Sadly, it's been a while since I graced the pages of my blog, and I’m just wondering exactly how many Christmas references I can cleverly drop in this one post. Good King Wenceslas, it has been a crazy couple of months! Allow me to quickly catch you up to speed. In June, I was still bantering about my disappointment in Julia Child and bragging about my coupon whoring ways. It is now October, and Jingle Bells, it is officially Autumn which for me is the most wonderful time of the year. I am actually going to the store today to stock up on soups, chili, and Brunswick Stew.
Since we last met I have started a book club, The Coffee House Readers and although there are officially almost 10 members the club typically consists of online posting and meetings that occur only between my neighbor and I, the founders and sole participants. In addition to the book club, I have gotten married, and I’m also expecting a baby! How's that for a double whammy?
As of today, I am 16 weeks pregnant and my baby is the size of an avocado. Each week since I found out I was pregnant the baby has graduated in size by way of various sorts of food, primarily fruit:Week 8 Kidney Bean
Week 9 Grape
Week 10 Prune
Week 11 Kiwi
Week 12 Plum
Week 13 Lime
Week 14 Lemon
Week 15 Apple
Week 16 Avocado
In my lazy, hazy days of the first trimester, I literally did…nothing. I didn’t want to clean, read, write, or even cook, some of my favorite things to do. I didn’t and still don’t have an appetite for some of my favorite things such as coffee (yeah, yeah, a pregnant woman can have 200 mg’s of caffeine safely per day and a cup of coffee is 130 mg’s, so don’t judge, I couldn’t drink the stuff anyways!), seafood, aside from tuna which now my doctor has limited my consumption of to two times per month due to mercury. Tell me, for how many centuries were pregnant women eating as much tuna as they wanted to and everything went just peachy keen? According to other research that I’ve read, oily fish, including tuna has so many positive aspects that it contributes to the development of a baby that they say the benefits outweigh the risks involved. The jury is still out on that but given the high-risk nature of my pregnancy I am begrudgingly only satisfying my cravings a mere two times per month.
I go to get my second ultrasound this coming Tuesday and should baby avocado cooperate like a good little avocado, then I’m hoping we will know whether it is a boy or girl. My money is on girl although I’ve honestly had dreams of both. We shall see.
I can’t let a posting go without mentioning how media constantly runneths over my life, so before I go, we, Coffee House readers, or rather my neighbor and I are reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for our October read, quite appropriate for the Halloween season. I will end on this note, a quote from this fabulous novel and one my neighbor drew my attention to, "The creatures were crawling on their hands and knees, biting into ripe cauliflower, which they had mistaken for stray brains.” Speaking of cauliflower, I wonder when Baby Avocado will catch up to that veggie?
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