15 weeks

Everything seems to be going smooth in babyland.  The baby house is definitely growing.  And it is fun to have people know. 

It was really a very awkward thing to tell my boss.  In general I keep my personal life separate from work and this is at the top of the list of what I would consider personal.  That and I very much want to avoid being mommy tracked.  It might be 2012 but that is still a reality.  Thus far he has been great about it and the CEO is really happy for me- she shared her experience of the first time telling a boss, she was yelled at.  At least to date everyone I have told at work (that is also only three people!) seems genuinely happy for me. 

When I am standing (and sitting straight) right at my belly button you can feel that it is hard- without telling Dan what to expect I had him feel it... it was entertaining as he was like "what is that!"  I seem to be lucking out in the skin and hair area as my skin is clearer than normal and my hair gets less greasy - both are slightly improved which I am happy about.

During week 13 one morning on the way to work I checked my email on my phone to pass time while waiting for the bus and there was an email from Dan.  He had sent me a few things he wants to get for the baby.  This included super hero onesies, a bazinga onesie, and a 'nom nom nom' bib.  It was really cute and they made me laugh.  They were classic Dan selections.

We have also started to talk about names.  Interesting enough this has been initiated by Dan.  He randomly sends me text message saying "What about ___ as the name?"  Also very cute.  We have a few names that we were both in agreement on adding to the list.  I am vetoing any name that clearly comes from a sci-fi type of show origin.  Boy names are definitely harder to come up with.

At week 14 I had my second official craving (the first was when I had Dan go out just for OJ in the first trimester- I now keep that stocked).  I didn't really think it was a craving but Dan insisted it was one.  We went for a hike and I came up with the idea of getting a blizzard.  An oreo one to be specific.  The DQ near the hiking trail was closed for the winter and so I was looking up locations trying to find one near us... but neither of us wanted to deal with the traffic of going to Southport or Armitage so I started to come up with alternatives.  As I was talking through my options (settled on getting vanilla ice cream and oreos to crush up at the grocery store) Dan looked at me like I was nuts and said "for the record this qualifies as a craving."  I tried to dispute but apparently I never strategize how to get a specific treat quite like that normally. 

Running is still going well.  I love it as I always feel really strong after a run.  One of my goals set in the first week for this pregnancy was to run a race.  I was planning to do the Shamrock Shuffle but we will be in Belize that weekend.  I have been coming up with zero on races that will happen before it will likely be too late.  But this weekend I just might have found a race that will work.  It is April 1st and a 10k.  I am waiting till mid-March to see how I am doing before registering.

Some of my normal clothes still fit but some do not.  This week I purchased a few maternity tshirts.  My tshirts were getting ratty as it was so I had to get something and regular tshirts fit pretty poorly - I just look lumpy and pudgy.  I also purchased the first item of clothing for the little one.  A body suit with a gray zebra and "I'm wild about daddy" in chartreuse.  There is not a lot of gender neutral stuff out there so I will probably start to just pick up the cute stuff when I see it.

I have decided that I am going to try to record little things from the pregnancy on this blog each week.  I tend to get behind with blogging but hopefully can keep it updated as I want to record things like Dan emailing about the ThinkGeek onesies and bibs.  My initial plan was to do updates every 5 weeks but I think that some of the small stuff will get missed in larger updates.  Expect lots of randomness.