together we're heavy

i had my glucose test & 6 mo + 2 weeks appointment. i'll find out the results of the test on monday. keep your fingers crossed, as even skinny steph wound up w/ gestational diabetes. she also told me she did eat a lot of sweets...still, it makes me nervous.

the good news! i only gained (drumroll, please)...

2 POUNDS!

you have no idea how excited i was...elliott & i gave eachother "respect knuckles" right there in the dr's office. she also said everything looked great as far as my size & his heartbeat. we got the pre-registration packet for the hospital too. wow...it's really getting close! we've got to get some classes too, then we'll be all set.

bad news is, i wound up staying home after the appointment because i felt really run down. by last night, i was sneezing and i am up right now sneezing (almost 2 AM) and feeling a little like throwing up! gah! why me? i got the flu shot, so i think it's just a cold, but i am TRYING to save up all my PTO for maternity leave. i don't need to stay home another day, dammit! hopefully i'll be able to go back to sleep soon and go to work, at least for a little while tomorrow.

on a happy note, elliott and i both sat and felt the baby kicking for about 1 hr. last night. he could feel him "rolling around" and kicking. he must have really been excited about something because he was going to town. we were playing him songs using the headphones and he was enjoying it, apparently! :)

a quick aside: every time someone compares some food item to being like a drug (last night i made homemade mac & cheese and kept saying "i must have put crack in this! it's so good!"), i always think of the movie "the stuff". this movie will forever be emblasoned in my memory and will always make me think of olivia.

everyone told me, "you'll have a good 2nd trimester where you don't feel sick and your not tired." LIARS. granted, i am usually up at 6 AM, but i can say that since i was 5, i have probably gone to bed at 8:30 about 10 times, until now! i can't keep my eyes open past 9-ever. even on days that i know i'll be able to sleep in the next day, 10 is about my limit. last night i fell asleep during "my name is earl", in a chair! i was in an upright position and still fell asleep. i had also had about 1/4 lb. of the mac and cheese, which may have had something to do with it, but i made it with these super fortified protein noodles.

i have also noticed that i am stuffed way before i actually feel full. i need to really try and do the small meals 6 times a day or whatever, but i'm not accustomed to that AT ALL. i am not a snacker, so it's hard. i am cheating tomorrow on my no bread or sweets, but i have been really good so far. when i was at the doc last week, i'd only gained 3 lbs. did i already tell you that? i was quite excited.

yesterday i went to the doctor because i had not felt ____ kick in almost 24 hrs. i knew it was probably nothing, but just wanted to be sure. i was still freaking out and didn't want to worry until i did feel something.
they hooked me up to the fetal heart monitor and there he was. the nurse and doctor were so nice about it...i'm sure they deal with much nuttier pregnant women, so i didn't feel so bad. they even offered to do a sonogram, which i declined. i just wanted to hear the heartbeat and know he was there.
of course, yesterday evening and last night, he must have turned back around and was kicking like crazy again. i told him he's getting a spanking for scaring his mother when he comes out. :) when i looked at my book this morning, i saw that he is running out of room, so now i understand why he's been kicking less.

here's me at 24 weeks...
i still think i don't look prego!

the blue on the left is going to be the color for 2 of the walls, then i'm thinking something a bit lighter for the other two. i wanted to do it all very dark, but i didn't want the room to appear too small because of the colors. we have a record cover from an "it's a small world" album and there's a tapestry we're considering buying from disney on line that has the original drawn idea for small world. i really like the artist that designed that ride and several story boards (alice in wonderland, the three amigos) for disney, mary blair. shoot...i'm thinking that's a little too busy...

so i finally took some pics this morning! one turned out GREAT...the other is kind of blurry. it's the creepy skull shot in which elliott thinks he has my chin & cheeks.

in the profile shot, i'm pretty sure that's his hand that he is bringing up to his mouth (from what we can tell in the sonogram video. isn't he cute???

since we found out the sex of the baby and saw it bopping around in my womb, we've completely fallen head over heels in love with him. it's a feeling different from being in love with your spouse. i can't really liken it to loving a pet either. these things, from day one can be independent of you to a certain extent. the baby is a part of you for almost a year...and then completely dependent on you for quite a long time. i've also been feeling him moving so much. i love it! actually, him doing it just now prompted me to write this. it's been consistent and pretty constant for the past few days. there is life inside of me, that we have created. it's something i can't even put into words. i wish that i could share this with elliott. i look forward to him being able to feel it in a few weeks.
elliott got a little blue terrycloth footie pajama thing yesterday at costco for ____. it's so cool to see him so excited about having a child. march can not get here quickly enough! :)