Happy Halloween

Neil carved our pumpkin for this year. I was kind of grossed out this year with the smell of the pumpkin guts, so I volunteered to watch and take pictures!

Neil and I went to our "trunk or treat" at church Wednesday night. Our friends (Jamie and William) and us decorated William's trunk for the trunk or treat. Neil thought of our costumes for this year. Yes, we spent a total of $2 on our costumes! I'm so glad that I married a guy with a great sense of humor! I had to hold the bottom of my pumpkin, because my stuffing kept trying to come out!

She Moves!!! (A Little Halloween)

Last weekend, I went home to see my nieces and nephews dressed up for Halloween for their Fall Festival at church! I was so excited to get to spend some much needed time with my family. Neil didn't get to go...he had too much school work. This is a picture of 4 out of 5 of my nieces and nephews on my side. Yes, it is difficult to get everyone to be still and look at the camera for 2 seconds. Aren't they cute??? We have a princess, a contractor, a witch, and a race car driver.

On the way home (Saturday night) I was driving around the interstate ramp and felt a tickle across my stomach. I didn't think much of it until the next morning on the way to church when I felt a more distinct movement in my stomach. These small movements have continued throughout this whole week and I LOVE IT! I can really feel her at night when I lay down or in the morning when I'm waking up. Neil can't feel her yet, but hopefully soon!

Our Little Girl

Here are the pictures from our ultrasound at 18 weeks. We were not scheduled to find out the gender until another 2 weeks, but our doctor surprised us and took us into the ultrasound room. As you know, we are having a GIRL. As of right now, we are naming her Addison Kaylene Wilkerson. She is named after three of my favorite women. My mom's name is Kaye and my sister's middle name is Kaye as well, and my grandmother's name was Marlene. We combined the two names to get Kaylene. My grandmother passed away from cancer when I was 10 years old. She battled with cancer for 2 years and never gave up. I couldn't think of another person who I would want my little girl to look up to, then her great grandmother. I can't wait to tell Addison about her. I didn't leave Neil out, if it was a boy we were going to name the baby Eli after his great grandfather and great-great grandfather.

Addison was very active throughout the whole ultrasound. She was moving all around. The technician pushed on my belly to make her uncross her legs, then she got mad and moved around a lot more! The picture above is her head down and her body curved to the side.

This is her getting ready to kick her legs out straight!

This is my favorite. As you can tell this is her little foot.

This one is hilarious to us. She has her legs stretched all the way over her head. She is quite flexible!!!

This is the next shot from the picture above where she kicked her feet out. If you look close her hand is resting on her forehead. She seems to like to keep her hands above her head.

These pictures make me want to hold her, but the tech reminded us that she weighs about 9 ounces and is about 9 inches long. We want her to grow a lot more! Everyone continues to ask if I have felt any movement, but no not yet. Mayble in a few weeks!

We're Tickled PINK!

Neil and I went today for our 18 week appointment. Everything went great! The baby's heartbeat is strong and our doctor surprised us and moved us into the ultrasound room! We found out that we are having a GIRL! She was so active, she wouldn't sit still! I asked the technician if we could go buy pink and she told us we could buy all the PINK we wanted because she is definitely a girl! Neil and I are beside ourselves. We were happy before we found out, but now everything seems even more real. Now we don't have to call the baby it anymore, now it's she or her!!!

A Weekend Home

This past weekend, Neil and I went to Brunswick to visit my family. Friday night we stayed with mom and dad and then went with them to see my sister that lives in Jacksonville. This is a picture of us with my sister's kids, Ryan and Kyla. Ryan is not real excited about me having a baby. He doesn't like to talk about it, but we did ask him about names and he has decided that he's going to call our baby Pickle.


While we were in Jacksonville, we went to a new/used childrens' store called Once Upon A Child. We were going just to "look". We saw a husband and wife unloading a crib. My dad (who will talk to anyone) and Neil asked the couple about the crib. They were going to sell it to the store for whatever they could get. My dad began to tell them about me expecting and how we were looking for a crib. My mom and I were in the store browsing around when a lady came up to me and said, I met your dad and if you want our crib, you can have it. I was quite shocked and wondered what my dad had got me into. When I went outside I saw a beautiful crib. The sweet lady explained that she paid about $499 for this crib and it was in great condition, but apologized for the few dents. The lady refused to take any money and simply said, "I hope this blesses your life" and gave me a hug. After Neil and my dad loaded up the crib and we started on our way home, we realized we didn't even get their names. To those wonderful people, who were so nice to give us a crib...Thank You! Here is a picture of the crib. Right now it's upstairs above my parents' garage until we need it!



Neil and I don't ever get pictures of us together, so we took advantage of having someone to take pictures for us. In the picture above, I told Neil to quit poking out his belly. After he reassured me that he wasn't sticking out his belly, he thought this picture would be funny for our scrapbook!

17 weeks