Baby Belly, Round 2!!

We're cruising right along with pregnancy #2...and that baby belly has made it's appearance a little earlier than last time.  Here's a few pics that we've taken to document our journey the second time around...

 A little over 4 weeks on March 26th...and the results!  Yes!!

Marley announces her BIG SISTER status to the world mid-May!

12 Weeks on May 18th

 

Almost 14 Weeks on May 31st...belly is a growin'!!

The plan is NOT to take weekly pictures, it just so happened that I did the last few weeks so that I could see for myself the difference between my belly when I was pregnant with Marley and with this pregnancy.  I grabbed an old picture of me during my 1st pregnancy.  Here I am at about 16 weeks pregnant with Marley..........

 

I guess the growing big is nothing to complain about!  I have a baby growing inside of me and I'll just let my body do what it needs to in order to keep that process going!  Aside from the "showing earlier than I expected" stuff, the pregnancy has been a breeze (knock on wood).  I've had almost the exact same, and actually I can't name something that's different, pregnancy as I did with Mars.  No morning sickness, no food aversions, nothing really to note other than TIREDNESS, which I hope is going to die off a bit.  I had my 14 week check-up today and all was great.  We heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time.  We had a chance to see the heartbeat during our 2 previous ultrasounds, but this time, to hear it.......oh that is such a wonderful sound!  A solid 146 bpm, which is exactly the range that Marley usually clocked in at while in my tummy.  I still have a feeling the baby is a girl, but time will tell.  I've been known to be wrong a time or two in my life (don't tell my hubby that)!  I'm up 6lbs for the first trimester...not too shabby considering I took the hubs to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse last night to celebrate his 30th Birthday...............I had steak, potatoes, a big salad, creme brulee (all to myself).  Uff-da!  I was certain I'd hop on that scale in the morning and be up 5 more pounds.  For the most part I'm craving pretty healthy foods (apples, berries, big salads....crazy, right?), so I think I'll just keep doing what I'm doing, walking with Marley and Sasha at night and limiting that pints of Ben & Jerry's Late Night Snack Ice Cream I eat to a minimum.  Yes, Trav has had to go to multiple stores to find it for me because it was ALL I WANTED!!  Well, that and the B.T. McElrath Salty Dog chocolate bars.  A local chocolatier with a tie to my sis-in-law's fiance..........if you haven't tried one, you need to.  Heaven, seriously.  The only thing better would be eating a few squares of it with a big glass of red wine.  Soon enough!!

Wishing you all a happy weekend.  Looks like summer is finally here, thank God!  Enjoy the heat and the sunshine and all that fun stuff that comes with summertime!