Week 25- Momma at 6 Months

We've been really busy. I'm tempted to say that preparing for a baby is busier than planning your own wedding. It's like you want to get everything done and do anything and everything you've ever had on any list or any desire to ever do NOW for fear that you won't be able to resume these activities for at least 18+ years...and by that time you'll be broke and ragged. That's pretty much everyone's advice to us: "Do it now or else you can't afford it and won't be able to do anything for another couple of decades".

It's amazing that anyone ever knowingly decides to have children.

Not only are we trying to get everything done before we are confined to our house until we are in our early 50's, we also have been taking Bradley Birthing Classes, La Leche League Breast Feeding Classes and reading every other book under the sun in preperation for this lil man to come. As I type this entry, my husband sits next to me on the couch reading Husband Coached Childbirth- 'o how are lives have changed. The change to come is bitter sweet: welcoming, but also scary. I almost feel like writing a letter to myself titled "See you in 20 years old buddy :-)".

In all seriousness, pregnancy is wonderful, but difficult in the same sense. The changes that occur in a woman's body alone are crazy---strechmarks, vericose veins, huge belly growth and darkening areolas to name only a few. It's hard to be sporting that pregnancy glow all of the time when your body is constantly throwing you curve balls.

I had a growth spurt the last week or two and now believe that I have officially adopted the waddler as my "normal" form of walking. I never thought I would be a waddler, but it just happened and I really don't know how not to waddle with a huge basketball tied to my waist. I asked my husband if he thought that I grew too fast and he replied with an encouraging "you have been eating a lot".  He's trying to be supportive, for example he just turned to me and said "babes, the book says we CAN have sex."

I can't believe that I have a little over a 100 days to go...I can't imagine how huge I am going to be around July and August for bikini season. Overall,  I've felt pretty good and my morning sickness has been occuring only 1 or 2 times a week. I still have lots of energy and am only getting up at 12, 3 and 5 am to pee...not bad.
I hate my pictures taking. I don't think I look adorable..my sister in law who lives in NC asked for a photo of me the other day...this is the one I sent her :-) It's my baby buddha.