Count down to Baby P- Weeks 7-8

Week 7

The major melt downs in week 7 happened to both take place on the same day.

My sister Kaytie, aka Bridezilla is getting married May 3rd and the entire family is excited for her! Much to my shock and horror she has turned out to be quite bossy and demanding. I had no idea she had it in her! I knew I was bossy and demanding, but by comparison I have been dethroned and Kaytie crowned the new queen! Anyways, the queen requested that I get fitted for my bridesmaid dress immediately. Now that I had told the family about the baby I needed to get the dress fitted for a belly.

I get to David's Bridal first and there is a swarm of happy go lucky bride to be's EVERYWHERE! This place was packed. Every room was full and every staff person was busy. So I wait patiently my turn. Kaytie and Mom arrive and we head back to the dressing room. As we walk back I mention that I am pregnant and will be around 5 1/2 months for the wedding. The lady helping us mentioned that she had a belly I could put on so we could get an idea of what it will look like.

So I put on the belly...

I open the door and Kaytie and Mom have looks of shock and horror on their faces. I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror across from me and cue the tears! It was horrific. I looked awful. I couldn't stop crying! Now remember I was surrounded by happy go lucky bride to be's who are shedding one tear of joy here and there because they are so happy AND SKINNY! And here I have put on a dress that I loved before the belly and was now horrified. Kaytie was super embarrassed and Mom kept telling me it would be okay. They insisted their shock was simply they had never seen me like that before. You could have fooled me!  I could barely pull it together enough to get the dang thing bought and out the door.

I am going blame part of my melt down on being a former fat girl. Now I am not skinny by any stretch, but I love the way I look now and had to work my butt off to get here. So seeing myself big again was more than a little traumatic.

Our next adventure we were off to the new Dairy Queen in Moore. It was so yummy! (I will pause a moment for you to find the irony in the statement above and now this current one! :)) Anyways, I will spare you the details, but I learned within a half hour that I can NEVER EVER EVER eat ice cream again during this pregnancy.

Overall, not an awesome day.

Week 8

This week was relatively boring. I made it through my first week back at work only feeling sick some days and just exhausted when I get home most evenings. The best part is I started to get back to jogging. Just a little bit. I am testing the waters. Seeing how it pans out. I started by walking for awhile then jogging .25 of a mile, the next day I walked more and jogged .5, then the last day I walked for awhile then jogged a mile and felt amazing! I know it sounds lame seeing how I ran 3 half-marathons last year, but I am not willing to hurt baby just so I can workout! I'll talk to the doctor and once I get the clear game on!

You are probably wondering why I want to get back to running or maybe your not! For Kaytie's bachelorette party we are doing the Run Like A Diva Half Marathon/5K in Galveston in April! I am so EXCITED! I am excited because I LOVE running with sister, a large group of her friends will be going, and it's really just an awesome idea and I am an awesome Matron of Honor! :) My goal is for me and my awesome baby to dominate (in a not running for time sorta way) the half!

I am getting to the point during week 8 that I need to tell people at work, because there were a couple of days we went out to eat that I just didn't feel like it and another day where I needed to go home early because I was super sick! I toughed it out, I will tell them after I make sure baby is okay! :)