Ready for Fall!

I have been busy the past few days, with fun stuff though :) I worked Sunday-Tuesday. Wednesday we had our 20 week ultrasound. Everything looked great, but Miss Avery was being shy. She had her face buried in my placenta with her hands in front of her face. Poor Dr. Hernandez recorded the ultrasound for us, but he couldn't get any good shots. She is definately still a girl, and everything else looked great. She weighs a whopping 3/4 lb! I go back in 4 weeks for my 1 hour glucose tolerance test. He will do another ultrasound then so hopefully she will be hyped up on the sugar and we can get some good pictures! Thursday one of the girls I work with and I drove up to the other side of Houston to visit another girl we used to work with. This is a 21 week picture Josh took before I left, my bump is growing!

While we were up there we went to the outlet mall and I kinda went crazy :) They were having some really good sales and I am going to try to not get too much more. I know we will get a lot of cute stuff for the baby showers, but I couldn't help myself! Today I ran errands. I also stopped by hobby lobby to get a few more fall decorations. I got everything put out today. I think it looks really good. This is on top of our TV armoirre:

This is our dining area:

I also got a bunch of the new fall scents from bath and body works. My house smells like fall! If only it would get cool!

Our Life Lately

Sorry its been so long since I updated. We haven't been up to too much lately.
We have been hanging around the house:
Enjoying the pregnancy (gotta love pickles!)
Our baby girl is growing! These are the ultrasound pictures from our last ultrasound...I was 16 weeks...

I think I am about 18weeks in this picture...Izzy is jumping up for her treat!

I went up to Arizona this past weekend to visit my mom and Gigi. We had 4 generations of girls together (one in utero of course!)

My mom and Gigi both got to feel Avery moving around. Josh got to feel her the night before I left for my trip...she is a strong kicker! Josh says she is going to be a soccer player, I think she will be a high stepper!

Here are some more pictures from my trip. It was absolutely beautiful out there, 70 degrees in the morning, no humidity and beautiful views.

My mom and Uncle Ric:

My Uncle Ric and his dog Lucy

Beautiful Views:

It's a girl!!!!!

It's a GIRL!!!!! No doubt about it. We went to the doctors on August 24th, as soon as he put the ultrasound on my belly, she was there spread eagle. Dr. Hernandez zoomed in and said no doubt about it, all GIRL! I started bawling! I know its bad to say, but I wanted her to be a girl so badly. Of course if she had been a boy, he would have been the most loved little boy in the world and we would have been thrilled. Josh was shocked, he said "I really didn't think we made girls." He is loving the idea of a Daddy's little girl. He heard the Darius Rucker song "It won't be like this for long" and got all teared up, its about a little girl and her daddy. I know he is going to make an amazing father. I was able to contain myself for a whole day, then I had to go get a couple of girly things. Mrs. Aleta got me the outfit in the middle in July, we have kind of been planning for a little girl :)



Everything else looked great in the ultrasound. My due date is still February 4th, 2010. He was able to show us the spinal cord and the insertion of the umbilical cord, everything looks normal with all of that. So there are no signs of any neural tube defects or ventral wall defects. She wasn't as active this time, but I had worked the night before so we were both sleepy. I think I MIGHT be starting to feel little "flutterings" but I think it might still be gas :) I am starting to show a little bit more, but Josh and I are really the only ones who can notice it. Everything is just getting firmer in my lower abdomen. We took some pictures today. I made 17 weeks yesterday.

Everything around here has been going great. I am not working quite as much, so I have more energy on my days off. Josh is in the clinic, waiting to get all the patients and adjustments that he needs to graduate. We go back to the doctor's office September 23. Josh has the second part of his licensing boards September 11-13. So he needs to start studying for that, say a prayer that he does well on them. We are also going to begin working on the nursery soon. So exciting!
That's about all for us now.
Love,
Josh, Cherish and baby GIRL LeBlanc

Nursery Plans

Josh went to San Antonio this weekend, so I have been catching up on housework and playing on the computer. I think I have decided on most of the nursery stuff.

This is the nursery furniture I like:

If its a girl:If its a boy:

I picked out the crib bedding when I was VERY early and surprisingly I actually still like it! I figured I would change my mind a few times before I settled on something, but I keep coming back to it and I really love it. I think we are going to get the furniture and the bedding for really good prices...compared to some of the other stuff I have seen. I will probably order the furniture this week since it is on backorder, that way it will all get in on time. And we will procede with the bedding once we know what we are having. My plans for the nursery/guest room are to turn the big bed we have in there and turn it into kind of like a day bed. I have a tan comforter that will go with either set and then add coordinating pillows for decoration. If it is a boy, Josh gets off easy because the room is already painted blue. BUT if its a girl, I would like to do two pink walls and two tans walls. It just sucks because we will be moving back shortly after the baby is born so the baby won't be in the room that long. But I just can't have a baby without preparing a nursery for him/her!

That's about all that as been going on around here. I worked 4 days last week, so I was exhausted by the end of that, I have recouperated this weekend, and get to do it again on Sunday. The good thing is though, I only work two days, then I have 4 days off. Josh has finished up with all of his classes, praise the Lord! So now he will just have clinic duty. His schedule will also be a little bit better, he should get off around 1:00pm if he doesn't have any patients. Hopefully that will give us a little more time to spend together. One more week till THE ultrasound! We will find out what this little jumping bean is! I will keep everyone update.

Lazy Weekend

We have had a very lazy weekend. Friday I had a horrible headache, and I had worked the night before. So I ended up sleeping most of the evening. When I woke up I was STARVING, so I made a classic comfort meal, Grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. Josh had never had that until we got married, but he isn't crazy about the tomato soup. It looked cute, so I took a picture:
















Today, once we got up and moving, we ran some errands around town. Since I was dressed up cute and I think I am starting to get a little bit of a baby bump, I had Josh take a our first belly picture. 14 weeks and 2 days:


















Izzy thinks she is getting a treat, which is why she is sitting there so sweetly. While we were running errands, I had Josh stop at Motherhood Maternity. I just wanted to look a little. I found a really cute shirt that I could wear around the holidays and it was only $20. The best part is whenever you try stuff on they have a little pillow "bump" that you can put on underneath the clothes, to see how it will fit once you have a belly. Of course, I had to try that on! It was sooo funny, I wish I would have had my camera with me but it looked really cute. I go back to work tomorrow for four in a row...ugh. But I am off next weekend and then after that I am not working more than three in a row. My back is really starting to bother me when I work too much, thank goodness I have got a chiropractor in the house :)

13 weeks 5 days!

Things have been going great in the LeBlanc household over the past month or so. Josh had a great birthday, we went to the Lil Wayne concert with some of our friends. Mr. Chris, Mrs. Aleta a Summer came in for the 4th of July. We went to Philadelphia July 24-27. Josh, Jonnilin and Julian met us up there! We got to visit and do a lot of sight seeing. Our big computer is down so we haven't been able to upload very many pictures. When we got back from Philadelphia Mrs. Aleta, Corey, Summer and Cole were driving through and stopped to visit for a couple days. It worked out perfectly because I had my OB appointment while they were in town. So Summer and Mrs. Aleta got to see the baby. It was AMAZING how much he/she had grown. The baby went from looking like a bean at the 8 weeks appointment to looking like a perfect little baby at this last one. He/she was wiggling and moving ALL over the place. I wish I could feel it, because it was soooo active! We finally got some good pictures. This first one is the classic side view:

I love this one because you can actually see the little details in the face:

His ultrasound is so high-tech. He was able to switch back and forth between regular and 3-D. I think these kind of look like an alien though:

I like this one because you can see the little hand covering the face:

It was still too soon to tell what we are having. But so far everything looks great. He even bumped my due date up a week. I was 12 weeks 5 days for the ultrasound, so he changed my due date to February 4th, 2010! We go back at the end of August so we SHOULD be able to tell what we are having then, even though my mom wants me to wait till the end of September when she is visiting to find out. I will try to update more, but as far as the pregnancy goes there isn't much new information. I am still not really showing, still wearing my regular clothes. I lost 3 lbs while I was sick and had no appetite. So since I am feeling better now I am trying to eat more and start gaining a little bit.

Baby LeBlanc February 2009!

My second OB appointment was today. Dr. Hernandez did another ultrasound. I measure 7 weeks and 4 days, which puts my due date February 11, 2010. He will do ANOTHER ultrasound in 4 weeks when I will be almost 12 weeks and that should give us an "official" due date, he said it could change a little bit as the baby grows :) We got to hear the heartbeat today, it was pounding along at about 170 beats per minutes which is good. Dr. Hernandez also said I have a retroverted uterus. Which means my uterus basically points the wrong way at the top. No big deal, but it makes it hard to get any good pictures this early in the pregnancy. So no pictures yet, but we go back on July 28th for our next appointment.

Its after midnight so today is Josh's 26th birthday! In the morning we are driving out the Woodlands and spending the day out there. Tomorrow night we are going to the Kidd Rock, Lyndrd Skynrd concert out there. Some of my friends from work and Josh's friends from school are coming to party with us. Will try to update again soon!