Today's Craving (Week 20)

EVERYTHING! I'm super hungry the last few days. If I literally had enough room in my stomach I could have cleared off my Tour of Italy plate at Olive Garden yesterday.

19 weeks

Some new symptoms this week - which seem to make more sense after I met with my midwife and she told me this is the time of the pregnancy where my blood volume really starts to increase.

• More spider veins started to pop up. I have seem them on  my ankles for a while...but just this week they starts to pop up on my chest and rib cage. It's not the best thing, but I'll take those over varicose veins or stretch marks!
• Holly bloody noes batman! It's not actually dripping but ever since sunday every time I blow my noes the kleenx if fully red!

weeks 16-18

Well, I was really stressed out about April, but I made it through - but w/out time to blog much!

Week 16 - We went to Phoenix to visit Melissa and her family :)

Sangria and lemon olive oil cupcake

In front of the belly tree!

Week 17 - I competed in Swing Dance America. I took 2nd place in the newcomer division! I didn't social dance much, I left successful.
Dan did a lot of progress on the baby's room too - he finished caulking the walls and pulled out the carpet

Me and my partner competing in finals

Week 18 - Dan, mom, and I went to a just between friends baby and maternity resale event. I was expecting the worse but it actually ended up being really great - and a first hit of reality of how quickly that stuff adds up!

We bough a bassinet, some sort of table top vibrating seat thing (Sarah said we HAD to have one), a breast pump (just need to buy about $40 worth of stuff), 2 baby carriers, a pack of receiving blanks, and a pair of froggy slippers :). It all cost about $200 - which is a lot of money, but if we went the store, the breast pump alone would have been more than that....yikes.

I'm still in my "normal clothes" and my weight has been about the same. However, my cravings have increased...just in general...for eating. I can't seem to eat enough. I'm not sure if I should indulge in the extra calories b/c maybe I need them or should I continue to be careful.

Today's Craving (week 15)

Bread and Mayo....yeah, I could eat them alone but I would take the full sandwich if available.

It also happens to be national grilled cheese day. I don't think i'll be able to have one today, but since we are going out for mexican tonight, I think i'll have a quesadilla - like a mexian grilled cheese?!

Week 15

Yikes, April is an extremely busy month. I was very stressed out about it even starting b/c of the anticipation of all the things I had to (however, most of it is fun stuff). We are 11 days in and it's not so bad.

This weekend
This weekend we have a friend flying in from Alabama (as in, he's a pilot and is flying in) and then we are all going up to Duluth for the day to have dinner with Dave's parents. I'm a little nervous for the flight since it's such a small plane. It should be ok but.......

Cute text
Last night I got the cutest/gibberish text from my grandma last night. It was mostly incoherent, but it was a lot of cute stuff about how she loves us and that we will be great parents and she can't believe her first grandchild is also having her first great grandchild. It really caught me off guard b/c the English was pretty hard to read and it came from an unknown number (I didn't have her cell number in my phone). I sent it to mom and she said it reminded her of this sweet she wrote for dad. I couldn't really read it from the photo but it was some sweat letter to "her first born". I never have really seen grandma as much of a sentimental - so it was cute.

Essential Oils
I just came from a meeting at my midwife's house regarding essential oils. A lot of cool stories were shared about how oils have come in handy. I believe in a lot of their uses, but so far i'm not ready to jump in b/c of the cost. However, i think once we actually have a baby/child I think it will become a lot more beneficial to their health.

• you can use them to make safe all purpose cleaners for their toys and other things
• kids prefer them over medicine b/c they don't have to taste it and it generally smells nice
• if they still are fussy, you can sneak the oils onto their feet when they are sleeping
• it might even help prevent some of the many illnesses they will acquire in day care

The starter kit I want is $550, so yeah that's pretty pricey - so we'll see.

Next trip
Next weekend we are going to Arizona to see Melissa!!!!!!!!!!!

Hot liquid
Tuesday at lunch I dumped super hot tea onto my hand while at at a work lunch. My hand is ok (minus some general heat sensitivity) but it looked really bad right when it happened and I had to excuse myself to the bathroom so I could go and cry!
Well, today at the oils meeting, some B dumped hot coffee over and got it on my foot. So now I have hot coffee on my foot! Once again, nothing bad..but come on!

Weight
I lost about 4 lbs right away when I got pregnant and have been very consistent with it ever since. Well this week I jumped up 2 lbs. not a big deal, but it's my first weight gain. I don't think i look big but I have a very tiny friend who at 28 weeks only looks at big as I do now..or even did a few weeks ago!

Target
I had some time to kill while waiting to meet a friend for dinner so I decided to walk around the baby section at target and actually learned a few things:

• they sell A LOT of stuff you don't need, but once you see it you think that you do
• infant mattresses are uncomfortable
• breast pumps look scary
• bobbies are pricier than I had anticipated
• they make mesh baby bumpers to help prevent suffocation
• i'm even more convinced that I can use a puma bag for my diaper bag

13 weeks

I almost didn't post anything this week because I didn't really know what to say...

• I fell for the first time (and hopefully last) at hot water this past wednesday. It actually wasn't that bad. My left knee took most of the hit and then I just fell to my hands. I felt find afterwards and feel fine now - except for my knee. that hurts pretty bad
• We went out for mexican on friday. I overate and came home super stuffed but felt fine. I came home and realized I forgot to take my prenatal and tried right away. I gagged it back up (which isn't anything new) but in addition to the pill came come liquid.....and then the rest of my meal. Ever since, I've been having a hard time keeping some food down. I get stuffed really fast and have little bit of heartburn.
• Dan and I ran to a few maternity consignment shops this weekend. I didn't buy anything but I was able to get an idea of what is out there. The prices seem right - nothing really over $10.

Week 13 reflections

2012 was an awesome year because I:

• Travel to Jamaica
• Learned how to swing dance
• Learned how to salsa
• Placed in the top 3 at my first swing dancing competition
• Got a new job (voluntarily this time) :)
• Sky dived with my mom for her 55th birthday
• Traveled to Germany to attend one of the biggest parties in the world
• Spent Christmas in Disney and drank my way "around the world" at Epcot

It was a pretty fricken awesome year, but in 2013 my list will just have one thing on it

• I had a baby