A day in the life of Hannah "June Bug": HALF WAY THERE!

This past Sunday marked 20 weeks into this pregnancy. I am more than thrilled to be over half way there but at the same time I am just not sure I am ready for this whole being a parent thing. I started thinking about the first part of the pregnancy and cannot believe the second is already here. The first 20 weeks held lots of ups and downs. Weeks 1-5 don't really count because at that point I didn't even know that pregnancy was in my near future. Weeks 5-6 were nerve wrecking, down right frustrating, and filled with all ranges of emotions. I remember thinking, "seriously, what is wrong with my body?!?". I questioned why I had terrible heartburn or acid reflux all of a sudden. I was scared to death of the sight of a pregnancy test simply because I didn't want to be let down to see yet another negative but at the same time I wasn't quite sure I was ready for a positive. Week 7 was a week full of excitement. We had doctors appointments and exciting news to surprise all of our family with. Week 8 was filled with ups and downs of just trying to absorb the fact that things were changing and changing quickly. Weeks 9-16 were the worst weeks of this whole ordeal. I threw up non-stop. Every time I moved, I threw up. Ever time I breathed, I threw up. Every time I attempted to eat anything other than mashed potatoes I threw up. I lost almost 8 lbs by the end of the whole "morning sickness" ordeal and was feeling pretty crappy about how poorly I was taking care of my body and the growing sea-monkey (ask Tim calls her) inside of me. By week 10 I had started to gain a belly despite the drop in weight. My clothes no longer fit the way I liked and that alone was a bit depressing. Week 12 we heard our sea-monkeys heartbeat. Hearing the heartbeat brought much relief to our worried minds that there was actually something inside of me causing all of the misery. Weeks 13-18 carried a lot of stress and worry that all was going okay with baby. All too often people glorify pregnancy and fail to tell you the normal yet scary things that can happen to your body. Those things can make for a very irritable mommy and daddy-to-be if not properly prepared. Week 19 was the first week that brought a change of emotion and overall feeling for me about this pregnancy. We were able to see our baby move, breathe, and count her fingers and toes. We even got to find out that Tim was right and were are having a baby girl. At this point, I was beginning to feel much better physically despite the growing belly. I no longer had to worry about morning/ all day sickness and had pretty much figured out how to handle the heartburn. I started to not hate the things happening to my body and began to see them as a blessing in disguise. Week 20 has come and gone and here at sit 3 days shy of completing 21 weeks. I said just a few weeks ago that I hate being pregnant and do not understand women who love it. My mind might be changing a bit. Don't get me wrong it is still awkward and extremely strange to know and feel something moving within you but it might not be that bad now. Though, the majority of the past 20 weeks were pretty rocky and rough I am able to see a much more positive side of what is to come.

This week things got pretty exciting in the Weaver house. We have begun decorating! The bedding for our little girls room came and we spend a good portion of time getting it all into place. Now things are falling together. We have decided to go with an antique kind of theme for the room and based off of that I got two ideas. First, was to hang and old gazebo bird cage in the corner of the room. Pretty sure Tim thought I had lost my mind when I told him I wanted to go antique shopping for a bird cage but despite his skepticism he found one and brought it home to surprise me with last night. It's exactly what I had imagined and shh don't tell him but I think he likes it now. My second idea is to get an old wash board and stencil on her first initial on the top. It is hard to describe but if it happens I will take pictures to explain. Don't get your hopes up too much... I will take pictures prior to the initial being put on... I am not going to break that easily and give you a clue to her name.

Tim's picks (sorry for the color... still trying to figure out the camera)

It is fairly obvious that Tim is getting excited. He came home from work the other day and couldn't wait to surprise me with what he had bought while out shopping with his partner. He had found 3 pretty adorable outfits. My jealousy of his shopping may have grown a little so he took me out to the outlets the other night after work just so we could spend a few bucks getting sale items. Tomorrow and Saturday are going to be shopping days as well. We need to get shelves for the nursery, a new light cover for the ceiling light, and some paint and stain.