Live. Love. Laugh.

I love how everyone and their mother, uncle, cousin and brother all have an opinion on what a pregnant woman should eat, wear, breath, sleep and so many other opinions. I have some think I am insane for quitting all caffeine entirely, I will hear storied on how they drank umpteen cups of coffee everyday and their kid is fine. I have some criticize that I still wear high heels as if it may somehow harm the baby - don’t get me wrong, I will resign from stilettos when the time is right, right now though, with the tiny bump I have I am not off balanced and am not going to fall flat on my face, when the belly gets bigger and my feet swell up, you can bet I will be in flats and flip flops. I even had my boss ask very seriously if I should be eating a cookie and if its harmful to the baby. Yes a cookie, one single thin mint Girl Scout cookie given to me by a co worker and suddenly I may be harming my baby. Haha he said he just wasn’t sure if it was healthy or not for the baby (as if when you are pregnant you are bound to soymilk and carrot sticks) I explained to him that a cookie in moderation can in no was harm the baby, possibly harm my thighs but defiantly not the baby especially because in pregnancy I take better care of my body then I ever have.  People just always have an opinion about it and really its all about how you wish to go about your pregnancy, sure there are the big no-no’s like smoking, alcohol and other drugs but all in all, all these wives tales are getting annoying. But I smile and go along with it to avoid an even more annoying debate about it. The truth is, like I said, I take better care of my body now that I’m pregnant than I have when I was not. I don’t drink caffeine, I eat extremely healthy (though I do give in to those ice cream and other fatty cravings here and there), mostly Organic, do Pre-natal Pilates and a long walk with the mini everyday, I take my vitamins as if my life depended on it…to me that’s all that matters, that I am doing everything in my ability to take care of my baby in the only way I can right now, by treating myself great.

Well it is week 11, next Monday is the 12 week ultrasound and some blood work (but I choose to not think of the later of the two) I am so excited to see the baby again. Its like while you are expecting, those nine months are broken down into time frames that start with the last ultrasound and end with the next. The hunnie will be amazed at how the baby looks now. It wont be a blob on the screen that you have to explain, and squint and tilt your head to sorta-kinda make out the baby’s body, this time it will look like a baby. Oooh I’m so excited. I wish we could tell if it was a boy or girl yet. I’m so anxious to know and start buying stuff. I have completely held off on going to baby sections of stores or babies R us, I refuse until I know for sure what we are having so we can go crazy. I was so set on NOT finding out the sex of the baby but after a lot of thought I decided to find out after all. The largest part of my decision to not find out was because of the nursery. With my daughter I didn’t have a nursery to decorate, she shared a room with me. With this baby though, I have an entire room to dedicate to blowing far to much money on useless things haha and I cant wait!! So I figured I do not want a neutral room at all, I really dislike the tans and greens that the “baby neutral’s” consist of. I do not like full pink for a girl nor full on blue for a boy, that’s just icky, but you get my drift, I want to splurge and decorate my baby’s room just for my baby. I also discussed with the hunnie, making over my daughters room as well so she doesn’t feel left out in the whole baby process and to avoid some early sibling jealousy. Nothing to crazy, just maybe let her pick out a paint color and some wall decor. We will see how that goes down.

Now off to continue my wonderful Monday back at work. No place I would rather be…except at home in bed snoozing away. Happy Monday!   

So it seems that at 9weeks I am feeling almost back to my normal self again. They say it’s the 12 week mark that you get that 2^nd trimester boost of energy and feel great after the three months of hell but I will definitely not complain that mine is happening 3 weeks early. So far this has been a great pregnancy. Morning sickness was a breeze, well as breezy and morning sickness can get, my emotions were a little out of whack, I cried a lot, at the stupid things! For instance, I was watching the Oscar red carpet pre-show and I cried every time they would interview someone new. Why? I have no idea! Its far from sad, I usually LOVE watching the red carpet shows. After a while I got my act together and told myself I’m being silly. But then Cameron Diaz was being interviewed and I bawled like a baby because she looked old! I’m not even a Diaz fan or anything of that nature. Lol so emotions were defiantly on a roller coaster. I’m not a neat freak but I do keep my home very clean and expect my daughter and boyfriend to do their part as well so they also got the brunt of my pregnancy crazies.  Whatever they did, it was not clean enough for me. I would unload and reload the dishwasher because I didn’t like the way my hunnie loaded it and all the while, not so nicely, explaining how to do it correctly. Thankfully, he just stood there and let my malfunction blow over. I Threw away one of my daughters puzzles because I asked her to pick it up and later she did not and I happened to step in a piece (these are the puzzles with a knob). Later that night at dinner Kendra explained to Hector that mommys acting crazy because the baby is giving her hore-bones. Haha I had to explain to her that for a few weeks mommy will feel all sorts of weird feelings because of the hormones the pregnancy is causing. For a three year old and a first time dad to be, they both were so great and handled my highs and lows very well. But now it seems everything is leveling out. So they are able to let their guard down now lol.

But as I was saying, this pregnancy seems to be going so well, easy even (knock on wood! I have about 6 ½ months left for it to go haywire) so my hope is that this baby is my ‘easy’ baby. Kendra is an amazing girl, very smart, needs to know why rules are the way they are and strives to understand the way things work, she is energetic and very athletic, she is always advanced in whatever it is she does, she’s talkative and a drama queen! Man oh man is she a diva! Sometimes I feel like I’m living with a teenager already! Haha and though this is EXACTLY how I wanted my first daughter, I hoped and prayed she would be independent and strong willed and beautiful of course, that it what I got but it sure is a handful. The biggest challenge is to have her know whos boss (me) but also allowing her to have her individuality and sense of self. Sooo by ‘easy’ baby I am just hoping he or she is like his/her daddy. Calm, relaxed and easy going. Though, isn’t that what most mother wish for? Lol especially mothers with children already, hands and schedules full 24/7. haha we will just have to see, but if this pregnancy is any indication as to how this baby will be, I think I can already kick my feet up and enjoy the view.