little lemon

it's official. baby is coming, ready or not!
i'm eleven weeks + one day. and every single morning i wake up and pinch myself that this is real life! life is CRAZY, you guys! crazy!

our little peanut is the size of a lemon (or a lime depending on which internet site you check. because obviously right after you take a million pictures with a lemon you would learn that it actually might be a lime. whatever. it was a small lemon.) and last week it was a prune and the week before it was a green olive. life is speedy before it even gets to take it's first breath. we got to see the ultrasound at 8 weeks and watch the little heart beat away at 151 beats per minute. and the little arms and legs! THIS IS A LIFE. it's so amazing.

evan is the most supportive and kind and helpful. i saw this quote on danielle's blog a while ago and it made my heart swell. "don't marry a man unless you would be proud to have a son exactly like him." boy or girl, evan is going to be the best dad. and i cannot wait to watch our little family grow.

so far i've been wonderful. sometimes i think it's a joke because i haven't had any morning sickness or nausea or normal pregnancy problems that everyone else has had. i feel great, just tired. i may have gone to bed before 9 once or twice in the past few weeks. and i cannot get enough lemons. i ate an entire lemon at the wedding last weekend and evan has had to go to the store for fresh lemons just about every other day. can'tstopwon'tstop. i normally like sour things so this isn't that new for me, just the fact that i'm putting them in my water and then inhaling them. i don't even know.

evan's favorite story so far is how i hate lunch meat and i hate jimmy john's (their meat is bloody. i don't do bloody cold cuts. just please.) and i might have had a melt down about not being able to have jimmy john's. I DON'T EVEN LIKE JIMMY JOHN'S! just please. did you know that babies form their taste buds at 8 weeks? when i told evan that he said, "why is it doing that now?" and i replied, "i know. that seems like a detail it could work on later on in it's life." but this baby loves lemons and seriously wants some jimmy john's. that's how we know that it's taste buds are functioning okay.

and this is our life now. this little lemon baby that will be here next spring. we can't wait to meet you, baby!