Lately

For Carly's 22nd birthday, we hit up the beach.  We went to St. George Island, of course.  Lindy and Cory came along and we grilled up some delicious burgers.  It was tons of fun.  Unfortunately, I don't have any beach pics, but Lindy does!  She's quite the photog.

After we got back, Jesse and I enjoyed a lovely Logan's birthday dinner with Carly and the Lor.  It was good fun.  Then we went back for cake!

This was the entry way to Carly's house.

Candid (HA!) shot of Carly blowing out the candles...

Me and the birthday girl.  Please excuse us.  As I said, we were at the beach all day.

Awesome party hat.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of Jesse or the Lor in their hats.

Carly is fabulous!

In other news, I'm in my second trimester!  Crazy.  But, the first trimester nausea seems to be hanging around still... Boo.  I haven't thrown up in a few days, but I have been pretty nauseous.  And I think I'm starting to get heartburn.  Fun times.  And leg cramps.  Woo!  

And, I still haven't been able to talk Jesse in to going to the Prenatal Experience THIS WEEK to find out if we are having a girl or boy, so it looks like it'll be like another month or so before we know.  I can make it...

My stomach has started to pop out!  Nothing like super crazy, but I think I look pregnant-ish.  Not just like I gained some extra weight.  Right??? haha.  Jesse took me maternity clothes shopping yesterday.  It was my Mother's Day gift.  It was totally fun.  I just wish Tallahassee had a better selection of places with maternity clothes.  Even the department stores that carry them only have one or two racks of random stuff.  But I still got some good stuff.  

I think that's all I have.  But here's a shot of me at 14 weeks with my belly totally poking out:

12 Weeks!

I'm 12 weeks!  Yay!  I was really hoping that 12 would be the magic number and that my nausea would hit the road.  I've been counting down the days.  I had a really good few days and even went a whole week without puking last week.  Monday I felt almost like a normal person.  Then Tuesday happened.

It was horrible!! I puked all day long, couldn't keep anything down, not even water, and could hardly get anything down in the first place.  I went home from work early, took a whole Phenergan, and went to sleep at 4.  I slept until almost 10, got up to eat and shower, and then went back to sleep for the rest of the night.  All-in-all, I got like 15 hours.  The next day I felt quite a bit better.  So I'm hoping that Tuesday was like one last blow-out before things improve.  Things have to get worse before they get better, right?  Right???

I had Jesse take a couple of pictures last night.  I'm pretty sure all the puking from Tuesday made my stomach pop out just a little bit less.  haha.  Oh, and after my last post, Jesse apologized and said he sounded like a jerk on my blog.  I promise, he's not a jerk.  He's actually very sweet and pretty much lets me do whatever I want.  Except go to the Prenatal Experience to find out the sex of the baby three weeks earlier than my doctor will.  He thinks it's a waste of money and there are so many other things we can do with the money.  We could buy diapers, new maternity clothes, blah, blah, blah.  I just wanna know now!!

 And yes, I'm totally wearing maternity pants.  I don't need to wear them yet, but they are quite comfy, and I also really need to do some laundry...

This morning I went in for this diagnostic ultrasound.  It's basically to see if your baby could potentially have Down Syndrome or Fragile X or some other chromosomal issue.  I guess some people use this to determine whether or not to terminate pregnancy.  This is not the case with me.  I will have/love my baby no matter what!  But I think it would be nice to be prepared if my baby was going to have a disability.  There can be a lot of medical issues and money involved.  Anyway, so far they said everything looks great.  The baby is growing as it should.  I have to get blood work done, but I'm not worried.  Also, I just really wanted to see the baby again!!  And boy was he/she wide awake and kicking!  Literally.  The baby kept kicking those feet up.  It was super cute!  Here's a few ultrasound pics.  Hopefully you can tell it's a baby.

 Baby has fingers!

 Sorry about the poor quality, I just took a picture of the pictures...


Well, that's about all I have for now!

11 Weeks

So, I'm at about 11 weeks now.  Hopefully only a week or so left of this nausea crap.  Being pregnant is weird.  So far, it's like having the stomach flu for five weeks.

I've had Jesse take a few side shots of me, because my belly is definitely poking out.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not delusional. I am fully aware that my baby is the size of a fig.  I will admit that what is "showing" right now is a food baby.  I went from eating very little fat, sodium, sugar, no meat, no dairy, etc. to eating whatever I can eat whenever I can eat it.  Often it's a meatball sub from Subway.  Weird, but that's one of the things I can usually handle.  Also, I basically feel sick if I don't eat constantly.  And I mean constantly.  If I go more than five or ten minutes without shoving something down my throat, I start to feel queasy.  This last week sunflower seeds have pretty much saved me.  I eat them all day long sitting at my desk.

Back to the pictures.  I had Jesse take some, and the first time he said, "are you sure you don't want to suck it in?"  Sweet, I know.  So I've got a few pictures where I'm wearing stretchy pants and my stomach looks huge.  Then today I thought, "hey, let's try taking the pics in regular clothes, i.e. jeans."  He kept telling me to put my arms next to my side and stand up straighter, and was apparently using "special angles" to basically make me not look so fat.  So, those pictures look like I'm really sucking it in.  So I'll post two pics. One of me looking fat at 10 weeks, and one of me sucking it in hardcore at 11 weeks.  I'm leaving out the uber fat pictures we took last night where I look 16 weeks pregnant, at least.

Since the day I found out I was pregnant, I was convinced it would be a girl.  Jesse felt the same way.  But for the past few weeks we've both done a complete 180.  I'm convinced it's a boy.  Jesse is leaning toward boy.  I have had a couple dreams where I've given birth and it was a boy.  And then I look at cute pictures of young Jesse and I really hope it's a boy!

I want a little boy who looks just like that!!

Also, I added Hanson's first CD to my playlist on Spotify.  It's still awesome. And I still know every word... ha.

I'm pretty sure that's all I have at this point.