The question everyone has been asking

Edited to add:  So, I thought this was funny because... I don't know, I'm sort of an idiot.  I have gained so much weight since I started eating gluten that people think I'm pregnant.  I'm not.  I just have a huge gut.  Please excuse any confusion. 

 

 

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It started in November.  I felt a hunger for something I had been missing.  So, I dove in with reckless abandon and soon I could feel that familiar swelling in my belly.  My pants became tight.  Then tighter.  Then so tight that buttoning them made me want to barf.    I did that thing where you loop a rubberband around the top button of your jeans so that you can button them up.

As the months have ticked by, my belly has continued to grow and expand.  I finally gave up and bought bigger jeans.  I catch people giving me the side-eye and then inevitably they ask me questions like, "Are you done having babies, Mary?".  "Are you going to have any more kids?".  Or they come right out and say, "Oh!  Are you pregnant?!".

So, I will go ahead and spill the beans.  Yes, there is a bun in my oven... made of wheat.  I am in my second trimester with what I lovingly refer to as my Wheat Baby.

Sometimes I think I can feel him kicking. 

Appropriately, Wheat Baby very closely resembles rising bread dough.
 

  --Also, that's not my belly.  Mine actually works worse thanks to eleventy jillion stretch marks.

I think this guy might be having a Wheat Baby, too!!

There you have it. Definitely exciting news, I mean, every baby is a blessing, after all.  But, don't feel compelled to start planning any baby showers or knitting booties. 

In other news, I went back to gluten-free eating today.