Crizazy Pregnancy Dreams

I have had crazy dreams since getting pregnant but last night was out of control. I have been waking up for a couple of hours every night for some reason so I actually had 2 crazy ones last night.

One was that I was laying in bed reading a blog (that doesn't exist) of a friend who is studying abroad right now. Reminiscing much? In my dream Andrew kept telling me to put the computer down and go to bed.

Then after my bout of insomnia....

I dreamt of the rapture. I have recently re-read the first Left Behind book....a few weeks ago..so I'm guessing this has something to do with it.

First I was at my parents' house. But it wasn't their current house. It was some massive house. We were cleaning up  toys in the basement when...poof...the rapture. Except all Christians didn't vanish. Some did and some were left behind to tell the other people about Jesus (or Je-Su according to Griffin). Andrew was gone. I was at this huge house with my parents, sister, brother, and my childhood friend Emily Petrone.

One side effect of the rapture was the devil making some people mean. Emily was afflicted by this and was therefore trying to eat my fingers. WEIRD. So, everyone in my family decided to go out into the world except me. And the finger biting Emily.

They left us in the huge house.

Also my mom's parents were there. So as they were saying their goodbyes, I was getting sad. I hugged Dee and told him that I would miss his smell so he had to leave behind his cologne. As they were leaving some mean guys barged in and said that they owned the place now and we could stay but had to pay a million dollars rent per month. Dad wrote a check to them but unfortunately didn't leave his checkbook so I just assumed I would either be dead or find another place to live after a month.

Now...at some point a lady was pushing a baby across a dark lagoon in the middle of the night. Not sure what that was about but I remember it.

And the end.

The freak show has begun!

2 months!

Here is a very unflattering picture of me at 2 months preggo with my little eggo. Since I won't see some of my family until I already know if I'm cookin' a girl or a boy and will hopefully have a tummy by then...the progress will be seen here. So as not to shock you with my size and abundance when we meet again in person. I will ease you in to the puffed up version of Kat.

Nothing too exciting yet! Can you tell I had been lying horizontal for at least 2 hours before I convinced myself to get up to take the picture? I am a good 5 pounds lighter than the 1 month shot thanks to my friend the porcelain throne. It is worth every second of being sick though! I love this little bean and can't wait to meet him or her!

Telling the Fam

Since I told Andrew on an airplane and we live across the country from any and all family...we found it only fit to tell the visiting family in the airport.

It worked out that about a week after finding out JJ was coming to visit. And 2 days after she left, my mom, sister and her brood came to visit.

It still breaks my heart that Ted wasn't with JJ. He would have been so excited.

Dad wasn't able to come with mom and Court (or he knew it would be mass chaos and opted out since we'll see him in Italy next month...).

So....on to the stories.

When we decided to go for it and try to get pregnant, we were at JJ's house in TN. (Sorry, JJ...TMI...you have a lucky guest room :) It was funny because she had been out of town and when she got back had a HUGE zucchini in her backyard. We're talking massive.

I called it my magic fertility zucchini as a joke.

Apparently the joke was on me because it worked its magic! Katie took a picture of me with the huge veg so maybe she could email it to me to post on here...*cough*cough...hint hint :)

Anyway, we decided (I decided...Andrew thought it was weird and gross) to give Griffin a zucchini to give JJ at the airport. Thinking she may or may not get it, we also wrote a secret message on his tummy. He was noooooot happy about writing on his tummy so it ended up just being. "mama's = baby."

She didn't get the zucchini (although she said the thought crossed her mind) and it took her a few seconds but she definitely go the message...and she was excited!

When my fam came, I had put together mom's birthday present which was a little slate flower holder from Pike Place she eyed last time and I stuck the blue and pink onesie in there too.

I also put together a birthday gift bag for Judson since he was born last March 30...our little wonderchild is due on the 29th. Happy birthday Judson! A new cousin that you will be larger than! I just put some pink and blue booties in there.

I put the blue ones on top to throw Court off the scent.

However, they were both on to me because they are psychic like that and Courtney reached in and grabbed a pink bootie and screamed, "I KNEW IT!!!" Them mom looked up (she hadn't found the onesies yet) looked surprised for 2 seconds then looked at me poker faced and said, "I knew it."

What?! I was totally throwing them off for 2 weeks. Complaining about not getting pregnant and everything. We live across the country! How did they catch on.

Regardless, they were super  excited.

Mom is convinced it is a girl. She had a vision of pink a week before I told her. We shall see!

We will be absolutely THRILLED either way as long as this little munchkin is healthy and happy and survives Griffin's love. He loves babies. LOVES them. Poor Judson learned all about that. See:

And in ending....here is baby Spot #2errr3uhhh whatever at month #1 (and a very gross mama)

And a sneaky photo bomber...

Why a million blogs?

Because I want to document this little bundle as much as I documented every single detail of Griffin's pregnancy and first (sniff) 2 years. I have also kept my bloggy scrapbook going for our son or daughter in Rwanda. Couldn't leave this one out! I didn't want to blog about the pregnancy on Inside Kat's Head because even though there is nothing in writing saying that the ministry in Rwanda frowns on pregnancies during adoptions, we didn't want to risk it. Better safe than sorry! We will let them know once she is born.

We were in Spokane on a mini vacay when I learned about this blessing and I found out in the morning and didn't see Andrew all day because he was working and playing golf.

Even though the Grey's Anatomy finale had a memorable quote when Meredith told Christina that she was pregnant and was trying to figure out how to tell McDreamy...and Christina told her, "Why do you have to be creative? You found out squatting over a stick." So true. But. Alas, I had to think of a fun way.

So, Griff and I meandered through Spokane and decided to get a pink and blue onesie from the Gymboree sales rack that say "Brand New" on the front.

The "Big Brother" shirt didn't really fly with this one because we have known for 9 months that Griffin will be a big brother (his little bro or sis in Rwanda). So that wasnt' an option. And I thought this was more fun anyway.

So we got on our little puddle jumper to go home:

After we got on the plane I told A that I had to use the facilities so I went to the back of the plane. I asked the flight attendant if she would hand him the onesies when she was asking for everyone's drink orders and ask if he wanted a boy or girl.

She was so sweet and did a great job! He at first thought, "Wow, Alaska airlines is so nice, they are giving Griffin a gift." no...they are tiny and blue and pink. Then he thought, "Maybe Kat heard something about the adoption!"...then he knew that wasn't really a possibility right now...so THEN he looked at me with a look that said, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" He got it. It was cute.