Oh well

I opened them. And they were great!

gifts

Is it wrong to open your x-mas gifts before the actual day? My mom sent me a box of gifts and now they are all unpacked and layed out on the table in wrapping paper and bowes. All I want to do is open them.

I don't know if my will power is strong enough.

Ice cream

What I miss the most about Boston is all the amazing Ice Cream places. They really out do themselves there.

I miss Emack and Bolio's.


I also miss White Mountain Creamery


and JP Licks.


And Herrell's


And Friendley's.


I am on the lookout for non chain IceCream Stores in the St. Louis Area.
I found Crown Candy Kitchen in St. Louis City

and that's a 50 style diner unchanged and still serving soda shop food, including malts and sunday's.

What I want is a non chain (or if it's chain it has to be fresh made) Ice Cream place, where the Vanilla tastes fresh and like Vanilla beany, and you know that there is a family behind the doors making the ice cream fresh.

I don't want Maggie Moo's, or Cold Stone Creamery, Or Ben and Jerry's. I want a store that there's only one of and a place that's still open in the winter for crazy people like me who really love to eat cold things when it's cold outside!

Jumping Bean

I had my second Dr's Visit and it was just supposed to be listening to the heartbeat for the first time (which is really exciting alone) but it turned out that I was far enough along to have an external sonogram. I had never had one before, but because I watch so much TV I knew what to expect. It's really surreal when it's happening to you, but it's exactly what one would assume. They slop clear gunk on your belly (the gunk is warm which was surprising to me) and they take the wand thing and press down on your uterus until they find the baby.
It was amazing to see because it was bigger this time and jumping. No joke bouncing and kicking and pushing off the sides of my uterus. The weirdest part is that I can't feel it at all.

I tried to count two arm and two legs and I am pretty sure that's what I saw, but the machine is not the best. The real big sonogram machine they use to find out the sex is at the hospital.
I went to this appointment without my husband this time, and I feel bad that he was not able to see the jumping bean, we were only supposed to hear the heart, and I got a picture so I feel like he got to feel a part of it.

A Lime

So far the baby that is growing in me has been so small that it did not really make sense it me. I can't feel it and I was not showing at all. When I layed down at night, I could not tell anything was different inside me.
I am now week 11 and almost through my first trimester. It just hit me last night that I have a baby growing inside me. I feel a bit of a bump, my pants are a bit tighter, and when I lay on my back at night I feel pressure on my bladder like nothing else.
This is because it is now the size of a LIME!!!

And also partly because I am beginning to feel a whole lot better. I am still soo tired that I am going to bed at 9:30pm but I am not as nauseous and am starting to really get hungry. This is what the baby looks like at week 11.


It's not my baby but on the website http://www.i-am-pregnant.com they show week by week development in real life pictures.

As I progress and the embryo that is now officially a fetus grows bigger and bigger I am hoping that the reality of what's happening makes sense to me.
I just feel so out of my body and have scrambled egg head and am soo tired that I can't do things the way I used to.

Anyway I have a new job and that's making everything easier as well.

Greek Food

I am on a mission to Find all the good Greek restaurants in St. Louis. So far I have been eating at Olympia and I went to another one off Arsanel. I need to find more. All I need to find all of them. All I do is crave Greek Food. I need taziki sause.