It's a Baby!

Josh and I got to take a peek at baby on Monday(at 9 weeks), it was fun! It wasn't a super long visit, and little peanut only moved around once, but it was nice to see that there's actually a baby in there! My due date will stay as June 27th, which is exciting, and we'll see how the rest of the pregnancy goes. Still sick :( and learning to cope with it, but sometimes there's still just a bad day or bad couple of hours and nothing I can do about it.

The nurse I talked to who went over my pregnancy chart said that most women only have one other ultrasound in their pregnancy, at about 20 weeks, but since Kyler was 9lbs6oz and was even induced a week early, he probably would have been 10lbs on my due date, so they will probably do some extra fetal-weight ultrasounds towards the end to "see if we need to induce early." We'll see, I didn't want to have to be induced this time, but I also absolutely DON'T want to end up with an emergency C-section because of a giant baby, so we'll see what happens.

And yes, my belly has already poked out! Ugh! It's really uncomfortable and crampy, and I can't button my pants! Anyway, that's the baby update, yes, it's a baby!

Mr. Mayor Chapman!

Yes, we are so proud, Josh is the new MAYOR of DeSoto, Iowa! He had been on the City Council for 2 years now, and decided he wanted to take it one step further and run for the office of Mayor. His major goals are to set out a 5-year city plan, with future projects and goals decided on along with deadlines. It is easier to finance city-wide projects without raising taxes if they can be planned ahead, as obviously his main objective is to SAVE MONEY, and he will be dilligently searching for ways to cut back spending and welcome new business. He also looks forward to being able to manage the Department heads and work more closely with them so that everyone is on the same page. I am really looking forward to seeing these things accomplished! Things are already getting busy, and I even was called and asked specifically to attend a library function. Josh is only 27, so who knows what the future holds!

Yep, we're expecting a BABY!

Alright, so if you haven't noticed the pregnancy ticker on the right side - I'm pregnant! As of right now I'm due June 27th, which is my birthday! I am 6 1/2 weeks along, and not feeling so good. I haven't yet actually thrown up(same thing with Kyler), but just feel very "car-sick" for most all of the day, and a little dizzy and exhausted. Keeping my mind off of it by finger painting with Kyler or whatever seems to help, also spending a good amount of time on the couch of course...

I have an ultrasound on November 21st, and a doctor's appointment 2 days later. That will pinpoint my due date more acurately, so it may change. But that would be cool to have a baby on my birthday! We are planning on TRYING to not find out the baby's gender until it's born, but we'll see how that goes ;) Before I took the pregnancy test, I just knew I was pregnant, and had 3 dreams in a row about delivering the baby and it coming out a girl. Since then, nothing though. So we'll see!

Trick or Treat!

Trick-or-treating was SO much fun with Kyler on Halloween, he did awesome and really loved it. He even knocked on the doors with his own little fists, and after one man asked him to make a fire truck sound, Kyler started saying "wheew wheew!" at every house. Cute cute!

We went to Gma & Gpa Chapman's house after trick-or-treating, and hung out for a while, where Kyler insisted on "holding" baby Leah(well, Kyler still thinks she's a baby, but she's already 8 months!). He LOVES babies! He was giggling and rubbing her back, it was so sweet. One time he even got a new mommy at WalMart to bend down so he could give her baby a kiss, and I didn't even catch it until the end!

Pumpkins

We had so much fun carving pumpkins with Kyler! I thought it was going to be a trainwreck, because he usually HATES having anything messy on his hands, but once he got the idea of picking the seeds out he loved cleaning out the pumpkins, and got more comfortable with the orange squishiness and started actually playing with the pumpkin guts. Fun fun! Oh, and when Kyler says pumpkin, it comes out "Cup" this year, don't know why... hehe

We had a Chapman-family pumpkin day at Josh's parents' house with all of the other kids this year. Grandma and Grandpa Chapman planted a bunch of pumpkins, and we did trailer rides behind the tractor, and I painted all of the kids faces too. Kyler even let me paint a pumpkin on his cheek, and he not only left it alone, but thought it was SOooo cool.