Well, we are heading out in a couple of hours to go tell everyone that someone has crashed Christmas this year! We are so excited to finally share our news!! Can't wait to see the reactions either. I'll make a point to note who cries, screams or just plain tells us we are INSANE for doing this again!

Suitcases are all packed, just have to wait on little rugrat to wake up from his nap and we will be off to GA! I'm thrilled to be able to experience a pregnancy near family this time too. Very excited about that. We'll have to schedule a 3-D ultrasound for the grandparents to come to too!

Well, I gotta go eat lunch real quick and then we will load the car. We are coming...and someone new is coming too!!

Both literally and figuratively. I've had non-stop headaches this week. I remember those from last time too, but that doesn't make them any more pleasant. They are not as nagging as last time though, so I guess my body is adjusting better to this round of hormone onslaught!

As for the other headache...that happened yesterday with the Christmas pictures (see William's website for details on what everyone but me thinks is a funny story!) But even though I won't necessarily look back fondly on the picture experience, I will always look back fondly on the picture. My face looks pregnant in it, even though I'm just over 7 weeks...I can tell! I wonder if everyone else will be able too... Guess it doesn't really matter, this is how I'm telling my side anyway.

Ian wants to take pictures of the pregnancy test for his side. I think we will get a few blank stares from the men, but the women will clue them in. I can't believe that by this time next week, everyone will know! It's about time!! I'm going crazy over here!!

No new symptoms to report really except that my tastes are changing again. This happened with William...things just tasted different. Not bad, but not how they were supposed to taste. When I eat mac and cheese, I get a metallic after taste. Eating some teryaki chicken a couple of nights ago...it just seemed more bland than usual. Oh well, this phase doesn't last long and I've been really fortunate on the nausea side. By this time last pregnancy, I was down for the count every evening. Now I just get mild flare ups that are over the minute I get something in my stomach. I'm still pretty dizzy and light headed most of the time. Can't rush around and do too much at once. It always knocks me for a loop. I look forward to visiting with family and letting them entertain a toddler while I sit back and snack. Hey...have to eat for the baby.

Man, things are just happening quicker this time around. I know I was told they would, but you just don't believe it until it happens! I can't fit into a single bra anymore, and I'm not even at a full 2 months yet. That didn't happen last time until 6 months! My pants are now basically unbuttoned from lunch to bedtime, just gets too full and tight. Oh sure, I close them in public, but the minute I'm in the car...it all hangs loose!

The one thing that isn't  moving faster is time! This time next week, we will be packing up the car to head to Atlanta for Christmas!! And....TELLING EVERYONE!! I hope they don't take one look at me and just KNOW. Some people have a pregnancy eye for these things. I'm going to have to wear something baggy and pray they just think I'm fat and bloated...which I'm getting to be!

On another note, it's been two days and NO queasiness at all! I've been forcing myself to eat small snacks at two hour intervals and I'm taking a prenatal vitamin that helps with fatigue and morning sickness. It's working wonders at the moment! Loving life! I'm making pepper steak tonight for dinner...everything sounds yummy to me again! Yay...Food!! Come Christmas dinner!

Oops...it's been awhile. Our wireless router is having some issues it seems, so I will update now...and it will probably be long, so bear with me please.

OK, had a doctor's appointment on Monday and everything seems fine and is on schedule. Shame that I really like this doctor too, since I will only be seeing her one more time before we move. She just recently had her second baby a few months ago, so it's nice to have someone that really has been there recently and can understand. Ian was home with William since it was nap time, so no ultrasound for viability. We scheduled that for Jan 7th at 3:30 and all of us will go! William was about that age when we went to see him too, so that's a nice week! My blood pressure is already down to 91/59 and I am now on a small bottle (8oz) Coke a day in the morning. Coke never tastes quite as good as when you are pregnant...I don't know why that is...but it really just hits the spot. And it makes me feel so much better by upping my BP even just a few notches higher. My uterus is measuring 6 - 8 weeks, which she said was normal for a second baby to "get bigger quicker". And I'm definitely feeling bigger quicker! I can barely button my pants in the evening...now I know most of that is food and water from the day, but man it's quite uncomfortable!

The dreams have started up too. When I was pregnant with William I had some of the most vivid dreams due to the crazy hormone rush. I had a few before we tested, but discounted it to the stress of selling a house and moving. But nope, it was hormones. My dream last night involved going out to dinner with Ian and ordering a beer. I drank it and then got mad at Ian for not telling me I was pregnant before I ordered it! Then I went to White Water with my childhood buddy Jeff Langston and then on to a hotel with my old friends Janet and Melissa Arrant (whom I have not seen since 10th grade). The hotel looked a lot like the one we stayed at in Toronto when we went up there our freshman year....Who knows? They just keep me entertained.

I remember having dreams about William's gender. I had two dreams about him being a girl actually. Then on the final dream I had about him, the doctor delivered a baby and Ian announced "It's a girl". The doctor cut the umbilical cord and pushed it in. Out popped weeny and the doctor said, Nope...it's a boy! All of my dreams about William were in the first trimester. I wonder if I'll have dreams about this little peppercorn (that's our nickname for the baby by the way) since I've been craving spicy and s/he is that size right now. My mom dreamed about both me and my brother. Just makes you wonder about a woman's intuition...

Food...that's already changed since we last talked. Back to the not liking vegetables again. Though I'm actually craving some at the moment.... I feel great in the mornings! Last time I felt bad. Now it hits me the late afternoon or if I've gone too long without eating. It doesn't have be a meal or anything...just have to snack every two hours so I don't get blah. Haven't really had any nausea yet, but it's early. Most of mine is whoozie (probably from my blood pressure) or just off when I'm not eating enough.

Still have cravings, but they are more specific this time around and now I have food AVERSIONS! And those change daily it seems. Tuesday night I made a small salad to go with my ravioli...couldn't finish it. Last night I got a huge taco salad with chicken and the works from MOE's...and I wanted more! Some of my old friends are still my standbys. When I'm not hungry, but know I need to eat something or I'll feel gross: Cheezits, peanut butter crackers, popcorn and Triscuits with cream cheese. Or if I've gone too long with out eating anything, those always put me right as rain in a matter of minutes. This bout doesn't seem to be as intense, especially since I've never felt the urge to throw up yet. And cinnamon gum is my gun of choice if I think smells or sights will bother me...like when I'm grocery shopping. No peppermint this time around.

Well, I think I've rambled on long enough. I need to start wrapping presents since little nutter butter is sleeping...oooh...nutter butters! I know where I'm going once he wakes up!