12 weeks - finally!!

I can't believe the 12 week milestone is finally here (well, actually, I'm 13 weeks right now, but was a little busy last week to make this posting :). I thought #12 would be just a number, but it turned out to be a pretty eventful week!

The day I hit 12 weeks, the exhaustion and nausea pretty much became non-existent! It was amazing to wake up last Monday and discover that I had almost all of my energy back!! And good timing, too, because that was Halloween week - one of the most exhausting weeks all school year! I actually worked out three days in a row - I'm sad to admit this, but that was the most times I had exercised in two months!!

The other fun thing I woke up to on Monday morning was the fact that a belly had grown over night. I tried hiding it all week, but could tell by Wednesday that it was nearly impossible! I decided I had to tell my staff on Thursday, or else they would all think I was overindulging WAY too much in my stash of Halloween candy. (Okay, I was, but I wanted to blame something else.) Many had already suspected. Go figure. I also told my students' parents on Friday. Many of them also had their suspicions. Maybe I'm not as good at covering things up as I thought?! And then yesterday, I told my students. Their reactions were priceless. They had such innocent questions and also blunt statements. Such as, "Will you be able to sit in that chair when you get big?" Thanks. Or, "What do you think the baby is doing right now?" And then today a boy came into the classroom and said, "'I've been wanting to see you all morning to see if your belly has grown!" I showed him and before I could explain that it isn't going to get huge over night he said, "Yep, it got pretty big already." Thanks again. Oh, how I am going to love sharing this time with four/five year olds!!!


And last but not least, I am also experiencing the very fun "pregnancy brain". At least I spend most of my time with kids half my size, so hopefully they won't notice too much. But I had one experience on a nature hike field trip last week that really made me want to crawl in a hole. A question came up as to what our state bird is and no one knew it. I kept saying, "I should know this, I should know this." And then suddenly I shouted out, "A beaver!" And then quickly realized a beaver is an animal, not a bird. A parent also quietly explained to me that that would be a good answer for the state animal. Wow, made me feel even more like an idiot. Since the parents who were there didn't know I was pregnant yet, I couldn't blame it on preggo brain. I wasn't even quick enough to say, "Oh, I guess I've been hanging out with PreKers too long." Nothing came to mind, so I just felt pretty dumb for about 5 minutes and pretended I was really interested in some of the PreKers questions. Yikes - I had hoped that I could escape the preggo brain!!

Can't wait to see what else this experience brings! This has definitely been an interesting adventure so far!!