I figured it was about due time for a little baby-making update!

Things are progressing well growing that little Bitty Bu of ours.  Overall, I’ve been feeling GREAT up to the last day or two.  I’ve been dealing with a little more nausea and exhaustion the past couple days than normal.  I’m sitting here snacking on pretzels and ginger ale, trying to make this belly feel better.  While lamenting with Dustin about how icky I felt yesterday, I said, “I just don’t understand why I feel so bad today…”  He goes, “Baby, you’re pregnant.  That’s it.”  I suppose he’s right.  (But don’t let him hear I told you…)  I just have to accept that I’m going to have days where I just feel like poo.  And that’s ok. 🙂

My belly is growing slowly but surely.  I’ve been dealing with a lot of round ligament pain as my body grows and stretches itself, allowing room for this beautiful baby bundle.  I stare at my belly in the mirror every morning, trying to see how minutely it may have grown overnight.  I can’t wait to get a big belly.  All the women I talk to who have been pregnant tell me not to wish that upon myself too soon. 😉  But I still can’t wait to have a big baby belly.

I believe I’m feeling the first little flutters of movement!  It started last week, and I feel the little pops and flutters every now and then.  That’s another thing I’m looking forward to – feeling (and seeing!) the baby move.  I can’t wait for my husband to put his hand on my belly and feel our little baby kick.  It’ll be pretty flippin’ amazing. 😀

We have our next prenatal appointment on Monday, the 30th, and then we have our next ultrasound scheduled for July 11th.  That’s the ultrasound where they’ll be able to tell us the sex of the baby!!  So, naturally, that’s all I seem to be able to focus on these days. 🙂  As many would think, we’re hoping for a girl.  But really, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s healthy.  I already know that it’s going to be amazing and wonderful and all I’ve ever dreamed.  It’ll just be really super extra awesome if it’s a girl.

So it’s really started to hit me that I’m pregnant. For reals.  Baby growing inside my belly.  A baby that I will hold in six months (or so) and be mine, forever and ever.

I’ve been envisioning her(his) birth. The moment she’s out and placed upon my chest.  Her first cry.  The first time she looks me in the eye.  It will all be so beautiful!!  I could cry right now just thinking of it.

I’m trying to stay present.  This is a magical time in my life, and I don’t want to miss a single second of it.

I’m so grateful and in awe of what’s happening inside my body.  It’s growing life!  It’s a miracle – it really is.  Every pregnancy is a miracle.

By the end of 2014, our lives are going to be so different.  We’ll both be in different careers than the ones we started the year with.  We’ll be in a new house…we’ll have a baby!  I can’t wait to see all the good that’s coming to us. 🙂

(Can I mention the little hint of doubt I felt in my heart as I typed that?  What if it all falls apart? What if we lose the baby/job/house/car?)

But you can’t live life in the “what ifs”.  Danielle LaPorte’s Truthbomb today was “Worrying doesn’t do anybody any good.”

We can’t predict the future, but we can create it.  Instead of worrying about all that can go wrong, we should instead be focusing on all that can go right.

To help battle my fears and worries, I came up with some “baby affirmations” I’ve been saying each day (if I can remember):

I bless you and bless you, baby, for the goodness of God that’s working in you and through you. 

I bless you to be strong, healthy, and full of love and light. 

Thank you for choosing me to be your mom.  I feel so blessed to experience life with you.

Simple, but to the point, and they help me radiate gratitude and bask in pregnancy bliss.

And I like to bask. 🙂

~To basking and BABIES!!~