dear baby...

dear baby,


i like you a lot. i'm really baby hungry. i don't know if that's allowed when you're pregnant, but i really want you out of me and into my arms. and i'm not even that far along with you yet. but i'm also not very patient, sooo...


in a month and a week we get to find out if you're a boy or a girl. if you're a grey or a liz. those are our names of choice... unless you come out and look like something different. but you'll probably look like a red, wrinkly alien, so probably not :)


i hope you are chubby. i hope you have lots of hair like me & black hair like your dad. i hope you laugh with us and don't think we're too weird. i hope you're a hard worker like your dad and not a lazy person like your mom ;) i hope you don't mind that you will ALWAYS have a camera in your face. i hope you're okay with all the weird nicknames we'll call you... and already do call you...


we love you lots and think about you all the time, even though you're just a tiny thing right now. you're still pretty good at making mom's insides squished... especially her bladder. not appreciating that right now. but thank you for choosing to like food. LOVING that.


sincerely,
mom & dad

you know it's a sick day when...

- you're dressed like a homeless person.


- you don't smell that great, but you don't particularly care.


- you make yourself a huge to-do list (because hey, if i'm going to be home all day... right?)


- and are lucky that you checked two things off. (okay, so far just one, but i swear i'll do at least one more)


- you keep talking to your cat.


- you keep calling your husband because you miss him and you want him to come home and how terribly inconvenient it is that he's off earning a living for your family...


- unless you have had a drink of cold water in the last 30 seconds, you no longer have a voice.


- you are sitting next to an empty bag of cheetos.. (this is just getting more and more embarrassing...)


- you decided to blog because you've had no human contact all day & the cat got sick of you and left a while ago...


(if you're still my friend, thank you!)


oh, and because i promised a photo yesterday, but still haven't uploaded photos from my real camera yet, here are some phone photos... you're welcome. (ps- i promise i'm not a cat person, despite what photographic evidence may say...)

best mexican food of my life. best salsa, too. mmm....

this really is from december, before we moved. we don't still have christmas up...

temple :)

dad will be a good grandpa.

heh. this is nick pulling out of the garage without moving his work truck. that's one of the only things we like about carl... he's a tiny car, so we can do stuff like this. and nick's a stunt driver. that helps too.

pinterest craft, to the rescue. erin & i made a vow to have a monthly craft night. one month down, infinite months to go. (these are monster bookmarks, by the way! heidi's are the two on top, erin's are the two in the middle, mine are the bottom two. yay!)

this was today. so lazy... don't know where he gets it from...

ta da!

some thoughts on a wintry january evening...


- i have THE best husband. he's getting me wingers wings right now. after working ten hours. i didn't even ask him to. he just knows.


- we finished the old testament last night. we've also read scriptures together EVERY night for about three years. we're pretty awesome. (and the old testament was hard, i'm not gonna lie...)


- baby is easing up on the nausea. we don't like referring to him/her as "it" so we've been calling him/her "kreacher". maybe having a name made kreacher decide to stop making me sick. thank you, kreacher.


- on a related note, we also finished the harry potter series. now we just need to watch the last two movies.


- having a cold sucks. having a cold/sore throat/everything while pregnant sucks more.


- but it also means i'm taking tomorrow off of work, so there may be some posts with photos. that's happy, right? RIGHT?!


right.

week eleven

thoughts on being pregnant...


- i can cook again! yay! still can't handle doing dishes, but i'm an excellent cook :)


- i can smell everything. i don't remember if i said that last time (i don't remember a lot of things...) but i can smell EVERYthing. not just in our office, but in our building. unfortunately, this is usually  not a good thing.


- the baby only likes healthy food. salads... i'm obsessed with salads, and i'm not usually a salad person. every fruit, every vegetable. tastes like heaven. this is probably a good thing. but then when i try to eat something tasty, like a cookie, i get sick to my stomach. lame, baby. lame.


- oh, but he/she does like cheetos. bless your tiny little heart.


- for some reason milk has been grossing me out. unless it's chocolate milk. another kindness the baby has granted me.


- i've stopped losing weight, which is good :) i have another appointment next week, so hopefully i'll be back up to where i was a couple of months ago.


- we've finally started agreeing on more names. we found a boys name yesterday that we both loved and didn't know we did. so this is good :) i'm not dreading that process anymore.


- ummmm... that's all, folks! i really will post photos soon! i've been trying to be better at taking them. 

week nine

here are some fun updates that i'm sure you're all dying to know :)

- i am SICK! actually, i haven't thrown up in over 24 hours, so that's kind of a big deal :) the day after christmas was the worst (but props to the baby for waiting until after christmas!). i was in bed ALL day... any time i stood up, i puked. the worst! then tuesday nick left for st. george, so i had to toughen up and be a grown up :) so far, so good. just occasional puking... sorry for the gross vernacular.

- i'm finally feeling more awake... i'm sure it won't always be this way, but it's been so nice to actually contribute to the cleanliness of our home. i'm still not stable enough to cook (SO lame!), but i did dishes today and just tidied in general. 

- i have THE best husband. i already knew he was the best, but he has taken incredible care of me. sometimes i think he's taking better care of this baby than i am :) i haven't had to ask him for anything once, he just always knows and is there. he's cleaned, unpacked, cooked, run errands, cleaned some more, rubbed my back while i leaned over the toilet, haha... he's seriously incredible.

- and this is (hopefully!) his last week in st george! i miss having my husband here :)

- i've been a little moody lately. i do NOT like to cry, even when i'm by myself... i think it's so embarrassing. for a few days, though, everything made me cry... fortune cookies, commercials, nothing. :) that's pretty much gone now, and has turned into intense road rage.. ha! nick likes talking on the phone to me while i drive home from work, because apparently i just hate every driver in the whole world, and i say mean things tot hem. if we have an angry child, it's totally my fault!

- i still don't look pregnant, but i'm kind of excited to... i feel silly always having my hand on my stomach when there's nothing visibly there :) luckily my clothes still fit perfectly, though for some reason at night my jeans get tight.

- i haven't had any cravings yet... i just eat whatever doesn't make me want to barf :) and mostly it's been really bland, boring foods. it's sad when the first thing you think as you bite into something is, "how will this taste when i throw it up?" sorry, i know that's disgusting, but it's the truth. if you ever need a list of good things to throw up, i've definitely got one :)

- oh, and please... no one tell me how long your nausea lasted! all i've been hearing all week is, "just wait, it's going to last at LEAST another month!" or, "my wife was sick her entire pregnancy!" ummm... thanks? that's like having the common cold and someone saying, "my cousin died of the common cold" or "my cold lasted three years." lame.


- i've been going back and reading good friends' blogs from when they were pregnant... it's fun to hear other people's takes on their own pregnancy :) so i may have been stalking your blog lately! creeeeepy...

ummm... i think that's it! sorry for being incredibly anti-social lately! i have blown off everyone and everything because i've just felt awful all week. i'm slowly becoming a normal human being again, though. maybe it's the joy of having a four-day weekend! and a husband tomorrow :) and the video games live concert! nerdiness! yayyyy!

so long, and props to you if you read this! i will try to post more exciting things & photos next time!

the blob

earlier this week i was feeling pretty impressed by myself. eight weeks pregnant & i hadn't thrown up once. silly, silly erica... luckily we have a very clean toilet and a nice fluffy rug that i spend a lot of quality time with.


other than living off of water and saltines (from ireland, nontheless... yum!), life is swell. we're slowly unpacking boxes, we're both working, and it still seems weird that christmas is in THREE days! we don't even have a christmas tree... not to worry, though, i'm going to make my own version later today!


we went in on tuesday for our first appointment, complete with ultrasound. i know this is silly, but on the drive over i kept thinking, "oh man, what if i'm really not pregnant? i mean, i peed on a stick, and i feel pretty nauseous, but still...". i was actually genuinely concerned, as dumb as that seems. i mean, how would you tell people? "remember how i told you i was pregnant?  yup, just kidding!!! ha ha ha... good one, huh?" d'oh!


so when they did the ultrasound, the whole time i was thinking "please find something, please find something"... and there it was! i remember seeing other people's ultrasound photos and thinking, "whatever, it's just a weird little blob. i could spill some juice and make a cooler looking blob that that..."


i was wrong!! i have the cutest tiny blob ever and i love it! that, along with the super quick heartbeat was enough to relieve my irrational fears and bring a little bit of happiness to my otherwise unhappy stomach :)


so here you go... meet, our blob!

(the photo was taken by my phone in a moving car, so it's not the most flattering photo... poor little guy)

we're really, really good looking...

... so we made another us!


we did, it's true! you can see the miniature really, really good looking us who will make his/her debut at the end of july :) yay!!


and on a slightly related note.. want to go see how really, really good looking we are?!? i thought so. my friend amber took photos of us a couple of months ago. who are we kidding, i married a total babe!

thank you, amber! and we love you all lots