5 Weeks + 2 Days

Hi Little one!

Today we called our parents and told them about you! We first called my parents since we know they're early risers. Once we casually got Mom and Dad together, we told them we did have exciting news and showed them the stick, still displaying "pregnant."

Ben took the ropes with telling his parents and he wasn't so casual. He was pretty obvious. By the time he showed the stick, I'm sure they both knew what was coming, but nonetheless, it was exciting for everyone all around. 

Jake and Seth are still here helping us move. We already got rid of all the donation stuff but still have all the stuff that needs to be backed into the pod to be sent to Las Vegas and we still need to pack for our road trip back to Vegas. Today I decided to tell Ben about the road trip, including details since taking of one more thing to stress about alone sounded great. He's excited, especially about going to Atlanta and visiting Danette and her family! 

Ben has to go to work today. Even if I had asked, he wasn't willing to take the day off because he didn't get his 5 year pin and recognition at work yesterday so they would probably give it today. 

Jake and Seth and I went to cast connections to buy some goodies for TJ's kids, then we headed to Hollywood Studios. 

You gave me a good amount of heartburn today and for the first time, I got a bit nauseous! Yay! It's really happening! I hadn't felt much different before and was actually a tad concerned yesterday when I never got nauseous. I went back and forth if my decision to ride Toy Story Mania, but when it was time to load up, I was feeling okay and decided to go. Even with my dizzy and nauseous state, I beat the boys and everyone else in our vehicle! 

After that though I wasn't so excited about more rides. I decided to try to do the Frozen sing along while the boys did Star Tours. I asked the attending cast member when they would open the theater for the next showing. It would be another 30 minutes. 

"Oh gotcha. I'm pregnant and super nauseous and just looking for an air conditioned place to sit down."

"Oh yea, I totally understand..."

Do you though? Do you male cast member who looks to be about 19 years old, do you understand what it's like being pregnant?

He was interrupted by other guests before he could continue and I didn't need anything else anyways, so I walked over to the Star Wars launch Bay and met BB-8 in the air conditioning instead. 

I ended up heading to the ABC commissary to relax. I really craved some Disney French fries to calm my stomach. It was the only thing that sounded good to me. Of course it wasn't until after I ordered that I saw that they served a different type of fry there called "steak fries."

I came to conclusion again that the world must be against me. 

Jake and Seth rode Tower of Terror before deciding they wanted to go to Magic Kingdom. It didn't take me much time to decide that I did not want to go to Magic Kingdom and that I had done enough walking for the day, so I just dropped them off and decided to go home to relax. 

But when I got home, I was quickly reminded that my couch and my bed and all the TVs in the house were gone. By the time I was done moping about it, it was too late to take a nap and I couldn't just go to sleep since I had to pick up the boys from Magic Kingdom later and pick up Ben from work. Stupid broken down truck. So I went to the dinning room where we had 2 white couches put aside for someone to pick up the next morning, and put my laptop up on the kitchen counter, and decided to watch some mind numbing TV. I watched Nashville on Hulu. I was on season 3 which was fun because there is a pregnant character that season.

Then I got more cramps. And these one hurt! That really scared me little one. What were you doing in there? 

I got hungry and cravings for many things but they only lasted for short moments. I got up to make a quesadilla, but didn't get far into before it was too hard and I no longer wanted to eat it. 

I called my mom and heard myself getting emotional. I was having a hard time. I just wanted to relax on my couch and now we won't have a "my couch" for a month since we are crashing with friends most of our long road trip. And these cramps are too painful to be normal. After I hung up I realized I was getting hormonal and I texted Ben:

"I want you to come home. I'm having bad cramps and I want a quesadilla but not long enough to actually make it and I'm an emotional mess and I don't want to drive and pick up your brothers when they're done at Magic Kingdom and I'm just having a hard time right now."

Then I cried. No I balled. I was so loud I was worried neighbors would come check in on me. I didn't know I could cry, let alone cry like that. I wasn't actually that sad, it was 100% hormones. That realization made me happy (because hormones is a sign of a healthy pregnancy) but did nothing to stop the crying. 

Then I get a call from Ben. He got permission to leave early and was on his way to the bus. I felt bad, but was glad he did. I drove and picked him up and he came home and made me my quesadilla. It was delicious. Then he watched some Nashville with me and went and picked up his brothers from Disney. 

I'm so glad that he will be working his last day this Friday! I need him!

I'm also more glad now that we will be staying with the Cottle's this week. Even though that means I still won't have my bed or my couch, at least I won't be alone during Ben's last few days of work. 

I can't wait to see you little one! Except I will so please stay in there until March, 2018.