Making Our Presence Known

We're back! Jelly Bean #1 and Jelly Bean #2 back and it's week 8, heading into week 9 for mommy and us. Now this last week was mommy's last week of summer vacation before returning to work. She made sure that she rested up and did pretty much nothing. Mommy likes her afternoon naps. Apparently, we make her exhausted (rolling our newly formed eyes)! We are no bigger than a raspberry at this point, but we've been letting mommy know that we are here and we are growing! Mommy was just so proud of herself for not being "sick" those first few weeks. She actually thought she was going to have smooth sailing....WRONG! We really made mommy pay this week. Her upset stomach and queasiness really hit full force this week. She got sick some nights, but we've been hitting her first thing in the morning these past few days. (we see no reason to alter the term "morning sickness"....we shall strike in the morning and any other time we choose!) I mean, if mommy would just eat all the time, she could probably avoid the majority of this....possibly. Mommy actually thinks that a few measly crackers with some ginger ale first thing in the morning is going to keep the sickness away. Nope, we want sustenance.

Mommy is also experiencing all kinds of digestion issues, too. We won't go into much detail, but mommy celebrates successes when she can get them because they don't come often. We are still causing mommy to wake up a few times in the middle of the night to potty. We were bad last night....mommy woke up at 1:30am for a potty break and ended up needing to kneel before that same potty moments later:/
We even made her sick during church yesterday morning. Poor mommy. She was fighting hard, but it was inevitable. We have also started causing some minor lower back pain. So in a better effort to curb this and to train mommy to sleep on her side, mommy made her first official pregnancy purchase for herself (aside from a couple of dresses in a larger size): the full body BOPPY pillow.

Mommy is just testing this out. It does take some getting used to. Mommy is stubborn and still insists on trying to do some belly and back sleeping. We will soon make that impossible, however. We do think it causes mommy some distress when she needs to wake up for potty breaks at night. Getting untangled from the pillow can be quite a task. Mommy is wondering how this will work out when she's bigger and the potty breaks are more frequent!!!!

Another first this last week: mommy's first major mood swing.
The sad beneficiary: Daddy
The encounter: Mommy wanted some pizza from Little Ceasers along with the garlic butter sauce (she claims there is no other way to eat that pizza except with the sauce. This is very important to the story). Now mommy usually is able to eat all 4 pieces of the pizza; however, mommy's appetite is small, but more frequent these days. Mommy had 2 pieces and wanted to save her other 2 pieces for later when she would be hungry again. Mommy had some extra butter sauce that she was saving for her pizza. What did daddy do? THREW IT AWAY!!!! Mommy just about lost it! She was going on about how she couldn't have her pizza now because she didn't have the sauce. I mean, you would have thought daddy dropped mommy's wedding ring down the garbage disposal. That's how angry she was. Luckily for daddy, the trash can was empty except for a Cheetos bag, and the sauce just happened to be sitting on top, face up. Crisis averted. Daddy saved. Mommy ended up enjoying her other 2 slices a couple of hours later....WITH the garlic butter sauce that daddy rescued.

Now, for this week's realizations:
1. Mommy enjoys McDonald's cheeseburgers from the dollar menu before bedtime (mommy hates McDonald's on a normal basis)
2. Boppy should invent a pillow that is used to place in front of the potty since most mommy's spend so much time on their knees in front of it
3. Mommy has to upgrade her lunch box to accommodate all the food she has to bring
4. Taking a shower is going to be an event when mommy gets really big (her shower is really small)
5. It's time to up the fiber and protein intake in her diet
6. Picking out a diaper bag is just as critical as picking out the perfect handbag (mommy is a bag snob)

While we may be causing mommy some grief (and daddy, too since her has to take care of her), they both know it will be worth it come March when we arrive. Mommy and daddy pray every day for our safety and health. We can't wait to get here! Stay tuned for next week's update on how mommy survived her first week back at work. Will we be easy on her? Only time will tell. We leave you with mommy's 8 week preggo picture.....and well, ours too!

(Mommy only will take pictures on Sundays since she claims that's the only day she looks cute...hair and makeup and all that jazz)

Until next time,

Jelly Bean #1 and Jelly Bean #2