Baby Numero Dos

We officially announced last week that we are expecting baby #2! It's still so weird for me to say that outloud.

As of yesterday, I am 16 weeks pregnant. Our estimated due date is in January 7, 2014. If any of you remember my experience with Evalyn, you'll know how disappointed and straight up depressed I was when I watched what I believed to be my due date come and go. This time around, I have been telling myself that I'll have this baby sometime in mid-January instead of the first week of January. I vowed after my ridiculous induction experience with Evalyn that I wouldn't be induced again. We'll see about that come January, but for now that is not in my plans.

We found out on May 1st. I don't even know why I took a pregnancy test, but I thought that I should and sure enough saw that little line. I was pretty much in denial for a few weeks. I was in the middle of training for my half marathon and it was coming up a week later. I remember taking the test then going and running 5.5 miles and the whole time I was thinking about what had just happened. I didn't tell Daniel in a fun way or anything, in fact he didn't even know I was taking the test. I took it, then brought it out and was like, "huh. thats weird. it almost looks positive but it's not very clear to me." He looked at it for half a second and was like "ummmm thats pretty freaking clear I'm not sure which part is confusing you." Haha. And every few minutes for a few days after that we talked about it. Trying to get it to set in. It wasn't working.

I can't say this pregnancy wasn't "planned", but it happened alot faster than I expected it to. Which I am so grateful for. Of course the first trimester I was completely paranoid the entire time, especially because days would go by that I would have zero symptoms. I had my first ultrasound around 8.5 weeks and all looked well, then I got a massage and freaked myself out because apparently you're not supposed to get massages your first trimester, and I went back into my OB for an emergency ultrasound a week later. Haha--you could say I was nervous. And I may or may not have lied and told her I fell off a chair in order for her to agree to give me another ultrasound. Whatev-least my nerves were settled when my little one was healthy and their heart was beating.

This pregnancy has been such a different experience than with Ev. And I am SO grateful for that! For starters, I can count on 2 hands how many times I've actually thrown up (which is amazing), and I crave salty things like fries (which I don't even really care for) instead of fruit and desserts like I did with E. A downside is that I am already looking pregnant at 15 weeks, and with E I couldn't see it until after 21 weeks. I guess thats a positive for some people, but not for me. I'll take it over being up sick all night long like I was the first time though! I'll tell you what wasn't fun though--feeling nauseous the entire 26 hour drive to Texas.

This time around I am trying alot harder to be positive. I really struggled with the whole gaining weight issue with pregnancy when I had Ev, and this time I am trying to just be more grateful that I am able to do this in the first place. I am so excited for Evalyn to be a big sis, and am savoring the last few months I have with my little buddy. She is at such a fun age right now and I can't get enough of her. Daniel and I are so excited to become a family of 4! That sounds so big. Good thing I still have a while to get used to the idea :)