Crave

I am currently craving:

Cafe Rio Salad. Yes please. Good thing I am going to Utah on Saturday! Yesssss...you will be mine!

I have a love-hate relationship with salt water taffy. When I worked at a candy shop in Santa Cruz, I had this stuff at my fingertips all day and it was the last thing on my list to eat. (Why would you eat this stuff when you could have white chocolate pretzels with sprinkles?) The chewy creamy yumminess sounds delightful.

I want the fresh kind from Utah in August. Have to wait for this one I guess, but canned peaches are working well enough. I can't get enough fruit!

A BLT! Well, let's be honest, just bacon in general. Nice and salty. And oh, how I've missed it.

I guess this could go with the last crave. Tomatoes. And I specifically remember thinking about tomatoes around week 8 and it made me throw up. With a little salt and pepper. mmmmm...

I'm starting to realize that this was a bad choice of post. I digress...

I don't know why. I didn't grow up on these. I don't even know why I crave them if I have never really had them before. I did make them for a family I babysat for once. Maybe that scent is coming back to me? Eggy and Syrupy:)

 I love Almond Joys! I always have, always will. Maybe this is just in my head, but chocolate (not a lot) soothes my stomach. At least that's the excuse I'm sticking to.

Banana-Berry Jamba Juice. I think I could drink one of these every morning. Which is saying a lot, because I am still pretty sick in the mornings. So delicious. Ah!

And last, but certainly no least, Indian food. But only if it's a Naan wrap with eggplant from the Santa Cruz farmers market. You just have to take my word for it if you think I'm crazy. Trust me, it is heaven.

I really could go on. The cravings are getting out of control. I don't crave these things every second of the day. Only every hour. Just kidding, but I have been craving these things the last couple weeks. And the cravings set in the second my sickness was gone. Thank you body, for not forgetting that you like a lot of different things and not just bananas, saltines, pringles, and gatorade.

Happy eating!

On my list.

This day will go down as one of the best days of my life. We found out that we are having a little lady!!

So here's the deal with the baby's gender. They say that a mothers intuition is right 75% of the time... Not mine! I was so certain that we were going to have a boy. I had actually had a few dreams about this boy of mine (I still believe that this boy I dreamed about will be in my life one day). I started thinking about being a mother to a little boy, which actually kind of frightened me, but I started getting so excited about things like him following his dad around and just cuddling up with my little man. I pictured life with him as our only child at first and I started to have expectations.

I hope I don't sound disappointed, because I'm definitely not! The ultra-sound technician said, "See those three light spots? (um yeah! Three spots to me = boy, Right?) When we see that, we know it's a girl." WHAT!? I was shocked, then I started to tear up. Luckily Kinzer and the technician were having a nice long conversation about school so no one was paying attention to my ugly holding-back-big-time-tears face. We are thrilled! So thrilled. We would have been so happy either way. On the way home we started talking about our little girl and what she will be like. We hope that:
she will be a good example to her little brothers and sisters
she will be caring and take good care of her siblings
she will be a RED HEAD:)
she will take care of us when we get old and non-mobile (we actually talked about this, haha)
she will be a nice teenage girl
she will be healthy and happy
she will succeed and excel at everything she does
And many other things...

We love her very much. I don't know what else to say other than we can't wait to meet her. I actually feel pregnant now. Today for me was such a big day and quite emotional because of the connection I made with her. She is mine. My little lady!

She was nice enough to put her hand up to her mouth while we were watching the ultrasound. Might have a thumb sucker.

I cry

My emotions are WACKY!

Yesterday I was sitting on the couch with Kinzer figuring out our summer plans. I had just gotten off the phone with my sweet mom when all of a sudden I started crying. I'm still not too sure why. 

*Maybe I was happy to talk to my mom, I always am. 

*Maybe I got a little over-excited about going to Utah to see all of my wonderful family and friends (sometimes I get teary eyed when I think of home). 

 *Maybe my body just needed a good old cry.

*Maybe I was hungry. Most likely I was. I have been starving lately. I'm talking: I eat about every 15 minutes. And a lot of times just a small snack doesn't cut it, I have to stuff.

*Maybe I was tired.

I don't know.

Me: "Sometimes I just cry. Okay?"

Kinzer: "That's what pregnant women do. It's okay with me."

Me: "I'm scared to have this baby. I'm scared for the labor and delivery part."

Kinzer: "Me too. But once our baby is here it's going to be so much fun. (Our definitions of fun must be different) You'll be fine. I'll be here for you."

Me: Starting to cry even more. " So what day should we leave for Utah?"

See? Wacky. And of course it's humorous. 

I have always been a very emotional person anyway. So I don't think this will be getting better any time soon. Poor Kinzer has to put up with this for the next 5 months. He's a trooper.

And another story to show just how psycho I am: I just finished watching The Price is Right and a sweet old man won everything you can possibly win on that show and he was just so grateful and emotional about it. I was bawling! During The Price is Right! The happiest show ever! It felt wrong.

On another note, we have a check up appointment today to see how baby is progressing and then on Thursday we have an ultrasound to find out what we're having. I think that we're having a boy. Can't wait to see!