little bitty girl

Well, Stefan is NOT pregnant, but I definitely am. This is me in my 22nd week. Yes, we're up to our usual tricks of keeping things quiet to ourselves. I think if we could have gone through the whole 9 months without saying a word, we really would have. This has been a really special time for Stefan and I.

So far, I have been extremely lucky. Other than a mini scare in the beginning, I have had none of the usual symptoms. Other than growing larger in the belly and chest area and getting the pregnancy tiredness, I feel almost exactly the same. I was really hoping for weird pregnancy cravings but so far, all I have wanted has been fruit, vegetables and yogurt. BORING...

Actually, I lied.

I seemed to have developed teenage acne, something I never had even as a teenager. Mama Kang thinks it could be a girl as I "sucked the beauty" out of her too.

All in all, it feels like a crazy science experiment... one that doesn't quite yet seem real.

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One of the things about homeownership versus renting an apartment is all the STUFF one should know or be able to do. Stefan and I are somewhat handy but definitely not to the extent of some of our friends who have single handledly ripped down, rewired, re-concreted their homes. It is times like this where I wish I had married a metal welder instead of an internet architect. Sure he can build websites and systems but what good does that do me when I need things custom built? I guess he's somewhat pretty to look at....

With Mindy being so ill, she was very unfortunately (for us and her) using our carpeted basement as her own en suite bathroom. The carpets have since been steam cleaned, litter moved to another part of the house (she's back to using her litter once she got on her antibiotics) and she has been banned from the basement unless under supervision. The only issue was that we don't have a door that closes off the basement from the kitchen so thus began the search for a well designed baby gate.

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I need to go through my categories and streamline them I think.

How do people come up with just a few?

Anyway, I thought I would come up with this new one because you would think after two years of marriage-ness I would be well equipped to deal with it. Alas, I think I will always be in my perpetual state of selfishness and competition to ever really be the type of lifetime companion people dream about. The good thing is that Stefan knows this trait of mine well and finds it vastly amusing.

I was reading him excerpts from MetroDad, a new addition to my RSS feeds when I mentioned once again, how I wish he had a blog.

"What would you do if I did start one and it all of a sudden became really popular?"

Silence.

"I would be SO angry!!"

"I know you would be. That's why I haven't started one. You'd think it was a big competition"

I hate to admit it but he's right. Gad, I really need to get over this competitiveness with Stefan...

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