13w5d

Today will forever be remembered as the day that I realized that just because I am pregnant, my body image issues have not flown as far out the window as I would have hoped. The day actually started out fine. Much earlier than I would have liked, but fine none the less.

My Father-In-Law had asked me to help him with the invitations for their wedding so my friend Jess and I met him at his house and we all went to The Copy Shop in Ankeny to decide on a design. Suprisingly enough, even though there were four of us, the process went pretty smoothly. While we were there, Keith mentioned to me that he would like me to stand up in the wedding with Karen, his fiance.

This was new to me, because I thought that I would be the kid wrangler during the wedding, which I was perfectly content with. However, he had decided that he wanted me to stand up with their 5 other bridesmaids (another story for another day) and he would also like to know if I was free this afternoon to go look at dresses with them.

Um... yeah....

So, I met my friend Katie for lunch at noon, where she proceeded to get me hooked on Godfather's cheese sticks. Mmm... those are soo good, I can tell already that those may become a staple food. Then after lunch I went back to Keith's house to meet with Karen and three of her four girls to begin the dress shopping.

Now when we started, I was told that this would be a quick trip and that we were just going to pick a color and "style" of dress and then everyone was on their own. That would have been a WONDERFUL idea. Then I could have gotten a cute little maternity dress. Unfortunately, that is not how the day turned out.

We ended up shopping for about 6 hours (yes, I was exhausted) and in that time I watched these girls (sizes 0 - 6) try on all of these cute dresses that I used to fit into and now.... have no hope of fitting into. We finally got to a store called D.E.B. where they picked this dress. Now this is a cute dress, and it will look good on my sister-in-law, who is not a size 0 and also on these girls who are toothpicks. In fact I'm pretty sure it will look good on anyone who is not, oh shall we say PREGNANT!!

See the problem with this dress is that it is fitted down to about an inch above the belly button. I am already starting to show, and it is not all staying below my belly button. After watching these girls try on smalls and mediums I was a little intimidated and not feeling really all that great about my growing waist line.

I put on a Large and it fit, but that's all. It fit today. In two months.... who knows. So, I ended up buying a 1X and praying that it will still fit me. I think I will try it on in a couple of weeks and see how much room I still have. Luckily Keith's fiance used to alter wedding dresses, so she can take in the boob area which I'm sad to say I DO NOT fill out and probably have no hope of doing before September.