Pregnant Pause

I havent written since March, but I think I have a pretty good excuse. Its no mystery, I'm pregnant. Enormously, massively, immenesly, gigantically pregnant! Sixteen weeks and 5 days, that means 23 weeks and 2 days to go, ughh! Both Daniel and I are excited and a little nervous, ok I am alot nervous. Of course, the thought of pushing a baby out of any hole of my body completely freaks me out, but I have a feeling that if this pregnancy continues the way it is going I will be looking forward to getting this little guy or girl out of me. For me, pregnancy itself hasnt been quite what I expected. Sure I knew that you get huge and there might me a bit of throwing up now and then, but no one prepared me for this. Nausea, vomiting, heartburn, ear aches(who knew?), headaches, joint pains, sciatic nerve problems, fatigue, increased chest and head congestion...ect., ect....you name it and it can be a symptom of pregnancy. A couple of times I thought for sure I had the swine flu:) Thank goodness alot of the symptoms have decreased greatly, some have even gone away since I started my second trimester. Whew! So now I dont have to focus on my illness so much and I can focus on all the stuff we have to do before this baby comes! We have a million things to get and a million things to do. I think this weekend we might even start on the nursery. The above ultrasound was taken at our 12 week checkup, unfortunely the baby didnt cooperate at that time to let us know if it we could call it a he or she, although Daniel and I keep calling it a "he". I will be getting another ultrasound on June 26th and that one should definitely tell us. It would be nice to have a boy in the family since my side of the family is full of girls but we just want it to be healthy. And of course since I posted a pic of what the little jelly bean looks like from the inside, here is a pic of what he is making me look like on the outside. It took almost 1.5 years to lose 25 pounds and only a matter of 15 weeks to gain it all back. Oh well I guess thats my motherly duty, I can work on that later. Besides, its not all the babys fault, I would have taken any excuse to eat Ben and Jerrys on a daily basis.