17 Weeks and Counting.......

A few new things to share this week: I had to go buy these BEAUTIFUL pants........need I say more? These days they make pants that literally come up to your brassiere! They are not pretty but they sure are more comfortable than those britches I was squeezing into last week. Jania and Riley are getting a kick out of showing everybody what these things look like. I'm just imagining how they're going to be stuck to my belly as soon as it warms up. I will say this though, in no way, shape or form are maternity clothes cute....especially shape. Whew, they're terrible.
Which one of you lied to me and said that the exhaustion would be over with after the first trimester? Yeah, right....don't call me after 9 on a weekend night or before 10 on Saturday morning. That's when I play catch up. Also, its very likely that if you call in the middle of the day on Saturday or Sunday I just might be passed out on the sofa. It's odd that I could never take a nap during the day before I got pregnant. It was just something about the daylight. I guess my body just thought that if the sun was shining that I should be up doing something. But that all changed. Now I can take a nap at any time of the day, daylight or dark......it doesn't matter. During the week I'm so busy that I can't seem to get to bed at a decent hour so come Friday I'm exhausted. I hope that goes away soon.
Isn't the weather nice right now? I can't help but to have mixed emotions because I know that with every warm day we have there is a scorching hot and sticky day looming in the very near future. I already know how pleasant that is going to be. If you know me you know that I never played sports just because I don't like to get hot. My thermostat at home hasn't seen 70 in years. I'm already so hot natured that I'm really dreading the afternoons and Saturdays that will be spent at the baseball field......you know we have those wonderful sand gnats here too. All the better to make me miserable. I definitely didn't time this thing right for the climate that I live in but isn't it true that all wonderful things come when you least expect it? Atleast that held true when I met Lance (brownie point!).
We still don't have names. There are a few (a very small few) that we like so I'm hoping that March 24th will bring some clarification. Surely this will be easier when we know whether we need a boy or girl name. Our appointment is at 11:30 (and yes I already tried to get an earlier one) so if you'd like me to include you in the MASS text message that I'll be sending out when we leave let me know. It would take me the rest of the day to call each one of you. Please, I want to go shopping! :)
Why do I have to have the weirdest pregnancy symptoms ever? Oh, I know why. It's my punishment for not having all the nauesa isn't it? The massive sensitive skin issue that I've had. Oh, I'm so ready for it to go away. I should be wearing turtlenecks and a face mask everyday. Its absolutely ridiculous! Of course anything that happens to you when you're pregnant is just your hormones. The headaches, oh the headaches. That's driving me nuts too! Of course when you're pregnant they can't give you anything but candy for them. If I could just take some aleeve..... Funny cravings? Well, not yet. As long as I get my Japanese food fix once a week and eat Claussen pickles every morning for breakfast, I'm good. I'm not going to lie though, not only do I eat the pickles for breakfast but typically as soon as I get home I grab one and usually once or twice at night when I open the fridge and they just catch my eye.

Until next time.......