Matt and I love Halloween but not because we like to get dressed up. Instead, we look forward to cute little ones coming to our door in costumes they are so proud of. Matt bought enough candy to feed our entire neighborhood, adults included. It was our first Halloween in our house so we weren't quite sure what volume of spider-men and princesses to prepare for. Our neighborhood is what some call a "mature" neighborhood. Most of our neighbors are older couples with grown children and sometimes grandchildren. It's pretty quiet and I don't often see many little ones running around. We did have a boy who came by one day asking me to buy something from his fund raiser catalogue. He wasn't exactly the salesman but I figured I would help him out and bought $10 worth of stuff from him. The next day, Matt saw the boy and his family loading up a U-Haul- they were moving! I'm pretty confident I got hustled by a child.
Anyway, we did get a few trick or treaters by the house. By the middle of the night, I realized we had drastically overestimated our child to candy ratio so I was giving it out by the handfuls. We still managed to have quite a bit leftover so I took it to work today. Food never lasts long at a police station.
Last weekend Mr. G and I went to a costume party celebrating the engagement of a wonderful couple that is friends of the Gross family. Matt insisted we go as a beer drinking German couple which was great, until we found I am preggo. So he was a beer drinking German, and I was just a German (or a "germ" as our neice called us). All the excitement had me worn out by about 9:30- this little bambino inside me is taking every ounce of energy I have!
Pregnancy Update:
I am now approximately 7 weeks along and our little guy/girl is the size of a blueberry! This week he is starting to grow hands! So far I have managed to escape any vomitting. Occasionally something I eat will just "sit funny" and make me feel a little queesy but if I just give it 15 minutes or so, it will feel a lot better. The hardest thing has been dealing with the exhaustion. I always feel like I have been awake for days. Most days, I need at least one nap (two or even three if I am lucky!) to make it through the day. Beginning this Sunday, Matt and I are going to try to take measurements and pictures of my belly each week. I can't wait for the baby bump! 4 days until we get to hear the heartbeat!
Anyway, we did get a few trick or treaters by the house. By the middle of the night, I realized we had drastically overestimated our child to candy ratio so I was giving it out by the handfuls. We still managed to have quite a bit leftover so I took it to work today. Food never lasts long at a police station.
Last weekend Mr. G and I went to a costume party celebrating the engagement of a wonderful couple that is friends of the Gross family. Matt insisted we go as a beer drinking German couple which was great, until we found I am preggo. So he was a beer drinking German, and I was just a German (or a "germ" as our neice called us). All the excitement had me worn out by about 9:30- this little bambino inside me is taking every ounce of energy I have!
Pregnancy Update:
I am now approximately 7 weeks along and our little guy/girl is the size of a blueberry! This week he is starting to grow hands! So far I have managed to escape any vomitting. Occasionally something I eat will just "sit funny" and make me feel a little queesy but if I just give it 15 minutes or so, it will feel a lot better. The hardest thing has been dealing with the exhaustion. I always feel like I have been awake for days. Most days, I need at least one nap (two or even three if I am lucky!) to make it through the day. Beginning this Sunday, Matt and I are going to try to take measurements and pictures of my belly each week. I can't wait for the baby bump! 4 days until we get to hear the heartbeat!
Things I have learned (continued):
Pregnant women can sleep anywhere, under any conditions- they can sleep in a car, they can sleep at a bar, they can sleep in chairs, they can sleep on stairs, they can sleep in the nude, they can sleep off a bad mood! The fact that a woman's breasts get larger during pregnancy may seem cool. It's not. They hurt. Stories about sweet babies will make a pregnant woman cry (thanks for the books Leslie!). Being pregnant may not entitle you to back massages whenever you'd like them, but it does earn you one every other day (thanks honey!).
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| My in-laws. It's been great seeing them so much lately! |
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| My husband, his sexy legs, and our nephew, Austin the skeleton. |
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| Allie the witch and Austin the skeleton! |
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| A pregnant woman's breakfast and lunch. |
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