Things Are Changing Around Here

It all started with two chickens...and let me tell you. Those are more responsibility than one would hope for. But Eddie and I better get used to it, because in case you didn't get the memo already, we've got a baby boy coming on dec. 29th. I'm 20 and 1/2 weeks today. Which is more than half way to baby coming. We really couldn't be more excited for it! We just love him so much already!
Theres a couple pregnancy thoughts I want to share with you. Stuff no one told me.

1. Your skin and nails get so much worse before they get better (still waiting for that). I just kept hearing about how your skin and nails get so good during pregnancy, and before I even got married I was taking "magic hair growth pills" (prenatal vitamins) and they worked great, up until I was in a coma and they took me off everything I was taking, and I never found them or started again. Anyway, they are not having the same effect when I'm actually pregnant! My theory is that the baby wants all those vitamins for himself. If it means he's healthy, he can have it! The breaking out and chipping nails have GOT to STOP!!

2. Whoever says that throwing up during morning sickness doesn't make you feel better is just trying to look tougher because they like to use how it sounds gross to get more sympathy. Let me tell you, there was no worse feeling than laying in bed needing to throw up so bad and not. For a couple months, there was no better feeling than how I felt after I threw up. Maybe thats different for other people, but I know I feel so much worse for the poor girls who just have take it. That part, when I wouldn't throw up, was the worst. I just wanted the relief, which luckily, I got every so often.

We deff. weren't trying or anything, and so I didn't keep a calendar, and didn't realize how it was all glaring at me the whole time. I should have taken a hint when I kept waking up to pee, couldn't make it through the day in Baltimore without coming to the hotel for a nap that seemed to take up every day from about 11-3, and would actually eat my entire plate of food and then be starving again an hour later. But all this started pretty much the day I got pregnant, and so I figured it out around the same time I possibly could have. I'm wondering why I've never real someone's blog who says these things, and I'm wondering if its TMI, but I really don't think it is. Maybe its because I lake a sensor...?

My mom and I went shopping yesterday and I'd like to share a few of the treasures we got.
Its going to be the middle of winter when he's born, so he'll need this:


And this will be for next winter:


And in case you weren't sure, Eddie and I's baby is going to be tough: