P.S.

I'm not crazy. Citrus craving is a common craving for pregnant women.

Vitamin C anyone?

What's up with this cold weather? Where is the sun? Is this dark dreariness why I'm craving sunny citrus? I don't know but that's all I've wanted to have all day is citrus. We bought these amazing tangelos from Wal-Mart and I seriously think I could sit and eat the whole bag of them in one sitting. Does this count as a pregnancy craving or do I just need some vitamin C? I can't imagine that I'm deficient because of my prenatal vitamin I've been taking has 100% vitamin c and I have been eating fruits and veggies that are rich in vitamin C , so I'm just going to say it....I'M CRAVING IT! :) I guess a craving for citrus is better than a craving for chocolate cake, lol!

Tonight Allen is training one of his coworkers. He had bid on another second shift job but didn't get it. :( He will keep waiting for the right position to come up.

11 weeks pregnant means

Our baby is now officially considered a fetus, until today, Baby Cooley medically was known as an embryo. He/she is now the size of regular lime (last week was a key lime). Baby's vital organs are now formed and he/she can kick me, but baby is so small I can't feel it. Also, Baby C can now swallow and is able to urinate. (WEIRD RIGHT?)

Easter Sunday was amazing at church. The music was great, the sermon was great, and the people were great, but the best part were the little ones singing songs! I was a hormonal mess and of course cried while they were singing because it was soooo cute. I couldn't help but think about little baby C some day standing up there singing songs about the resurrection of our Savior. It brings me to tears even now as I'm typing. God is so good.

Baby update

Well this week I have been very sick again. I'm not one hundred percent sure but I almost think I have picked up something else besides being pregnant, thinking about the way I have felt since Monday. I was starting to feel better last week, but Monday I actually puked. I puked again today too. Up til now I have just been experiencing alot of really uncomfortable nausea. This is just a normal part of pregnancy and will soon pass. I just can't wait!

We are almost there though to the feeling better months. Two more weeks and the first tri-mester is over. At 10 weeks , now, our baby is growing fast. He/she is now the size of a key lime, and is beginning to look more human by the day! At 10 weeks, this pregnancy is officially 1/4 of the way over. Hard to believe in less than 7 months we will be welcoming another member to our little family!

ALLERGIES GO AWAY!

Allen had to go in an hour early tonight due to some diversity training. At least he gets paid overtime for it. I am baking some carrot cookies for the carry-in we are having at work tomorrow, and then I'm gonna head to bed. I have been able to make it through three whole days without a nausea pill. I can't say I haven't had any nausea at all, but I'm soooo thankful it seems the worst of it is over. Allen is glad too! :) For the past two days the major complaint for both of us has definately been our allergies. It has been an unbelievably long two days of sneezing , snorting, blowing, and itching for us both. We have been a sad sight. Hope everyone else is better off!

Nothing too big or too small

Sometimes when I pray for things I feel guilty for asking for something so small and insignificant when other peoples needs are so much greater than my own, but tonight Allen and I had a prayer answered in an unexpected way. For weeks we have been truly stressed over the disrespectfulness of our neighbors. They have been playing in our side yard constantly, even their dad was in on the action. At first it wasn't that big of a deal to us, but as time went on it really began to irritate us. It just seemed so unneighborly and that they just didn't care at all. Allen has blew his lid a few times over it out loud to me, but we hadn't addressed it with our neighbors because we just didn't know what the right way to handle the situation was. We didn't want to cause any bad feelings over something that in the big picture isn't really that big of a deal, but at the same time we felt very frustrated. Allen had reached his boiling point and I was worried sick about how the "confrontation" was eventually going to go down. Allen and I have both breathed short prayers of , "How do we handle this? What is the best way to deal with it?" Today when I came home from work the neighbor stopped by to let us know that she mowed our lawn because she appreciates us letting her kids play in our side yard. UNBELIEVABLE! It was like instantaneously the stress over the situation was lifted. It wasn't really that Allen and I cared if their kids play in that part of the yard because really we aren't using it for anything, it just a matter of feeling disrespected and having un-neighborly neighbors. We just thought they didn't care. Now we know they do care and our outlook on the whole situation has completely changed. I feel so relieved! Another good thing today, I didn't have to take any anti-nausea medication at all! I was very very tired all day, but sick I was not! Thank goodness! I was just telling Allen yesterday I was sad because I wanted to be able to enjoy being pregnant, and not be sick all the time, and ta-da today I really REALLY felt better. I hope everyone else had as good of a day as we had today. If not, just remember tomorrow is Wednesday, making the week half over! :)

And the bugs are out!

Well last night I counted 4 giant spiders hanging out between our house and the shed, and then this morning Allen was stung by a bee! Good thing he isn't allergic, he said the stinger was stuck in his arm. I sure don't like the bugs, but I LOVE the green showing up on the trees. In fact today on my way home from work I almost cried at how beautiful it is. The earth is coming back to life! Spring is a magical time of year always, but being pregnant with a new life growing inside my body, the rebirth of the plants is even more magical. Maybe it's just the extra hormones talking, lol, but I think it's beautiful! This week I had to reach out to my doctor for help with the nausea. I was prescribed a medication that really helps, so I was able to go to work. I know it is safe for the baby or they wouldn't have prescribed it, but I'm ony taking it on a "seriously" need only basis. If my nausea is at a 6 or 7 out of ten which it has been pretty much all the time, like right now as I'm typing, I'm gonna suck it up and tough it out, but when I hit that level 10 I have to have something to make it through at work. My pregnant wish for this week: I believe a workplace with 600 women needs a separate special bathroom for pregnant women. They do a very good job of keeping our restrooms clean, but I just about can't handle going in there. Of course now I have to go twice as often. Fun baby fact: At 8 weeks, our baby is now the size of a grape, and his or her "tail" is almost gone! He/she has eye lids and everything else is developing at a rapid pace!

4 more weeks....

This whole first trimester thing is being very difficult on me. I feel nauseous almost all the time now, has gotten a lot worse in the past week. AND I feel completely crazy all the time. I thank God every day for blessing me with such a wonderful understanding husband. Seriously, Allen is being wonderful. I love him so much. In one of my books it says , by about week 12 at the end of my first trimester I might find myself enjoying being pregnant. I CAN'T WAIT! Four more weeks and I'm there! Bravo has a new TV show called Pregnant in Heels, a show about millionaire mommy's to be. I'm crazy, but not THAT crazy! One of the couples on this show actually paid for a Think Tank and Focus Group to help them decide the name of their baby!