I don't think you're ready for this belly

After suffering through the first trimester, we thought it might be fun to start taking photos of my rapidly growing tummy. Every week I would stand in front of the fireplace and display my progress. I’m not going to make you suffer through the belly gallery, but I will share with you the first and last photos from this project, which pretty much shows my gut going from barely showing to almost ready to explode.

When I go back to the first weeks we started taking pictures, I want to say to the woman in the picture, Yeah, look how HUGE you are. Eat something for goodness sake! And then all of the sudden there is this enormous belly that makes me squint really hard just to figure out that, yes, it is attached to my body. And, yes, I am definitely growing a baby in there. Which is, of course, the excuse I use for all of the weight gain, that it was the baby and not all of those ice cream sundaes I ate.