Bump, 17 and 18 Weeks

Okay, I know I should have been keeping up with bump shots from the beginning, but, you know, lazy.  Also, I was feeling like crap for the whole first trimester so I forgive myself for not being so much in the blogging spirit.  But now the bump is too huge and awesome not to share!

So, here I am at 17 weeks:

And here I am this morning at 18 weeks:

My husband keeps making the same joke at least once a day that goes a little something like this.  "Honey, you look really cute today, but I think you may have eaten a few too many cheese burgers."  Har har.  

Lastly, the big news is WE ARE HAVING A GIRL!!!!  Sonora Evangeline Osborn will be joining us some time around Christmas (Due date on Christmas Eve) and we couldn't be happier!!!  I promise to blog last weeks sonogram picks soon, but she still looks a little more terminator in them than princess.  Still cute of course.  

Oh yeah, and the kicks!  I am still only feeling them on the inside but they are getting stronger and stronger.  I love knowing she is with me.  :)

16 weeks!

First off, I am so in love with this little baby!  I am extra in love with my husband to, who has more than stepped up in taking care of me, and getting excited to meet our little critter.  Since he was pretty apprehensive about having a baby at all (to say the least) it is a wonderful surprise to see how excited he is about this kiddo.  I think that has been one of the best things to happen yet during this experience!

So here is the bad: I have been so sick again.  Even though my morning sickness is gone, I have been throwing up for the last few days, and suffering from migraines as of last night. I have lost 10 pounds since I got pregnant, which is stressing me out.  I have been trying very hard to do everything I can to be healthy for this little critter, but my Crohns makes it difficult.  Not only does it cause it's own problems, I catch everything.  Working has been difficult.  I am really hoping that soon I will be feeling better most of the time and more able to be a productive member of society again.

But here is more good: The baby is kicking!  Nothing you can feel on the outside, but I can feel it.  It is the best feeling in the world.  In fact, I just got a little kick right now!

I still have no idea if it's a boy or a girl.  Some moments I think girl, others I think boy.  Really, I am going to be so excited either way!  I really thought that I wanted a girl for sure until I got pregnant.  Now some days I feel like I am more partial to he idea of a boy.  Whatever is coming, I can't wait to meet the little guy!

Also- my friend Kimmi brought me this gift bag since she knew I wasn't feeling good.  So sweet!  :)

15 Weeks!

This has been an odd/ good couple of weeks with this pregnancy.  For one thing, my morning sickness is so much better!  Sadly, I've been suffering with a head cold for the last couple days, with a nice little sinus headache thrown in for fun.  I pretty much slept all day yesterday, which felt very wasteful but necessary.  Poor Jer was also sick yesterday, but seems to be all better today.  Boys are so much more pathetic when they are sick, and they need so much more attention!  Every time I saw Jer yesterday, he was sleeping in a new spot, including the couch and the floor of our living room because our bedroom was too hot for him in this heat wave.  Of course I got cute photos, and I am almost mean enough to post them here, but not quite.  ;)

So, with the morning sickness at bay (most of the time) I have been able to eat more and finally getting some of those pregnancy cravings I've heard so much about.  This weekend, all I could think about was a turkey burger from Johnny Rockets.  Sadly, Johnny Rockets was CLOSED when we finally made it over there, but luckily I got a fairly good substitute at Red Robin.  Let me tell you, I NEVER crave fast food type food or fried stuff, but I would have killed for some more fried zucchini sticks!  Hopefully I won't be a junk food junkie for the rest of my pregnancy, but I guess we'll see.  It's really weird how off my taste-buds are.  Stuff I usually love tastes awful, and stuff I never crave seems like the only thing worth eating.

Ugh, and then this head cold.  Like I needed to be even more exhausted then I already was!  Still, I am telling myself that maybe my body is trying to tell me I need to slow down a bit and get some rest.  But it's hard when there is so much I need to do!  I'm not feeling too stressed however, and I keep telling myself my most important job right now is taking care of this kiddo.

So that's it.  I'm getting more and more excited the more my belly expands!  I'm very curious to see how my belly button will look if it starts to stick out since I already have a funny belly button after my last surgery.

Oh yeah!  I'm also pretty sure I felt my first little baby flutter the other day!  I can't wait to feel some good strong kicks in a few weeks.  :)

I'm going to try to check in here at least once a week, but it's cool if no one really wants to read all of this.  I'm just feeling great about being pregnant and excited about all of the new stages, even the kind of crappy ones.  Growing a new person is awesome!  I'm getting so attached to the little critter already!  I can't wait to meet baby Osborn this Christmas.  :)