Time is flying!!!

Okay so I've been out of the e-world for two weeks... aside from the occasional facebook chat or e-mail that is!  Mexico was very relaxing, we were there for a full 6 days and then 2 days of 1/2 day traveling... that's the worst I must say is just all the flying that exhausts you.  Our condo was beautiful it was a 3 bedroom 4 bathroom with a full kitchen, living room w/tv & dvd player, 3 balconies, outdoor shower, outdoor dipping pool (size of a hot tub) and it had a hammock, two lounge chairs and a full outdoor patio dining set!  It was the size of a house, it was so wonderful.  The only bummer was like most of the unique, hillside hotels there are no elevators!  This preggo gal here walked up and down the stairway (100 steps!!!) 2-4 times a day.  Talk about burning some major calories haha!

We ate at a few really good places, my goal was to find the best Tortilla Soup -- but I still say the one in the What to Eat/Eating Well pregnancy book is by far the best!  Go figure.  One day Ryan bought me and my mom these really pretty shell necklaces... they almost resembled banana chips!  My mom's is solid black and I got a purple one and then a multi-color one.  I love it!!! That same day Ryan got totally wasted -- his "once a year blackout" -- he puked 4 times within probably 1-1.5 hours and kept saying "i'm fine, really i'm fine" -- he doesn't even recall a moment of all this, LOL.  It was funny afterward to me because I know if I hadn't been pregnant I probably would have been in those same shoes, but I felt bad because no one likes getting that drunk in public or having the aftermath.  I was surprised though he didn't even have a hangover!  Lucky Duck.

My belly has started getting bigger, but no official bump yet.  I didn't take many pictures and only have 1 (not so good) photo of myself with my family... blah.  Oh well, the beautiful sunset photo's will have to do for the baby album instead.  One night last week my belly button was literally just HURTING so Ryan took me back to the condo and I realized my belly button was wanting to pop to an OUTTIE, what the heck!  I can now pull back the sides of my belly button and "push" it out... its kind of creepy.  Needless to say, I've retired the ol' belly button ring and going to let the piercing heal up... Ryan being the loving husband he is told me that post-baby (and post baby weight loss!) if I want to get it re-pierced he'd pay for me to do so. Aww.  Actually though it was such a juvenile thing of me (I was 18, in college and bored so a friend and I got piercings) and IMO I think it is kind of a sex symbol / "single" person kind of trademark... I'd rather just have a nice fit body post-baby and not try to look like some 'sexy mama'.

Today my MIL comes in to town, it should be fun... I plan to take her to Babies R Us and show her the few things we are going to get for baby once we're in the house.  We decided we're going to use the pack 'n play as a bassinet in our bedroom for awhile and get a crib later on -- mostly due to finances but also because everyone has been telling us that most babies don't sleep in their cribs until they're a few months old.  Plus we figure it'll be summer time and we'll probably be downstairs most of the time or outside so it'll make sense to have something more portable to use rather than buying a bassinet and a crib or what not.