13 Weeks Today!

I apologize for being a blog slacker! It has been a busy few weeks in the Browning household. For starters, football season is in full swing!!! The Eagles are 3-1 and doing great (especially the defense if you ask me)! Also, the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are FAST approaching (we are just 6 days away), so my job has been getting more and more busy. It's going to be a great event, though, I'm just ready for it to get here!

During the last couple of weeks we have officially outed the news that we are pregnant. It was so fun to tell all of our friends and coworkers. Of course, everyone is so excited for us! The pregnancy seems so much more real now that people know, it's weird! It's like we've known these last 3 months, but since we couldn't really talk about it much it seemed less real! It's fun though, I'm loving every minute of this!

I've been feeling SO much better lately, especially the last week. I am so glad the "morning" sickness seems to be fading. I even went a couple of nights without my medicine, so that's good. I am hoping to stop taking that completely, but for now I'm just taking it randomly at night. My next doctor's appointment is 9/30 and it is just a checkup (no ultrasounds or anything fun scheduled for that appointment), but I am still excited. Apparently they will check the heartbeat at this appointment using some piece of equipment that goes across my belly. I've never had this before, so I'm excited to see how that goes. And SOOO excited to hear the heartbeat (I've seen it but never heard it). So that will be fun!

Last week, Hays and I visited Babies R Us to look around. We have SO much to learn! Oh my goodness! The clothes and bedding were all so cute, but when it comes to the bottle choices, breast pumps, formula/baby food options.....ahhhh!!!! It's all so much to comprehend! We were a little overwhelmed, so we spent most of our time in the bedding and clothes sections. There is some SERIOUSLY precious stuff (will definitely post pics soon)! We already have our favorites, but who knows what we will officially decide on (we can't do anything until 10/28 or later- that's when we find out what we're having)!

I haven't really had any weird cravings for anything. On Labor Day I was home all day and ended up eating a variety of random food (none of which I will EVER eat again, especially not together): orange sherbery, applesauce, and marshmellows. Yummy, right?!?! I don't think it was really a "craving", it was more of just what looked good when I was going through my fridge and pantry. :)

I am still wearing normal clothes, and I don't think I'm showing at all (I apologize for no new pics lately- I can't find my camera cord). I can't wait to have a little baby bump to show off though. Today we went to our friend Dallas' birthday party tailgate and there was a girl there who is 4 weeks ahead of me in her pregnancy and she is REALLY showing. It's so cute and I can't wait for that!!! This morning when Hays got up to go to football I went to a yard sale in my neighborhood (which I rarely do, but I was intrigued by this one because it's in the nicer/way bigger house section of my neighborhood) and I found TONS of cute maternity clothes. I will be the first to admit that I have no idea how maternity clothes work and how sizing goes for this stuff, but I found a bunch of stretchy-belly pants in size M and a couple of cute flowy tops and even a fun dress! I am not showing or anything yet so I didn't try anything on, but I am looking forward to fitting into my maternity deals!!! 11 pieces for $25- you can't beat that! (Don't worry, Daddy, I will wash the clothes twice before I will try them on....promise.)

This week, Hays' cousin Nathan dropped off a bag full of baby books that he and his wife Blair found on a shelf at their house. They are done having babies, so they passed down the books to us! So thoughtful! I am really excited about reading them. Many of them are about "baby's first year", so that will be neat! Right now all the books I'm reading are about pregnancy, so it will be fun to learn about the fun things that are to come later on.

So that's what's new with us. We are talking about Brayley more and more and getting more and more excited about being parents! We hope March gets here very soon, but we are enjoying reading about baby "Brayley" every week- this week he or she is the size of a PEACH!