Update

Week:  14
Overall:  I'm not waltzing around singing Simon and Garfunkel's "...lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy..."  HOWEVER, I am feeling remarkably better than I was during weeks 7-11ish.  I am usually sick for a few hours a day, but that is a vast change from all day every day.  So, for that, I am thankful.  I can still sleep mostly on my stomach, so sleep hasn't been too ridiculous for me. yet.  Energy level?  It's going up, but very slowly.  I am worried that I might be anemic.  I don't take a prenatal vitamin with iron in it for several reasons, but mainly because it makes me super sick.  I try to get iron through food, but I do hate most meat right now, which means I have to work harder to get enough iron that is easily absorbed by my body.  Stupid iron.  I'll have my iron level tested at my next appt in two weeks to see how it's going.
Gender:  We won't find out until I am between 19-20 weeks, which means the week of Dec. 11.  So close, but sooooooooo far away.  I am going to go on record and say that I predict boy.
Big Bro:  He is giving me a play by play, constantly, of what baby McGee is doing.  He seems to think there is a LOT of action going on in there.  Among Baby McGee's activities:  playing games, soccer, peek-a-boo, somersaults, kicking Isaac's head, eating candy, laughing, telling jokes, saying "goo goo ga ga," reading books, and brushing teeth.

Comparisons:  I think this is about the same time that I started feeling part-time better with Isaac.  With Isaac, I swear that the moment I got pregnant I noticed that I did not lose a single hair to the shower drain, which lasted the entire pregnancy.  With this pregnancy, I seem to lose almost the same amount of hair as usual to the shower drain -- so far.  I started wearing maternity clothes around week 22 or so with Isaac.  This time, I had to start wearing them at week 12!!!  Keep in mind, I started out at the same exact weight with both pregnancies.   I dug up my pregnancy photos from last round (there aren't that many of them, though...who wants to be photographed constantly in this state?  Not me.)  I found that the first one was taken at 16 weeks last time.  I am only 14, but I think that at 14 months in my current state of pregnancy, I most resemble FREAKIN' TWENTY weeks pregnant from my last pregnancy.  So here I am 14, and 20 in no particular order.  Can you guess which is which?  I am sure you can...haha.