Pregnancy sucks

I'm a little behind on the blogging and I apologize. I have a good excuse though! For those of you who may not realize this - I'm pregnant. Yes, I'm very excited when I remember not to be exhausted and nauseated. I'm almost past the first trimester and - keep your fingers crossed - those feelings should disappear SOON!

We did this on purpose, fools that we are, thinking that it was time, I was ready, Miles is in school now....blah blah blah. And, while the timing may be right, it is so much harder to be pregnant with a kid around! They totally don't understand that, no, mommy doesn't want to wrestle around on the floor, she needs to throw up right now. Maybe that's just my experience.....

ANYWAY, what else is going on........hmmm, let me think. Ah yes, I've lost my husband to the computer. Yes, we all knew it was bound to happen some day, but this is a little sooner than expected. After Miles is asleep, I look over to our "office" (corner of the dining room) and Aaron is physically there, sitting at the computer, but really, I'm alone in the house. Yes, he has a good reason - his work and studying for his intermediate dutch class have claimed his every spare minute. But my butt spreading on the couch sure isn't going to lure him out anytime soon.

Maybe I can tempt him out of computer world with a nice, home cooked meal. Scratch that; the smell of cooking food makes me run from the room in nauseous horror. Scintillating conversation? Well, let's put it this way: watching nonstop reruns of "Friends" and (god help me) "2 guys, a girl, and a pizza place" and only leaving the house when absolutely forced doesn't exactly make me up on current events. Events from 10 years ago and I'm all over it, apparently.

It's okay, I'm not totally depressed just yet. I know we'll make it out of this slump when a) I get past this stage of pregnancy and become a blossoming flower of womanhood or (seeing how that's never going to happen) b) his class ends sometime in December. We have something to shoot for!

I just realized that I sound a LITTLE bitter. Aaron is in Amsterdam right now, living it up at a 3-day "training seminar" and I'm stuck here. No bitterness. I probably couldn't make it through the 45-minute train ride it takes to get to Amsterdam, much less live it up. (living it up is an exaggeration, right Aaron? don't answer that)

A shout-out to all the single moms out there. I never realize how much I depend on Aaron, even just being there the hour and a half between getting home from work and Miles' bedtime. How do the single moms, sorry, single parents (you go single dads!), handle being on call 24-7, without backup? How do you not lose it every weekend when it's all kids, all the time?

Anyway, once the hormones cool down (when would this be?), we should be safe to visit sometime in April 2011. That's right, 2011. Shoot right past this next year as it will probably be a bitch with me due in May and then the new baby thing through the summer. And who wants to come to the Netherlands in the winter? No one.

Anyone brave enough to weather the storm or people who are forced against their will (read: family) need to show their faces around May 2, 2010. That's the baby launch date. Please remember: Miles was a week late. Plan accordingly.

Not too leave you on too sour a note: Miles has been providing the comic relief in all this. When we told him about the baby, the first thing he did was smile really big and then a loud "nooooooooooooo." Then I explained that the baby in my belly is the reason I've been so tired lately. Later on that day, he said "I'm tired, I have a baby in my belly. He changes his mind almost daily when asked if he wants a brother or a sister. Then he does a spastic puppy routine that is hilarious! Plus he makes me get off my ginormous ass and actually do something active like go to the park or beach. I love him so much - he's going to be a great big brother!

Hope all is well with everyone! Enjoy the pictures! (the last two are from my babysitter taking him to go apple picking, an outing she suggested and didn't even charge for just because she loves Miles - she's a goddess!)

Love
Nicole