Today begins my 8th week.  I’m feeling pretty good, a little nauseated in the afternoons sometimes.  The nurse told me that most women experience the most nausea in their 9th-11th weeks.   I have my first “real” OB appointment on Monday (the 2nd).  I found out another gal in my office is 12 weeks pregnant, so that is nice to have someone close by who is going through the same things. 

Sarah O. is due on Thursday, so we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Baby Ortmeier!  Hoping we’ll know by the end of the week!

I’m so excited, and rather shocked, to find out that 4 of my cousins are also pregnant right now also. 

I’m excited about Spring finally being here.  Winter has taken it’s toll on me.  You know what one of my favorite little daily happy moments is?  When I open the door in the morning and there is no FROST on my windshield!  Yes!  Almost have to break into the “no frost” dance on my front porch!

Then there is school…..half way through my bachelor’s program now.  Passed my last class by the skin of my teeth, but I still passed!  Yes!  Hoping to do better with this one.  It is called “Clinical Data Management”.  It is mostly on code systems, a topic I am pretty familiar with,  so I hope that is a good sign (?).

So for now, I guess I will sign off and go to work on my homework.  Maybe.  First I am going to watch the rest of House though.

I am feeling pretty good.  I did have a bout with nausea on Tuesday.  I was cleaning the house.  (Apparently baby doesn’t like cleaning house   That makes two of us!  I think I may have just been a little dehydrated, but I had some dry heaves that sent me to the bathroom a couple times.

Hopefully, I will be back to work on Tuesday (Happy Birthday Vicky!).  I need to get back to some kind of schedule.  Right now, I am waking up very early in the morning and feeling hungry.  Then after an hour or so, I go back to sleep, after David leaves for work.  He SNORES!  It’s been driving me crazy lately!  Inevitably, I will get up during the night to go to the bathroom, and I will come back to bed and he is snoring away!  I may have to take up Sarah’s idea of the ear plugs.  I saw that on Grey’s Anatomy too when Derrick kept waking up because of Meredith’s snoring…Love that show!  Can you believe George and Izzy?!  OMG!  That was a shocker!

I kind of half surprised David yesterday.  He has been saying that he would like to go to see the Blue Man Group because they are going to be here on April 9th at the Civic Center, so yesterday  I went and got us some tickets to go see it.  I was able to get pretty good seats too, so I am hoping it will be fun!  So he has something exciting to look forward to, other than baby, right now. 

I am so excited for SPRING to get here!!!  Our snow is melting fast, but we still have some.  It has all finally melted off from our roof now.   Our little dog,  Jamie,  is excited about seeing some grass where some of the snow has finally melted enough in his little fenced yard.   Even though, I love my winter Columbia jacket, I have been happy to wear my lighter jackets the last couple days.  I actually got to wear my brown suede jacket yesterday!  Love that jacket.  I lost 2 more pounds.  I am supposed to be gaining them, not losing them, oh well.  I’m sure baby has enough fat in there! 

Got my hair colored on Wednesday, looks really nice, glad to once again be a redhead.  Jenny did a good job with the color, she put too much “junk” on my hair when she styled it though.  (I think she put like 5 different products in it!)  I have been waiting a couple days to wash it out.  I will probably wash all the junk out tonight.   Feels nice and soft though.

 Well, there isn’t too much else to write just now…next ultrasound is on Monday.  I really hope I can hear a heartbeat!  That will make it kind of more “real” for me!

I’m not sure how important my words are, but maybe someone will like to read about me?

Today begins my 6th week of pregnancy.  I’m 35 and this is my first pregnancy.  I’m cautiously excited at this point.  I worry everyday about miscarriage of course.  I don’t know how it is possible to be so scared and excited about something.  Right now, I am told that this child is the size of sesame seed, barely a blip on the radar.  How can something so small turn your life into such a rollercoaster?  All of the sudden I see a commercial for dogfood featuring dogs in a humane society and my eyes well up with tears!  Hello, it is just a commercial why are you starting to cry?  Or all of the sudden, I have this insane craving for cottage cheese or milk!!!  I have gone through 32 ozs. of cottage cheese in one week! 

Right now, I am on a surgical leave.  I decided to have surgery to remove an ovarian cyst (14 cm) on Feb 22nd.  I was to have the surgery the next day (the 23rd), and overnight, I got this strange idea in my head.  I could be pregnant, but nah, I’m probably not, but maybe?  So I went in the bathroom, it was about 2 a.m. and I used one of my cheap HCG strips I had ordered off the internet.  Within a minute, it had a slightly visable second line.  Hmmmm.  Do I dare waste a “real” test?  Why not?  So I pulled out a “First Response” test from the drawer.   (I had collect my specimen in a cup)  Within a minute the test had two visable lines!!!  Holy Cow!!  I ran into the bedroom flipped on the light, “DAVID!!!  It’s positive!  Look!!  Look!!!”  He opens his eyes squinting at me as I am hold the test in front of him.  “What the heck is that thing?”  “It’s a pregnancy test!”  “Really?  Let me see it!”  Then he says, “you’d better have them run one at the hospital, these things aren’t all that accurate.”  So here I am in an argument with my husband at 2 a.m. about the validity of this test.  Well, a few hours later at the hospital.  They took a blood test, it was also positive.  I knew the first one wasn’t an error, but it took the blood proof for David.  I don’t think the whole, “I’m going to be a dad”, thing has sunk in for him yet.  I hope he gets bitten by the bug eventually…