Here we go again!

Hello again, friends and family!

If you haven't heard by now, SURPRISE!! I'm pregnant with McKay Baby #2! Glenn, Carter and I are all so excited to be bringing the fourth member of our little family into the world. I'm due 9/10/11, so the Munchkins will be a little less than 23 months apart...we were shooting for 2 years, but it was much easier to get pregnant this time around, so here we are!

It's funny how much more obsessed I was with my first pregnancy. I had a belly picture taken every week, blogged frequently about my experience, and could tell you pretty much to the second just how pregnant I was.

Well here we are, 13 weeks and 1 day into pregnancy number two, and this is my first blog post in a new blog that has yet to be actually designed. (Maybe I'll find a spare moment to do that at some point in the next 6 months!) I've yet to take a belly picture. But yes, I can still tell you just how pregnant I am...thanks to my Baby Center and Bump emails that magically appear in my inbox every Saturday. :)

My first trimester is officially over, and I wish it good riddance. I felt truly awful for a good 6 weeks during this pregnancy...like think of the worst hangover you ever had, and that's how I felt from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. Just constantly nauseous, occasional throwing up, throbbing headache, food aversions. I drank Ensure for dinner for 6 weeks because I felt too sick to eat anything in the evenings...whoever coined the term morning sickness was obviously a man, because it got progressively worse throughout the day! My doctor prescribed Zofran for me, which is an anti-nausea drug they give to chemo patients. I still felt pretty lousy, but it took my gag reflex away, so that helped! And while I still don't feel great (soon, right?!?!), I feel so much better now, which is such a relief! I felt pretty lousy when I was pregnant with Carter, but I'd say this was that x 10.

Hence my prediction that Baby #2 is a girl. I say this with fingers crossed, because I would really like to have one of each! But it would be much easier to have another boy since we have a whole closet full of barely-worn Carter cast-offs ready and waiting. So either way, we will be thrilled. The goal is to have a happy, healthy baby.

I don't know how often I'll be able to blog, but I really enjoyed being able to read back through my posts from Carter's pregnancy, so I'm going to make an effort...despite the fact that he is currently trying to turn my laptop off as I type.

Carter update: At 16.5 months, Carter is such a bright, caring little guy! He runs around like a crazy man, talks a mile a minute, and surprises us daily with how much he already knows and understands. He knows a ton of animal sounds and motions and will recite them for me in succession. He loves our four kitties an chases them around, squealing and laughing with abandon. He eats off of a plate and is learning to use a fork...in restaurants he sits in a booster seat. He goes pee pee on the potty almost every morning, and we're getting ready to amp up our efforts again now that Mama is feeling human again...hoping he will be potty trained by September. (?!) Discipline is starting to become an issue as it's his main goal in life to get Mama's laptop, the cable box and (now broken) DVD player, and climb on the furniture...even if I'm screaming at the top of my lungs, or smacking his hand or butt, he gives me an evil grin or giggle and keeps right on doing what he was doing. But despite making my head explode on a daily basis, he is the sweetest, cuddliest little guy...he loves all of his favorite people and shares willingly. And every day, I thank my lucky stars that he chose us to be his parents. That's it for now!

Love, Jenni