5.27.2010

still pregnant

1. there is a new poll up, if you hadn't already spotted it in the top right of the blog, where you can cast your vote on if you think the bundle sheltering in my uterus right now is blue or pink. um, let me rephrase. the bundle itself is definitely pink IN my uterus, but the poll is about what color the blanket will be when he/she comes OUT. as much as i like boys, i don't want an actual blue baby. i am surprised at how much love "boy" is getting so far since everyone i had talked to before was betting girl for this one and since i have dropped a few lines about jesse and i thinking it was probs a girl too.

2. we will find out whose votes were correct in about 3 weeks. the plan right now is to have the technician put the results in an envelope that jesse and i will open at dinner that night, but smart money says i won't make it out of the parking lot without opening it. especially if i am right that i can expect severe telephonal bullying from lena to give up the goods immediately.

3. we are at 15 weeks and 5 days. so here are some updated belly pictures. if i hadn't made a commitment to show the reality of 2nd pregnancy belly i would definitely not be posting these anymore since they are hideous. i wasn't svelte to begin with, but now i have hit the weird softened jiggly phase of pregnancy and boy does it look hot. bleck. i think i owe you week 14 as well as 15 so we'll let judah introduce week 14's comparison:


a lemon! we let judah play with this before we took the pic and he was in love with it. already so attached to his little broster, he cried when i took it from him for 6 seconds to take the picture with. later in the car we let him have it and he occupied himself with it for about 4 miles before he started wailing. he had bit clear through the rind and gotten an acidic blast on his citrus-virgin taste buds. hahahaha, little sisther fights back already!


it's so sweet and so pitiful. i really hope he doesn't act like this when i take the baby away from him

and then 15 weeks was supposed to be an apple but we only had an orange in the house. its amazing to me that although the bump is up by my navel (hahaha, orange) the baby and my uterus are still mostly under the waistband of my pants. i don't know how an orange is in there right now, but i can tell you something is pushing all my other organs and fat upward which is what's making me look so much more pregnant than i am.
yuck. don't you dare judge.
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4. symptoms: morning sickness if officially OUT. i feel awesome. while i can still sleep with the best of them (hahahaha) i am never nauseous and i have almost all of my operating energy back. yesterday during judah's nap i cleaned the snot (literally) out of the house instead of passing out with him. hooray! i am eating much smaller quantities at a time and less overall. fine by me. i have gained about 4-7 lbs so far (not sure what i was before i got pregnant since i quit weight watchers when we started trying again in january). as usual, 70% of my weight gain goes to saddlebaggery/general wideassery, 10% goes to augmenting my already ample love handles and the other 20% goes to...

yup. they aren't as sag-baggity now that pregnancy has reinflated them. also, judah played with this for a good 45 minutes yesterday. was it wrong to let him?


5. we had an appointment this morning and it was ragingly boring. which of course is what you want in an OB appointment. we heard the heartbeat for the first time which was strangely captivating for the little man.
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it was so weird to be there with judah the one year old behemoth since last memorial day weekend he was getting his nails sharpened to bust himself out of his waterbag.
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6. right now we are seriously having no clue about the gender. for a while we were both on the girl track, but now we have almost zero leanings. i have dreamed that i gave birth to a boy but when the family came in to see him there was judah and then a little sister who were meeting the newest addition, so i'm not sure about that one. and then i dreamed that i gave birth to josie duggar after watching her going home special one night so that sample is also skewed.
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as much as i have talked a big game about only wanting boys, my heart really is prepared, and even more so, open to having a girl. there are so many things that i could do with/for a girl that just are kind of irrelevant for a boy. do i think judah will ever grow up and want to read this blog? not really. but i think i little girl would be fascinated by that sort of thing. and then all the lessons i learned the hard way or ignored from my parents mostly correspond to me being a girl. i have always wanted A girl...just not necessarily several or first. well with this one there's no chance of getting ore than one or of her being first, so bring it. there's way more fun girl stuff to sew than boy stuff any way.
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on the other hand all the positives are still there for this one being another boy. judah gets an automatic best friend, we get to reuse all those heaps of boy baby clothes that we have lugged up to the attic, and we are already very proficient at getting poop out of tiny ball wrinkles. plus i wouldn't have to be the one to give the sex talk, nor would i be the go-to parent for bathroom breaks in public, and most importantly (and let's face it, the real reason i am scared of a girl) i wouldn't be the one to have to model how to be a man for the little dudes and could just be their mom.
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bonus fact: the first blog posts i/we ever wrote were at this point in our judah pregnancy. i was so full of it saying "we think we want a boy slightly more." i would have straight wept and gone all sackcloth and ashes if they had said #1 was a girl. my heart was SET on a boy. it was my first ever blog post, i was nervous and didn't want to be judged for wanting a boy so very badly.
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okay, has it been 3 weeks yet? i am ready to find out! plus we can't pick a name for real until we actually know what we are having. last time we 100% had a boy name picked out and then we found out he actually was a boy and it totally changed our minds.

6 comments:

  1. Of course my 'frugal' side says having another boy would be the best b/c you already have all the STUFF!!! But I do want, in my heart, for you to experience the total joy that is a baby girl. :) Love you!

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  2. You will love a girl. This coming from the girl that said if I had a girl first I would "send her back".
    I wouldn't know what to do without my Haley. And boys adore their sisters, so Judah would love her if it is a her. And I also am very curious to see whta name you would pick out for a girl. Oh- and did I mention that since you already have a dream child, this one is certain to give you hell? Which is appropriate for a girl!

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  3. oh my gosh. like how long would you plan on keeping that envelope sealed???

    also if you want your reactions on video I will bring my flip all the way down to fayetteville/senoia and capture that. just dreaming over here.

    can't wait to find out! lovelove.

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  4. I have zero prophesy tendencies. . but I am thinking girl. And, I just can't wait. I love whoever that is.. but if its a girl, I look forward for the blogposts where you are dressing the little darling like you!!!!

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  5. This is the post I've been waiting for--I knew somewhere inside of you there'd be a desire to get good use out of all those lessons you learned the hard way!! Seriously, so glad to hear your heart about having a girl. Each sex is so amazing in their own way (actually each child is, no matter what the sex is) so it's tons of fun to have both. Of course brothers and/or sisters are awesome too because they can share so much (clothes & more!) So all and all, I'd have to say children are AMAZING GIFTS FROM GOD, and I'm glad you kept it light on your desires, you never know what all they are hearing and sensing in their little safe place, so it's cool to begin welcoming them before we meet them! (Hi baby #2...we're so glad you're coming to join the family!!! Love and hugs from LL)

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  6. ps. If you have a girl (or boy), I'm praying s/he'll be as sweet as Judah, and just as adorable!

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