These past few months have been a blur, and I love it. I couldn't be happier-well...I can be, I just have to wait till June :) But anyways, David is finishing up his second to last semester of school and I've been working at the bank still. Every day has been an adventure and David has been the best husband ever. He is so loving and makes sure that whether it's morning sickness or just achey feet he does his best to make it disappear.
The first 13ish weeks of the pregnancy were literally hell. I was continually sick and was so sensitive to smell. I could hardly eat and was miserable and thought that the 9 months was going to be the longest I had ever experienced.
Some of the more 'memorable' experiences were as follows:
-Puking in front of Great Harvest which is located on the city's main street, then having to go inside and ask the guy at the counter for a cup of water so I didn't just leave bread chunks on the clean sidewalk.
-I love to dip food, I love sauce and especially KETCHUP!!! It's my favorite dipping sauce of all time. So of course when I went to squirt some out I practically threw it out of the room. The look of Ketchup made me sick and vomit more than once. Saddest day of my life...but thankfully now I can have it again (in moderation)
-Yelling at the drive through guy because he told me "they just closed" I'm sorry that I'm pregnant and have cravings for a blizzard at 11pm and the fact that I was 2 min late. I told him after I got my little blizzard that I would thank Heavenly Father for his kindness and I tipped him 2 dollas :) I am now known as the 'crazy prego lady' there...awkward.
Then it slowly started to go away, I was happy, didn't look as tired, and I could eat. I could actually eat food I LOVED!!! Along with that I started to feel like I was actually pregnant, not just sick. It was wonderful. I learned how to jimmy-rig my pants so they would fit with a hair tie and at Thanksgiving I got my first maternity clothes. (best day ever) Can I just say, that maternity pants are the most comfortable things in the whole wide world? I mean really...they look like normal jeans or dress pants but have like a foot of stretchy goodness to go around my little belly.
I'm currently 15 1/2 weeks and I have officially "popped" according to the doctor. I secretly love it because people timidly ask "so....are you pregnant?" and wait in suspense because they hope they asked the right question. But nothing beats last weeks experience...let me preface, I am working like normal and just walk across the room, this mom turns to her daughter and thinks she's being quiet when she says, "see, if you keep eating like you are, you're going to get a gut like she does" well...I turned around and said, "oh this gut is a baby, not just food" the mom looked like she was just slapped in the face. Priceless.
Currently the little one is the size of david's favorite fruit, a naval orange. We still call it the 'plus 1' but are excited to give it a more suitable nickname once we find out what it is. It's also fun to call it an "it" because I've had multiple dreams of me somehow having an alien in my tummy and it emerges with some wrinkly hand and a screech. Not fun as a dream, but very humorous in the morning as david tries to act out my dream with a pillow and his own hand and sound effects.
I am also LOVING peppermint, caramel and pecans. English toffee is also a favorite and I made that tonight...without a candy thermometer so HOPEFULLY it turns out :) I'm still waiting for it to harden :)
Well...I must get going, I need to stretch and figure out everything for our Christmas trip! Wahoo!!
