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.