I’m only 18 drawings behind, which I consider a triumph considering the whole first trimester thing mixed with trying to buy a house while holding down a full time job.

Mississippi came home with us 10 months ago. Lately she’s been quite the snuggle bunny. Her favorite thing is to curl up with you on the couch and get her belly rubbed. She will also occasionally smash right up you and cuddle up like a regular old teddy bear. She enjoys sitting on laps, despite…

Yep, I’m 14 weeks and I’m definitely looking pregnant. Things are pretty easy right now. I just get tired. I have funky sharp pains in my belly button and some weird muscle cramps in my lower abdomen when I move the wrong way, or sneeze while lying on my back, not a good idea anymore,…

Well my extreme hunger only lasted a couple days and was followed by sharp pains in my belly button, muscle pains in my lower abdomen, and extreme fatigue. And the next thing you know, I look pregnant. It’s kind of strange. There’s no hiding it anymore. I think I even got my first pregnancy favor…

Mississippi decided to take a nap while curled around my arm.

No, it’s not a rich, chocolaty dessert, it’s how I feel today. I feel like I’ve been sitting alone in this house for a thousand years, like some sort of Rapunzel waiting for someone to rescue me. Tomorrow I’ll put Mississippi in full day daycare and go work downtown. And I’ve got to be at…

Mississippi isn’t eating her meals with the same enthusiasm she usually has. She nibbled half of yesterday’s breakfast in intervals throughout the day, and she ate her dinner in little bits over several hours. She still wasn’t excited about breakfast today and hasn’t touched it yet. So she’s staying home with me until her appetite…

I’m 13 weeks pregnant now. It feels great to be out of the first trimester, but so far, the second trimester has been challenging. I’m starting to get very, very hungry. I’ve had two days in a row where my hunger got so bad, I was almost out of my head. The first day it…

As if having a baby wasn’t excitement enough for us, we’re also buying a house. All the cool kids do the baby/house combo so we figured, why be different? We’re in escrow right now on the best house in the whole world. It’s old though, and there are some problems. There is an oil tank…

We had our 12 week ultrasound nucal translucency screening and blood test yesterday. We got a very good, long look at our little one, who seems to think that my belly is a bouncy castle. The kid was bouncing all over the place. Looked fun. The tech said they call it trampolining. She said babies…

I was easier on myself yesterday with these daily drawings. I need to get caught up and loosen up on my own expectations so I can keep this project going. So I did what comes naturally, doodling. These don’t require source materials or paints (except for the backgrounds on two), just me and pens. Tom…