Loving Life

In approximately 44 hours, I will hopefully know the gender of this baby!  I'm so very excited about this.  I just hope baby cooperates with us and let's us know!  If baby does not cooperate, you can be assured that I will be one very disappointed mama.  I will post an update sometime on Wednesday afternoon!  Right now I'm thinking it's a boy.  But by me thinking it's a boy, that's pretty much a guarantee for it being a girl. I am 0-3 in my gender guessing.  Aaron, on the other hand is 3 - 0 when it comes to knowing the gender of his children.  He is saying it's a girl.  We'll see if he continues his winning streak. On other not so exciting news, I got a phone call today from David's orthodontist saying that the impressions they took to get his false tooth were somehow destroyed in the mail, so we'll need to go in again on Wednesday afternoon and retake the impressions and start over again.  : (  Hopefully it won't delay...

Well, I reached my walking goal last week.  I walked 11.6 miles.  That made my short week the week before average out to a little past my 10 mile/week goal.  Yea!  I'm on track for this week to get the distance in as long as nothing unusual happens. I had my 16 week check-up today.  Everything is looking good.  Next appointment is my ultrasound.  I hope by then we will have decided that we want to find out the gender of the baby.  And by "we", I mean Aaron.  : )  Being that I have no baby items left, I'd like to know what to prepare for.  I've already had to pass up several amazing garage sales with baby items in them because they were all gender specific clothing.  Argh!  Softball season is almost over.  I had lots of girls missing this week due to camp.  Despite that, and having to bring up three t-ball girls to have a complete team with our last two games, we won both of those games!  What fun...

I've been struggling the last few months with exercising, which means I haven't done very much of it.  Before I got pregnant, I was on track to try for another marathon this fall.  But that plan quickly changed as a marathon at 7 1/2 months pregnant didn't sound too wise.  So I just hoped to maintain my running for as long as I could, and then switch to walking.  That plan also changed sooner than I had hoped as nausea and a lot of fatigue made just getting through each day a challenge. Exercise usually didn't happen. Now that I'm feeling better, I want to get back into a fitness regime of some sort.  I've found if I have a clear goal in mind, then it's more likely to happen.  Since I haven't run much in the last two months, I'm going to just stick to walking now as running for me when pregnant usually makes my pelvis feel like it would like to fall apart.  I'm not one of those women who can happily run throughout an entire pregnancy. ...

I made myself a salad and ate it yesterday!  It was so exciting to eat a salad again!  Notice that I had to cover it with a sauteed chicken breast and sunflower seeds, but that is in fact a bed of lettuce underneath! It didn't taste too bad to me.  That made me happy. I couldn't bring myself to add other vegetables to it, but I'm hoping that will come.  I need to keep reminding myself to stop grocery shopping like I'm not pregnant.  My fridge has all sorts of lovely produce in it right now that I can't bring myself to eat.  Sigh.  This lettuce and spinach came from my garden, so that helped with the desire factor.  I also added in some fresh dill, parsley and a bit of mint from the garden too.  Yum!  I have also found that water is back to almost normal for me if I drink it with lots of ice and add a bit of lemon juice to it.  Thanks, Melanie, for the suggestion!  I've been taking walks during school time for the past few day...