It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I cannot believe that Christmas is less than a week away.  I'm prepared, but not prepared.  We'll see how it goes.  I have four presents under the tree, which I think is plenty since I've got another four or five to wrap and then I should be done.

I managed to not take too many pictures this week, or really none at all.  I have a video from soccer class last week, to show you all how much progress Jayden has made:

In other news, as most people who read this now have learned, baby #2 is coming June 2015.  The first trimester ended today - which means I am officially 14 weeks.  I've told everyone at work (or at least my supervisors, and word is slowly traveling to everyone else), and everyone else who needs to know so now the knowledge can go public.  The first trimester has been rough this time - I've been extremely tired and nauseous most of the day, which is not so fun.  I'm starting to feel better, but I still have bouts of nausea throughout the day, get bad headaches and generally am tired.  As the ultrasound tech pointed out, I wasn't chasing a three year old last time, which greatly adds to my exhaustion.  I'm really hoping that second trimester boost of energy kicks in soon, because oh my goodness.

It also means I'll have to change the name of the blog - because it most certainly will not be Jayden's world anymore.  He is now excited to be a big brother, sort of, but he has no idea how his world will be rocked come June 2015.  He has decided he wants a "Molly," or essentially the same baby Molly who is at his daycare.  I've told him that might not work out (we don't know yet if it's a boy or a girl), and that no matter what, the name probably won't be Molly.  He's not happy about that, and has had almost tantrums when I try to explain that, but he's going to have to get over it.

I have been sending out a weekly update to my family up until now, but unless someone objects I'm just going to combine the blog with the updates, because that's easier for me.  At 14 weeks, the baby is 3-1/2 inches long, which is about the size of a lemon:

The kid can squint, frown and grimace, because its facial muscles are stretching and working themselves out.  The kidneys are producing urine, which he pees out into the amniotic fluid surrounding him.  It sounds super gross that the kid is floating in its own pee.  I hope nobody is eating right before or after reading this.  If so, sorry.  The baby can grasp, which means the kid could be sucking its thumb.  I had an ultrasound on Monday as part of some genetic testing we had done, and it looked like the kid might have been sucking its thumb.  Preliminarily all tests look normal, which is a relief.  I won't know complete results until next week.  Carmen got to come with me on Monday, and it was his first time seeing the baby, so that was fun.

The body is growing faster than the head, and its arms are almost proportional to the body - the legs not so much yet.  The hair that covers the fetus is also beginning to grow.  I remember with Jayden thinking this was so weird - kind of like a baby duck or something.  The kid is moving like crazy each time I've had an ultrasound, including one time where they couldn't find a heartbeat because the kid was doing flips.  It's pretty cool.

And I'm sort of starting to show.  People who know can tell I'm showing - anyone who doesn't really know me probably couldn't really tell:

The mini bump.

Jayden managed to break out into hives yesterday morning/afternoon.  Not awesome.  We couldn't think of a single thing that would have caused them, and we didn't get the chance to grill Julia about it.  They moved around his body, covering his legs last night, his legs and stomach this morning, his arms after breakfast and he had a small one on his back when he went to bed tonight.

They're mostly gone, so I'm hoping they continue to fade away and are gone by tomorrow.  I went out after he went to bed last night to buy children's benadryl, but then it turns out you're not supposed to give kids under 5 benadryl without a doctor's permission.  So that was a wasted trip.  If things haven't cleared up completely by Monday/Tuesday, I'll call the doctor to be safe.  But he isn't sick, he isn't short of breath, and he isn't even itching, so those are all good signs.

I've got all kinds of good quotes from Jayden that I'll try to put up, particularly regarding the baby.  It's so hard to capture everything when it's being said, but I'll try to get better!