Weeks 20, 21, & 22!

This is a post for weeks 20, 21, and 22!
I am so far behind. My hope was to update everyone each week so that family and friends who do not see me every day would be able to share in my pregnancy experience.

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 20 Weeks
Size of baby: Baby Wilkins is the size of a banana.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: gained a little over 10 lbs
Maternity Clothes: mostly maternity; some regular shirts and dresses still fit
Gender: It's a girl!!! Emmalyn Caroline Wilkins
Movement: Feeling her move more and more. Justin felt her move for the first time this week.
Sleep: Sleeping has been pretty normal this week.
What I miss: Shrimp! That will probably be my answer until this pregnancy is over!
Cravings: Ice Cream; I was unable to eat it for so many weeks I guess I felt like I had to catch up on all I missed.
Symptoms: Tiredness is the main one this week.
Best Moment this week: Seeing Justin’s face after feeling her the first time. We had been to his Granny Wilkins’s Funeral and it had been a rough week. It was wonderful to see him have something to brighten his sad day.

How Far Along: 21 Weeks
Size of baby: Baby Wilkins is the length of a carrot.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: gained about 12 lbs
Maternity Clothes: mostly maternity; some regular shirts and dresses still fit
Gender: It's a girl!!! Emmalyn Caroline Wilkins
Movement: Feeling her move more and more.
Sleep: Sleeping has been pretty normal this week.
What I miss: Shrimp and spicy tuna rolls! That will probably be my answer until this pregnancy is over!
Cravings: Ice Cream; I was unable to eat it for so many weeks I guess I felt like I had to catch up on all I missed.
Symptoms: Tiredness is the main one this week.
Best Moment this week: Grandbee feeling Emmalyn move for the first time and Papa deciding to nickname her M&M after his favorite candy.

How Far Along: 22 Weeks
Size of Baby: Baby Wilkins is the size of a naval orange.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: gained about 12 lbs
Maternity Clothes: mostly maternity; some regular shirts and dresses still fit
Gender: It's a girl!!! Emmalyn Caroline Wilkins
Movement: This week she is starting to move all the time! She has found my bladder and is using it as a trampoline.
Sleep: Terrible; the dreams that I am having have been vivid and horror movie like. I will wake up sweating and not be able to get back to sleep.
What I Miss: Shrimp! That will probably be my answer until this pregnancy is over!
Cravings: Homemade trail mix: craisins, banana chips, cheerios, and chocolate covered raisins.
Symptoms: Tiredness and a catch in my hip and butt. I think baby girl may be hanging out on a nerve.
Best Moment this week: Enjoying a much needed date night with my hubby! We saw What to Expect When You are Expecting; it was a great movie that really hit home in my current situation!

Positively Expecting

This is a very detailed account of the events of January 16th, 2012. I will warn you that it will probably be boring to most but I am putting it here so that I can treasure the memory for my self and my family.

January 16th, 2012. I had been felling weird for a couple of days and noticed that when I would eat my daily serving of ice cream I would get very nauseas to the point of throwing up. This seemed peculiar to me since I love ice cream and have eaten it almost everyday of my life. I had an appointment set the next morning to finish a root canal so I ultimately made the decision that I might want to take a pregnancy test just to be sure. I waited for Justin to leave for work and then headed in the bathroom to take care of business. I waited the 3 minutes and then looked. I was a bit disappointed because only seeing the one line; I decided the test was negative. As I finished getting ready to leave the house, I suddenly thought… that line was different this time. Sure enough I looked back at the test and the line that I saw was the bright pink positive line with a much lighter line beside it. I was excited but still was not sure so I made the decision to go buy another test. Of course it ended up being a crazy day at my internship; by the time I got to buy a test I was on my way home. Justin had beaten me home so I had to sneak in the guest bathroom and take the test before he could figure out what I was doing. It had been hard not to say anything to him all day but I didn’t want to get his hopes up unless I was sure. I bought the type of test that reads out “Pregnant” or “Not Pregnant”, that way I would not be confused by the lines again. Haha… For the second time, I waited the 3 minutes, even though the test started to beep before then to tell me it had the results. It said “Pregnant”. I had already known that when I got a positive test I would want to tell Justin in a creative way, so during my lunch hour I had put together a power point just in case. While he was in the shower, I added a picture of both tests at the end of the presentation and then told him I had an early anniversary gift. We sat down and started the power point and I thought my heart was going to leap out of my chest! I knew this was something we both had wanted for some time but now that the reality was hitting I sat there in a panic. When it got to the last slide I was so over whelmed I started to cry; he looked at me and asked if I was serious. It was such a sweet moment. We had discussed before we were married that we wanted to wait and have children until I finished school or, if school took longer than expected, when we had been married 3 years. I got to tell the love of my life that we were expecting on the eve of our third anniversary! What a way to be reminded that God has our every step ordered and if we follow in the path he has set before us then we are always a part of his perfect timing.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:15

Has it been a year already???

Each year I make out a list of goals for the coming year. I have always believed that if you do not know where you are headed, it is very hard to get anywhere; hence my need to make a list of goals I want to accomplish each year. One of the goals I made for myself is to blog more. I know I have said it time and time again but I really feel like this time I am going to stick to it. I need an outlet for my rants... LOL! Just kidding, however I do need to get things off my chest from time to time and a blog seems to be a reasonable form of getting things out in the open. So for now I am setting my goal to simply blog more than I did last year. I believe this is obtainable, since this post will ensure that the goal is met because last year’s blog total was a big whopping ZERO! Stay tuned to see if I can do better than my original goal and post more than this once during 2012.

You will appreciate it when you are older

Over the course of my life I have heard the phrase “you will appreciate it when you are older” over a hundred times or more. Of course when you hear this as a child you roll your eyes and wonder how simply getting older will make one appreciate things more? Now that I am starting to get a little older I can see how age makes a difference in the way we see many things. For instance last night I was at the drug store buying some cough medicine and the cashier asked me to see my license. This sort of thing does not bother me since I understand this is a precaution to keep individuals who are under age from being able to purchase things that they may be tempted to abuse, however, it was what came next that was the kicker. I was digging in my purse to find my ID to give to the cashier, anyone who knows me personally would know finding something in my purse is often a difficult task so it took a few seconds. Meanwhile, watching me dig the cashier says, “sorry to have to card you but you look young”. So I say, “Oh that’s ok I get that a lot… “. She then says, “but, you are over eighteen right?”. Haha I about lost it… I am seven years nearly eight years past being eighteen! And before I know it I say to the cashier, “I guess that is something I will appreciate when I am older”. I then completed my purchase and headed out of the store laughing inside that after all these years I get it… I get how some things take time to appreciate them. I realized that the same thing that bothered me when I was eighteen and trying to get into dance clubs, (i.e. my few months of wild life… haha I really did just dance) now at twenty-five made me smile and appreciate that I do not look my age. Considering I found a white hair in the midst of all the dark ones on my head the other day; I am happy to look younger than my actual age. Someday, when I have children of my own I am sure at some point, I will tell them “you will appreciate it when you are older” and they will look at me and roll their eyes. Then sooner or later they will have to make the same call I did and say hey mom, I get it!

Here We Go Again...

So, to say I am behind at this point would be an understatement... It seems school took over my life and I have been unable to update my blog in ages. I would promise to do better but I have made that promise before and failed miserably. It is now December and I am wondering where has this year gone? I hope in time, I will look back on my years in school and not regret taking the time to get my education. Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed with the course work and the house work and working full time that I feel like I want to just give something up but know deep down that is not possible. I am looking forward for the day when I will be finished with school so I will have more time… haha that is what I say now but I know when I finish school I will just find another way to fill my time and will end up at some point overwhelmed again… it seems to be a reoccurring cycle in my life, if I am not busy then I find a way to become busy. Anyway enough of that soap box; I am excited for the Christmas season! I love the lights, the songs and getting to spend time with family and friends. Hopefully this will not be my last post for 2010 but I am not making any promises. haha

Bad... bad... girl

I am so sorry for being so behind… I am a bad… bad girl!.... I am trying to catch-up!!!



Day 12: Something You are OCD About (8/12/10)

How can I pick just one thing I am OCD about… there are so many.

To name a few:

Toilet paper has to always roll where the paper comes over the top not from underneath.

If I have a tube of anything it must be smushed from the end not squeezed in the middle. (this is why I quit buying toothpaste in a tube)

Towels must be folded in half and then in 3 parts so that they stack easily.

This is surely not all of the things I am OCD about but they give you an idea… since, I am so far behind and need to catch up on the rest of these posts.

Day 13 - A Fictional Book (8/13/10)


Redeeming Love By Francine Rivers

I mentioned in an earlier post that I love the book Redeeming Love. It is so good that about half way through, you will refuse to put down the book and force yourself to finish it in one night.

Day 14 - A Non-fictional Book (8/14/10)



My favorite non- fictional book is the Bible. I love the Lord and I love that he gave me an instruction manual for life; i.e. the Bible.


I will be back later with another post catching me up the rest of the way... sorry for the delay!

Mrs. Wilks

Two At A Time

Today because I am behind and because I am determined to do all 30 posts in this series I give you Day 10 & 11.



Day 10: A Photo Taken Over 10 Years Ago Of You



I had all intentions of copping out on this one and giving you guys a picture that was only about 6 years old but I remembered that a few months Aunt Bibit (that was my name for her when I was little)sent me a couple of old embarrassing pictures I just knew you all would love to see! haha I was in 6th or 7th grade when this picture was taken. It was taken in Momaw's old house be for the skunks came. (That is definitely a story for another day. Not sure what I was doing but Aunt Bibit and I were putting on a show I am sure... since that is what we spent most of our time doing. haha She and I have always had good time because we were only 6 years apart!

Day 11: A Photo Of You Recently



This picture was taken on the 4th of July at my house. In the picture are my friends Mrs. T, Mommy to Be (guess name will have to change that name when the baby comes), and Mandre (not her real name... it is a nickname given by Mr. Wilks and his buddys... maybe I should find out that story) . We had a great time hanging out and eating good food! I love spending time with friends!