Eric and Emily + One

It’s late, this our first night home and I’m losing precious sleep to post this but since we haven’t posted in 6 months I thought I’d give an update.  He’s here!  More on this tomorrow.

As of yesterday, I am officially 14 weeks. Even though I’m not really “showing,” there is a definite growth below my belly button and my clothes are getting more and more uncomfortable. I leaned over last night and was so excited to actually feel something. I tried to get Eric to see/feel it, but of course he couldn’t. Soon, though! I bought my first maternity pants a week or so ago, and am thrilled by how comfortable they are (yes, I’ve already worn them…)! They are the ones with the stomach-covering panel, as opposed to the band. The jeans get kind of hot, but they will be perfect in the fall when I will actually need them.

Bruno was a HUGE disappointment. 82 minutes long and we just about left half way. I know I should have seen it coming, but I usually really enjoy Sacha Baron Cohen. He has been brilliant in serious movies and hilarious in comedies. Luckily, I waited and saw HP6 afterwards, which was marvelous. Of course, not as good as the book, but when do movies ever touch the books?* That’s right, never. I thought everything important was pretty much covered. The only thing I can’t quite figure out was the setting-everything-on-fire-scene at the Burrow. What? I’m still trying to figure out why that was even necessary. I should probably refresh my memory with HP5 (really, who can stay awake?), but I’m over Helena Bonham Carter. Eric reminded me that she doesn’t always play the same character in every movie she’s done, but pretty darn close. She plays them the same way, and it’s getting old.

Continuing even further into nerd-territory, we watched the latest X-Files movie last night. It came thisclose to keeping me awake. Really, especially after David Duchovny shaved his beard, I wanted to badly to stay awake, but it just wasn’t happening. I did stay awake long enough to see the scene with Mulder and Scully IN BED TOGETHER. WTF?!?!?! Eric and I were huge X-Files fans, and I have to admit I loved the tension back then, but that completely threw me for a loop.

The preview was shown for this during the HP movie. *Sigh* Don’t get me wrong, I am certainly not against making movies out of books. But really, does a movie have to be made out of a picture book just because there are billions of dollars to be made off of all of the white, upper-middle-class families that will take all of their children to see the feature-length movie made out of a PICTURE BOOK?!?!? Why can’t it just stay a wonderful, imaginative book? (Also, I am reserving judgment for this. One of my favorite books and I know that Laura is beyond excited, but there’s no way it’s going to measure up I am going to wait and see.)

So, can you tell what I’ve been doing lately? I have also started back with yoga (prenatal, of course!) and went to a personal training session this morning. Hopefully, I won’t be too sore tomorrow. I also go to the dentist. Keep your fingers crossed for no cavaties!

*Edit: Eric pointed out that he thought both Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange were better movies than they were books. I have not read either.

Boy, have I been having some CRAZY dreams lately. I woke up this morning, completely exhausted and overwhelmed by everything that I had dreamed last night. Even when I nap, I have been having vivid, intricate dreams. It’d been a long time since I had woken up and remembered dreaming. But, the past week it’s been nonstop. Not really crazy unrealistic dreams like animals talking or unicorns going to candy mountain, but realistic things like all of the orchestra teachers in the county being at band camp. I’ve had so many they are all kind of running together, but one of the most memorable was that Eric and I were not married but having an affair, and he was the baby’s father. I felt no remorse at all, until I started telling people nonchalantly that “Oh, I’m not married to the father.” Strange. And no interpretations, please.

Yesterday, I baked the most delicious Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Pecan cookies using a recipe from my new favorite site. I think Laura told me about it awhile ago, but I rediscovered it recently. The best part is the lovely pictures!

Tomorrow I’m off to Charlotte for a two-day conference on “Enriching the Brains of Poverty.” The registration was outrageous, so here’s hoping that I get my (the school’s) money’s worth!

As soon as I return home, I’m going to see this and this. Cannot wait!

I had my second doctor appointment yesterday. Nothing as cool as the first ultrasound (next one at 18 weeks!), but makes it feel all the more real. On Monday I will begin the second trimester (what? where’d the first one go?). It was basically an hour of intense questioning. Have you recently snorted a line of cocaine? Will the father be filing for social security in the next six months? and on and on… I did get to hear the baby’s heartbeat, which is fun!

We’ve been celebrating Mom’s birthday this week. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM! Yes, a whole week’s worth of birthday. It’s just that important!

Off to get in the pool. Won’t someone teach me how to swim?

I have been teaching four years and until this summer, had never fully realized the greatest perk: summers off. I’m talking MONTHS of vacation. Not those summers where I had to go back right after July 4th to teach year round; they really squashed the long summer off. After two weeks of vacation, this week I have been able to lounge around, swim, do jigsaw puzzles, cook, play WoW, basically anything my heart desires. What a lucky girl! That being said, I have absolutely no excuse for not updating this blog. Well, I do have excuses but they aren’t very good ones. Like, I didn’t feel like it. I don’t know what to say. I haven’t had any news, haven’t been to the doctor.

While at Montreat, I did learn some helpful advice that you may or may not have known about pregnancy. Apparently, it does not mean that you have to gain a bunch of weight. Really? I thought that since I was growing another human inside me, I could eat exactly twice as much as I normally would. Huh. I need to look that up on the interwebs. I may have been misinformed.

Today I went into work to sign my contract for next year, and my principal said “Don’t you have some news for us?” I basically lied to her face and said I did not have any news to share. I don’t consider myself stubborn, but I’m just not ready to share quite yet. Is that so wrong?

I took Cosmo to be groomed for the second time in her life this afternoon. I almost cried. Despite the fact that she is a decidedly UNfriendly dog and will bark her head off at ANYONE who dares come to the house, she’s still my dog and I love her. I also feel like we’ve bonded a little since I’ve been home all the time. The groomers were very backed up and had several absent employees (to which I say “So?”). I imagined her shaking in a metal crate for a few hours until the fun could really begin. I almost said “Thanks, but no thanks” and turned around, got back in my car to head home and cuddle her. But, I stayed strong and let her be picked up (yes, so scared her feet would not work) to be tortured. When the time comes, Dad is going to doing the dropping off at daycare.

So Eric has been bugging me to post since he “created” this beautiful site. My response? I’m pregnant, get off me. However, I think I have have finally procrastinated enough that he’s not expecting one, so here goes!

We just returned from a week at the beach and it was wonderful! It’s nice to have a whole week, in case it rains a bit, and for the most part we had gorgeous weather. It didn’t get searing hot until the very end. We were even joined by some friends throughout the week, which made it all the more enjoyable. I was able to read more books than I have all school year (3!) and nap to my heart’s content. I just finished “People of the Book” which was AMAZING. Go read it. Now. I’m having a hard time deciding what to read next. After such an exhilarating read, it’s hard to get anything else to sound good. Thanks to my reading bosom buddy Beth, I have a ton to choose from, though!

I don’t think this whole pregnancy thing has hit me yet. Words can’t express my excitement, but it still doesn’t seem quite real. Other than some tiny waves of nausea and being tired all the time (which, honestly is not abnormal from how I felt during the school year) I am not having many symptoms. Eric and I talked about names the whole time coming back from the beach. We may have a difficult time deciding. Eric’s best idea? Shhpotleh. Awesome.

Tomorrow I will be 9 weeks and head to MONtreat. MonTREAT for ML. Woooo for the mountains, some spiritual renewal, and starting the third month of this adventure!

So this is a first picutre of the kid.  My first guess is that we’re going to have a girl.  Why you ask? Because I like to bet and even our first born isn’t sacred.  You can’t see it in this picture of a picture, but there’s an acronym ‘CRL’ that stands for Crown to Rump Length.  This cracks me up, this is the best medical term we can come up with?

If you’re here then you’ve heard; Emily is preggers! Basic info as follows: She’s due 1/24/10 and that’s what we know now.  We visited the doctor yesterday and had our first look via sonogram.  As of right now Emily is just carrying around a baby blob.  I’ll get the picture posted soon so you can see what I mean.  So this is real, she’s 100% pregnant and there’s no turning back.  At this point I always assumed I’d be afraid, but I’m more certain about being a father now than ever.