Upgrade

Our baby has been upgraded from a kumquat to a fig this week. At least I know what a fig looks like. :)

Our Little Kumquat

According to the internet our baby is now the size of a kumquat. Except, who the hell knows how big a kumquat is? Or, who has ever eaten a kumquat? Give me a measurement I can relate to. Like, a chicken nugget. Or, an onion ring. Speaking of onion rings, I had those today at my last lunch before school starts and man were they delicious. Except for the heartburn that came with them 3 hours later. I'm too young for heartburn!
Tonight for dinner I made baked potatoes. But they didn't smell good to me. So Brian and Thomas had baked potatoes and I had an egg roll and a bowl of Rice Krispies. What a combination! How does a baked potato not smell good, but an egg roll and Rice Krispies TOGETHER hit the spot? Weird.

Yawn...

I told everyone else our happy news this week. I shared it at our faculty meeting on Wednesday and put it on Facebook tonight. So now just about the whole world knows.
Tonight was meet-the-teacher night at school and I did NOT tell the parents. They can wait.
I have been EXHAUSTED from work and pregnancy this week. Last night, I had an 8:30 bedtime. Wowza was that early!
This morning I thought I'd indulge on a decaf-frappucino from Starbacks, but after 3 sips I was ready to puke. So I threw out my $3.50 drink. Then the thought of throwing that money away almost made me puke. So this is what I ate over the course of today: an individual bag of cool ranch chips, half of a soggy chicken salad sandwhich, a piece of cheesecake, a piece of cheese pizza, and a breadstick. Yum! Hopefully tomorrow night's La Maria will smell good to me and I'll be able to eat.

The News is OUT!

We told the family last night. It was Dad's birthday and everyone was together to celebrate. I make Thomas a cute little shirt that said "This little monkey is going to be a big brother," and put it on him about halfway through the evening. Everyone was excited once they read it.

I told Thomas when we got home that there was a baby in my tummy and that he was going to be a big brother. Now he knows that there is a baby growing in there and that the doctors will take it out once it gets big enough. He says that he'll give the baby a bottle and change the diapers, but the baby can't have a binky because they're all broken. (they were cut in half to break Thomas of the binky habit)

Now that everyone knows, it feels like I'm really having a baby!

I told my principal today but I haven't told my team yet. I'm waiting for all of us to be together in a quiet place so I can tell them all at the same time. Hopefully that will happen on Monday.

Ultrasound

So at the doctor's office today we had an early ultrasound. We got to see the baby and his/her heartbeat (it was nice and strong and regular). Right now, the baby looks like a peanut-shaped blob. They kept telling me that one end of the peanut was the head and the other end was the bottom, but I couldn't tell a difference at this point. :)
He measured the peanut-blob on the ultrasound machine and it gave a due date of March 15, not March 22 as we were thinking. He told me he had a hard time seeing the end of the baby's bottom, so the measurement might be off by a week. Either date is fine by me.
We're telling the family later this week, so I'm getting excited about that! And, in my previous post, I said that my clothes weren't fitting so well. Well, now they're back to fitting just fine. I guess I was just bloated for 2 weeks straight. (at least, that's what I'm hoping) :)

Big Week

We have a big week coming up. I go on Monday for my 8 week doctor appointment and hopefully he'll be able to find the heartbeat and take an ultrasound picture. We are also planning on telling the family this week, and I'll probably tell my principal as well. I'm not going to be able to keep this secret much longer, my clothes are already not fitting so well.
I didn't start expanding until 16 weeks with Thomas so it's happening much earlier this time. I kind of freaked out and thought that maybe I was showing because I'm having twins (!) but then I read that it's really common to show A LOT sooner the second time around, especially if you've had a c-section. Hopefully, that's the explanation for the early expansion. :)
I've been a little nauseous every morning, but laying down for a few minutes seems to make it go away. I also got pretty nauseous today, but I think maybe it was motion sickness because I drove Brian to Austin and back for work today. That put me in the car for about 6 hours. By the time we got home, I was feeling pretty yuck. We'll blog again on Monday after the doctor appointment.