Week 8: Practice #hotelprius

Do I even need to poop anymore? My body doesn't think so.

I've been breaking out worse almost every day but I would say that is my worst pregnancy symptom.

Fatigue is low. Nausea is low. Peeing is up.. but that's not terribly inconvenient since it's something I did everyday before.

And what else? We are getting ready to drive out to California for Thanksgiving! To save money on lodging we are opting for #HOTELPRIUS. It's gonna be awesome. We made window covers for privacy and we did a trial run. It was pretty dang exciting. Kaio even admitted that it was a good idea (finally! ;P)

These are all of our finished privacy windows. For prius stealth mode.

Practice run...

Practice run WITHOUT the flash.... O.O

Week 7: Doctor: "Don't get a big head"

Blaaah week. Some pregnancy symptoms settling in. It was noticeably harder to do crossfit this week. Taking more breaks, using lower weight, and not going too crazy. Working out does help me from getting crazy tired though, which is super nice.

At the end of the week, I had my first REAL doctors appointment where they stole my bits and made me feel altogether uncomfortable. She said everything looked great but that it was just a tiny bit too early to hear a heart beat. I guess I'll just have to wait til next month. Kaio made an appropriate amount of jokes, and most of them were while the doctor was not in the room, which is preferable.

Week 6: "You look cute! Happy Halloween"

First doctors appointment. Lots of questions. Genetic testing? Circumcision? Epidural? ....for real? I'm supposed to know all that crap right now?

It was a super long appointment. Mostly talking. The super fun part was the blood drawing. I was super nervous as a lovely asian lady came in to take my blood. I laid down and pretended it wasn't happening. After what seemed like a long while, I asked if it was done and the lady said yup! almost there. I look over at Kaio. Quietly, he shook his head and said no. *sigh*  I lived. It was fine.

On Thursday night, I stayed up way late working on my halloween costume. My sewing machine decided to blow up. Kaio was super nice and brought me things to help out. I eventually gave up on the sewing machine and just went for the hot glue instead. And it worked out great.

Don't mind the no makeups.. I put it on once I got to work.

I sent out my costume to all the family and the grandmas were the first to respond. It was adorable because they didn't quite get the reference and just told me that I looked cute like wonderful lil grandmas. It was so fun to get floods of love and support from everybody.

At work, our costume contest was at 9am. That was a long hour! But super fun to see friends and coworkers get so excited about it!

In the afternoon, I posted the news on facebook and got even more love and support from friends and family!

We had Trunk or Treat that night for church. A friend (and avid facebook user ;) made the news widespread before we got there so there were lots of hugs upon our arrival. :) And I like hugs.

Week 5: Steve is a no-show

Oct 20.

(WOW. YAY!)

Okay, so I marked my calendar for when my friend Steve was supposed to arrive this month. Steve is pretty consistent. I can rely on that guy to definitely show up on a specific day, sometimes even down to the hour, which is his main virtue. But not today. No Steve.

I spent about an hour when I went to bed that night about how accurate home pregnancy tests are. Pretty much everybody said if you can stand to wait a day after you miss you will get a good result. Test in the morning, blah blah blah. Okay. So I knew I could do it the next day.

BFP:

Everybody talks about the big fat negative. Which does suck. But I'm gonna take a minute here to say WHOOP for the Big Fat Positives in the world. I peed on my little purple indicator (and really the whole stick because I was nervous) and set it down to think about it. Once I set the two minute timer on my phone I tried to keep my eyeballs occupied but I don't think I even lasted 30 seconds before I snuck a little peak at the stick. But before I did, I made sure to tell myself, hey, it's not done yet, and even if it is a negative, it is what it is supposed to be. So when I glanced over and saw a very prominent, very certain + positive + I nearly screamed! What? Neat!

I took a picture of the positive after the timer was up and neatly disposed of the pee stick. And then, what? Went about my day like nothing happened? Yes. Awful. Had to go to work and pretend that I was incredibly cheerful because I woke up on the good side of the bed today. I did lie that day. I told Kaio and Deidre that Steve had come and gone. No baby for this month.
 I had to lie to Deidre because she pretty well knew when my period was supposed to come partially because she is nosy ;) but mostly because she is super excited that we were trying to get pregnant.
I lied to Kaio because I was afraid he would start asking questions or get suspicious while he was gone in San Fran. And I really wanted to surprise him and tell him in person!

It was only three days from the time I found out to the time Kaio came home so I had a chance to do some fun "reveal" things for him. I but a hamburger bun in our oven. I made a cute little paper oven that I put a mini bun in. Also, I realized that I happened to have two elephants and two teddy bears hanging around the house so I bought little babies for them and put them around the house.

Kaio came home and Friday and noticed the teddy bears but didn't ask why they were there. Much MUCH later that night, he decided that he wanted something sweet. When he looked at the oven for inspiration, he noticed there was something in the oven.
"DID YOU PUT THIS HERE?"
"What is it?"
"There is a bun in the oven, did you put it here?"
"No, did you?"
.....
"Jessica, is there a bun in the oven?!?"

Aaaaand, then he lost control. The first emotions were mostly anger and confusion. Once he found out that he was the only one who knew, the happiness and excitement sunk in. We went out for a treat to celebrate and it was a really fun weekend.

Week 1-4:

These weeks aren't real in the whole scheme of things. Kaio was gone for my two week wait,  so it seemed to last forever. Like usual.

So I just went about my business, trying to pretend I wasn't dying until the two weeks were up. My only maybe hint that I was pregnant was that I nearly puked before a company softball game. I really did feel like hey, maybe this is the month but it isn't fair to say that I knew anything was coming for sure... considering how many times I've "cried pregnant" and prematurely peed on sticks. FOR SOME REASON early pregnancy symptoms are almost exactly the same as period symptoms. So you can't blame me if I "for sure" thought I was pregnant on those months where I forgot to take my birth control pills one or two (or three or four) days in a row!

Think happy thoughts. waiting waiting waiting.