15 weeks - Halloween!

Ok here's my first pair of maternity jeans...hehehe. I grabbed them in Wal-mart today and they are really comfortable.

Tonight is the first Halloween in years that I've been off work and been able to pass out candy...it's a blast! I've had sooo much fun! Roscoe has a chicken hat but he refuses to wear it very long, or stay still long enough to get a picture.

Happy Halloween!!!

New words for a pregnant woman's dictionary!

I forgot :to add this little story to my last post


So I'm looking on several different pregnancy websites, reading what other expectant mothers are experiencing, and I come across a forum titled "snissing" and the question is.."when was everyone's first sniss?" I start reading answers trying to figure out what a "sniss" is and it's impossible to tell...most answers are "all the time", "never done it", etc.



So I decide to google it and at first I'm thinking it is some computer tech. term until I get down a few hits and see that it is a SNEEZE and a PISS at the same time...HAHAHA!



Well fortunately or unfortunately I have not experienced a sniss yet, but I have had another little problem that I have decided to make up my own term to describe...a "spiss"



What that consists of is spewing, another term I like to use for puking, and pissing. That seems to be my problem at times. HAHA. Good thing I can laugh at myself!

My belly at 11 weeks

This is the last picture I have taken of my belly which was right before the race. It is at 11 weeks...not quite showing through any clothes but definetely thickening up...haha!

I will take some current pictures as soon as my battery charges up on my camera...I'm much bigger now. It's amazing how you can puke so much and still steadly gain weight...hehehe!

October 11th - Race for the Cure!

Ok...as I promised I am downloading and putting pictures on the blog. These are from a few weekends ago during Race for the Cure. Lindsay and I went with a friend from my work, Sonia, and some of the gals from the community center where she teaches aerobics. There were over 45,000 people at the race...which unless you were at the front of the race, it was impossible to run it...which believe me, I did not want to run it!

Here's a flag that hung over the starting point held up by the firetruck ladders!

This was the view that Lindsay and I had as we started the race...you can see how many people are in front of us, even up at the bridge! A taller woman next to me took this pictures!
And below is a few of the firefighters on top of their truck doing a little pseudo strip dance for us girls!!

Above is my wonderful friend, Cara, doing her favorite hobby of belly dancing. There were several groups of people cheering us on such as...motorcycle groups, firefighters, radio and t.v. stations, etc. And then of course the belly dancers!!!
These are all the survivors lining up to walk the 5K. They had their own parade, which of course they deserved!

The last time I did this race was over 5 years ago and there were not nearly as many people as there were on this day. It was truely amazing to see everyone out there. At one point, as we crossed one the bridges over the river, we could look across to the first bridge we had crossed and still see people starting the race. It was awesome!

I'm a horrible pregnant person!

Ok, so pregnancy isn't really something I'm cut out to do. I started feeling better about 2 weeks ago, but sadly I am now sick again almost everyday. I promise I will get some pictures online soon...maybe tomorrow since I have the day off!!

I don't know how my aunts did this 3 or 4 times....I don't even think I'm interested in having another baby after this one. Well, of course, according to everyone I will feel a lot different when the baby is finally here...and I hope I do! I guess since I'm not feeling it move yet, I don't know what it is yet, and "it" just makes me sick all the time I'm just not overly excited at this point. I hope this doesn't make me a bad parent already. We will find out very close to Thanksgiving and I can't wait. I tell Josh that I feel like it's a girl, but he says it's a boy...we'll see!

I can say that I started feeling a little more excited than normal the other day when I saw some of the neat toys my parents have found at yard sales. They are pretty expensive toys and with a little cleaning look brand new! I try to get online when I'm not busy at work and research things about car seats, strollers, cribs, and breast feeding...which I hope I can do! I always saw my aunts do it with my cousins and never thought twice about it. I have read that a lot of women have problems breast feeding and end up not doing it long.

Well my goal tomorrow is to get the house clean, the nursery room cleaned out, and put pictures on the blog...wish me luck because I may just end up sleeping or watching scary movies all day!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

day in the life of audra right now!

Oh my what can I say...I have slacked off on the blogging! I think my energy is finally coming back. I don't think I have ever been so sluggish and tired in my whole life. For all of you that heard my concerns of not being sick with my pregnancy...rest assured I have been. It hit about 8 weeks but got really bad after that first doctors visit. It started to hit me in the evenings before I went home from work. But THANK GOD I think I'm getting over that! I don't think my supervisors could keep letting me leave early every night...hehehe!

Before I got pregnant I had this magnificent plan of continuing to eat healthy and only gaining 3-4 lbs and really "doing by the book" HA! That didn't happen. I've gained 10lbs and in my eyes I feel like I'm already showing. I have crazy, mad craving for subway sandwiches with mayonnaise!! My friend, Kristin, even brought me one to work...it was GREAT. I have been reading that deli meat isn't good to eat unless you heat it up and that mayo has raw eggs which is a no no for pregnant women. I have learned that I can't read and worry about EVERYTHING! I never knew that hormones could really control your mind like they do...I have become a bum! I haven't worked out like I said would, I eat lots of fast foods though I try to make it as healthy as I can...but I have no desire to cook or eat things at home. The ribs that I used to love Josh to grill don't appeal to me anymore. Ahhhh! It's crazy!

For all of you that have been through this you are probably laughing and saying "told you so"

I'll try to put some more belly picture online, but I warn you it's not pretty!