17 Weeks...

I’m feeling much better of late. Just still tired and missing the days when I was pregnant with Helena and able to nap morning, noon and night (literally).

My food cravings have gotten much more tolerable—although I’m still very picky right now. I can’t get enough juice…at one point I think we had five different kinds of it in our fridge.

I’m also craving a lot of things that I don’t normally eat a lot of: shrimp, potatoes, cereal, popcorn, these really yummy nutella and berry crepes from this place by my office, yogurt, and Sausage McGriddles from McDonald's. If you've never had a McGriddle, I'd highly recommend it. It's basically a sausage, syrup, pancake sandwich. In my head I tell myself it has a lot of protein, so that outweighs the badness of McDonald's and two syrup-filled pancakes acting as buns.

And as with Helena the veggie cravings are few and far in between—some things I’ve deemed as suitable substitutes for salads and the like include sweet potato chips, potatoes, green bean casserole and ‘salad’ as long as it’s a side dish to some type of Mexican food.

We had a great vacation to Kansas and loved seeing everyone again. More on that later…once I figure out how to download the 800 pics we took from my new camera onto the computer.

-Emily J