Re-Birth Pre-Birth

An event like this calls for a re-birth.  Guess what world?  This blogger is back, baby!  And welcome to our newer, cleaner, cooler home on blogger.  I hope you like what you see because you are going to see it at least once a week now.  And that is an almost guarantee.
To say that a lot has happened since my last post is an understatement.  I think when you see my highlights you might see why we were a teensy bit busy. For brevity here is the low down.

• Charlie started walking in April
• Charlie found out he was going to be a big brother 
• Charlie started running in May
• Charlie started CLIMBING in June
• Charlie got his drivers license in July 

Okay, so that last one is a slight exaggeration, but you get my point.  This little guy is growing up so fast it is making my head spin.

The other big time news is of course that Charlie is going to have a great responsibility in December when the littlest Tal will arrive.  Boy or a girl, what will it be?  Ahh you'll have to wait until... TUESDAY!  That's right dear friends, we are finding out this time around.  Stand by for our official guessing game later this weekend.
So, here is what you all come back for, my chubby gut.  Please, take it in.  It is a glorious preggo sight to behold.

Unfortunately, I don't have a 20 week picture from my pregnancy with Charlie.  It seems like I might have *gasp* been a bad blogger then as well.  So in lieu, I will compare with my 22 week picture from January of 2010.

 

Same jeans, same shirt, same... WHOA.. what?

 

 

I think it is pretty safe to say that I am bigger with this baby.  It may just be my body remembering what the whole "pregnancy" thing is.  Or, maybe this is a different kind of baby? Time will tell!

The Bump

I have been having a hard time dealing with the fact that I am going to get bigger.  I am not a weight obsessed person, but even when I have a little too much junk in the trunk, I have always thought that I had some pretty fine looking abs.  I officially said goodbye to my abs about 6 weeks ago.

I was pretty excited to exchange my abs for a cute baby bump, but it looks like the bump must be on back order.  I have definitely not popped by any means.  Instead, everything has just gotten wider.  My itty bitty waist is not so itty bitty anymore.  Those who know me swear that they can "see something", but what they are seeing looks more like the result of a binge session of pizza and cheeseburgers as opposed to any hint of actual pregnancy.  I have been dreaming of the day when a stranger might actually notice that I am pregnant.

So here I was way back when we found out.  (notice the tan... ahhhh to be tan again.)

Here I am right at the start of our second trimester.  1/3 of the way done and barely showing.

This was just a few weeks ago and is my latest belly shot.  I can definitely see that the bump is there... somewhere.  (on the plus side, these are my pre-preg A-pocket Seven jeans... boo ya.  Although the white shirt no longer fits)

Next Monday I think that I'll start weekly updates.  What better way to start out the week then to look at my belly, right?