Here We Go Again

Official Announcement Post: I'm pregnant! I'm almost 3 months along and very happy to be exiting my first trimester. I don't get throw-up sick, but I get very weak and have no energy. I almost faint sometimes. It's very dramatic. I've had to sit down in the middle of almost every shower and even had to pull the car over while driving. The only thing that prevents this weakness is making sure my tummy is full. And full it has definitely been. I've decided that I'm just going to get super fat this time since this is probably my last pregnancy.

I say that like it's a conscious choice, but my weight is really just spiraling out of control and I feel it is out of my hands at this point. I gained 10 lbs in 4 weeks and I was nervous about what my doctor would say. But they were very nice about it. I am due June 6 - 6/6/08. Did I manipulate my calculations to make sure I had an all even due date? I'll never tell.

My hormone levels are also out of control and I've gotten very depressed these last couple of months. I'm beginning to come out of it now, but it has been quite a ride. Have you ever received that forwarded email about a father who comes home to an out of control house and his wife is in bed reading and says, "Whenever you ask what I do all day, well now you know."? Well, Jakers has never asked, "What do you do all day?", but it's kind of the same story at this house. Except I've taken like two months off.

There is literally not a single foot of clear walking space upstairs. Jakob tries to do as much as he can after work, but with him traveling there was just no way he could keep up. But now that I'm coming out of it I hope to begin chipping away at the house and laundry slowly. But, other than those things, everything has been fine. Here's a picture of the little peanut at 10 weeks:

Doesn't it look like a girl????? :) Sometimes I think it may be a girl because all of my symptoms have been more extreme this time. But I've had three dreams already where I birthed my fourth boy, so I'm not making any predictions. We'll find out at the end of January. My thoughts on whether its a boy or a girl can be summed up in this very lengthy, very confusing analogy. Just to help you out, pepperonis = boys and pineapples = girls:

I love pepperoni pizza. It is my favorite. So I'm glad that I already have a pepperoni pizza, with extra pepperoni. But it is feeling a little heavy on the pepperoni. I wouldn't mind some pineapple, which I also love, to even out the taste. But I don't HAVE to have pineapple. I just don't know if I can handle anymore pepperoni. It's like, "Would you like some dough with your pepperoni?" I just fear it will be a little too much pepperoni for me to handle. But even if I never get a taste of pineapple, I know I will survive. Somehow I will soldier through all of this pepperoni. I hear that in the teen years pepperoni will sit very nicely in my stomach, but that pineapple may give you extreme heartburn.

That analogy didn't get the greatest reviews with Jake, but I still felt the need to document it for my sake. We're excited, regardless of gender, for another little Yorkie! We told the boys about the baby yesterday. Jude won't get it until the baby is probably a year old. Luke seems happy, but Kobe was really excited. He says he's voting for a boy which makes me happy. At least someone is. Kobe keeps asking to see the baby in my tummy and fortunately I already have a really big one to show him. :) Every day he says, "It's getting bigger and bigger!"