Deep Thoughts and Belly Shots {week 17-18}...

Deep thoughts for weeks 17-18:

I almost feel normal again and it feels wonderful- sometimes I even forget I'm pregnant- until I want to lay on my back and then the extra weight reminds me I cannot do that anymore...

My upper back and right rib cage hurt like no other...people tell me this is normal...but the ways I have to lay to be comfortable are far from normal...

Am ready for a vacation!  Leave this Friday and it cannot come soon enough...Am ready for some airports, shopping, food, and making new friends...

Baby loves cupcakes- has since the beginning of the pregnancy and it has not slowed down...it consumes them by mass quantities...and by it I mean me...

Baby hates football season- oh wait thats me...

We find out this Thursday what "it" is...I am hoping for a boy now...girls scare me...

Am finding out that even though I am in my second trimester and I can stay up late doesn't mean I should...am like a teenager again if I stay up to late...don't mess with me I will make you cry with just my words...

Still not really feeling baby move- come on baby throw me a bone here...

Bending over is feeling a little different then it use to...I guess there is more where that comes from...

My belly button is all ready changing...I have been trying to bargin with the baby since the beginning to leave my belly button alone...it doesn't need to pop out...this pregnancy is already taking what pride and dignity I thought I had...don't take my belly button too...

It really is true what they say pregnancy does to your hair and nails...grows like weeds but then I read that it all falls out after you have baby...your hair not your nails that would be too gross...

I think about food all the time...and when I am not thinking about food I am eating it...

Am I almost there???? Don't laugh at me...you know you were thinking it at 18 weeks too...

Week 11

-Dear baby-  

Will you please behave in there? 

Instead of making me worry every couple of weeks that you are gonna be ok?

It's really scary every time and I feel like you enjoy getting a rise out of me already...

You are too young for that.

Just stay inside and bake until you are nice and big and ready for this crazy world.

Cause let me tell you- it's some cushy life you are living right now.

Taking all of my food and energy, sleeping and floating around without a care.

Me and daddy are getting pretty excited about you,

not that we weren't from the beginning but hearing your little heartbeat was pretty amazing

and made you seem a little more real.

Even the doctor said you were ornery when she had to look for 5 full minutes to get your heartbeat

cause you kept swimming away from her...

or because your mom had just eaten almost an entire bag of Cheetos before the appt. {and then lied to the doctor saying I just had a small snack}

I feel like you already have a little personality, which may seem silly but you do seem to have specific likes and dislikes that me and daddy laugh at.

We hope you like to laugh a lot too when you come out and meet us.

Just don't laugh for the first time while daddy is at work- that would make him really sad and I promised him he wouldn't miss much your first 2 months since you are coming right smack dab in the middle of his busy season.

Also I think dad is kind of tired of gnocchi, spaghetti, and Spaghetti O's {even though he won't admit it} so please try to like something new soon...or not since we know you are gonna do what you wanna do.

I think that's a little bit of your mom coming out in you : )

But like I said stay in there and cool it for a while. 

I can only miss so much work for your whims!

We love you already!!!

-Mommy-