my pregnancy brain is still happening at an epic level.  KC has even started quizzing me anytime we leave the house or another venue to make sure i’ve got everything i need.  fun fact though: i still end up completely spacing and forgetting something at least 50% of the time.  on new year’s eve we were leaving my sister’s house and KC asked me if i had gotten everything i came with; i confidently said, “yeah, all i brought were avocados!” (i made guacamole), only to have my brother text KC 15 minutes later to tell him that i had left our champagne bucket and my cell phone. oops.

weeks: 20 1/2

baby’s size:  cantaloupe

i’m feeling:  good!  my morning sickness is officially over and my energy is a little higher now that my iron pills seem to have kicked in.  i’m feeling a little more like “me” now, and i’m relishing this period of looking legitimately pregnant but still being small enough to move around fairly easily.

food love: decaf mochas — omg, i could drink these all day, everyday.  it’s an obsession.  my absolute favorite are the gigantic ones they serve in cereal bowls at la boulange (and yeah, i can totally finish the large all by myself.)

food hate:  certain types of meat are still totally unappealing.  KC has been making this pulled pork concoction from costco and i can’t even be in the room while he’s cooking it.  ugh.

3 pros for january:  1. babymoon!  2. baby is kicking up a storm these days, and KC can finally feel her kick too.  (and seeing the way his face lights up when he feels her moving in my belly — well, it just makes me want to have a whole mess of babies with him.)  3. there’s a legit pregnant belly happening over here — it feels like it’s getting bigger by the day!

3 cons for december:  1. i’m still occasionally super hormonal (i can cry at the drop of a hat and randomly go from zero to pissed in 0.1 seconds — usually about something super minor and unimportant.)  2. sleep is still tough — i toss and turn all night long, only finding a position comfortable for short spans.  3. bending over to get something off the floor is getting tougher each day — this belly doesn’t move out of the way!

currently living in:  my regular gap jeans + bellaband still.  i bought a couple new sweaters at banana republic since it was sort of freezing (uh, y’know, “california freezing”) and also purchased a new pair of jeans (in the pic above).  it’s a little weird to be buying jeans that you can’t actually button, but the maternity jeans i bought are still too big, so regular jeans + bellaband is the current uniform.

looking forward to:  getting back into a workout routine.  between the intense morning sickness of the first trimester, then the crazy anemia-fatigue followed by the holidays, my barre routine has been sorely lacking for quite awhile.

dreaming about:  setting up the nursery.  we need to clear out the space still and have a couple unfinished projects downstairs, so i’m really looking forward to getting started and seeing how it all comes together.