It has begun...

... the wearing of maternity clothes. frown This is the one part of pregnancy I don't like. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE to see cute pregnant women showing off their beautiful pregnant bodies, and there are actually some cute maternity clothes out there. I just live in a more practical world, that buying a lot of clothing (cute or not), for a a span of ~5 months is just not worth it. You never know if another pregnancy will correlate time wise, clothes are expensive, and they take up space. I don't mind the actual wearing of the clothing, I am just already dreading the utter disgust that begins around the 7 1/2- 8 month period when I am SICK of the same clothes. I know this is my own fault b/c I don't buy an abundance of the maternity clothing, but then this takes us back to the fact that I don't see the point in wasting my money. I'm sure poor Andrew is ready to buy me my own Motherhood when we get to that point in a pregnancy (ha); but I am determined to have a better attitude this time around!

One redeeming factor of wearing maternity clothes though; is that usually the time I start wearing them, I also feel the baby move for the first time. Actually with all four of them I felt the baby during the 16th week, even Kenan. I unfortunately haven't felt him/her again; but I did feel the "popcorn" yesterday and Tuesday!!! I am very excited about this!

One reason I am already wearing maternity clothing at 16 weeks (UGH!), is that I am indulging my desire to be a better cook/baker and trying out new recipes! ha Last night while I was preparing a banana and chocolate chip bread (I highly recommend!), Graeme started pulling out my cookbooks and spreading them all over the kitchen floor. This has become a favorite past time of his, always while I am cooking so that I have to step over him and books during the process of cooking in our already pretty teeny kitchen. I was talking to Andrew, when he started laughing, and motioned to me to look at Graeme. G-man was sitting in and on a pile of cookbooks, flipping through Southern Living's Christmas edition, while "mmmm'ing' " every recipe he saw with a picture! HA He is one funny little boy!