Mommy squish

Ava loves giving me squish hugs. She always runs up and says mommy squish and squeezes me as tight as she can. Even when we are in the car she asks for my arm to squeeze. I have to say I absolutely love that she loves to squish me so much. Now that I am pregnant she talks to my belly and says, "do you want a squish too baby" and she hugs my belly real tight.

Pregnant with #4

I am pregnant with baby #4. I am 12 1/2 weeks along. I always want to jump ahead and say 13 weeks, or whatever week is ahead of what I am :) I already have a little bump. I don't know if that is exciting or a little depressing. Oh well, I exercise at the gym 4-5 times a week and I eat healthy, so it doesn't really matter, right? This is actually my 6th pregnancy, so I think my body is just poking out faster. We have had 2 miscarriages between Ava and this pregnancy. One was this last June and one was the June before. That was a very hard thing to go through, both babies were around 9-10 wks but we never heard the heartbeat with either of them. We have had several ultrasounds with this baby. It has a good strong heart beat around 170 and at the last ultrasound it was moving around like crazy. I have felt it move a few times already. I have felt all of my babies at 12 weeks. I am due Aug 17, 2014. I am hoping it comes a little early like Calvin and Lily did because it is going to be a hot summer being big and pregnant. Ava is going to be 4 in May and so it has been a little while since we had a little baby in our house. We are all so excited. Everyone is kind of hoping for a boy except Ava, she wants a little sister. Of course we would be happy with either but Calvin really wants a brother. We will hopefully find out at the ultrasound on March 5. I am starting to feel better. I was really sick for a while. Of course I didn't throw up, I never throw up. I was just soooo nauseous all the time, and headaches and tired. I have been on a high dose of progesterone and so I think that was making me feel worse. This was the first pregnancy that I had to take anti nausea medicine. Zofran helped quite a bit. I am looking forward to the 2nd trimester, I always feel great and love watching the little bump grow.