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Have I mentioned I haven’t gotten nauseous much yet? It has been such a difference since last time so far. I’ll be 8 week tomorrow. Of course, I have plenty of time for it to start, but by my calculations, at most, I’ll have 4 weeks of being sick. Of course, let’s not plan on that!! I have been taking a Vitamin B6 every night, so maybe that is helping?? Friday is my second ultrasound. I’m excited to see the heartbeat! Hopefully all of my bloodwork came back normal.

I’m still doing a little ebaying. The last of my auctions just ended yesterday. That means lots of post-officing. The lady suggested to Scott last time that I should check out the online postage. I like that but why do I have to pay extra to print postage? I’m the one having to use my own paper and ink!! Like Scott said, I could build the cost into my shipping & handling but once I get that extra money, I don’t want to spend it on postage!

Scott still has not put in for his transfer. His Fst. Sergeant had a light-hearted conversation with him last Friday and flat out said if he put in for the transfer he wouldn’t get it and he would let him know when to do it. I don’t know, our lease runs out in less than 3 months and with the baby coming, I really want to be in something that is 3 bedroom and we definitely can not afford the 3 bedroom apartments here so that means we need to buy a house. Not to mention the tax breaks you get with the interest. So either we go home and buy a house or we stay here and buy a house. Just someone please let me know which we need to do!!

Have I mentioned I haven’t gotten nauseous much yet? It has been such a difference since last time so far. I’ll be 8 week tomorrow. Of course, I have plenty of time for it to start, but by my calculations, at most, I’ll have 4 weeks of being sick. Of course, let’s not plan on that!! I have been taking a Vitamin B6 every night, so maybe that is helping?? Friday is my second ultrasound. I’m excited to see the heartbeat! Hopefully all of my bloodwork came back normal.

I’m still doing a little ebaying. The last of my auctions just ended yesterday. That means lots of post-officing. The lady suggested to Scott last time that I should check out the online postage. I like that but why do I have to pay extra to print postage? I’m the one having to use my own paper and ink!! Like Scott said, I could build the cost into my shipping & handling but once I get that extra money, I don’t want to spend it on postage!

Scott still has not put in for his transfer. His Fst. Sergeant had a light-hearted conversation with him last Friday and flat out said if he put in for the transfer he wouldn’t get it and he would let him know when to do it. I don’t know, our lease runs out in less than 3 months and with the baby coming, I really want to be in something that is 3 bedroom and we definitely can not afford the 3 bedroom apartments here so that means we need to buy a house. Not to mention the tax breaks you get with the interest. So either we go home and buy a house or we stay here and buy a house. Just someone please let me know which we need to do!!

Well, my plans changed for Easter weekend. My aunt and uncle ended up at my parent’s house for Easter eve night. My in-laws came up Saturday morning. We had lunch with Scott, did a little shopping and they drove me and Emma back to Fort Mill. We stayed with ILs and went to church up there. Emma was a doll in her dress. I put her hair up with a bow and it was so cute! Scott worked all weekend so he didn’t go.

I still haven’t been sick, only a little queasy sometimes in the afternoon. Smells are bothering me more than normal still. For some reason the smell of Emma’s green beans were abhorrent this afternoon.

I really have to admit here that I am so not into this pregnancy like I was with Emma. Someone asked me how far along I was on Sunday and I couldn’t remember. Is this just because I stay so busy with Emma? I don’t know. I sort of have this feeling like I don’t want the baby to steal my attention from Emma. Like we have Emma, what else could we need? I am sure as soon as the baby gets here my love will “grow” but right now Emma is filling it all up and I don’t know how I’ll cut in half for another one. Gosh, this sounds horrible, but I know others have felt this way. Scott doesn’t seem to understand. He gets the “doubling of heart” instead of “cutting in two of heart”. I just know I give a lot of attention to Emma and no matter what, I won’t be able to give the same level to her anymore and that makes me really sad. I don’t ever want to tell her to wait, that I’m having to care for another baby and I know that’s going to happen and I know that’s good for her but I just can’t stand the thought of her feeling slighted. 🙁 Have I mentioned I’m already feeling weapy?

So the ebay guy and I sort of made up. I gave him back all but $15 and we left each other positive feedback, so I guess we at least had a good resolution. THEN another guy left me negative feedback saying I had not emailed him or shipped the book. I had done both. He even told me in one of his first emails that his email server was having problems. AND he lives on the other side of the country and only waited 5 days before receiving Media Mail…what?? So it turns out the guy has no clue about ebay and withdraws his feedback. Oh well. I guess that’s not bad after over 100 transactions in the past month or two.

So, we went home this weekend. Nothing too exciting. Scott spent a lot of time at Dave’s house helping put down pergo in their living room and kitchen. I didn’t do a whole lot of anything but just hang around. I was VERY tired all weekend. Oh! I did go to a wedding a reception on Saturday that was very nice. And we did go to my friend Melissa’s engagement party Saturday night. It was a lot of fun but we didn’t get to stay long since we had to get up with Emma the next morning.

My nephew is staying the rest of the week with us since he has spring break and my BIL and SIL are going to see his parents. He’s been sleeping since 2 and it’s 4:30, so it’s fun so far :). He was in Florida all weekend with the school so I’m sure he needs to catch up on some sleep.

We thought of a boy’s name! Landon Scott! And I really like Riley for a girl’s name.

I think I’m going to have my first pregnancy breakdown. All afternoon I’ve been fighting with a guy on ebay. So my emotions are high today. Then, I was just watching Survivor and Rob told the other guy to take care of Amber and he’d take care of him and then he wiped a tear!! OMG! I’m going to cry! How sweet is he?

The dr’s visit went well today. I played as clueless as I could about the date of my last period. I really am unsure, but I was thinking it was one of two Sundays. ANYWAY. It was enough to convince the nurse practitioner to give me an ultrasound. Yay! AND I get another one in two weeks. The tentative due date right now is November 26, only 6 days after Emma’s birthday. And Emma was early. I know every pregnancy is different, but it’s definitely possible they have the same birthday and also possible we have a Turkey baby. Not good. They took lots of blood today and that’s what they want to go over in two weeks when I’m there. No more nausea since Friday. My stomach is finally all better from that yucky virus. This pregnancy is so different already. I feel so unprepared. Last time, I walked in the dr’s office with 3 months worth of temp charts and knew exactly the day I would be due already. I already had a name picked out and was ready. This time, I feel sort of taken by surprise, no due date, no names picked out. It’s just a weird feeling. One thing that I really don’t want to be different with the second is how many pictures I take. Mom always says the second one never gets any pictures and if they do, it’s with the first. I really want to try to take lots of pictures of the new baby too. As far as baby names, we are still kicking around Vance Montgomery from the first time around for a boy and are SO clueless on girls. Neither of us have any idea. I know we have plenty of time though!

OK, so we’re a little surprised. I posted a while back that we had started trying but boy, it didn’t take long! Last time it took 15 months and this time only 2! Friday morning I was feeling nauseous. I thought maybe I was hungry and tried to drown it with some root beer. We took Emma to the zoo about 10 and I could not handle the smells. Normally I can smell it but it doesn’t bother me. This time I was having to hurry Scott and Emma along to the next one. At this point I was thinking it could be pregnancy nausea, but wasn’t convinced. We came home, ate and went to the post office. On the way back, I asked Scott to stop at CVS so I could buy a test because I still wasn’t feeling right. When we got home Emma was asleep and I promptly took the test. It immediately came up. I started dancing around the bathroom saying I’m pregnant, I’m pregnant. Scott, was like Hold on, it says you have to wait a minute! Well, anyone that has taken a positive one knows if it’s gonna show up, it usually does pretty quickly. We ended up emailing our immediate family the picture of the test. Everyone was a little shocked but really happy. I don’t know exactly how far along I am because I don’t have marked down my last period. I won’t go into details, but I think the conception date is March 4. So, what I’m really hoping is the dr. decides to do an ultrasound! I doubt it but it would be nice. I’m thinking I’m 2 weeks ahead of when I got pregnant with Emma and Emma was 2 weeks early, so I think they will be almost exactly 2 years apart!
This of course has given us the kick in the butt to put in for Scott’s transfer back home. I can’t imagine doing this here by ourselves. He’s going to talk to his corporal who is out now on “maternity leave” when he gets back at the beginning of April.
Oh! So, I forgot the rest of the story on Friday. I ended up getting REALLY sick. Scott had left for work at 2:30. By 4:30 I was doubled over in the living room. I called Scott and told him he needed to come home. So he did. It turned into a stomach virus. I was pretty weak even yesterday. Just today I can walk around and do things like I need to. I’m hoping the nausea is only due to that stomach virus and not the pregnancy. I can remember curled up on the couch the first go around thinking how in the world would I do this with another one running around the house. The rest of this year should prove to be quite interesting!

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