Tummy Time!

about 16 weeks

almost 19 weeks

(*note: sorry for bad flash--Timmy wasn't around so I resorted to taking my pic in the reflection of the mirror on the back of my door. )

Voted best project by students

So I ask my kids every year which project they liked best (so I make sure I keep doing that one) and the overwhelming vote in my INT class (Integrated Science--Advanced 7) was flower models with Play-Doh. They had to use dough, pipe cleaners, beads, etc to represent 12 parts of the flower, such as petals, anther, filament, ovule, stigma, etc. Results above :)
FYI--I don't care if you're 2 or 12, everyone loves Play Doh. The boys were exceptionally nostalgic....reminiscing about making snakes, alligators, piles of dog "poo" in their yesteryears.

Sucky Situation

You don't have to be a life science teacher to know that this sux. BP--get on the ball and get your ass in gear. It's unnerving that the world's worst oil spill is in our backyard. Pregnancy hormones or not, this picture makes me want to cry.

Ultrasound update

So, I go for the big ultrasound on July 6th! We hope to find out the sex, but I'd just be happy to hear that everything was healthy and looked good! Baby had a heartbeat of 144 yesterday (first visit it was 158) so the gender could be either (if you believe what you read on the internet). I honestly have no inkling either way--right at the get-go, I thought "boy" automatically. Tim has always thought "girl". Then I have recently gone to the girl camp in the last two weeks. I don't prefer one gender over the other, I just want to start shopping! :)

And what perfect timing, because we should get the results the day before I head out to OKC to visit Carrie! We're gonna fling Britton in baby jail (AKA daycare) and head out for some retail therapy.

What's that smell?

I guess it's my feet. They're not nauseating or anything, but seriously these pregnancy hormones are making me sweat like I'm in stranded in the desert. What other delightful things are going on with me? No more puking! And I stopped hibernating 18 hours a day! And I can eat foods other than comfort carbs, like mac and cheese and ramen noodles (sooooo nutrious for the baby!). And I am finally in "real" maternity clothes, not running around the building with a hair band looped through my open fly, hoping my tunic is hanging low enough to not cause a scandal at school.

And my feet are BIG today! They must have known that I had a doc appt today and would get weighed. I'm thinking that the dr won't buy my excuses: "Seriously, dr, that looks like 7 pounds of water weight, I'm sure". I don't add salt to anything, but I guess yard work last night put me over the edge. My ankle is disturbingly similar in size to my calf, which is not an attractive look.

16 weeks, 1 day......and many more to go!