17 Weeks

Here is me at 17 weeks today. It's basically an atrocious picture, but oh well. I couldn't get a better one, so this will have to do.

I had a friend once say to me that "pregnancy does something to you" to make you want to lose weight after the baby is here. Well, I was so huge with Claire, but the fact that I wanted to be showing forever didn't really have an effect on me. However, this time is a little harder. I think it's because I know it just gets bigger from here and that I have the uncomfortable time to look forward to. Can't wait until I have the little baby here and we can go jogging together. :)

Other than that, things have looked good. I'll be honest, I'm afraid that something is wrong since the whole scare episode a couple weeks ago. I didn't want to take a belly picture until I knew there was a heartbeat still. I know that sounds crazy, but it was a little unnerving for me. Everything looked fine at the appointment, but now I'm more anxious than ever to have my ultrasound and make sure everything is going well. At this point we're excited to find out what we're having, but could almost care less at the same time. We just want to know that everything's ok. I think we're having a boy. Undoubtedly having a boy. However, I could DEFINITELY take another gal pal in my house! We have so much fun. Brian says that we're having a girl....because he wants a boy. Logic? I don't know. All he says is that if he says a girl, then we'll have a boy and he truthfully wants a boy because, get this, he's scared that a second girl wouldn't be as cute as Claire. If that's the case, then he would have to lie to girl #2 if he tells her that she's the cutest girl in the world because.....that wouldn't be true. Claire is the cutest girl in the world. Sigh. Ok Brian. :)

I'm hungry, but not as hungry as I thought I would be at this point. With Claire all I felt like doing was eating. With this one, I kind of eat like normal with one extra snack in the afternoon. I'm still emotional. For instance, we were watching Cars on Monday night and at the end where the blue Dynaco car gets all smashed up and Lightning McQueen gives up the Piston Cup to push him to the finish line. Tears. Actually, it makes me get all teary eyed just thinking about it.

I've thought I've felt the baby move a couple times, but I'm still not sure if it was a muscle spasm, gas (you pregnant women know what I'm talking about!), or if it was actually baby. I felt Claire move so early, so I'm so excited for that part to come.

And just because she's a cutie, here is Claire enjoying our afternoon popcorn snack while watching the latest Parks and Recreation. She could take that bear anywhere.