Wait, do I even like pancakes?!

So it is nearly eight o'clock on a Monday morning, I have been awake since four, and currently I am waiting for bubbles to appear on the surface of my pancake so I can flip it. Also, I am about to warm up some apple juice to make spiced cider. Delicious. I'm not sure if I should blame this on the pregnancy or not. In any conversation I have ever had about pancakes, I claim I really don't like them. This leads me to the question, why am I making one then!? (Side note: Oh yeah, go me, successful pancake flip!) Omar leaves for work really early each morning, typically after he leaves, I fall quickly back to sleep. Today, however, was

The pancake!

not one of these mornings. Somehow when this happens, I always find myself searching AllRecipes.com for different food ideas. Mainly desserts, but some dinner ideas as well. In fact, I will be attempting chimichangas later this week! Anyways, somehow my searching led me to breakfast foods, which led me to pancakes and the desire for one. I guess my subconscious, or perhaps my baby, was telling me I was hungry! Lately, I have been trying to make breakfast myself, I have been a little sick of cereal. Yesterday I had an English muffin with cheese, Canadian bacon and egg with a blood orange and some spiced cider. Today, I am having a pancake with some spiced cider. I wish my other blood orange didn't go bad, or I would have that too. I think autumn has helped me to rekindle my love for spiced cider. Well, I guess autumn and mulling spices. I found mulling spices in teabag form at Whole Foods, this makes it super easy to enjoy some spiced cider. All you do is heat up some apple juice, which is always in abundance in my fridge, and then steep the mulling spices in it for about five minutes.

Yesterday's breakfast

So, pancake is ready, on my second bite, and today, I do like pancakes...maybe only mine though! I can't wait--I'm excited for the day I can make pancakes for my daughter. I have decided to add "I can't wait" to my mental list of phrases to not use. In real life, you do have to wait and I don't want to spend my time waiting wishing it would pass by in an instant. Instead, I want to cherish every moment I have. I want nothing more than to hold my daughter in my arms for the first time, but I know that after that moment my life will forever change. So now, I want to take advantage of my last couple months of not being a parent.

Another thing accomplished this morning: I found pumpkin carving ideas! I am now going back and forth between two great Nightmare Before Christmas characters, Jack and Oogie Boogie. We're having a pumpkin carving night at work next Monday, but I'm not sure if I'm going. I do love pumpkin carving and I really want to bake some pumpkin seeds, so maybe I will go. I don't believe I have mentioned this, but October is my favorite month of them all. Perhaps, being born in October (the 25th!) has made me biased, but I really think it is a great month. It does make me miss Ohio a little though. In addition to October being my favorite month,
autumn is also my favorite season. During the fall Ohio is beautiful, the leaves on the trees vary in colors and the weather starts to cool down. I find this to be the most beautiful time of year in Ohio. In Texas, the leaves don't seem to have such a lovely transition. One day they're here, the next they are gone. Also, in addition to being part of my favorite season, October also contains my favorite holiday, Halloween! I am excited for when I will be able to take my daughter trick-or-treating and maybe even make some costumes for her! I'm just really excited for all the family things her, Omar, and I will get to do together honestly.

With Halloween in the near future I am happy to know, we passed our glucose test! Now I can further indulge in my love for sugar without feeling as guilty! Lately my doctor's appointments have been very quick. I get weighed, have to pee in a cup, get my blood pressure taken, get my belly measured, and listen to my baby's heartbeat. I am hoping to get an ultrasound soon, I just want another sneak peak!
I'm not sure if I will be getting another one though, unless
complications arise, and I hope that isn't the case. I have a feeling that if I do get another ultrasound, it will be when Omar has to miss my appointment. So far, he has been wonderful and has attended every appointment with me. Now that my appointment are becoming more frequent, it's getting harder to schedule them when I know for sure he's not working. Today, I am thirty weeks and two days pregnant. I still am waiting on choosing a name, though I have been starting to think a little more. Omar and I have made the decision to wait until we see her to pick a permanent name. Closer to my due date I think we will start narrowing down our options. To be honest, I do have one that I've kind of decided on, but I'm trying to weigh all my other options.