The Seond Trimester: Attack of the Hormones

Where do I begin with this? First off, living with a pregnant woman in her second trimester is like living with a girl that has bi-polar schizophrenia with invountary narcasstic rage and I feel like I would take the schizo over the pregnant lady any day.  At one point I was worried about my well being, and there was a time when my wife reminded me of Alicia Silverstone in "The Crush".

Pretty much the same look she always gave me

Now I may be a little sarcastic but there's truth behind it.  At this stage my wife was starting to grow a "baby bump', and it was pretty awesome to know a that a human was growing in there.  I also had trouble knowing what was the baby and what was food because my wife was eating everything she could get her hands on.  Those cravings were no joke, but I guess in order to fuel those insane hormones it requires a lot of junk food.

At least the cookie monster was fuzy and nice

Even with all of this going on, I believe we did pretty well.  A lot of testing had to be done in this stage to insure that little Scarlett was doing ok in there.  We were relieved when the doctor told us that everything was 100% and that she was having a healthy pregnancy.  We started registering for baby products and we also bought a lot of the furniture, diapers, bottles, etc.  It was exciting and we couldn't help but say "AWWWWWW" everytime we saw a newborn sized dress.  Despite my wife being insane and eating practically the fridge, she did a great job at planning everything and lots of credit to her for going through this difficult stage.

Pretty much where my money went off to



In my next entry, I'll talk about how our baby doctor called my wife fat.

The Big News

I was happily washing the dishes, well I guess not happily because I hate doing the dishes.  Anyways, there I was doing dishes with this look on my face of 'Why am I doing this?'.  When in comes my wife and shes holding three pregnancy test and she says 'I think I'm preganant!', and like I always do when my wife tells me things throughout the day I just grin and nod and said 'thats great honey'.  She says, 'No really...I think I'm pregnant!', I look up to glance at her and said 'you sure? Maybe you should pee on like two more just in case?'.  She immediately became upset because it wasn't the reaction she was looking for, but to be fair her approach wasn't that great.  I mean, I'm washing the dishes.  She could have waited till, I dont know...I was done and watching tv?  So this is how it all began, one minute I was worried about trying to pay rent at the end of the month and next thing I know my mind is racing about what the hell we are going to do!

Well the first thing was not to panic, which my wife did an awful job at.  She worries about every little thing, and blows it up.  For example:  The water bill came in, she opens it, then she proceeds to what seems like yelling 'How are we going to pay this???', I reply with 'umm...money?' and then she proceeds to have an hour long conversation about it.  We have many bills, so this takes awhile.  Lucklily for you, I'll spare you from that battle.  It didn't dawn on me what having a baby meant, my knowledge of having a baby is from what I've seen in movies...which my wife proceeds to tell me is nothing like the real thing, like if she already had a baby...at least I hope not. 

The second phase was excitement.  We went to the baby doctor, how has a long name for a profession but I don't remember and it might take me like two mintues to google but I'm lazy and that's two mintues I'll never get back.  So here we are in this room with baby pictures everywhere and this pretty good looking male doctor comes in.  The doc says congrats that we are pregnant and that he will be examining my wifes "situation" to make sure everything is great.  The doc then proceeds to examine my wife, probably the most awkward situation I've been in.  He then proceeds to stick this ultra sound stick (which looks like a massager) into my wife and all of the sudden we see a little dot come up on this computer screen, and that was the first time I saw my daughter, which at the time I didn't know if it was a boy or girl.  It was also the first time I heard her heart beat, all this came from that little massager in my wife's "situation".

My wife and I doing our gender reveal