Sunrise, Sunset

Nathan is growing up so fast. I love to watch him grow and learn, but it sort of breaks my heart. I know I'm not the first mother to feel this way, nor will I be the last, but it's such a strange feeling.

Today he found one of those poppers that you turn inside out and put on a table and then it pops into the air. It's a really big one, though, about 2 inches in diameter. He figured out that if he put it on his mouth and breathed in it would stick but (because there's a small hole it) as soon as he stopped it would fall off. I know it seems like small potatoes, but that's a physics lesson.

Charming :o)

Ultrasound Pics from 10 Weeks 3 Days

10 weeks 6 days

Whew! It's been a month since I blogged!

As my doctor pointed out on Monday, I'm one quarter of the way done with my pregnancy. Ack! For some reason that freaks me out....

I'll be 11 weeks tomorrow. That means in 11 days I'll be done with my 1st trimester. (Each trimester is 12 weeks and 3 days, medically speaking.)

I'm still pretty sick in the mornings. I have a cute little routine...I wake up, pee, turn the shower on, throw up, take a shower, pee again, brush my teeth. I'm hoping it goes away soon. I was sick until 16 weeks with Nathan, though, so I doubt this pregnancy will be any different.

I think it's a girl. I really, really, REALLY (really) want another boy, but I'm pretty sure it's a girl. We'll find out in September and, honestly, I'll be surprised if it's a boy.

I went to the doctor on Monday. The baby is doing VERY well. He did a quick ultrasound and you can see arms and eye sockets. S/he looks like a little alien!

6 weeks 1 day

A bump can be seen this week. I haven't gained any weight, and it's not baby so I'm assuming that my uterus is growing and pushing all my organs up and out giving me that little belly.

I've been really sick this week. Morning sickness (Really? Who came up with that. It should really be called "All Day Sickness.") hit me on Monday and today I actually came home from work because of it. The doctor gave me some medicine to help with the nausea and vomiting but some days it's still really bad.

My "morning" sickness went away around 16 weeks with Nathan, so I'm hoping that I can expect the same thing this time around. That gives me ten weeks to count down. Well, it's better than 20 weeks, I suppose.

I have been addicted to "A Baby Story" and "Birth Day" on TLC. I watched it all afternoon today (since I've been home since 9:30) and I want to watch more. I watched it ALL the time before I got pregnant with Nathan and while I was pregnant with Nathan. After I had him, I turned it on one afternoon and had no desire to watch it. It was kind of like, "Been there, done that." But now that I'm pregnant again I can't tear myself away. It's silly, really. Like THAT much has changed since I had Nathan 2 and half years ago.

Yes, I'm grumpy.

Yes. I'm grumpy and I'm irritable. Deal with it. If you are an idiot I will probably have zero patience for you. This is not new. I have ALWAYS had zero patience for idiots. However, I am now pregnant and this causes me to say what I'm thinking.

I'm extremely tired and sick. Ask anyone: a tired Amanda is NOT a nice Amanda.

So, let's review:

Exhaustion + Morning Sickness + Idiocy = I'm probably going to explode.

Names and Feelings...

We've been talking about names for the baby. Even though I'm barely 5 weeks pregnant we want to be able to know the baby's name when we have our "big" ultrasound in approximately 13 weeks. Assuming the little one cooperates, we'll be able to find out the sex and then be able to refer to him/her by his/her first name instead of calling him/her "the baby" (not to mention get rid of the need to use multiple pronouns).

As I mentioned previously, we really want a boy. Ironically, that is the name we're having a problem coming up with. We've known for a LONG time that if we have a little girl we're going to name her Liliana Mae (Lily, for short). We both really like the name Alexander (Alex, for short) for a little boy. But, in 2008, Alexander was the 6th most popular name for boys. I'm worried about our child having the same name as 30 other little boys in his school.

I know it seems silly, but there were a lot of girls that had the same name as me when I was growing up, and it was frustrating sometimes. (I always had to be "Amanda K." in elementary school. I could never just be "Amanda".)

We've toyed with some names but our favorite so far is Matthew Alexander. I'm sure we'll keep playing with names for the next few weeks.

Part of me feels like we shouldn't even worry about it because I think it's a girl. I read a study this week that says when asked what they think the baby will be, the pregnant mother is correct 71% of the time. That's a lot better odds than the 50/50 chance of guessing correctly if it's a boy or girl...I guess we'll find out!

5 weeks 0 days

Yikes. Check out that belly bloat. That's definately because I just ate dinner.