Happy Birthday Brub!

To the BEST big brother in the world...

HAPPY 30 YEARS!!!

Love you.  :)

Nutritious AND Delicious

Tonight, eating "well" during this pregnancy looked a bit like this:

And by "a bit" I mean EXACTLY.  Plus the ever beneficial seltzer water.

I really should get to the grocery store...

The Two-Legged Puppy's Close Up

Well, kind of...

Jan 13, 2012 (7 weeks)

Jan 22, 2012 (8 weeks 2 days)

Feb 12, 2012 (11 weeks 2 days)

And here's where I became lazy...for a few days...which turned into weeks......

March 25, 2012 (17 weeks 2 days...before dinner)

I feel like it's kind of hard to tell in these pictures how much my belly has grown!  But when I try on my pants...I know it has.  :)

We find out the baby's sex on April 23rd and I'm really excited, but also really enjoying this time of not knowing. Partly because EVERYONE has an opinion.  And for the record, everyone so far thinks it's a girl (including Hubster's dream-self, apparently).

So we'll see!

The Night Sammy Was Eaten By a Snake

To set the scene, I'm at Mom's house standing with her in the dining room, looking out the window.  My brother is outside, standing on a ladder to clip the forsythia bush.  The forsythia is in full bloom and looks like a giant yellow balloon.

Suddenly the window, screen and all, disappear so there is just a giant hole in the wall.  And Sammy (our black lab baby) decides to jump through it.  Not sure exactly where she came from...but bear with me.  At this exact moment, I see something yellow moving near the base of the ladder that Ben is standing on.  This yellow something is partially camouflaged by the forsythia until it moves out from under the bush.

At which time I realize that it's a GIANT YELLOW PYTHON!

(http://wallpapers.free-review.net/15__Yellow_python.htm)

Ugh.  I've got the willies just putting that picture in here.  

So, Sammy goes chasing after said giant snake.  And the snake clamps its giant jaws around her face!  Then wraps it's body around her throat.  I panic, and my mom/Diego/whoever was there (it's blurry at this point), just kind of stare.  I decide that the ONLY thing I can do is unwind said python from my poor child's neck.  So, I grab the python by the tail and start to unwind.  I end up picking Sammy off the ground in the process and she's inches from my face.  As I struggle with the python beast, Sammy seems to realize that things are not going well for her.  And she gives me one last, very sad, "goodbye Mommy" lick on the face.

AND THEN I WAKE UP.

Who dreams about their dog being eaten by a giant yellow python and saying goodbye???  Needless to say I woke up mildly panicked that my dog was gone.  

Thankfully she was curled up on the bed with me.  I spent probably 15 minutes petting her and telling her I loved her and telling her to stay away from pythons.

All of that to say that, hands down, the weirdest pregnancy symptom I've experienced is crazy dreams.

So, I guess I should count myself as lucky.