Bare Naked Belly

Get it? As in Bare Naked Boppy but instead this passage is titled Bare Naked Belly. HAH! There seems to be some action going on in the belly over the past couple weeks, even though the baby is only 10.5 ounces I am pretty sure that I can feel the baby moving every now and then, usually two or three quick bubble popping sort of sensations from inside the belly, but nothing that can be felt on the surface. So riddle me this . . .if the baby is under a pound and only 8 inches in length, how is it exactly that my belly is so huge? Yes, yes, I know, there's the placenta and fluids and all that other junk in there but mathematically it still doesn't all add up. And they say it will get even bigger . . .yikes.

Doesn't this come in Khaki?

Let me just say that registering for a baby is quite different than registering for a wedding. I don't recall feeling like a complete moron while picking out items for our home that time around, but baby products are clearly not my forte. Definitely a good thing that I went with my mom and my sister because if it were Jay and I, we would have both been pretty agitated at the end of the day (as it takes much patience and experience to complete such an activity.) It took about 3 hours to make it through the Babies R Us and knock off most of the items on my list of "must haves" and recommendations from cousins and friends. It was more difficult that I thought it would be to find bedding and other big items that didn't look completely hiddeous to me (seriously, no offense to everyone out there that loves loud rainbow colors and pink ribbons and animals bouncing all over the place but even as far back as grade school that wasn't my style.) At the end I was left wondering, why doesn't Calvin Klein make khaki inspired baby bedding? For those of you thinking I'm completely nutso, let me clarify that I have nothing against cute fuzzy stuffed animals, noisy toys, or colorful baby clothes, my issue is only with the furniture and decorative items that will become permanent fixtures in our home. But don't worry, the baby won't be completely deprived of color. We are going to replace the taupe walls in the baby room with a lovely shade of light green. And after many hours of searching online, Jay and I did find a mix of green/yellow/white/blue bedding that we actually like at Potterybarn Kids. And once we found the bedding I of course became completely obsessed with it. The matching star sheets had been discontinued and since there was no way on earth we were going to find a different set of bedding after all that searching and debating, and I couldn't possibly be content with just green bedding after having seen the lovely star pattern, I had Jay go out on eBay to purchase the discontinued sheets. (I actually never used eBay before, and now I'm completely sold on it.) And so we have registered at the baby giant Babies R Us and the fashionable Potterybarn Kids. Now I can relax and enjoy some turkey and pie.

Baby's First Photo

Today was our first ultrasound and it was so much fun! (aside from the fact that I was close to peeing myself right there on the exam bed) Thankfully the radiologist let me go to the bathroom after snapping the first few images and viewing how large my bladder really was from the 32oz of water. We saw the heart beating and the baby moving it's arms and legs and moving all over the place. (The baby is quite active during all of our appointments but I haven't felt much action yet.) Throughout the photo shoot the radiologist made comments about how the spine, heart, and cord all are "what they like to see" and we'll be discussing the results with the doctor on Monday at our next appointment. The baby is giving us the thumbs up sign in the first photo . ..with it's left hand. ;)

Oh . . .and it is confirmed . . .there is just one baby in there.

The Dunkin' Difference

Thoughts of twins have now been replaced by dreams of donuts. (I am literally having dreams about them). Not just about any donuts. . .Dunkin Donuts. The donut provider of choice, the clear winner over Krispy Kreme, the donut that "America Runs On". I think my re-born love of the donut started with a news story on TV of Dunkin Donuts moving into Krispy Kreme territory in the south, and the speculation as to who would win the battle of the donut. My head was filled with images from childhood.... on the weekends my dad would bring us the breakfast of champions: a dozen Dunkin Donuts filled with favorites like the white & black chocolate covered donut, the apple filled cinnamon donut, and the white powdered chocolate creme filled donut. I was reminded of this over the weekend while driving through Illinois and Indiana as we passed countless combo Dunkin Donut/Baskin Robbins locations (and given my passion for Baskin Robbins combined with my new fetish for Dunkin Donuts you can imagine how hard it was for me not to immediately pull over and indulge myself).

But yet I haven't caved yet to this crazy obsession...not yet (that's right, I haven't had a single Dunkin Donut, not recently nor in years past) Truth be told it's because we don't have one anywhere near where we live and it would take a 40min round-trip excursion to go out and buy some. But despite this I think about them all the time. I am assuming this is because I am pregnant and constantly have food on the brain (even more so than usual). Otherwise I don't think I would be this fixated on a freaking donut.

Dreams

Since becoming pregnant I have had a lot more dreams that are still easy to recall after waking up in the morning. I've always had some crazy dreams, now there are just many more of them. Amongst these dreams there seems to be one theme that is consistently reoccuring . . .twins. I've probably had a dream about twins once a week for the past month or so. Though last night it wasn't me that was having the twins, but a friend of mine that is due in a few weeks who was expecting to have one baby and then at the last minute found out she was having two (just a dream, she really is just having one baby). I think I am either trying to subliminally convince myself that there is still a possibility that we are having twins, or I have some strange ability to predict the future (like what's her face on Medium), or the more likely explanation that I'm just reacting to the comments from some people about how large my tummy appears (it's about a 50/50 split in people thinking I'm huge and there must be an awfully big baby (or babies) in there vs. those that say I look completely normal for where I am in the pregnancy). I guess we'll see for sure which explanation was correct after the Ultrasound next week!

Ramblings of a pregnant lady

Not much new news to report. Still eagerly awaiting the first signs of movement. I've been just a bit absentminded lately, like planning to do something and then completely forgetting about it a moment later. I went shopping and picked up a few new things....my new favorite shirt is shown in the picture. The bunching on the sides is great. (If you can't figure out why then you had the most picture perfect belly while pregnant or you're a man.) I am still hungry most of the time, I think that the double bowl of cereal or double portion of oatmeal for breakfast and a midmorning fruit snack are no longer

cutting it. I suppose I could ask Jay to start cooking me breakfast every morning, but that would mean I'd have to wake up earlier which is why that just isn't going to happen. I am starving at the moment and can't wait to head out for lunch in 10 minutes (which means I was ready for lunch at 11AM, but socially 11:30 is much more acceptable.) I do not understand at all the people who can wait until 12:30 (or later!) to eat lunch. And since it was Halloween

yesterday I couldn't help but throw in a picture of Jay and our Super Dog.