30th birthday and first maternity pants!!!

I keep getting in trouble for not updating my blog so I guess I will do so now.  Nothing that exciting has happened yet and I'm not one to just write about any old thing.  But here goes.  I turned 30 on November 7 and couldn't even celebrate with a drink.  :)  I'll take the baby any day over the alcohol though.  At least I didn't have a hangover which we all know would have inevitably happened had I been able to drink.  30 years old and STILL don't know my limit. :)  I did buy my first pair of maternity jeans.  My pants were getting a little snug and I thought, what the heck!  I'm gonna have to buy them soon anyways so might as well be now.  I have to say that they are the best invention on the planet.  Why have I not been wearing these sooner???  They are the most comfortable things ever and you can eat all you want with them on and not have a button digging into your belly afterwards.  Actually...this might not be a good thing.  :) 

Okay, now for the baby update.  I am 10 weeks, 5 days pregnant today.  Yeah, yeah, I know...I have a calendar that I mark days off of so I always know exactly how far along I am.  A little cuckoo, but I can't help it.  It's addicting.  My belly is starting to get rounder but I still just look fat. :)  I can't wait for my belly to pop out so I don't have to hold it in anymore.  I have been VERY lucky with this pregnancy and haven't had any problems other than peeing all the time and being tired.  I'm actually not even nearly as tired anymore as I was at the beginning. I've heard horror stories from some of my girlfriends who are also pregnant and I feel very lucky.  I was supposed to go for another checkup on December 1st but my doctor has to deliver a baby that day so I won't have one until the 7th.  I will be almost 13 weeks by then.  I'm not sure if they will do an ultrasound at this one or if they will wait until the next one when they can tell what sex it is.  I hope they do, but I'm pretty sure I will have to wait.  Hopefully I will get to hear the heartbeat this time.  It's so weird, because normally I dread the doctor, but all of these visits, I know I'm going to look forward to.  Even if I get poked and prodded.  (I know that my grammar and use of commas and other things is hideous so please disregard that part.  I know some of you are reading this and it's driving you crazy.)

I told my kids last week that I was going to have a baby and they are so excited.  One girl literally fell out of her chair. :)  I was going to wait until I started showing, but I told the staff already and some of the 5th graders overheard the teachers talking and started telling everyone.  I had all sorts of 5th graders come up to me and tell me there was a rumor going around that I was pregnant.  Kids are so funny!  They are my kids from last year, so I guess they felt like I owed them an explanation.  My kids this year have asked me some of the most random questions and they want to know everything about it.  Can they buy it presents when it comes out?  Am I happy about it, because some people aren't happy?  Does my husband know?  Am I going to quit my job?  Can I bring it to school with me? What do I REALLY want to have, a boy or a girl?  One of them even put her ear up to my stomach and told me she could hear something in there.  I told her I was just hungry. :)  They are 9 year olds and I know that once I start showing, their hands are going to be all over my tummy.  I better get over it now, because it is inevitable.

I will try to update more, but I'm not making any promises.  :)

Jen

30th birthday...can't believe I'm 30!