Random things

-The baby is the size of a mango, crown to rump.

-The top of my uterus is all the way up to my belly button now. Supposedly I should be able to feel this by sliding my hand up my tummy. I think I can finally tell the difference between uterus and just belly.

- I don't feel sick anymore ever except verrrrrrry occasionally when I need to eat.

- I am definitely peeing more often, which is annoying to try and fit in to lunch and planning periods at school. At least once a day, I generally end up dashing down the hall during passing period and back in time to start class. Only for three more days, though!

- On a related note, I feel like I drink about three gallons of water a day, especially now that it's so warm in the afternoons and evenings and our swamp cooler hasn't been turned on yet. (It will be tomorrow, yay!)

- We're pretty set on names now. We will likely announce that when we find out the sex next Friday. If you don't like the name, keep it to yourself. No one's going to change our minds. We picked the names carefully and deliberately. Like Thumper says, "If ya can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." Sorry, I just don't understand the person who hears the name for a child yet to be born and says, "Oh, I don't really like that," or "That's weird" or "That reminds me of this kid I hated that I went to school with." WHO CARES? It's not your name, so shut up! /rant over

- I just noticed my nails are really shiny. Pregnancy, prenatal vitamins, or both? Whatever, I'll take it! I've also had two coworkers tell me in the last couple of days that I'm glowing. I don't feel particularly glowy. My hair has been pretty awesome lately, though. My skin, zit-wise, is doing better, too. Maybe I'm finally getting something GOOD out of these dang hormones (besides, you know, a baby).

- I set up a survey through one of those free online sites so my coworkers and students could vote on whether they think the baby is a boy or a girl. So far it's in favor of boy about 60/40%. I also left a box for name suggestions. Some of them are pretty hilarious, as you might imagine from 8th graders. If you're interested, you can GO HERE and participate.

-I swear, the baby was turning somersaults yesterday! I had about ten minutes at the end of my 7th period planning period after our meeting and was sitting at my computer in my empty classroom, and I just felt it move and move and move! I don't know exactly what it was doing, but I felt something--foot, knee, elbow, butt?--slide down out toward my skin on the left side, then down again, then more moving. I sat there in my classroom talking to the baby with my hand on my belly!