12 weeks

24. dec

BABY'S SIZE     a plum!

WEIGHT GAIN     still kind of the same

HOW I'M FEELING     only 20 percent nausea left.  yeeeaaahh!  still tired, but i think overall, i'm feeling a little better

WHAT I'M EATING     i had my first craving, rather than just aversions.  it's very embarrassing.
i was at work, and had forgotten my lunch.  so i ran down to subway really quick (which normally, i prefer to stay away from...) and saw that they had.... BOLOGNA.  it was so grossly delicious that i got it two nights in a row...

HOW I'M CHANGING     my bloatiness is starting to look like a poochy baby belly!

MOVEMENT     n/a

SLEEP     i still want to sleep all the time.  but i've been doing a few less naps a week, i think.

FAVORITE worst THINGS THIS WEEK     i totally lost it this week.  we were going to go to breakfast because i had been thinking about these cheesy potatoes all week.  eda wanted to come too. so arley put her leash on since she has been running out in the street.  she always gets Super excited and so was pulling all over the place.  arley gave me her leash so he could put on his coat and eda pulled and smashed my hand against the doorframe (because i was standing in a doorway...).  and i got kind of sad because it really hurt my hand.  so we finally got out the door and got eda safely stowed in the back of the 4runner.  i got in to start the car and left the door open.  suddenly arley was sweeping all this super fine powdery snow across the windshield and Everything was blowing in on me.  i was screaming (i'm not even kidding about the 'screaming' part) at arley to stop, but apparently he didn't hear me and i got completely soaked (this is albuquerque, where snow is Barely 32 degrees, so it melts instantly).  i immediately started sobbing and jumped out of the 4runner and slammed the door.  i stomped inside while i screamed at arley, "I'M NOT GOING ANYMORE!" and slammed the door to the house.  then i stomped through the house and starting taking off my wet clothes and throwing them across the bedroom.  arley came it and asked what was wrong - he was so bewildered.  i was sobbing and sobbing and i told him that my hand hurt and he got me wet because he was sweeping the snow on me and that i wasn't going to breakfast anymore.  i'm pretty sure he was trying not to laugh the whole time.  somehow, through all my hysterical crying, he got me to get some new clothes on and we made it to the restaurant.  and then i came back to my senses....

later in the week:  i was at work charting, and i randomly had a memory of the cinnamon rolls at prairie rose.  and it made me cry.

LOOKING FORWARD TO     in a few weeks we have an anatomy screening (i can't remember exactly what it's called).  we already got to see some anatomy (kidneys, heart, brain, etc) at this week's ultrasound, but i'm excited to see how baby changes over the next month or so.

FUN FACT     baby is developing reflexes - if you poked it, you would see movement.
on our ultrasound, the nurse had me rub my belly to try to get baby to move into the right position.  baby definitely moved in response, but never into that perfect profile position.  also it had its little legs crossed the whole time!  it was so cute, we could see it kind of wave its arms and legs and jump up, and then kind of float down - over and over.

12 weeks and 1 day.  also: retro kitchen.