Part 1 of 3, done!

Today marks the first day of the 2nd trimester! YAY!!! This is overwhelmingly dubbed the best trimester in all the books. Done with morning sickness, and not whale-like enough to be uncomfortable 24/7 yet. I am so look forward to the next several weeks!!

I never thought I'd be excited to have enough energy to do the day to day stuff like just cleaning up the house, etc. I just miss my normal routine. I miss my bed being made, clothes actually getting folded out of the dryer and not ending up in a wrinkly pile in the basket for days, and poor Rufus needs a bath like no other. I don't mean to imply that without me these things don't get done, but Josh has had his hands full taking care of not only his usual stack of stuff he maintains, but all of mine! Theres no way I could do it all either! The girls have also been AWESOME in cleaning up their toys, making their beds and all that fun stuff. We really are lucky in that respect that they like to keep their stuff organized!

Something else I excited for... is the idea that in a week from tomorrow, we might possibly find out what Teddy is!! I have been reading all these tips and tricks you can do to try and increase your chances of "seeing the goods". The one that makes the most sense is to drink something like orange juice about 30 minutes before your appointment. The sugar rush makes the baby a bit more active, giving you more chances to see all the body parts. I'm trying to not give my hopes up. I'll only be 15 weeks so it is a little early by "their" standards.... but it would be so cool if we found out next Thursday! Keep your fingers crossed!

Baby Dreams

So I've heard from a lot of people that when you are pregnant you have all sorts of crazy dreams. I'm not one too read too much into dreams or remember many of them, but I have noticed that they have felt a lot more real. I will wake up and actually be surprised I'm not wherever I was in the dream, so thats kind of cool.

However, last night, I went into a new category. I should say, part of me still doesn't feel pregnant. I'm not showing, I don't feel anything kicking, I just feel like I've been sick for 3 months. So I always kind of laugh to myself that one of these doctor visits she's gonna say what you talkin' about... theres no baby in there. Well, last night I had my first dream that the baby was here. Josh and I were laying on Mackenzie's bed (not sure why!) and I was cradling the baby in my arm and we were both laying on our sides just looking at it. I say it because I am extremely frustrated that I do not remember what it was!! I just remember thinking omg it is so tiny. I also remember being highly concerned about a rash on his/her face. But that was it, we were just laying there, in this quiet moment watching this tiny little creature. Kind of gives me the chills!!!

Weird things happening to me: I am a human garbage disposal. That is all.

I'm waiting.....

For that glow everyone talks about LOL. It's sooo not happening. Right now I currently look like I spent a month surviving solely off pizza and beer. There is no cute "baby bump" I just look lumpy. And you can giggle and say "aww I'm sure it looks cute" but I assure you, it does not. Anytime it wants to turn hard and look cute, BE MY GUEST!

That's all.

Wait, I thought I was done with this part?

So for the entire month of December, I think I mentioned I was completely nauseous. I actually lost 3 pounds from eating crackers and ginger ale for 5 weeks. Trust me, I'm not bragging. I love food like I love to breath air. It was so frustrating. I felt like if I was gonna feel queasy at least get it over with and barf so I can eat. But no. Never, ok maybe once. But just once and no relief! So, last week when all the sudden my stomach growled a monster of all growls and magical cravings for real solid non processed foods start swirling in my foggy head, I was elated! FINALLY! Yesssssss..... Suddenly the thought of grocery shopping wasn't so awful again. I wouldn't have to plug my nose through the meat and bakery section, I could actually pick out food besides crackers and milk. Life is lookin' good. I even started getting a little energy back, probably because I was getting some real nutrition, and not just from those horse pill prenatals too.

So last night after an easy trip to the store, I went to make our favorite weight watchers friendly pizza. You know the one.. I blogged about it last year. Well as I'm preparing it.. I start to think hmm... gosh this just does not sound good tonight.. Ah well, already making it. Then, when I'm cutting it up to put it on plates I'm thinkin man.. I just really do not want this. Again, ah well, suck it up. I plop down next to Josh, take one bite, and my nose just instantly turns. BLEH.. what is this and where did our favorite pizza go?!?! Feeling like I was over reacting, I ate one piece, but it was a very strong effort, and I immediately regretted it. I spent the next 5 hours praying for the stomach Gods to just get this pizza out of my system. I began that awful salivating (another one of those things no one tells you about) where my mouth filled endlessly with spit.. its really truly awful and I do feel partially bad telling you about it because its gross, but I'm the one who had to deal with it, so get over it. ;) This went on thru most of the night, and when my alarm went off, I sat up.. kinda laughed, said ya right, and went right back to my pillow. As I'm laying there moaning and complaining (my new favorite past time) it pops into my head that I've read time and time again, don't be fooled... just when you think morning sickness has passed, BAM it comes back with a vengeance!

I pat myself on the back that I lasted this long without having to take a day off of work. One day isn't going to kill anyone!!


On a less gripy note... another weird sensation going on, is the feeling of my insides stretching. Take a sheet, towel, something like that, and pull it tight, like they do on the paper towel commercials... and it feels like thats happening inside my stomach. All kinds of stretching and pulling. It doesn't hurt necessarily, but I'm definitely aware of it!

So now I'm going to go curl up under my favorite blanket, snuggle with Rufus and wait for Josh to come home. :)

Guess Who's Back....

Ok, so there I go ranting and raving about how I L-O-V-E Fall and have so many plans and will blog about it all along the entire way in grave detail. Ya so it didn't quite pan out like I had thought. We did do tons of crafts and had lots of fun, and the holidays just flew by! Like I'm sure they did for the few of you that might actually still be checking my blog, hopeless waiting for me to post something terribly exciting.

I could sit and recap about the projects, christmas lights, debacles and Santa suprises, but I don't know about you... I'm just a tiny bit SICK of the hoildays! LOL what a scrooge.

So instead of that, I'll talk about our biggest suprise of the holidays. You probably already know.. yep! Josh and I are having a baby! Holy cow! We found out the Monday before Thanksgiving..... which I can use an excuse for why I had no energy to remember to post anything, ha! Here come the excuses already. It was pure torture being around my family, my sister who doesn't live locally anymore and I never see, and keep this giant secret. But, it just didn't feel real yet. We wanted to wait until we went to a doctor, someone certified who could say, yep, that there is a baby inside ya'! Once we did, we told our parents and immediately family, and it's just been a whirlwind since then.

So I'm pretty much positive that the majority of my future posts for the next 6 months or so are going to be all about this journey we are on.. the ups and downs, scaries, surprises... so if you like to read my rambles you have come to the right place!!

Some fun facts:

Today, Teddy (the unofficial nickname as the latest ultrasound strongly resembles a teddy bear!) is the size of a fig!

Some gripes Teddy is causing: Bloating, exhaustion, dry skin, a sore tail bone (who knew), and lots and lots of happy tears!