You asked for it!

Don't make fun! Here's the "belly shot" at 5 months (20 weeks)...NO sucking in. In my defense, this was taken right after I ate lunch. I really popped the last week and a half...I can tell by the look of my belly button ;) I'm so much bigger than I thought I was!

20 Weeks Today!

We've reached the half-way mark, I'm so excited!

Not-so-good news: I may have toxemia/preeclampsia already :( Big bummer about that. Last week my right foot and lower leg started swelling up for no reason (which is odd since I had surgery on my left ankle about 6 months ago). I have to go in later today to have it checked out because the swelling only goes down just a little bit when I elevate it and is still swollen when I wake up in the morning. I don't have any signs of a blood clot and earlier this week, my blood pressure was good. Weird. Makes me nervous, but I'm sure all will be OK.

Good news: I found a new OBGYN. Dr. Russell Beck who is going to be the head of Obstetrics at the new Banner Gateway hospital on Higley & I-60. Which means I get to deliver at the hospital I wanted to, yeah!

Great news: The nursery is well under way. I have been busy organizing the baby's room (we used it as storage while we unpacked-bad idea) and Dave has been Mr. Fix-it, assembling the crib and installing the ceiling fan and moving things to the attic. Not such a fun feat during the dead of an Arizona summer. I think I've decided on paint colors finally. Very boring: tan and light blue with a chocolate stripe.

I'm so excited to be at the half-way point that I'm treating myself to a massage on Saturday! Yeah for me!!

Baby Stuff

OK, there are some pretty funny baby products out there! I've come across a few that just make me laugh! (top pic is a set of socks that look like converse sneakers and bottom is a set of pacifiers)

The Belly

It's official: I have a pot-belly. Dave and I were debating who had the larger belly last night and I definitely won. He insisted he was bigger than I was, but then we laid on our backs in bed and compared. Yup, I won. I still walk past the mirror and think to myself, "time to work out". I don't look pregnant to myself yet...just very bloated.

The little guy has been kicking a lot more lately. It still comes and goes, but it's so exciting and is increasing in consistency. I was talking to a client the other day on the phone and gasped when the baby kicked. Sometimes I forget he's in there and it freaks me out! Dave still hasn't been able to feel him yet, even though there've been some pretty darn good kicks when he's tried. Hopefully soon.

No-So-Little Kyle

I heard from my Mom yesterday that my youngest brother, Kyle, refers to this midget as HIS baby. He's told her that he prayed and fasted for so long for this little guy that he feels like it is his. Way to make me cry! I can't tell you how much the support of my friends and family has been through this painful journey of infertility. I know our little Kyle didn't know much about our struggle and he never said a word to me, but it means the world that his prayers and support were with us and he thought of us that much. He's the coolest kid ever, I'm tellin' ya.

19 Weeks Today!

Wahoo, time is flying by! I woke up this morning with a much more pronounced belly. Before I could just pass off as "chubby" or an "overeater", but now I feel like I look very pregnant. I cannot for the life of me suck it in anymore. So weird! We are slowly cleaning out the baby's room and plan to have the crib and dresser in there tomorrow. The bedding came yesterday and Dave and I are both very excited about it. It looks much better than it did in the photos.

On another note, I feel like I'm running out of time. I know I have quite a while left before this little guy comes, but I feel like there's just so much to do. Since we moved into our new house and we found out we were pregnant the same day as the move, my energy level has been squat and I can't get to organizing like I normally would. Very frustrating. I may just have to recruit my organizational nazi of a mother to help me.

Office Space...TMI

TMI: you've been warned. So yesterday at work after standing up from peeing, I went to flush and saw that the water in the bowl was green. It freaked me out! I immediately wondered what I had eaten or what malady had caused this eery sight. Infertility is a funny thing...it is automatically an undertone whenever I fear something is ailing me. Apparently the janitor had just slipped in one of those "blue flushes" tablets and the water had not yet turned blue when I went to sit down. I laughed at myself for not thinking of that first, but turning to the thought of horrible diseases or food poisoning as the cause.

I walked back to my desk laughing at myself. Then I turned off the light in my office and began to blog. I really am spoiled at work sometimes: Access to the internet whenever I choose, I can turn the lights off AND they spoil us with "blue flushes" toilet water!