Whew, sorry about that long hiatus. Life has been a little bit hectic since my last post back in April.

Ok... time to play catch up.

So far, we've moved into our new house. We still have things in boxes because he's always out to sea and it's basically me here alone doing most of the unpacking and organizing... just imagine how stressful and tiring it is when you're pregnant. NOT FUN...

It's slowly but surely looking like a home, day by day. I just wish I could snap my fingers and then poof, everything would be in it's place. No more boxes and such. But I plan on finishing up the big items by this Wednesday. That's my goal. It's been going on way too long this whole unpacking nonsense. And we don't even have that much stuff which is confusing the hell out of me. How did we manage to fit all this stuff into a 1 bedroom apartment, and it's making our 3 bedroom house look crowded... Lord help me.

Ok. As of right now, I am 26 weeks along. YAY!! 2 more weeks and I'm in my third trimester. The final stretch, the final countdown. Almost there. 14 more weeks until we see our little baby. I'm excited but scared at the same time. Like, am I going to be a good mother? Is he going to come out with all his 10 toes and 10 fingers, no deformities? Who is he going to resemble more? Me, or Phil? I just want a healthy delivery.

We've had too many scares along the way with this pregnancy. I've cried too many times over what doctors have told me only to find out that the baby is fine. I'm just ready to have my body back to myself and sleep on my belly. Do you know how much I miss doing that? UGH... the things we do for children huh... lol.

Packing Packing... all by myself. 

UGH... He literally called me today and said he wanted to move... tomorrow. I only packed some of the clothes, DVDs, Books, and kitchen things. I was planning on moving out NEXT saturday, because that's when I booked the movers to come and help me move. And now, he wants it done tomorrow. Guess who's pulling an all nighter to get this apartment all packed up and ready to go by the time his plane lands in the morning. This girl. He could have told me this on thursday/friday. That would have given me more than ONE NIGHT to pack. UGH, the things we do for the ones we love. I know he means well, because he won't be here for a while after monday, and he just wants to make sure everything is done and ready. But come on... this is too last minute, even for me.

I took a picture of my 16 week belly last night, and there's a significant difference between my 16 week belly, and my 14 week belly. Yup, this baby is really starting to grow like crazy.

^ 14 weeks ^

^ 16 weeks ^

Still haven't really felt any movement. At least I don't think. I mean, I feel little flutters here and there. But since I am a first time mom, I could be confusing it with just gas bubbles. But I do think it is the baby that I'm feeling every once in a while. But oh well. I think once the baby is big enough to start kicking and punching at my ribs, I'll want it out soon. But in the mean time, I'll just be "content" with my nausea and heartburn. 

Well... I better get back to packing up. I'll update later, or tomorrow when I can.

My Utter Lack of Dance Skills... lol

 Oh well, hahaha

So I'm glad to say that one of my favorite shows is back. America's Best Dance Crew had their season 7 premier last night. As I was watching this, I couldn't help but wonder where did my dancing genes go? Apparently dancing skills missed me completely. But the group of little girls were friggin amazing. Y'all should YouTube them. They're called 8 Flavahs. Anyways, I swear, when this little "blasian" baby is born and learns how to walk, I am putting him or her into some dance classes. We will break the cycle of non-dancing. Especially coming from 2 races (Black and Asian) that are supposedly known to be awesome dancers. Of course the two that can't even do the hokey pokey decide to get together... lol

 

Anyways. I went with our realtor this afternoon to do the final walk through of the house. Everything seems to be falling into place. I go in at 10:30am tomorrow to the realtor office and to sign and close, and to get the keys to our new home. So by 11:00am, Phil and I will be first time homeowners. It's such an amazing and wonderful feeling to know that we'll own the house. No more renting, no more dealing with shitty and slow management. We can do what we want to it, and our chewy puppy will finally have a good sized back yard to run around freely without wearing a leash all the time. the neighborhood is very safe, so that means I can walk Chewy around by myself and not be nervous because I'm alone. 

This packing process is taking longer than I expected. But then again, what was I really expecting? I'm pregnant, I can only do so much in a day, but slowly but surely, progress is being made. I just can't wait until we return these keys to the leasing office and are forever DONE with this complex. 

My pregnancy thus far. Right now, I have a weird craving for Classic Lays potato chips.I think it may be the saltiness that I like to taste. I can't eat too many of them because I would get tired of them real quick. But, I prefer them over the crackers. 

One thing that bugs me the most is my insomnia. Phil jokes around and says that I'm on "vampire hours". When it's night time, my body doesn't seem to let me sleep. But as soon as the sun starts to come up, that's when I get this strong urge to just sleep. I am trying soo hard to get back onto a normal sleep cycle... but it's soo hard. I try not to sleep during the day so that I'd be exhausted at night and sleep, but that doesn't work. It just leaves me super tired, and then I still can't sleep at night, so then I over sleep the next morning. If this continues, I'm going to bring it up at my next doctor's appointment and see what she has to say about it.

"You're Hot Then You're Cold"

 

I feel like I haven't written for a while, even though it's only been a couple of weeks (maybe). Anyways, there's a lot going on right now. First off, we close on our new house on Friday, which means we can start moving in this weekend. Knowing me, I'll just start moving the non essentials over there that I can carry. Like a lot of our pots and pans, and the winter clothes. Nothing too important until next weekend, because that's when the movers are scheduled to come and move everything else. Phil's going to be gone till July-ish, so I'm basically moving all by myself. Oh well, that's the life of a future Navy wife... lol. This is like practice for the next 8 years... haha.

So I am well on my way into my 2nd trimester. I am now 16 weeks to the day. I went in today for the prenatal genetic screening and they drew some blood. I'm hoping nothing is wrong. I mean, there aren't any genetic issues in my family blood line, and Phil's family blood line doesn't have anything serious either. But, all we can do is wait. No news is good news, at least that's what my doctor told me. So all I can do is wait. These tests can identify pregnancies at risk for open neural tube defects, down syndrome, and trisomy 18. I don't think we have anything to worry about because neither of us have any family history of any of these. Here's hoping for no news.

As far as how I'm feeling, there are days where I'm fine, and then there are those days where I just don't want to get out of bed. The worst thing now are these "hot flashes". I thought they were reserved for women going through menopause. One minute I'm burning up, then the next minute I'm freezing. I can't seem to get comfortable. I wrap myself up in blankets, oh no, I'm too hot. I take off the blankets... then I'm too cold. I'm not sure what else to do. I am always drinking cold water because I feel like I'm burning up from the inside. I don't really know what to do to find some kind of comfort from this. They say it's only going to get worse. People say that being pregnant during the summer months is horrible because you're always going to be hot and burning up. Ugh... here's hoping the summer goes by just as fast as the rest of the year seemed to be speeding by.