a year later: me edition

 Me from last July,
and this July.

 

I think I've finally reached the point where people can tell that I'm actually pregnant--not just the "she might be..." stage.

A few weeks ago I was wondering when that second trimester energy was going to come.

I guess it just isn't the same when you spend all your time with two-year-old.

But I've been feeling really great the past two weeks or so; definitley nesting-I have this intense desire to get every closet, drawer, box, and corner of my house in perfect order before the baby gets here. 

I know that it isn't really important to have it all done, but it feels like it is.

I get intense and very specific cravings, usually in the evenings. 

A few times a week I find myself really wanting a tuna fish sandwich around 9:30 at night.

Kent tells me that is strange, but it doesn't seem like it to me. 

I mean, it's what I want.

I can't be the only person who likes to eat tuna before bed, right?

A day or two ago I was just sitting in the living room and suddenly I needed a snickerdoodle. 

And last night, I was tearing up my iceberg lettuce for my salad, and at that moment, I realized that the thing I wanted most in the whole world was to eat the spaghetti I had in the cafeteria of Snow College one summer when I was at youth conference.

That one was a little weird, I admit.

And then there's the excitement of my shrinking pregnant brain.  Inability to communicate without fumbling my words, inability to remember things I said or did only moments earlier, that sort of stuff.

Did you know that they've actually done studies and proven that a woman's brain literally shrinks when she's pregnant? 

Don't ask me who "they" are, but I believe them!

And the dreams.  I have awesome pregnant dreams.  Happily, I'm past the nightmares stage of the first trimester, and now I have dreams about really cool things.

Like Josh Groban helping me set up my Christmas tree and serenading us,

swimming with dolphins in a Church pageant,

and being in the cast of the waterworld show at Universal Studios.

Things are going really well.  I keep forgetting that I'm pregnant, actually. 

I guess Nicholas keeps me too busy thinking about other things.

But then I happen to walk past a mirror and

oh yeah!  We're having a baby girl!

It's pretty exciting to remember that.