Key Lime Deliciousness

Sandy bought me the new Hungry Girl cookbook as part of my birthday present.  I went grocery shopping yesterday to pick up ingredients for a few recipes and made a meal tonight.  The highlight was dessert – Key Lime Pie Shake!  Absolutely delicious and very pretty!

If you haven’t started checking out the Hungry Girl site, I highly recommend it.  All of her recipes are very tasty & super healthy.  This shake had only 124 calories and 1.25g of fat!

Soup!

We didn’t go anywhere or do anything at all on Sunday to celebrate my birthday after all our driving to Atlanta and back Friday/Saturday.  Nubby decided Sunday should be a day of rest, so I spent the entire day passed out on the sofa.  We watched some tv and I tried to start a new book between naps, but napping took precedent.

To make up for us not leaving the house on Sunday, Sandy took me out for a celebratory dinner at Olive Garden after work.  Never before have soup, salad, and breadsticks tasted so absolutely wonderful.  I wanted to crawl into my steaming bowl of minestrone and swim laps. And the breadsticks!  Warm, soft, chewy deliciousness.  Don’t get me started on the salad with it’s crisp green leaves and crunchy croutons!  Food has never tasted so good.

It must be something about soup.  We went out for lunch today and I had a bowl of egg drop.  I wanted to curl up in the bowl and just stay for a while – just me and the broth and the little green peas floating around.  It was just that tasty!  I’m thinking some potato soup might be on the menu for later in the week.  If only I knew how to make those tasty sourdough rolls to go with it…

For all my enjoyment of soup and it’s accompanying starches, you’d think I’d be eating a lot.  This child, however, is going to be difficult.  I can tell already.  I eat less than half of what I would have eaten before and it takes an extra 45 minutes to complete a meal.  Eat a bite.  Rest.  Eat a bite.  Rest.  Heaven forbid we try two bites between rests – then it’s coming back up.  The OB says I’ve lost 3 pounds since the last checkup, but I’m sure that’ll change once Nubby decides that food isn’t a mortal enemy.

I found the recipe for Olive Garden’s minestrone in preparation for that day…

It's a Rave!

I find myself beginning to get a bit antsy now that the exhaustion is letting up some.  I want to start doing something to get ready for this kid’s arrival, but I don’t know what.  We’re still working to clean out the office to turn it into the nursery (It’s surprising how much junk you can accumulate in a closet that’s rarely opened!), but we have to move stuff in the spare bedroom around to make room for the stuff coming from the office.  It’s slightly overwhelming at this point, which is why it’s not done yet.  Hey, I still have 27 weeks, right?

The folks at work are excited.  The gender poll has already started – we’re still evenly split between boy and girl.  Although, our friend Lisa seems pretty adamant about a girl.  She may be projecting some of her own ambitions our way.  I’ve been looking at green color scheme options as a way to channel some of my need to plan, but have made no decisions.  It’s still early.

We went back to the OB today for the 3 month check up.  All is progressing well.  Sandy used his phone to record the sound of the heartbeat & has decided it sounds like the baby has a rave going on in my uterus:

It’s Official – I’m Pregnant!

Most of you who read this blog have known it for a while, but since Sandy & I have friends from work who occasionally surf this way, I’ve waited to post about it until we shared the news locally.

Baby Johnson, fondly referred to as Nubby right now, is due November 25th. Yes, Nubby. One of the very first things we did after the four at home tests read positive was to go buy the What To Expect book. Apparently around week 5, the baby grows arm & leg buds – so s/he had nubby little arms & legs at one point. The name just kind of stuck. Poor kid will have fun trying to explain that nickname in high school.

To answer some of the most common questions:

1) Yes, we’re excited. Of course! Sandy’s boss came by to congratulate me yesterday and said he’d never seen Sandy smile so much.

2) Yes, I’ve been sick. Nausea, but not a whole lot of vomiting. Thank goodness! The fatigue has been the worst part. There have been days I’ve fallen asleep in the car on the way home from work, moved to the couch and fell asleep again.

3) The only craving I’ve had so far was for Oreos and milk over the weekend. Sandy & I hopped in the car, drove to the gas station, and bought both. I ate a few & then I was happy.

Well, I was so happy I cried. That’s twice now I’ve cried over Sandy bringing me milk. I’d like to think those are the only times I’ve been crazy hormonal, but I suspect Sandy would tell you differently if you asked when I wasn’t around.

There have been a lot more food aversions. I will not, under any circumstances, eat Mexican food right now. Sandy is suffering and would be eternally grateful to anyone who wants to meet him for lunch.

4) Yes, we plan to find out the gender as soon as we’re able. I’m sure the kid doesn’t want to go through it’s entire life as Nubby, so we need to pick a real name & start using that to break me of the Nubby habit. Also, the inability to use gender specific pronouns is driving me a little batty.

I go from being incredibly excited to freaking out a little bit. I mean, yes, I have a real job & I’m married & I have a mortgage – all the things that make you an adult – but I’m about to be a parent. That can be a bit mind blowing when you stop to think about it.