Awww

I should be banned from looking at pictures like these because inevitably, I want one. Or two. Or four.

How It All Happens

Incase you didn't know how pregnancy happens, here is an indepth look. Keep your speakers on! (and probably not work-friendly)

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"I'm not a puppet - I'm a real boy!"

Okay so I left you yesterday with the promise of some announcement today. I suppose I could keep you in suspense and not share it, and while that would totally be my style, I won't do that. ;)

I'm pregnant!!!! Join with me in a chorus of "OH MY GOD!" Yes yes, it's unbelievable but completely true. I've known for about two weeks now, and today we had our first ultrasound. We got to see the baby - he's about 3cm long and his heartrate was 167 beats per minute. He's soooooooo small and sooooo cute!!! We have pictures however they're abit darker than I thought they would have been so I'm not sure how well they're going to scan. I will try though, and if I can, I will post them.

This is such a huge thing for us, particularly me really, because for so many years I was convinced that I could not have children. After spending so many (8) years with someone and never being able to conceive, that was the only conclusion that I could come to. I had resigned myself to not ever being able to fall pregnant, that I was actually in denial for the first 7-8 weeks of the pregnancy. Part of me actually knew I was, and the rest of the family knew I was, but because of my previous relationship I couldn't let myself believe that I was. For EIGHT weeks I put off every little symptom as something else:

My itchy ladies! Rather than believing I was pregnant, I chose to think I had breast cancer. Hello, someone slap me please. With my constant loo breaks I chose to think I had some kind of bladder infection or something. The nausea I had whenever I thought about food and wasn't hungry, I chose to think was some weird weather related thing.

So it was kind of a downer when the Dr came in and said, "Well, it's positive." referring, of course, to the test itself, and I immediately got hyper with excitement but neither Mum nor D did. ("We KNEW this already. This is not news to US.") I couldn't help but laugh. And then, after it finally sunk in, and I wiped away my tears, did they both get a little more excited with me.

Well! So that's my announcement. We are so unbelievably excited and happy and overjoyed and elated. I'm due in February though not sure when, but we're even MORE excited our first born will be an Aquarian. And I'll be having him here (we both have a really strong notion we're having a boy) in Australia as well, before we move back to the States.

So who saw that coming?

Cold Tuesday!

I should create my own design for this site, I really should. It's so bland and boring and just sad that it's almost embarrassing considering all of my other previous sites have been much prettier. Part of me much doesn't care though about how it looks - there are far more important things going on in my life that are being tended to, but I have this little niggling voice inside that won't go away. It's chanting: Redesign, redesign, redesign. I have 2 options that I can see: 1) I can kill myself to shut up the voice, or 2) I can redesign.

Yesterday started out so amazingly well and ended up just as amazingly well. D made pancakes for everyone which were so incredibly yummy; I finished off my set of meds for the infection; I had 2 absolutely yummy lettuce/tomato/cheese sandwiches for lunch and we had Burger King (Hungry Jacks) for dinner last night, followed by a hot fudge sundae. Oh god it was good.

My ladies are still sore. Still very itchy and because I've still been scratching like a maniac, I had to have a manicure last night to rid myself of the unwanted razors on the end of my fingertips. My nails were then filed down and painted a very pretty pale pink. I'm all about pink lately.

Oh. And one more thing. I have an announcement to make. I will make that announcement tomorrow.

Strong Scents

I woke up this morning, twice, to the smell of breakfast sausages and ketchup. The scary part? Nobody was actually cooking them.

Too Excited

I believe I have found a new favourite website: Vegas.com. Whoever said that Vegas had nothing to offer except gambling, was full of shit. What an absolutely AMAZING city! I can't wait to go and we're setting our sights on earlyish next year. I'm SO excited I can't even believe it. This trip will coincide with another trip as well, so I'll keep you updated on that as it progresses.

Feeling Blah

I thought I woke up feeling okay this morning, but after only 10 minutes of being awake, I was snapping at people and all cranky and irritable. I've got no idea why, except that maybe it's because I'm tired of the constant scratching, I'm tired of having to get up every couple of hours to go to the bathroom and ontop of that, the meds I was taking for my initial infection has brought about ANOTHER infection so now I need to take more stuff to combat THAT. I think I'm just slowly wearing out.

I have a scan on Wednesday which I'm not really looking forward to. I have to drink a full litre of water before I go in and I'm not allowed to go to the bathroom until after it's done. Joy joy. Really though I should be happier about it and I wish I was in all honesty, but I'm not. I guess that's just me being hormonal or something, I don't know.

Anyway I'm hungry so I'm going to go find something to eat.