The most adorable 9-month parasite known to man! that's right, BABY.
I didn't want to tell anyone anything until we were kind of in the clear, and I didn't really want to talk about much else.
Yes, it's a bit of a surprise. Yes, we originally wanted to wait til we were headed back to America. We don't make the plans, we just go with them.
Now that we're cool, I can tell everyone that I'm not gonna tell you much! I don't want to spread the baby's business around until it's out. That includes sonograms, gratuitous bump pictures, or it's name (which we haven't actually picked out yet). We do already know the gender, but I'm also not going to tell that until later. If you desperately want to know something, send me an email. I'll tell you. just not publicly.
I'll share SOME stuff though. We're due in March! I have cravings for vegetables and cheese, I hate everything having to do with chicken, I can no longer comfortably paint my toenails, my giant bottle of Tums is always next to my bed, I guzzle water like it's my job, aaaannnndddd I'm running out of clothes. Thankfully I was smart and ordered some stuff and had it shipped to me before I really needed them, but i definitely should have ordered more shirts. FYI, pregnant lady shirts make a huge difference... unless you like letting your bump fall out all over the place.
How's Jon, you ask? fine. He got braces (invisalign, so you can't even tell) and he's in pain at least once every two weeks, and I have to say that I get a small delight out of it. hahaha- I kid, I kid. he's working hard, stays late, and freaks out about tax returns that he can't solve, but that's really no different than America. He's lost a lot of weight too. His pants all fit big. It's probably because we're mostly vegetarians now. Red meat is expensive here, and like I said before- NO CHICKEN. it smells like rotten hiney.
So all of that being said, NOW I can start posting a couple of old posts that I wrote but didn't want to post because there were mentions of baby-related topics, until I stopped writing altogether because all I could really talk about for about 6 weeks was the inside of a toilet bowl, not leaving my apartment, and plain cheese sandwiches. and after I got over that business for good three weeks ago, I started playing on Pinterest, setting up a registry for some stuff we'll need (and that will fit in a carry-on suitcase), and planning on where we're gonna put all of it's stuff, and that takes up my writing time.
In other news: we'll be home for Christmas! We plan on getting there about the middle of December, and hope to see everyone then! We already made a list of the restaurants that we will be visiting (what? baby's hungry). We'll also be going back to Melbourne in November, and I seriously can't wait for that. I need me some delicious food. I'm even planning on being bad and drinking COFFEE while I'm there. (not that that's actually bad. I'm allowed to have 300 mg of caffeine a day, and I have been a SAINT and sticking to ZERO. I DESERVE a coffee... for good behavior.)
Cheers to America!
-Jon and Nikki
Thanks for commenting on my blog. Congrats on the baby!
ReplyDeleteIf you need an OB/GYN referral, I loved mine and I'd be happy to give you her contact info.
I'm also happy to answer any baby crap related questions you might have (including a list of stuff I found useful to grab while I was home).
Ravi and I feel your pain on tax returns...we finally had to hire an accountant back home to deal with them.
The trip you blog about in your next entry sounds gorgeous! We've been to Phuket, but ended up in a really tourist trappy part (Patong Beach) so it was a cool but very different experience than yours. I wanted to rent a ski-doo but they wouldn't let me because I'd never driven one before (or rather then they changed their mind but wanted a sketchy kind of deposit...I ended up skipping it, which makes me sad).