So, apparently I got a little ahead of myself when counting my weeks. Everything is still so up in the air when it comes to my due date, that I am sure I will have to change my new, handy-dandy pregnancy tracker at least once. How do you like it? Neat, huh?

Well, I am still getting pretty sick when I go too long without eating. This pregnancy seems different than my pregnacy with Emmaline, but, unfortunately, I wasn't very good about journaling how I was feeling or what I was going through with Emmaline. I definitely don't remember being this hungry all the time, nor this tired this early on. Speaking of hunger, I could really go for some food right now!

I have jokingly stated that I wonder if I am having twins since I seem to be eating myself out of house and home, and have already had to start wearing my maternity pants. I know my second pregnancy is going to be different than the first, since I will start showing earlier, but it is still kind of weird. In a few weeks we should be able to hear the baby's heartbeat, and a few weeks after that will be the ultrasound, so I guess we'll know for sure eventually!

Well, I made it through the day today without a nap, but I'm fading quickly. Still, that's pretty good, considering how last week was going. I felt a lot better nauseous wise today. I wasn't as bloated today. Yea! I had yogurt for breakfast, and I am wondering if that was what helped. So far I seem to crave cold, fresh food, such as frozen fruit and yogurt smoothies, pears and peanut butter, salads, so forth and so on. I have a strong aversion to anything sweet. Pretty much the same things I lived on while pregnant with Emmaline.

My sister asked me if I was dreading this labor at the end of this pregnancy because of the labor experience I had with Emmaline, and I told her, "No". However, I woke up last night in a drowzy panic, remembering my labor and realizing I might have to go through the same harrowing experience. Then I got up this morning and read a portion of the book I have been reading with my sisters and mother called "Lies Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. (Any Christian woman reading this now, I would highly recommend you check out this book!) The passage I read today was about how God's grace is sufficient. God's grace is sufficient for every circumstance, and if we would only accept the difficulties we experience as a chance to become better, a chance to shine God's grace, we might actually enjoy the difficulties. God never brings us to a point in our lives where His grace is not sufficient for the task ahead. That is very reassuring, isn't it?

I cried as I read that, knowing that God had seen my fears and apprehensions and He used that book and authoress to speak to my heart and reassure my soul. Labor will be hard, but I have so much to look forward to, before and after. I get to experience the joy of feeling life move around in my womb; I get the distinct privilege to get to know our child before he/she is even born; I get to bond with my child and watch his/her personality unfold after birth. God has blessed me with another opportunity to be "Mother". What an honor!

(Plus, I'm praying that God will make this labor and delivery completely different than Emmaline's!)

So, I am supposedly six weeks pregnant, according to the date of my last cycle. I don't think I am truly that far along, but I guess we'll find out as time goes on.

So far I am already feeling exhausted. I took an hour and a half long nap today and am still ready to go to sleep at 8:30. At least the nap helped me make it through the afternoon.

I am experiencing most of the same symptoms of pregnancy as I did with Emmaline. I am bloated and gassy (sometimes looking like I am already three or four months along), hungry yet queasy because I am so bloated and gassy. I'm supposed to eat protein more regularly to help ease the hunger and the bloating, but I haven't been very good about it yet. I don't remember feeling this tired this soon with Emmaline, but maybe that is because I have Emmaline now. I don't know. I do hope the exhaustion lets up, though.

So, after having called all my side of the family to let them know of our newly expected bambino, it was time to tell Lucia and Michael. I decided to paint "I'm going to be a BIG SISTER!" on a shirt for Emmaline and have her wear it to Lucia's, since Lucia was going to watch Emmaline for us the very day after we found out I was pregnant. Here's the video:


There's supposed to be an "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!! OH MY GOD!!" at the end there, but I accidentally stopped recording when Lucia hugged me, so that got cut off.