positively rubenesque: the third trimester begins

almost 29 weeks! i look super giant from one side and not so huge from the other side. guess she likes hanging out on the right?

i suppose you could say i am a pretty lucky girl. aside from the fact that i have probably the best husband that ever was and the fact that we are about to meet our offspring in just 12ish short weeks, i have a couple other things going for me. like the fact that i am an all-around weight gainer. i have probably gained 30 pounds so far (i'll find out at my next dr appt on monday, but i think thats a pretty accurate estimate) but i am happy to say that it has come on quite evenly, and i don't look at all mis-shapen!  hoorah! that was a worry of mine. and i am pleased to say that a very generous amount has gone to my formerly non-existent boobs and the basketball sized belly i have acquired. people are starting to give me that tender "oh, how sweet, she's pregnant" look in the store, too, which is much better than that "yikes how many burritos did that poor girl have for lunch???" look. the only things that aren't so pleasing to the eye are the rolls of backfat that show up if i bend the right way and glimpse in the mirror before i get in the shower and the weency little stretch marks on my thighs and butt. but no one ever will see that.

i guess noticing all this stuff is making me realize how worried i was about gaining baby weight. that worry is mostly behind me now... i don't look fat really, i just look softer and perhaps a bit rounder. which i can live with for the next few months i suppose. i hear it's worth it.

i absolutely cannot believe i am 2/3 done with my pregnancy. seriously, it has floowwwnnnn by. and aside from being super duper tired most of the time, it's really been pretty painless...i'm pretty lucky. i'm definitely not one of those people who throws up constantly until the baby comes. blessings: counted.

also, she moves around connnnnnnstantly. it is pretty awesome. i can shine a flashlight on my belly and she swats at it, which is pretty great. she also hates it when i lay on my left side to sleep. it feels like jiffy-pop in there whenever i lay on my left side, which, ironically, is the "healthiest way to sleep" when you're pregnant. she already hates rules. just like her mommy (:

oh, and i believe we have selected a name! but i'm not telling. HA. to see our short lists though, you can check out this post.

now that i'm rounding one of the last corners of this whole process i thought i'd list the things that i craved during my pregnancy, just because that's one of the things that people ask all the time, and it'd be fun to remember for myself further down the line. so i'll list the things i wanted, in order of when i wanted them:

1. macaroni and cheese. there was like 6 weeks where i had to have it every single day.
2. cheerios. during the nausea phase, the only thing i could really stomach at any time was plain cheerios and milk.
3. HAM SANDWICHES! oh my gosh, i know paranoid people will tell preggos to stay away from cold cuts but screw it, i needed me my ham sammiches! i had like 3 straight weeks of having at least 1 ham sandwich a day. it had to be on white bread, have boar's head ham, boar's head american cheese, tomato, shredded lettuce, mayo, and yellow mustard. anything else was simply unacceptable.
4. pickles. no lie.
5. smoothies. any type of smoothie.
6. ramen noodles
7. peanut butter and jelly
8. mashed potatoes and gravy
9. orange juice
10. milkshakes
11. MEXICAN FOOD! esp enchiladas. always promptly followed by heartburn but man oh man so worth it.

now that i'm at the end, i pretty much eat whatever, but when i'm feeling particular, it mostly consists of the above. those are the things that always sound good no matter what, but it's not concentrated like it was before.

in other news: bradley has a convention in the city this weekend so he's busy tomorrow night annnnd all day and night saturday. do you know what this means?! it means i have to wait until MONDAY to see skyfall!!!!! daniel craig is going to have to wait. i don't know if i'll last.

also, we finally got our power back tuesday morning!!! after just 8 short days! -sarcasm- (we lost it bc of hurricane sandy, which you can read about in this post.) just in time too, because we just had a noreaster yesterday! it snowed from noon yesterday until about midnight. this morning, i woke up to this:

i would just give up on life right now but it's supposed to be 60 degrees and sunny on monday sooooo i'm pretty sure i'll survive. *weird end-of-days weather.*

alrighty loves i'm off to pop some TUMS. smile! tomorrow is friday!