pumpkin party!

We had our 3rd annual pumpkin carving party last night. Here are some fun pictures! I haven't yet figured out how to rotate the pictures properly... sorry!

water

So I think I should comment on my expanding waistline. I guess I always imagined that having a baby inside me would feel like just that much more fat, so I was surprised the past couple of weeks to notice that it feels much more sloshy. Maybe (probably) it will change as the baby gets bigger, but right now (at 16 weeks) the baby isn't very big, about the size of an avocado, so most of the space that is protruding my tummy is water. When I turn over too fast in bed it feels like there's liquid sloshing around in there like I drank too much water. Isn't that fascinating? (Well it is to me!)

my problem with blogging

So I have put this off for a very long time. I used to think that my problem with a blog was that it wasn't private. I can't easily determine who reads it, and therefore it doesn't feel safe to me. But that's not my biggest problem with blogging. I suppose that my biggest problem with blogging is that it doesn't feel permanent. If I'm going to keep some kind of account of my life I should do it with a diary or a scrapbook. Or I should create some kind of electronic document saved on a disc or on my hard drive. This blogging thing seems like a waste to me... as if my daily thoughts are leaving my fingers and flying into cyberspace never to be seen again. I suppose that my blog will always be here... and that if I get really paranoid I can start printing each post for a notebook or some other such nonsense. But the real reason I'm starting this blog is because although I feel as if this is an imperfect form of record keeping, it is the only form of record keeping I am currently using. And I might as well do something rather then nothing... So here goes... my first blog post...