so i know i just took a christmas hiatus, but it seems as if this month there will be another-- on this blog at least. not to worry though! i will still be blogging {twice weekly, actually} at our church's blog: http://www.journeythroughthestory.com/. our church is reading through the bible in a year and to facilitate that the leadership has assembled a team of bloggers to take turns writing the whole year long! my blog days are mondays and thursdays, C has wednesdays and saturdays, and my friend B has tuesdays and fridays! i will only be blogging for this three months out of the year and january is my first month!
so yes. a brief hiatus from here, perhaps.
but i'm sure there are a few things left that i'd like to share with everyone.
including baby updates, etc.
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Baby Size? a bell pepper
Weight Gain? so far on record, i haven't gained any weight, but i have an appointment a week from today and i expect to have gained a few pounds.
Stretch Marks? not yet, though i'm sure they'll arrive. regardless of my moisturizing, this winter's been a dry and cold one already.
Foods i'm loving: FRUIT. yesplease. and hummus i could eat all day (but only the kind from this certain restaurant!). also i can eat meat again after 6 weeks of crazybad food aversions, so that is nice.
Foods i'm hating: the thought of vegetables makes me gag, but i'd hate to blame it on the them. i have tons of frozen veggies from the farm in my freezer and i LOATHE the way the freezer smells right now (????? C says it doesn't smell) and every time i think of veggies i think of how the freezer smells. ick.
Sleep? good for now-- i wake up a few times in the night and toss and turn, but can go back to sleep fairly easily. i've had trouble sleeping onlyonmyside! and will often wake up on my back regardless of how i go to sleep. my mom said sleeping on your back was allowed when she was pregnant, so i'm not too worried about it.
Symptoms? not many anymore-- i'm in what has been dubbed 'the feel good trimester'! my energy is back and my food aversions are gone, so i can eat notonlynoodles now. my belly has definitely 'popped' now and its getting harder and harder to hide.
What i miss: not having to get shots everyday. and feeling pretty. a lot of pregnant women say they've never felt more beautiful, but i just feel fat and awkward.
What i'm looking forward to: one week from today we will find out the gender! but i think we will have the tech put it in an envelope and go out and open it on a date.
Emotions? i've been really struggling with not loving any of the baby names we have so far-- for boy or girl. it makes me feel unready to find out the gender. even though we aren't going to tell the name until it's born, i really wanted to already have a name. also, i watched the documentary the "b.usiness of being b.orn" and loved it! it made me excited to know that i will get to experience the joy that those women experienced, though i was also made a little more sad-- knowing that i want a home birth but my chances of that are slim and probably a bad idea anyway. i hate hospitals so much-- and the home births in the documentary were so beautiful!
so there's a happy update for you!
i can't decide about announcing the gender online-- but if you ask me i will tell you-- we aren't going to keep it a secret!
stay warm.
I definitely want to hear the gender when you know!!! Please post it on your blog or I'll email you if you decide against posting it online. :) If it's a boy, I have lots of boy hand-me-downs I will send you. :) I think waiting to announce a name is smart. I am pretty sure we'll do that next time unless we're just 100% sure on a name. Because, as you know, this last time we struggled and ended up having to change the name we'd already announced, which was a little embarrassing. I wanted my children to have special names but not names that were so out of left field that no one had ever heard of anything remotely like them. I would be happy to pass along my lists of boy names or girl names via email if you would be interested in picking through the names we ended up not using. :) I actually got the name Linus from one of Renee's baby name lists (names that she said were up for grabs, of course!).
ReplyDeleteooo i'd love to see your lists! we are really wanting something meaningful as well-- for at least one of the names. so it might have to be a bit 'left field' but i'm ok with that i think as long as it's not their first name! we want to have one of the names reflect what God is teaching us about Himself right now, so it might be weird! but we haven't landed on anything we love yet!
DeleteOh, I also really liked "The Business of Being Born." I watched it last January when I was just barely pregnant with Linus. :) I thought about a home birth last time but I was nervous about it. I don't really know why. When we get ready for #3 (a loooooooooooong time from now), I will probably look into it again.
ReplyDeletecoming up with the right name is difficult--but the name will be defined the child, not the child by the name, so whatever you do pick will become more and more beautiful to you through the years. my parents hated the name "susan" and even more the nickname "zuzu" but now they say they couldn't imagine her with anything else lol
ReplyDeleteGood point, Renee. Tyson's parents didn't like "Milo," either (and even my parents admitted they were confused by it? ...I think people of our parents' generation don't really realize it's a real name, maybe), but now they all say the same thing that Renee's parents say about Zuzu...Milo is Milo! It's true, though...the name will be defined by the child...so wise Renee. And, Sarah, I will send you my list. :)
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