It seems impossible that I could be showing this early. With Chloe, I didn’t show until 14-15 weeks. Here I am at 11.5 weeks.
Let’s see if my rat-ta-tats hold up this time around. OH youthful whims…at least they can be covered.
Can’t really tell too much from the front.
And with clothes on. Looks like a pot-belly. Can’t really tell from the front. notice how I strategically do not show my whole body….can we say APPLE BOTTOM…HOLLA!
See, having a nice camera does not make you a good photographer. My hand was shaking so bad trying to hold my camera out far enough so the lens could focus. I could have waited for Ryan, but what fun is that? It is really cool to be showing so early but then again, HOLY CRAP…what am I going to look like at 8 months, 9 months….my poor 12 inch torso, what shape will you be in the end?
The really cool part is that I have felt the baby kick for the last 3 days. I thought there is NO way this early I am feeling the baby, but I checked with my Ivillage expectancy group and several second time moms have felt movement. So although I am crazy and full of gas…this was not the cause.
Now I am going to invite you into my marriage. Ryan and I will avidly admit we aren’t super romantic. We blame it on our finances because seriously, if Ryan showed up with flowers I would be so happy for about 30 seconds and then I would freak out that he spent $30.00 of grocery money. It isn’t like it isn’t in us and there are lots of little things you can do without money, but on the whole, this isn’t our strongest area. Now I have to say Ryan is the most thoughtful guy I have ever met! He is so in tune on how to help me and is never bothered to do anything for me, ever. It is wonderful, I love this about him.
What we do have is junior high humor! It is sad, you would think the older I get the less appealing middle school humor would be…but no, no, you can’t take the 7th grader out of the 31 year old. One of my favorite things we do is email flirt and write messages on the bathroom mirror (and pictures) We will have to stop the drawings when Chloe gets a little older (wink wink).
Anyway, I was looking through some emails and IM’s that we sent back and forth recently and got giggling, so I thought I would share a few.
From Kelly:
I loved the seriously huge log I was greeted with this morning. Some husbands buy flowers or leave notes and others leave gifts in the toilet. How can one girl be so lucky…swoon? I also enjoyed the smell after I flushed and broke that mother into 500,000,000 pieces….mmmmmmm. Not hard to keep down your cereal after that.
Well I am off to wash my skanky hair, I just chopped a whole bunch more off, I think I will be bald soon. I will think of an equally sweet gift I can leave you today. Maybe puke on your pillow or pee in your shoes…I don’t know, I am just spit balling…we’ll see where the spirit leads.
LOVING YOU!!!! You silly man!
Kel
(Now I told Ryan I would have a disclaimer on this that he only does this when he has the shower going and doesn’t want the water turning cold before he jumps in. He just forgets sometimes to take care of business after the shower…lucky me!)
This is from an email to my friend Amanda “Kickyboots” Brown.
Last night I was teasing Ryan and told him to follow me into the back room and I pointed to my butt and said, “follow the bouncing ball” and we had a major discussion on what sound my butt cheeks make when I walk, if butt cheeks could make a sound. I think we settled on Gah-gong, gah-gong, gah-gong. It is the sound of a brief lift of the cheek and a slamming down into the thigh. Nice huh…that’s what we do for fun.
Iming from separate rooms:
Ryan: your breath smell like poopoo sticks sometimes.
me: I know, and you can tell me and I will brush my teeth
just like you can. It is called a courtesy brush…you should try it.
here is another IM
Ryan: hey sex
what’s poppin’?5:39 PM me: my name is not sex
5:40 PM Ryan: I know, it’s your middle name!
That’s all I got for now doing a quick search in the archives. I don’t know, maybe we are romantic it is just a “different” kinda romance than is traditionally taught. Hey, it works for us!
Your little pot belly looks so cute! I showed earlier with my second, too. Let’s hear it for the kickin’. Yeah!
Ya’ll are hilarious.
I saw these photos on Flickr and left you a comment. I think you look GREAT! So not pregnant looking. I was popping at 8 weeks and everyone let me know it. That is wonderful you have felt Porty so soon. How cool is that!!! I love the little flutters before they become painful kicks.
And you are Ryan are great for each other!
You guys crack me up! Matthew IM’d me the other night while we were sitting at desks next to each other. He typed, “You look hot” Hee!
I felt Emily move early. And also had gas. I learned to differentiate the two, though. Sounds like Baby P is making him/herself known!
You look great and it’s so cool you can feel Porty. There’s no way I’d take pictures of my belly & post, because even though I have a bump….there’s no baby!
Just chubs. I actually would kill for my husband and I to talk “romantic” like that. There’s a thrill and stimulation in the humor you have much like romance but you get to laugh, too. I say you’ve got it good! Pooplog talk is off limits in our house unless I want to turn the hubs face red! 
Oh where is the 7th grade boy he used to be! Thanks for the pic update of baby #2.
I know I felt my second baby at 12 weeks - I was sitting with my stomach jammed up against the computer desk, felt something, and knew exactly what it was - baby moving, trying to get the computer desk out of her face!
OMG…Kelly you could not look any cuter! Your romance in your marriage is EXACTLY the same as mine…We have childhood humor as well…I don’t think we would survive without it…My husband seriously makes me laugh like a nervous kid in 7th grade! I LOVE IT! Thanks for reminding me that its not about the things, but more about the MARRIAGE….
Rachel
I like your bump!!! Very cute!!
(And FYI — with Avi I was in maternity pants at 7 — yes I wrote SEVEN weeks!!! I miscarried my first pregnancy at nine weeks and still in size 2s… then I got pregnant with Avi — many months later — and my body knew what to do….) So all hail the bump!
you’re adorable.
I think it’s fun to be able to contact your husband like that during the day. My husband has no clue as to how to use a computer (!!!) so none of that for us
oh, the log. many a morning have i woken up to the ‘i had to get in the shower’ excuse. way to keep it real, kel. you look really great.
How fun! A baby bump! I can’t wait for the day when I to can show off a baby bump.
My husband surprises me with a log once in a while too, and they are a stinky how-do-you-do in the morning.
Thanks for the vomit in my keyboard. At least it’s my school one.
great. logs in the bathroom toilet. bad breath. morning sickness. makes a girl really wanna get married and knocked up!
Hey! I had to let you know that Andrew and I are the exact same way. He is always coming up behind me in the kitchen (or wherever) and humping or doing his “porn star” face… which completely cracks me up. haha He’d die if he knew I just put that out here in public. oops
I think a good sense of humor is absolutely key to a healthy relationship!
Love your pregnant belly!
What a cute lil’ belly! So cool to feel the kicks early on!!
Love the little belly! I always find it still amazing that in these bellies of our’s there’s a little life in there, a little miracle. It’s awesome!
I can’t believe how CUTE you are!! You and Ryan make me laugh.
newwwwwwwwwww post. your fans await. (hardy har har)
Uhhh…. allow me to kick your ass for all that “I wanna lose weight” mumbo jumbo that you were rambling on & on about. Look at you, girl! You skinny! Well except for the adorable bump, of course!
yes, the second the second girl shows waayy faster than the first.
what?
yep, i’m betting you are having another girl.
anyway, my second child and all her business was smaller than the first. mainly, because you are too busy taking care of the first one to worry about the mid-afternoon snack of a sundae and fries. oops, i just outted myself.
by the way, your belly is hott! mine? very saggy. lucky….