almost 19 weeks

Well, here is another pregnant belly picture from yesterday. I'll be 19 weeks tomorrow. For those not in prego land, that is almost 5 months. I'm so excited.

I believed everyone when they said that pregnancy was difficult. I listened, but stubbornly argued that I could handle it because I'd already been through so much medically.

That being said, pregnancy is exhausting. I'm back to puking all day (and night) again. There are moments when I'm curled up on the couch frustrated because my back hurts, angry because I have another headache (I get one every day), and really annoyed because I'm puking again. Then 5 minutes after I vomit, I still feel horrible, but am starving again. I'm maxed out on my dose of nausea medicine, which helps a bit--just not enough to stop me from puking.

All that's going on, but I can't help but thank God every day for it. I'm so excited to meet these beautiful babies... and already feel that they are each such a miracle. I'm pumped to hear their little cries, and see their beautiful eyes. I can hardly wait to hold them in my arms, watching them take in the world one new sight at a time--and I'm thrilled to see Marcus as a daddy. He's already so protective of me (and them) and it's adorable. He's been feverishly researching car seats and strollers; combinations of each, and which ones have the highest safety ratings. He has spent hours checking into cribs and dressers, and I have to keep talking him down from making purchases.

Needless to say, we are BOTH excited.

We are getting ready to move back to the condo in Sammamish on April 7th. This is for a variety of reasons, the main one being that we need to refinance and we get a better rate if we are living there (because otherwise it's considered an investment property.) We're also looking forward to being all on one floor (our rental house is 2 stories with the master on a different floor than the other bedrooms.) I'll be much closer to the hospital where I'm still getting fluids 3 times per week (it'll only be 1o minutes one way instead of 50 minutes), and should I go into labor, we'll be much closer to the hospital in downtown Seattle as well. The final reason is that I'm so excited to start fussing around with the nursery--painting and decorating with Marcus... it should be awesome.

In other news, we celebrated our 7th anniversary yesterday. It was super low-key. We had rather elaborate plans for the day, but I woke up feeling terrible so we just chilled in downtown Sumner instead. Then to celebrate 7 years and 1 day of marriage, we woke up to SNOW. Everywhere. Apparently the stupid groundhog was right.

Thank you all for your love and prayers. We're so excited to be sharing this journey with you.
brelin