18!

That's how many weeks along I am (actually closer to 19 now, but whatever).  My tummy has officially "popped" and I no longer have to constantly debate in my head whether I look overweight or just preggers.  The bad news is that my pants are just not working for me anymore, and I hate using the Bella Band and rubber bands, although I also hate the idea of maternity pants.  So mostly I just want to hang out in soft pants (my name for sweats) but the hubs isn't always thrilled with that.  I must admit, it would be somewhat disheartening to come home every night after a long day to find your un-showered, soft-pant-wearing, dog-hair-covered wife.  Who's usually stressed about something insignificant, like how annoying our dogs are and how their barking sends me to crazy land.

In other news, we got our Xmas tree, and I love it!  I love Christmas and am too excited for next year, when we'll have our very own baby bee to celebrate with.  We decorated Friday night with a fire and everything.  Fantastic.  We also talked today about how we want to handle holidays with family once we have the bee...and reached no conclusions.  Is it awful that I don't mind spending holidays with my fam but don't want his around every year?  Whoops, didn't just say that.  How do other people handle this, especially when one family lives in town? 

Currently obsessing about nurseries and whether we can buy a home before the babe comes or not...it'll be tricky and we'll definitely be house-poor, but it would be worth it to finally have our own place that I can decorate to my heart's (or at least my wallet's) content.  We'll see...

And OMG, the biggest news yet!!  I can't believe I'm silly enough to have forgotten to write about this till now, but the baby just reminded me.  That's right, I can feel him!  Or her...it's taken me a few weeks of thinking "wait, is that it?  or is that it?  or wait what was that??" before I have finally decided I definitely feel it moving around and kicking in there.  It's much lower down in my abdomen than I thought, closer to my pubic bone (sorry) than my bellybutton for sure.  Is that normal at 18 weeks?  I thought my uterus was supposed to be nearly to my bellybutton by now, but who knows.  Anyway, even the hubs felt it last night!  It was so cool, although the downside is that when I don't feel him for awhile I get nervous that something's wrong.  I can usually feel something every day lately, but for awhile there it was only every few days so I wasn't sure what was going on. 

Off to eat some delicious Cracker Barrel biscuits...that's right, still craving carbs.  And Nutella and potato chip sandwiches!  Mmmm the best.