20 weeks 6 days

Wow, I'm half-way done!!!

Okay, so I am going to take this opportunity to do a half-time recap:

First trimester:

- Nausea, tiredness, sour cream, bread, messy house, more nausea, more sour cream... Cannot even look at/smell milk, eggs, apple juice, ... (the list is actually REALLY long...)

- The horrible smell in our hallway and downstairs bathroom that made me throw up every time I walked by and forgot to hold my breath. The smell that only I could smell and no amounts of cleaning and air freshners could not supress, and trust me, Doug tried!

- Crazy dreams, mostly nightmares. Confusing reality and stuff that only happened in my dream... Fun times!

First trimester = one uncomfortable big blur. Lost weight. Felt like it was going to last forever, and still, I feel like it was gone in a blink of an eye! Yes, I realize that makes no sense. But it's true.

Second trimester so far:

- Tons of energy, feeling great, happy feelings, hot dogs, cold cuts with some more cold cuts, everything tastes and smells awesome. No more sour cream and bread! I do drink tons of apple juice and milk, though...

- Started to gain weight now, I am curious to see what the doctor's scale says! Belly is definitely growing at an incredible rate!

- Very occasionally I can feel the baby move now! Five bucks says that our baby will be a trained kickboxer by the time he/she is born! Also, less than a week and I should be able to drop half of the "he/she" and just use the appropriate one!

- Oh yes, and for the first time in my life I feel dumb. And no, I don't mean I had a blonde moment, I mean I just went back to grade 3. Maybe further back. But hey, at least I'm happy all the time!!! LOL

Second trimester = happyness + fun + death of millions of braincells

Let's see what else...

Doug felt the baby kick (move?) last night!!! Very exciting! Huge life-altering moment!

I guess this is it for now. I will add more stuff as I remember it. (Ha! ME remembering stuff...)

I will be posting pictures and hopefully a short video from the ultrasound sometime next week!

19 weeks ...

Okay, so I got really busy there for a bit...

I have been working part-time in the evenings and on Saturdays at the office and volunteering at the Fringe in the mornings. In between I have been going to see shows and tried to keep the house in a semi-presentable condition. (I think in this I have failed miserably, BTW...)

Here are a few pictures to sum up the week (or two):

Volunteering with Craig:

At the Cabaret - watching Douche//Awesome

(note his beer vs. my pop :p)

Before watching Grimmer than Grimm

(why do I look sad?!?!)

I also saw Raunch, twice, but I have no pictures from that one... Unfortunate, because that was my favorite play!

I guess that's it for this entry. Not much else happened, I have been too busy to do anything else. I also slept and ate a LOT. But there really isn't that much to say about that.

18 weeks 5 days

 

Wow, busy busy week…

First of all Doug figured out how to post the baby’s heartbeat, so scroll down and check it out in the 14 week entry!  (What would I do without my in-house computer genius?!?)

I had an interview for a government job (well, actually for a pool) which went great I thought.  I should hear back end of September or sometime in October.  At that point I will find out if I am in the pool from which 9-10 different divisions hire.  So that will take some more time, which, hopefully, will put the actual hiring date into next year, when I will be ready to go back to work!:)  Yay for the government and the amazing speed at which they get things accomplished!

I also got offered a part-time job as a leasing agent for Hillcrest Place, the apartment complex we live in.  It’s not a career move, but it’s perfect for me right now!  I pretty much pick the days I work as long as I can go in for 4 hours every Saturday and on the 1st of each month.  I don’t have to commute, it’s a 30 second walk across the courtyard.  The job is comfy with lots of quiet time behind a desk.   And even when it’s busy, all I have to do is show suites, stick notices on door handles and answer the phone!  A little stair climbing is actually good for me, and if you know this complex, you know that we got TONS of stairs!

I started my job last Tuesday, just a couple days after my last blog entry.  So far, so good! 

I also went to the volunteer orientation for the Fringe theatre festival with Craig.  We are volunteering together, doing mobile patrol.  First shift is this Friday morning!  Very exciting!  I’ve never been to this festival before!

We also had a prenatal appointment tonight, just the usual monthly check-up.  Everything seems great, the baby’s heartbeat is strong and all my blood work results came back negative.  I have gained a pound and a bit.

We have made our next appointment for September 8th, after which apparently I will need to go for more blood work for the gestational diabetes test.  The doctor said that after that we will only see him once more when he reviews the test results with us and refers us to an obi-gyno.   Time is flying by so fast!!!  Almost 19 weeks!!!

Our ultrasound appointment is on September 1st, we should have more pictures/videos to post after that.

17 weeks 1 day

Finally, it's Heritage weekend in Edmonton!!! (I am not actually sure why we are both so psyched about Heritage Days every year... Really, it's not THAT special...)

So although the weather network promised 29 celsius (feels like 32) and severe thunderstorms, we decided to brave the crazy Albertan summer anyway. Craig, Doug and myself walked about 15 minutes to Meadowlark, since catching the Park'N'Ride bus seemed like a great way of getting there. We watched two buses go by, not even slowing down, and then decided that maybe trying to get on once it filled up at the West Edmonton Mall might not be the best idea. So Craig figured out where we could catch a bus that is on it's way back from the festival, figuring that that should be nearly empty... So after another 20 minutes of walking in the scorching heat we did end up on the right bus, yay! I even got a sitting spot! (The guys did originally, too, but then they gave theirs up once the bus filled up.) We made it to Hawrelak Park by about 2 pm. Did the full tour of the entire festival and watched a few shows (the breakdancing was my favorite!). By about 4 pm we got hungry, so we got some tickets and hit the Hungarian tent. We got 'langos' and ice cream, both of which were delicious! Craig revolutionized the consumption of 'langos' by putting the ice cream ON IT. We tried it, too, and it was actually really good!

I am soooo glad we put on TONS of sunscreen and brought like 6 full ice cold water bottles with us!!! I have the feeling we would not have survived the day without those!

So after eating we caught the bus back home, got off where we got on, so we still had about 35-40 minutes of walking to do. We invented the game 'shade-hopping'. Yes, it is pretty much exactly as it sounds - We slowed down once we found some shade and then pretty much ran to the next one... It was actually pretty fun, considering that I was pretty much zombified by this time!

It was HOT. That's all I can say. HOTTER than HOT.

When we got home the first thing I wanted was a luke-warm shower to wash off all the sunscreen and the dust that somehow built up on my legs and covered me as if I just got home from a 3 day camping trip. Yes indeed, the problem seemed to be that the sunscreen made my skin sticky which in turn collected sand/dust like a white cat in an attic.

The main reason I had to mention the shower is that I took probably not more than 10 minutes but by the time I got back downstairs, it was dark outside! At 5:30pm-ish! In the middle of summer! The storm hit out of nowhere. The wind was so strong that Craig brought in the camping chairs from our balcony because they seemed to be taking off! (Mostly problematic because they were trying to fly towards our GLASS balcony door.) Good timing on getting home, that's all I can say!