Nothing new

No fun exciting news for me this week. Mostly just complaints. I haven't been sleeping well for a few days. I can manage to fall asleep fine but I always wake up at 4 a.m. and it isn't due to the fact that I need to go to the restroom. Instead of laying in bed for an hour or so waiting to fall back asleep this morning, I got up and ate breakfast, folded laundry and read for awhile. I finally fell back asleep around 6. I have also been unusually hot at night and from what I hear it will just keep getting worse. The sad thing is it isn't even warm in Logan yet but our friends Kerri and Rob have offered us their air conditioner so I will be able to survive the summer. Thank you.

I worry about getting toxemia and I know I should exercise more and Liberty said I should prop my feet up in the evenings and drink water but sometimes doing all three is hard. But I took the initiative today and drank 16 oz of ionized water this morning and I have already consumed an additional 40 oz so that puts me add 56 oz. I might be able to reach my 80 oz by the end of the day easily.

In regards to exercise, I didn't do a formal workout yesterday but I cleaned my kitchen, vacuumed, changed the sheets on the bed and considering how winded I can get I am counting that as exercise. On Sunday Mike got his family to do a timed mile to motivate them to participate in a 5K in a few weeks. I actually was able to run the whole time but not as fast as my usually self. I did the mile in 9 minutes 55 seconds. Not as impressive as Mike's 6 minutes 18 seconds and not as fast as my old time but I am definetely happy I could still run.

Some people say that pregnant women have a glow. I don't think I am one of them. Sometimes I feel unattractive and would rather not leave the house. Personally I think my complexion is worse than it was. I think my hair is sometimes unmanageable. My hair is really thick already and now that it grows faster and less is falling out it is like madness on top of my head. Luckily I get a trim later this week and I will be able to ask my hairdresser to thin it out again.

Good thing is I haven't seen any stretch marks but I have experienced the belly itching this week. Mike thinks I need to step up my regiment of putting lotion on my belly 3 times a day. I am thinking my belly is going to itch whether I change from my routine 2 per day belly lotion sessions to 3. My belly seems to be growing at an amazing rate. Right now I am at week 18 and it seems like my belly has doubled since week 16. I'll post a belly photo next week when I reach week 20.

The exciting thing that did happen which is not baby related is I got to chat with Liberty through the facebook chat option earlier this week. That was really nice because I haven't talked to Liberty in months maybe a whole year. The last time I actually saw her was probably at her wedding luncheon back in 2000.