Pregnancy Etc...

I had a friend ask how I am feeling and realized I really haven't talked much about this pregnancy. I am feeling really good physically--only got sick two, maybe three times in the first trimester. As far as the typical pregnancy symptoms go I feel like with Ethan I got one half of them and with Aria I am getting a completely different set. Weird dreams, a phantom leg thing, sciatic nerve stuff and the obvious discomfort when sleeping are all things I have/had with both pregnancies. I am carrying her very different from Ethan, she is very high and usually sideways (transverse) as of now. Ethan was head down pretty much from the start and he was high.

I am so excited to have a little girl! It is hard to not go out and buy a bunch of cute girl things!

I took the gestational diabetes test a week ago and no one has gotten back to me so I am thinking/hoping that i passed it. With Ethan I failed the first test and had to go back and do the 3 hour one and then passed that one. I really hope to not have to do the 3 hour test again, it stinks.

I am so much smaller with her too, but that is probably because I am so much more active. (having a one year old this go around is definitely tiring!!) I am also watching what I eat more, with Ethan I ate whatever I wanted when I wanted and sometimes ate even if I wasn't hungry...

She is due the day after Christmas so I am curious to see when she makes her debut, I guess everyone is curious as to when their children will actually come but seeing as I already have one child born on a holiday (Halloween) I am interested to see if I have another on a holiday. I hope to do things pretty much the same way as we delivered with Ethan.

I am very excited about my pajamas. When I was planning stuff with Ethan I wanted some cute PJ's that I could wear in the hospital (and later) and I was pretty specific in what I wanted: a top that buttoned up the whole way so that breast feeding was easy, I wanted them modest, I wanted them kind of fitted, light weight and CUTE....the problem was I could only find fairly frumpy ones in stores or they had bottoms I liked but no tops or the tops were button up but sleeveless (you get the picture) anyway I found some I REALLY like and I am getting them! I have put the link here because they are from Victoria's Secret and the girl modeling them isn't modest, they are trying to sell the PJ's and the Bra. And lets face it, Victoria's secret is not focused on modesty in their photo-shoots. But if you want to see them click the link because they are PERFECT and if you are looking for something like what I described they have a TON to choose from!

Here is a picture of me last week. I feel like it isn't even me but that isn't 100% because of the pregnancy. To me my face just looks weird, like it isn't my face. I see the picture and I think, "Oh, someone is having a baby!" and then I realize wait, that is me in that picture?!? Weird.....

Although I am excited about the cuteness of a little girl. I am nervous about having a second child-especially a daughter....girls are so much more nerve-racking to me. Brandon and I talked a lot about it the other day (my nerves about it, not his, he is perfectly fine with the idea of raising a girl). I am sure it will work out and either way, ready or not here she comes!

I am sad that my relationship with Ethan will change and I am sad for the inevitable jealousy/struggles he will have. The benefit is he wont remeber (later in life) how awesome it was to be the only child and how much attention he had. This will be his first "trial" so to speak, but having more children equals finding ways to divide your time between each child, yourself and your spouse. I read a friends post the other day about how you have to remember, amongst all the chaos of children and life, that your marriage still needs work so that one day you don't sit down and realize that you have lost the friendship/love etc... in your marriage. I hope and think Brandon knows and feels that our relationship is still the most important one I have on earth.

For now I am just going to get bigger, and love on these two amazing guys until my little girl shows up and a new kind of chaos becomes "the norm" with us.