BABY COPPEL: Second Trimester

The first trimester is happily behind us now! It's week 14 this week and I'm feeling pretty good. Yesterday and today either a cold or my allergies seem to be bothering me again, but nothing too bad that's pregnancy related.

Our next doctor appointment is Thursday, April 8. It's the one after that I'm excited about though. The first week in May is when we should find out the sex of the baby. Then we can start thinking more seriously about names once we're pretty sure of what we've got in there. Having to pick a name stresses me out big time...

Another exciting event the first week of May is Heather's wedding. I need to get my bridesmaid dress altered but I'm waiting as long as I can so hopefully it will fit well for the wedding. I'm afraid if I do it too early that I'll grow too much and it will be really tight when it's time to wear it. I *love* the bridesmaid dresses she picked. I hope that after I have the baby and lose weight maybe I can get it altered again to my normal size because it doesn't look really "bridesmaidsy" and I could probably wear it again for something else. Here's a picture of it, except ours are lapis (dark purple).

This has nothing to do with being pregnant, but I just thought I'd share that in an attempt to save some money, Matt and I decided to groom Béla ourselves Saturday night. We bought some electric clippers at Wal-Mart for less than $20 and shaved her in the kitchen. It turned out to be a lot bigger undertaking than we had expected, but we finally got her done. It's not the prettiest most even haircut in the world, but at least it's not all long and crazy like it was before. It could be worse. We gave her a bath and everything too so she is no longer shaggy and stinky. I'm happy to say that now she does not bring half of the outdoors back inside with her every time she goes out.

I finally had Matt take a few pictures of my belly. The last time I posted there wasn't much to see and I just looked bloated, but in the last 2-3 weeks I'm starting to develop more of a bump. :) So here is my 3 month belly pic: