Stories to Remember

The Big News:



"BAM" would be the word I would use to describe how fast I got pregnant. Aaron and I decided last Feb. to stop using birth control and I was seriously pregnant two weeks later. Aaron had been wanting to try and start a family for a few months and I was not quite there yet. But I obviously had a change of heart and we started "not preventing". I knew we would get pregnant fast, even with Aaron's reassurances that it would probably take a while. I just felt like it was going to happen really fast. Aaron was cute and brought me some pregnancy tests about a week into the "not preventing". He was excited. It was the early detection test that claims to have the results 5 days before your missed period. So around 5 days before my "fun time" I took the test and it was negative. My only thought was "I took it too soon". A few days later on the Thursday before my mom's marathon in Utah I kept thinking I should take it again. Aaron said "don't do it you just took one and they are expensive" which was true, but I wanted to. I remember doing a volleyball roll off the couch that night and thinking that felt different and that was when I decided to take another test. So sure enough 3 minutes later I knew I was pregnant. I remember looking at the two little pink lines and feeling all warm and peaceful. I went into the next room with the stick and showed Aaron. I loved the look on his face... it was like are you kidding! He then gave me a hug and I asked him to go to Wal-Mart and pick up some more tests just to be sure. He was out the door pretty fast :) I said a quick prayer and then Aaron was home before I knew it and I took another test, and then another. And that is the story of how we found out we were pregnant. I wanted to keep it a secret for a few months just to be safe, but it is really hard to keep a secret that big when your in a car for 10 hours on your way to Utah with your oldest sister. By Sunday all of our immediate family knew and soon enough it seemed like everyone else did too. Maybe next time we will keep it a secret for a little longer:)



Morning Sickness:



I hate morning sickness! So far it has been the worst part of being pregnant (knock on wood). It is a type of nausea that can't be described but I felt it constantly. I was sick all day. I read or heard of an article by some doctor that said that morning sickness is just in the head... that guy obviously has never been around a sick pregnant lady. Because it is not in your head it is in the toilet. My morning sickness hit around 8 weeks and I couldn't keep anything down except for top roman around 2 in the afternoon... weird. I no longer drink V8 Fusion or Honey Nut Cheerios...FYI. About a week into feeling sick I was lucky to have my sister-in-law Kim offer me some medicine to help with my nausea. I love zofran! It was my life saver. I got my own prescription and it helped me keep my food down and get through work. I still didn't feel great but it was a huge help and will always be thankful for it. The other weird part of morning sickness was how even the faintest scent of bacon or raw meat triggered my gag reflex. This post might be too much information but its my blog :) Anyway I think the thing I hated most about morning sickness was that it has made me not like the smell of Aaron's body wash. It was one of my favorite smell because it reminded me of when we first started dating. Now it only reminds me that it can make me queasy. It is funny though how being sick just becomes the norm and throwing up a few times a day becomes not a big deal. Yet even now whenever I hear our TV turn on, smell a candle I bought in the middle of morning sickness, think of my classroom observation hours, or look at my purple shirt I shudder because they all remind me of being sick. My morning sickness ended around 16 weeks and I am so glad. I still get sick from time to time but it always goes away. Aaron was glad that it ended too because I can't deny that my housekeeping went to pot. Who wants to do the dishes when it makes you gag? My poor house felt neglect for a few months. Next time I am pregnant I am going to definitely have to toughen up, but since it is was my first time I gave myself a break and luckily so did Aaron:)



Pregnancy Brain:



For those of you who know me you know that I can be a little aloof on occasion. I can be very comfortable in my own little brain thinking my own little thoughts and be clueless to some of the things going on around me. This is not how I am all the time and I am not proud of this character flaw, but hey. Since I have been pregnant I have noticed an up swing in my absent mindedness and What to Expect When Your Expecting says that absent mindedness is a side affect a pregnancy so there is my defence. There have been a few times though that its been really annoying. Like the time I went grocery shopping, got all of my food, went to check out and I didn't have my wallet. I had to go home while they put my food in the freezer so I could get money. Then there was the time I sucked up the window blinds cord with the vacuum and broke it. I hurried up and fixed it before Aaron got home so he wouldn't know... guess he does now. Then there was the other time when I left the water on in the front yard for 4 hours. Or when I thought KTAR said the word QU-TAR. Many times Aaron and I will be talking and he said "Lee you told me that yesterday". There have been more but with my current pregnant brain I can't seem to remember them.



Crazy Pregnant Lady Lee:



I can't pretend that I am someone who has my emotions together all the time. I am always working on trying to fix some flaw that I think I have. It can be exhausting and pointless sometimes. Luckily I married a boy who never does this and helps me be more at peace with myself. I am still a girl though, a pregnant girl at that, and sometimes I can't help it when I tear up over something as small as one of those Mormon Adds they have on the BYU channel or cry over the first part of UP! Being pregnant like most pregnant ladies know, makes you very in touch with how your feeling:) I (even if no one believes me) felt that for the first few months of being pregnant didn't get very emotional. It wasn't until recently that I have been feeling a wee bit more crazy. However, I did have my moments over the past few months that probably had Aaron very confused :) One Sunday night a few months ago we had just got home from Aaron's aunt's birthday party. At the time I was working on being a better house wife and making sure we had clean sheets and the laundry was always done... whatever. Anyway that night I was slacking and feeling like a bad wife. I had been lazy and not waited for our dryer to dry our sheets. The dryer hadn't been working all that great because we had moved it to put tile in the laundry room and it wouldn't get hot when we put it back in. So that night I tried to put damp sheets on our bed. This wasn't going to fly so I put them back in the dryer. Aaron was in the shower while I was doing all of this. While I was waiting for the sheet to dry I worked myself up because I wasn't a good housewife that could dry sheets. I eventually started to cry and that when Aaron found me. Poor boy. He asked me why I was crying and I told him it was because the sheets were wet and I was a horrible wife. He was trying so hard trying not to laugh at me. He told me to go lay down and he would fix the dryer, which he did. I got over the wet sheets.



Aaron:



Aaron has been really good to me. He has rubbed my feet and my back and picked up food whenever I didn't want to cook. He also was really supportive when I quit work a little earlier than planned, thank you! He has also helped me not be the baby and made me suck it up... more times than I would like, but its good for me. I am so glad the we are starting our own family and I am excited to see if our little girl will look like a Brooks or a Merrill. I know he is excited even if he doesn't want to be in the delivery room. Don't worry he'll be there, he just doesn't want to pass out, which he won't. He was sweet the other night. I do try not to wake him up during my many visits to the bathroom during the night, but I haven't been trying so hard now that I can't really turn over with feeling rather uncomfortable. Anyway the other night I woke up so hungry, I went to the kitchen to get some yogurt. When I reached for the yogurt I dropped the jar of salsa and it made a loud noise. A few seconds later Aaron came running out, looked at me and said I thought you fell over.... I thought it was sweet that he came to check on me. Even if it was just the pregnant lady getting a midnight snack:) He is going to be a good Dad.



The Name:



Aaron and I have butted heads about what this little girl will be named. He has liked the name Daisy since his mission. There was a family in Costa Rica whose Dad was some kind of ambassador and they were really good to the missionaries. They had a little girl named Daisy that really liked Aaron. She had blond hair and blue eyes and Aaron thought "I want a little girl with blond hair and blue eyes named Daisy". He told me that when we were first dating and my first thought was "like Daisy Fuentes?" We both felt like we would have a girl first and we looked through baby name books and family genealogy records looking for a name. Aaron always liked Daisy, but I could only think of all the Daisy's out there. Like Daisy Duke, Daisy Duck, Daisy sour cream, Daisy BB guns, Daisy the flower.... I liked the name but I still wanted to see what other names I liked. So over the past few months I have liked JOVIE, ELEANOR, MARGARET, REESE, RUBY, LUCY, ELLIE, TEAGAN and the ones that came and went I don't even remember what they were. JOVIE has been the only name I have been constant with me, but I can't think of a name that I just love! But Aaron can... DAISY has been the front runner since the beginning and the closer we get to my due date it looks like we are going to have a little Daisy. My thing is I am having the baby so I get the last say on what her name is. So if she comes out a little Daisy then she is Daisy, but if not then who knows what her name will be? Aaron and I still don't agree entirely on this but, we probably never will :) I can't wait to see her and who she is!