Random thoughts on my pregnancy in no particular order

• ·    Pregnancy is a crazy experience, and honestly unless you experience it for yourself you have NO idea what you’re in for. No amount of reading up on the subject prepares you for it. With that being said, I am so grateful we are at this place and experiencing it. I thank my lucky stars every day for our miracle baby.
• ·         I feel great in the mornings and afternoons but come evening time my body feels completely different. Like I’ve gained a bunch of weight as the day goes on or something. Everything is harder, from our nightly walks to just relaxing on the couch... it’s not just the lack of energy but something hard to describe. I joke with Mic when he has to help me up from the couch that I’m going to need some type of lift eventually. LOL. He is just so great at helping me and not laughing when I become ridiculous. We are both new at this but taking things in stride. I couldn’t have a better partner. Some days I sit back and look at what our life has become and I can’t help but think “how did we get to this point?” And I’m pretty sure I ask him that on a daily basis. I thought we were happy before but honestly this is a whole new level.
• ·         Tomorrow marks our 25 week mark. According to my app our baby is the size of a rutabaga (whatever the heck that is) but basically she is 1 ½ lbs and 13 ½ inches. I love feeling her crazy karate moves and now we can even see her kicks when we watch my abdomen. How something so little is so tough is amazing to me. I tell her every day that she needs to stay in there and keep growing.
• ·         I like to joke with Mic about all the things “they never tell you…” that you’re going to experience in pregnancy and he gives me this crazy look like “yes you did know that you were going to experience such and such” mostly when I joke while looking at my growing belly “they never tell you that you’re going to get huge…” even though I’m pretty sure that is in pregnancy 101. Honestly I’m kind of a weird planner always thinking 10 steps ahead, so I told Mic today that maybe when I decided about taking the whole pregnancy plunge that I took into account step 1 and skipped to step 20 which bypasses the whole delivery btw and goes straight to a newborn in my arms. I’m still trying to get a handle on all the steps in between. And don’t even get me started on thinking about the delivery because I have no idea what to expect- aside from the textbook version we learned in nursing school. I have a feeling reading about what to expect is much different than actually experiencing it. Good thing I'll have a great labor coach/L&D RN aka my sister.. that is unless she "fires" me as her patient partway through my labor ;)
• ·         Mic is the king of coming up with nicknames for everyone- mainly his family/nieces & nephews. Even before we knew the gender Mic decided to call our baby “kiwi”. And no for the 100^th time he didn’t come up with the name because our baby was the size of a kiwi at the time (which would’ve been at 10 wks in case you care). I’m pretty sure he came up with that name back when she was 7 weeks and the size of a blueberry. I had gotten tired of him jokingly referring to the baby as “Rupert”, “Milo” or “Walter” Mostly it was Rupert though and I got SO mad every time. Then one day he sort of combined the two names we’d decided on for both genders and came up with Kiwi. And it has stuck ever since. Although it definitely fits for a girl nickname over a boy. If a fruit can even sound feminine? Pretty sure Mic will always refer to our daughter as Kiwi, and she’ll go to kindergarten wanting to be referred to as such. Which reminds me; when Mace was little he randomly decided he wanted to be called TJ, short for Tiger Joey. He signed all his drawings Mayson TJ. What a funny kid.
• ·         It is crazy to think our life is going to be completely different in approximately 103 days.
• ·         I’m sure I have 100 more random thoughts but for now this is it.