Telling the Dixons

Sunday we traveled down to Pinson to celebrate Thanksgiving with John's family. His sister is in town with her four kids from Germany, so the Dixon household was loaded with kids! Eight, I think. We had a great time and ate some good food. Dash got to rough house around with his cousins and wore himself out.

We also told John's family about our family expansion. We were debating on telling them, it's so early. (5 weeks tomorrow, hooray!) Ultimately John decided to tell them and his mom was very excited. This is the tenth grandchild for her! I'm glad they were excited!

In baby news, I read on babycenter's weekly updates that BDV2.0 is the size of a poppy seed right now. Isn't it amazing that something so teeny can turn out so perfect? That 10 fingers and 10 toes could ever form from something the size of a poppyseed?

Check out this website for pictures of what the baby looks like now. I love this man's work.

http://www.lennartnilsson.com/child_is_born.html

4 Weeks!

You know the most wonderful thing about the first trimester? When you first find out you're pregnant you can kind of skip a few weeks. Like I've only known I was pregnant for 2 days and I'm already 4 weeks pregnant. :) Hey, it's the little things.

I'm so nervous during this stage; analyzing every twinge along with everything I eat. The new study on peanut butter during pregnancy being related to asthma, well, that just knocks out half my diet. My snack of late has been peanut butter on whole wheat bread. I hope that one's not true.

I'm excited about every little baby related thing I see, slowly realizing I can knit teeny tiny things and put them on MY baby again. Hooray! Like these: http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2008/11/14/whits-knits-baby-mocs.html I can't wait to make those!

More on the BFP...

John and I decided to start trying in late October and I actually got pregnant on our first cycle. All our dates are measured by October 22nd, 2008 (making me due on July 30th, 2009, I think). I was anxious, and started testing way earlier than I could possibly have expected to see anything. Finally, on Saturday (six days pre-missed-AF, I know, I'm nuts), I got an ever so faint line after letting the test stand there FOREVER. I decided to test again Monday morning (today) and sure enough, it wasn't too faint anymore.

So that's our very short story so far on the new pregnancy.

As far as the Dashman, he had his 18 month appointment today and is as healthy as a horse. 33 3/4 inches tall, 26lbs 11oz. 90th percentile height and 75th percentile weight. He's saying a ton of words (25 or so) and picking up more every single day. He hugs me and kisses me and melts my heart everytime I'm around him. It's amazing to get some affection back from someone you've loved for so long.

Welcome!

So, our little family has been in existence for a while now. We even have our own family blog elsewhere. (Check out Team Dixon). What in the world would prompt me to start a NEW blog?



THIS. :) Our little family of three is about to become four. Well, "about" is relative I guess. There actually won't be a fourth Dixon running around for 8 months or so. :)

So here's the plan. I'm going to keep this blog private and unsearchable until we're ready to share the news with the world (9ish weeks or so?) and then I'll link to it from our other blog. This is going to be the blog solely of my pregnancy and our kiddo, Mr. Dash Dixon himself. There will probably be a few duplicate posts on each blog, but I'll try to keep all of the mind-numbing pregnancy details on this one. :)