Pickles and Pizza

No, I'm not having cravings, but I have to say that these two foods taste sooo good during pregnancy! I liked them both before, but now they are way better!

Babies! Babies! Babies!

This week I have found out different 3 friends are expecting! They're all due a couple months after us. I'm so excited that there are going to be so many babies so close to the same age!

UPDATED -- I Know You've Been Waiting!

Update: 5/29/08 -- I just realized that the pics are switched! They should be right now. I've had all kinds of trouble with the pics in this post -- the just did not want to get situated where I wanted them. At least now they are labeled correctly.

Here are some updated pictures. Still not much baby belly going on, but I do look a little plumper.

7 weeks
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P.S. Portia says hi!

Shopping

I picked up a book yesterday when I was browsing at Borders. It is a guide for what to look for when buying things for baby and when to buy them.

I really enjoyed the book, it has lots of great advice about which features to focus on and questions to ask. I think it will really come in handy over the next few months. Now I'm anxious to start shopping!

Weird Dog

Last night between about 4:30 and 6:00 AM we had a big storm go through. Nothing severe, but lots of thunder and lightning. Normally if it is storming you can bet that Portia will be hiding under the bed (even though it is a tight squeeze for her and she has to lay completely flat, with her legs sprawled out on each side). We often will try to coax her out and there is nothing that can get her out if she hears thunder.

I woke up around 5:30 and it was raining really hard, so I decided to check if I could see water standing in our backyard. Our neighbors put up a fence and early this spring we noticed after a hard rain that there was a water line streteching very far across their fence and it has me worried that the fence is acting as a dam and that we're going to get flooded. It was lightning enough that I could see the the backyard pretty well and there was no water standing. I turned around to head back to bed and there comes Portia running at me at full speed! She ran up to me and started doing her super-excited wiggle-butt dance. Most of you probably haven't actually seen it because she tries to jump on you, but let me tell you it is a sight to be seen. Usually with Aaron and I she doesn't do it too long and really doesn't get that wiggly, but this morning she was going crazy. She probably did it for 5 minutes straight -- all the while there were huge claps of thunder. I could not believe she wasn't hiding and was so seemingly happy. I was laughing so hard, and as most of you know it is very difficult to get me to smile, let alone laugh early in the morning. I crawled back into bed for another hour of rest and she jumped in with me and snuggled up, even with the thunder.

I went for a...

RUN! This is the first time I've been running since I found out I was pregnant. Even though the doctor said that it was just fine to do, I just haven't had the energy. Portia and I were just going to go for a walk, but it was so nice out and she seemed full of energy (me, too!) so we decided to run. Of course after almost 3 months of no running (for me, probably more like 2 years for her...well at least distance, she does get in her fair share of sprints), we didn't make it very far. It was still fun and felt sooo good! Yippeee!

Blog Update -- FYI

I just changed the settings so that anyone can comment -- you don't have to have a Gmail or Yahoo email account. So those of you who have mentioned that you haven't made comments because you don't have an account, no longer have an excuse. :)

On an aside, be thinking of my husband tonight. He's stuck in Dallas waiting for his plane to take off (more than 2 hours late) and while waiting he was in line for ice cream and the girl working told him they were closed after the guy in front of him got his ice cream. So he went to McDonalds to get a shake and they didn't have any left. Those of you aware of how much he loves ice cream can only imagine how happy he is right now!