Cravings anyone?

I have always loved food. If I hear or think about something, I want it, and it'll be in the back of my mind until I get it. (right now it's a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone)

That being said, I can't tell pregnancy cravings from regular cravings. Maybe I just haven't had any pregnancy cravings yet... I'll let you know when they happen.

On a side note - 12 weeks yesterday! We have our appointment on Tuesday to hear the heartbeat (my first appointment with my OBGYN and not the practitioner). I think after that, we'll start telling people. On one hand, I am not ready for it to get out - but on the other, the kids and I are bursting at the seams!

3rd Anniversary

Brian and I have been married for 3 years today!

I don't feel like we are newlyweds anymore, I haven't felt that for a while. I think that is for a number of reasons.

• This our second house that we are living in.
• We are having a baby (which is an exciting new experience to share together)
• We've been married for 3 years.

Last year, we still felt like we were newlyweds. But I think after having 3 valentine days together, going on a big trip to Disneyland together as a family, having a few weekend getaways through out the years, it feels like we have this marriage thing down. Well, at least it's not new any more.

I just tried on my wedding dress (something that I did last year to see if it still fit and just to feel pretty). It barely fit. It was snug going up around my belly and then my chest. I know I'm not that big for being pregnant, but I have put on some lbs since my wedding day, so that along with I just ate, and having a baby in my belly, it was pretty snug.

After I put the veil on and looked in the mirror, I felt a little sad. I realized that next year, I probably will not be able to fit into it. My belly will be bigger - but even if I lose that, my chest will not be normal size - it will be breastfeeding size.

Oh well, there's always the year after that. :-) I can use the wedding dress to be my goal of what I want to fit into eventually.

Anyway, It has been a wonderful 3 years and I am so excited to sharing this new experience with my best friend of having a baby together!

Baby come!

I see all these people with pictures of their new babies on facebook and I just can't wait to meet mine! I had a dream last night that I had the baby unexpectedly but everything was perfectly fine - except that I wasn't prepared (diapers, name, Brian wasn't there, etc). Anyway, it was a cute pudgy little girl. I remember talking to Brian about names and telling him what I wanted and that was as far as the conversation went because the baby started crying because it needed a diaper change and that was when I realized I didn't have any newborn diapers.

I think I am getting impatient because I was suppose to have an appointment to listen to the heartbeat last Tuesday but the doctor was called into the hospital and then surgery so we had to reschedule. I am also starting to show. Brian says I'm not, but I can totally see a baby bump- mostly after I eat. I think it's because there's nowhere for the food to go since the baby's getting bigger. I am a bit self conscious since we haven't told everybody yet. I don't want people seeing my bump and not knowing I'm pregnant and thinking I'm just putting on wait. However, I have only gained a few pounds. I am 11 weeks, so I am almost to the stage where we can tell people. I think we will wait until 13 weeks, I am not quite sure yet. At least wait until we have my appointment with the doctor, which I will be just shy of 13 weeks then. I want to be reassured everything's good first before we spread the news so hopefully we don't have to reschedule.