being pregnant...

...is a lot like having a hangover.

seriously, you don't drink and you sleep whenever you can but i have usually (in the last month) felt exhausted, nauseous, light headed, sweaty, shaky and hungry for anything greasy.

fun times!

this weekend i was supposed to go to Lindsay for Henry's 3rd bday party but had to work sat & sun to launch a site today so i stayed in the city. Saturday i was totally ok, until i went to meet mum for lunch and the room started spinning. i jumped in a cab, *just* made it home in time and then proceeded to have a very up close and personal conversation with the toilet for the next 3 hours. not my finest moment.

when it all stopped i dropped into bed and my mum, god bless this woman, stayed with me until i was able to drag myself to the couch and eat something.

sunday was working and then couch time with the kitties. good thing they love to sleep because i have not been the best playtime partner as of late. but they love being lazy so we're all pretty happy to spend some time doing a whole lot of nothing.

tomorrow is jimmy's 30th! i am going to do something i haven't done in forever and actually make plans for a weeknight. wish me luck!

love love love her

3. Bold Colours

(Delicious cupcake courtesy of fellow band wife Dayna)

2. What Makes You Smile

1. Self Portrait

(16 weeks)

oliver james

once this belly gets a little bigger (omg we are growing by the day) it's going to be time to begin baby's musical education.

and i think we'll start with this, one of their daddy's favourites :)

Well that was brutal. 

Friday night i was feeling pretty ok until just after dinner then boom, the sickness emerged. I attributed it to baby since my dinners don't always sit the best in the evening but this was a little too projectile for my liking. I got the ick Flu feeling just before bed but man, I haven't had a flu like this in I don't even know how long.

I woke up around 11:30pm and the back and forth to the washroom was pretty steady every 25 minutes until 4:30am when my husband woke up and all I could say was "I've been throwing up for 5 straight hours" before slowly crawling back into bed. We paged the midwife and on her advice, pulled on some clothes and headed into the ER. If I wasn't pregnant, I would have just waited this thing out, but the dehydration was an issue so we went in. It kinda made me laugh when we got there and I was like "oh hey, this is the ER I went to when I accidentally sliced my arm open before leaving for NZ". The ERs in this city are like a walking tour of my ridiculous health stories. And poor Jimmy's had to be there almost every single time.

It was also pretty funny to see 2 girls dressed for the bar sitting in the ER and hearing one of them say to the other "well, as soon as she punched me, I didn't feel drunk anymore". I believe she was waiting for a tetanus shot. At 5am. This is the moment I felt grateful for the flu I had being much happier to not be in her shoes.

After a full IV bag, blood drawn, intravenous Gravol and 4.5 hours, we were headed home. 

I slept most of the day away and missed my father in law's birthday dinner/all of the family coming in to T.O for it, my bestie's bday celebration and a baby shower I was attending on Sunday. I don't think I left the bed for more than 10 minutes straight for 2 days. 

Like I said, pretty damn brutal. However, we heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time on Friday morning and I'll tell you, that made everything better. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite so incredible in my entire life. 

So in light of that, I think this might have been the best weekend I've ever ever had :) 

pinteresting

buddies!

i have finally signed up for Pinterest, courtesy of my work neighbour/work husband Tyler. check me out here http://pinterest.com/beanshb

now all i need to do if figure out how to navigate this thing and we're in business. now that i'm on the nest i have feeling i'll have some time to rededicate myself to this blog.

tonight i think (if i am not in bed by 8pm) i am going to give this a shot. how cute is that?!

xo h

ohhhhh baby

Worst ever at posting? Obvi, that's me. Things have been a tad on the busier side and I have been sleeping more than I ever knew possible. Combine that with Christmas, a 2 week trip to the UK and cleaning out our apartment of things we don't need on a seemingly constant basis and it makes sense that I've been a little pooped. Especially since all of my energy these days is going into growing the little peanut Jimmy and I found out we were expecting in November :)

We're 14.5 weeks in. 

The little babe should be ready to meet us in July and since we're planning a home birth, I have also been spending a lot of my time reading up on anything I can get my hands on regarding everything to do with midwives/natural birth etc. 

Although I do admit, my best efforts to concentrate is still quite easily thwarted by the 2 babies we already have. They seem indifferent to the news thus far but I will be very interested to see how they adapt to not being the center of our attention/universe when the little one comes.

For now, they're doing what I'm mostly doing and chilling in bed, getting cozy and relaxing. Minus a few headaches here and there, this pregnancy thing has been pure magic. When you replace alcohol with cheeseburgers, life seems to be pretty damn sweet.

:)

wedding photos arrived today after 4 long months of patiently waiting....

reliving the day in 900 images

just reminds me of how that was the best day of my life

although these days, every day's been pretty damn sweet

After all is said and done I feel the same

this has been a year of amazing shows. beirut, noah and the whale, the national, the kooks and about a million strumbellas shows mixed in throughout. all were so so good but i think jimmy and i agree that nothing holds a candle to the Fleet Foxes show we saw this summer.

if you ever get a chance to see them and enjoy getting your socks rocked more than ever before then GO. just go.

4 years

Christmas is coming and ohhhh boy it's coming up fast. Seems like I'm totally behind in everything this year and the hope of any baking getting done just seems like a completely unattainable goal. I've only got one thing for Henski so far and at least 10 other presents i still need to buy. Yikes.

The good news though is that Jimmy and I aren't getting each other this year - a promise we made about 4 months ago probably to help us feel justified in booking a trip to Ireland/England that begins on Boxing Day.

The truth is though, every day with this guy feels like a gift - and I have a feeling that it's going to just get better as we go into 2012.