how big is the squirt?

This is what is inside of me, only much more gooey.
The squirt today is letting me know that my rest is important. I have been consistently going to sleep at around 9 or 10pm, so i am well rested. Fatigue however, has just hit me like a ton of bricks! I feel like i have run a marathon or been awake for three days! So tonight, i will have to forgo hanging with friends while squirt and i sleep. Maybe watch a cheesy movie and have some tea.

I'm including a list of baby names we are liking on the sidebar, partly so we can keep track! We aren't at the picking stage yet, but it's good to know we have a list for when the time comes closer!

Pregnancy Week 5

People ask what it feels like, being pregnant right now. Does it feel like an alien? yes sorta. It doesn't feel like anything you've felt before as a girl. If you have never had cramps, you might think it felt like that, but no, that isn't quite it.
what it feels like is a tiny baby in your uterus, she's pulling down the wallpaper and moving in her bed, setting up a little home in there. imagine what the balloon feels like, when you are blowing air into it, that is what it feels like. a lot of minor pulling and stretching sensations. then you imagine the baby, always as a baby never as the weird zygote that it is. and it's cute. baby is crawling into a newly made placenta and turning on the tv for a couple months of chillin out and eatin momma's foods.
it's fun. no i don't have morning sickness and i hope i never do. so maybe i am still a little lucky in that aspect of things. there is still plenty of time and not a lot of time at all. i'm already in month 2!
my real happiness will be when i start to show. when i can show jp a baby kick and he can experience the whole thing with me more.
march 6, beginning of my second trimester, can't wait

Mothering

I am in love with Mothering magazine. I found it through an interview with Kimya Dawson on babble.com. Kimya is awesome and i am going to be picking up her children's album soon for the squirt, one of the things the squirt can listen to in utero.
i can't wait til i start to show!
anyway, mothering magazine is the closest to my parenting philosophy that i have found. the traditional parents mag and things like that, are so not me.
anyway, check it out.

mothering.com

baby blog

i am reading so many baby things, right now about birthing, wondering if i should start a seperate baby/pregnancy blog

thoughts?

Things i just bought cause i'm pregnant

So already, in my 5th week, being pregnant is a hassle. a small one. at 4pm everyday my bewbs swell to proportions my bra is just not capable of handling. this is inconvenient and hurty. do i take my bra off? do i switch midday? i dunno.
my body is swollen so i don't fit in my pants. at least not in pants i can wear to work. nice jeans. gap jeans i love you but i might as well store you away til next year. :( right now my favorite pair of jeans are held on with a rubber band. sad but whatever, i'm pregnant! i have an excuse.
all information says this swelling will go down and i'll be normal again until i start to show and completley loose my waist line. this is a terrible in between time because no one can tell i'm pregnant. how frustrating.
i bought two pairs of leggings in a larger size, and two large long sleeved tshirts. which means i will be swimming in my clothes for a bit but at least i will be comfy!

also, i don't drink water. but the squirt needs it. in order to keep myself drinking it and make sure i drink enough, i got a fancy Sigg water bottle. I didn't want to take a chance on something with BPA (im not even sure what that is but it's bad) I have a piece of tape on it so i can mark how much i have had in a day (i'm a thinker!)

we are still thinking of names. talking and thinking alot about the housing.

I got these two books today

this one is great and will probably be my favorite, i'm sending it to jess cause it will make her laugh.

and this

because my mother suggested i do all the research i can.

also, all i want is seafood!