Gender Predictor Krispy Kremes!

Tomorrow we have our 20 week scan! For some reason this seems to surprise everyone as quite a few people have said 'I thought you had only just found out!' However that was nearly 4 months ago now! (We found out at 3 weeks because I was impatient to test and it amazingly was actually positive by that point!)

But anyway, we are so excited to see the baby again tomorrow, the 12 week scan feels like a life time ago now! We are also hoping to find out the gender, which lots of people are also surprised about, but if they have the technology to be able to tell you then why not find out, you're going to at some point anyway and it just means you can enjoy buying cute clothes over the next couple of months! (I know they sometimes make mistakes but from what I learnt from my lovely friend who is a midwife they are pretty accurate the majority of the time, especially if the baby is one of those that has no shame and has it all on show... haha).

So in preparation for the scan tomorrow we decided to buy a Krispy Kreme gender predictor doughnut! I never even knew they sold them until a couple of days ago and there was no way I was missing out on getting one!

Please excuse my face with it's lack of make up etc! 

Ethan and I took turns in taking a bite until we got to the centre and it was BLUE! So we shall see if it was right tomorrow...

Also we thought it would be funny to have a poll to see what people thought we would be having and Facebook has changed so you can only have a poll for a facebook page rather than your own profile, so if you go on to Ethan's blog vote for which one you think it will be! The last time I had a look a girl had the most votes :) www.bleno.com/what-gender-will-our-first-baby-be/

EXCITING TIMES!!

We have movement!!

I only wrote a post last week (or sometime around then) and mentioned that I hadn't started to feel our little bubs move yet, however this is no longer the case!!

Around the middle of the week, I started to notice this feeling when I was lying down that felt something like a little bubble of air pop (that doesn't very accurately describe the feeling but that's the only way I can think of). At first I thought it could possibly be the baby moving as it sounded similar to things I'd read about but thought I'd wait and see if it happened again before I got too excited.

Excitingly it happened about 3 times the next day and the next! Since then I've been able to feel it with my hand actually make a little push against my stomach! Even better Ethan was able to feel it too today!

It's amazing to be able to actually feel it move, even though it's really only very tiny movements at the moment but it's so exciting knowing they are going to get bigger and stronger and more often soon enough (and maybe slightly annoying when it decides to have a fidget session while I'm trying to sleep haha). It's so reassuring being able to feel the little movements and know that the little baby is still there and growing, particularly as I seem to have gotten over all of the usual pregnancy symptoms so it's easy to almost forget I'm pregnant at all at the moment!

However, in other news I have a little bump!! It really depends on what I'm wearing though as to whether it looks like an actual little baby bump or just podge haha. I'm looking forward to it getting a little bigger so it looks like a proper baby bump, but I love that I have a bump at all! :D

This is my favourite new jumper ever and it was on sale!

Final thing, Ethan and I went to go see The Great Gatsby on Friday and it was completely amazing!! It was so powerful and Leonardo Di Caprio and Toby Maguire were perfect for Gatsby and Nick Carraway! Ethan even loved it even though he has never read the book before! So I HIGHLY recommend everyone to go and see it! :D

Pregnancy joys...

I'll admit there may have been a hint of sarcasm in the post title today... There are many joys of pregnancy, but there are also some not so joyful occasions!

One of my favourite joys in pregnancy is food! I'm hoping that this will soon be replaced by feeling the baby move but for your first baby that's more around 20 weeks or so I've heard, but every now and then I do lay still and wait for something but nothing yet sadly.

Back to food, I've not really had any craving as such, where I feel like I need to have X so much! More I just particularly fancy things, such as mayo in the first few weeks, then baked beans and now buttery mash potato with gravy (SO GOOD!). I've also discovered I've reverted back a little to my early teen loves of chicken flavoured Super Noodles, Cheese and Broccoli Pasta 'n' Sauces and Golden Nuggets for breakfast! Those three things make me so happy! I know none of them are particularly nutritious so I just have them as my occasional treat for lunch (the cereal for breakfast obviously) and then we're back to the nice and healthy vegetables for dinner, ideally with mash potatoes and gravy! :D

 

                                                                 My three favourites!I feel that being pregnant has made me have a much greater appreciation of food because I get hungry quite a lot so it is just so satisfying enjoying good food! That makes me sound as though I'm over indulging, I'm not, I've actually only put a pound on (so far...) which did concern me at first but after reading on the internet a bit I decided that as I'm eating when I'm hungry and good healthy food then it's not a problem, a few people said the weight piled on like crazy in the third trimester so we shall see what happens, I guess each body is different :)

However today has not been as much of a joyful occasion! I decided after a few weeks of putting it off I really needed a new bra fitting. Hello maternity bras... They should really not be classified as lingerie! However I will admit that they are quite comfy and it's nice having a bra that fits my ever expanding body! (I've gone up 4 cup sizes! I'm hoping that's that area of my body's expanding done for the rest of the pregnancy now...)

Pregnancy brings such entertainment... Haha 

Potential murderer or a kind middle aged man? Such are the times we live in.

I went to visit Ethan in McDonald's whilst he was working today and claim my free Big Mac that Ethan had won (and then gave to me, he knows the way to my heart!) and as I was ordering from Ethan we had a little chat, mainly about my temptation to buy something else until Ethan informed me that it was actually sold out. However the man that was ordering next to me seemed amused at the 'friendliness' of our conversation, adding a comment or two which was fine. Ethan gave me my Big Mac and I went to sit down on a little table of my own to enjoy it. Then to my surprise the man that had ordered came and sat opposite me! The weird thing was there were plenty of other available tables and he didn't say anything when he sat down like 'Can I sit here?' or 'Is this seat taken?' he said nothing that acknowledged the fact that he had just sat down in what I felt was my personable bubble. After awkwardly trying to eat my burger without everything falling out whilst this mid 50 year old man was sat watching me (!) my coat fell on the floor so I went to pick it up which he commented on, but I didn't quite catch what he said so I just awkwardly laughed and to which he asks if I want to share his chips!

I'll admit I was slightly creeped out by him, probably because I'd been reading about the 3 kidnapped women in Ohio and we've been watching a lot of 24 where EVERYONE is suspicious. But it did make me think, in reality this man, other than being just a little bit weird didn't actually do or say anything that was threatening to me in anyway. He may have been a well intentioned man who had seen that I'd been chatty when I had ordered my food and then seen that I was sitting alone so thought he'd be friendly and come sit by me, and then offer to share his chips because I only had a burger and he had a large portion of chips.

Before I left to go home I went back over to Ethan as he wasn't serving anyone and said that the man was a little creepy, which Ethan agreed with as he was able to see where I was sitting and told me to be careful getting home and make sure he wasn't near me, which is exactly what I did, constantly looking over my shoulder to make sure I couldn't see him and that he wasn't following me.

It's sad that in our society we don't trust those around us, despite the fact that they may be kind well intentioned people because of the few awful people that do exist around us. Part of me hopes that the man was slightly 'dodgey' so I don't feel bad for having effectively rejected his kindness, but at the same time part of me feels you can never really be too careful. Such are the times we live in.       

Marriage Observation #2

I thought it was time for another blog post so here I am! (Also this morning Ethan was like pleeeeease write another post, I like reading them - so this one is dedicated to you ;) haha)

I quite enjoyed writing my previous post about my marriage observations, particularly being married quite young I think its something that other people are also quite curious about like how life is being married (and expecting our baby!) at 19 and maybe trying to found out whether its a choice I've regretted and didn't think seriously about etc. If the latter is the case you have come to the wrong place I'm afraid, marrying Ethan Wilkinson was the best decision I ever made! There hasn't been a second let alone a day where I've thought maybe we've rushed into things a bit. We knew what we wanted so we did it, age had nothing to do with it :)

I often wake up a few minutes before Ethan in the morning and my favourite thing is before he is awake enough to even talk (I'm pretty sure he's actually 3/4 asleep still) he will come over to my side of the bed (generally not very far to move as our bed is tiny and he often is partly on my side to start with...) and give me the nicest cuddle which is just the best start to the day ever!

But anyway that is just a small insight into my life which wasn't the point of my post...

My Marriage observation for today - Ethan is a bad influence!
Not actually in a negative way before anyone gets concerned, but before we were married if I wanted to buy anything I'd usually think twice and then dismiss the idea or if I wanted some chocolate I'd resist half the time (and give in the other half). Where as now if I see something I like when we're shopping Ethan will be like ahh you should get it, you know you want it etc. which is quite nice but also results in me giving in to far more things than I use to! And even worse when it comes to food because if one of us is fancying something naughty we both end up having it! In reality it's actually one of the many wonderful things about being married, however I maintain that Ethan is a bad influence :)

In other news our little baby is 14 weeks today! My feeling sick has gone but in its place I have a very sensitive gag reflex! So most mornings and evenings my throat makes me feel like I'm about to be sick any second (and has made me sick once so far but I've managed to avoid that since thankfully). I don't know why people are under the impression that pregnancy is glamorous in anyway, I've yet to discover this... But still enjoying all the unexpected things that my hormones seem to be doing, there is never a dull moment! (Apart from the regular naps haha)

Baby!

So I was going to wait till Sunday to write a blog post as I have two essays I really should be doing but I cannot concentrate on reading for the life of me right now because we're expecting a baby! So I shall write my post now :)

We had the 12 week scan yesterday which was the most amazing thing I have ever seen! It moved around so much stretching out its legs and lifting its hands up, watching it was the most amazing feeling!
My mum had a number of miscarriages and so it's been something I've been particularly wary of as I've grown up being aware (to only a tiny extent) of the heartache that that causes and also worrying that I might have the same difficulties as her (which I may still in the future but for now I'm counting my blessings). So I have spent the last 9 weeks since we found out being on edge, constantly checking that there is never any blood and being wary of any feelings of cramps etc. so to have been able to see our little baby moving around so much gave the most amazing feeling of relief and happiness in the world, I may have even got a little bit emotional... But who could not get slightly emotional at seeing this tiny little baby with its little face, hand, fingers and legs which are growing just as they should be so far!

Now, we all know everyone loves a good gossip so we might as well clear it all up now. As much as it may come as a surprise to some, this little baby was completely planned! Ethan and I have always said we wanted to have children pretty early on but thought that after our degrees was when we'd think about it a bit more. However after we'd been married for a couple of months the subject of children kept on coming up everywhere which we dismissed as not an option the first few times, then after a while we decided maybe this is something we should pray about, which we did and the idea still didn't go away! So we decided to fast and go to the temple to pray about it and we both very strongly felt that actually this was the right thing for us at this time! And then within a month and a half we had a positive pregnancy test! The timing happens to work out perfectly as from September this year I have a year out from university as Ethan has a compulsory  year abroad on his course and so our little baby will be a year old before it has to go into any form of childcare and even then it will only be for a couple of mornings a week during term time for my final year which is far better than people who work full time with children so it's really not a problem.

But anyway we are both very excited! We may have even bought a couple of things for it already, Ethan's personal favourite is a little toy giraffe or horse (I can't remember which) with little wobbly legs and a chime inside so it makes a little noise when you play with it, it's cute! So much love for this little baby already! :)

Marriage observation #1

Before Ethan and I got married I was very independent, I would happily walk anywhere on my own at pretty much any hour. I remember last year I walked home from the YSA house back to my halls numerous times often at 2 or 3 in the morning (although when I look back I realise that wasn't very sensible, particularly as it was a good 40 minute walk). However since getting married I rarely walk on my own. I'll generally walk with Ethan (more like run, he walks a lot faster than me!) or with my friend Alex to uni who lives on the street right next to us. Then on Sunday Ethan went to go visit someone with the missionaries straight after church which meant I had to walk home on my own which I didn't have an issue with. However once I was out of the building walking past people I started to feel really cautious of the people around me a slightly vulnerable being on my own which was such a strange feeling as I've never really felt like that before particularly at 2pm in complete daylight. The next day I had to meet Ethan near a friend's to drop some cookies off and I found  myself feeling exactly the same. Although this time it was dark as it was 7pm but it was still quite a change from before I was married. At one point I went round a corner and there was someone walking towards me who I hadn't seen and it made me jump so much! Thankfully its really not a big deal, it certainly isn't stopping me from going out on my own, in fact its probably a good thing to be a little more aware of those around you, but it was a curious marriage observation... :)

In other news Ethan and I went to Pizza Hut today and did the Happy Hour thing which was amazing!! We got a margarita pizza, unlimited salad, a side (we went halves on potato wedges and garlic bread) and a refill drink all for £6 each! And for an extra pound Ethan got the ice cream from the ice cream factory too! Bargain! Annnnd we both had 2 slices of pizza left over as we were too full so we have a little snack for later now as well. We will definitely be going back to Pizza Hut soon!

I think this photo is hilarious!