Being Pregnant is Driving Me Bananas!

It's not everything about being pregnant, just a few little things that drive me crazy.  So far I have been very blessed and had a fairly easy pregnancy.  I only had minor nausea and some heartburn in the beginning.  I did puke a few times, but mostly just when I ate eggs, which I now avoid like a plague.  Here are the four things that are driving me BANANAs!

1-) DRY SKIN! I know it's winter, but seriously! I can lotion up my hands 5 times a day and they are still dry and cracked! The skin on my belly is almost worse. I lift up my shirt and dry little skin snowflakes go flying everywhere. I have high hopes that this condition will improve when the weather warms up!

2-) Stairs. I climb up one flight and I'm breathing so hard you would think I just ran 3 miles!  The SUU campus has so many stairs it isn't funny.  We park on the lower end of campus and to get to my math class I have to walk up 2 flights of outside stairs and another 2 flights once I reach the building. Then my English class is on the top floor of a 3 story building.  Since it takes me about 10 minutes to get to each class and I'm breathing hard and have a racing heart when I get to class, I consider this my workout on most days. 

3-) The fact that I should be putting on weight.  At first I was thrilled that I would be gaining weight instead of trying to lose or maintain weight.  Then after I found out I was pregnant I started loosing weight. At my 15 week appointment the doctor wasn't very happy that I had lost weight, a total of 10 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight.  She told me to eat more, which I found difficult due to my lack of appetite, but I had been eating! Most of the time I ate just because I knew I should and felt like an overfilled beach ball after dinner.  Finally at my 19 week appointment I had gained 3 pounds back. With a net loss of 7 pounds to date, it really makes me wonder how my stomach has gotten so big....


4-) And speaking of that stomach... Do you know what is inside?  Baby Center compared the size of my baby to a large banana weighing about a pound. A BANANA? So, your telling me that this huge belly of mine only has something the size of a banana in it?  I know, I know, my uterus has to grow and my baby has to be surrounded by amniotic fluid etc. But still, are you starting so see why I'm going a little bananas? A belly that size and my baby is only a one pound banana.

Our New Little Chicks

As some of you may know, Daniel and I would one day like to be as self-sufficient as possible.  Our goal is to have some land, some chickens, a few goats, and a garden.  Last week we stopped by our favorite store in Cedar City, IFA, and saw that they had little chicks for sell.  Well we came home and the next day Daniel decided we needed to go get some chickens. So we brought home four sweet little chicks, and they should be laying eggs for us in about six months!

This is Brahma. She, like two of her three sisters, is named for her breed, Lite Brahma. Sometimes I call her queen, because she thinks that she is in charge. The other chicks follow her around, and she is most aggressive.  You can kind of see the feathers starting to grow on her leg.  When she is full grown she will be the largest of our chickens and her legs will be covered in feathers.

Red, short for Rhode Island Red, has a lot of energy!  All of the chicks are really active, but Red seems to be the most energetic. And she will poop on you every time you pick her up.

Rock is our runt, for the time being at least.  She is a Barred Rock. She is the smallest of our chicks, but she also the one who runs the fastest when trying to pick her up.  She always seems to dodge the bullet, that is, until her sisters are all out of their little box and she is alone.

Last but not least is Chipmunk. She is an Arucana, but I have tend to try to say anaconda, which she definitely is not, so we named her Chipmunk for her Chipmunk cheeks.  She is the larges right now, standing about a head taller than the others.  She keeps to herself as much as can, but for some reason the others like to pick on her. When she starts laying she will have colored eggs! This is of course the reason I wanted to get an Arucana! Who wouldn't want to crack a blue or green or pink egg for breakfast!