Baby Dickerson Lets Us in on the BIG Secret!!!!!!!

Sean took me to Chipotle for dinner before our second attempt. I made sure there was plenty of Verde salsa (their hot salsa) and even had some of his barbacoa (spicy beef). And just for a little extra help I drank a vanilla coke! I was determined to get this baby moving!!!! Luckily for us it worked!!!!! At approximately 6:50 pm on Thursday, December 23rd we were finally able to put a name behind "baby"! We are expecting a little baby girl, Quinn Sarah Dickerson!!!!!!

Stubborn Like HER Momma OR Doesn't Fight Fair like HIS Daddy?

Well we have one stubborn, but HEALTHY baby! We had our much anticipated 19th week check up yesterday and we have all 10 fingers and toes! Can you say BIG sigh of relief!!!!! Baby is breech and sitting on my bladder (they are not concerned about the breech part, plenty of time for baby to move) with legs against belly feet toward my bladder and umbilical cord in-between legs. We tried everything, except a headstand (I tried but no one would let me) to get this baby to move! Sean is more convinced than ever that it must be a girl (stubborn like me), however, I rebutted that baby is playing dirty just like HIS daddy. We have scheduled an appointment with Belly Image for tomorrow evening to try again. So, hopefully baby decides to let us in on its secret. Our sonographer said when we come back for our check up on January 18 th she'd take another peak, so we should at least have more pictures to share in January! If all goes well I will have gender updates for everyone Christmas Eve!

A Dream is Realized!

Saturday, September 11 th I awoke at 4:30 with the need to pee. I decided since I was already up I decided I should take a pregnancy test (4 days past due). I used a test my friend had given me the month before when we were sure I was pregnant. Now the problem with this is all I had was the test in the package, no directions or brand listed. So here I am starring at this test trying to figure out what I should be seeing. I spent 45 minutes searching online trying to find out if my test was to have a plus sign and a dash sign or just two dashes. I COULDN’T find anything online that looked like mine or had blue markers instead of pink. Finally I decided to wake the hubby; mind you it is 5:15 am on a Saturday at this point. I walked into our almost pitch black room and whispered “Babe, can you help me with something?” He responded, very sleepily “Yah, whatcha need?” I turned on the light and said “I took a pregnancy test and I think it’s positive, but I’m not sure.” No exaggeration he jumped straight to his feet! I’ve never seen him so excited or willing to get up that early, let alone on a Saturday!!!!!! He came into the bathroom and looked at it “Yah, I think it’s positive!” I still wasn’t certain; I didn’t want to get my hopes up. So I asked if we could go to the store and find the package to make sure. He went and got dressed and sat on the stairs playing on his phone while I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and got dressed. I came out of the room and gave him my usual “Babe, REALLY?!?!?” At which point he responded “Why don’t you ask me what I’m doing before you get upset.” So I huffed and asked “Ok, what are you doing?” With the cutest little grin he responded “I’m checking to see what the best pregnancy test is. So we can buy it and make sure we’re using the most accurate one. I’ve check 7 sites and they all say First Response.” Yep that’s my adorable, research driven husband! You don’t buy ANYTHING without checking to see what’s going to give you the best result!

So, we went to Wal-Mart at about 5:45 am on a Saturday to buy a pregnancy test. Now as most of you (or to be realistic all of you) know we both look like we are in high school. We joked the whole way there about how people were going to take one look at us and assume two high school students are having a pregnancy scare. After we’d been home for an hour or so I was ready and able to take my second test. Armed with a full bladder and my new digital pregnancy test, I headed off to the restroom. After a few seconds there was my answer . . . “Yes ”. After reading the result I went flying down the stairs to Sean whom was relaxing on the couch watching some TV. I jumped on the couch, almost right on top of him; “Babe! It says yes! I’m pregnant!” I’ve never seen Sean’s face light up like that and the hug I got couldn’t have been any better! I of course, started bawling. We spent the rest of the morning laying around and calling each other “Baby Momma” and “Baby Daddy”.

Daddy's Day

I made this cake for our father's day celebration.  He loves Chocolate and peanut butter.  So I made a dark chocolate cake with a light chocolate BC and filled it with a chocolate-peanut butter filling.  One of his favorite ways to spend a nice day is outside golfing.  TFL!