Petunia Pickle Bottom?

So, I'm not a luxury items girls, really. I like my jewelry, and I like my Dooney, but other than that I don't need the high end shoes, etc. So I really didn't expect to be that way with anything baby.....then I discovered Petunia Pickle Bottom. An odd name, I know. I'm not sure what it means, but it is a brand of high end diaper bags. I looked them up online http://www.petunia.com/ and fell in love.

I sweetly asked my loving husband if I could have a $200 diaper bag....you can imagine his response...so ok, no NEW Petunia for me. But that doesn't mean I can't have one!! Off to ebay! Ok, ebay is still a little priced....off to craigslist! Ahh, perfect. I found TWO Petunia's I loved. Both for VERY reasonable prices. I emailed them both, fully expecting the to both be gone. Lo and behold, they were both still available. What to do now? Well, one was reasonable priced at $50. The other? A STEAL for $25! So what is any saavy shopper to do, but get both!! To be fair, the second one is much smaller, great for quick trips and the like, while the first one is much larger, with a changing pad, etc. Great for longer trips and overnight.

Now, photos of the goods:


Here is the first bag, my FAVORITE!! A discontinued pattern, but close to what they offer now, and regardless, black, white, red...helloooo!!!


And here is the smaller bag. Year of the Dragon! I'm not crazy about the pom poms, so I might cut those off....opinions?

So, there ya go. And so Kevin doesn't feel left out, I just bought him a Diaper Dude bag:


because he refuses to wear my AWESOME PPB. Silly boy.

Anyway, that's all for now!!

So far, the worst thing is...

So I've had a pretty easy go of things. Nothing I can really complain about. But on Tuesday, I encountered what could possibly be the worst thing ever about my pregnancy....


Thin Mints gave me heartburn.


Like, immediately.


Now, I've been chewing tums since about week 5 with this baby, so heartburn is nothing new, but this was devastating. I usually can't pinpoint exactly what caused the said heartburn, so I just go along with tums in every place possible (bedroom, bathroom, work...). But this was clear. A food I can directly avoid to reduce the uncomfortable burning....which is only going to get worse as baby grows. To make matters even more tragic, I have an order of Thin Mints coming to me!! Do I dare eat and suffer the consequences? Would you?

In other news, we had our 18 week checkup this week. My doc found the heartbeat immediately (I guess its good she's better at it than I am). She says everything looks good, baby is growing and is located right where baby is supposed to be in my belly. She also said "Well, by 24-26 weeks, you'll really start showing." Ummm...excuse me!!! Please reference the previous post where I linked to a photo of my ever expanding belly....if that isn't showing, what is 8 more weeks going to look like!!!

Anyway, enough about me. Kevin's birthday is this coming Monday, and we're celebrating Saturday with friends and family. If you would like to come and either didn't get my email, or changed your mind, just let me know! A big Happy Birthday to my hubby!!!

Baby Update - 17w3d

Ok, so now it's time to fill everyone in on Baby. Things are going along very smoothly, so I have absolutely nothing to complain about. First trimester I had some nausea and food aversions, but I know it could have been MUCH worse than it was, so I'm not complaining about that. Once I hit 11 and a half weeks, all of that went away. Since then, things have been so easy it is kinda scary.

At 12weeks and 5 days, I found the heartbeat for the first time. I have a home doppler that I got from another preggie friend so I could find baby's heartbeat at home.
Click here, and ignore the video, just listen.

So that was very cool, because I couldn't feel the baby, nor was I showing, so this whole "being pregnant" idea was kinda abstract at the time.

Around 14 weeks, I finally felt like I was showing. I didn't notice, but one of my co workers mentioned something, so I decided to compare photos. I have been taking weekly ones since about 12 weeks.


So this is up to last week. You can definitely see the difference.

Starting this week I'm finally feeling like I'm pregnant. Some things are getting uncomfortable, and normal things I do at work I have started to have t think about. No more laying on my stomach, or putting any pressure there. I was demonstrating an exercise yesterday and had to stop because it was putting direct pressure on my belly, and that isn't so comfortable.

I also THINK I'm feeling the baby. It is really infrequent, so sometimes I think I'm imagining it, but sometimes I swear I'm feeling things. I'm sure this will get more and more frequent as time goes on and baby continues to grow.

Doctor appointment next Tuesday, and anatomy scan March 9th where we will find out sex, and make sure everything else looks good. I'm excited for that appointment, it is going to be a big one. We're doing the 4d scan, so we should get a good shot of baby.

Well, that's it for now, I'll let everyone know how things are progressing!!