fries

McDonald's has an unholy power over me. I'm about to drive into town to get fries and a shake. And 'town' in this case is 12 miles away.

The food I have at work is just not appealing in the slightest, but I must eat soon or else my stomach will come raving out of my body and eat my head.

edited to add:

ooooooh the pregnancy gods are laughing at me now...I collected orders from other people on the office, got all the way into town, started to place my order only to hear the following:

"oh, I'm sorry, the ice cream machine is broken."

Rat farts!

I got my fries and a salad and tried to get a vanilla frappiccino from Starbucks and heard this:

"oh, I'm sorry, we're out of the cream base we use to make those."

Double rat farts!

Apparently I am not meant to have a tasty frozen treat today.

mother's day

so I got to celebrate my first mother's day - woo hoo! Nate was so sweet, he got me flowers from the market and had breakfast ready when I got up - eggs & sausage & blueberry pancakes...mmmmmm.......

We spent the day playing Lego Star Wars on the PlayStation. It sounds geeky, and it is, but it is also hilarious and so much fun.

My flowers -





The hugest time-suck ever -



Also - ultrasound pictures! They are just pictures of the printouts as we got the actual prints scanned pretty late last night, but it's better than nothing for now, right? Right.



So that's our little gremlin (it's the white blob inside of the dark blob)...pretty cool, huh?

Status report...I'm definitely getting into morning sickness land, but only as a tourist. I almost threw up while brushing my teeth this morning but usually I only start to feel sick if I haven't eaten in the last hour or so. And since I really enjoy eating, there is generally not that big of a gap between meals.

eight weeks

yet another development photo -



Just look at that pixel-y little guy (or girl)!

It's starting to get a tongue and the intestines are moving to their proper place in the interior of its body. Cartilege and bones are starting to form and it has little fingers and toes but they're webbed. Its eyes are forming and it has the beginnings of eyelids, as well.

Apparently chocolate milk is my big craving item...probably good since I generally don't get much calcium in my diet. I've been drinking a (small) bottle of it a day at least - yum.

Today is our first appointment, hooray! We should be able to see the heartbeat and if there's more than one in there we *should* find out this afternoon. Yikes. I will report back with the results!