Twelve Weeks.

I keep wanting to come up with a nickname for the baby on the blog, well and in real life, too, but Baby Skinny sounds really weird, so I don't like that. What did you call your baby when it was in utero?

Guess you guys don't like guessing games with my kindergarten picture, so I'll tell you which one I am. Left half of the class, front row, 3rd from the left. Don't I look sexy with my strap falling off my shoulder?  Party poopers :)

Whew! 12 weeks already, the first trimester is just flying by, but I'm still trying to appreciate every day and take it one day at at time. Marveling in the miracle that is growing a child. 

How Baby's Growing:

"You are 12 weeks pregnant. (fetal age 10 weeks)

• The fetus is now about 2.5 inches (6cm) length and weighs about 0.7 ounce (20 g).
• The feet are almost half an inch (1cm) long.
• The fetus starts moving spontaneously.
• The face is beginning to look like a baby's face.
• The pancreas is functioning and producing insulin.
• Fingernails and toenails appear.
• The baby can suck his thumb, and get hiccups.

From this week you may well be able to hear the baby's heart beat through a doppler monitor on your tummy. You will notice that the rate is up to 160 a minute, double that of a normal adult.


Your baby now has a chin and a nose and a facial profile. Vocal chords are complete, and the baby can and does sometimes cry silently. The brain is fully formed, and the baby can also feel pain. The fetus may even suck his thumb.


The eyelids now cover the eyes, and will remain shut until the seventh month to protect the delicate optical nerve fibers. The hair is on the head and the fingers and toes have developed soft nails. The kidneys are developed and begin to secrete urine.

Your baby weighs between 0.5 and 0.7 ounce (14 to 20g), and crown-to-rump length is almost 2.5 inches (63mm). Your baby's size has almost doubled in the past 3 weeks.

The 12 weeks scan [10 weeks fetal age] above shows a very active fetus. The mother who can not feel these movements; belly laughs, as she looks at the screen and can see her tiny baby kicking out."

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Momma's Thoughts:

Holy macaroni! Knowing that my son or daughter's feet are almost half an inch made me smile from ear to ear. The fruit comparison that baby center uses each week doesn't really make me "aww" but an example like that definitely hits hard. Also, knowing that the baby can cry makes me want to give him/her a hug! Amazing how something so small is already so developed. And look at that ultrasound! It's not mine, I just borrowed it from the website, but wow! I know it's not necessarily true that my baby is that active, but I am in such awe! How can a mother not feel that? Craziness! 

How I'm Changing:

"Morning" sickness is just about gone, I think. I actually laid in bed on Monday past the normal dry heaving stage of hunger and it went away and I was just hungry. So I thought that was pretty exciting. My appetite is coming back, along with my interest of cooking again which I've missed so very much. My mom's missed that, too. She hates cooking, but she's been a good sport of helping out for the past few weeks. 

Baby must be moving off my bladder, too. I can almost sleep through the night again! Oh how I've missed sleeping through the night. I'm usually up one or twice, but that's so much better than upwards of 5+ times a night. 

12 week picture first thing in the morning.

When I weighed myself on Friday, I was up the pound that I lose the week before, so I'm back to +2.2 pounds, which I am very proud of so far. My wardrobe is still shrinking, but I've bought a couple maternity shirts to cope with that, and I'm going to be borrowing my cousin's whenever I can get down to see her. I'm in maternity jeans every day, but they're so comfortable, I don't mind one bit. 

I think I've been fighting off a cold for the past few weeks too. Tis the season for that. My brother is full out sick, and my mom thinks she's been fighting something. So far (knock on wood), my body has been pretty good at fighting it off, and I'm hoping that continues. I've been trying to wash my hands frequently and long enough, and not touch my face, but it's hard! 

My acne is still bothering me, and that's something I don't think I've talked about. I've always had pretty bad acne, but it went away while I was birth control. Once I got off, it came back and hasn't gone away since. I'm hoping this is signs of a girl, but who knows. Speaking of the baby's sex, I have a post in mind about whether we want or don't want to find out the sex of the baby. Maybe next week I'll write that. 

Much more awake in this picture.

What I'm Eating:


I mentioned that my appetite is coming back, but I still have a main focus on carbs. Meat has been sneaking back in, but not too much, and still not ground beef. Veggies and fruits aren't too much of enemies anymore, however it's hard when I'm still missing all those delicious farmers markets fruits and veggies. I've been craving watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries, but I don't trust buying them from the store out of season. What's a pregnant lady to do?


I had a craving, well still do, for a big soft chocolate chip cookie. When we were at the store on Sunday, I saw a box of them, so I just had to grab them and I took them to my in-laws because I was making dinner for everyone there. My father-in-law saw the cookies and asked where they came from and I had to tell him that I had a craving for them, so I got them and he asked if he could open them. I said sure and between the two of us, I'm pretty sure we polished off nearly the entire box. But they were little cookies, so not exactly what I wanted. I've been wanting to make cookies, but I know I shouldn't eat the raw egg, so I need to make vegan cookies, but I'm a little leery they won't taste the same. Any suggestions on recipes?


One good thing that's been sneaking back into my diet (and by diet, I mean the food I eat)...

Ignore the Budweiser glass. I don't even know where
this came from. No one drinks in my family!

Yes! Green monsters! Okay, well I made one and it was delicious. I tried to make one the next day and it was nasty. Fail. I think I put too many chia seeds in the second one, and it was too thick, I had to toss it. I used a half a scoop of my brother's protein powder for some extra nutrients, but he warned me that night that he didn't know if the creatine in it would be okay for the baby. So looks like I'm going to have to buy my own regular protein powder then. 


Not that this is healthy, but with all the rain we've gotten this week, I've been craving hot beverages, too, so I made some peppermint hot chocolate this morning and it was delicious and just what I wanted! 

How I'm Moving:


Last week I was good, walking 3 days and even doing yoga! This week, I'm using the excuse of fighting off something to go for a walk. Granted, the cold, dreary weather hasn't been helping either! Mr. Skinny keeps getting on my butt for not exercising, but it's hard from now until say April :) I know it's only hurting me if I don't exercise though. I get bored with walks, I feel like that's not a good enough workout even though I get out of breath. 

Walking with the doggie.

Momma's Feelings:


I feel better as each week goes by and everything feels good. I love feeling my bump, I've caught myself rubbing it multiple times a day. I can just stare at it and wonder about the person inside. I also feel more relaxed with how many people know now. I don't have to hide it from anyone. I told my 3 best friends from college this past week and they're all super excited for me. We have one more very important person to tell though, and that is Mr. Skinny maternal grandmother. She lives in Florida and will be up on Sunday for Thanksgiving. This will be her first great-grandchild and she's not even 70 yet! I'm super excited to tell her, and I'm so glad that everyone has kept it all a secret and we've gotten to tell who we wanted to on our terms. I get nervous for everyone we tell though. Just writing about telling Grandma is making my heart pound. I don't know why, I guess because I'm not sure what exactly they're going to say, even though I know they'll be super excited. Once it's out on FB, and my church knows (just one more week!) I will breathe a huge sigh of relief that that's over.

There are days where I get nervous about our financial situation - BTW, I've been graduated for six months, so all those awesome student loans are coming in, including ones I didn't really know about. Awesome. But I know that 1) God won't give us anything we can't handle, which gives me instant peace and 2) a loving family is so much more important than anything monetary. I'd rather have my family and love them than worry about having enough money to go on a yearly vacation or have the latest gadget, and I think God is trying to teach me that. We have a wonderful extended family and we will never go hungry and we will never be homeless, and we'll always have love.

Tell me:


Are you as amazed with that ultrasound as I am? 


What's your favorite hot beverage? Unless it's still warm where you are, then what's your favorite beverage right now?

I overate

In October, during Fall Break, I made a HUGE batch of my momma's homemade chicken noodle soup. I stuck it in the freezer. Well this weekend, I decided that the last big batch of it was just taking up too much space in the freezer and since we went to Costco, I needed that extra space. I took the soup out and we had it for dinner last night.

Well, I was a bit made at Mr. Skinny because he told me he was going to help his foreman cut a tree down quick - quick being the keyword here, folks. This was around 5 o'clock. Okay, no big deal, I'll make the noodles for the soup and just wait for him. 6 o'clock came, 6:30 came, 7 o'clock came. This is ridiculous!!! I text him and say I'm starving, where is he at? He just tells me to eat.

Fine. I'll eat. I won't be a nice wife and wait for my husband. And while I'm at it, I'll eat as much as I can so there's not much soup left. Yeah, bad idea. It didn't help that while I was waiting and starving, the noodles were calling my name something fierce. So I had a few spoonfuls of noodles. By the time I got around to eating the soup, I wasn't even that hungry. But it tasted SO good, and I wanted to deprive Mr. Skinny of eating too much of it. So I had two bowls. With croutons, and parmesan cheese (what? you don't put parmesan cheese on your chicken noodle soup?? you're missing out). It was glorious.

I didn't feel glorious though, I felt like garbage. Heck, I treated my body like a garbage. It wasn't pretty. Tuesday is my "peak day" and when I stepped on the scale this morning, it hated me. So I had to down as much water as I can today, and we'll see what the scale says in the morning.

It's a learning process. Last night was entirely emotional eating since I was mad at Mr. Skinny. I'll eventually learn not to do that. But come on, would you or could you say no to this...?

Happy Hump Day!

Wow, I can't believe it's Wednesday already! This week is already flying by and I can't believe it. Let's start with last weekend. Well, I had a blast, and I didn't really eat right at all. I didn't splurge like I would have, but I didn't really watch what I ate. We went to Olive Garden, oh yes, my weakness - pasta. I got grilled shrimp caprese, ate all the shrimp, and only about 1/2 of the pasta. I also had two helpings of salad, and breadsticks with alfredo sauce. Not as bad as I used to, but still, pretty bad.

I made dinner for my family, too, and although it was a WW-friendly dinner, I had two helpings, plus some leftovers late at night. I didn't get my GHGs in, and I didn't track anything on SP.

Follow through to Monday, I went to shadow a museum education program at a park, and I left my lunch in the car because I didn't know where to put it, and I ended up not eating lunch. Yeah, I know, not the brightest idea. With all that, I got home late which totally messed up my dinner plans. So what did I make? Pasta. Again, if you forgot in the minute it took you to read, pasta is my weakness. I had two plate-fulls, but I stopped myself from eating the rest and I took it for lunch yesterday. I ended up skipping class last night just so I could come home and run, and I successfully finished Week 6, Day 1, after my half-attempt on Saturday at home.

I am convinced that all this means that the scale will go up this week, and with it is the goal that I had set for myself, to loose 15 lbs. by Christmas. With this week's WI, even if I just maintain, I'm still 13 lbs. from that goal. Yes, it's still possible, but not realistic, especially with Thanksgiving in the mix. I'll keep running, that's for sure. I'm thinking that God got me started running to sort of, not turn off, but lower the baby fever that I've been having. I know that I can't run with a belly, and I realize that, and it's making me wait to have babies until I'm ready. Okay, now that I've said that I feel really selfish. Oh boy. Anywho, I'll keep running, and keep losing weight so that I can have them babies when the time is ready.

Attention: We have a NSV!

I am so proud of myself! I actually completed a full day of C25K!! Now I know that it's not a huge deal to some people, and honestly, I've done days that I couldn't finish and I would continue onto the next day anyways, even though I didn't successfully complete a day. But I did it! I can say that I totally completed Week 5, Day 1 successfully. I ran a total of 15 minutes, and walked a total of 16 minutes, burning around 170 calories.

My food today was not the greatest, but I'm kind of confident that the scale will be going down again tomorrow. I snuck a peek earlier in the week and I was down 3 lbs. from last week - see I told you that it wasn't my real weight - which is awesome.

I was within my points this week, I tracked just about everything, but I definitely did not overeat and not track it, that's for sure. This morning while I was at school I sit at a table on the second floor of our campus center, right above the fast food place. Well today, I smelled bacon. Now I don't normally crave bacon, but this morning, I just had to have it, so I gave into the craving and got a bacon, egg and cheese wrap. I could have made myself a better one, but that's okay. I tracked it, and I went over my points today, but only by a few.

I'm supposed to be in class tonight, but I came home instead since the hubs had a rain day, well afternoon anyways, so I came home to relax with him.

I'll update tomorrow after my WI - keep your fingers crossed!

oh pasta, why do you do this to me?

I just got back from lunch, even though I had to throw away my watermelon as my snack - hubby and I didn't eat it fast enough =( - and I ate all my food, but I want more. Why?! And I don't want to go eat a double cheeseburger or fries, or anything like that, I want my pasta.

Oh yes, pasta is my weekness. I stay away from it because it is my food downfall. I can't have just 1 cup as a side - pasta should be the center of a meal, not a side dish. I'll eat pasta just about any way, preferably with cream sauce or cheese, heck I'll even take it with butter and parmesan cheese, or straight out of the salted boiling water.. Mmm, my mouth is watering.

I have lasagna leftover for dinner, but that's pasta with sauce and meat, I don't want that, I just want plain straight up pasta. Hmm - maybe I'll make a box of pasta this weekend, and even though I should be good this weekend and on program, but maybe I'll use a few of my weeklies for a plate, or two, or five, of pasta.

Okay, now I feel better that I confessed that and have a plan for eating some pasta.. Bring on the weekend! =)