Gonna cough out a mediocre blog post real quick. Last week was overall pretty good. I'm still feeling at least queasy all the time, but sometimes I'm able to not think about it. But I overdid Easter and so today I feel lousy. It was a fun weekend. We spent Saturday with Jared's parents doing their ward Easter egg hunt, going out for lunch, seeing the renovation progress on their flooded house, and going for a nature walk. Jack was 10/10 all day. So happy. Loving the attention, loving the egg hunt, all the things. Fun. I love age 4. When we got home I tried to prepare my Sunday school lesson for the next morning but just could not focus for the life of me. Evenings are just hard for me in general when pregnant, so I gave up, halfheartedly helped Jared set up and hide an Easter basket for Jack, and went to bed.
Jack woke us up bright and early 6:30 Easter morning, pumped to go hunt for eggs. Pregnant Laura is just doing enough to get by, so there were only 5 eggs, placed in pretty obvious places, but there was a toy dinosaur in Jack's Easter basket that made up for the lackluster egg situation. I have been VERY tired this past week. Afternoons are rough to get through. I don't know if it's a second trimester thing, or if it's a bi-product of going to sleep a little later than I did in the first trimester (I mean, I'm still down for the night by 9-9:30, so nothing crazy). Anyway, after the egg hunt I needed half an hour to eat, medicate, and regulate the nausea situation. Then I downed some caffeine and prepared my Sunday school lesson. Church was nice (until we got cornered at the end and Jared was given a THIRD calling and I was asked to speak next week, for the second time in 4 months--small ward lyfe). So we went home and I got down to business with easter dinner prep. We had Jared's parents and brother over for dinner. Mama L made the besssst ham and some sides/dessert. I made 4 sides. Nothing too crazy, except that I'm at maybe half capacity right now so it took me all afternoon until they arrived. We had a delicious dinner and fun evening. It's been rare for us to spend Easter with family this last decade, so that was really nice.
After they left my body gave up on me. My feet and back were SO sore. The belly situation is pretty intense already, and after eating such a big meal I was uncomfortable in the worst way. Plus, nauseous. Plus, I tend to have a hard time falling asleep after long social gatherings. I finally fell asleep around 1:00 a.m., and today I am feeling the effects. Nausea city. Yay. Me and Jared tried to make the most of our Monday afternoon date. We recently had the realization that Jack only has about a month left of preschool, meaning we've only got a handful more child-free Monday afternoon dates before Jack's home for the summer and then we have a baby. Our plan was to go see a movie, but as it turns out, there's only ONE movie theater within half an hour of our house, and it doesn't have any afternoon showings on weekdays. Our plan B was to drive into Arlington for an ice cream date. But there was only one ice cream shop and it is closed on Mondays. We tried two other dessert places, also closed on Mondays. At this point we were running out of time but drove 15 minutes to the next town over that has a Cold Stone. Enjoyed some ice cream, and then since there was a Costco next door we ran in for some staples before rushing home to pick up Jack. A bit of a date fail, but now we know to plan better for our next/final month of dates.
That's about all I've got for now. Here are a few pics from our weekend (dropped the ball on Easter morning pics--I'll try and get a cute Sunday pic sometime in the next few weeks and pretend it's our Easter pic):
Happy 16 weeks of pregnancy according to my OB and 17 weeks of pregnancy according to me! Based on my last period and baby's current measurements, I'm definitely 17 weeks along today. But they measured baby a week small at my first appointment, so they pushed my due date back a week and it seems like they're never going to correct it. Oh well. With Jack I went into labor naturally a few days before my due date so I'm not particularly worried. But when people ask my due date, I honestly just shrug haha.
I had my 16-week appointment today. Thank goodness we switched it to a virtual appointment, because my doctor had to run in for an emergency c-section and they would've had to reschedule an in-person visit and I would have spent my entire day driving to and from Kirtland for nothing. Instead they just called me, told me he'd be late, asked if he could call me for a quick phone appointment instead of the virtual video appointment, and an hour later I had a 10-minute phone check-in and was done. Amazing. Phone-call OB appointments 4evr and evr amen. (Obviously I'll go in for my 20-week ultrasound, but whenever possible I will be scheduling virtual appointments from here on out.)
This last week was "Spring Break." There was one day that hit 70 degrees and another day that snowed big huge fluffy snowflakes. Nothing that stuck, though. Jack was pretty much over his cold, but Jared and I both caught a cold (not sure if it was the same one or a different one Jared brought home from work) and are still recovering. It hasn't been too bad except for if I accidentally cough too deeply I have to order everyone to STOP MOVING AND TALKING RIGHT NOW!!!! and then hold very still and not breathe for 30 seconds while I wait for this awful wave of "girl you gonna puke" to slowly roll through my entire body and hope I can just ride the wave until it passes. I'm very grateful this cold came at 16 weeks instead of last month, because I would have been puking at every cough if I was 12 weeks along, but at 16 weeks I was narrowly able to hold the pukes off. Hallelujah! I still have rough nausea times most days, but I truly think I might be done with the vomiting this pregnancy. (Keep in mind that I'm still needing to be on FOUR kinds of nausea meds to maintain this level of functionality, and I'm still very nauseous every evening. Woof. Thank uuuuuu meds. Could be so much worse rn.)
Jack's strong dinosaur phase continues. He has a children's encyclopedia of dinosaurs, and he knows the names of like 50 different species. I took him to Lake Roesiger on the 70-degree day this last week and he played dinosaurs with other kids on the beach most of the time. Very cute. Here are some pictures from our week!
Well hey. We're all sick but at least it's springtime!
This last Monday Jared and I had plans to drive half an hour north to La Conner to check out the blooming daffodil fields if I was feeling up to it. This was going to be a date since Jared only works til noon on Mondays, but Jack had a wicked cough so I kept him home from preschool and he joined us. He did a covid test and it was negative, so I was like, "Get me out of this house." We had a good time! We had lunch right next to the water--fish and chips at a restaurant my brother Jordan took me to when they were living in this part of Washington 3 years ago. After lunch we walked down the boardwalk and Jack loved watching the boats. Then we drove around and saw a bunch of pretty daffodil fields in full bloom! Unfortunately there were no places to pull off on the side of the road to get a picture. I felt bad because Jack was under the impression that he was going to get to walk around the fields, but that didn't happen. So we pulled off next to a fire station that had daffodils growing next to it and snapped a picture on our way home.
Jack continued to have a cough of death for the rest of the week (just a bad cold), so he stayed home from preschool. It was cool and all, but now he has "spring break" next week, so another week without preschool. Plus Jared is busier than ever at work, leaving before we wake up and getting home around 7:00 every evening. At least Jack's not that sick anymore, but now Jared and I have minor colds. I will say, a cold usually really harshes my jam, but when I hold a cold up next to my pregnancy nausea, I can only roll my eyes at it. Anyway, here's a couple more sicky pics from the week:
That's pretty much all I've got for you! The nausea situation is slowly getting more manageable during the morning/early afternoons. It's kind of up to me how a day's going to go now. As long as I eat something before I get out of bed and every hour throughout the entire day (yes, every hour) and don't fall behind on my meds, most days are pretty good until around 4:00. I mean, I definitely still feel lousy compared to normal, but it could be so much worse. I only had one really bad day last week, and I think it's because I wasn't careful and didn't eat for a 3-hour stretch of time. So anyway, here's to another week of constant snacking, and fingers crossed no one throws up!!