16 Weeks

How far along? 16 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: No clue - will post weight gain next week from my Tuesday appointment
Maternity Clothes? OMG my pants are sooooooooo tight! Still squeezing in but it's getting a bit sad...may have to try maternity clothes wahhhh! I am wearing a dress today that I couldn't wear in the first TRI so I'm pretty happy about that.
Stretch marks? No
Sleep: Sleeping well but I never feel like I've gotten enough.
Best moment this week: Ron buying me brownie mix. :)
Have you told family and friends? yes.
Miss Anything? EVERYTHING! Right now more than food/drinks I'm really missing wearing cute clothing - NONE of my skirts fit me anymore and being preg 5 years ago would've been so much cooler when babydoll stuff was still in. Go take a look at your closet and you will realize that EVERYTHING hits you at your natural waist - SAD TIMES for a pregnant  body. :( Also miss having hair that will do anything but lay limp and dull and having a face that doesn't look like a 13 year old (AKA PIZZA FACE!)
Movement: No
Food Cravings: Gobstoppers, chocolate, french fries, milkshakes - gosh I'm so healthy!
Anything making you queasy or sick? Nothing I can put my finger on.
Have you started to show yet? Yea I'm fat, atleast according to the buttons and zippers on my pants.
Gender prediction: Still going with girl.
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time? I wouldn't say moody as much as I would say CRAZY...holy cow - 1. On thursday mornings when I have to leave my puppies I want to ball my eyes out...worst moment of the week. 2. On Wednesday nights when I have to pick out not 1 but 2 outfits that might as well be Thursday morning - talk about a crazy lady moment. I'm shocked I haven't thrown out ALL of my clothes by now. Picking out outfits is THE WORST!
Weekly Wisdom: So on Wednesday I found out that one of my coworker's wives is pregnant. Either 9 or 13 weeks along (she finds out today) and suddenly I felt like I was in a race...even though I'm further along than her, I felt paniced suddenly that we HAD to pick out our girl's name IMMEDIATELY so i could have dibbs. How crazy is that? No matter what we will find out first and we don't even know what the sex is yet - but I just HAD to know what our girl's name was b/c I'm so convinced it's a girl and I needed to have it settled already. So I have spent a decent amount of time searching the web for girls names. Enough of my story - this is my weekly wisdom for name searching: 1. Consider your kid's initials - make sure it won't spell out something like ASS (Ash if you had kept Smith as your middle name do you realize those are your initials?) 2. Consider a monogram too - If we had a son named Adam Liam O'Brien his monogram would be AOL - that's gay - ps that isn't the name don't worry.  Monograms prob matter more to girls but we totally rejected a middle name lastnight b/c of that exact monogram. hahahaha 3. Consider how the nickname sounds as the full name - the example the website gave was Charles Puck sounds nice but Chuck Puck doesn't. 4. Along the name of nick names - consider what mean little kids can do to bully your child - if you name your daughter Nelly she can be Smelly Nelly - I don't care about this one as much...isn't that mean of me? 5. Don't do a stupid spelling of your kids name...oh my name is Adam but it starts with a silent Q. Oh you're cool.... along those same lines don't do a common name and spelling but prounounce it differently. Oh my name is Ava but it's pronounced like Fish. (I couldn't think of a real example - ok?) I guess those are all my tips. Oh one more - think about how popular you want the name to be...personally I don't want a name in the top ten from last year but apparently Ron doesn't care. We shall see....

Oh ps. to all the people who said they thought I would be a fashionable preg lady - I have news for you: you can only take so much of buying clothing that doesn't fit before you break and just want to live in a potato sack! :( Just another reminder that being pregnant in pants weather IS THE WORST! I WANT MAXI DRESSES
Looking forward to: Moving but not packing (another breakdown I had hahahaaha) and FINDING OUT THE SEX!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO April will be an exciting month!!!!