HAPPY 3RD TRIMESTER!!

I can not tell you how many pictures it took before I finally realized it wasn't the camera making my head look so small on such a large body, that's just the way I am now.  Oh well, Zachary will be here soon enough and then I have a whole other post-pregnancy body to look forward to!  As the title of this post indicates, we have entered the glorious 3rd trimester.  I can't tell you how exciting it is to be here after all the positive words of encouragement from other mommies.  Phrases like, "I was so miserable..." and "Wait until the 3rd trimester I was so uncomfortable" or "I never slept in the 3rd trimester".  Books were not very encouraging either.  I'll spare you the gross and miserable details they warned about.  Basically, I get to look forward to stuff coming out of every orafes of my body. Yaa...  But seriously, I'm doing great, feeling great, I'm sleeping well enough, and Tommy and I are super duper excited to meet this little boy!


There's not much more to report on.  Just a few thoughts have come my way that I might as well share.  Also, soon enough, I will be setting up a post that will be extremely political and try as I might, it probably won't be funny.  So I apologize to you my devoted 1 fan (if that) and if you choose to skip it altogether, I am not offended.

Some thoughts:

•  So I hate taking pictures now because everytime I look at them I think, "Woah! my face is fat!" Which is confusing because when I look in the mirror, it still looks good.  Therefore I avoid pictures because I love living in blissful denial.
• I looked in the mirror one day and realized, I had lost my collar bones.  Obviously they're still there but they're hiding and it's weird looking.
• I keep wanting to write a post about how awesome Tommy is but then I'm shy and am not good about sharing my feelings to other people.  But as soon as I voiced this to Tommy our super awesome friend Britany did the same thing and I laughed because she's a better wife than I am.  So that will probably happen soon, but I also don't want to be a copy cat so... miss you Britany!!
• I asked my doctor if I was doing okay on weight gain (not too much or too little) and he said, "Yeah you're doing good.  Why? Are you eating a lot of junky foods like soda (only a half mug each day), ice cream (like a true May family member), chips (um...maybe...)  So now I just crave those things all the time and only once in a while I give in. Don't worry, I wasn't eating it all the time just a lot more than usual, especially when I never had soda, ice cream, or chips that much before.  
• My friend happened to mention french silk blizzards at Dairy Queen and I may have had to give in after only 4 days of good behavior
• I'm thoroughly embarassed for the Emmys.  To have never awarded Steve Carrell for his work for the Office or Hugh Laurie for House is just terrible.  That's just beyond ridiculous.  Also, nothing against Modern Family, but it's not the smart humor that takes true talent to create! And what about Amy Pohler?! Can you think of any other women that have single handedly carried a t.v show and made it the success it is today? Oh yeah, Tina Fey, and they honored her in the way she deserved. 
• My sister asked me the other day if I have experienced the crazy nesting urges that accompany pregnancy.  My response, "sure I've thought about it, but then I think about how tired I am and decide to watch a movie instead"
• I was all prepared for an epidural and then I read about how they're administered and the details and I seriously thought, "Maybe...I could give birth naturally" I seriously must be going insane.

Well that's all for now.  I expected this to be a short blip and now it's half a novel. Sorry about that.

More Pregnant Stuff

Ok so first off, here's the highly anticipated baby bump picture.  I know, weird right?  People who haven't seen me in a while see me and say, "Woah! You're pregnant!" As in wow! you've gotten huge!  I'm really okay with it though.  At least people can visually see my justification behind my lack of personal grooming (don't worry, I still shower most every day, I just end up throwing my hair in a pony tail and throwing some blush on to cover up my paleness) and inability to care whether my clothes match or look right, my new style has become: as long as it still fits I'm wearing it.  

But anyways, on to more important things. My little baby sister is pregnant!  She's about 11 weeks behind me which is fun because then she knows what she has to look forward to in the coming months with much explicit detail.  So this blog goes out to her because I'm sure we've all been there where we feel like being pregnant can't get any worse, which by the way, the joke's on you because it can and always tries to do so.

So here is a list of reasons why being pregnant is awesome:

• I feel like a manatee some days and yet everyone else thinks you look absolutely adorable
• If you act irrational for whatever reason, you can always blame it on the hormones
• You get new clothes almost monthly
• I can stop feeling guilty about not running because I don't have to
• Walking is now considered effective exercise
• Random strangers go out of their way to talk to me 
• Although he says he never minds, I don't have to feel guilty about asking Tommy to massage my back, feet, etc whenever they hurt
• I get to stay up late watching movies because I can't sleep, but seeing as the library only has so wide of a selection, most of the films are crummy but I love them anyways
• People have a reason to talk to me now
• And finally, You have the ultimate excuse that no one can argue with.  The proverbial get out of jail free card

One last little note, our poor first child, Wetherby Fredrick Wilhem May the 3rd (our orchid) which has continuously held strong and stayed alive since Februaryish has decided he no longer has the will to live.  He's lost all of his flowers and one inch of one stem is completely dead but it's been like that for about 2 weeks so death has stopped spreading.   But the weird thing is, he has a new leaf growing.  So maybe he's hibernating.  Anyone know anything about orchids?  I just loved the plant because it required my love only once a week and it cost me 2-3 ice cubes.  Oh well, he was probably doomed to die once our real child came.