Celebrity Gossip a la Perez Hilton

Sexy celeb and 9 weeks-pregnant Bekah Leger was spotted in Central Park earlier this month, where the Louisiana native was treated to a few hours of snow.

She was spending her Mardi Gras break in NYC with her husband, hotty writer Travis Leger.

The couple were rumored to have caught a showing of The Lion King and visited Pinkberry, the Gugennheim, and a maternity shop.

I couldn't help myself.

TP Sunday and profile pictures

So I am on this pregnancy message board on whattoexpect.com. It's a website done by the woman who wrote What to Expect When You're Expecting. I haven't been very active in posting on the group, but reading through what the other pregnant women have to say can be helpful. They have separate boards for the month that you are due, so the ladies on there are all going through the same period in their pregnancies.

One of the posts today introduced a game, called TP Thursday. I just read it today so I am going to play TP Sunday. The idea is to check, once a week, how many squares of toilet paper it takes to wrap once around your belly. So I thought I would try it out and keep my progress on here...9 squares!

And what the heck, while I'm at it, I'll post some belly pics. The first one is at 4 weeks and the second at 8 weeks. This takes guts to post them, so please don't laugh!

Travis got me those running tights (in the pictures) for Christmas. Little did he know I wouldn't be running in them, but taking profile pictures instead!

8 weeks!

If you haven't heard, I am pregnant, with child, expecting, there's a bun in the Leger oven! As proof, I have attached the baby's first ultrasound, done on February 6, when I was 6.5 weeks along. The baby is that blur on the right edge of the big black circle. The first doctor's appointment went very well, everything looks good, and my next appointment is March 4. Too early to find out the sex? I think so, but maybe at the appointment after that! We are SOOOO very excited!!

So far everything has been going pretty well. I have been a bit sick, which is to be expected. I feel lucky, because I know people who have had much worse. I've become more picky about eating than I ever was before...which is hard to believe. Travis has been really patient with me, especially when he spends time cooking a meal only to have me say I can't eat it (usually because the smell is off to me).

Aside from the occassional nausea, I have been exhausted most of the time. I try to spend the weekends resting so that I can store energy for the week ahead. After this week it will hopefully be a bit better...down from two jobs to one, I won't be running around town quite as much.

I have made the changes that all newly pregnant women face. I am not longer drinking, of course, and because of second hand smoke I am not even going out to bars anymore. That's not a big deal to me now, because Saints season is over. The main reason I ever went to a bar was to watch their games. I've cut caffeine out of my diet, which was only hard at first. I was a daily coffee drinker, and sometimes in the afternoon I miss it. I miss Coke, too, but it's totally worth it and I do feel healthier without it.

We are making a huge change as a family, and that is to move to a bigger apartment! We had been feeling scrunched up in our tiny place lately, and the baby news coincided with us finding the perfect 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. We knew we had to jump on the opening when we saw it. We are moving to the Mid City neighborhood of New Orleans on Saturday. It's about a 15 minute drive from where we are now, and it is a really central location for New Orleans events. We will be walking distance to City Park, Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest, and we will be ON the Endymion parade route. I'll post pictures when we move.

Well, that's about it for now! I am going to go eat lunch, and hope it stays down!