last Friday. She started running fever around lunchtime yesterday and has continued to run fever today, so after my doctor's appointment, we went to hers.

Thankfully, her ears looked good and her lungs and oxygen levels were good, but Dr. Catherine went ahead and gave us a prescription. She said it's just a sinus infection probably from a virus.

Meyers wore her Shrimp and Grits ladybug bishop top and red gingham bloomers. You can't really see the bloomers, which is probably a good thing. This outfit came with shorts, and I just didn't want to put her in shorts yet. So these were my first pair of bloomers that I made this summer and they are not even close to perfect!

And here is a picture of Baby Eason!

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Go! Tigers! Go!

The University of Memphis is celebrating their 100 year anniversary next September. They are putting tigers all around the city to celebrate this milestone. Here is what their website says about it:

The University of Memphis Alumni Association is bringing Tigers Around Town to the greater Memphis community. To celebrate the University's Centennial, the Alumni Association will place life-size Tiger statues all around town, with each statue being uniquely decorated with artwork by Mid-South artists, students and alumni. The goal of Tigers Around Town is to not only recognize the Centennial of the University of Memphis, but to impressively illustrate the city's rich history and relationship with the U of M. The Tiger statues are sponsored by local fans, alumni and businesses and will be on display at their chosen locations throughout the 2012 Centennial Year!


So on Saturday, we went to the unveiling of the tigers. It was hardly advertised; John got an email about it, and I had read something in the alumni magazine, so I wasn't sure what to expect. There were actually a lot of people there. They had food, a band, and of course 100 decorated tigers.




Meyers was not really feeling it. Poor girl had a stuffy nose and watery eyes. Normally we would not have left the house, but a lot of times getting out of the house perks her up. Not today. She was pretty content to stay in her stroller.

Here are some of the tigers. They were really neat!




We had to get a picture of the tiger with Joey Dorsey's jersey on. We loved Joey when he was at Memphis!!



This one was so neat!

Here it is up close.





I finally got Meyers to get out of the stroller for a picture with a tiger.


You can tell she doesn't feel great here. She was just leaning on the tiger:(


It was really fun to go back on campus. It's been nine years since John finished undergrad and four since I finished graduate school. A lot had changed since John had been on campus, so that was neat for him to see all the new things. The campus looks great! Memphis gets such a bad rap sometimes like it's a terrible school to go to. It was good to see that it's turning into a really pretty campus that you can be proud of.


***After we left campus, we ate lunch at Five Guys. Um....I am not a huge burger fan, but it was soooooo good! You should go if you haven't!

19 Weeks

19 weeks now
(I think I'm catching up to how big I was with Meyers!!!)
(And I am finally going to get my hair cut next week! Geez! It is such a hot mess right now!)

19 weeks with Meyers

How Far Along: 19 weeks

Size of baby: size of a large, heirloom tomato (whatever that is!) ,
6 inches long and weighs 8.5 oz.

Maternity Clothes: Okay, so I had a few non-maternity dresses (short and maxi) that I've been able to wear.....until this week. I put one on this week, and the maxi dress was like way too short because of my belly! I have been wearing maternity jeans this week since it's been cool outside. I even busted out my favorite Gap maternity khakis today. I forgot how comfy they were!

Gender: not finding out!!!

Movement: Yes!!!I know now that I am definitely feeling this baby move, and it's wonderful!!!

Sleep: I am sleeping okay besides getting up to use the restroom at least once. Even though I am so tired each night, I've had trouble falling asleep some. That's frustrating!

What I Miss: I know this sounds completely shallow, but I miss my thin face. I'm not being conceited. I would NEVER typically say that I have a thin face, but compared to my pregnant face....my non-pregnant face is quite thin:) I was looking back at some pictures and realized that my face is so round right now. I just get pregnant all over.....my face, my arms, my legs.

Cravings: I probably should not have bought Meyers more smarties for her tee-tee candy last week. She did actually go this week, but she wanted cookies for it, instead! So......guess who is eating the smarties? I also have been loving some Edy's Girl Scout Samoa ice cream this week!

Symptoms: I am still having CRAZY dreams!! I'm having some round ligament pain. I never knew the name of that when I was pregnant with Meyers, but I had it with her, too.

Best Moment This Week: Feeling this baby move!!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

We had a very busy morning today! It was MOPS day. My small group had food today and we were doing a craft, so I had to bring a bunch of the craft supplies and get there early to set up. We (with the help of John) were out of the house by 8:30!!
I know that working moms are out of the house way before that:), but as a SAHM....that was pretty amazing!

It was cool again this morning, so I dug around in last season's clothes to find this sweet outfit. It's a Just Ducky outfit, but I bought it from a friend and covered her daughter's initials with the "M" applique. I loved this on her last year and I still do!

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First Day of Preschool

Today was Meyers's first day of preschool.

I can not believe it! I know that most children have been going to daycare or some sort of Mother's Day Out since they were much younger than her. But Meyers has only been to the church or mops nursery.

So today was a BIG day!


I know from teaching that it is so nice to feel appreciated by the parents, so I made her two teachers a "back to school survival kit".


They were filled with cookies, candy, mints, shout wipes, advil, chap stick, a travel toothbrush, and I also wrote a little note to put in each thanking them for taking care of my sweet girl this year.


Here is Meyers's cute lunch box! I found it at the Pottery Barn Outlet. I ordered her the bento box from Pottery Barn. I was hoping that it would make it easier for her to eat her lunch.


John laughed at me for taking a picture of her lunch. I had the camera downstairs, so I thought "why not?". Meyers might want to see her lunch one day:) I am sure the "novelty" of fixing her lunch will wear off soon!


Here is our sweet girl this morning before school. Her school doesn't let them have backpacks. I was so excited to use the one that Elizabeth gave her, but that will have to be used for sleepovers.

The school said that we could buy one of their tote bags for them to use, but I was not having that! She has to carry a cute bag, right?? So I made this one, and I'm kind of obsessed with it. I found the cute pattern here and modified it.

I had planned for Meyers to wear a cute dress, but it was sooooo cool this morning. So we had to dig around in our spring things and find this to wear.


She had a great first day! She did not nap, which I expected. But she did lay on her bed the whole time.

This is what her lunch looked like when we got home today. Can you tell a difference from the first picture??? I think she pretty much ate fruit snacks for lunch. Apparently she did drink out of a small paper cup because her sippy cup was not used!

I think she is ready to go back next week!