An {Apple Seed} is so Tiny!

 

I was so excited to start this blog and I need to be better about using it! I suppose as soon as I have people to share it with I will be more motivated {hopefully}. 

According to my baby tracker I am 5 weeks and 5 days along and baby Alfred is the size of an apple seed {awe}. I had an apple recently and just gazed at the seeds, they're so tiny. I can't believe how small baby is. 

I can not wait until our first appointment, SEPTEMBER 7th! I am anxious to can ask a million questions get tons of information. Although I have "experience" with children I am still a first time mommy and to be completely honest I am overwhelmingly scared. It's the most important role I will ever have in life and I pray that I am a loving, nurturing, encouraging and understanding mommy. I hope my children know they are loved and I pray I am someone they are able to look up to, depend on and trust. 

So far I am feeling pretty great! I have breast tenderness/pain & occasional cramps and light nausea, but nothing I can complain about. There were a few nights my breasts hurt pretty badly, but nothing like the pain I've heard about from others. All in all I think I can say I feel great {so far}! 

Matt's parents are planning to visit over Labor Day weekend. We are planning to tell them the same way I told Matt (with Keelie wearing her shirt). We are super excited. I plan to call my mom before then. She has expressed several times about wanting to be the first call. I'd rather tell her face to face, but since she has insisted on wanting to be "first" I will call her instead. I am anxious to finally tell our family and friends our news! It's so exciting and I feel like I could explode from keeping this secret. 

I have also decided to deactivate my facebook, I feel a bit too old for it and I don't have much of a use for it anymore. I doubt many will notice I am gone from it anyway, I rarely communicate with anyone on it and am unsure if I trust it's privacy and security settings. Matt will be happy to hear about that decision as well, he's never been a fan of facebook. I plan to just share this blog address with  family and friends who wish to follow our pregnancy & want to get updates and photos. 

"I'm so little now

It's really hard to see

All of the potential 

That's stored inside of me

~

Each time you eat an apple

Just remember what you know, 

That wonderful and marvelous things, 

From little seeds do grow" 

- George L. Rogers 

The full poem is adorable and very much about an apple seed growing into a big tree, but I liked the first and last verse because it makes me think of our little seed growing "big and strong" inside of me. It all still doesn't feel real! 

I promise once I share the web address I will post more frequently, please continue to read and keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Love, 

Kristen

I feel a bit insane writing and talking to no one on here. I can not wait to share this link and know I am sharing information with at least a few people, right now I feel like I'm just talking to myself.