Half way!

This week was my 20th week of being preggers. It's hard to believe we're already half way done. It seems like yesterday we were thinking, "Hey, I think we should probably have a baby now," and now the babe is half way here. I feel like I should look more pregnant by now but I just look chubby. Customers at the store are still surprised when I tell them I'm pregnant. Many people come in who are due in February as well and most are much more round and cute and pregnant-looking than me. Our regular customers who come in once a week are probably thinking to themselves, "Wow, new girl is really packing on the pounds!" Yes folks, I am. But I'm growing a human so I have an excuse. Oh well. I'm sure I'll actually start to look pregnant and then I'll wish I didn't. That's how these things usually work. You always want what you don't have. Being pregnant is pretty nice this trimester. It's nice that for once in my life, I'm not loving what I see in the mirror but it doesn't make me sad or wish that I was different. I'm truly fine just the way I am right now. I'm chubby around the middle, my clothes don't fit great, but I know that I'm pregnant and my husband still thinks I'm cute so I really don't feel bad about it at all. It's pretty great!
This week Glenn was out of town all week on a Geology field trip. His entire class flew to Colorado and stayed in or camped around their professor's cabin. They were doing all sorts of mapping and cool things that I don't really understand even when I ask him to explain. Asking Glenn to explain his studies is sort of a fun process. I ask him to tell me what he does and he uses all of the technical geology terms. Then I ask him to define those terms for me, and finally I put together what he did in my simplified language. So it ends up something like this, "So you were drawing a square map of the different layers of rock in an area where a river left a bunch of sediment over thousands of years. Then you color-code it with colored pencils according to how old it is and what type of rock is it. Then you try to make connections from that colored map to other maps you've drawn of areas nearby. Right?" He looks at me like I'm a child. Sometimes I oversimplify it just to get that look. "So it's like a colorful rock sandwich that was made by water a really long time ago and you need to see if nearby sandwiches have the same things inside?" It's fun! So many big words I've never heard before. I know a lot of big words. Just not Geology ones.
He's back now. That makes me very happy! Everything's more fun with Glenn around.
So happy half way to us. I was able to see our little guy in another sonogram this week. He's still pretty cute...as cute as a little skeleton guy can be.