Mom's napping so I figured that I would update really quickly. It's hard to eat vegetables and healthy stuff on vacay. Will seek out more greens in near future.

I am not feeling nearly as nauseous as before. I'm starting to wonder if I got a touch of something and assumed it was the baby.

According to my pregnancy calendar, P-nut is 1 mm long and is officially an embryo. Tomorrow - P-nut's neural tube forms, heart begins to form, and blood begins to circulate. Go Peanut!!

feeling sick....

I was hoping I might be one of the lucky few that didn't really get nauseous when pregnant. I found out that is DEFINITELY not the case. Last night, I had trouble sleeping cause I kept feeling sick and barely got any sleep. It's hard cause it definitely starts to take a toll on you and there are few people I can tell. My support system continues to be awesome though.

I called my doctor's office and talked to the nurse. I was concerned about some cramps I've been getting and how nauseous I've been. She confirmed that it's normal. :) Having a baby is definitely not easy but there is comfort in knowing this is normal.

I am nervous about my upcoming weekend with my mother to Dallas. We really want to hold off telling our families until Christmas but hanging out with my mom while I feel this crappy makes me think she'll figure it out.

My friend, Amy, told me that I really need to stop taking daily pregnancy tests. She doesn't think my daily pnut check is necessary anymore. She is probably right considering the symptoms I'm having scream pnut enough.

Ah well...now to pack :)

Hello Pnut

After working on it for a long time, we found out a couple days ago that we were expecting. It's kinda funny really since Ben and I had been arguing the night before over whether or not I needed an elliptical machine or not and I was just crryyyying. When I say crying...I mean SOBBING. I went to bed mad at Ben and woke up and took a pregnancy test on a whim (that's what you do when you have like 25 pregnancy tests and have been trying). My period wasn't even due so I didn't even know what I was doing. Sure enough, an extra line appeared on the test. So before Ben went to work, I went and showed him my test. He played it off saying I did it wrong but I was so confused. Was I really pregnant?

Ben left for work and I sat on the couch researching positive pregnancy tests and sure enough...2 lines=positive. I then cried for a long time. Turns out, Ben had been researching the same thing at work and when he came home, we acknowledged that yes...we were pregnant. Ben confided that he was sure I did it wrong and dipped it in the toilet or something because surely I couldn't REALLY be pregnant...apparently it's more likely that I screwed up the test.

I gave the baby the nickname peanut. I don't really know why but it makes for cute conversations. Ben has been incredibly sweet and kept me as comfortable as he could. I'm starting to feel nauseous after eating and I am very gassy which is kind of embarrassing but apparently it is completely normal.

Ben is encouraging me to set up my mom cave upstairs. I get new furniture!

We are trying to keep all of this a secret until Christmas just to make sure Peanut sticks around. :)