14 Weeks

It seems obnoxious to me when others constantly countdown their pregnancies, but it's just sort of how I measure my life at this point, so I've become the obnoxious one!  I am barely 1/3 of the way through, and still I want it all to be over.  I've never been so sick before.  I even took Zofran (morning sickness 'miracle' drug.  Read=expensive) for a few weeks hoping it would help, but it never did.  Combine that with the awful (snowy+freezing=my personal hell) weather we've been having, and you have a pretty miserable momma who is just hoping to forget the last 8 weeks.  The sun has come out a bit this last week, so I've gone outside (!) with the kids a few times just to breathe in the (semi) fresh air for a few minutes and minimize the cabin fever.  I am looking forward to our doctor visit next week, since we will be able to schedule our big ultrasound at that appointment!  Finding out the gender is always so fun, and should happen around the end of March.  If everything with the insurance works out, I should be able to stay with the same doctor (love her.) and same hospital for this delivery as I had for Gabe.  

Olivia is still the same girl as she always has been, just taller and with more hair.  She's still waking up a few times a night and always wants to climb into bed with Mom and Dad.  We love her snuggles, but no one really gets any rest when she does this, so we're trying to make her own bed seem just as comfy, cozy and appealing as ours!  It's not working.  She's a wonderful big sister and is enjoying going to Sunbeams.  She just turned 3 before the New Year, so she is young for primary, but is doing pretty well.

Gabe is running everywhere and has started talking a little bit.  He says, "Mama, Dadda, bubbles, ball, Nana, Grandpa, no, dog, up, more".  I'm sure there are more.  He's just learning new things every day.  His favorite thing to do when he is getting his diaper changed is to have lotion on his hand and rub it everywhere.  He is a great little teddy bear who loves to cuddle and hibernates for 13-14 hours a night.  A well-deserved treat after so many sleepless nights with his adorable sister :) He started nursery last week and is doing pretty well, considering he's never been away from me for any measurable amount of time, except when he's with his grandmas.  

Ryan and I are doing (enduring) another semester of school.  I plan to take the fall semester off after the baby comes in mid-august and I will continue next spring.  Going two semesters in a row with no break has completely killed my motivation.  The morning sickness/weather/moodiness isn't helping me feel super enthusiastic about my homework, but I'm trying to stick with it and get decent grades, even if they're not perfect.

I just got called as an advisor in the Young Women's, and I'm so excited about that.  I spent so long in YWs before Olivia was born and going back to that calling just feels like home to me.  It is more work (although, I get out of Girl's Camp this year, since it's in early August) than cub scouts has been, but it is so fun to get to know the girls.  I have awesome co-leaders and there is just this unity within our group that I hope I'm not just imagining because I love Young Women's and I think it is the perfect calling :)