35 weeks

where the heck does time go. Here i am 35 weeks pregnant waiting for our handsome baby boy to make his grand appearance . This pregnancy has been night and day from my other two which has been a big eye opener on what real life pregnancy is like =/
Benny boy is growing and developing right on track and is a wild kicker man.  We love him so much and can't wait to kiss his little cheeks right up. Bryn and Bry talk about him all day long and are both constantly kissing my belly. It is so sweet, they're going to be the best big sisters. He's one lucky boy.
I had an appointment today and everything is still checking out great.
His heart rate is in the 130s still , my blood pressure has been great and i've only gained 15 pounds which i'm feeling great about.I'm starting to have weird food cravings again, i don't want much of food except pastas. i could drink slushys or ice cream all day long though. The first of october i start my weekly checks and do my group b test. I didn't have it with either of the girls so i'm hoping to not have it again with this little man, but he likes to throw curve balls so it wouldn't surprise me. They also are going to do an u/s next appointment to see if he has flipped or if he's still head down. He moves CONSTANTLY. like all day long my belly is moving . sometimes i feel his hiccups up high and sometimes down low. so i can't even guess what way he is laying.. Fingers crossed the little man flips for his mommy.
We are all set for little man and now just waiting on him =) Once i turn 37 weeks mama is walking lots at night and hopefully get things moving. =)

31 weeks and glucose test

Here we are just a short 8 weeks away from meeting our little prince. Where the heck does time go. I still remember like it was yesterday talking about trying for number three and finding out we were expecting. This pregnancy for sure has been my hardest. I can't complain , cause compared to some it's a walk in the park., but comparing it to my other two he's been my hardest for sure. He kicks and moves non stop. He's starting to move alot more and you can watch my belly move from side to side , but when he kicks he power kicks. The other morning bradon and i were laying in bed after waking up and bennett had the hiccups. It was so cute and bradon was able to feel them too.

I have gained about 9 lbs this far. I'm really hoping to not gain more than 20 this go around. With both of my girls i weighed less after delivering them then i did when i got pregnant. I would love to make it that way with this little guy as well. I'm hoping to start nightly walks with the girls and bradon to help me keep the weight at bay and to help me progress once i reach 37 weeks.

Symptoms- My back and side have definitely been the most annoying. My back i'm sure is normal pregnancy pain, but it started acting up really early in the pregnancy so that's been no fun. My dang side is the worst. I literally feel like someone is stabbing me in the side after i sit for to long, which is hard with my job. Hoping all subsides once he is born. Heart burn is coming back , but mostly at night. I still can control it with some tums, i'm hoping it doesn't get worse

Braxton hicks are here and it really makes me sad that my period will be returning here shortly as well =( they remind me so much of period cramps.


I have been craving salads like crazy so that's been nice and i've been trying to get them as much as possible when the craving is there.

His room is just about done and i'm in love. I was really struggling with doing a little boys nursery. Bradon and i both don't love the whole sports baby theme, and not a fan of the navy blue deal. We found some ideas we loved and threw them all together and it's really coming together perfect. He's a pretty lucky boy =)

I had my glucose test on thursday and all went well there, I passed that and i'm not anemic this go around. so thats all good news. i scheduled the rest of my appointments till little mans delivery date. I can't believe we're in the home stretch!!



I can't beleive that in 6 short weeks i'll be full term with this little man.. thats 42 days away. I am so excited to witness life with a little boy. I have two fun showers planned, one my friends are throwing me ( i'm so blessed ) and one my amazing family is doing. My work has one planned for after baby B arrives. He is so loved already.

26 weeks

26 weeks

We are officially down to double digits this week. EEEkkk.. All this kid does is Kick and Kick all day long. It's insane how much he moves. I am starting to have spurts of energy and then the next day completely drained. So on the days i'm feeling good i make sure to do all i can do. Potty breaks during the night are coming back with a vengeance. It was so nice sleeping all the way through the night.
We got some stuff done in his room, i still feel like we have so much to do and get. Which makes me a tad stressed. But i'm just trying to breath and remember it will all fall into place. The girls are still soo excited to meet baby b and talk about him daily. They are sure to tell every person we come into contact with that i'm pregnant with there baby brother bennett =)) Makes my mama heart melt!

How far along?
26 weeksn

Total weight gain/loss: I am guessing up 7 pounds. i go to the dr's next week. but that's what i am off my home scale 

Sleep: Sleep has been ok. i have a couple potty breaks but i am falling right back asleep

Best moment this week: Bryton was able to feel him kick, it was so cute. She is constantly touching or kissing my belly and wanted to feel him kick, once he did she jumped so high and me and bradon just started laughing cause it startled her so bad.

Movement: Oh yes, he's a mover. i can't tell how he is positioned still. i still get movement down so low and up high now.

Symptoms: My back is not loving this pregnancy and been giving me lots of crippled moments, but i'm trying to truck along. on and off braxton hicks.

Food cravings: haven't had to strong of cravings this week. i have been digging bagels 

Food aversions:
plain chicken

Gender:
Boy

Labor Signs? nope. 

Belly Button in or out?
In

What I miss: mostly my energy level.  and being able to bend easily.

What I am looking forward to: my appointment next week, and my next u/s to check on my handsome boy.

Brynlee Jo

My beautiful first baby is 5.5 this month. She lost her first tooth last night and has another loose one. She starts kindergarten in august and is dancing away on a competition team. She has grown into the most beautiful girl that i could only imagine. I can't believe she is all mine. She is literally my little best friend that i don't want to share with anyone, but for some reason the girl loves to be on the go and not home with her mom!
Her heart is literally made from gold and she cares about everyone's feelings so much. She has always been an amazing sleeper, and still to this day rocks it. I will forever be thankful for sleep training my babies. She is the best big sister, her and bryton play and play for hours and it melts my momma heart like nothing else. She is obsessed with baby Bennett already and kisses and hugs my belly on the daily. She actually got to feel him kick this morning and she was pretty stoked.
I don't know what bradon and I did so right to deserve such a caring ,respectful beautiful little girl, but man i feel so extremely lucky.

Some of her favorites right now are....
Color- Blue
Food- Pizza ( bagel bites and pizza rolls )
Best Friends- Kimberlee, brooke and ryder
Favorite thing to do- play with friends/color
Favorite holiday- Christmas then halloween.


Bryn J you rock my little world! Please don't ever change, You are beyond perfect and i love you forever!

21 weeks/anatomy scan

We had our anatomy scan last week for baby boy and all looked great. He was super stubborn at first and all he would let the tech see is that he is indeed a boy and his spine. We poked, switched sides and the little man wasn't having it. The nurse left and had the dr come in 15 ish minutes later and luckly little man had moved so they could check everything else out. They said my placenta is low lying and i need to come back at 32 weeks to make sure it has moved out of the way for a vaginal birth. It made me a little nervous but after talking with my ob dr she made me feel confident that it will move, and if it doesn't she said it's far enough away we could still attempt a normal vaginal birth.  I've been feeling pretty good still. We got the girls all situated in there new room and so i think we're going to start on baby boys room now. We've got the dresser moved in and started feeling it with stuff, makes me sad i can't reuse all the girls clothes again. I loved that with my girls. Shopping for baby b has been so hard, they just don't make alot of cute boy stuff.. Slowly but surely we'll get everything we need.

19 weeks

Here we are half way through the pregnancy. Where does time go. Bradon and I still don't feel like we're having a boy, hence why I've shopped like twice for the poor kid and the nursery is moving way slower than my normal ocd rush rush personality is use to. Baby b is just barely starting to kick mom hard enough for her to feel him. That has made things feel a little more real, but I'm still waiting for the karate kicks like my girls constantly gave me. I'm still feeling great for the most part. I have the normal pregnancy symptoms of tiredness, occasional back pain and insomnia, but it's not severe at all. I am so thankful I have easy/mild pregnancies that I can enjoy. Baby boy is definatly stealing any and all beauty that momma had. I have acne like a 12 year old boy, and my hair is soooo dry I've cut it more in the last 5 months then I have in the last 5 years. I had heartburn on and off up until week 10 ish and now I haven't seen much of it at all. So he'll probably come out with a mop of hair, cause both of my girls I had heartburn 24/7 and they came out pretty much bald. haha

Brynlee is still so excited for her brother and is constantly rubbing and kissing my belly telling her baby b how much she loves him. It is hilarious. The whole time we were at LEGOLAND she would hold my belly in lines and kiss it, I had to keep telling her to stop or people were going to think we were whack jobs. haha  I can't wait to watch her be a big sister. When I had bryton she was so little , even though then she helped me all she could, it's going to be adorable this go around.
Bryton is so excited to and talks about feeding baby b carrots all the time =) and she does offer to change diapers =)


A lot of our normal routine has been shaken up these last couple months and I think we're in for a big change once summer ends. Bradon started a new job the first of may where he is in the office full time. that has been hard, harder for him for sure but we're adjusting. Brynlee graduated preschool and will start kindergarten in august. Bryn and bryton both will be taking dance this summer into fall., which keeps us super busy but I love watching my girls learn. Bradon starts up at the U of U for his bachelors in august... This is when life is gonna sucker punch me hard... I just can't live without that kid.. He helps me in so many small ways that he makes life easy. Him working away from home full time and doing school full time I think I'm going to be a single mom pretty much the next three years.  Then October baby b comes. It's going to be wild crazy fun =/ but we'll get through it and it'll be so amazing when bradon finishes school. I'm so proud of that boy!



I have my big u/s this coming Wednesday then my monthly appointment with my dr the following Monday. As of my home scale I'm up 3 pounds. I'm hoping to stay under 30 pounds gained. That would be the most I've gained in my pregnancys .. In all three I've hardly gained a pound in my first tri andmost of it gets packed on within the 2nd. I'm hoping to start going for nightly walks with my girls since the weather has been amazing lately.

YAY to making it half way ..

16 weeks and IT'S A ......

BOY
Oh boy oh boy! 

Friday April 29th we headed into fetal fotos to find out what baby #3 was.. Both the girls thought boy, well brynlee went back and forth, but bryton was set on it being a baby brother. Bradon and i both thought for sure girl, we just were set on being parents of girls forever, and totally ok with that. We both agreed it would be fun to see a baby fredrickson boy but we didn't NEED one like some people say. 
We went in at 4:30 p.m all 4 of us and were so anxious. Right when the tech started baby boy was wide open and bradon saw BOY right away. The  tech was like wow baby really wants you to know what they are, then asked if we were ready. then the words i never thought i would hear " You are welcoming a sweet baby boy". I started crying and was sooo shocked, i just started hitting bradon , haha i think he was totally shocked too.
She said numerous times baby boy wants to make sure we all know he is a boy and kept giving different angles and everything.  I think he knows mommy was in disbelief.

My whole family was heading down to go camping this weekend with some family friends so we thought it would be fun to do the gender reveal down there on Saturday. It made my family go crazy having to wait one day, but they made it =)

We went down to my grandparents right after and told them the news. My grandma told us that earlier that morning my grandpa walked out of the bathroom and said Vanessa is having a boy i just know it.. So cute.. They were both soo excited for us.

We then went over to bradon's parents and the girls told them the news. Everyone was so excited to get a little boy fred.


For the gender reveal we stuffed huge black balloons full of blue confetti. I had tons of pink and gold glitter already from other parties so i honestly didn't go buy any cause i figured it was a girl. Friday night we were out till 11:00 at night and all the party stores were closed by then, then we were leaving bright and early to head up camping, so we had to get creative with blue confetti, haha but we made it work and it turned out great.
we had three balloons full and had some of the cousins pop them up camping. I still can't believe we're having a BOY. It's been so weird transitioning from pink and flowers to boy stuff.. It's sooo much harder, and the nursery options are sparce.. Luckly i have a pretty talented husband so i think baby boy's room is going to turn out pretty awesome.
We leave for vacation in 2 days, then once we get back it's all about baby time =) Hopefully that will make it feel more real too..