Goodbye 2nd Trimester

I have reached the end of my 2nd trimester! I have a feeling these last months will go by faster than I had anticipated. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I keep going back and forth.

I am 7 months along and he will be here whether I'm ready or not!

There is a reason why the 2nd trimester is known as the Honeymoon stage. I've enjoyed the increased energy, not having a raging appetite, and being able to eat most foods without getting sick.

And the thing I've enjoyed the most is my face clearing up! For once in my life I've gone months, yes months, without any zits! Also, my face used to get really oily and for months I haven't had to worry about it. I'm actually hoping this isn't pregnancy related because I don't want my face to go back to "normal" once my time is up. I did start using a different face lotion about the time my face started clearing up and being less oily, so I'm hoping that's my golden product. We shall soon see.

Now that most foods don't automatically trigger my up-chuck switch, I've been enjoying eating again. Also, my hankerings for certain things have gotten stronger and most recently include bacon, cheeseburgers, mexican food, and of course chocolate and peanut butter. I watched an episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Bacon edition, and I was dying!! My mouth was salivating, my tummy was rumbling, I couldn't concentrate. It all looked so good and I needed to get myself some bacon! One of the things they featured was a bacon cheeseburger from a place called Hodad's in San Diego. We just so happen to be going to San Diego soon and I will be insisting that we go there-maybe more than once.

During my first trimester I couldn't stand anything sweet. Just seeing commercials on TV would give me that sick feeling in my stomach. It was the weirdest sensation knowing how much I love anything sweet, but feeling like I would throw up if it got near me.

Travis' sister, Michelle, has a theory about this. She thinks that if you don't crave sweets and crave salty things during the beginning of your pregnancy then you'll most likely be having a boy. And it's just the opposite for a girl. If you crave sweets at the beginning then you'll be having a girl. She is 3 for 3 (2 boys, 1 girl) and I'm 1 for 1 based on her theory as well.

I was starting to have anxiety over if I would ever be able to eat anything sweet again. Luckily, I'm proud to say that I have been cured. Since about the 13-14th week I slowly started to want sweets again. Now it's back with a vengeance. Almost like I'm trying to make up for all those weeks of not being able to eat anything sweet.

Some things on my sweet list are gooey brownies with chocolate sauce, peanut butter rice krispies smothered in chocolate, and chocolate cupcakes. Also those small, innocent cartons of Haagen-Dazs chocolate ice cream with peanut butter swirls, I just can't get enough of. I can down a whole carton in one sitting when supposedly there are three servings in there. Don't ask how many I've purchased in the last two months. Let's just say, don't worry about them going out of business any time soon.

I can't believe I'm nearing the end-7 down, 2 more to go! AHHH!