Coming... April of 2011!

Wow!  I've been so busy and tired I'm way behind on my posting.  Big news!  I found out the day before school started that in April 2011 our family of 3 will become a family of 4!  We're so excited about the new baby on the way. 

My due date is April 22.  Mimi said Andy's sue date was April 20something but Andy's birthday is May 15!  3 weeks late!  I made my dr. promise he won't torture me that long.  Ha!

This pregnancy has been way different than Katie.  With Katie I was never sick or even nauseous, but with this one that's not the case.  I'm sure a lot of it has to do with being in my 1st trimester during the 1st 9 weeks of school.  That's always a busy and tiring time of year without a pregnancy, but I was slightly nauseous all day long for about 5-6 weeks.  After that, I started feeling good in the mornings but by about noon (or a little earlier) the nausea would start and just get worse throughout the day. 

Now at the beginning of my 2nd trimester that is mostly gone (unless I let myself get too hungry), but the exhaustion is more than I can remember having with Katie too.  Wow!  I'm sure I just don't remember how tired you are with a newborn, but I really think I've been more exhausted in the last 2 months than I was after Katie was born.  Again, now that I'm starting my 2nd trimester I get more bursts of energy and only feel exhausted when I try to take advantage of feeling good and stay late at school or work a lot around the house.  Hopefully that is all coming to an end.

I think Katie is excited about being a big sister, but I don't think she really understands what that means yet.  We tell her she's going to be a big sister and if I ask her where the baby is she knows to point to my tummy (or sometimes points to her own tummy.) 

To share the news with the staff at the school where I teach, I played this video clip of Katie guessing that it's a boy.

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If you can't see the video, click here.

 

Sometimes she guesses it will be a girl, but more often than that she guesses a boy. We won't find out until December (at 20 weeks) but it will be fun to see if she's right about it being a boy.  My doctor laughed when I told him that and said children under the age of 5 are very often right in their predictions about that.  We'll see.  We would love either.  I've always thought boys would be fun and having one of both would be great. And having a girl has been so much fun I would love to have all girls too.  We're just anxious to know and start thinking about room decor and stuff.  We also get to move Katie to her big girl room sometime in the next several months so baby can move into the smaller bedroom that Katie has now.