I get to rub baby bumps!

I get to rub baby bumps with my sister in 5 days! Mind you, her bump will kick my bumb's butt (it's the first time in her life that she's kicked my butt in anything physical, so I will take the beating graciously!). I am heading to Minneapolis on Friday, which yes, is the 13th, but I haven't been superstitious since Beth admitted to moving the weegie board when we were little, so I am uninhibited in my excitment to travel on that day! Mom will be there too...so it'll be a reunion of 3 generations, with one still in utero, unless I can shake/bump the baby out of Beth while I'm there (which I am still very tempted to do, so watch out Beth!!)
The bump...the bump is growing. I lost my first pair of pants yesterday. I got them buttoned in the morning, but by afternoon they had to go. I even had Jason try to rebutton them at lunch and the failure to get them to close up was met with a look of glee on his face and tragedy on mine. So, now I am in my 'big' pants, the ones I used to have to wear with a belt cinched down, which now no longer require the cinching or even the belt. I really am excited about the growing bump, but I am still mourning the loss of a waistline. I do have a pair of mama-pants from Beth already...and they are 'oh so ridiculously and sinfully' comfortable, and I have 5 more on order...but I am not quite ready to admit that I need to wear them.
On Tuesday we will be at 18 weeks. yeah!! I am hungry alot, until I eat, and them I am full pretty quickly (I think the booger is standing straight up and down with all it's 5 inches of glory pressing on my stomach). I am craving fruit still with the occasional veggie attack. A fantastic meal to me is: a couple celery stalks with peanut butter, cheddar cheese slices, saltines, and a braeburn apple cut up....oohhhh yummy yummmy!
:)

It beats to a VERY fast drum!

It's ALIVE!! We heard the booger's heartbeat last Tuesday....and those two words kept racing thru my mind...it's alive, it's alive, it's alive. I am so happy! It was a good strong, FAST heartbeat.

There seems to be heartbeats all over now. With the extra blood that I'm carrying around (I knew all that water I've been sucking down had to be going to something! Seriously...I'm draining 2-4 nalgenes a day! (BPA free of course)) I hear my heart beat in my ears, feel it in my fingers, I can feel it in my lower abdomen the most. Sometimes I swear I can see my lower abdomen pulsing...very very alien-ish. Lots of work going on down there I guesss.
Then there's the whole anticipation of feeling the baby move. They say that can happen any day now. Well, any day between now and 5 weeks from now. Every little gas bubble, every little odd feeling, I stop everything I'm doing and 'feel'. And..... it's still mostly gas or food or something moving around in there.
It's getting a bit uncomfortable to pull my knees up to my chest now, and I don't have to wear a belt with all my pants anymore. But I still just look a bit thicker - as in 'I just ate Thanksgiving dinner' thicker. No baby bump. Maybe I'll be one of 'those' women who don't ever really show and I pop out a kid and end of looking better after pregnancy than I did before it. aahhh..that would be lovely. I think that's what Jaosn is excited about - (and probably most men) - the potential of the ultimate post prego body. Giant milk boobs, belly that immediatly shrinks down, tone arms and legs from carrying and walking around with baby, and of course hopefully a libido that is thru the roof everytime hubby walks thru the door after work. :) haha! (keep dreaming babe!)