Things I have started to miss/enjoy since becoming pregnant...

Things I have started to miss since becoming pregnant:

1. Sleeping on my stomach. With the size of my belly now, this is pretty much impossible.
2. Sleeping all through the night and waking up without my hips hurting. (See #1). I have always been a stomach/side sleeper and now that I can't sleep on my stomach, I pretty much sleep on my sides throughout the night. I bought a pregnancy body pillow, which has helped a lot, but I still wake up every morning because my hips hurt from the extra weight placed on them. (Thomas and Tanner, I know if you're reading this you'll get a laugh out of the "extra weight" comment. Just so everyone knows, my two lovely brothers replaced my name on Dad's phone. When I call Dad's house it now says "Big-un" instead of "Most Beautiful" that I had programmed in.)
3. The nights when I didn't have to get up one, two....five times to pee in the middle of the night.
4. The nights when I didn't have acid reflux when trying to fall asleep. I didn't even know what heartburn or acid reflux felt like before getting pregnant.
5. When I could wear a "normal" sized bra and could find one that actually fit.
6. Being able to clean the house, paint, or any other manual task for more than an hour at a time without my back killing me.
7. The days when I could go on an all day shopping trip and walk/shop all day without my back and feet hurting and being completely wore out.
8. The times when we would go out to eat and I would leave extra on my plate to take home for leftovers the next day. (That comment was for Jennifer and Jim who both think it's funny how much I eat now!) Joel made the comment the other night on our way home from eating Mexican how we both clean our plates now instead of taking food home with us!
9. CAFFEINE!
10. The days when my belly didn't look like a "man's" as Joel says. I think I'm catching up to Joel on belly hair....well, maybe not quite that bad!

Things I have started to enjoy since becoming pregnant:

1. The unconditional love and bond that is forming with the baby. I wish everyone had the opportunity to experience this.
2. The kicks/punches/somersaults that I feel every couple hours, even if they do freak me out and keep me awake at night.
3. SHOPPING for all the adorable things they have out there for babies.
4. When Joel gets worried if he can't get in touch with me. If I don't answer the phone, he'll continue to call and if I don't answer the phone after 5-10 calls, he'll start calling his sister to find out if she knows where I am. I love the fact that he cares so much for me and the baby and is worried about us!
5. Borrowing a tshirt from Alaina and having her ask me if I need/want a bigger one because I guess she thought my belly was really popping out of the one she gave me!
6. Joel trying to feel the baby kick and when she does seeing the biggest grin on Joel's face.
7. Reading my day-by-day pregnancy book every night before bed. I get to see what the baby is doing on that day and how much she is growing, etc. Joel really likes it too!
8. Going to my doctor's appointments every few weeks and hearing the heartbeat.

Even though there are things I miss now that I'm pregnant, I wouldn't change it for anything. Last night I was showing Joel pictures out of my pregnancy book of how the baby looks at 10, 13, 18, and 24 weeks and how much they change. She is really looking like an actual little baby now according to the pictures in the book.

I woke up with my first leg cramps a couple nights ago. It was in my calf and I was able to get it to go away pretty fast. I'm not looking forward to having any more of those for a while!

I started painting the bedroom in the basement Sunday and finished it yesterday. I'm hoping Joel will get the bedroom furniture moved out of Ainsley's bedroom and into the bedroom in the basement in the next few days. I have talked Joel into priming Ainsley's bedroom for me and then hopefully I can get it painted this weekend.

Last night around 4 (or early this morning, however you want to look at it) I heard a siren going off and it just kept going. I didn't really think twice about it until it started to get annoying and I couldn't fall back asleep. I finally rolled over and asked Joel if it was the tornado siren and he said he didn't think so, but it had been going off FOREVER! It shut off a little while after that. The wind was really blowing and I couldn't fall back asleep so I decided to come into my office and check the weather. Sure enough, it had been the tornado siren and we were under a tornado warning! I yelled into Joel and he came in to look at said that we would have been dead because we both ignored the siren and just wanted it to go off. The warning was only for another 10-15 minutes because we had laid in bed for the first 20 or so minutes of the warning listening to the siren and not worrying about it. Joel didn't want to go to the basement then, so we ended up staying in our bed. At least now we know what the tornado siren sounds like and we both agreed that next time we need to get up and go to the basement, especially when the baby gets here!