mORE exciteMENT!!!

Darcy and Brandon are HERE!!!!

ExciteMENT!

Darcy and Brandon are coming today!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my baby...has...a tail...

yep. you read that right. a tail. i know its not uncommon but right now it looks like i am going to give birth to a tiny, miniature-sized walrus. :) i know he/she is still developing and all, but accoring to babycenter.com, clumpy looks kind of, well, weird.

"If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body." (babycenter.com)

they also say, that little clumpy is now the size of a blueberry, and since we are almost into the eighth week, he will soon be a raspberry! yeah...we are moving through the fruits pretty quick. look how fast my baby is growing! awww...

so guess what? Christmas is only EIGHT days away!!!! woohoo!!! (or zonino!!! for those who know me really well :)) we have this running joke in our family, that Christmas Karly comes out, normally about the beginning of December. well, she came out a little early this year and has been going strong since the middle of November. however, i passed a milestone this morning that i pass every year, i invented a new word. i do this every year as well. some of the weirdest things come out of my mouth this time of year. so anyways, this morning, i was driving to work and almost dropped my coffee in the floorboard when i had to stop really quick. the first thing that came out of my mouth was...."crapezoidal tendencies!"...yes, you read that right as well. where in the world did that come from? i mean really? its just wrong. wrong. wrong. wrong. so Christmas Karly is officially here.

Kyle and i have done almost all of our Christmas shopping. i am SO ready to see the girl's reactions to their presents. it's going to be great! we still have a few little things to get and hopefully we can do that today or tomorrow before the weather gets bad again. well...i suppose that's pretty much it for me. hope everyone has a wonderful day!

love you all!

karly and clumpy mcclump clump

Doctor, doctor, give me the news....

Alright, everyone out there in internet land...we went to the doctor today and learned............ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW!!!! YAY!!!

Seriously though, we went in, I peed in a cup, they weighed me. The doctor's assistant came in and handed me a bag of magazines and books and prenatal vitamin samples then asked me if I had any irregular medical problems. Then the PA came in (because Dr. Doeden does surgeries on Thursday mornings) and said, "Yay...you're pregnant! Your approximate due date is July 30. Do this, do that, take these, don't do this, don't worry about that, and we will see you in a month when we will do a LOT of tests and let you hear the heartbeat with a doppler. Thanks for coming in!" And it was over.

Our next appointment will be January 8. I should have a lot more to say about Clumpy at that time.

In other parts of my life...I have a nasty little head cold. It makes my throat hurt and my nose sneeze and my head ache. It's been great. However the doctor told me today that I can take anything with the brand Tylenol on it, so bring on the Tylenol Cold products and throat lozenges. Yeah! My life is EXCITING!!!

Oh in case anyone hasn't noticed, Christmas is in 2 weeks! TWO WEEKS!!!! That is fourteen days and I only have a few presents wrapped and under the tree...EEK! Plus that means my favorite big sister in the entire world is coming to visit in one week!!!! HOLY COW!!! I am so ready!

Well, okay, I should probably go do some work now, but I will definitely be updating because I am 7 weeks tomorrow, which means more pictures of random little clumps...yay!

Love you all!
Karly and Clumpy

yuck.

i feel yucky today. that's pretty much all for now.

Look! It's a baby!!!

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hey look! according to this widget, clumpy might possibly start looking like some sort of human soon! i mean, probably like an alien human mix, but still closer to human looking than that sea monkey thing with wings :) yay it's going to possibly be a human being!

in other news, my mom is the bestest best mom in the whole entire universe...she bought me PREGNANT pants!!!!! like three pairs of them!!!! i never thought i would be excited about pants with an elastic waist, until i put them on and declared them the most amazing things in all clothesdom. i will try to take some pictures with them on, so you can all see the loveliness, but until then i will find some random pictures on the internet and post them for your viewing pleasure. she also bought me a couple of shirts for work and let me borrow something to wear for the farmer's & merchants Christmas party...woohoo...party....open bar and no alcohol for the pregnant lady...yeah! anyways, it will be fun and i will look beautiful thanks to my mommy and her wonderful taste in clothes.

Mom also (yes, she is wonder woman!) cooked a delectable pot of soup last night for kyle, barrett, shel, and myself and even cooked grilled cheese because kyle (who is having sympathy cravings) thought that sounded good. my mother is entirely too amazing for all of you to even understand. i just thought you should know.

Got my weekly newsletter from babycenter.com today...it's pretty entertaining...hold on, let me give you an excerpt....holding....holding....holding...holding.................................................................

"This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean."

ya know, i think it is a pretty good thing that babies grow where we can't see them, because those first abour 4 months, just don't sound all that pretty. i mean, i would still love the little clump, but it just wouldn't be the same. lol

and just in case anyone was wondering, this is what clumpy might just look like right now. we are still not 100% sure about the due date so he could be a little ahead of this --> or he might be a little behind as well. but all in all, he is a great little clumpy and we love him dearly!!

well i am off to the wonderful banking world...oh yeah! just so everyone knows, i just got my christmas bonus!!! woohoo!!! it's time to go shopping!!!!

love you all!

karly & clumpy mcclumpykins

my halo...

I have found a great, great, great blog that I have been reading for the last two days. This woman named Amy started it about 5 years ago, and during that time she found out she was pregnant. Reading her thoughts and feelings about her pregnancy, totally make me feel better about why I am feeling now. Here is a tiny little excerpt from the many, many hilarious things she says...

"You expect pregnancy to begin with some sort of cosmic hunch -- a vague new-agey feeling that your body is incubating a tiny little miracle and ta-da! Your skin will glow and perhaps a halo will descend from heaven and alight on your holy, mothering head.

Instead, your skin breaks out and you cry when there's no pudding and most importantly, you don't feel any different at all.

And it's the perfect introduction to pregnancy, which also turns out to be Not At All What You Were Expecting Either. It's worse. It's better. It's totally freaking weird, yo.

But at least, once you know, you don't feel like such a freak for crying during Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and eating an entire package of salami.

I take that back. You still feel like a freak. But you have hope that maybe, just maybe, you'll return to a less freak-like state at some point. Maybe by the time the kid goes to college.

But in the meantime, everybody ELSE better freaking respect that freaking halo resting above your life-giving, freak head, because this is HARD. " (excerpt taken from amalah.com)

So I've been trying to express this exact feeling lately, and I just can't quite find the words. Thanks, Amy, for giving them to me! :)

emotional. tired. christmas. BABY!

i am emotional. and tired. that pretty much describes everything that is going on with me right now. it's an up and down fight at this point. just ask kyle. poor guy. when i'm not sleeping, i'm trying not to fall asleep. when i'm not doing one of those two things, i feel like crying for no reason or i am extremely excited about life. it's one or the other. poor kyle.

this weekend we were pretty lazy. although we did manage to put the Christmas tree up on Friday night after i got off work. that was fun. we let mariah and caitlyn put the ornaments on. it was entertaining. mariah was very good about making sure every spot was covered and that caitlyn did NOT put ornaments on her side of the tree. caitlyn, however, had a little trouble with knowing where to put her ornaments. they were all in one spot. in a clump. it was so cute. i helped her out a little bit and moved them around. our tree is really pretty and classic looking, with different colored shiny ornaments, all the little ornaments we used to decorate with at our wedding, white lights, classic candy canes, silver garland with snowflakes on it, and a couple of strings of little red beads. i think it looks beautiful and i would love to have it lit up all day long. after we put the tree up, we watched elf and talked about Christmas plans and what the girls want for Christmas. it was a really fun night.

oh, we told the girls about clumpy on thanksgiving day and i completely forgot to mention that in the last post. they were kind of excited, but were a little worried about where he is going to sleep. also caitlyn is just positive that clumpy is kicking me too much already. i keep telling her that he doesn't have legs yet, but she doesn't can't catch on to that idea. she does love clumpy though. she told me ALL weekend long. :) it's great. i think mariah is excited about the baby, but she doesn't really know how to show it. i mean, she already has three younger siblings so it isn't really new or fun for her. its just someone else to share us with. not exactly a great thing. i think it will be better though when she is able to see clumpy and hold him. oh little clumpy...only 35 and a half more weeks...that is a LONG time.

i am really anxious for our appointment with the doctor. i would like to know an actual due date, because right now we are just going by what the computer says. when we go in to the dr., i should be 6 weeks and 6 days along. they like to see you anywhere from 7 to 8 weeks, but we couldn't do that with kyle's days off and christmas, so we are going just a little early and i am 100% okay with that. i am so ready to go.

Sesame seed, baby!

alright, so thanksgiving was AMAZINGLY great! it was nice to be able to just lay around and eat good food and watch old home videos and see my family for a little while. we even got to spend a little while talking to darcy and brandon through the webcam on barrett's computer. it was really nice to see their bright, shiny faces. wish they were closer, though.

as always, mom laid out a wonderfully tasty meal: a beautiful turkey, mamaw's good ol' stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potatoe casserole (with many mini marshmallows), cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, and pea salad. it was awesome!!

clumpy was not very excited about all the food though. if i eat too much, the indigestion is awful, so of course, i ate too much :) and i proceeded to explode the rest of the night. he was definitely a "grumpy clumpy."

but i think he is over it now. i just had a bagel and some chocolate milk for breakfast this morning and he seems pretty okay with that.

i got my weekly email from babycenter today and it says i am now in my 5th week, which means clumpy is now the size of a sesame seed. he's growing! and it also means his little heart divides into chambers this week and starts beating! how exciting is that?!?!?! i cannot wait to see our little clumpy...

i scheduled my ob-gyn appointment on dec. 11 at 10:30. i am SO stinkin' ready to go just to make sure everything is okay. i just feel so sad that he's all alone in there, floating around with nothing to do. (even though at this point he doesn't have arms or legs or eyes or ears or a mouth or anything like that, lol). he is our beautiful little clump though :)

just think, this time next year, little clumpy will be almost 4 months old!!! crazy!!! i cannot wait!

alright, i've gotta go do some work...yay for banks letting us have all the weird holidays off, but not the day after the big ones...blech.

love you all!

not much to say today. just really tired and ready for a break from work. i know i don't do much all day, but that almost makes it worse. kind of dull, really.

baby clumpy is doing good i suppose. still making me feel a little ill and whatnot, but that's not so bad anymore. i am very, very, very tired though. exhaustified. that's me.

there's just too much going on. i feel like crying all the time. blah.

blech...

okay, so today was pretty eventful in my little world. i'm not going to go into any details but i felt like i might have a UTI coming on, so i decided to go into a doctor this morning and get it taken care of before it gets too bad.

well after a full morning of calling dr's and hearing, "we only have appointments in december or we're booked until january 12th," i called an emergency clinic in edmond and they could see me during my lunch hour. sure enough, i did have an infection, so the dr. prescribed me some antibiotics which he said are "as safe as possible. we really don't like pregnant women to take anything." now i feel like poo because i don't want to take something that would hurt clumpy but i have to take care of me too. i just don't feel so great about taking something that might cause issues with my perfect little poppy seed baby. :(

but i have to and i'm just going to believe that God is holding my little baby clumpy in His powerful and amazingly strong protective hands. please, Lord, protect little baby clumpy, we all want to see him so badly.

okay, i feel a little better about all this now. its hard not being able to know for sure that everything is okay in there. i mean, there is nothing i can do to make sure clumpy is okay. just pray and believe, pray and believe.

i'm feeling better, symptoms-wise. i don't have the horrible indigestion as much and i don't feel nauseous at all. my head kind of hurts and my boobs, well, i don't think they are ever going to not hurt. yay for baby clumpy! :) oh and i feel kind of thick around the middle. my clothes still fit but i just don't feel comfortable in anything. yay for growing a human! :)

i guess that's pretty much it for karly and clumpy. i should probably go back to work now and kind of act like i'm doing something. love you all!

baby clumpy...

well, we told everyone. well almost everyone.

saturday night i took one more test "just to make sure." there is just something about seeing those two little lines that reassures me. i mean, at this point i am just having a hard time really believing there is a baby in there, ya know? i guess it's because i can't see it or feel it. the symptoms are definitely there though.

anyways, after i took the test, i had kyle look at it for me, and he just looked at me with this sad expression on his face, and said, 'looks like we're not gonna have a baby...just kidding (smile) you are pregnant!! for sure!" then we kind of jumped around and smiled and were happy.

then my phone rang. it was Mom asking if we wanted some of their leftover pastries. i told her we might and i would let her know if i was heading over there to get some. i got off the phone and told kyle who it was and everything. then we both kind of looked at each other and knew that we should probably tell them tonight because it was just too dang hard keeping it a secret. so...we had bought two bibs earlier that evening...one that said "i love grandpa" and another that said "grandma, where are you?" we wrapped them up and headed over to announce our big baby news.


we got there and talked a little bit about work and food and all that jazz. then we sat down on the couch and started watching the OU/Tech game. (by the way, YAY OU!) then i looked at kyle and he gave me the nod. so i stood up and said, "we got you both a little something to thank you so much for all you did for the wedding and for us. now open them together." mom proceeded to say "you did not have to do that...blah, blah, blah" ;) but i interrupted her because dad was already opening his and i didn't want them to not know at the same time. so she hurried. dad just smiled from ear to ear and mom covered her face with her hands and screamed and cried. it was great! they are both very excited! yay baby!





so then i sent the picture of the pregnancy tests to darcy that said, "do you know what this means?" she called me almost immediately and said, "yes, i know what that means!!!" and she was all excited too. then i talked to her a little while about how i'm feeling and told her about this blog. then i told her about the 3 week prego picture that looked like a clump of white cells that made me sick. and she said, "can we please call your baby clumpy?" and i said YES! that's perfect! so we have now found our perfect baby nickname until we are able to determine whether it is a boy or a girl. yay baby clumpy!!



then i sent the picture to shelby. i waited because mom and dad said she was in a movie. :) i waited just a little while, and then i got the call from her. she said, "are you PREGNANT!!??!!" and i said "YES!!!" screaming was all that was heard on her end. she and her best friend sarah were together, so of course everything i said was heard by both, so they just started screaming and saying "She's having a baby!!" more excitement.

yesterday, Sunday, we went to eat at Old Chicago with Kyle's mom, dad, sisters, niece, and aunt and uncle. after we ate and said goodbye to aunt and uncle, we headed back to our cars, where kyle asked his mom, dena, sheila, and da'lynn to look at a picture of "what he caught" on my cell phone. we showed them the picture of the tests and they all were very excited. they started giving me advice on what to do for morning sickness and nausea and asking how i have been feeling. they are all very excited as well.

then i made calls to my grandparents, who are excited as well. it's just a crazy time of excitement!

i think i have decided on my doctor and will be making a call to make an appointment at lunch today. hopefully i will be able to get in :fingers crossed:

other than all that, kyle and i and our families are very excited! so very ready for baby clumpy!!!

today is the day...

this morning, about 3:30, kyle got called out because the frick was down. i was lying there, trying to fall back to sleep, when i thought, "hey, i could take my pregnancy test now." then i went back and forth in my head, should i wait a few more days to see if i miss my period, or should i just go ahead and do it. i decided to go ahead and do it. so i pulled myself out of my warm, cozy bed, scooted to the bathroom and peed on a stick. the instructions said it would take 3 minutes before i would be able to tell if there was one line or two. i thought i would run to kitchen and get a drink of water and then come back and see if it worked. however, as i was setting it down on the counter, this is what i saw...

EEK!!!! we are having a BABY!!!!!!

so now i am in a state of excited confusion. should we tell everyone right away? or wait until we have had the first doctor's appointment? should we wait until Christmas when we can do it in a fun way or mail everyone pacifiers to announce it? holy cow! this is SO amazing! we are having a baby!!!

i have signed up on babycenter.com for their week by week pregnancy calendar. yesterday i received my week 4 update. they say that our little embryo is the size of a poppy seed...that is extremely tiny. and it kind of looks like two bubbles with some lines down the middle. isn't that precious? lol

i was planning on telling kyle about the baby this evening. i was going to buy a little onesie that said ' i love daddy' on it and give it to him tonight when he got home from work. however, as i was driving to work, i told him to expect a surprise tonight (stupid me!) and he guessed it. i'm kind of glad because i didn't want to keep it from him too long, but i wish i had been right there when he found out. we are both very very excited though!

now begins the search for a good ob/gyn. i have to find one on our insurance list, so hopefully i will be able to find a good one that i like. blech. not fun.

but hey, i am having a BABY!!!!!! YYYAAYYY!!

alright, gonna go do some searching. wish me luck!

just a few more days...

waiting.

i'm not gonna lie. this is no fun at all. my stomach feels queasy all day, off and on, and my back is killing me. i'm cranky and poor kyle has to deal with me. this is just the possible beginning. i don't even know if it's pregnancy, but it's just no fun.

if i'm not pregnant, i think i might have the flu. i really hope its not the flu, but a beautiful little baby boy who has blonde curly hair and bright blue eyes. i think i'm going to be really sad if it turns out that i'm not pregnant yet. however, i know that when it does happen, it will be the perfect time for our little person. he/she will be born at the perfect time in the perfect place for whatever God has in store for him/her.

today, i have probably been doing the worst thing i could do. i've been searching through baby sites looking at the meaning of names. kyle and i already have our boy and girl names picked out, but we aren't telling anyone except family. just want to keep it a secret for a little while. much like i am keeping my "almost" pregnancy a secret from everyone. i like surprises a LOT.

at this moment, if i am pregnant, our baby looks like a tiny tiny ball. it is now classified as an embryo and is no longer a blasotcyst. i'm really happy about that because i saw a picture of a blastocyst and it made me want to throw up. it was just a "clump" of cells and everyone who knows me, knows i hate clumps of things. blech. i don't want to feel that way about our baby. ;)

maybe i am getting ahead of myself, but it just feels like there is a baby in there. i'm so ready to know for sure. come on tomorrow, hurry up and get here!!!!

patiently anticipating...

no one knows i might be pregnant. well, other than my husband, but he doesn't know when we will know. i've decided to keep it a secret from him until i am for sure, for sure. i thought this blog would be a good way for me to let out all my excitement and anxiety as i wait for this beautiful baby to grow inside me.

here is a little back story to get you up to date on my babymaking progress...
kyle and i got married on october 25, 2008. we decided that we would plan on having a baby as soon as possible.

there were several reasons for this decision:

1. kyle has two amazing little girls who are 7 and 5. we did not want the kid's age differences to be too much greater than they already are.
2. both of our families have been talking about little redheaded boys since we started dating ;)
3. we are ready to continue the beautiful family we already have
4. we LOVe babies!!!

so all that being said, i should find out within the next two or three days whether our first attempts at getting pregnant 'took hold.'

i have been doing research on the beginning stages of pregnancy to try and determine if there is a chance that i am pregnant.

here are some of my current symptoms:
1. i have been sick to my stomach off and on for the past 3 days
2. my boobs are stinkin' sore
3. i had a headache all day today
4. i am tired all the time

according to all the parenting sites i have gone to, these symptoms either mean i am pregnant or about to start...that does a lot of clarifying for me...ugh.

kyle has been telling me for about a week now that he thinks i am pregnant. he has asked me i don't know how many times, if i think i am pregnant. i have told him over and over that i am not going to get excited until i see those two little pink lines. honestly, i think i am but i'm afraid to say it and then find out that i was wrong. that would break my heart. so instead, i'll just keep doubting it. that way, when it really happens, i'll be shocked AND excited! :)

so for now, i am patiently anticipating the arrival of those two little pink lines. i should start on the 21st. two more days to go...