He may not live at Five Blondes anymore, but that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to forget about him! Casey is now crawling and is busy being the happiest human being in existence. Unless he’s forced to stay awake longer than two hours, in which case you don’t want to cross him.

Tonight he’s going away for his first sleepover (at his Oma and Opa’s) and will be loved on by Lauren who is coming home from university for Thanksgiving weekend (yay!)

It will be so weird coming home sans baby, not putting him to bed, not having Kent get him up and bring him to our bed in the morning, not having him wake me up in the middle of the night (alleluia on this one, and sorry in advance, Lauren). We’ll miss him, but it’ll be okay.

How old was your babe the first time they spent a night away?

(You can read more about Casey and the rest of his family over at Kent and Micaela.)

I’m fiiiinally out of that first trimester and supposed to be feeling great, but now pregnancy symptoms/excitement have been overshadowed this week by actual, non pregnancy sickness. I picked up some sort of cold on the weekend and it’s been dragging me down like crazy. I feel like such a sad case of a wife because Kent has had so much energy this week and I’ve been trying to do things with him and get things done around the house since I’ve been done work since Tuesday, but really, anything that involves standing is so much effort right now. Today I was talking to my landlord at her daycare, she was explaining things to me because I’m working for her next week and her 6 year old daughter at the same time was showing off all these songs and books she knew off by heart to me and all I could think was “how am I going to survive standing up for the next ten minutes??” Finally I decided I couldn’t, so I told her I was feeling sick and needed to sit down. Such a sad case. My landlord is the only one I haven’t told that I’m pregnant, too. I feel like she’d hear it as “We will be moving out of our one bedroom apartment so have fun finding new tenants.” Really though, she’d also be so happy for us especially since she just had a baby in February.

Hopefully I feel better by tomorrow and hopefully the baby isn’t feeling this too. I think my body is telling me: MORE sleep, and LESS dancing until 2am on the weekends.

I think I grew this week after not growing for three weeks, but I don’t think I’m actually as big as I look in this picture at all. So don’t be too shocked. Maybe because it was taken right after dinner yesterday.

And for comparison purposes, here’s Katelyn’s 13 Weeks post and picture!

Our ultrasound two weeks ago went great, baby seems bouncy and healthy. The technician didn’t let Kent come in until after she took pictures of it, and at that point she told me either the doctor would come in if he wanted to look at the baby for himself (meaning maybe something was wrong) or if not she’d bring Kent in. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to see Kent so badly! Luckily the doctor didn’t need to come in. It was so exciting to see but neither of us can comprehend that there is actually a baby in here. I don’t know when that will be more real! Maybe once my stomach gets a lot bigger.

Today I had an interesting experience at the doctor’s office. I had to pee in a cup then put it in the nurse’s room for them to test it. I sat back in the waiting room and a nurse came and brought me into her room and said, “So, you do have a urinary tract infection.” My response was obviously, “What?????” She was surprised, thinking I’d come in for that reason. She asked, “Don’t you have symptoms of one?” “No…” “Why did you come in here today?” “Because I’m pregnant…” “Oh, that explains it! That’s why you have leukocytes! Never mind, then! You’re fine!” Don’t think that I’m at a sketchy doctor’s office though! It’s actually at a hospital and it’s awesome.

Based on my ultrasound I have a new due date – January 1! New Years baby! I was hoping they would make it a little later (it used to be January 5th) but no dice. I feel bad for my baby with a birthday so close to Christmas, but we’ll just have New Years Eve birthday parties for him/her.

Other than that, I’m doing alright. Last week and on the weekend I felt great, but the past few days have been pretty bad – I’m not wanting to eat as much and therefore not sleeping well at all… it’s a bad, bad cycle! So I’m trying to end it today. I took the day off and I’m trying to eat as much as I can even though I don’t really want to. I have a big weekend coming up – I’m a bridesmaid in one of my best friend’s weddings and neeeed to have lots of energy. We went to a wedding last weekend and I felt great, ate and danced lots, so I’m hoping for more of that.

Oh, and I threw up for the first time on Sunday night, again on Monday morning, and today in the bathroom of a Thai restaurant. Blahhhh! Isn’t all that supposed to end this week, not start???

Sooo, here I am! I haven’t grown too much since last time and I look like a kid in this picture. Maybe that’s why that nurse didn’t think I would be pregnant!

I’m going to start posting more about the pregnancy on my other blog now that I’ll have lots of time on my hands, starting next week. So check that one out sometime!