a kindergarten story

i just had to share this story....

i wanted to be the one to tell my students that i was going to have a baby and teachers would say things in the hallway - so i needed to tell them before one of my coworkers leaked it out instead...

i bought the book "Our Teacher's Having a Baby" by eve bunting and i read that to my students today. after i read the book i asked them "why do you think i read this book to you?" i got answers like
*you like the story
*you like to read
*you like the baby in the story
*you want us to like to read

finally one of my students said "the teacher is pregnant" and i said "who is pregnant?" and they said "the teacher" then i asked... "who's the teacher" and they said "you are" after going back and forth with these same questions for a little finally one of my little girls said "because your going to have a baby."

oh my - it took a while to get that out of them... but once they figured it out they were excited. it was really cute! they make me laugh!!

a bit of a baby bump?

4th doctors appt... 16 weeks down...

24 left to go!

GOSH - i can't believe it... when you talk about it that way - it seems so close - but when i think about march 3rd - it seems so far away!

my 4th doctors appt went well - i got to meet one of the doctors in the practice - he may be the one to deliver my baby.... he was pretty nice. we didn't do much -we decided NOT to do the quad screening - listened to the heart beat (which was in the 150's - and it sounded pretty strong to me!) - he answered some of my questions and we talked a little about my next appt. in 4 weeks...which is also the BIG ultrasound!!! :) i can't wait to find out what we are having!

adam and i started our registry on friday... after talking to a few people we decided to get started with items that we didn't need to know the gender - along with gender neutral pattern for our travel system/high chair/pack-n-play. we registered at target (which wasn't our original choice) let me fill you in on how THAT happened... i want to register at babys-r-us... but we also wanted to chose something that was easy for people to get to - since there isn't a BRU everywhere - we even have to travel to get to one here about 45 min.... well we chose to also register at walmart... because there aren't targets everywhere (for example... here - we have to travel to get to one of those too!) so we walk into walmart to register to be told that you can't register in store anymore... only online - which infuriated me for some reason - i'm blaming it completely on the pregnancy hormones! so that is how we ended up registering at target - which i do like much better anyways!)

okay so this has been our pregnancy update...

holy back pain batman!

yeah i definately have lower back pain now... i am not enjoying this part... i'm kind of surprised that i have it already... but i'm going to blame the job for that... teaching kindergarten i'm kind of all over the place... standing, sitting, on the floor, sitting in the little kindergarten chairs... i need to remember to prop my feet up when i have my breaks (activity time - rest time)

i'm taking tylenol but that isn't helping that much... right now i'm sitting at home with the heating pad (on low) on my back and that is helping it to feel a little better.

as for my morning sickness - haven't had much trouble with that - until today - adam and i traveld to kennesaw today to do some shopping (both window and actual shopping) and i had to have him stop at a kroger on the way to pick me up some crackers... i fixed myself some egg whites for breakfast and i sat down and was about to eat them and then.... i couldn't - the smell - i have now had my first food adversion... today was the first time i made myself eggs so far this whole pregnancy... i guess my breakfast is limited to cereal or english muffins.....

okie dokie - i guess thats all for tonight... i hope everyone is doing well!