First picture of a Pinterest project that I am really excited to do, I'm sure you've seen it on there: picture with test, picture with belly, picture with baby! This was the first one, I'm not really showing yet so I thought I should go ahead and take the pregnancy test shot.
Also, off topic, I am loving our orange wall! Looking forward to getting the nursery painted. Ryan and his friend Aaron are going to paint it while I go out with Kristen, Aaron's wife, who is also pregnant! Yay! She is about 10 weeks ahead of me so I'm just copying them every step along the way :) Maybe we can do some baby Pinterest crafts!?

Week 12 was a big one, I helped plan the Delta Chi Alumni party which was such a blast. We sent out our pregnancy announcements to our friends and family PLUS we made it Facebook official haha. It was overwhelming how much love we have received from everyone and it's also surprising to see who stays silent. I am really happy to say at this point in our lives we really know who our true friends are and we hope we have done the same for our friends. We have so many people we can turn to and lean on and I couldn't be more thankful. 

Still no crazy cravings, just when I want something I must have it but I have to say that was pretty much the routine before I was pregnant. Ryan pokes fun at me because I literally have no memory, I forget everything and am very easily distracted. I never knew that "baby brain" was something so real and would happen so so soon. Thankfully it hasn't really happened at work yet, whew.

Right now our little plum doesn't have very much to report but I am so looking forward to our ultrasound tomorrow where I get to see him/her again!

have a great week!
Nikol

Baby Z

    You are now the size of a plum and I can't help but want to see you all of the time. We have an ultrasound next week and I am on the edge of my seat to get to peak at you again. This is my first note to you but your dad and I have been thinking about it all the time, I just never knew where to start. I just didn't know what to say, I have all these feelings and its very unusual for me to be speechless. I think about you all day every day- with every bite of food I think about you and believe me there has been a lot of food!
Over these past three months we have been trying to read every little sign to find out if you are a boy or a girl, excitedly deciding on your name, making sure the 2nd bedroom is no longer a guest room but is your nursery, and loving you so much.
    You were planned, prayed for and so wanted. So far you have been very very easy on me and I thank you for that, all you seem to want is for me to sleep more and I do not mind that one bit, whatever energy you need to grow grow grow, you can have it. Your favorite meals have been bread, you and I are so much alike, I thank you for bringing loaves of bread back into our home, they were very missed.
Your grandparents and aunts are so so excited for you. You have already been so loved and welcomed that we cannot wait until August when they actually get to meet you in person.
xo
love, your mommy


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I have been no good with belly pictures but here are a  few and Ill try to keep this update more often.


Baby bump - week 5

Baby bump - week 6

:)