30 Weeks Pregnant... Happy Spring!

Baby is over a foot long now and should weigh around 3 whole pounds! That's almost 50% of the average birth weight, but it feels much heavier when you're only using your uterus to carry that instead of your hands. I'm starting to get that "breaking pelvis" feeling again... baby must be growing very fast now!

I have waited for so long to be 30 weeks pregnant. I don't know why; I just knew that my belly would be big after that for sure and that I'd want maternity photos done around that time. We have all kinds of plans for pictures, but I'm more excited to just be taking care of me intensively for the next 8 weeks. I plan to buy myself some dresses and shoes to get me through the rest of Spring, stock up on mommy supplies and make sure I feel pretty.
In other mommy-news, I am experiencing a revival of the first trimester via my stomach. I'm puking still of course, but instead of only eating cereal-fruit-mac'n'cheese I am eating cereal-fruit-supreme pizza. And sometimes ice cream. OK a lot of times, ice cream. It's all I want all the time, and I'm going to let myself eat it.

Everything plan-wise is coming together for the baby and it's time to let it fall into place. Shawn and I are changing so much as people. He talks to the baby and kisses my belly good-bye in the morning when he leaves for work and I can tell he doesn't feel as silly for doing it now as he maybe did 10 weeks ago. I even read aloud, which is something I hate doing, to the baby. I bought him or her one of my favorite Little Golden Books The Shy Little Kitten while gathering some pregnant-munchies at the store yesterday. I want to read it to the baby now so that s/he knows the story when s/he gets here. I think it just put him or her to sleep yesterday but I really enjoyed rubbing my belly and telling the baby a story my parents used to read me over and over.

The rest of the month we'll be painting and starting baby classes! Yay!!!