3 years ago:
We stopped and took some pictures.
And as you have guessed by now, we are having a baby! Here I am trying in vain to show a little pregnant belly. (I'm not really noticeably pregnant yet)
So we drove up to Yellowstone, and although it was chilly, we had a good time. Dogs are only allowed on the trails/boardwalks around Old Faithful - although people will be sure to give you dirty looks and mutter things like "There are signs all over the park that say No Dogs" (even though you're not the only one with a dog) - so that's where we went.
Now: (me looking oh-so-attractive)
Then:
We got back to West Yellowstone with time to see a show at the Playmill where Christian is working this summer. We saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (I had never seen it) The show was really fun, and the perfect ending to a perfect anniversary.
SOOOOO
The baby!!
We have known about this baby since the end of March, and it has been hard to keep it a secret what with the other pregnancies in the family. We told our families on Mother's Day and made it public at Girls Camp last week. We are excited to find out if we're having a boy or a girl - I have an appointment for July 26th! To answer everyone's favorite question (How have you been feeling?) I have been fine - I didn't have any morning sickness. I was a very picky eater, though, and was tired all the time. Those two short bouts with sickness you may have heard about were unrelated - one was food, and the other was an overactive gag reflex.
I have recently regained my energy and am happy to be keeping up with dishes and laundry and errands again. I've read that by now, the baby can hear what's going on, and you can get them used to sounds before they're even born. We're thinking about making the dog bark at me for a few minutes every night so the baby learns to sleep through it. Maybe I should bust out those bagpipes too. :o)
The baby is due December 7th and we are excited - but we'll be more excited when we know the sex, when I actually start looking pregnant and when we can feel the baby start to move. (Any day now!)
Megan's Summer Reading List:
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - pretty much what you would expect from Jane Austen. Girl likes boy. Boy likes some other girl. In the end girl ends up with boy.... I guess I could be one of her characters because that pretty much describes my relationship with Chad.
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky - not what I was expecting at all. Guy murders two women and then spends the next 600 pages feeling guilty and going crazy until he turns himself in.
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe - Just barely started this book - the jury's still out.
4 comments:
I hate you. I think you are obligated to at least half my amount of morning sickness. That is all.
Yeah, the "how are you feeling?" question doesn't stop, EVER, even after the baby is out. Then eventually it turns into "getting any sleep?". Oh, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!! I remembered from about May 18th until June 17th, and then totally spaced it. Hope it works out that we get to see you in August!
Congratulations Megan! I am very excited for you and Chad! :) I was the same way, didn't ever get sick... just tired all the time! Good luck with the next 5 months. :)
In "An American Childhood" (I know you're supposed to underline book titles but I don't know how to do that) which I just finished reading, Annie Dillard talks about a librarian handing her a copy of Look Homeward, Angel and telling her how lucky she is to get to be reading it for the first time-only she had already read it several years earlier. Anyway, it made me want to read it to find out why the librarian thought it was so special. So don't tell me what it's about.
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