Snowy days

Holy moly, it snowed, no seriously snowed here in Suwanee GA! I know it doesn't compare to the north, but we got 3-5 inches, which for GA is a veritable blizzard! (They aint got the skills to clean the road!)

So, snowy days, with prego babes. We're probably just going to hang low and avoid all the already bad atlanta metro drivers who think they KNOW how to drive in snow when in reality (IMHO) they cannot even drive on asphalt. hehe.

How're things progressing with the preg: pretty good. Austen is still feeling a bit tired and some foods completely gross here out. Yesterday she told me she took some veggies for lunch and that just looking at Cauliflower made her a little nauseous. It's absolutely amazing to me the biology behind this. In biology we call this parent-offspring conflict, the first of many I am sure :-)

The point is that the baby is driving the mother to not put stuff in her body. Particularly don't put stuff in her body that could affect the embryo negatively. This of course is happening at a completely unconscious level, but think about it. (Oh and if you don't fancy a thought about it, there's science to back it up). Vegetables are loaded with toxins. They have to be, in fact we, humans have domesticated vegetables to include those toxins. The toxins serve a survival advantage to the plant: they keep predator bugs, insects, arthropods (actually not, b/c they are carnivorous) and some small mammals from eating them up. This is good right. It's a naturally designed insecticide. Well these toxins don't go so well with our body as well as insect's bodies. No they don't kill us, of course, but they don't taste good either. Most plant based toxins are very bitter and animals learn in the wild that bitter stuff makes me sick stay the hell away from it. During our development - childhood - our parents say "eat your broccolli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, etc. And as children we try a bit, and spit it out. Mom and dad try again. And we eat a bit and then say we're full. And then mom and dad try again (why are mom and dad trying to poison their children? the veggies do have beneficial effects as well like minerals, vitamins, etc). So mom and dad keep trying and during childhood we engage 1 for me, 1 for bruno, 2 for me, 1, 2, for bruno. The kid is essentially building up his/her tolerance to the toxins in the plants. So that in adulthood when we have kids we say, come on lil fella, just one bite of asparagus before leaving the table.

Now take this parent-offspring conflict to the womb and embryonic development. The embryo has no defenses except to make MOM pukie. That is why and how pregnanct sickness works. The embryo would give the spinach to the dog, but reaching through the wall of the uterus and outer layers of skin prove to difficult.

Anyhow, we are doing good about it and avoiding such things... for our baby's health LOL