Last Pre-Mommy Vacation/Pregnancy so far/Registering

    It has now been almost a week since returning from my last Pre-Mommy vacation and I feel like I am still catching up to the real world pace. My sisters Michelle, Kristin and I went to Port Aransas for 4 days last week and took my 3 nephews Jack, Renny and Paul. I must say it was probably the best vacation that I have had in a really long time. We rented a condo a 1/2 mile from the beach, had absolutely no plans the entire time, soaked up the sun, enjoyed the ocean breeze and had amazing sister bonding time. I picked both Michelle and Kristin's brains a lot about their pregnancy, childbirth and being a mom. Many of them are things that you never know what the answer is depending on which baby/motherhood book you pick up. It was also so nice to have those conversations that I would normally have with my mom and will never have the opportunity to, but this was a perfect replacement.
    I was able to buy a few things for the Chance's nursery while I was down there. A welcome sign for his door made out of sand and sea shells, 2 glass sea horses, a wooden sail boat, and 5 starfish which I plan on putting up around his name on the wall.
     The trip definitely gave me some experience in learning what it will be like raising a son. There was a lot of tears on this trip between my nephews, all ranging from accidents while jumping off the couch to not sharing, not getting their way with wanting to watch a certain movie, and a little of just being so tired from the day. Another little boy moment that I had was when I was in the living room sitting on the floor watching TV waiting for my turn in the shower after coming back from the beach. Jack and Renny just got out of the shower and decided to run around naked and use their privates as laser pointing guns (I believe is what they called them). So many fun little times and surprises to look forward too!!
    One of the things I noticed on the trip that was different was I did not feel Chance kick much at all while I was down there, or at least not as much as he normally does while at home or at work. It must have been the calm ocean breeze. Yesterday, I was at my eye doctors office waiting to be seen and he was kicking like crazy, I looked down and saw my belly move for the first time while he was kicking, it was so weird but amazing at the same time. It wasn't anything much but definitely enough to notice. One of those amazing milestones in pregnancy that you look forward to.
   I must say that I feel so blessed by my pregnancy so far, I have had only one day of morning sickness, a couple of days were the food that I ate just did not agree with me, and my energy level throughout my pregnancy hasn't been anything to complain about. The only thing that has been a little rough are my hormones. I have had more moments of sadness than normal in the past few weeks. Feeling lonely and just down right sad. I think a lot of it is not having my parents here to share this experience with me, but I must say hormones stink! I hope that they will start leveling out soon like women who have bad morning sickness in their first trimester and get over it once their second trimester is in full swing.
    An exciting time I had was last Saturday I met my sister at Babies R' Us and registered!!! I was so much fun but it definitely worked up an appetite. So of course we had to finish up there and have some great Mi Cocina then hit Target afterward for more registering. I went back later online to look at my registry and could not believe how much stuff was on there! Majority of it though was necessities but had to throw in a few fun items! Here is a picture of the crib that I registered for, I feel in love with it!!