How Far Along: 19 weeks

Size of the Baby: 6-8 inches (not including his insanely long legs!) and about 1/2 lb

Cravings: capri suns, goldfish, (yes, I’m turning into a 4 year old) pasta, yogurt, strawberries

Sleep: pretty good, trying not to sleep on my back, getting up once a night, sleeping about 10 hrs average

Gender: so far it’s a boy! we’ll find out for sure in two weeks at our anatomy ultrasound

Weight Gain: -5 lbs… lost 7 during first trimester and have only gained 2 back

Symptoms: I live in the bathroom. balance- what’s balance? I have none. appetite is finally back in full swing. occasional heartburn. air-head. nesting- love this one. lots of movement in there- really love this one! decent amount of energy. little “growing-pains” here and there. pretty much every movie makes me cry…okay and sometimes tv shows. and well let’s just agree not to talk about the other ones mmkay?

Pondering: all sorts of things I guess… how wonderful my hubby is, and most days I just want the babe to be here already! pregnancy is so long. (I’ll probably feel better once I’m over the “halfway” mark, but for now the end feels a century away)

Favorite Moments This Week: Feeling actual little kicks instead of just flutters! Good report all around at the Dr’s office, hearing baby’s little galloping-horse of a heartbeat again, and the hubs saying my belly hadn’t grown very much (my response- “well your face hasn’t grown very much”… I have really good comebacks these days) followed by our Dr walking in and saying “Ooooo!! Wow! Look at that belly!” and giving it a little congratulatory pat. Yep, that’s right hubs, my belly is growing so HA! ;) (I won’t think this is nearly as funny when I’m the size of a whale, but till then…)

- searched in my purse for my keys with my right hand… while holding my keys in my left hand

- forgot that my last name changed (you know, four years ago…)

- put the sheets in the dryer and walked away without turning it on

- got out of my car at the grocery store before turning it off

- while playing a game on my phone wondered if I had gotten any text messages and turned to look for my phone… that I was playing a game on…

- walked up to our closed gate without punching in the gate-code for it to open and had to turn around and walk back to the key pad

- while counting the months outloud to my friend said, “december, october… wait, i mean january…”

- forgot that we were allowed to have a half-page “cheat sheet” for one of my finals

- forgotten all of the other air-head things that i was going to tell you about

yep… these are just this week. pregnancy brain is real, y’all.

i just laid on my couch for an hour (only 45 minutes after finishing breakfast mind you) wondering if i was coming down with the flu, or my stomach was trying to kill me, or if my breakfast was poisoned, or if the baby hates bananas… nope… none of the above… i was just hungry… ravenous… starving… 45 minutes after breakfast!

 little tummy growls? a slight empty feeling in my stomach?

oh no no…

more like: nausea, stomach cramps, feeling of impending doom, and growls that could rival the king of the forest. no joke.

because I’m pregnant. That’s why.

No really though… I have a bun in the oven!!!!

13 weeks and counting… <3

(baby does like cheez-its though. a lot. also kiwi-strawberry snapple, jello, pasta, strawberries, yogurt, cheese, milk and nana’s broccoli cheese soup. among other things. no veggies allowed though- against mommy’s wishes.)

While I was in Stockton for my sister’s birthday my dear friend came out to visit me because she’s moving to Germany and it had been about 5 years since we had seen each other. We soon realized that to the month, it had been 20 years since we first became friends… boy did we feel old! We decided that to celebrate our “20 year friendiversary” we would venture to San Francisco for a day.

it. was. a. blast.

We started off our adventure on the BART and rode it right into downtown SF. And guess what I saw immediately upon exiting BART?! 

I thought, oh look a sign- I’ll read it, oh wait! That says “tumblr”!! Yay tumblr community!!

After I snapped the “tumblr” pic it was down to business… we both needed a bathroom- desperately. An hour on the BART with small bladders is no laughing matter. Normally that would be a minor detail not worth sharing but in this case it is because it took us 30-45 minutes to even find a bathroom. Seriously. We went into 2 Starbucks, a Subway, a drugstore, a restaurant and finally a third Starbucks before we found a bathroom. Who knew it would be such a task?! Big cities are weird, y’all. After we handled that situation we were headed back towards tourist-land and a chef was standing on the sidewalk offering us some ceasar cheese fries. We gladly took them and got about 6-7 steps away before we had to turn around to get more. An impromptu lunch ensued and I had the most delicious burger of my life. No joke. If you’re in SF, go to Ziggy’s Burgers downtown… SO amazing.

We found ourselves at the beginning of the line for the trolley and decided it was a must-do, despite having no clue where we even wanted to go. Trolley adventures ensued…

We found ourselves getting off the trolley in China Town, where we hung out for a loooong time browsing through endless scarves and coffee mugs…

We ended up buying a few scarves, one of which we are doing a “sisterhood of the traveling scarf” type thing and will be sending it back and forth to each other every couple months or so to keep in touch! Super excited about that and it’s an extremely cute scarf!

It was time to leave China Town and find new adventures so we started walking aimlessly in the general direction of Fisherman’s Wharf. Once we got into Little Italy we decided it was time for some refreshments!

Guess what?! Yep… another tumblr spotting…

We continued on our way towards Fisherman’s Wharf as the fog started to roll in…

On our way there we got really distracted by Lombard Street and had to venture up it!

It was a steep journey!

Being in the hipster capital of the universe, we figured a little planking was in order. When in Rome, right? ;)

Double planking…

The sweet Asian lady who didn’t speak much english but offered to take our picture was mortified when she saw the position we chose to pose in. We asked her to take another “normal” picture of us and she replied, “that’s ok” and handed us back the camera… but we promised to be normal… poor woman just hadn’t been introduced to “planking” yet… pretty sure she thought we were completely nuts (heck, we are!). Luckily, she snapped both pictures anyway!

Such a beautiful view!!

We made it to the top and looking over we got a peek of Fisherman’s Wharf. Since it was getting late we decided that a view from afar would suffice, so we posed accordingly…

On our way back down Lombard Street we thought that since we had already planked, a good owling was the only appropriate thing left to do…

Time to head home… we walked back through Little Italy and into downtown to hop back on the BART.

All in all, a successful “friendiversary” and trip to San Francisco! Gosh I love that city!!

Oh yeah, we did get lost on the way home… we didn’t realize we were supposed to switch BARTs to reach our destination and made it most of the way to Berkeley before realizing nothing looked familiar. Whoops! It certainly made for a good laugh though :)

Since my sister lives about 5 hours away from me I’m trying to make it a tradition to go visit her on her birthday every year. Last year for the big 3-0 her best friend and I drove up there and threw her a surprise party and this year she decided that she wanted to go camping. So camping we went! ;)

Camping is amazing… nothing to do, nothing to worry about, just enjoying nature and the people you’re with. We spent our days swimming in the lake and our nights by the camp-fire. Somehow, that was exhausting… so we also took naps.

On the eve of my sister’s birthday we stayed up ‘till midnight to sing her into her next year. While we were waiting for the magical hour we played around with my camera and the fire…

My sister in the middle and Jen and Des on either side making the “31”

Jen making a heart!

It was super duper fun and I can’t wait to see what we do to celebrate next year! (Definitely wouldn’t mind camping again!)