January 15th

I know I'm going to regret not blogging or writing hardly anything down about this pregnancy. However, that fear of regret probably is not enough motivation for me to blog more often. Oh well. I just had this thought. Hunger seriously rules my world right now. I will be just fine doing whatever it is that I'm doing at the time and all the sudden its like BAM. HUNGRY. And if I don't get food within the next 5.3 seconds there is probably a kitten somewhere that dies. Maybe its not that bad but its bad. I'm sure Andre is getting sick of it. I guess if thats my only complaint about pregnancy its pretty good. I guess its not my only complaint, just the only one that I really hate. I can deal with my hips hurting and with my huge stomach and the fact that I can smell the gross paper factory from Lewiston at my house in Moscow.. which is 20 miles away. If thats not an amazing sence of smell I don't know what is. I haven't really had any weird cravings. I think the only craving I've had at all is for rootbeer. But that craving is not one limited to pregnancy for me. I love rootbeer :)
I have a friend in my ward that has been super super awesome to me. We recently started going to the student ward instead of the family ward. The first day I was there, she befriended me and that week invited me to a girls night with some of the other girls from the ward. Since then, she has called me many times and invited me to a few different things. She has been super awesome and I'm glad that she has taken the time to be my friend. Right after she found out I was pregnant, she gave me her old car seat and swing. Then, when she found out I was having a boy, she told me she had some clothes for me. She just had a girl, and its her second girl. Apparently when she didn't know what she was having, she went to this clothing exchange thing where you donate clothes and get to take clothes that other people have donated. She had gotten a lot of boy clothes, just in case. So she pulled down this big tupperware box of clothes and blankets and gave them to me. So now, my baby has clothes :) Almost everything that we have for the baby so far has been from her. I'm so greatful that there are people like her that are so nice to everyone around them. She's been a super huge example to me and I really appreciate her. She really is amazing.

Andre has started school again. He's going strong this semester with another 20 credits. Last semester he ended up getting one B and the rest As. He had 20 credits then too. He ended up getting 100% on his physics final and the teacher is trying hard to get him a spot as a lab TA, which is a job normally reserved for graduate students. It would be awesome if he got it. He spends a lot of time before those tests teaching other students how to do the work. He is going to be a good teacher. He loves to help other people and doesn't often think about himself. I am lucky to have found such an awesome guy.

I am now 27 weeks pregnant. Almost into my third trimester. We decided we're going to name our baby Archimedes. Were going to call him Archie for short. We haven't zeroed in on a middle name yet though. I was trying to find a good family name or something and so far I haven't found anything that seems right. I want to name him after Andre, but Andre doesnt like that idea so much. He things Archimedes Andre doesnt sound very good. Our other ideas are Archimedes Tyberius and Archimedes Raider. If anyone else has any ideas for awesome baby middle that you have been saving to use on your children, go ahead and tell me so I can steal them from you :).

I think that's all I have to say.. sorry that there are so many words and no pictures. I really should post a pregnant picture (or so I'm told) but I just don't feel like it :)