10 weeks and Big Boy Beds

I am 10 1/2 weeks!

Pregnancy highlights

How far along: 10 1/2 weeks

Size of baby: size of a prune

Total weight gain/loss: none yet...

Maternity clothes: not yet...

Gender: Can't wait to know! (I am thinking it is a boy--Carlton thinks it is a girl)

Movement: I haven't felt anything yet

Sleep: going to the bathroom every few minutes makes sleep not so great!

What I miss: sleeping through the night

Cravings: orange juice, salty foods

Symptoms: a little tired and a little nauseous at times-Thanks Goodness that is all!

Best moment of the week: taking John Turner to shop for furniture for his big boy room! :-)

John Turner is still sleeping in his crib. He LOVES his crib!! He sometimes just likes to sit in it and play or read to his animal friends! He will stay in there for hours! Well, since we are going to be needing the crib for the new baby come August, we decided it was time to go shopping for some big boy furniture! John Turner will be moving down the hallway to a new and bigger room and the nursery will stay where it is now.


We took him to a kids' furniture store in town that has a 2nd floor devoted to nothing but big kids' rooms! He was very excited to go shopping here! Especially when he saw that he got to climb up a bunch of stairs to get to where we were going!

He was much more into playing with the stuffed animals and decorations rather than looking at the beds!

He did love climbing all of the ladders on the bunk beds.

He found this set that had Dora and Diego on it and said, "I need this one!" I don't think that Mommy could look at this in his bedroom every day!!

Then he found this one with a slide escape! He thought it was the best thing he had ever seen!!

Daddy feels that a boy needs bunk beds. Mommy wasn't so sure of that! But after looking today and seeing John Turner with the bunk beds, I am convinced! Bunk beds it will be!!

9 Weeks

We went for our first doctor's appointment for the new baby this week. Everything went well! I had an ultrasound and the baby looked great! It measured at about 9 weeks and 2 days. That puts my due date around August 14th. It had a heart rate of 164! We could see it moving and we could see its arm and leg buds starting to develop. We were very excited to get a good report! When we got home we showed the ultrasound picture to John Turner. We told him this was his baby brother or sister. His response was, " That's a big mountain!". He continues to call it a mountain every time he looks at the picture! HAHA!!!

Here is our first official family of four photo!

(I didn't have a blog until right before John Turner was born. So, I didn't get to journal about my pregnancy with him. I totally regret that! I am planning on doing it with this baby. I probably won't be able to do it every single week, but I do plan to update and post pictures throughout the pregnancy.)

I am 9 Weeks!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 9 weeks

Size of Baby: size of a grape

Total Weight Gain/Loss: no loss or gain yet...

Maternity Clothes: not yet...

Gender: we can't wait to find out

Movement: we got to see the baby moving on the ultrasound, but I haven't felt any movement yet

Sleep: I am up and down all night going to the bathroom right now, so sleep is not so great at the moment!

What I Miss: Nothing really... maybe caffeine and not being able to exercise as much as I was

Cravings: orange juice and salty foods

Symptoms: mostly just feeling tired; had some nauseous moments but no real sickness!

Best Moment of the Week: having the first ultrasound and seeing our baby for the first time!

Christmas 2010

Our Family- Christmas 2010

Christmas was very busy and very fun for us this year. We did a lot of traveling and a lot of eating!! I didn't get pictures of us at every stop this year. So, here is a peak at Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at our house this year.

Christmas Eve night we prepared for Santa's arrival. John Turner baked some delicious sugar cookes for Santa, and we even put out some carrots for the reindeer to munch on while they were here.

We also sprinkled some reindeer food out in our yard to make sure that Rudolph was able to locate our house. Rudolph loves the smell of oats! So we sprinkled some oats out in our front yard. We also added in some glitter so that Rudolph could easily locate our house from the sky!

Santa was very good to all of us this year! John Turner was amazed when he walked into our dining room Christmas morning! He couldn't beleive what all was sitting there! Two is such a fun age!

The favorite present that Santa left this year was an outside playhouse. John Turner was in shock when he finally noticed that this was sitting there! The faces he made were ones we will never forget!

He also enjoyed all of the other prizes Santa left for him! (If you look closely into the playhouse, you can see that Santa left Mommy a special surprise---An iPad!!! Thanks, Santa!)

The stocking was also filled with some major goodies! John Turner couldn't have been happier!

The best gift that Santa brought to us this year was finding out that we are going to have another sweet baby in the coming year! We are thrilled! 2010 was an amazing year! It looks as if 2011 will be even better!

The Watt Family of Three

...will soon be a family of four

And we just couldn't keep it a secret anymore!!

Carlton left for a hunting trip in South Dakota two weeks ago. I had an idea that I might be pregnant. So, I took a test the night after he left. Well, it was positive! I had to wait until he got home to tell him and it just about killed me! John Turner surprised Daddy when he got home by wearing this Big Brother shirt! Carlton and I are beyond excited about this new addition to our family! We told our families on Christmas day! It was the best Christmas gift ever! We are due sometime in August. It is still very early in the pregnancy. I will be going to the Dr. in January. I am feeling fine as of today. I feel a little nauseous at times and a little tired. Not sure if the tiredness is from being pregnant or from chasing John Turner around!

Christmas Cookies with Gran

My mom has made homemade Christmas cookies with me and my sister each year for as long as I can remember! We don't really get to participate much anymore:-) It is all about John Turner and Carly these days! I am so glad that John Turner gets to make these precious Christmas memories with my mom!

John Turner had the best time making them this year! Last year he didn't really want to participate in the process! These year he was all up in it!! He loved picking out just the right cookie cutter.

Carly and John Turner learned how to work together to roll out the cookie dough.

Gran always lets you lick the extra icing! YUM!

They both did an excellent job decorating their cookies with the icing. John Turner decided his Christmas tree should be red!

And of course, no cookies is complete without the sprinkles!!

I think they tasted good! John Turner ate a ton of these things!

These two precious cousins do love each other very much! Even if they usually fight over everything! HAHA!

Santa

We took John Turner to visit Santa this past week. He was very excited to see him! He has been walking up to him and saying "Hey there, Santa" every time we have been in the mall this month! I still wasn't sure if he would actually sit in his lap. Well, he did. He told him he wanted candy, suckers and playdough for Christmas! HAHA!!

The Polar Express

Last Saturday night we hopped aboard the Polar Express and headed to the North Pole! The Ishees, Hatchers and Millers also boarded the train with us. We all waited outside under a tent for our train to arrive.

The train arrived and the conductor came to our tent and greeted us and told us we were to board on the Dome Car. He said our next stop would be the North Pole! The conductor then punched our tickets and we finally boarded The Polar Express! Since we had a large group, they seated us all together in a traincar by ourselves. It was nice to have all of us alone in one car!

John Turner chose the perfect seats for us as soon as we boarded the train. When the train began to move, his eyes were glued out of this window looking for the North Pole. A voice came over a speaker and began reading the story of The Polar Express to us. John Turner followed along in his book as the story was told.

After the story was read, the speaker told us, in a very excited voice, to look out of the train's window because we had made it to the North Pole! We could see Santa's workshop out of the window. We could also see Mr. and Mrs. Claus waving to us from outside of our train. John Turner was extremely excited at this point! The train stopped and some of Santa's elves came aboard bringing us a bell just like the one in the story. Then Santa and Mrs. Claus came into our car. John Turner wasn't so sure what to think of that! Santa even autographed his book!

Next, a waiter brought us some chocolate milk and some of Mrs. Claus' homemade cookies! This was John Turner's favorite part! He also recieved a Christmas mouse and an ornament for his tree.

We sang Christmas carols and danced as we made our way back home from the North Pole!

And what can I say--the adults had just as much fun as the kiddos! Friends always make experiences like this one even better!

We all plan to board The Polar Express next year and head back to the North Pole again!