13 weeks

wow!

i cannot believe i am 13 weeks today. it honestly felt like time took forever to get here, but when i look back on these past few months, it seems like yesterday that we found out. it really does go by so fast! now that i feel like i'm more in the clear, i've really let myself get excited for this baby. talking openly with friends has been great - it is so much more real and i'm glad to have so many people to lean on and chat with.

i think i'm getting less morning sickness, although this morning i had to rest on the bed while getting dressed because a wave of nausea hit. i do know i'm more open to a variety of foods and even cooked some full meals this week, which i hadn't been doing for a while. shockingly, chocolate sounds disgusting. even more shockingly, i have had a bag of gummy candy in my pantry for 2 months, open and half eaten and i have not touched them. if this baby doesn't like candy, i'm not sure i'm it's mother.

today i'm wearing some low rise maternity jeans. they are huge in the belly and are being held up by the bella band, but so much more comfortable than unbuttoned, unzipped anything else. i popped a crotch stitch in pair of non-maternity pants while bending at the beginning of the week and have since given up on most pre-pregnancy bottoms. it does nothing for my emotional well being to burst the ass seam of my fat pants.

belly picture soon.