Back Again

Wow I'm bad. Sorry. I'm not even going to bother with the promises about regular forthcoming blog entries. Think I've probably cried wolf one too many times for anyone to buy that bridge at this point anyway. Instead, I'll do my best to bring the general story up to date.

Pregnant. Me. Still. 14 weeks tomorrow, and let me tell you, it's drag. ging. I was once again taken out by morning sickness as I was with Alex. No actual throwing groceries, but that debilitating nausea and 24/7 general malaise. I still feel like shit in the evenings but otherwise seem to be improving gradually.

A couple of weeks ago we had a little scare when I blew out a uterine vein. That was fun. Very gorey. But all seems well at the moment, and the baby didn't even seem to notice that little incident.
So that's the pregnancy up to this point. We'll answer the boy/girl question sometime mid-December, and until then...well, I'm just taking it one day at a time. One very loud, busy, nauseous day at a time.

As for the boys, they don't get the fact that I'm growing another little sibling, only (in my opinion) that Mommy's not as much fun as she used to be. But they're coping. Alex has been pulling up and cruising furniture since roughly 7 1/2 months (he'll be 10 months on the 18th) and is on the verge of taking his first wobbly steps. Maybe by Thanksgiving. And Lucas, well, he's 2 you know. He likes to help with chores (laundry, loading & unloading the dishwasher, raking leaves, dusting, and so on) and is obsessed with trains and race cars. And sitting on Alex. And taking toys away from Alex and occasionally bashing him in the skull with a sippy cup.

So that's us. I am still here, still pregnant, still chasing around two little boys and trying to find time to write.