Shocker!

After decades of being fashionably challenged, pregnancy doesn't magically change this.
After three hours and three stores (not including drive time), I ended up with a maternity t-shirt. Pretty frickin' lame considering all of those baby-doll fashions are back right now and every pregnany woman I see looks good in clothes?!?!
Anyway - thoroughly disgusted with the in person stuff, I have resorted to online-ing it.
We'll see what happens.

Kickin' away on the inside

Someone (who we mostly refer to as "Bubba" and "your son") is kickin' his little heart out. What I've been feeling for a couple of weeks (from the inside), was experienced from the outside by both of us over this past weekend. I was reading in bed and felt a pretty good one. Put my hand in the same spot and sure enough, grabbed Kel's hand and he felt the next one. Pretty real now.

Went to a 22 wk appointment today - and surprise - bubba was active. The doctor of the month (have to see all five at this point) dopplered the little guys heart beat. He dodge and weaved a little, and then got 'em - 3 beats - and then a whole bunch more squirmin' around. Next appointment is the dreaded glucose test. I hate needles (unless they are used for knitting).
Kiddo will probably be super active after that.

It's either flutters or gas.

Finally feeling a couple of flutters in the belly. Yesterday was kind of rumbly, like lunch was kicking back, but tonight there was at least one sure fire nudge from the inside.
I got my husband really well tonight and then couldn't stop laughing. I told him the kiddo was kicking and then knocked him upside the head while he was trying to feel it. Seriously, this kicking thing is more of an inside out than an outside in kind of thing. Karma is going to bite me in the ass for that one.

It's a Boy!

More pregnant than fat?

So the last couple of days have been interesting.

I had my first pregnant belly rub (for some reason people love rubbing pregnant bellies :) )

Imo, I am starting to look more pregnant than fat. Now, if I ran into an old friend on the street they wouldn't say "oh you're pregnant". They would more likely look at me in the way that people expect news from you, but wouldn't dare ask, b/c being wrong when you ask someone if they are pregnant is slightly embarassing.

Tomorrow is boy/girl day. Which means if the kiddo cooperates, today is the last day of not knowing (for me anway, see previous post). My thoughts are swimming. The worst part is that I want a boy and I'm not sure how I'm going to react if they tell me its a girl. Actually, the worst part will probably be going to the appointment by myself. Enjoy your ski trip honey!

Vengeance Hormones

My husband had the nerve to tell me he had good news on the phone today.
Actually he said he would tell me when I got home from work and I told him to just get on with it (bc I pretty much know what it was anyway).
He will be starting (another) new job on Monday the 11th of Feb. Whoo hooo! Benefits, more pay, joy joy.
How does one celebrate this sort of news? By telling his old job that he is giving 1-ish week notice and he wants to take next week off to go skiing in Utah (they said ok?!?!).
All fine and good, with a big old BUTTTTTTTTTT -
What day has the ultrasound to determine the sex of our child been since the 4th of Jan?
Smack dab in the middle of next week, Feb 7th.

Oh well, guess one of us will know the sex of our child and will hang it over the head of the other until about July or so when the baby is due.

Aren't hormones great.

Grandma to be's Birthday

Today was supposed to be the day that we told the grandparents to be.
Somehow Kel convinced me that we should tell his parents in person and we ended up doing that over Christmas. You can't tell one set without telling the other - so the maternal g-folks got the news via phone/email.
Why today? My Moms bday - was going to send her a grandma card, but no dice.
Today is my day off from work, so I had lunch with Malia and her daughter Marissa, and then dinner with Drew, Brooke and Andy tonight.
January is about half over.
Lately things with the baby have been interesting. I have felt some growing pains from the inside (round ligament pain?) and have generally been sleeping like ass. So much so that my purchase of the last twenty minutes was a body pillow. Thinking about taking a nap to break it in, but first I have to complete a cupful of my latest "craving" shall we call it.
I have had three of these wonderfully sugary, void of health concoctions in the past week - ICEEs!
Happy naptime y'all!