Not-So-Teenie Weenies

I'm now half way through this crazy ride! I have turned into a preggo cliche. I drop everything. It's really embarrassing. At work, I dropped my pen, stared at it, contemplating leaving it, and then did a weird knee bend squat to pick it up. I then promptly dropped it again before I even took a single step. Augh!! Its pretty uncomfortable to bend over now. I drop so many things at my desk that I just make a pile near a chair that people sit in at my desk. By the end of the day, everything gets picked up by annoyed co-workers.

I've also noticed a lot of people staring at my Budda Belly. Don't try to be discrete, I see you looking at me out of the corner of your eye. What are they looking at? Are they trying to figure out if I'm pregnant, or just eating too many doughnuts? Or are they judging me because I'm pregnant and not wearing a wedding ring? Well, so what if my fingers have swollen up like little weenies and I can't fit into my rings? Mind your own beeswax people!

Preggo My Eggo

A nurse recently asked me if I have felt the baby yet. I wasn't sure because, while I have been feeling things, I've never had a human gestate inside my abdominal cavity before, so I don't exactly know what I've been feeling. Through some deduction, I've figured out some of those feelings are not the baby because, according to my concept of where the baby should be, the feelings are not in the right place. Anyway, the nurse told me that it feels like a bird fluttering around in your stomach. Since I generally keep live birds out of my diet, I wasn't sure if I had felt the baby yet.

Moving on... I finally felt the baby move this weekend and knew it for sure! I was sitting on the couch on Saturday and felt it. I then put my hand on my Budda Belly and the baby high-fived me. It was pretty amazing, unless there really is a bird in there.

~20 Weeks!

A Baby Boy!!

And In This Corner...

Now weighing in at 8 ounces....
We're proud to announce that we're having a baby....

Streshy Pants. Not So Streshy Shirt.

I started wearing maternity pants last week. I was going to wear a maternity shirt today to work, but opted out. I thought to myself, "I can still pull off normal shirts, I probably look good too". Mistake! I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror at work and besides the dried ketchup blob on my belly and cookie crumbs on my shoulder, I saw buttons that were barely keeping it together. They were really struggling, God Bless those little purple buttons.

Does this make my butt look big?

It's official!  My belly button is a full-fledged outty.
I bought maternity clothes today because I don't think I'm going to fit into my regular clothes by next week.  I do believe that I look more pregnant when I'm wearing maternity clothes.  I'm really disappointed in the clothes the stores have for people in my "condition".  I looked like a chubby, middle-aged librarian.  I wonder how tight my regular cuter clothes can get before it's uncomfortable for other people to be around me because I want to put off these clothes as long as I can...

Me = e^rt

I feel like I'm getting exponentially bigger every day. My pants are getting kind of tight. I have a feeling that people at work think I'm letting myself go and getting fat. I wasn't so sure myself until Wednesday...we got to hear the heart beat! It sounds like a tiny washing machine. I'm so tired all the time and I've found that I walk slower. I'm annoy myself at how slow I walk sometimes. Especially when I go down stairs at work. I try to hold onto the hand rail, but the stairs are right outside the men's bathroom, and I've heard plenty of no-hand-wash stories from work people that it makes me hesitate. Yuck.