Tomatoes

Strangely enough I have a new fondness for tomatoes.I never liked them until now. Another one of those pregnancy things I guess. My dad used to try to make me eat them with sugar....never really understood that one.

I am now 14 weeks and waiting patiently to feel this little one moving around. I checked Hannah's baby book a few weeks ago and I felt her at 16 weeks. I'm hoping it will be any day now. I've felt a few things that I think may have been the baby but it's so hard to tell this early. I can't wait...it's my favorite part of pregnancy!

Lisa took some great family pictures of us last week. Here are some of my favorites.....

12 Weeks

I had my 12 week appointment yesterday and everything looks great. The baby's heart rate was in the 150's. I think it's a boy. Hannah's heart rate was always high and Micah's was low. Now I know it's completely a myth but based on my other two...it's a boy. We'll know for sure when we do the 3D ultrasound but that's still two months away...if I can wait until I'm 20 weeks. I also haven't gained any weight yet, which I'm not surprised about. My appetite has been terrible. I'm am so ready to be able to really enjoy food again.

I think we've made some kind of plan for maternity leave which I am so relieved about. I just got my award for vacation next year and I got the last two weeks of April which works out perfect. I can work the first two weeks of April and then be off the last two and start my maternity leave in May. That gives me 6 weeks off until my due date. If all goes well I should be able to work until I'm 34 weeks without having to do light duty (office work) which I am really trying to avoid. Total I will be taking a 6 month leave of absence which will put me back to work in November. I plan to do standups in November and December so that I can be home most of the day. In January they will probably offer a leave of absence again and if we can afford it maybe I can take January and February off. So that's the plan for now. It make me so much more relaxed to have some sort of plan. Now I can start getting excited about this baby!

I can't believe I haven't updated in two weeks...well wait a minute yes I can. I'm just terrible about blogging. Anyway I'm almost through my first trimester.....YEAH! We go on Thursday for another doctor's appointment. We should get to hear the baby's heartbeat with the Doppler which I'm really looking forward to. It's always such a relief. I'm feeling pretty good. The last few weeks I've had some nausea and absolutely no appetite. Nothing sounds good to me so I just have to force myself to eat. My belly is getting bigger too....not that anyone else notices. I'm wearing my maternity jeans full time now! I could probably still squeeze into my pre-preggo ones with the rubber band trick but these are way more comfortable. I can still wear all of my pre-preggo shirts but I have bought some maternity ones. I also ordered by maternity uniform for work which is just hideous, I can't believe I'm going to have to wear it so I'm putting it off for as long as possible!

So for you four people who read my blog I'll try to update more often but no guarantees!

Well I'm here at my mom's hanging out with my family. We're going to have a BBQ tomorrow and hang out with my brother which will be really nice. Lots of yummy food too. Not that I need anymore. I feel huge lately. I don't think I've gained any weight, at least not since last week. My stomach just feels huge. It's like as soon as I got pregnant my abdominal muscles just gave up. My belly starts right under my ribs which makes look even bigger. I took some 8 week belly shots but I don't think I'm going to post them. I don't like any of them...uggh. By 12 weeks I'll probably be in maternity clothes! Good news though is that I really haven't been very sick. I've only thrown up twice and that was last week when I had that cold. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed..before I know it the first trimester will be over. Now I'm just worried about gaining a ton of weight since I haven't had much morning sickness!

Ticker

My ticker moved to a new box! Now my little bean looks like an actual baby instead of a fish like creature. Only 217 more days...ugh!

Food cravings food aversions

One of the funny things about being pregnant is the way food affects you. All of a sudden now there are things that I can't stand. Like cinnamon gum not cinnamon in general just gum. Coarse ground pepper. I still like regular pepper just not the coarse ground pepper. And Japanese food, mainly teriyaki chicken and fired rice. Two months ago I still loved all of these things now the mere thought of them makes me want to gag. On the other hand there are things I crave that I didn't eat at all before or didn't eat very often. Like strawberry milkshakes, I liked milkshakes before but not really strawberry. Soft pretzels, I just bought a mega box of 36 at BJ's. Ice water, normally I like to drink water room temperature. Now I love ice water which is so strange to me.

Ultrasound

Today was our first ultrasound. Everything was great. We heard the heartbeat and saw our little bean. It was a little surreal having an ultrasound again. I was pretty sure we wouldn't be seeing that room again. It definitely makes it more real seeing that little heartbeat on the screen. Wow I hope we're ready for this again!