AliBlog: Alilicious, Mommylicious Me

December 02, 2005

Alilicious, Mommylicious Me

The Queen of Spain is hosting a photo contest that accepts entries in the following categories:

The prizes - from her new 'store' - can be found if you follow the links.

Since I'm not especially fertile, fabulous or yummy, and I'm not a housewife or a rocker, I'm entering under the mommylicious category, which doesn't seem like a perfect fit either, but - hey, it's fun to reminisce about my pregnancy with Robey now that a second one is on the way.

Here's the 'before Robey' photo of my belly. I think I was actually about 10 weeks along here, but I was in much better shape to start out with back then. This time around, I'm sure I was actually popping out a bit at 10 weeks ... but I've yet to take a picture of my belly this time around.

Here I am at 7 months, on my 30th birthday, which we spent in Northern Arizona - in Flagstaff, Wilcox and (you guessed it) at the Grand Canyon.

This is the biggest belly photo that I have, from 39 weeks. Notice that my belly button is non-existent. It never popped out but flattened out altogether instead. My mom pointed this out to me in amusement when I sent her the photo at the time. I, however, was not amused. At the time, nothing about my body amused me anymore at all.

Jeromy and I attended a friend's wedding the same night this photo was taken, and many of the guests, whom I'd met a few weeks earlier at the bridal shower, were shocked at how much I'd grown in just 14 days.

And finally, this is one of my favorite photos of all time, taken the day of Robey's birth. It's also the most Mommylicious of the bunch if you ask me.

To view the other entrants, read the comments on this post at the queen's blog. Good luck to all the other fertile, fabulous and yummy mommys who aren't afraid to show the world their pregnant bellies.

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