Dinner Battles

Emily has been blessed not to have been sick thus far in her pregnancy, but one thing that she has battled with is any type of food sounding good to eat. Each day when she comes home for lunch I am at the house waiting for her phone call to let me know what she wants so I can have it ready when she gets here. She seems to have a small window of when she can eat without feeling sick. Today like most days was sweet tomato basil soup. I now keep a minimum of 3 on hand at all times:)

Lunch really hasn't been that bad for her as far as picking something that sounds good. Dinner on the other hand has been a challenge! I always have the ingredients to make at least 3 different things each night and give her the option of what sounds the best. Tonight's options were pork chops, chicken caesar salad (the dressing I make usually has a egg in it but I haven't been putting one in it since she is pregnant and it is still really good) or a chicken breast. She threw a huge curve ball at me tonight and requested that I fry the pork chop. I thought she was joking with me because Emily is not a big fan of fried food but apparently this baby is...HA.

So I set off for the kitchen thinking this could be the turn in the pregnancy I have been waiting for. When I can go back to making whatever I want for dinner cause I know she will like it, just like it was before she was pregnant. I was actually pretty excited as I started prepping everything for dinner because I have never made or even had a fried pork chop. Not a dinner staple growing up in Southern California...lol. Once dinner was ready and plated she sat down at the table and asked me to get her a glass of milk. Before I could get back from the refrigerator she had taken one bite and that was all she could do.

She lovingly looked at me with that sweet face of hers and I knew a trip to Wendy's or Chick fil A was in my future tonight:)

Love,
Emily, Scott and Houston

10 fingers and 10 toes

Today we went for our 11 week check up and got to count Baby Burton's toes and fingers. I am still just blown away on how much detail you can see in an ultrasound at just 11 weeks. One thing we noticed right away was the size of Baby Burton's feet. That is one thing Emily and I always joked about long before she was ever pregnant was how big our child's feet would probably be. I wear a size 13 and Emily wears a 10. The other funny thing about today was how much that little baby was moving. Dr. Williams had a tough time getting a clear ultrasound because that baby was dancing like it was at a concert. Dr. Williams said several times about how active this baby was. Aside from my large feet the baby is already a lot like me cause I can't sit still. Before Dr. Williams came in Emily had to ask me several times to just sit down and quit pacing around the room. Here is a picture of the baby from the ultrasound, you can see the blur by the baby's knee and on it's back where it was moving around. This was the most still the baby was the entire time and this is the only good picture we got from this visit.

After the ultrasound Emily had to get some blood work and a flu shot.  Emily has never done well with getting blood taken cause her veins are so hard to find. Luckily they were able to get her vein on the first try.

Most of you know I am obsessed with doing time lapses. The day we got home from California from finding out Emily was pregnant, I setup a camera and have been documenting her progress every few days right now. Here in a few weeks as she starts to show a little more I will start doing a picture a day. Here are a couple pictures showing you the angle and where the camera is. I put a couple pieces of tape on the ground where she puts her toes and to mark where I want the shot. With Emily being such a clean freak, I'm sure it is driving her nuts having to see tape on the ground and a camera mounted on a bench until May.

That is all we have for now....Thanks for checking on us.

Love,

Emily, Scott and Houston