Amy Scott's Thoughts

It’s been a while since I posted anything specifically related to Baby Scott on here, so I thought I would give a quick update on our little guy and how things are going. I’m officially 100 days away from my due date today. Obviously, most babies don’t arrive on their due date, so it’s 100 days plus or minus a few! While it seems crazy to be in the 100 day range, I know that 100 days can go quickly and slowly all at the same time. I’m hoping that as my summer and fall days are packed full that the time will fly and our little one will be here soon.

I’m at 25 weeks right now. I’ll be 26 weeks on Saturday. Just two and a half weeks left in my second trimester. Hard to believe! There have been milestones that I’ve been looking forward to along the way. The first milestone would have been making it the second trimester in April. The second milestone was finding the gender out in May. 100 days to due date was a milestone and quickly following that is entering the 3rd trimester!

Our little guy moves around a ton! He is still an active fellow. While most moms-to-be love this sign of a healthy baby, I find all the movement a bit distracting. He moves a lot while I’m trying to work or focus on other things. I don’t want to ignore the little guy, but I guess if I was honest, there is probably no “good” time for him to do his gymnastics where it wouldn’t affect my activity at hand. Oh well. I’m getting used to sharing my space with this little mover and shaker, but it is weird.

As I posted before, I had a giant to-do list that I wanted to get done in the spring before our trip to Hawaii. The list mostly included house projects and consolidating/selling our stuff to make room for baby. It’s been strange having our guestroom be completely cleared and I’m starting to get used to calling it the “baby’s room”. In the closet, I have started a stock pile of baby items. We have a couple of onesies and bibs from family. We have some blankets and even a few toys. I have a pile on the floor in the closet full of samples and coupons we’ve received from registering or from our doctor’s office. I’m trying to keep track of all the goodies.

The next project will be painting the baby’s room which will hopefully happen this month if all goes as planned. I can’t wait to post those photos and share them with you. This is the phase that I’ve been looking forward to the most! In August, we’ll begin to purchase and assemble the furniture we need the room. My hubby is an archer and hunting season begins in September, so I know that Jeremy is motivated to get the room into a good place in the month of August. He wants to be guilt free when he goes out hunting. I know that major home projects would compete with hunting season. The goal is to have the major pieces all purchase and put together before hunting season starts.

Other exciting news would be that I’m now less than a month away from my first baby shower! It’s been fun to chat with friends and family has they plan baby showers. Each shower will have a different crowd and a different theme. It’s fun to these planning ladies in action. At the same time, it’s different for me not to be involved. I’m such a planner myself that it’s strange to have people throwing parties for me and all I have to do is show up. I’m excited to celebrate with these dear friends and family. It will also be exciting to watch our little pile of baby stuff grow as we prepare for this little guy. After registering and seeing all that they tell you is “needed” for a baby, I’m so grateful already for the help and support that a shower will provide. I knew kiddos were expensive, but wow, it’s been eye opening!

I’ll keep you update to date as the month continues on. I’m sure that with painting and showers and furniture assembly in the near future, I’ll have lots to post about! It’s an exciting adventure we’re on and I can’t wait to keep moving forward!

Baby blankets made by a sweet church lady!

I knew going into this whole pregnancy thing that I wouldn’t be alone. I don’t mean in the support and encouragement kind of way (although I do have that). I knew that I wouldn’t be the only pregnant lady I know. However, I had no idea how not alone I would be! I have come to discover that pregnancy is a lot like they how they describe buying a new car. You think you’re the only one who is going to own this certain kind vehicle. Once you buy said vehicle, you realize that everyone else on the road as the same make or color. Pregnancy has been a lot like that for me!

When we got pregnant, one of my best friends was already expecting her 2nd little boy. We had talked months earlier about how Jeremy and I were “trying’ so it was a lot of fun to share the news with her and “join the club”. Shortly after we made our big announcement on Easter, my cousin posted that she is expecting her 2nd little one as well. Her due date is November 5th so our babies are only a few weeks a part! Jeremy told me that one of our nursery workers at church did the math and we’ll have 7 new infants this fall at Bethel.

Things got even more exciting on Mother’s Day weekend when my sister-in-law announced that she’s expecting and due November 9th! The big kicker is when my other sister-in-law followed by announcing that she is due December 18th! I couldn’t believe it! Honestly, I was in shock. All three Scott brothers have pregnant wives due in October, November and December! My in-laws will go from 2 grandkids to 5 by the end of the year! It’s too crazy! I am beyond thrilled that I will have the opportunity to double my auntie role this year! I’m excited to learn if I’ll have more nieces or more nephews or a combo of both! I just can’t wait!

It’s been an interesting season for me as I learn a lot about pregnancy and prepare for motherhood. The good news is I am not alone and I have quite a few wonderful women that I can share this experience with. It’s nice to have a conversation with someone who has been there or is right there with me and totally understands where I am coming from. Looks like I am a part of a baby boom – not only at church, but in the Scott family as well! I couldn’t be more exited! What fun!

At 20 weeks our baby is the size of a banana or so I have been informed by baby websites!

I’ve officially reached the halfway point in my pregnancy. The first twenty weeks have been interesting and part of me really hopes the next twenty just fly right by. The funny thing is I’ve been thinking/talking lot about being halfway there lately which has meant “Living on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi has been massively stuck in my head. Not all the lyrics apply, but the chorus is right up my alley – “Halfway there, living on a prayer” (Don’t forget to sing the Whooahs in your head or out loud as you read that). Hehe! This song came out the year I was born and although I don’t remember it being released, pop culture has certainly done it’s job to make this song an 80’s hit I know. Soo.. anyway, I’m halfway there! Living on a prayer!

Apart from this major milestone, Jeremy and I also added registering for baby stuff onto our list of firsts this week. Can I just tell you how grateful I am that I have a husband who doesn’t stress all that often! He really balanced me out during this process. I really didn’t expect registering to be so stressful or tiring, but wow, it’s took a lot out of me. As would be expected, I did a ton of research before we went. I thought I had done my homework, but once I got into the store, it was hard to know what items were better than others. Babies’R’Us gives you this HUGE list of stuff to register for that Jeremy and I are sure is just a ploy to make more money for them. Some of the items on the list sounded the same or sounded so vague we had no idea what they were. Registering for baby stuff made me feel dumb. It was a whole new world and I had no clue what I was doing. My mind automatically assumes that if we don’t register for the right stuff then we’ll fail as parents…. No clue why I think that this “stuff” is so important… Probably because I tie them to the safety and general well-being of my child. Oh well! I’m sure our kid will survive even we missed something on the registry.

It was mind boggling to me as we registered just how much all of these items would cost if all purchased by us. Oh my! Kids aren’t cheap! Yikes! Suddenly I wholeheartedly appreciate baby showers a lot more! While I am excited to decorate and prepare for this little one, I was overwhelmed by how much stuff they suggested you have. Where am I going to store all this stuff? I’m pretty sure it’s going to look a baby bomb went off in my house. I don’t remember baby items being so big either until I envisioned them in my own space!

Like I said before, my hubby was super helpful in this process. He reminded me that the kid will survive if we don’t have everything on the “list”. Jeremy was also great at picking things when I was torn between items and clueless as to what direction to go. At Babies’R’Us, the lady that helped us finish and finalize told me it looked like we were having a lot of fun while we registered – that fact is largely thanks to my hubby who can lighten any mood. After our first registry attempt, Jeremy and I went out to dinner to regroup and re-energize. Target was our next stop and it was a bit tricky there as well. The registry system wasn’t working right so Jeremy and I got to know many employees well as we tried to make this registry become a reality. After 45 minutes of trying this and that, we were able to make it happen! There was much celebrating! Because we had done all the hard thinking at the store before, we breezed through Target because we knew what was wanted. It was much faster and much easier on my brain. 

The adventures continue on in this new journey. Tomorrow will be the next adventure as I go clothes shopping – something I have not enjoyed since January. I need summer clothes, especially before our vacation next month, but I’m not looking forward to having to shop at new stores and in a new section. Yay for expanding! Okay, not so much. At least I’m technically on the down hill slope now, right? Halfway there!

Baby Scott @ 16 weeks, 6 days

We had a doctor’s appointment today. Normally we wouldn’t find out the sex of the baby until our next appointment which is the anatomy ultrasound with the technician. However, our doctor agreed to give us a sneak peek since we were far enough along. At first the baby’s legs were crossed which the doctor thought was cute, but made me think that we weren’t getting any news today. Honestly, I had to told myself not to get my hopes up. Things might have been unclear and we could have walked out of that room with no hint. Since Baby Scott seems to be an active little one, we eventually did get a view.

It’s a boy!

We’re having a BOY!!! I thought we were having a boy from the beginning. Yes, I would have been excited if it was a girl. I get girls. I’ve built my ministry around girls and being a girl, I have a slight clue to how they are wired, but boys… Oh boys… I don’t understand them! I guess it’s time to learn! The doctor told us to keep the tags on anything blue we went out to purchase for the next month. She really wants to confirm things next time, but we all agreed that we could see the “parts” and she explained to us how she came to her conclusion. I’m fairly positive we’re having a boy. It’s hard to disagree with the photos. I won’t buy anything until after the next appointment, but at least I have some time to wrap my mind around a boy! A BOY!

Since we’ve really lacked in creativity up until this point with sharing our news, we decided to have our local, immediate family over for dinner. We did give them the heads up that we might have nothing to share. But if we had news we wanted to tell them in person instead of a phone call or text. We contemplated doing doing a “gender reveal” cake or something of that nature, but I didn’t want to be rushed when we got home to make something cute. We thought about keeping the news even a secret from us and giving a baker a seal envelope. However, going through a bakery would mean waiting even longer to find out ourselves and waiting even longer to tell people. I’m glad now that I found out before the rest of my family instead of at the same time. It allowed me time to process before I saw their reactions. I didn’t have to be worried about my own reaction in front of an audience. In the end, we bought a bundle of balloons that say “It’s a boy” and we brought them out once everyone arrived!

We polled the audience before bringing the balloons out just to see what everyone thought. The room was fairly split between boy and girl guesses. It was fun to see everyone’s reactions, especially the ones who thought it was a girl! I’m glad to see that it had to sink in a little bit for everyone else because it took a while to sink in for me. In fact, it’s probably still sinking in! The sweet thing was both families brought a gift, so now we can add another book and a healthcare kit to our list of baby supplies (the only other item at this time is a bib). It was very kind of them and totally unexpected! We’re so blessed by our families! I’m excited now in the next few months to start getting things for this little one. I’m sure it will become even more real as “stuff” starts to accumulate! Not just any stuff – blue stuff!

So yeah, it’s a boy! Just thought you would like to know!