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This will probably be my last post this week, and I probably won't be posting as regular after this, so cherish it ;). This post is also more for me and documentation purposes.

I'm about 11 weeks along right now and getting very excited to be out of my first trimester. The nausea and exhaustion didn't hit me until about seven weeks and most of the time it isn't all that bad. If I don't let myself get hungry, I don't throw up--which is actually harder than it sounds because I'm practically ravenous every second of the day. I feel like I'm tied to the kitchen all day and I have to pack snacks before I go anywhere. I have had a couple of really bad days where I couldn't really control it no matter what, and those days were rough.

I wasn't supposed to have my first ultrasound until twelve weeks but my mom got anxious and said she would pay if we went to fetal fotos. I found out once we got there that she thought I was far enough along to find out the sex--I wasn't. :S sorry mom. This was at ten weeks.

The head is to the right, the bum is to the left, the legs are hidden, and one arm is waving at us!

We got to skype with Ben and see the baby bouncing around in there and hear the heartbeat. It was pretty cool. The pictures she got aren't that great, but in the video you can totally see a head, body, arms, and legs!

Below is what I look like right now. I promise I won't pull my shirt up for every picture, its just that you can't really see the bump with my shirt down.

Yes I just woke up in this picture and have no make-up on. Yes I have pregnancy-induced acne. And yes there is a bump--you can see it better in person. It's big enough that Alyssa likes to tease me that I'm having twins--I'm not.

It has worked out really well that I've been here taking care of my dad because we are actually going through a lot of the same things. Yesterday I made him breakfast and then we both fell asleep in the family room for three and a half hours. Exhaustion? Check. Nausea? Check. Need to eat every half hour? Check. Emotional? Check. Burpy and bloated? Check (a little known side effect of both cancer and pregnancy. Tmi? Sorry). It's sort of laughable until you stop to consider how opposite the outcomes will be.

Ben has been working insane hours for the busy season, so if I was in Houston I wouldn't be seeing much of him anyway. But I will be flying out to visit him soon which makes me excited (side note on that, I really hope my nausea is gone before I go because throwing up on a plane is my worst fear).

While I'm in Houston, my parents are going on a fancy-schmansy cruise that my uncle insisted on paying for. They are flying first class, get picked up in a limo, and get their own ocean view suite with a balcony on the ship. It is a southern Caribbean so they get to go to a lot of cool places like St. Thomas and Barbados. I'm kind of jealous except that they deserve it way more than me. I just pray that my dad feels up to it, it's only a couple weeks away.  

That's all I have for now. Happy weekend!