weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

things are starting to get all sorts of real these past few days. my belly seems to be growing daily, and it's official, my pre-pregnancy pants no longer fit! i actually purchased my first two pairs of maternity pants today. baby gap had some amazing clearance deals going on and i got one pair for $14 and the other for just 7 buck! i refuse to spend big money on clothing i'll only wear for a few months, so this was considered quite a successful day indeed! i think i will give one exception to a good pair of jeans though. if any mama's out there have a favorite maternity jean that got them through the big belly months, i would LOVE to get some recommendations. jeans are a huge part of my wardrobe and i'm feeling kinda lost without them :(

in other preggo news, i've also become a bit of an emotional mess this week. i can cry at the drop of a hat! i'm considering it a pretty impressive skill as of now... we'll see how i look at it if it continues for longer then a few days. i know it's all hormones, and that it tends to be at it's worst when i'm trying to figure out something to wear. it's a tough thing suddenly not knowing how to dress yourself, and on top of that not feeling attractive in anything you do happen to still fit into. it's all part of this fun process, i know. i'm hoping this mini shopping spree i had today will help with some of my clothing issues. let's keep our fingers crossed shall we!

here's to a weekend of no tears... hopefully!

weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

16 weeks... hot dang! happy 4 months to you bean! ok perhaps it's just me, but doesn't this weeks avocado baby seem smaller then last weeks orange baby? anywho...

this week i've been hit with the super mid-day sleepies. anywhere between noon and 3pm, a zombie like exhaustion hits and i must give into a nap. i can't complain much though because i'm lucky enough to work from home and be able to indulge in such pleasures. otherwise i imagine you would have a very cranky preggers on your hands!

in other homefront news, thanks to a heads up from sami, i now have plans to paint the inside of my little shed workspace white and model it after this amazing hubby and wife's adorable shed studios. i fell hard for them when i checked out their blog and now my shed has shed envy. so this weekend will hopefully involve painting the inside and outside of my new space. it will probably take 8 times longer then it should because it's supposed to be in the high 90's this weekend. me and the bean don't handle heat well these days, so many many lemonade breaks will be involved. i'm talking like every 15 minutes. southern heat and humidity is no joke people!

hope everyone stays cool and comfy all weekend!!!

weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

holy naval orange batman!

holding that orange while taking these pictures was kinda surreal. it's so much more substantial then the fruits that came before. i guess that's how it will be from here on out. evan actually asked the other day how i was going to handle it when we got to the week of the watermelon, and honestly i have no idea!

i'm still feeling really good these days, with the exception of passing the heck out at the end of the day. i mean like no recollection of anything after my head hits that pillow. it's intense! the past two days i've been waking up quite a bit during the night though because it's starting to get a little odd figuring out a new favorite sleeping position. i've been a life long stomach sleeper and that is no longer an option. in addition to that i have to start practicing not sleeping on my back as well. i guess once i'm a bit larger there is a chance that your uterus can squish a big ol' artery when you lay on your back. so that leaves me with side sleeping, which is generally ok, but i have to switch sides often. just par for the course i suppose.

i'm kinda big time excited for this weekend. i purchased this little shed for our backyard, and this weekend evan and his bros will be assembling it for me (such an amazing fam i've married into). my plan is turn it into an outdoor workroom so that i can get most of my gear out of the house. i can make quite a mess in here, and with a little one on the way we need all the space we can get right now! annnnd, while the boys are doing that i think i'm going to paint the little beans room!!! i'm so stoked to get started on that, and painting is the necessary evil that must come first. oh and don't worry, i'll be very careful with lots of ventilation, and rest breaks mixed in there too. gotta do everything with extra caution these days :)

so hopefully all these plans will go off without a hitch and i'll have lots to share on monday. have a great weekend friends!!!

weekly bean update

hello second trimester!!!

and this week according to the bump...

lemons are my favorite thing in the whole wide world (well pretty much), so i'm pretty darn stoked to have my little bean being compared to one this week. is it wrong to want to eat your fruit baby? anywho... i've been feeling really great lately. no more morning nausea at all, and the afternoon zombie spells are a thing of the past... well, at least for now.

my belly seems to be feeling bigger by the day. suddenly it's looking like an actual preggo belly! you still wouldn't be able to tell just by looking at me (most of the time), but i think those days are coming to an end and i can't wait! i wanna waddle around, and be able to rub my belly in public and not have people think i'm just a wierdo.

after this weekends out of town craft show, evan and i will be getting down to business here on the home front. we've got a list a mile long of projects we need to finish (or start) before bean gets here. i've got the need to organize constantly and evan's going to be feeling the brunt of it... sorry darlin' :) i figure i have somewhere around 3 months of feeling great so now's the time to get those ducks in a row. i'm so excited to make over the nuggets rooms i could bust. we already know that we're going pretty gender neutral with the decor, and we'll be basing it on the montessori thoughts on children's room design. i'll be documenting that whole process too, so i'll share more about that as we move forward. exciting days ahead indeed!!!

have a great weekend friends!

weekly bean update

and this week according to the bump...

my goodness did this week ever fly by! i guess that's what happens when you spend most of your days out of town hangin' by a pool. man it was a good one!

well the bean is progressing along just lovely. we're at the end of the 1st trimester and now at the peach stage, which is funny because while in atlanta i was eating peaches like they were going out of style. i actually had 3 yesterday! the little nugget is also starting to push it's way forward and become a bit more noticeable these days. i can't wait until i actually look preggo and not just fat and bloated. it's a fine like between looking like you've just had a few too many beers, and looking like you're with child.

last night we went out to dinner with a few of our couple friends who've recently had children and it was comforting to see that people really can still socialize with the living, even after newly becoming parents. it's also really great that so many of our friends are now having kids and that we're not the first in the bunch. i would imagine that that's a hard spot to be in. so it's looking like our little bean will be happily surrounded by buddies, and as one of evans friends put it, kindergarten is going to get a whole lot cooler in about 5 years!