Baby update

We went back to the doctor yesterday for my 26 week appointment. I had my glucose screening and passed with flying colors, thank you very much!! I was told to request orange, and I did, but was denied. Instead I got fruit punch, which was surprisingly good. Tasted just like Hawaiian Punch! The girl before me failed, bless her heart and now has to take the three hour! Luke is doing great. I measured right on track, no UTI (for the first time in about 3 months, Praise the Lord!), and doubled my pregnancy weight gain in one month, oops!! We got to hear Luke's heartbeat and it was clear as a bell and perfect, just what the doctor liked to hear. It makes me smile every time I hear it or see it. I can't believe it, but I'm already at 2 week appointments and even got to schedule the 4-D ultrasound for my next appointment, Dec. 14. We're inviting both sets of parents to be there and see our little boy and then get to take home a DVD of the ultrasound and a CD of pictures to start sharing with family and friends. Guess that's it for the baby update. Hope to have much more later this month!!

3 Years Ago Today

I just wanted to tell my favorite and most wonderful husband "Happy Anniversary!!" Today is our 3rd anniversary. It's hard to believe it's been three years since we said "I do." I love being married to Jason and look forward to many more years to come as we begin raising Luke in the near future!! Here are a few pictures from this day three years ago.

I LOVE YOU!!!

And we shall call him...

So, after much discussion and debate and undecideness...Jason and I finally named our little boy on Sunday. I've just been too busy for a new post and the power went off 9 times last night, finally staying off for over an hour and a half. Now to the point...His name is officially Luke Thomas Gibson and we're going to call him Luke. Luke is a biblical name meaning light or bringer of light and Thomas is after my dad, meeting both of our wants for a family name and a biblical name. Hope everyone likes it. Have a great day!

It's a...

We went to the dr. yesterday for our 17 week check-up with ultrasound. Unfortunately, they took labs, never any fun. I did lay down, however, so no face plants on the floor this time!! My blood pressure was the same and I have gained 2 pounds. The ultrasound was amazing and the verdict is...


We are super excited by this news. Jackson even predicted it to be a boy. However, he thinks his name will be either Joseph, Jesus, Allison, or Spiderman! Based on the newest measurements, my due date has been changed once again, back to the original date of March 7, 2010. So I'm now 18 weeks.

Jason and I honestly tried to be equal in coming up with potential boy and girl names, nursery ideas, etc. The girl thing, for the most part, was easy. The boy thing, not so much. We cannot decide on anything boy! Go figure, we would have a boy! So now we get to begin the specifics of planning for a baby boy. At least Jackson will enjoy a boy cousin, and we can get the hand-me-downs from Jackson!!

Don't rock the boat!

On Thursday morning at 6am, the whole family is headed to New Orleans to get on board
headed for
I'm so looking forward toandand
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But most of all, I'm looking forward to this and this!

This is my and Jason's first cruise and we are super excited. I told the doctor not to worry about that pound I lost at my last appointment because I would make up for it. And as luck would have it, I go to the doctor the Monday after we get back from the cruise!!

Nursery Furniture

I think we've decided on a nursery furniture collection. We looked at it in a local store and the look, size, and height seem to be a good combination for us.

The crib is a convertible crib with guard rail included for conversion to a toddler bed.We're also looking at getting the dresser:Which includes additional pieces to make a nightstand (we'll get the darker color):And a bookcase for storage:
Not sure when we'll get it, but I think its the one!

Can you hear me now?

My sister let us borrow one of those fetal heart tone monitors to try to hear the baby the other night. After forgetting to buy a 9 volt battery on two different occasions at Wal-Mart, we finally remembered! She cautioned us that she and Jeremy had no luck with it...apparently we were no different. You can, however, hear my stomach growl very loudly on the monitor and if your husband decides to ask questions while you have the earphones on it feels like you are standing in front of the speakers at a concert and now totally deaf! My heart sounded pretty cool though, but the baby's went unheard...

Until Wednesday. We went for our 13 week check-up Wednesday and got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. We've seen it 5 times on ultrasound and had the rate checked twice (164 and 184), but that was the first time to hear our little one. What a neat sound. It took a little repositioning to hear it, and once again my stomach tried to steal the show, but we were elated!

In other news from the appointment: I lost a pound. Not quite sure how that happened since I now have a baby bump, haven't had any morning sickness (exception being the kidney stone), and am not avoiding foods or trying to limit myself. Oh well...it will all catch up soon enough. My luck I'll have gained like 10 by next appointment. My blood pressure was 98/60 (woo hoo!). Dr. Lawhon tried to schedule me for the screening test next appointment, but after several questions we turned the test down with no problems from the doctor, which I really appreciated. I now have an emergency prescription for Tami-Flu as 2 of my patients decided not to tell me their families had the flu until I had been in the house about 30 minutes each time. I was very frustrated by this...come on, folks...common sense says tell people that are coming to your house that you have the flu and either don't need to come or need to take precautions! Best news of all from the appointment: we get an ultrasound next visit and hopefully will be able to find out if it's a boy or a girl!!

That's all for now...still debating on nursery furniture...I'll keep ya posted. Thanks for all the helpful comments.