overheard

Brian: It's almost your birth month!
Amy: Yup!
Brian: How old are you turning again?
Amy: I'm getting old. 27. Man, I'm old to be having babies. I should have started having kids, like, 10 years ago!
(Yes, sometimes I speak before thinking.)


Amy (to Brian): I have decided the baby feels like a worm [when it moves]. Did you feel your worms when you had them?


Oh, yeah, and the baby is a girl. :) Apparently Brian and I are breaking the mold - all of my siblings had boys first. (Although 3 of Brian's 4 sisters had girls first, so I guess it's not that crazy.)

movement

I'm really afraid this blog is going to turn into a place where I only talk about the progression of my pregnancy, baby stats after it gets here, etc. I feel like that's boring, but being pregnant is actually one of the more interesting things in my life right now. Plus, I'm guessing most of the people who actually read this want to know those updates.

Stolen from here. I have no affiliation with this site and didn't even read the article the picture came from.

As a side note, I'm going to call the baby* "him" for now even though we don't know the gender yet. It's easier and less repetitive that way. (I say "him" because I'm personally convinced that it's a boy. Brian doesn't have an opinion yet. When I asked him, he said, "Let's take a vote. I'm going to wait to vote until after the ultrasound.")

On that note, I recently started feeling the baby move around. I'm sure that's not that exciting for people who have already had kids, but I think it's pretty cool! (Although I have to admit, the more I feel it, the more it feels a little like an alien poking me from inside.) I think I actually felt him for the first time about 2 weeks ago (?), but having never been pregnant before this, I wasn't sure if it was that or gas. ;) Yesterday, before getting up in the morning, I decided to lay there and see if I could feel him at all. As if on cue, he started moving all over the place (it definitely wasn't indigestion). Maybe he'll have some entertainment genes like his dad. :) I felt him again while sitting on the bus on the way home from work and then later during our meeting with the elders. In fact, as I'm writing this, I'm feeling even more little kicks.

*Brian and I joked about calling the baby "the fetus" for the duration of my pregnancy. As hilarious as I think that is, I can't bring myself to do it, especially in writing. ;)

Halloween

Tonight was our ward Halloween Party. We decided to go with the "bun in the oven" theme, and turned Amy into an oven. I, of course, am the baker.

We were quite satisfied with how the oven turned out, especially considering we started it last night.

baby names

Names have been updated on the Baby name survey.

belly

When Scott and Laura found out I was pregnant, they asked for belly shots. At that point (and I guess still), I really only had a little paunch. Whatever, this is what you get. These are from our trip to UT, so I was not quite 12 weeks.

I'm sure I was probably trying to suck it in, but this is as far as it goes.

I'm really not that big, and hopefully you can tell I was sticking it out as far as possible. Hence, the funny look on my face because it was actually pretty uncomfortable to do.

the nephews

I've decided we have some pretty funny kids in our family. While we were in UT with Brian's family, we heard these gems from a couple of our nephews.

M (4 yrs old; after hearing his dad talk about someone getting married): My parents got married.
Amy: Oh, really? Did they have you before or after they got married?
M: I was in my mommy's tummy!
*M was, of course, born several years after his parents got married

*During breakfast one morning, B got up from the table and started to go downstairs. Grandma was helping the kids get food while their parents were getting ready.
Grandma: Where are you going, B?
B (3 yrs old): I'm getting my parents.
Grandma: Stay up here and finish breakfast. They're fine downstairs.
B: No! They can't be left alone!

*B (same as above) has a stuffed lamb that he loves and carries around a lot. It's actually a mom with a baby lamb attached. B's mom told us to ask him what their names were.
Tami: B, what's your lamb's name?
B: Eight-lamb.
Tami (amused): And what's the baby lamb's name?
B: Killer!
*Note, I have no idea how to spell Eight-lamb; the adults later decided it was funnier if it was "Ate-lamb." There were plenty of jokes about how Killer Ate-Lamb. Also, B has had speech problems but has made incredible improvements; however, this actually made "Killer" sound like "Killah!" as if he was being a gangsta.

overheard

*This happened after my second prenatal appointment, around 9 weeks.
Amy: Wanna hear something funny? I've actually lost 2 pounds since the last time I went to the doctor.
Brian (really excited): Do you think our baby is made of helium??

*At my appointment in mid-September, I got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time (although I had already seen it on an ultrasound).
Amy: Brian, I got to hear the heartbeat today! It was really fast - the nurse said it was about 160.
Brian: That's how fast I beat...
Amy: Um, no way does your heart beat that fast, there would be something wrong.
Brian (starting to speak while Amy is finishing): ...poor, defenseless animals.
*As horrible as it is, I laughed for probably 5 minutes about that. There's a reason I married Brian. :)