Baby Shower

I am spending this week at home since I have the week off for spring break. My fabulous sisters, mom, and friends threw a baby shower for me and it was a blast. We had people coming from all over. Kyle's mom came up from Texas. My sister came in from Indiana and several of Kyle's family came over from Missouri. It was so good to see family and friends and it makes me miss living around here even more. Here are just a few pictures from the day and thank you to all of my amazing family and friends and their generosity to me, Kyle, and our baby girl.

My mom, sisters, and neice and nephew who helped throw the shower. Thanks for everything guys!


My awesome friends Savannah and Lauran who helped throw my shower. Thanks girls! Lauran has a little friend for our little girl in her belly right now, she's almost done with her first trimester.


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Kyle's mom, Aunt Shelby, and Aunt Erika


My amazing friends that I still have from high school. I love you girls!


My Geggie teacher friends and now my blogging friends too, Megan and Katie drove from Eureka to come. It was so good seeing you girls, thank you sooo much for coming. Megan and Katie both have blogs, Megan has some cute crafty stuff and Katie is an amazing photographer.


It was an awesome day and we got tons of great stuff for our little girl. Thanks everyone for everything!!!

Not a Calm Day

Some days our baby girl is calm and relaxed and I can just imagine her just chilling and relaxing in there. Well today was not one of those days. It started when I was actually sitting down at school(this doesn't happen that often) and we were reading in the library. Well she started moving all over the place and pushing and kicking. It was cute and maybe that means she likes reading!! Then later I was doing a Jeopardy review game with my 6th graders and she was all over the place. Jeopardy isn't quiet in my classroom like it is on tv either. We play boys vs. girls and they get so excited it's hard to keep them in their seats. Well with all of the excitement and all of the moving around I was doing I was shocked that she was so active. All of a sudden I felt a huge punch to the kidneys or something because I said Ow! The kids were like what's wrong Mrs. Toti. I told them I just got sucker punched by the baby. They were like are you alright. Well I was and then two 6th grade boys said, Sorry Mrs. Toti we taught her karate. They crack me up. So either our baby loves Jeopardy or is going to be a karate fighter.

Only in Harrogate

I was sitting out on our front porch today because it was beautiful out. I was talking to my mom on the phone for a while and letting Bailey run around and in those 10 minutes of sitting outside I saw two interesting things on the road. The first one was 2 kids driving a 4 wheeler. We live on a pretty busy street so that was weird. The second was even weirder. I saw a kid sitting on his mom's lap driving a pick up truck. The lady wasn't even holding onto the steering wheel and the kid was like 4 years old. He looked like this kid off of Jerry Maguire.

To top it all off the truck was a spray painted camouflage truck, just didn't have the dog in it. Oh, Harrogate...

Pound of Ground Beef

Ok, I have to start this post out by saying I love you Colleen and I'm only sharing this because you are one of the funniest friends I've ever had! So I went for a girl's day of shopping with my friend Colleen and Alarie. Alarie is pregnant too and her due date is 5 days after mine. We were sitting having an Auntie Anne's pretzel (delicious by the way) and Colleen asked how big the babies were right now. I said they are as long as a ruler. Well then she asked how much do they weigh and Alarie said between 1 pound and pound a half. Colleen then was baffled by how skinny that would make our babies. She then asked, so are they like a snake. By this time, I am busting up laughing and I said no they are more full than that. Then, she goes...Oh, like a pound of ground beef. I start to laugh even harder. She goes well that's a pound and if you stretch it out to about the size of a ruler that's how big your babies are. So yes, right now our baby girl is a stretched out pound of ground beef! I love you Colleen, thanks for the laughs and the fun day of shopping. Our pound of ground beef baby girl can't wait to meet her funny Aunt Colleen.

Bailey likes her baby sister already too!! Yes, it's frozen but Kyle said it would make her sick so I took it away from her, don't worry.

Bass Pro Baby

Kyle and I drove to Gatlinburg last weekend to go to his favorite store Bass Pro Shop. Kyle had some gift cards to use and he actually said we were going to buy baby bedding. I wouldn't let him get the bedding but he did a few things for his little soon to be fisherwoman. She now has her very own bass pro bib and a pink camouflage bottle. Yep, a camouflage bottle, you read it right. I wonder how long until she has her own fishing pole.

I'm so ready for spring so I broke out my skirt and said I hate you snow, please come spring. I even wore a yellow shirt and yellow earings hoping the sun would come out today annnnnd it did! I thank you. I know I'm a dork. Well here's 24 weeks for you. Only 16 more to go. We'll have a baby here in less than 4 months...crazy! Oh, she's moving like crazy now and Kyle loves feeling her move around and kick like she's going for a field goal. Kyle said she was moving last night while I was sleeping. Weird to think she's moving even when I'm sleeping.

I also got to wear my cute Christmas boots...thanks Grandma.

Half Gallon Baby

So I have a half gallon of milk in me, but no not because I drank one because that's how big our baby is. I got an email today that said at 24 weeks our baby girl will be the size of a half gallon milk! That seems huge! One girl today at school said Mrs. Toti you're so big, you're going to have a huge baby. A teacher that heard it said no she's not, she's really small. The girl proceeded to tell me that she thinks the baby will be like 10 pounds. REALLY??? What junior high kid tells a teacher that. I just stood their and said, nope she's really not that big. After reading the milk email though she does sound big.

Tonight I am headed to water aerobics at LMU. Yep, I sound like a 60 year old grandma saying I'm headed to water aerobics. The woman that teaches yoga that I go to told me about it and said it feels really good to be in the water when you're pregnant. I can't use the excuse that I don't have a swimsuit, because before our Thanksgiving cruise I bought a maternity swimsuit top. It didn't fit at all when we left for the cruise but now it definitely does. I may even give you a sneak peek of what I looked ilke before heading off to water aerobics (haha, every time I say that I laugh and picture a bunch of older women wading around in the water).

Do you notice anything that has grown besides the baby? Yeah, definitely a good sympton of pregnancy. :)

*Post water aerobics update- Ok so it did look like this...

But it was actually a decent work out. My lower back or actually "sacrum" (my fancy medical term, aren't you proud) actually felt better after being in the water for an hour. I will definitely be going back to go swimming with all of the grandmas (Don't laugh at me).

Weird Dreams...

So one thing I didn't expect with pregnancy were these crazy dreams that I've had. When I was only about 10 weeks I woke up from such a surreal dream that we had already had the baby. I woke up thinking I had actually had the baby, it was really bizarre. Well just recently I've had the dream that has topped any so far. So if you didn't know, Kyle would've really liked having a boy. Sure he's going to love his little girl and he'll be wrapped around her finger but he thought without a doubt we were having a boy...boy, do I like being right :). Anyway, so I had a dream that I went into labor, ok nothing new there have had those dreams before. Well when it came to the baby our Doctor said here's she comes....wait it's a boy. At this point, Kyle starts shouting Yes! Yes!! I told you so!! in my face while I'm still pushing (something he would totally do). Then the doctor said wait there's another one, and I was thinking WHAT!!! We only ordered one! Well what do you know that one was a boy too. Kyle was really going nuts at this point and was jumping up and down and yelling Told you so! I knew I was right! Then, I woke up.

Hmmmm, what does this dream tell me. I don't know. Are we really having a boy? Pretty sure that's a no since the ultrasound tech. said she was 100% sure it was a girl. Are we having twins? I SURE HOPE NOT! Don't get me wrong I love babies and excited for this one, but exactly just excited for this one, not two. I don't know what it means but I'm interested to find out what the next crazy dream will be about.