We're Out

We are officially out on Facebook, which means of course, that we are pretty much out to the world. So I guess everyone can feel free to talk about it :).

Lessons of Caffeine

These are the things I have learned in the past 24 hours...

1. Dr. Pepper is heavenly

2. While pregnant one might get the craving to drink a LOT of Dr. Pepper

3. Doing so will increase brain use, productivity and creativity that night

4. You will start to feel jittery as the night wears on and wonder what you did differently this night that might be causing this

5. You realize that because you have abstained religiously from caffeine for the past 4 months that you now have no tolerance for the stuff and drinking 3 glasses of it at dinner was in fact, not the brightest of ideas

6. Sleep will not come until about 6 or 6:30 am (as a result you will sleep til 2 pm)

7. You vow not to drink more than a sip of your husband's soda from now on, whilst pregnant

Official Blog Annoucement

Dearest blog readers:

1. the time has come for us to officially announce to the blog world that Jamo and I are in fact... Pregnant!

2. i ask that this blog post and information contained within remain on this blog and in your heads. i know most of you know already, seeing as how it's mostly family and really close friends who read this. but there might be a few that do not know. for the moment, please keep all comments located here and NOT on facebook. and please if you're in the ward, keep it to yourself for now. we plan on going public by the end of 7 days. but we want to tell people ourselves on our own time. we will let all know when it is ok to speak freely (you love me). thank you in advance :).

3. on to some more interesting and fun information for those of you who don't know anything about this baby or my pregnancy...

baby is due June 26, 2011

i'm 18 weeks and 2 days

gender ultrasound set one week from today, February 1st
(there will be a poll on facebook soon to guess the gender, fun!)

average heartbeat of baby is 144-148

my baby is now the size of a bell pepper (pretty awesome)

i had morning sickness like crazy and slept for weeks during the 1st trimester

i'm still down about 5 lbs. from where I started

4. and now you will all be getting lots of updates of how I feel, what I'm going through and just my general thoughts on the whole matter. and I seem to have a lot of them the past week or so that I feel the need to share on my blog (and now I can, lucky you!).

5. a photo! here I am tonight at 18w2d....

and I would like to pretend that some of that is baby, but really, I think I look about the same as I did pre-pregnancy. if anything, I think I almost look better (maybe all that throwing up and having no appetite did the trick). but pretty much I'm not showing yet and am just waiting to "pop". i will say though, that it is hard to suck anything in cause there is no more room for it with baby hiding under there.

6. we're completely excited!

Licorice Rope

So last night Jamo and I were watching Juno, cause it's awesome. And in the beginning after she finds out she's pregnant she buys some licorice rope and makes a noose out of it and then takes a huge bite out of it. Needless to say, I wanted some licorice rope after that. And then I had a dream last night that I was trying to buy some at the dollar store and all I had was my credit card and the lady wouldn't let me cause I didn't have my ID with me (even though our credit cards have our pictures on them). And it was only a two dollar purchase I was making. After fighting, and sneaking a bite of it, I stormed out of the store mad I didn't have any licorice rope. End dream. And I don't even know where one would still get licorice rope. Walmart? 7-11? Who knows. It will now be me goal to find some. If worse comes to worst I'll buy some Red Vines.

Cankles

I now know what I would look like with cankles... sigh. I'm glad though that no matter how fat I get that I have tiny ankles. Except today. Oy.