Sorry for not updating recently. Not too much has been going on here, but I'll give you the highlights:
1. I went to my OB last week, and we heard Little Peanut's heartbeat immediately this time, which was wonderful! The heartrate was good, and we're scheduled to find out the sex on March 2. We can't wait!! Luckily I had only gained one pound in the past four weeks. Now, some of you may be thinking that's not very much, but considering I gained TEN pounds from weeks 7-11, I'd say that one pound was sufficient.
2. I am...knock on wood...finally feeling much, much better. I don't want to use the term "back to normal" because, as many of you know, when you're pregnant, there is no such thing as "normal"! But the nausea is less prevalent, so that's great news!
3. Abby is SO excited about this baby. She gets giddy when she sees my baby bump and says, "Mommy's tummy's gettin' bigger!" So cute! However, she is DEAD SET on having a girl. If you ask her, she demands that it be a girl. Last week she even told me in a very stern voice, "I don't want a boy like baby Clarky (her cousin); I want a girl like Molly (her Nana and Papa's dog)"! Oy. We told her that God might have put a baby boy in Mommy's tummy, but that just made her mad. We've decided not to press it much further until we find out what we're having. If it's a boy, God help us all when it comes to The Wrath of Abby! :)
4. Abby is OBSESSED with princesses at the moment. She HAS to wear her Cinderella dress and glass slippers every day. In fact, she wears her glass slippers all day around the house. And because of her obsession with all things Cinderella, she only wears one glass slipper. Sometimes she makes me be the Prince and yell after her about her lost glass slipper. Many times a week you can find her with a shirt, diaper and glass slippers. (She likes to take off her pants a lot. When we ask her why, she simply replies, "I'm too hot in my pants.") We pick our battles. :)
5. Speaking of Cinderella dress, hers was thrown away this weekend in Longview. Of course, it had to make the trip with us to see the grandparents, but Abby started getting sick when we rolled into town, and on Saturday night, while wearing her favorite dress, she threw up all over it. It was not salvagable. Trust me. So now she tells me, "My other dress yucky. We need to buy a new one." And oh, how we have perused online at "beautiful" Cinderella dresses.
6. Abby's new favorite word is "Beautiful." I love this.
7. Abby has been So, So, So unbelievably good lately. I don't want to jinx myself, but she has been such a joy to be around. I hear that 3 is worse than 2, but I'm hoping that doesn't ring true.
8. The second I start thinking about potty training, I have a panic attack. I'm thinking Spring Break would be a good time to do this while we're at home. Also, we plan on moving Abby to a Big Girl bed soon. I feel like she is growing up SO fast; while I know these transitions need to come, it all seemed to have come in a flash.
9. I feel like the next couple of months are the calm before the storm. I feel pretty good right now, but oh a' change is comin'! I'm trying to soak up all the time I have with Roo right now before Little Peanut comes and our lives and schedules are changed.
That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure there's much more, but my brain is fried. I hope you all have a wonderful week. Try to stay warm! :)
And here's me today, at 17 weeks. Am I starting to look pregnant? I must admit, though, that my belly has been known in the past to swell to this size after a particularly good meal at On The Border. :) Only this time, it's full of amniotic fluid and not chips and salsa.
Thank goodness for finally feeling good and actually starting to look pregnant. When I was pregnant with Abby, it amazed me at how nice strangers were to me. Doors were held open, people smiled, etc. I, however, also walked into a lot of doors and seemed to get more forgetful as the weeks continued on. Hmmm. The highs and lows of expecting! :) 
