Belly pics and vents

Pregnancy pics! I was planning on using Photoshop to add the info for the first pic but that seems like way too much work since my Photoshop is on the HP and we never use that anymore.

12 weeks!

16 weeks! I'm pretty excited that the chalkboard is finally finished.

I'm feeling fine, I still take something at night for nausea but I can tell it's not as bad as it was. I'm frustrated that I was so sick for the first 3 months. I know I shouldn't worry about weight but it's annoying that I only got to experience being skinny for like *maybe* a month before getting pregnant and having stupid cravings for salty carbs and being too sick to clean the house much less exercise. Because of that the slightest work out wears me out. I still crave what I consider to be "bad" foods and I still have to force down fruit and veggies but I'm trying to work on portion control a little bit (you know, like not taking a second helping when I'm really not hungry but it just tastes so good, that sort of thing). I was so SO hungry all the time in the first, we'll say 4 months because only now am I starting to feel semi-normal. At least normal when it comes to eating, which is a relief. I gained too much at first and I was worried about if the hunger continued the whole time what that would do to me, I don't want to be unhealthy, not to mention we're on track to win a week long trip to Hawaii through Primerica just 3 months after I have this baby and I refuse to look like a whale. I think about weight way more often with this pregnancy than I did with Sophie because as some of you know I had stupid hormone issues that wouldn't allow me to lose the baby weight (and the stress eating weight from the 3 months I was living in SLC and eating out for every meal), and like I said, I only JUST lost the weight RIGHT before getting pregnant again so I'm more than a little obsessed and self conscious. I'm very open about it though as you can see. That also means that it's ok, even encouraged, to say that I look pregnant! You have no idea how many people have told me that I barely look pregnant. I carry straight out so that's not a compliment to me. To me it's saying that you think I'm just fat because how could I have a gut like that and not be fat so it's OK to tell me I look pregnant!! Phew I'm done with my rant. I've been doing a lot of that lately. My poor hubs gets to hear all of it....over and over again. Oh well, this will pass I'm sure. We have a basic doctors appointment on June 19 and an appointment with MFM (High Risk) on the 26th and that's when we'll find out what we're having.

More catching up-bike rides/ice cream/face painting

The beginning of many, many bike rides. We thought it'd be fun to go on the trail by the river but there were too many walkers. It was too stop-and-go. After that we've just been sticking around our neighborhood.

Just chillin'

Enjoying our new scooter! Sophie LOVES riding around the block!

Chalk graffiti! Her favorite thing was coloring over my drawings. Little stink.

So much fun making such a mess!

Ice cream!!

Her first ice cream cone! That's a small?!

 We took Sophie to an Up-2-Three event at the community center for face painting. While waiting our turn a nice mom was blowing bubbles for Sophie. She started out leaning against Coden's legs and was soon standing on her own, Coden backed away and she had no idea, she stood like that for a loooong time.....also clutching her nose. Don't know why she's so into that lately. Wish confidence in standing and walking was something we could teach her. I hope one of these days she just starts doing it.

We had the lady paint her arm instead. Most likely Sophie wouldn't have let her anywhere near her face.

Glittery butterfly wing on one arm...

Rainbow on the other.

Then we played at the park.

Aquarium and Zoo in April

So I'm going to play catch up really fast. I can't remember exactly when it was that we went to Salt Lake for Verizon but I'm going to guess it was in April sometime. Coden had been asked to help out at the Sugar House VZ store while they were short handed so they sent us down, put us up in a nice big room at the Double Tree Hotel and Sophie and I got to enjoy the area while Coden was working. One of the days I contacted my cousin Lena and we went to the aquarium in....Layton? I really need to learn the surrounding cities.

Here's a picture of Lena and Sophie. Sophie was such a wiggle worm!

Sophie loved looking at these fish.

Didn't care too much about the sharks though.

Or the turtle...

Or the penguins...

This penguin kept swimming around almost like it was trying to get her attention, but she was more interested in the box she was standing on...

The penguin liked her more than she liked him, I think.

It was a great day to go because it was the middle of the week and so not too many people there, and the animals were actually out and performing. Not that Sophie cared much but it was really cool to see.


The next day Sophie and I went on a Mommy-Daughter date to the Hogle Zoo. It was also perfect timing because it was so dead and the animals there were also out and about for us to see. The best had to be the seals, pretty sure they were trying to mate....well the male was (I assume) and the female was shutting him down pretty hard. Hope my video of it shows up ok on here.

These were the two seals I was talking about. They later moved their fighting underwater and we got a good show.

This seal here kept swimming and spinning right in front of us, showing off.

This one's cute, it's like they're looking at each other.

I have a video of these bears too I'll have to find. There were 3 huge cubs running around in circles chasing each other. So cute! Once again couldn't get Sophie to look at them. She was more interested in the baby next to us.

Sophie's first carousel ride! We were the only ones on there.

She hated every minute of it. Maybe if dad goes with us next time she'll like it.

Sophie and the orangutan having a silent discussion.

She likes to push the stroller all by herself. :)

I'm still new at this so I'm hoping these videos posted ok. There's one of the seals "playing", another of the seals playing underwater right in front of Sophie, one of those cute playful cubs and one of a peacock strutting across a bridge. Don't know why I thought it was funny but for some reason it was.