Feeling Yucky!

On top of morning sickness (which I can't seem to shake) - I'm not feeling so hot! I was home sick on Wednesday and made an appointment for the Dr. that morning. I found out that I was dehydrated, had a viral infection and an inner ear infection.

Rest, antibiotics, ear drops and plenty of water and gatorade has me heading in the right direction. I had been throwing up and sick to my stomach every day for a week on top of regular morning sickness. Needless to say, I am ready for all that to be over! It's not completely gone but I feel better than I have here lately.

Gender Reveal Party

A couple of days ago, I found some more stuff for the Gender Reveal party. I just ordered the digital files and will be printing these myself. Cupcake wrappers, cupcake toppers, favor bags and thank you notes! Aren't they adorable?

I found these balloons on eBay and received them a couple of weeks ago.

I plan on using a black tablecloth and then I bought a couple of packages of this confetti to put out everywhere.

I ordered these plates for the food that we serve, and I thought that I'd get some plain yellow plates to mix in with them.

I'm looking for some black and white polka dot plates to use for the cake, but I haven't found any yet. Anyone have ideas of where I can find them?

I ordered these beverage/dessert napkins and am planning to get some plain yellow ones to mix in with them.

I haven't picked out what I want the cake to look like yet - I want something cute that I won't spend a fortune on, so I'm still deciding.

And I can't figure out what I want to serve for food. The party is between lunch and dinner so I don't want to have a lot of food but I need to put something out. I wasn't sure if I should go to traditional route - fruit tray, meat and cheese tray, chips and dips, etc. or if I should try to tie it all in to the bee theme and have like "Honey" Ham sandwiches, honey mustard something or another. I don't have a lot of ideas for that. Do y'all?

I still have a lot of work to do but I can't wait to see everything come together! I think it will be really adorable!

Baby Fountain's Heartbeat at 14 Weeks

Please be patient with me while I learn how to make these little "videos" of Baby Fountain. As you can see (and hear), I'm not very good at it, but I'll get the hang of it before too long (this was the first time I have used Windows Move Maker - I didn't even know that I had it on my computer to be honest with you).

We hadn't listened to the baby's heartbeat since the first time over a week ago, so D and I both wanted to see if we could find the baby tonight. It took less than a minute to find the little munchkin, which was exciting. We're not sure but we think that when the heartbeat gets quiet the baby is moving. D normally holds the monitor and I just hold the wand - I'm really careful about not moving a muscle, other than to breathe, so that's the only explanation we have for why it goes in and out. We already know that our little one is a mover and a shaker so we can only imagine what he/she is doing in there!

This is still the sweetest sound to me! You can't really tell on the recording but in person, it seems so much stronger than what it was just a little over a week ago. It's so exciting hearing that change!

14 Weeks

This week, your baby is busy thumb sucking, toe wiggling and (not as adorable but equally impressive) making urine and breathing amniotic fluid in and out of his/her lungs while the spleen, liver and kidneys continue to develop. Lanugo (thin, downy hair) is growing all over the baby's body for warmth.

On a side note: Amniotic fluid is an amazing substance. It completely regenerates itself every three hours.

Oh how this little one is growing. Just 4 weeks left until we can find out what he/she is! I can't wait!

Gender Reveal Invites

In just a few more weeks (actually about 4) we should be able to find out the sex of the munchkin. D and I are so looking forward to it! We can't wait to start buying things other than yellow and green!

I decided long before we got pregnant that I wanted to do a gender reveal party. Something cute and fun to celebrate this step in the pregnancy, and in the baby's life. We have waited so long to be parents - I want every moment to be special!

So, I've been trying to get some ideas and get a "theme" together so that I can start planning.

I finally decided that the theme would be "What Will Baby Bee?" and I'm going to do everything in yellow, black and white.

I want it to be cute, but I don't want to spend a lot of money so I'm trying to do as much of it myself and with the help of the talented people with shops on Etsy as I can.

I ordered the invitations this weekend. Aren't they adorable? I can't wait to get them all printed out and in the mail! I think that will make this more real!

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake

Last week, while I was at Ross I found a Nordic Ware Coffee Cake Pan on sale for $5.99. It was normally over $15, so I went ahead and picked it up.

It's cute and yellow and gets me thinking about Spring! So, then I need to make something in it - to test it out. This week, I got on allrecipes.com and found a recipe for a Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake and thought I would make it and take it to work with me. Here is the recipe: 1 cup butter, softened 8 ounces of cream cheese, softened 1½ cups of sugar, divided 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups of all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ cup of milk 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips ¼ cup chopped pecans (optional) 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and 1¼ cups of sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking poweer, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in the chocolate chips. Pour into a springform or coffee cake pan. Combine the pecans (optional), cinnamon and remaining sugar and sprinkle over the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes and then remove from pan. Cool completely before cutting. Enjoy!

Baby Fountain's Heartbeat!

Just an update from Monday... I didn't get over my technical difficulties, but while talking to a friend this week, she thought that she could help me and SHE DID! Here is the baby's heartbeat from a week ago today. It sounds slow, but what we were told was to take the number of beats that you hear in 20 seconds and multiply that number by 3 and that's what the baby's heart rate is.

Isn't this the sweetest sound you've ever heard?