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16 Weeks

I am feeling a little bit better these days. The weather is helping A TON. I feel like since the moment we opened our windows, my coughing and snottiness has gone down. Obviously, nice weather improves my mood as well. I don't care if it is cloudy, rainy, or storming, as long as I can open windows and breathe real air. This baby requires mad oxygen! I still throw up most mornings, but it almost feels like part of the morning routine: get up, make some tea, watch some YouTube videos, barf, check my email, bathe...

I'm starting to feel kinda chubby, and I'm trying not to let it bother me too much. Just having these huge new boobs makes me feel frumpy. I actually LIKE having small boobs. The titty fairy has stopped by, but I didn't want her to, that asshole. I feel quite hippy too, and I've been trying to do some "butt blasters" to keep from getting a squishy fat ass. Sigh.

We are going to Hawaii in a little over a week and I am super excited. The travel part of it is going to be extra annoying with peeing and crazy legs and hunger and tiredness, but I'm glad we are not taking a direct flight so I can move around and not go completely crazy on the same plane for 11 hours. But the rest of it is going to be glorious. Envious?! Yes, yes you are. It's our "babymoon" as they call them, our last (and also first) hurrah of travel. Tim and I have never taken a trip together, and neither of us have ever been further away than California. Babby, however, is gonna be a jet setter before he or she is even born.

Directly after (just a couple hours later) we arrive back in Columbus, I am scheduled for my next ultrasound. At that point, the baby will be about 6 inches long. We could find out the sex at that appointment, but we don't want to. I just hope the doctor doesn't accidentally let it slip or there is like super obvious baby junk. I guess if we inadvertently find out it's not the worst thing that could happen.

I read that a baby can start to hear its mother's voice/other sounds around 16 weeks. Babby will certainly be hearing a lot of my car singing starting now. Oh god, do I have to stop listening to Biggie when the baby arrives? I'll have to make new little-one-appropriate mp3 mixes for my car. Has anyone made gangsta rap for kids? They should. The wheels on the bus go round and round, mothafluffa.

Lets compare and contrast Lynn's waistline! HAHA she doesn't look pregnant, just puffy!




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