In the last post I let everyone know Jeff and I are expecting a baby. I have now reached my second trimester and things seem to be going really well. The doctor says the baby has a nice strong steady heartbeat and we did get to see an ultrasound at the 6 week point, but the baby was just a little blob then. Jeff keeps calling the baby a "she" so I guess we all know what he expects the gender to be. I keep apologizing to the baby if it is a boy just in case...
My first trimester actually went pretty smoothly, as far as those things go. I never actually threw up, just felt a little queasy. Unfortunately as the pregnancy progresses things seem to be getting worse, not better. This past week was spent throwing up but I also had serious sinus pressure and drainage so it's possible that I was actually ill and the tummy sickness was really due to sickness. Please Lord let that be true. I now have some antibiotics so I guess I will find out pretty soon.
We haven't really been up to much the past month. We decided not to do any traveling during my first trimester after we took a trip to Tennessee to visit my grandparents. The trip was exhausting for me and it took a few weeks to regain my energy. So mostly we have just been hanging out at home with the air conditioning on getting through the hot summer months.
Jeff's parents Bob and Linda brought us a hummingbird feeder and we had hummingbirds at the feeder a few hours after we put it up. There was one day that some bees decided to camp out on the feeder, and that was interesting- I felt bad for the hummingbirds because they would try to get close and would then be scared away by the bees. But the bees only did that for a day or two then moved on thank goodness. Here are some pics.
I will say that I'm definitely feeling more energy for knitting. (except last week when I was sick) I have been working on a sweater that is going slowly but surely. I'm also trying to finish up my advent mitten garland by Christmas. There is a baby blanket I want to get done by the end of October for a friend. But my problem right now is there are so many projects I want to do. I have all my Christmas presents knitted but I want to make some stockings. And I am going to start some fingerless gloves with a friend for a knitting group we are part of. I'm really looking forward to doing this project with Amber.
Other than that, we have had some seriously cute cat antics going on. Since I have had some raging hormones I had a very small ball of yarn that I decided to throw instead of smashing all of my breakables. It seemed like a more healthy outlet for my desire to break things. But after I threw it one time Brie decided the yarn ball was hers. We woke up the next morning to find a web of yarn all over the floor and wrapped around furniture legs. After that we have put up the yarn ball at night just so she doesn't get herself tangled but we let her play with it while we are around and she is super cute with it.
