My Mama never told me THAT & 33 Weeks 3 Days

Things my mother, my grandmother, & my best friend never told me about pregnancy:

~ Even though you have endometriosis and are on high dosages of birth control, you can still get pregnant- "hello, my husband, future son, and myself are the .00008% they tell you about in pamphlets at the OBGYN"

~ It gets to a certain point when, yes, you will pee yourself when you laugh, cough, sneeze, talk, move the wrong way...

~ You can be sick for longer than the first trimester. My grandmother had 5 children and was sick all 9 months...she didn't let me in on this fact until I was 6 months preggo and still puking.

~ Your immune system is lower than usual.- I figured this out in the first few months and have spent the rest of my pregnancy taking vitamin c and watching out for sick swimmers on the club I coach...now everyone knows, if you have a cold STAY AWAY FROM COACH JOYCE. (unfortunately sick soldiers go to my husband the medic and now I have something fierce)

~ The Army is amazing when it comes to a Preggo wife- I ended up in the ER due to dehydration from severe morning sickness a few months ago and my husband was gone on training. They had him back on our island and in our house in less than 24 hours.

~ Heartburn is like fire burning in your throat- ALWAYS keep tums next to your bed and in your purse.

~ Not all doctors are nice about weight gain.

~ Braxton Hicks contractions are not always how they say they are in the books. They can be extremely painful throughout your abdomen and back and last for 24 hours plus. AKA you feel like you want to die from FAKE contractions (how uncool).

~ Your boobs will get out of control huge and have a mind of their own.

~ Your skin can get unbelievably sensitive to, well, everything- even the sun. I get sunburned 20x faster since I became pregnant.

~ It's an amazing moment when you realize your lil one is reacting to your voice and your husbands when still in the womb.

33 weeks 3 days and counting

Daddy in training

Why hellooooooo!

Things have finally come to a tinsy bit of a calm. We're back from  Kona and Zach's parents just left to go back to Texas. The last week has been too much fun...seriously. I'm going to post more pictures from Kona as soon as I get some of that stuff called Sleep tonight.

In the meantime...Zach and Taya are finally used to each other which means Taya is completely obsessed with Uncle Zach....given the choice it was him over me all trip long :) It didn't bother me too much since they had so much fun...She seriously asked Uncle Zach to show her a shark...no better person to ask really- too cute. He didn't get her a shark but he found her a honu (green sea turtle), an a'ama crab, an eel, and a whole lotta fish at a friend's aquarium store.

I've known Zach is going to be an awesome dad but it was just freaking rad seeing him take care of Taya and just totally go into her crazy little 4 year old world with her...I loved every second of it.

1: taya refusing to let go of uncle's leg 2: going to look for sharks on the sea wall on alii drive 3&4: finding a honu & a'ama crap 5&6: cruising alii drive 7-8-9: Nap time. They watched planet earth's jungle and made bird noises for oh, about a half an hour until they both PASSED out :)

Carpe Dive

My husband has an awesome scuba diving blog...It'll be updated with more and more photos soon, especially since he got a new camera! Go check out Carpe Dive even if you aren't into scuba diving it's got some rad ocean-tastic-ness!

Say Whaaaaat?!

Yep, "I'm sorry" are the words coming out of my mouth most these past 72 hours. I hate to say it people but I'm finally getting SUPER hormonal...just ask Zach. I freaked out for about three hours last night until I realized that I was completely being a witch. WOW. I hope it's normal to be this crazy when you're preggo and to cry as much as I do. My husband is seriously being so gracious and patient. I keep praying that these nasty mood swings disappear along with my throbbing back and legs.

Here's a little from our weekend (you know, when I wasn't yelling at Zach & crying).

1: the doooogs got a new king size floofy bed
2: delicious grinds at loco moco
3:ewa sunshine
4:home depot
5: preggo joyce super exhausted being tortured at home depot
6: boy scout makahiki [we helped get kids stoked on scuba]
7:early am sunshine
8: huge belly
9: Diesel diesel diesel 

In other news:

as all of you, I'm sure, have heard Osama Bin Laden is finally dead and gone. I can't help but feel extremely relieved. It also really makes me feel like the last few years and Zach's deployment and all that we've been through has not been in vain.

Zach in Iraq.

umm...i'm having a baby.

So I feel like I go through this monthly where I hit a new realization of "oh my god i'm having a baby" & then I usually cry and eat something (fat kid, what can I say).

I super cleaned our bedroom today and put together the co-sleeper we got and put up a poster by the artists Kozyndan (two of the raddest human beings walking this earth right now) that I got as a gift from my lovely friend Suzanne.

excuse Brie's butt in this photo...she was highly upset by the co-sleeper because it takes up some of her "space".

Zach:: A lei zach bought me just cause (seriously i'm so lucky)::Brie licking my toes (such a weirdo)::Diesel being Diesel