PREGNANT!

July 30-August 5, 2012

Sometimes he chases his soccer ball under the chairs and gets stuck. I think it's funny.

I found out on Monday that I am pregnant! This is my excuse for being so far behind in blogging . . . first trimester exhaustion + nursing + baby who doesn't sleep through the night = tired mom who does not want to use precious time/energy to blog.

Sometime in May or June, I can't remember when (I even think I put it in one of my blog posts), I thought I was pregnant. I took a pregnancy test: negative. Over the next few weeks I was very noshy (nauseous), exhausted (I started napping when Caleb did, which I had stopped doing a few months ago), had a stuffy nose all the time (had to start breathing through my mouth at night . . . yuck), craved salty foods (especially in the morning), insomnia, constant hunger/eating, couldn't stand the smell of Caleb's formula, weight gain, bloating, frequent peeing (including at night), . . . you get the picture. I had lots of symptoms of being pregnant.

Fast forward to this week: Monday morning I was especially noshy (nauseous) and decided to take a pregnancy test . . . I had thought about taking it during the weekend but I didn't want Allen to tease me if it was negative again. I got Caleb down for a nap and with butterflies in my stomach, grabbed the test, peed on the stick and waited.

Two lines!

Shaking with excitement and the feeling of "oh crap, can I really take care of two babies," I took a picture of the test with my phone, texted it to Allen and called his work phone. He answered the phone and I told him to look at the picture I just sent. Pause. "Is this for reals?" And then the excitement hit him!

At this point I wasn't sure how far along I was because I hadn't had a period since before I got pregnant with Caleb. My guess for a due date was the beginning/middle of April. If you don't already know when my due date is you'll have to wait until I get a little more caught up. :)

Caleb this week:

I mentioned this in last week's post: he waits by the stroller if he wants to go on a walk.

Or he goes to the piano if that's what he wants to do. And then he goes, "uh uh uh uh!" until you do what he wants.

-Loves to chase mom and dad and loves being chased

-Pushes the exercise ball around the house with his head while crawling

-Has been waking up at night hungry. I go up to nurse him at (he won't take a bottle or sippy cup yet) but I'm not producing enough milk to keep him full for the rest of the night so he keeps waking up.
-Throughout the week his sleeping got better as I got him to eat and drink better during the day. He is just so excited about everything going on that I have a hard time getting him to focus long enough to eat.

He tried pizza for the first time and loved it! Yummy Dominos. I didn't think I was going to be in the picture.

-He loves to take things out of their containers. He especially loves taking things out of the dishwasher.

He also loves banging on everything, including our windowsills.

-Loves to dump out puzzles and take them apart piece by piece.