Fourteen.

How Far Along: 14 weeks (SECOND TRIMESTER WOOOHOOO)

Size of Peanut: A lemon.  I've seen some big lemons at Kroger!

Total Weight Gain: Scale's still broken.  Darn.

Maternity Clothes: Yep.  I am actually wearing non maternity pants with a hairband and a tank today, but generally speaking, I'm rocking elastic waists every day.  I splurged and bought a support tank in hopes that my back would feel better as this pregnancy progresses.  So far, I really like it, but my belly is also not nearly big enough yet to be causing a whole lot of problems in that department.  My back just hurts because I have a bulged disc, not because my belly is causing me to walk weird.  I also splurged on a good pair of maternity leggings from Athleta.  I love their workout pants when I'm not pregnant, so I figured that I'd love their maternity leggings too.  I was right.  They are thick, not see through at all, and supportive without being constrictive.  Well worth the $60 since I'll probably be wearing them 4-5 times a week throughout the winter.  I'll also wear them when I'm not pregnant anymore because I can just roll the waistband over.  A win for me!


Sleep: Nope.

Best Moment(s) this week: I don't know if this was necessarily the best moment this week, but the most memorable moment was definitely putting our house up for sale.  I am super excited at the idea of building a house with a floor plan that I love.  I love the idea of a little more room for Sam and baby peanut to play without putting their toys all over the kitchen floor while I'm trying to cook dinner (is my toddler the only one who does this with her toys?  Why can't she just stay in the other room where the toys belong?).  However, I do love our house and we have put so much work into making it our own.  We bought it together during our first year of marriage, we brought Sam home there, we loved Callie there, and we made so many memories there.  It's definitely a bittersweet feeling.

Gender: Many people are still speculating boy since I was sick and I'm so hungry, but everyone speculated boy with Sam too.  The closer it gets to 20 weeks, the more I am leaning toward agreeing with Jake and wanting to find out.  We'll see.

Movement: I have definitely felt some tiny little movements in there this past week.  Nothing like actual arms and legs moving or anything, but I can feel pressure on my bladder for a few seconds and then it suddenly disappears.  There is really no other explanation for this phenomenon other than a lemon-sized baby doing some flips in a uterus full of amniotic fluid.

Food Cravings: I have been craving bagels for breakfast, which is super weird since I eat a bagel like once in a blue moon when Jake or I have a hankering for Panera.  Twice this week at work I got a bagel for breakfast.  I am normally a protein hound in the morning, but my eggs just haven't been sounding really great recently.  I need to figure out a new protein breakfast because these carby bagels aren't filling me up for very long.

Symptoms:  Has anyone ever seen Hunger Games: Catching Fire? (I promise there is a point to this question.)  Well, last summer after our family vacation, I wound up with Hand Foot and Mouth disease.  I knew nothing about it at the time, but Sam got it first.  I learned from the internet that it mostly affects children and that healthy adults don't usually get it.  Just my luck, I was one of the healthy adults that inherited it from her sweet little toddler.  The illness started out with a really sore throat.  The next day I woke up and felt horrible.  By 10am my fever was pretty high and I had to leave work and sleep the rest of the day.  The next day I had red spots all over my hands and feet.  The red spots weren't really itchy, they were more like a stinging itch.  The following day I could hardly walk because my feet were so uncomfortable.  A few days after the discomfort ended, the spots started peeling.  A few months after all of that passed, my fingernails started falling off because of the spots under my nails.  I kept telling people I felt like Catniss in the arena at the Quarter Quell.  Every hour she had a new obnoxious obstacle to fight.  The only difference was in my case it was a new symptom of this stupid illness.

Fast forward to this pregnancy and I feel like I'm in that DAMN ARENA again.  The pregnancy started with my "girls" being so tender I could hardly put my bra on.  Then it moved on to nausea all day every day, coupled with extreme exhaustion.  Once the nausea was gone and the exhaustion subsided a bit, I started getting dizzy every time I stood up.  Now, I'm dealing with all day long headaches that can't be cured by Tylenol.  WHAT THE EVERLOVING HELL.  Can I get a break please?  Last night I went to bed with a headache thinking for sure that sleep would cure it, but every time I woke up to change positions, my head was still pounding.  I took Tylenol as soon as I woke up this morning and I still can't catch a break.  Can someone just give me some anesthesia until this baby is ready to come out of me?  I'm not sure I'm ready for whatever's coming next.  BLAH!

What I Miss: Not feeling like Catniss Everdeen.

What I am Looking Forward to: Getting an offer on our house.  Keeping a clean, organized house with a toddler is more work that I care to participate in.  I need a 24/7 nanny and house maid.

Sam Tidbits:
- I bought Sam one of those alarm clocks that lights up at a time that Mommy sets (in this case, 7:15am) so that the kid knows when they're allowed to exit their room.  Sam was so excited about it, she even told my mom about it and what the rules were.  It's been in her room 2 nights now and she has come into my room at 6:45am both mornings.  When she comes into our room in the morning and I ask her if her clock is lit up she says "no Mommy, but it's okay, I can come in your room.  It's okay, I can come in here.  It's not lit up but it's okay I can come in here."  She says it so matter-of-fact and cute that I can't bring myself to be too mean about telling her to get back in her bed.  This morning I told her that if she comes in tomorrow before it's lit up, I'm sending it back.  I'm not spending $30 on something that doesn't even work.

Callie update:
-Callie got her second acupuncture treatment this week.  The vet said she seems to still be doing okay, we just need to keep an eye on the spot where the lump was removed.  Good news all around.