Pregnancy confusion

Wow, when women talked about pregnancy cravings and changed taste buds they weren't kidding! My mom said she never had any cravings with any of us and she didn't suffer from the typical "morning sickness". So I figured, like mother like daughter right? Not. I had a really enjoyable first trimester and first part of the second trimester with morning sickness(sarcasm). Just the smell could set me off. I literally could not imagine eating at all, or ever again. I wondered if it would last forever! I remember the week that it started, I would wake up in the morning with uncontrollable hunger. Where I thought I might die if I didn't eat right that second. It then turned into hunger pangs that made me nauseated? How bizarre. I remember I was on a health kick, because I had had 2 other m/c and I wanted to do everything in my power to give this baby as much nutrition and vitamins I could. So I bought these oatmeal bars and started eating those for the fiber and stuff. One morning I was eating it and I was literally gagging on it and couldn't get it down. I thought it was weird, but made absolutely NO connection to morning sickness. I just thought I wasn't feeling that well and it just didn't taste too good that day! Too funny because it was the next week that everything came to a head and I officially had nausea 24/7 :(.

Now, I get these urges for different types of foods. Where I NEED to eat them right at that moment! My taste buds and cravings have changed too. I mentioned I craved a mcgriddle a week ago, wtf?! I HATE those things!!! Also, I bought root beer at the grocery store the other day. It was funny because it sounded so good so I got it. And then immediately forgot about it. Jesse was so confused because it is so NOT like me to ever even buy soda! He was like you actually bought that?? HA And he was laughing about the mcgriddle thing because I REALLY don't like those things and he knows how much I don't! But the latest craving that I've had is grapefruit! Another thing that I have never liked, ever! I love almost all fruit and especially love citrus, but for some reason never liked grapefruit or grapefruit juice. But I have been loving it, so much that I will literally crave it again immediately after I finish it? So freaking weird!!!

So its safe to say that I am loving frozen yogurt with strawberries from big spoon, blackberry frozen yogurt from sunflower cafe, breakfast food (french toast and crepes), burger/steak, cherry tomatoes, lemonade, sour candy, chipotle burrito bowls, donuts, pickles, and protein berry workout jamba juice. I am trying to write down a lot of this stuff because I will forget. Some of the cravings have been really consistent through the pregnancy and then some of the others have just been random urges! I really thought the craving thing was all in your head or made up. But its legitament! Just like I thought the morning sickness was made up, it definitely is very very real!

And tonight J and I are going to register and I am excited. I have been feeling a little overwhelmed because I am 25 weeks and we haven't really done much to prepare. I know we don't have to do an insane amount or anything but I am definitely getting that nesting feeling and really getting antsy. Oh! And today I was on my way home from dropping J off at work and when I pulled up to the driveway NeYo came on the radio. And baby was dancing like CRAZY! It made me smile a lot so I said, "do you like NeYo baby?" and the baby again started dancing around, and I started to sing along and it made the baby move a ton again! It was a very fun experience! Maybe we have a babe in there that will be a dancer like me? haha.