March of the penguin

Me, being the penguin, that is. I can't help it. I waddle ALL THE TIME. Sometimes I catch myself and try to walk normal, but that's too much effort and what the hell... I'm pregnant. Let me be. haha! this past weekend the swelling was pretty bad. Not bad in that it was cause for alarm, but bad on my scale. All the creases in my foot and ankle were gone! My fingers look like sausages. And I have a whole more month of this? great.


One thing I was noticing the other day and this is a GOOD thing is that I haven't really grown much hair on my legs, underarms and eyebrows as much as I normally would. i'm guessing that has to do with the pregnancy, but I'm not sure. If you know me, I barely grow hair on my legs anyway. I know... if you didn't already know that and you are female you are probably hating me right now. Sorry. I had to luck out SOMEWHERE right? Anyway, so now that i'm pregnant... I can't even remember the last time I shaved my legs! Seriously! And they are still smooth! so that's cool! My underarms and eyebrows I still need to tend to but not so much as before. Especailyl with my eyebrows. I used to go every couple of months to get them done and just pluck the strays in between visits. But I was thinking about it the other day and I haven't had my eyebrows done since Thanksgiving! I've just been plucking the obvious strays and I THINK my eyebrows look ok. hahaha! This is all weird considering that I have more hair on my head... which is GREAT! I keep thinking i'll go bald once the baby comes and all those hairs that didn't fall out b/c of the pregnancy do fall out.


I feel like my belly is getting bigger. I don't know if it really is but it feels like it! And I know that these last few days i've had to be careful with some of my shirts b/c sometimes the tend to ride up a little and expose me. Worse is, I don't know it either. So I just tug on my shirts every now and then.


stretch marks. Now there's a topic. I've been doing pretty good up until a about a week ago! I didn't really get any and maybe just a spot or two here and there. But just as I thought I was homefree, some more are starting to appear. ugh. Junior says it really isn't bad at all and some people get it really bad and I know he's right. But still. Who wants them right? Expecially when you've gone almost the whole pregnancy without them and therefore think you WON'T get them. WRONG. Well actually, I read that if you are going to get them, you'll get them regardless. No lotion or potion or whatever will keep it from coming. And they say it's hereditary. So I know my mom had em. So I guess it was bound ot happen. I was just hoping maybe I lucked out.


My belly button hasn't popped although it is much more even with the rest of my belly than it used to be. It's halfway popped if that makes sense.