My new favorite food

In the fall, I went through a phase where I wanted to eat brussel sprouts every day. I couldn't believe that this tasty vegetable existed, and that it's bad rep is totally unfounded.



Now that I am out of morning sickness and well into eating as much as possible of whatever I can find, I have a new vegetable I love. I can't believe I hadn't tried it until last night.

The best part is that it makes your tounge and your teeth pink. It's almost as satisfying as eating a red popsicle.




BEETS!


Noelsef, get ready to eat beets for every meal. Oh wait, yesterday you only had one because I ate them all.

baby goggles

I am becoming extremely aware of all babies and ALL baby paraphernalia. I have NEVER noticed this stuff before, and all of a sudden, the arrival of a wee one in my womb makes me stare googley eyed at babies and chase people up the downtown mall asking them where they got their diaper bag. (WHAT is a diaper bag anyways? Isn't that just a regular bag with pockets? I don't know, but I am SO checking all of them out.)

Charlottesville happens to be the best place for baby watching too. The downtown mall, the farmer's market, Fashion Square Mall (nobody actually goes there I thought)...the babies are EVERY where. Pregnant women and their babies are taking over this town, and I don't know how I missed it until now.


Someone told me this is the best stroller in the world. It sure does look cool. I read that this is the "mini cooper" of strollers. Go figure.



I am not sure if I am ready for that, but I will tell you that I am ready for this.



Pregnant lady overalls- I have been dying to wear them, and I can't find them anywhere...what is the world coming to? I continue to pray for the day when overalls become as popular as ugh boots and mini skirts.

In other news, Noel is in the middle of exams and excessive paper writing. In order to be in full camaraderie with him, I have registered for the GRE in order to advance my future graduate school education. You can find us with our number 2 pencils behind our ears. I hope my wacked out pregnancy hormones don't affect too many brain cells between now and June 7th. (I do have a memory issue and continue to lose my cell phone when it is right in my back pocket.)

super hubs

So, clumsy pregnant lady I am, I dropped my tweezers down the sink. As I yelled for Noel in haste and imagined what our landlord would say when he discovered tweezers in our sink pipe, Noel came to the rescue.

With his genius grad school on-his-feet-invention-convention attitude, he proceeded to place magnets on the bottom of a long piece of duck tape. With quick skill, he dropped the duck tape into the sink...AND pulled out my tweezers!! Keep in mind that the whole time I was standing behind him jumping up and down on my tiptoes throwing words of doubt and question into his ears ( terrible, I know. I apologized PROFUSELY after the fact.)

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In all his glory. It is as if he invented chocolate.



The tweezers stuck to the magnets. I had to document the moment.

more food, please.

Our camera is officially busted, so I have no photos to show for a busy month.

Here are some highlights:

-Allison's visit. Talking about babies and pregnancy for 10 hours straight was never so much fun.

-Noel's parent's visit. Monticello, hiking in Shenandoah park. You better believe pregnant lady can hike up some serious hills.

-the opening of the Charlottesville market and my new obsession with the popsicle stand at the market. I am making a goal to try every flavor.

-me as avid fan cheering on the 10-miler runners as they ran through campus. I thought I was waking up early to go support the runners, but I was humiliated when I only made it to see the tail end of the runners as they busted through the finish line at a bright and early 8:30 in the A.M.

- the return of my appetite. A couple of weeks ago, at around 11 A.M., I realized I was so ravenous it was possible I was going to eat my fist and all the pencils on my desk. I raced to subway, ordered a foot long, ate half of it in the car, and half of it in the office. Ever since then, I feel the need to eat every 1.5 hours. This makes for a lunch box fill to the brim.

Just for a visual.



This is what I are for dinner last night (all by myself) :