McLernon Family Blog

I am posting some shots of me and the baby bump. That is a pretty polite term for it. The bump lasted for about two days—and then turned into a large mound. There is another girl in my office that is pregnant (well there are 3 others). However, one is only about 3 weeks ahead of me. I thought at first that it would be fun to have a co-worker that was going through some of the same things—but I find myself constantly thinking things like “she isn’t always wearing maternity clothes”, or “My stomach is bigger than hers”. I know- I need to grow up. House update- this has turned into a mess. The deal is close to falling through. We should know by tomorrow what is going to happen. I will keep you posted. Let me say the last two days have been very, very stressful. I have a doctor appointment tomorrow—I think it will be pretty routine. According to the internet, the baby is currently about the size of an apple! Side note here: the baby feels like a watermelon on my bladder. Then the next ap...

It has been pretty busy around our house lately. In between BBQs and having out of town guests, it appears that we have sold the house. It looks like we have about 27 days to find a new place to live. We also have 27 days to get a home inspection (fix anything on the home inspection), have a garage sale, pack, find a house, sign 5 million documents and move. Good thing our September calendar was clear. For anyone who does not know, Ben and his friend Walt totally remodled and added on to our house. I will attach some “finished” pictures and when I find time I will post some work in-progress pics too. It was a tremendously HUGE job and they did wonderful work. My next OB appointment is next week—I will be 15.5 weeks at that appointment. Then on September 29th we have an ultrasound and hopefully we will be able to find out if we are having a boy or girl. I have been continuing to feel good, although I like to rest a lot. This week—my 14th week—the fetus is about the size of a flip cell p...

Attached is the 12 week ultrasound picture that I mentioned in the previous post. You can see above the head is a hand and if you zoom in you can even see fingers. To the other side, up above the baby you see a little thing. That is a foot. In the ultrasound the baby was kicking her legs and moving-- put when the picture was taken, the leg was out of sight, so you just see the foot up top. But I promise- that is a little footsie. SO CUTE! In other news, my very sweet mother sent me a set of new maternity clothes today—AND I really need them. I had to wear a suit to work today for a meeting- and it was terrible. I had rubber bands and safety pins holding up my pants but it still wasn’t working. By the time the end of the day came I was so stressed and uncomfortable I couldn’t take it. What a perfectly timed surprise to find new clothes on my door step. Thanks Mom.

Welcome to our family blog. We hope to keep this site updated, so if you are interested, you can find out Ben and Sunny’s Pregnancy updates. So far a lot has happened. We had our first home PG test positive on June 10th. We had our fist OB appt on July 7th (yes it does seem like a really long time to get into the doctor’s office, but that is how they do it). At that appt Ben and I got to see the baby and see the heartbeat. The ultra sound picture is posted. Around the end of July Ben and I took the baby gender prediction test (an at home, pee in the cup thing), and the test predicted girl! The test is suppose to be about 85 percent accurate—but it is not a sure thing. However, on Sept. 29th Ben and I go for an ultrasound and we expect (hope) to find out the baby’s gender then. On Aug 7th, just Sunny went to an OB appt and I got a surprise ultrasound. The doctor and I got to see the baby, and she (or he) was really rocking out. The legs were kicking and the hands were going and she was ...