It's been a long time since my last post. Things have been really, really hectic around here for a few reasons. For one thing, on the work front, my project that I worked on for a whole freaking year FINALLY wrapped up and closed in early February. I couldn't believe it when it happened. It felt surreal and also very anticlimactic at the same time. I had a really large role in this project and this one is for the books. I can't tell you how many times this project made me cry. This project made me work until dawn so many, many, many nights, and the client and other people on the project were notoriously ornery people. But, I definitely learned a lot and it made me a stronger corporate peon for sure.
Then, in even bigger news (which we've kept pretty quiet around here), we are expecting baby #2! This baby is a surprise baby. Husband and I were thinking we would like to have a second, but perhaps not so soon after Emma. Oh well, that decision was taken care of for us.
We already know that surprise baby is a baby boy. It will be nice to have one of each, a boy and a girl (although, I guess we will have to face new challenges with raising a boy vs. a girl). He is scheduled to make his entrance into the world in early July. Everything looks good so far for surprise baby.
I have to tell you that this pregnancy has been different and a lot harder, actually. I remember with Emma that once the first trimester passed, things got a lot easier. But with surprise baby, there was a lot of nausea, headaches and tiredness way past the first trimester, and all these symptoms still appear occasionally even though I am at week 19. It also wasn't easy working those long nights until 3 AM on the above mentioned project while trying to fight all these symptoms! I just hope that the rest of the pregnancy goes a little better than these first few months.
I wonder how Emma will do with her new sibling. She is such a ham. She just loves being the center of attention. She has actually picked up a really bad habit of pinching and biting me if I don't pay attention to her when she wants me to. Those little fingernails and teeth are sharp, and her pinches and bites can be very painful. We are trying to break of these bad habits, but it is an ongoing process. Once again, I am so grateful that my mother is here with us. I really don't know how we would be able to balance Emma, our jobs, and baby #2 without her here.
