Looking back...

As I look back on the year 2009, I realize WOW, we were busy people! It was truly an amazing year and I am thankful for all of the wonderful memories.

In January, we celebrated my birthday with a trip to Tunica to see Gary Allan with some of our best friends, Sam and Chris. I joined the rest of the world and started a Facebook page.

In March, Memphis saw the first big snow in years. I know 8-12 inches isn't a lot for many places, but it was something we don't see here in West Tennessee too often. Of course we took full advantage and got out and played! The dogs loved it, even though it was so deep Darby had a hard time getting around with her super short legs. Also, my best friend Misty gave birth to her first baby, Cade Gayton. He is one handsome little man!

In April, we "officially" welcomed John into our family as he and mom finally tied the knot in a beautiful outdoor ceremony. It was a gorgeous day and Mom looked absolutely beautiful. It was a joyous occasion! Also in April, we went to Wade and Elizabeth's wedding in Nashville, which was so beautiful and a lot of fun for Justin to see and spend time with so many of his old friends.

In May, we had family day at the Nashville zoo. I was a little sad that they didn't have any monkey shirts in adult sizes, but overall it was a very fun day! We celebrated the engagement of Esther and David with a big fiesta at our house. We wore sombreros, ate good Mexican food, and drank a few too many margaritas! Good times, good friends! Also, we took a shot at Camping with the family Memorial Day weekend. Unfortunately we got rained out, actually monsooned out!

In June, Justin and I took our highly anticipated, romantic vacation to Niagara Falls Canada. We had an amazing time! The Falls are breathtaking, I have never seen anything like it. We enjoyed the sights, the shopping, and the eating, but mostly we enjoyed the wine tour! Obviously....we enjoyed it all because we came home to discover a few weeks later that we were Pregnant!!

July was busy. The family went to Chattanooga for our annual white water rafting trip. I was not able to raft being that I was growing Baby Baker, but everyone had a great time. There were no near death experiences like last year which for most was a relief! We celebrated Don Fisher's (Justin's grandfather) 75th birthday and also Justin's 26th. Justin took me to the American Idol tour and I got to see Adam Lambert! Also, on July 23 we heard our baby's heartbeat for the very first time. It was the sweetest sound I have ever heard!

In August we vacationed on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama with family and friends. It was great to be on the beach without hurricanes heading our way like last year. The weather was fantastic all week. My favorite part was burying Justin in the sand! Also, our sweet Lucy turned 1 yr old!

In September the girls took on the big city of Nashville for Esther's bachelorette party!


October was also a big month for us. Justin and I went to our first Colts game and they kicked some Titan butt! We found out that Baby Baker is a GIRL and we announced her name, Adalyn Ryan Baker! Esther Plank became Esther Bledsoe in a beautiful ceremony at the Memphis Zoo. We started on Addy's nursery. Justin and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary!! John and Leeann were married on Halloween.

In November, we celebrated Mom's birthday. Also, Justin and I successfully cooked our 2nd big Thanksgiving dinner at our home.

And last, but not least, December. We kicked off the month with a birthday party/ugly Christmas sweat party for Sara. I entered the last trimester of my pregnancy. We celebrated the holidays with all of our wonderful family and friends.

We have so much to look forward to in 2010. Justin and I are going to become parents!!! Our daughter, Adalyn is due March 2nd. I am going to go ahead and call 2010 the year of the babies because after Addy, we look forward to Riley Thomas Murley in mid March, Baby Lane in June, and Baby Holliday in August. I can't wait to see what else the year will have in store for us. Happy New Year everyone!!

I'll just call her Suzie! (Christmas 2009)

What a weekend!! We kept the road hot from Thursday to Sunday traveling around to see our family for the Christmas holiday. We had a wonderful time and made a lot of memories. We spend Christmas Eve at my Mom and John's. Santa brought MJ a new video camera....it will probably take her 10 years to figure that one out, thanks John! We also put a call in to Pog and Lisa and Lisa read aloud Twas the Night Before Christmas. We tried to tell Mom that since she gave us the recorded books, we didn't need to read it aloud as a family any more. She then told us that those were for when she kicks the bucket, and until that time, we would be calling and reading it aloud every Christmas Eve...that's my momma for ya!!

We got up Christmas morning to head to Dee's for breakfast. We spent the morning with Dee and Pawpaw, Maine and Don, and Uncle Rob, Cyndi, and Ms. Mott. We got some very nice gifts, including cash (which we love) and Justin declared this the beginning of "the breast pump fund". Thanks for announcing that honey! Next we headed to DB and Wanda's for the Baker family Christmas. Hanging out with the Baker clan is always entertaining. I challenged Uncle Jerry to a belly comparison, and unfortunately, even 30 weeks pregnant, I could not beat his belly! We ate A LOT and enjoyed some of Wanda's ooey gooey cake, which is basically a ton of powdered sugar and some cream cheese all baked together. Yep, it was like sugar crack...and delicious! We headed back to MJ's that evening because we dog sat for her all weekend while she and John went to North Carolina to visit with Rob, Dawn, and the girls. We had 7...yes I repeat SEVEN dogs for the weekend. Justin probably said "get somewhere" 80million times over the last 3 days.

Saturday we headed back to Dee's to see Julie, Brandon, and Lucy and open Santa Clause from Dee. Lucy got some bracelets, so cute! She loved them, I hate to break Brandon's heart, but he may have a princess on his hands instead of the next women's NBA star. We got some more awesome gifts, and some more cash....which Justin again explained that he was adding to "the breast pump fund." At this point, we were getting pretty close...he was very excited! After lunch and presents, Justin and I left to go to Halls early to stop by and see Gran and Anmaw before going to Maine and Don's for the always entertaining Fisher Family Christmas. How amazing is it that Justin still has two great grandparents that are still alive. Our visit with Gran and Anmaw was great, and actually my favorite part of the entire weekend. Keep in mind that they are both in their 80s. On our way out the door we were telling them that we would be back in the spring so they could see the baby. They loooove 5th generation pictures with the great-great grand babies. Gran asked what her name was. I told him Adalyn. He said "What?" I repeated "Adalyn", he said "Addalee?" and Justin clarified again "No, Adalyn". Grand stood there for a minute processing and he said, "Yeah, that's too hard. I'll just call her Suzie". Classic!! I love it! And last but not least, Saturday night was the Fisher Family Christmas. There is never a dull moment at this holiday gathering, and this year did not disappoint. We play Dirty Santa every year and there is one very special gift that is passed along year to year during this game. Aunt Buddy's vibrator....gross huh!? So the story goes, Aunt Buddy died an 80 something year old virgin who was single her entire life due to her very busy, very classified job with the CIA (or something like that). When she passed away, the family who was cleaning our her personal belongings found her very personal, neatly labeled "the vibrator" in her closet. It has been passed along in Dirty Santa since. I was the lucky recipient last year so I had to bring it back this year. Everyone always avoids the large packages during the game because they are afraid it is the vibrator, so Justin and I got a little sneaky this year and took a picture of the vibrator with a message "Got ya!" written on the back and put it in a very small bag. It was pretty funny.

Our last Christmas was Sunday. We spend the afternoon at DB and Wanda's. We had a great time playing Dominoes while waiting for Wanda to get home from work. After dinner, we got into the presents. I think Justin felt satisfied receiving the last installment of "the breast pump fund." Lucy got what we all called, the Pooh Train. It was a cute Winnie the Pooh train thing she could ride and it made lots and lots of noise. Lucy LOVED it! The best part of the night was when Brandon took the Pooh Train to try to look for a volume and Lucy absolutely freaked out and threw a fit! It was very cute, it just broker her heart that Daddy took her Pooh train away. I can't believe she has gotten so big. She is the sweetest, prettiest baby in the world, and I am not just saying that because I am a proud Aunt, she really is! Justin and I both love her to pieces! I can't wait for her to teach her cousin Adalyn the ropes! I hope they get the chance to be close. I never had cousins to be close to so I look forward to watching our girls (and boys...when we have some) grow up together.

Spending Christmas with our family was such a blessing....however, we were never so happy to see home Sunday night. It felt like it had been forever! Even the dogs were happy to see home and they took their spots beside us passed out on the couch, after they opened their Santa Clause of course! Thank you family, for making our holidays merry and bright! We love you all so very much!!

The Toy Box Legacy lives on!

We spent the weekend at my Mom and John's for my family Christmas. It was a great weekend full of laughs, fun games (new family favorite Apples to Apples), classic movies (The Grinch), food (an unmentionable number of sausage balls), and of course presents. Justin and I "made our like bandits" as we like to say, and received a lot of great gifts from my family as always. Justin's favorite gift was probably his lovely set of snowman hand towels from Pog and Jackie. If you follow me on facebook, you know the notorious Justin and the snowman towel tale.....if not, that is definately a story you should ask one of us about, its a hiliarious holiday classic! I was also very excited about my "real" Uggs! I have lots of boots, don't get me wrong, but my shallow vanity comes out just a little in my over enthusiasm to have the word UGG written on the back of my new chocolate boots!! I can't wait to wear them, although sadly it will have to be next fall when I don't have elephant cankles. My sweet, thoughtful Mom also gave me a wonderful gift that I will cherish forever. She bought one of those recordable books with the story Twas the Night Before Christmas and had recorded herself reading the story. It has been a family tradition for as long as I can remember for one of us in my family to read that story aloud on Christmas Eve. Even now, when we aren't all together on Christmas Eve, Mom makes us call Ryan on speaker phone so he can hear too....he's always thrilled :) I can't wait to share this someday with my kids.

We also enjoyed making snowman Christmas cookies on Saturday, as a group, which was interesting. However I must say that our first attempt at group baking was successful. The cookies, even with their slow and questionable production, turned out very cute and quite delicious!

With all of that....my favorite part of the weekend and my all time favorite gift, was from my brother Ryan (who I have so lovingly called Pog since we were kids...??don't know why). A little background for you.... When we were little, Pog had a football shaped toy box. Poor Pog spend a great deal of his early childhood inside of this toy box. I remember dumping all of his toys out of it on a regular basis and putting Pog inside. I would sit on top of the toy box and when Mom would come upstairs she would ask "Where is Ryan" and I would just shrug and look cute and innocent, like I was :) They key you see, was the two small holes that were located in the back of the box. They were about the size of quarters and I would tell Pog that if he made a peep I would plug my fingers into those holes cutting off his air and light supply. It worked like a charm! What are big sisters good for?? Apparantly torture and giving baby brothers post traumatic stress syndrome, because Poor Pog has never forgotten this. We laugh now.... I guess I hope he never sends me the bill for his therapy heehee. Anyway, he had a very big surprise for me Friday night and made me sit on the couch and close my eyes. I heard the sound of something big being drug down the hallway and when I opened my eyes, there in front of my was an original Little Tykes football shaped toy box with Adalyn's name neatly written on it in pink paint pen. Also, conveniently, he labeled each one of the two holes in the back, Uncle Pog's safety hole. I was in total shock and could not stop laughing! How awesome is that!?! My first thought was OMG that is SO small, how in the world did Pog ever fit in there! I guess I forget that my 6'2 250lbs+ brother was once 4 yrs old and tiny! Pog said that he had to search and search and finally found one on ebay. I can NOT wait until sweet little Addy is putting her little brother or sister in that toy box one day! It will bring them closer together and lay the foundation for so many wonderful memories of sibling rivalry (wonderful memories, right Pog?) My brother is a big turd (I say that with love) I would never have imagined such a thoughtful gift from him. As absolutely hilarious as it was, it was also so very heart warming and made me feel so thankful that Addy has an Uncle Pog. It was the greatest gift ever!

Busy Body Baby

Being in a uterus must be fun, because my daughter is having a party in there! She really moves all of the time. I wonder when she sleeps....which makes me wonder when will I sleep after she gets here. Sometimes I think she must be working on some type of project in there and is going to pop out with a model airplane or something. She is busy! I asked my doctor last week if all babies move this much, or she really is just her father's child and finds it impossible to be still for more than 5 seconds. Justin has ants in his pants so I guess the ants run in her genes. It is really cool at times. She even entertained the cashier at JC Pennys yesterday while I was checking out. She was kicking Mommy very hard and the lady could see her and commented. I was there looking for nursing bras. All I have to say about that is WTF? Who makes these things? They can't possibly fit anyone in a flattering fashion. Ok I know they are for nursing, but seriously, I can't wear these to work under actual clothes once I go back to work and am pumping every day. First of all, they don't make them in enough sizes for larger breasted moms to be (and arent all moms to be fairly large breasted by this time). Who is 7 months pregnant and wearing a 32A?? The largest that they run is DD. However, I hope you are huge if you are a DD because the smallest band size you are going to find is a 42! I started out a D to a DD before pregnancy. So I am beyond anything that Motherhood Maternity or JCPennys can offer me, but who likes to order some super expensive nursing bra that you can't try on and can only return by mail. SOOoooo I did leave Pennys with two bras. They are basically just cotton almost sports bra type of nursing bras except they hook in the back like a normal bra. They are 42 DDs, and entirely too big in the band and ride up...but it will save those of you who will be visiting me in the hospital from cathing the eyeful that you NEVER wanted to see! Until I get ready to pack my hospital bag I am also sleeping in them for now. I can rotate those and my nursing tanks because I cannot bare to be without support (even minimal) for any legnth of time now. These suckers are HEAVY! Its almost all I can do to shower without a bra on. I'm afraid that during that short 15 mintue period of each day they are just gonna stretch and fall down to my feet because they seriously weigh a ton each. Is it possible that I am carrying 5 babies without any of my doctors knowing...I'm thinking there is one in the belly, one in each gigantic thigh, and then one in each melon sized breast. Nice! As I am typing Adalyn is attempting to kick my laptop into the floor. I have also started experiencing this strage tingling sensation around my ribs. It is right under my breasts and does happen on each side, but its more frequent under my left breast. It doesn't hurt, the best way I can describe it really is just a light tingleing, buzzing, almost asleep type of feeling. Sort of like a light shock that you might get if you plugged your hair dryer in and your hand was a little wet...you know the feeling. Not painful just strange. Who knows what that is. I am carrying so low that I don't think it is possible for it to be her feet in that area. I never feel kicks or movement up high. Its just weird. But other than the uncontrollable boobs, tingling rib cage, swollen oversized sasquatch feet, and shortness of breath...I am still feeling pretty good. I am really starting to get excited as we are counting down in weeks instead of months. Once we hit Christmas we are about 2 months (8weeks) away from her arrival. I just can't wait for her to get here! We are working on finalizing some things for her nursery and showers are now in the works, which is very fun and exciting. I am so blessed with such amazing friends and family. This girl has NO IDEA how loved she already is by so many people. She is so rotten already, its sad! She is getting Christmas presents and she lives in my belly!! I do have an udpate on the letter situation....Trash! That really never worked out for me and I was lucky enough to come upon some very cute name signs this past weekend at a festival/fair thing in Franklin TN and I ordered one for her. They are super cute and all I have to do is pay for it...perfect! I have officially learned my lesson and I'm just not going to be "that" Mom, the cute crafty one with all the handmade this and that. Oh well, she will still be cute!

We start our holiday dash this weekend and I'm looking forward to it. We are non stop traveling for the next two weeknds making our way to all the family. I know it is going to be very tiring, but I love this time of year!

Entering the 3rd trimester

Wow! I can't belive I am entering my 27th week of pregnancy, which also is the first week of the third trimester. I am on the down hill slope! If we do indeed induce on February 26th, we have approx. 12 weeks left until we meet our sweet daughter, Adalyn. This is such a busy time of year, and I am thankful for that because it makes the time go by faster. I am ready for her to be here! But we still have A LOT of preparations. I have been working on her hanging letters (that will spell her name). Instead of paying like $25 a letter I decided I would just buy plain wooden letters and paint them and tie hanging ribbon on them myself. I reeeaaalllly should have known better since I don't have a craft bone in my body. After my second attempt at painting them, three of the letters are bound for the trash. It has kind of been a disaster. The first time I painted them I did not weigh down the plastic that I put them on and it blew up on top of them and dried on to them. My brother was kind enough to sand them down for me so I could start over and I continued to make a disaster out of them the second time. I accidentally sprayed some sort of carborator spray on one of them and it ate through the paint and the leetter itself, and the other two just bubbled up where I had screwed them up originally and it looked like crap. So I guess I will be buying three more letters and trying again. Hopefully I can get these right and get to the ribbon part....I can ony imagine how that will go with my luck and lack of craftiness. Other than that. I am feeling pretty good. Some things are getting more difficult.... like bending over and getting up....oh and going up the stairs without feeling like I am going to pass out. But Addy kicks and moves all the time which is so amazing. I can even see it sometimes now. My book says she is just a little over two pounds. Who would have known that something that small could come with so much extra baggage...around my thighs and ass! I just keep thinking that it is all for her.....and pray that I will be able to get it all off after she is born. I have started having some weird baby dreams. I dreamed one night that I had her and that she was premature and very small...however seh was completely health and could talk in full complete sentences like an adult. Kinda creepy. Then just night before last I had another dream that I had her and that she was a giant baby...like the size of a 1 year old. And also that she had the longest most beautiful eyelashes. Don't know what that all means. I guess weird dreams are normal. At least I havent had any crazy labor dreams yet. I actually do not feel afraid when I think about labor and delivery. I know that at the end I will get to see her face, so it just seems like nothing compared to the reward. Everything that comes after....now that is a whole different story. I pray every night that I will be a good Mom and I will be able to raise her the way she deserves. I pray that we are both parents that will make her proud. That is a big responsibility. On a lighter note....Justin changed his first diaper this weekend. Julie let him change Lucy...it was a peepee diaper, but he did pretty good. He didn't know which way was the front and back, so we should see some interesting things when Addy does get here. I can't wait to see him handle his first poop! We have quite an adventure ahead of us!

Will I ever wear my jeans again?

Today was our 6 month check up. Adalyn is doing great! Her heartbeat was 152 beats per minute, and she is growing and moving and developing as she should. I on the other hand, had an absolute breakdown through the entire appointment. Why do they insist on taking your weight at the front of the appointment? It just makes you depressed. At 24 weeks I have gained 29 lbs to date. I am tipping the scales at 193 lbs. Holy crap!?!?! It just broke my heart. I know that I am pregnant and I am supposed to gain weight. I want to do everything I can to make a healthy little nest for Adalyn and to have a healthy pregnancy....however....the weight gain is really hard to swallow. I couldn't stop the tears! I was embarassed and I felt rediculous but I couldn't stop! I could not stop crying and sobbing and shredding the kleenex that the sweet nurse gave me. Dr. Chauhan was not concerned about my weight and said that everything was fine, and I belive her, but it still hurts. I just look at my monster thighs and wonder if my body will ever look the same again. I have struggled with my weight my entire life. I have never been happy with my figure until last year when I lost 35 lbs. to prepare for the happiest day of my life...my wedding to my wonderful husband. I walked down the isle at 150lbs in a size 8 wedding dress and I felt fantastic!! I had put a little of my weight back on of course after the wedding and honeymoon was over, and was comfortable in my size 10 jeans. I guess I just feel sometimes like I did all that hard, hellish work (5am workouts) for nothing. Ok not for nothing....I would do anything in the world for my sweet, precious angel. Again, its just hard I guess. So I have decided to wallow in my own self disgust for one whole day and then tomorrow I will put my head back up and move on and if I need 2 sandwiches for lunch, I will eat my turker on wheat guilt free (both of them). I will continue to exericse when I can and eat healthy foods and feel proud of my baby body! I know I will get my body back, but right now I have better things to worry about....like decorating my girl's nursery and getting everything ready for her big arrival!!

Our First Anniversary

Yesterday, October 22, was our one year anniversary. We were married last year on a beautiful beach in Melbourne, Florida. The day was not without its craziness (hello busted wedding dress) but was perfect nontheless. Our first anniversary was just as perfect. I received a beautiful boquet of a dozen multicolored roses at work. They were breathtaking. What a sweet husband I have! Then after a long day of work we got home and got ready for a great dinner at the Butcher Shop. Justin surprised me with a heart necklace with our sweet baby girl's name engraved on it. I couldn't have asked for anything more thoughful or more beautiful. I am so very lucky. We had a great dinner and then came back home to dig into our wedding cake, which once you dug into the center, was surprisingly still tasty. Thank you Misty for traveling all the way from Florida with our cake! All and all it was a wonderful, memorable anniversary and I look forward to many many more. This past year has been the best one of my life. I love you Justin!

20 weeks down 20 more to go...

Tomorrow is our big day...the sex determining ultrasound. Tonight I am so full of hopes and dreams and love. I'm also a big bundle of nerves. My whole life changes tomorrow. I will be able to say for the rest of my life that "I have a beautiful daughter" or "I have an incredible son". I can't wait to know. Justin and I have had our names picked out for weeks now and we have been keeping them a big secret from all of our family and friends. I am just dying to tell someone....EVERYONE! I am so happy that both of our moms are going to join us and share this special moment with us. For four weeks I look forward to our next appoinment. It keeps me going to hear that precious heartbeat. Tomorrow I actually get to see an image of our baby and hear about the growth and progress that he/she is making. My next entry I promise there will be no more he/she. I will be so proud to call Baby Baker by his/her name....out with the /! I can't believe that we are half way through this journey. We only have 20 more weeks to go. It is so funny that Justin and I were talking on the way home from Nashville today about a friend's wedding that we attended this past April. We were saying that it doesn't seem like they have already been married for six months...then we thought how crazy it is that six months from now we will have a 2 month old baby. Wow! Thats an attention grabber. Sometimes I have to remember that I'm not getting whale-sized for nothing...we are actually going to have a baby in four months. FOUR months! We have so much to do. I am so excited to start working on our nursery. I want to make it a perfect spot for our sweet baby. We already have furniture picked out and bedding, I just need to know which set to order...the green or the pink. What a big day tomorrow is! I am so happy and so inlove with my little family.

There is really someONE in there!

FINALLY...after nearly 19 weeks of waiting Baby Baker finally let me know who is boss. I felt his/her first kick today and it was just amazing. I have no words. I am crying and laughing and I don't even know what to say. I have been sitting at my desk working for quite a while and finally I decided I couldn't wait for my potty break any longer so I stood up quickly and I obviously distrubed nap time or something....because I got a nice little kick to the right of my belly button. It stopped me dead in my tracks. I am so thankful for this moment. I cannot wait to meet our little miracle.

Looking Forward to October

I cannot belive 4 months have come and gone! As the moth of September comes to an end I am 18 weeks pregnant and feeling every bit of it. BabyB is continuing to grow bigger by the day (it seems like). I still have not felt the first movement. I'm a little bummed, but my doctor told me it would probably be 20 weeks or so because of where my placenta is placed. Still....I want to know what he/she is doing in there! More than that I want to know if we have a he or a she! Our ultrasound is exactly two weeks from today. I am so excited and anxious I can hardly stand myself!

The Bakers have a BIG month coming up with lots to look forward to. The weekend of October 10-11 we will be taking Pooh to the St. Jude Dog Show. It is sooooo much fun. We are hoping he acts right, you never can tell with him. Then on Sunday we head to the big city of Nashville for football Titans vs. Colts. Justin is very excited. This was my early anniversay present to him. I'm also looking forward to making stops in Nashville that include visiting with Julie and Brandon and Lucy and Ryan and Lisa as well as stopping at the bowl place....better known as Ghengis Grill. Its one of our favorite places to eat. Tuesday the 13th is our ultrasound YAY!!!!! The next weekend is my dear friend Esther's wedding and then the 22nd is our anniversary. I can't believe it has been a year! It has gone by so fast, but it has been amazing and I love my sweet husband very much! We wrap the month up with John and Leeann's wedding on Halloween and then on to a fun costume party at Chuck and Ashley's. WHEW!

Fall is my favorite time of year. If you haven't noticed....it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL outside. What is not to love about life right now ?!! I am so excited about all the fun things we have going on the next few weeks. Watch out for the Bakers coming to a town near you!

The Beginnings of a Beautiful Blog

So this is my first attempt at blogging. I have never been very good at journaling so hopefully this will be a better way for me to document our lives and share it with our family and friends.

The Baker's 3 is made up of myself, my wonderful husband Justin, and BabyBaker...who is on the way. I guess we could have called it the Baker's 5 becuase I know Darby and Pooh would be totally offended if they knew I left them out! The Baker's have a lot going on right now. As I mentioned we are expecting BabyB in March. I am 16 weeks. We had a doctor's appoinment today and it was wonderful. BabyB got a little irritated at the doctor chasing him/her around in my belly with that wand trying to catch the heartbeat....he/she was swimming around all over the place trying to escape the poking and prodding! But finally, we got to hear that most beautiful sound in the world...at 170 beats per minute. Don't worry, BabyB will not have to be refered to as he/she for much longer. We are looking forward to finding out the sex just 4 weeks from today. The suspense is killing me!! My prediction is Boy...but we shall see. Meanwhile....my belly is getting bigger and I definately look pregnant. It is so exciting to know that an absolute miracle is happening inside my own body!