Posted by Lily on Apr 30, 2008 in
pregnancy
Last night we stopped by what has quickly become a favorite albeit dangerous store. A cupcake store. I’m sure there is some proper term for a cupcake store such as bakery or patisserie or some such thing. Bottom line, it’s a store, it sells cupcakes. Yummy, awesome, cupcakes.
Probably the cupcakes aren’t worth an entire entry written about just them. Although I don’t know. The picture doesn’t really do justice to all the flavors and goodies beneath that artful frosting. Anyway, the cupcakes are more of a symbol. A symbol of the beast that is my appetite.
For awhile I wasn’t really all that hungry and anything sweet made me blanch. In the last couple of weeks however, I can literally feel myself getting hungry as I finish whatever item I am eating. It is truly one of the weirdest sensations I’ve had. Getting a hunger belly while putting actual food in said belly. For those of you health folks, I promise I do not eat only cupcakes, nor did I actually eat all three of those cupcakes pictured. I am trying to balance my diet as best I can. I eat everything in site. I have breakfast, post breakfast snack, mid-morning snack, pre-lunch snack, lunch, post-lunch snack, afternoon snack/pre-dinner, dinner, post-dinner, and then maybe dessert. And if something wakes me in the middle of the night? John has actually gotten up and made me food at midnight.
It is Wednesday, we went grocery shopping on Sunday, and we are out of breakfast and lunch foods for tomorrow. I am an eating monster.
Posted by Lily on Apr 27, 2008 in
Bogey An introduction and brief rundown on the facts:
*Bogey is a temporary name. John came up with this when he found out I was pregnant, as I am now plus one.
*We do not know the sex yet, but I’m pretty convinced it is a girl, so we have been referring to Bogey as a she, something I will continue to do until we find out otherwise.
*We are going to find out the sex. Assuming she cooperates and doesn’t flip over and cover herself up. That appointment is scheduled for May 29th.
*So far, all is well. She is a healthy size and apparently has a spectacular heartbeat, something that has been pointed out by both the original doctor we visited and the midwife we have chosen to go with. She cooperated both at the ultrasound by flipping around for a full frontal view and at the last doppler (listens for the heartbeat) by flipping again so we could hear the heartbeat more clearly and loudly.
*I’m doing great. I’ve just started my 15th week. The first trimester was o.k. I was exhausted most of the time and felt just sort of blah in the afternoon/evenings. Considering what I’ve heard some people go through, I will take that in a second.
*Haven’t felt any kicks or punches yet, but it is still on the early side to be feeling those, so I’m just waiting patiently. I do have a belly bump now and as John so delicately said to me this morning, “um, do you think maybe it’s time to put your non-pregnant clothes in cold storage?” I’ve bid farewell to all my old pants and have started down the elastic road. Some shirts still fit, but not many. My boobs have also increased GREATLY in size, much to the delight of my husband. Too bad they’ve been too sore to touch. So goes it.
*That’s about all I can think of. My brain has been sucked dry of any of its working parts (the biggest side effect of pregnancy for me by far) so I’m not good at remembering things that are important. Feel free to email me or comment ( if you can, I have no idea how this site works) with any questions or things I’ve left out. Because I’m sure there’s something.
Posted by Lily on Apr 27, 2008 in
pregnancy After years of harassment from many wonderful family members and friends, I have bitten the bullet and created a blog. I thought about doing it maybe a year or so ago but never really got it together. I just didn’t think there was that much going on in my life that would be all that interesting to people.
Then came February. And the happy (albeit kind of surprising) news that I was pregnant. I still didn’t actually see this as much motivation until I started telling friends and family and all of a sudden got lots of requests for more information. More pictures, more details. ANYTHING. While more than one person has actually suggested a facebook page for the baby, I realized that I am barely able to keep track of my facebook page, let alone one for an unborn child. This brought me full circle back to the blog. So here it is.
I don’t completely know what this site will entail. There is really only so much baby stuff that can be interesting here in the beginning. Even towards the end, probably every kick won’t be that exciting to read about. So who knows what will show up here. I definitely can’t promise a posting everyday. But I’ll try to keep it updated as best I can.
