Pregnancy Questions

"Are you excited?" - Rob and I are ecstatic!!  We couldn’t be happier about having a little bundle of joy on the way.  Rob is especially adorable about making sure we are slowly prepping ourselves for the baby.  For example, getting baby souvenirs when we were in Disneyland so that Baby Swier knows he/she was in Disneyland with us! I am hoping he will have a faint memory of hearing the "It’s a Small World" song over, over and over again.

"What is pregnancy like?" -   This is the question that I heard the most when I was first telling people.  My answer, it’s like a hangover, you are tired and you are nauseous, only you didn’t have the party the night before.  I am in my second trimester now and I have heard that the tired and nauseous feelings will start to go away…still waiting.  Some days I do feel like it is getting better.  Today for example, I did not feel like taking a nap after lunch, which is good because I had a roomful of 2^nd graders who needed my attention.  Is a siesta too much to ask for?

"Is it a boy or a girl?" -  We don’t know yet, but we will find out.  I hardly have the patience to wait 5 months, much less wait the whole pregnancy to find out our baby’s gender.  We have about 6 more weeks until we can find this out, so go ahead and guess away.  We have heard so many different theories about how you can tell.  Since I haven’t gotten sick that much some think I am having a boy. On that note, most of my crazy pregnant dreams have been about baby girls, but who knows!  Rob and I have been calling the baby “he,” and just to even it out, Mom Knowles has been calling the baby “she.” 

~Ali