It only had one head thank goodness.

Well, after a false go at having our sonogram, I thankfully didnt screw it up again and we made it on time to our appointment on Friday. In fact, we were pretty early. If you recall my last post, I had to come with a full bladder. Actually, I was told after the fact by the doctor that I only needed a "semi-full" bladder. By this statement you know that the sonogram doctor was a man. There is no such thing as a semi-full bladder when you are pregnant. Your tank is either just depleted or straight up bursting. Put that together with the fact that they made me wait 30 minutes after my appointment time (I'm sure this is because of the "list" I am now on that I mentioned in my last post) and you have what I like to call...uncomfortable. I was able to distract myself with an article in the Pregnancy magazine about cloth diapers. (This is now my life). So, Aaron and I were called into the sonogram room, where I wiggled around on the table for another 10 min while trying not to pee on it. The doc, whom will only be my sonogram doctor, came in chomping on a mouthful of Bubalicious gum...like more than one piece. "So (smack, smack, smack), you kids ready to see your baby? (smack, smack, smack)." I chose to ignore his gum smacking, along with his shoving a huge piece of paper towel down the crotch of my jeans. I was about to see my baby and nothing was going to keep me from that now.  The doc put his wand (what do you call those things?) on my stomach and there it was. At first it looked like a blob and then finally focused on what I could tell was a head. Then I made out the rest of the body and he/she was moving around like an weightless astronaut. I saw arms and legs and hands a feet. He/she was already making a fist (probably already shaking it at me) and then it turned its back to us and we saw the full spine. That was awesome, along with seeing the beating heart. The doctor tells us (between smacks) that the baby is perfect (takes after me) and that my blood tests indicated very low chances of Down syndrome and the other things they look for. He also informed us that the baby's nose didnt actually look pointy and deformed like it looked on the screen and that by looking at both our noses that our baby wouldnt have to worry about that either. Glad he cleared that up. I then relieved my bladder and Aaron and I walked out of there very happy. I do have to admit though...I'm just glad it didnt have two heads. That would have totally ruined my day.

Pregnancy Brain is Real...and I have proof!

Ok, so today was the day I THOUGHT I was having my 12 week sonogram. I had it on my calendar and have been thinking about it daily ever since I scheduled it weeks ago. This was my chance to see Baby Newsom in full form, instead of the black blob that it was in my first sonogram at 7 weeks. I had trouble sleeping last night because I was so dang excited. Aaron even came to my work 2 hours early to wait for the appointment time to arrive because he was so excited. For those of you who have been pregnant before, you know that they make you have a full bladder when you come in for the sonogram (of course, they dont really explain why). So I had a difficult time this morning trying to time my pee so that I would have a full bladder when I went. This was not easy considering I am at that stage already where I could pee on demand if I needed to...so holding it is not really fun, especially when are nervous in the first place. Anywho...Aaron and I get to the doctor office and the lady informs me that I do not have an appointment today, that it was Tuesday and I missed it!!! She didnt have much sympathy for me considering they even called me last week to remind me of the date and time. How I managed to screw this up can only be explained by one thing...pregnancy brain!!! I dont have the foggiest idea how I turned Tues, Nov. 16th into Thurs, Nov 18th. My sister even asked me on Tuesday about my sonogram because she remembered the date...and yet I still F'd it up! I bet even Baby Newsom knew and was screaming at me from the womb, "MOM, its not Thursday, its Tuesday!" I feel like the biggest dumb-dumb on the planet right now. The poor lady at the check in counter had to make several calls in order to get me in for another one this week since the 12 NT scan is a very time sensitive test and cant be put off...not to mention next week is Thanksgiving week. What a nut job I am! So thankfully they got me in at 1:50pm tomorrow. But I am pretty sure they put me on some list at the doctor's office where they sort out the smart moms from the morons, just so they know what they can expect from us in the future. I am trying to convince myself that I am not the only one to have done this. So, since I dont have a sonogram picture to share today, I will show you my latest belly shot, taken last night. I am getting pretty darn sexy huh?

Belly, no belly, belly, no belly...

So, as of today I am 11 weeks. Here are two belly shots. The smaller one was from 5 weeks and the other is from 10 weeks.

The 10 week belly pic is from a day when I was at my biggest. There are days when I have no belly at all, which freaks me and confuses me all at once. A lot of days, my belly looks as small as the 5 week picture. Because of this, I am still not totally convinced I am pregnant. Well, besides feeling like crap every freakin' day! Even when I feel "good", I still feel like crap. Crap is my new normal. The best I can hope for....is crap. You get the point.  Dont get me wrong, I am beyond excited to have this baby, but this pregnancy is going way too slow for my taste. Because I found out at only 4 weeks, I feel like I have already been pregnant for forever...and people still cant even tell by looking at me that I am even pregnant. For all the crap I have been feeling, I at least deserve a belly to show off...proof of my pain if you will.  
Another part of my crap feeling is just not having the desire to do anything! My husband is always asking "do you want to...." and the answer is always "nope". The only thing I ever feel up to doing is going to get some food. Of course, I have been craving restaurants like P.F Changs, Olive Garden, Outback and this Thai place I used to go to when I lived in Newport Beach called Bamboo Bistro. To get to any of these restaurants I have to drive about 45min to an hour. No thank you. Since becoming pregnant I have realized that we have absolutely nothing good when it comes to restaurants. There are some nice restaurants downtown, but those are expensive, not to mention Santa Cruz has the worst service of any city I have ever been in. There is one restaurant near our house called Molly's Cafe and Aaron and I literally went there 3 times this weekend. They dont have the best food, but it is the only place where we know we can get a seat and a meal whether its for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Sorry for the rants...I am done now.

As for preparing for the baby, I cant say that I have done much. The one thing that has prepared Aaron and I (somewhat) for a baby is our cat Elvis. He is very needy and whiny when he wants something. Here he is sleeping in his "crib". He is obsessed with this box and is in it when he is not eating or pooping.

He is totally our little baby. He whines when he wants food, he whines when he wants outside and he especially whines when he wants his kitty treats. And, around 3:00am every morning he gets in bed with us and sleeps just like this, but on my head. Its funny to say this, but I know Aaron is going to be a great father just by seeing how he is with Elvis. He is so attentive to him and loving. Elvis of course loves his daddy just as much...as pointed out by the pictures below.

In this last picture Elvis is cleaning daddy's chin hair. He always wraps his arms around Aaron's neck really tightly when he does this. He is too funny, I know. Well, that is it for this week. Hopefully I will feel more motivated to update this thing on a regular basis. As you have learned in this blog..I dont feel like doing crap!