Holy Shit! There's a baby in there!!!

In place of my normal wordless Wednesday post I've got some big news to share w/ ya'll today. Some of you may know this and some of you don't but for all you baby haters out there, you'd better bite your tongue b/c my baby is dropping in July 2010. That's right. Wade & I are expecting. And thrilled! Our baby is going to be the baddest mother fucker on the planet. You all will just have to learn to love babies and if not just humor me and pretend you love mine. :)

Now, don't expect this to turn into a pregnancy/baby blog but at the same time it obviously will be very different for the time being. I can't drink (boo hoo!!!) so my drinking stories will be lacking which I know you all loved. But I WILL be back to my normal self. Eventually.

Anyway, as of now I feel great. I've been lucky and not had an ounce of morning sickness and I have the most supportive and greatest hubby ever that helps take care of me. So really the only symptoms I've had have been minor inconveniences.

• Exhaustion - This has got to be my worst one. I wake up, I'm tired. I go to work, I'm tired. I get off work, I'm tired. I go to bed, and I can't sleep! Go figure! And although Wade has been great and super supportive he gives me a hard time about this one. He teased me that my newest job is making sure our couch doesn't float away. Well, I've got to say that I've got this job nailed! Can I get a promotion?
• Sore tittays - This just started last week. They've also filled out a bit and I will be needing to shop for a new bra soon. The size increase is welcome, the soreness is not. Ow.
• Bloat - Extreme bloat. Some days I've looked so bloated that I look 7 months pregnant already. I'm not. I'm only 12 weeks. I should not look pregnant like this yet. The bloat is killing me Seymore.
• Hunger - All day, all night, nonstop. I'm hungry. Somehow I haven't gained any weight which is amazing considering all I've been eating. I lost weight in the beginning which I attribute to me cutting the booze out of my diet. B/c Lord knows I cut out a lot of calories when I stopped drinking. (I miss my vino...)
• Shortness of breath - I feel like I'm 80 years old. I get winded walking up our stairs. This is also a reason I barely leave the couch. It's ridiculous.
• Gas - You ain't seen nothing until you've been around a pregnant woman. Some may not want to talk about this side effect. I embrace it. It's not just toots, it's belches too. I could out-belch a trucker now. I still avoid tooting around Wade b/c I honestly cannot predict the outcome. Will it be a SBD? Will it be loud but odor free? Who knows? Wait, who am I kidding. All my toots smell like roses, cinnamon and freshly cut grass. Delicious.
• Weird dreams - I've been having not only very odd and vivid dreams but also sexy time dreams. So far these dreams have included the cast of Gossip Girl, Justin Timberlake and John Krasinski. Oh and Wade. Of course. :)
• Hormonal Rage - I don't think I've been too utterly insane. I've only flipped out on Wade a couple times. If you ask him he may say something different but he's lying. And to him I say "shut your mother bleepingbleepeffingbleepbleepingcrapbleepbleeping piehole!" :) See? No hormonal rage here. None at all.
• No-more-drinking depression - Seriously, it's winter... in Minnesota. There is near nothing to do up here besides drink during the winter b/c it is so effing cold out. And when your pregnant you can't go skiing or tubing or anything like that and really all you want to do is curl up w/ a mug of hot chocolate and Baileys but you CAN'T! And don't even get me started on how lame NYE was without being able to drink. Yes, it was still fun, but dear Lord I wanted a beer so bad. Basically it feels like being pregnant takes away your "fun" card. You can't do anything fun anymore. I am a social bee and part of that is drinking and mingling and well, I'm not going to lie, the drinking makes it more fun.
  

Anyhoodle, all in all it's been smooth sailing. So without further ado here is our little nugget's first photo. Doesn't the camera just love him/her? Looks like a gummy bear. :) Adorable I'm telling you. This was taken a little over 2 weeks ago.

And here is the 2nd photo shoot. My what a big forehead it has. Must be to hold in all those brains b/c this kiddo is going to be a genius! It's also going to be a ninja b/c while we were watching it on the ultrasound screen the little thing did the most amazing ninja kick move I've ever seen. A stealthy smart ninja. Totally rad.

Kobe is going to hate it.