Baby Morgan 20 weeks!

WEEK 20

Estimated Due Date: July 2, 2014

Gender: GIRL!!! J Morgan Duggan-Childs

Weight Gain: about 8 pounds so far.

Eats and Treats: still eating lots of peanut butter and oatmeal J craving ice cream but trying not to give in since I know my stomach will hurt after I eat it! Loving girl scout cookies especially the samosa, yummy

How I Am Feeling: Feeling tired and lots of cramping but starting to love this growing bump!

Clothing: still wearing comfy maternity clothes, but got my belly band in the mail yesterday so will give that a shot this week.

Exercise: Still working out to the pregnancy video “The Dia Method”, and haven’t jogged all week but more walking on the treadmill because I’m so tire. 

Most Looking Forward To: Getting more nursery decorations in the mail that I ordered and setting up the nursery and the possibility of moving on base housing so I don’t have to drive so far once we have the baby for work and daycare.

Thankful For: My amazing and supportive husband and our trip to Ireland this weekend! Also so thankful I got to feel baby Morgan kick for the first time last week, such an amazing experience.

Baby Morgan! (18 Weeks)

I want to keep a journal of all the stages of pregnancy of baby Morgan so I figured this is the best way to do it :) I haven't posted on here in awhile....life kind of got in the way but I will start doing updates more often.

This weekend Matt and I had nothing planned but Saturday we woke up and the sun was out so we decided we had to take advantage of that and do something! We decided on a trip to Cambridge and it was so much fun. We walked around the town looking at all the colleges and went to the botanical gardens (which Matt had way too much fun at looking at all the different trees). We also got a chance to eat fish and chips at a famous pub and it was delicious. 

Sunday we decided to go buy the crib and changing table for baby Morgan and that was nothing short of interesting. We could not get the crib in my car so Matt had to strap the crib to the top of the roof of my car. I cannot wait to start getting the nursery put together, I ordered a couple other things off etsy and I am super excited to see it all. 

Every week starting this week (Week 18) I am going to try and do an update and picture. Let's see how long this lasts haha. 

WEEK 18

Estimated Due Date: July 2, 2014

Gender: GIRL!!! J Morgan Duggan-Childs

Weight Gain: not sure haven’t weighed myself (don’t really want to weigh myself haha)

Eats and Treats: eating lots of peanut butter, oatmeal, cake, craving doughnuts but they are hard to get over here.

How I Am Feeling: Feeling good J No complaints here (once in awhile I will get cramps that feel really bad and I am still tired but overall doing great!) and I can start feeling her kick which is pretty awesome!

Clothing: switched to maternity early on because the maternity clothes are so much more comfortable right now.

Exercise: Still working out to the pregnancy video “The Dia Method”, and jogging on the treadmill.

Most Looking Forward To: starting to buy so many cute girl things for the nursery!

Thankful For: little bump that is starting to show J Matt going on day shift so we can see each other everyday now! Life is good J

Another what I have learned so far...

1. You can never keep your car clean here. No matter what 20 minutes after washing your car it will be covered in mud again. The tractors bring the mud from the fields onto the road and its impossible to avoid!

2. Even if things say 240v that doesnt always mean 240v and things will blow up

3. The ovens are really tiny, I can only fit one of my baking sheets (the smallest one in the oven). Baking a batch of cookies take forever!


4. You can watch Friends on TV here 24/7 it is always on TV. Some people hate it other people (me) love it!

5. Even though we both keep the same language there is still a barrier between me coworkers and I. It is hilarious to hear our conversation and not understand each other. I mentioned the cheesecake flavor turtle cheesecake and my coworker thought it was cheesecake in the shaped of a turtle and had no idea what I was talking about.

6. The Fog is so bad! like nothing I have ever seen

7. Our Thanksgiving turkey will not fit on our freezer (we bought one a couple weeks ago because we heard the commissary sells out) well keeping a turkey on ice in a cooler does not work and the turkey defrosted....luckily the commissary didn't sell out so we went back to buy another one. Total $65 for thanksgiving turkey! haha

8. Once again British people can't believe the size of the turkey's we have in America. They couldn't believe we bought a 23lb turkey.

9. Learn to go with the flow  because the commissary is always out of everything I ever need, and the local grocery stores don't always have what I need so I just have to learn to go with out things....like pie crust for thanksgiving :(

10. The sunrises here are amazing and the sky is always gorgeous here. It also always feel a lot colder here than it really is. The air is so damp and wet 45 degrees feels like 30 degrees.

11. Learning to deal in celsius because my oven is in celsius and its what everyone talks about when they talk about weather....

Day Trip to Norwich

Last weekend Matt and I took a day trip to Norwich. It is about an hour away and there is a rock climbing gym at a rec center in the town which is suppose to have a pretty big climbing wall that Matt and I wanted to try out. Before climbing we explored the town a little bit and did some shopping. There was a farmers market with a bunch of yummy fresh food in the town square and the whole town center was already decorated for Christmas :)

There is also a beautiful cathedral in town that we went to go visit. I got some great pictures of the inside of the cathedral.

The Beatles Let It Be Concert!!

Last time Matt and I went to London I was an advertisement for a Beatles concert called Let It Be. I told Matt we had to go so last weekend we went back to London to check out the concert. I never really listened to the Beatles until my brother Robbie started to listen to them. Robbie actually got my whole family into their music again, even my little brother Dylan is a huge Beatles fan now.

 I wish Robbie was here to go see this concert with me because he would have loved it! The concert made it feel like you were actually seeing the real Beatles in concert. They looked and sounded just like the Beatles and they put on an amazing show!

Picture of us waiting at the train station to head into London. I love that we can take a train right by our house and in an hour we are in London, it is awesome!

We found a Mexican place to eat at in Kings Cross train station. There are few to none Mexican restaurants in England so when we find one we have to eat at it! It was like Chipotle but didn't taste as good.

Outside of the theater

Matt's reaction when he saw the seats I bought us

We were the last row, what can I saw I am not a big spender :)

The concert was amazing and I would go back to see it again! It was surprisingly long 2.5 hours and each set was the hit songs from a different album. The show took you through the story of the Beatles as well which was great.

Here are some previews of the music, can't see much but can hear the awesome music :)

The Let It Be song has a special place in my family's heart. It was the song my mom would sing to my brother Robbie while he was in the hospital. I know he was at the concert with me signing along with me in spirit.