Pregnancy

A Very Random Blog of My Day

Tonight was a fun night.  My sister (Amy) had long ago sent a package filled with Mexican food that I can make over here.  Tonight I finally made enchiladas with the enchilada sauce from Trader Joes!  YUM!  Justin and I invited over a few friends and had yummy Mexican food with homemade guacamole (that Justin made)!  It was so fun.  One of the friends that came over was Ursula.  I love her.  Ursula is so sweet, so stylish, such a great cook, and always there when you need her.   She is English, although she grew up in France and she has the coolest, most proper English accent!  I just love being around her.  We haven’t seen each other in days as she has been on holiday with family and I have been… well… I don’t know where I have been.  I guess I have been somewhere in a pregnant world…

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I am boring

I seriously just wrote the most boring post ever about maternity clothes and then had to erase the whole thing for the sheer fact that I sounded like a mom.  I know I am going to be a mom, but it is NOT ok to write like one.  At least not yet.  I was talking about the huge panel in a pair of maternity pants for goodness sakes!!!  Don’t worry people, I didn’t buy them!  WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?!?   Who wants to hear about that?!?  NOT ME!  I don’t want to!  I need to pull myself together here.  I promise to be the fun, light hearted writer you know and love!  I PROMISE!  At least I will try.  But maybe you will just have to hear me out with my crazy experiences of pregnancy in France.  Sorry boys…

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Times are Changing and so is My Body

Is this baby or chubby?  I don’t know.  All I know is that my once really flat stomach (yes, I was proud of that flat stomach) is now rounding out.  ALREADY!?!?!  People said I wouldn’t "show" till I was five or six months.  No offense whoever said it, but you lied!  LIED I SAY!!!  It is like being constantly bloated.  It is like a stomach that has been filled to the maximum with food and soda and gas!  That is what it looks like!  But even worse is the fact that there is no way to suck this stomach in.  I know you want pictures, but I haven’t figured out if I would be showing gas, chub, or baby.  I am not ready to expose the first two.  I wake up with this same roundness so I am thinking it is the baby.  BUT my jeans are getting a bit…

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I Ran Into a Pole!

I am normally a very clumsy person.  I run into things ALL the time and get ridiculous bruises from who knows what clumsy act I have just committed.  Yesterday as I was walking down the street with our friends (Dennis and Karen) who were in town, Karen was telling me the most hilarious poop story ever.  Sorry, but that is really what it was about.  I was so into the story that I was looking at her, shocked at what she was telling me, not watching where I was going and SMACK!  I ran my FACE right into a pole and it was LOUD!  I had been walking at a pretty good speed and it literally stopped me in my tracks!  There were about five or six people in front of us that all turned around because of how loud it was, not to mention that couple behind that saw…

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Our first picture of Turkey Jr!!

As you can see we had our first picture taken of our little turkey today!  The internal ultrasound experience was everything I expected it to be.  Undressing in front of the doctor and Justin, not understanding barely anything of what the doctor was saying, and walking half naked to my little table/chair thing that is in the same room as the desk.  These were all things I had expected (thank goodness).  It was all very interesting… to say the least.  Americans are so modest (me included!), but I think I handled it all quite well.  If you just pretend to know what is going on and act as if you are comfortable, it isn’t so bad.  I almost forgot how awkward it was once I saw the baby!  SO CUTE!  It was amazing to see the heart beating and the hands waving and the legs kicking.  How beautiful.  Justin cried! …

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“Ooooh baby, baby its a wild world”

Sometimes I like to sing for fun.  Not in a real pretty singing voice, but joking around.  I can’t sing, so I might as well joke around with it.   Today I started singing for Justin the Cat Stevens song, "Wild World".  It was stuck in my head from the breakfast place we ate at today.  They were playing nonstop Cat Stevens.  It was wonderful.  Anyways, as I start singing in my woman/opera/joking voice Justin just sat looking at me with a smile on his face, all curious like.  After I was done singing he says, "I am both amused and concerned that that could be the first song our baby ever hears." 

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Pee Shy at the Doctor’s

Justin and I are in the  bestest of moods today!  I had my second doctor’s appointment today.  It was actually just a little blood taking and urine peeing.  There is a lab just down the street from us, so we headed on over this afternoon.  I knew that I would have a urine test, so I purposely drank a lot of water (so I thought).  The lady at the front desk (who also took my blood) was SO VERY nice!  She let us stumble through our broken French and was very patient with us.  It is a whole other deal to communicate in medical terms!  She brought me back to the back room, while Justin waited out front.  Everything was normal as she stuck the needle in and began drawing blood.  I think she took about six vials of blood.  I am being tested for the works.  All STD’s and…

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