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I'mma ramble a bit about some things. >___<
To start off with, I just had a really nice conversation with Joshua's stepmom about how I'm still nursing Emy. It was really nice to have a family member be 100% supportive of that. I know my mom thinks it's kind of weird that she's still nursing at 3 and I don't plan to intentionally wean her- but I mean, why would I? She doesn't nurse often, it's a lifesaver when she's sick, and it's super healthy and good for her. So, anyway, yes. We've made it through the milk drying up, that was rough, and now we're back to normal. NGL I am stoked that I might not have the initial adjustment pain with new baby B. :)
On the pregnancy note, holy crap this one is going so much differently than hers. Hyperemesis aside, now that we've gotten far enough into the pregnancy that it {mostly} lurks beneath the surface, I feel SO. MUCH. BETTER. than I did at this point with Emy- and I really attribute that to diet and maintaining a really strict Pilates regimen. As long as I'm not puking my guts out, I work out, either at home or at in a class at the studio, 6 days a week, and it's been amazing. By this point with Emy I had severe back pain almost constantly. This time? totally fine. We even spent the day at the Aquarium {Joshua's mom got us a membership for Christmas!!!!}, and no back pain, even with chasing Emy around and wearing her in the hiking backpack! {lol I got some funny looks for having my 3 year old in a backpack carrier while pregnant hahaha}. I never would have been able to have done that much walking at this point in Emy's pregnancy
My weight gain has been really solid this time around, too. The hyperemesis caused me to drop about 12lbs early on, once I got on regular Zofran I curtailed the rapid loss and maintained there. I was really bad, diet-wise Thanksgiving week and gained 5lbs back, but otherwise I've only got two weeks left in the second trimester and I'm holding steady there. I'm hoping to maintain that through the second trimester and to gain no more than 10lbs in the 3rd. I'm actually starting to look more like *myself* again. I'm really hopeful that after I have the baby I can maintain the regimen and hopefully actually LOSE weight and get back to a NORMAL weight. With any luck maybe my boobs will even shrink down? >__< {wishful thinking I"m sure, but M cups blow, seriously}
In other news, we move onto post in three weeks. Moving sucks. >___< I'm over it and I've barely dented the packing. Herp derp. >__> However, tomorrow our last family leaves from holiday visits and then I can just start packing up anything we don't use on a daily basis. I'm thinking about doing the PODS type of thing? Then we could just load every day. I could pack a room each day and Joshua can load them up when he gets home. It would make at least the loading up portion of the move much more leisurely, then we could use a hitch and haul the actual little units ourselves to unpack them- maybe one each day there too? IDK, I need to do more research. I'm really nervous about the move itself, because for almost all of January Joshua's on special assignment to help photograph the Inaugural activities. Apparently the normal unit attached to the White House will be focusing on "the boss"'s social engagements and Joshua's unit will be doing all the official functions? But he has no idea what his schedule will be and I'm getting stressed that he won't have the day we are supposed to actually MOVE off. >__> Hopefully it all works out okay. In theory all the official activities should be during normal business hours
Here's a photo from Christmas, for funsies. My little princess is very very into her tiara she got, lol. Her other favorite seems to be her small Tinkerbell and Periwinkle dolls she got {the set has a ton of little dresses to put them in, she's OBSESSED}. She took them to the aquarium today and Peri had a grand adventure to the bottom of one of the turtle pools in the rainforest section. >______< Emy completely wigged out and melted down entirely. The staff, however, seemed to be quite prepared for this kind of major tragedy and rescued the pixie from her watery grave with the use of a long claw thing, lolol. It was a grand adventure.
Anywho. Enough babbling from me, I should head to bed in case miss didn't-nap-today decides to be her true non-sleeping self and have a big party from 1-4am, so I can get some sleep *first.* :) Night dears