We got everything done!

Everything... that was on our list at least :D We went out and ordered a nursing chair, we finished the closet, we made all the calls we wanted to make... mine turned out well, his did not :( Alas, now we're holding on to a thin thread that american airlines is going to cooperate with us. But hey, at least the rest of the day was ok.

So things are moving along, generally speaking, well. Alas it's another night of un-explainable tightening/soreness/pains. It's better when I lay down so I'm just drinking water now and staying down. Not sure if it's related to the SPD or not - I don't think so though. And then I tried to really curl up on the couch, and heartburn flared up. Sighs, I'm back to sitting up but I can still feel it in my back.

Boi should have been home over an hour ago by now, but at least he called to say he'd be late. So I guess maybe I'll see him at 11, if I'm lucky. Sighs - I was going to post pictures but I don't really feel like going to go take them. Maybe I'll post a part two tomorrow. That sounds like a happy medium! Ok, going to go stare at the tv and junk and try to ignore things.

Booo Disappointing Storm!

Happy Birthday Boi's Mom! Speaking of mom's, my mom got back yesterday it's good to have everyone back around!

So I was sitting here, giddy with anticipation. I was hearing thunder, A LOT OF THUNDER! I checked out the radar, and a big fat red cell was descending upon my fair city! I went outside, took a deep breath, ahhhh beautiful, wonderful! The rain started! Soon it would be hard and fast and LOUD! But uh. Then the thunder stopped. We're getting poured on, but where's my damn wonderful summer storm? The blasted sun is shining through the downpour for goodness sakes! This isn't what I wanted! Sure, rain, great, I don't have to water now. But... boo. Sighs, and now the rain is tapering, the wind is dying down....

Oh well. I took a weekly belly photo today, just did it myself since I'm horrible at remembering when Boi is home. Apparently I can't smile. So you don't get a smiling picture. But oh well - Peanut continues to grow. Boi is halfway through his shift, then he gets tomorrow off. We have to finish the closet (we got part of the way) and make a bunch of phone calls. But this morning he was super responsible and bought our Brewer game tickets for next week! LOL, assuming the orbitz call goes as planned (sighs, at this point if it doesn't go as planned we don't have a backup plan, gotttttta make that call tomorrow!) that'll suffice as our babymoon. More so for him, sure, but that's ok. He's the one going to work every day after all, he deserves all the pampering I can manage to give him!

- evening -

I should make him a pie... I've been good this week at having a surprise for him when he comes home, I don't have one planned as of yet. I think we've got like a boxed cheesecake thinger sitting around here. That would be tasty.

And there my girls go being adorable - all snuggled up together. They've always got each other, even if we're not home :)

Ugh, I'm so warm - I think my hormones are going out of whack again. But I've relocated up to the bedroom where at least I can flip on the air conditioner and feel a little better. I'd go out on the deck, but there was a lot of wind in the downpour earlier. Meaning wet furniture, even the couch under the overhang. Oh well. Bed's are more comfy anyways ^.^ Oooh, I could read a little while I'm up here - I'm about 3/4 of my way through The Hobbit. I'd read LotR next, but I don't believe we have a copy of the book? Boi, when you read this and if I'm wrong, let me know. Otherwise I have a book on the Romanov's I've been meaning to get into - alas it's a big book (like big, height and length and heft) so not so easy to read... I'll figure something out!

Peanut has been behaving himself today. So I think I'm going to put this down, lay down on my side and get him moving hopefully. That'll make me happy even if I'm suffering through a hot flash! Weee! Have a good evening, hopefully I'll have lots of happy news to report in a few days!

Third Trimester Woot!

Gawdy image time!

Today I'm entering the third trimester! Woot! 2/3 done! Now Peanut just puts on a show to see how big he can get :D He should be topping the charts at around 2lbs, he's in there, opening and closing his eyes, checking out his environment. He seems to be moving around differently, I seem to be getting less kicks. But he still moves around for me when I want him to, so hey. Hard to argue with what he feels/is capable of doing now!

Got some semi-homemade spicy indian dahl soup and homemade bread for dinner tonight. Hopefully Boi is home on time around 9:00! But at least with soup if he's not... well... it's not going to get icky or something :) Oh dear, here's the big question... did I take my vitamin earlier today? ... hmmmm. And if I didn't, do I risk taking it now? It's been a few hours since I last ate.

Yay! Boi came home an hour early and surprised me! And now I have Peanut pressing out on the right side of my stomach. He's moving... our little *face makes a funny face as he hits a nerve or something* wiggler? Boi is now downstairs cutting the closet pieces to size. Then we're going to attempt to attach it. Seeing as the old closet was just nailed in, I'm hopeful it'll go ok, but yeah, not sure what's behind the paneling. Well, we'll see how he feels about attaching it tonight - he didn't sleep much last night due to working far too late.

I've got my wedding ring on my pinkie today, I don't think I've been eating anything especially salty, but I've been eating a lot more then I should - I've just been soooo hungry these last few days. Sighs, oh well, a few days of pigging out, then hopefully the phase will pass. Got my gestational diabetes test to think about in less than two weeks too. Not that I guess I can do anything now to help it. But perhaps the anemia test I can - I'd rather not have to take additional supplements. I have a hard enough time remembering to take the prenatal!

Gotta go stop Kiara from gnawing on the closet pieces!

Woo Hoo Nursery!

LAST NIGHT SUCKED! OOooooooooooooh pains, I'm not sitting cross-legged on the floor again until October! We had finished painting and I didn't want a repeat of the other night, so I was going to remain in one position to help.... the moment I tried to get up, everything in my mid-region hurt bad! I managed to *fall* onto the bed once, after managing to aim at the giant Pooh sitting on the bed, and moan and groan it away kind of for awhile, put on a smile and went and helped Boi some more. Then after that was done, we relaxed and watch Craig Ferguson, but when we got up for bed, it was back to as bad as it was earlier. I couldn't move my legs more than a few inches to walk, and ended up crawling up the stairs :( Then this time I couldn't get myself into a position to fall into bed, so Boi had to lift my legs up on to the bed for me after me giving it at least 5ish minutes of effort. Sigh. 

But today it's a lot better, still not feeling as "normal" as I did yesterday at this time, but at least I can move around. And I have stuff to move around for! The painters tape needs to come down! The crib needs to be oooh'd and ahhh'd at! The whole room needs to be enjoyed! I need to put on my thinking cap for  how to complete the room! Still contemplating getting a new dresser too that will work as a changing table. Oh monies. I'm sure you noticed a picture  of the room to the right by now, just quickly prepped that corner of the room for a picture! Kairi got in the shot too - really she hasn't left my side in the last couple hours, she's sleeping on my leg now.

Oh wait, you don't care about her quite as much as you care about the picture! So everyone kept telling us to go 'bright' - and while I'm a HUGE fan of color, the 'light and bright' I usually shy away from. But I'm not one to paint in pastels either! And with a concern of mine of the color looking too much like the master bedroom (dark, relaxing, olive green) we decided to just the color that most screamed 'bright limey green!' :D I'm glad I took the jump and just did the whole room in it instead of using it as an accent. And it'll tone down once stuff goes on the walls. just have to buy a nursing glider chair, decide on the dresser debate, and then we'll really know where we stand on wall space.

Teddy got swaddled! Boi was such the champ with the crib too! All the pieces were easy to fit on backwards (and the sides still don't look right to me, but it's the only way everything fits together so I'll get used to it) Which meant of course that we had to go in reverse a few times. But whereas me, while trying to keep a smile on just wanted it to be either done or give up, he never even wavered and when we had to unscrew, he just started doing it all matter-of-fact. Even though it was almost midnight by this time. But now it's done! And pretty! And it's my blog I'll use as many ! as I want! And it's SO MUCH BIGGER THEN I THOUGHT! I've been around plenty of cribs in my day, babysitting and what not, but I so don't remember them being this big! Wider both in width and depth.

I'm going to see if I can't wrap my head around the closet either. I think I know what cuts need to be made, and how it goes together, but I'm also nervous about attaching it to the closet walls. I'm not sure what kind of walls are behind the paneling if it's plaster back there or if it was just paneled right over... might need to wait for Mom and Dad to be home from vacation - Boi works for the rest of the week so he's not going to have a lot of energy to think and figure with me. I've always been the 'just put a nail in the wall and hope it stays up' but I guess I shouldn't be doing that with my son's closet! Kind of afraid we're going to need special screws!

I went out for the mail and felt a good bit better :D So far it seems my careful mixture of not too much relaxation and not too much movement has loosened all those ligaments even further. Or tightened them up since the problem is they're too loose? Whatever, I walked fairly normally to the mailbox :D Time for a Victory Sandwich!

 

Happy Birthday Sis!

My sister both had her birthday and flew back home today :):( Boi, Brother and I took her out for lunch, then Boi and I successfully dropped her off at the airport without incident. She should have arrived or be arriving soon, depending on delays. She will be missed :( But we did get to hang out while she was up here, so that was nice. Hopefully she had a good time!

Today has been full of ups and down. It started out baaaaaaaad. I woke up, it was 8 so I figured I'd get up... alas I got up and instantly morning sickness returned. Ugh. So then ended up back down and managed to drift off for a bit, Boi woke me up an hour later, I turned over, and felt the nausea start to creep back up, so I begged him for a piece of bread. So he promptly got it (after I assured him that I wasn't kidding) and about a half hour later it finally went away.

Not sure what brought it on, food helped so it was clearly Peanut's fault... but maybe he had a growth spurt and was demanding more food? Can kicks cause it maybe - he was especially active last night... to the point that if tonight doesn't go better, I may have Boi drag the recliner up to the bedroom for me to sleep on. Peanut's kicks are getting strong, and his cute habit of kicking against where my belly is resting on the bed at night is no longer cute. I don't mind it if he kicks out where the air can absorb it, but not when he kicks against something that isn't going to move :( And up till last night, he wouldn't kick against the right side of my belly, so I just had to flip until he dozed off and then I'd be free to return to my left side... but last night that didn't work, so I propped myself up and willed him to fall asleep, but then when I thought he did and I'd settle back down, WHAMMO!

So I didn't sleep great, I was sick this morning, and on and off queasy all morning. But then this afternoon seemed promising. We got lots done, Boi mowed, I worked on figuring out the carseat and other various things. I was feeling pretty good about it, but I wanted to get some man strength to test the pull tab thinger to make sure it was really as tight as it was going to get. Sure enough, when he got a moment, he came to pull.... and I had gotten it as tight as it would go! Woohoo! Mama is strong enough to safely move/install it!

I got it in via the latch system, and I was then going to test my abilities installing it with the seatbelt... but then I got a sharp pain on my right side. Very sharp, enough to stop me dead in my tracks and grab my belly. It happened a few more times until I got myself against the car to offset my weight, and eventually it seemed to go away. I figured I had just overdid it, and regardless Boi was done mowing, so we went inside to rest for awhile. Boi made some calls with consideration of maybe catching a Brewer game early next month, yay for productivity while relaxing! Eventually we decided it was time to get at painting. We both started to work on getting everything prepped (I had primed the patch job we did on the wall where the plaster had cracked pretty good so I was on paintbrush drying duty) but on my way back up with my self-assigned duty the pain came back :( I got to the recliner, eventually got myself settled with the paint brush and paper towels and set about drying the brush. It took till about the time I got it dry enough for me to be able to shift my weight in the chair w/o aggravating the pain. Sooooo I brought it up, figuring hey it's gone, I'll skip on helping with the painting, but I'll do little things... nope it's back. And now I no longer even need to be moving around, every 10 minutes or so I get a stab of it.

So now we're lounging around, me chugging water, hoping more hydration will help. And actually not - just chatting with Boi in the last 5 minutes I've gotten three. Talking maybe aggravates it? Well I'm going to assume it's round ligament pain, as that's supposed to be one sided stabby pain. I don't know why me not moving at all is causing it though. 

...at least Boi managed to finish up the first coat of paint! Can't wait to go look at it! He's AMAZING! Brought me bread, bummed with my family, mowed, made phone calls, and painted! He's such the keeper!

98 more days!

98 more days - 14 weeks to go! Peanut should be able to start distinguishing mine and Boi's voice from other noises now! He's getting more and more naughty, making me audible more often. Maybe felt hiccups? I felt simultaneous kicking in a couple locations a few times in a row, then there was a break, then it picked up again for a few kicks, then went away again. Makes me think maybe hiccups, I've heard they can be a 'total body experience' for the baby... but what do I know :D I think maybe I just got elbowed too, or something, it wasn't a fast 'kick' and it wasn't like him sticking his butt out at me, it was a jab that lasted a beat or two longer then a normal kick.

SO THAT'S WHAT'S NEW IN MY BELLY! Managed to down my prenatal tonight in only 2 tries (it's big, sometimes I choke on it) and it didn't make me sick to boot, even though it had been awhile since I'd eaten. Yahoo! I'm making Boi cookies tonight. He (better) be coming home at midnight tonight, then goes into work at 8 tomorrow morning, so hopefully a few cookies will make it easier. But then he has Monday and Tuesday off! I think tomorrow will be calm and quiet though. Mom and Dad are leaving on a trip, Kira will still be around, but as far as I know she has other plans. So it's just me and the girls till (hopefully) 7.

Hoping to get the room painted this next week. Realizing though that... my plans for a changing station are going to fall through. I freaked out a little bit (yay hormones) suddenly wondering if all my plans were going to fall through. I calmed myself down, reminding myself that I don't NEED  changing table or a permanent spot to put a changing pad. Lot's of people say they have one and they just use floor anyways. Or the couch, or a bed, etc etc, I know, lot's of available surfaces. So if I need to fix it later, there will be time, even if Peanut is here already. Just hope my pain goes away very quickly after delivery - not sure if I'd be able to pick him up off the floor!

But also next week, gonna make sure we get a run through with the car-seat. Boi had too many closing shifts this week (meaning he's even later then with a normal shift because he's the only one left, so longer days) to really ask him to do anything. I hate his closing shifts. Hate. Too bad he says he prefers them ( prefers to be gone longer???). I know it's not that, but that's what it seems like when he's still not home at 3 in the morning. But we have a car-seat, totally awesome, gotta focus on that! Gotta make sure we can install it properly! Gotta finish up the nursery so the crib can go up! Awesome!

Ooh the buzzer went off on the cookies! Hope they're tasty! But who am I kidding, even if they tasted weird, Boi would still eat them :)

Feeling Normal So Far!

Yesterday I just felt off. Nothing horribly specific, I was tired and could fall asleep on a dime, but I wasn't dragging. My stomach wasn't happy but wasn't being threatening. My head was fuzzy but no pain. Just nothing was working quite right I guess. So far today I'm not feeling any of that, so yay! But even while I was relaxing, trying to ignore it, or just giving in and napping, Mom and my sister finished up taking off the wallpaper in the nursery. 3 days of hard work for them! Boi was very tired last night, and well, me, so we didn't get around to sanding down the rest of the gluey walls or start priming. Then we paint, demolish and redo the closet, get the carpets super clean, and start filling in the furniture!

100 days to go! Woohoo! last day in triple digits!

-Cut to Evening-

Mom surprised me with a visit to prime the walls! Fortunately I had just finished up sanding, so we wiped everything down, I taped up the trim and let her have at it :D so now, the room is primed! Ooooh good feeling! Too bad we didn't take a wallpaper stripped picture, not a pretty site. So major progress, then I had to take Mom home since Kira came along to steal the car, so I got a free dinner to boot!

I'm pretty sure Peanut was trying to cause problems the other night - I felt a ton of pressure on either side of my belly so I'm pretty sure he got himself sideways. So I pushed myself back out of bed and waddled around, hoping he would move, gave up and flopped down on the couch. Watched out the window until Boi came home from work. But then we went to bed and I was out fairly quickly at least.

But now we're off to celebrate Captain Picard Day! Too bad we don't have any Earl Grey Tea... yum yum. Maybe we could go out and get some... Ah I don't know, but I'm off to figure it out. I'm too flighty to write today anyways!

Weekend Over!

25 week old Peanut and I celebrated by going to bed around 9 last night and sleeping till 8. Sleep pattern is messed up, but oh well! From BabyCenter - Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. His weight � a pound and a half � isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but he's beginning to exchange his long, lean look for some baby fat. As he does, his wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and he'll start to look more and more like a newborn. He's also growing more hair � and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture.

The Shower! Jed wore a bow and a bandanna! I've got pictures from my wonderful Aunt M, who orchestrated my mom's siblings to get Peanut his crib, yay! but still waiting for the pictures from T and my folks :P It was a good time, K and Mom organized it with awesomeness, as I presumed they would, as they are awesome, my sister pitched in, people seemed to be having a good time despite the weather. Peanut got tons of sweet loot, a car seat from Boi's Mom and Grandma - sweeet, and tons of all the smaller stuff that would likely have driven me to the loony bin trying to shop for myself (being the anti-shopper that I am) from clothes, to toys, baths, diapers, moby wrap, booster seat, blankets, accessories, etc etc etc. Even the kittens came out ahead thanks to my friend I! And when the two little ones A and O started running around and playing, things just got all the cuter! Thanks everyone! Plus just about everyone who wanted to (and I think in a few cases didn't want to) got the chance to touch my belly, thanks to the photographers. I steeled myself and survived!

Kind of getting an idea of what Peanut will go home in. End of September.... could be a balmy day, could be a cold day - so right now I'm lingering on these two. A cute Pooh sweatsuit outfit we got from K, or just simply one of the authentic Brewer onesies I got for Boi for our anniversary. Suppose I also need to pick out some outfits for him to get photographed in at the hospital... and these are 0-3 so maybe a newborn outfit if he comes early or super small. Just to have one in mind since if he does - well I likely won't know what to tell Boi to run home and get if I don't have an idea! But I figure at least to count on the 0-3, should cover most of my bases.

So the nursery right now is being a PITA. A pain. My sister and Mom spent a good chunk of yesterday working on taking down just one wall of wallpaper, then Boi spent hours last night trying to finish up the wall (while I crashed for 11 hours). There's still the border... it's not going anywhere very quickly. But the bed is now out, it's a long day's hard work closer to being done. Someday soon the walls will be green, the closet will be redone, the furniture will be in, and I can go, hmmm what spaces do we now have to decorate. I've got a lot of art from my days as a Pooh nut which should come in handy, and we were thinking about maybe getting a nice big wall sticker, room providing. But that's all I'll reveal right now.

Went to PT yesterday and got fitted for a maternity belt. Then as we were talking about the pain, and not just what my OB prescribed, she attempted to also tape up my leg to my hip. They both yesterday, alas, didn't seem to do a whole lot, and when Peanut started rolling yesterday, I quickly took off the belt, him pressing out and it pressing in? Not a good thing! Maybe if my belly was bigger it would do a better job of just holding it up, but it covers up a good percentage of it at this point. But it also comes with a handy dandy insert that can get heated up for my back, that also could easily come to love. We'll give it all the ol' trial.

Ok... I've barely been up this morning and I'm already crying for a nap. It was like non-stop this long weekend though, so hey. I'll nap if Peanut wants me to!

Big Weekend!

Busy busy busy, I'm so busy! And I feel like nothing's getting done!  And then to make it worse, my computer came down with a deadly contagion! It's tentatively better, but dude, that hasn't happened to me in like, 5+ years. I'm usually such a super safe surfer. So many stumbles yesterday!

K left me forever yesterday, moved 3 hours away to hopefully find further happiness and a job with her b/f. I guess I can't completely fault for that, and it was really only dumb luck that she originally found a job back here in Wausau after college. But still *pouts* And I guess I will still see her again in two days :D and for D&I's wedding :D and whenever I go to visit her :D

Peanut is just vibrating today, constantly feeling him all morning. *tap tap tap tap tap* *pause* *tap tap tap tap tap* :D I may have been able to snooze a bit longer this morning, alas, he was keeping me up. I snoozed too long anyways, well I suppose nothing is too long for Peanut, but much longer than poor Boi got to. But in 3 (I've been ticking this down as slowly writing this today - fun!) hours he's done with work till Tuesday! YAHOO! Not that we'll have a lot of time to enjoy his mini-vacation, but he can at least help keep me sane!

Weather is AMAZING now. Got the windows open, not feeling all icky and sweaty, even have a blanket on over me. I was already outside for awhile today. Impressive, I haven't been much of an early bird or a night owl since getting pregnant, so getting me to do anything after waking up is usually impossible. Though I'll have to get up early tomorrow for the doctor. But I can shower and stuff at least tonight. It's good only being 5-10 minutes away! I'll be coming home with my gestational diabetes drink though *gulp* I'm ready for that appointment to be over.

The giant family reunion thinger starts tomorrow! Good thing my fish consumption allows me to have another portion tomorrow, as she wants a fish fry! I can't wait to going back to eating as much seafood as I want! That's prolly what I miss the most about not being pregnant, I could really go for a coconut shrimp feast or a giant rich bowl of lobster bisque right now!

Baby Head!

Peanut spent a lot of time these last few days I believe breached, happily startling me off an on kicking downwards. I was fairly sure there was no benefit to this at all (aside from getting me to make some funny noises), but then Saturday night, while we were happily watching the first Star Trek movie, when I was feeling rather uncomfortable, so reached down to put my hand on my belly which usually makes Peanut calm down... and realized I was feeling a hard lump. Quite possibly his head! So I grabbed Boi's hand and was like 'feeeeeeeel c'mon feeeeeeeeeeel' and he had no idea what I was talking about and I wasn't making any sense but I was afraid Peanut would pull away if we lingered too long, so I was like, 'left side hard, right side squishie, feeeel?!' He finally figured it out and agreed with my interpretation :D

Still suffering from some serious bump envy, but I can make myself feel a little better by standing up and looking down. It's pushed out just fine, just not very round, but this angle disguises the fact. I thought boys were supposed to give you the traditional looking bump *pout* I know I know, I still have 16 weeks to go. But I don't want my belly to be a disappointment at the shower. *mentally urges it*

My belly is disguising that, in actuality, I have about 40 mosquito bites on my feet and legs. Two on the bottom of my right foot, bleh. They like me, they really like me! Oh well, it finally rained this morning, hoping to get s'more this afternoon. Just completely wash out the allergens outside, wash all my sheets, etc etc. Haven't felt too bad today yet, drug free, yeah baby!

I think it's time for a turkey burger! Whole wheat bun, Sriracha, spinach, roasted red peppers, onions, healthy appointment coming up on Friday! Woohoo! Pan is heating up, apparently this has disturbed Kiara and she has gone and skulked away. She's impossible to please.

Exhausted myself yesterday, we were in productivity mode, but discovered the need to put my feet up often. Alas, I am useless. Well, mostly, work, rest, work, rest. Then we noticed the sun was setting, and we went for a walk against my better judgement. Oh well, I enjoyed the company :) I think I'll go finish my burger and take my nap.

Welcome To 24 Weeks!

Way to go Peanut! You're growing up big and strong! I've even seen *slight* movements externally! Plus Momma is feeling better, we finally thought of breathe right strips, which improved my breathing tremendously. And the pollen levels are going down even without rain, my eyes/nose/throat all feel tingly/etc, but nothing debilitating. Yaaay!

Mmmm corn on the cob. Peanut general size food item this week looks delicious! Is it corn on the cob season yet? No? Damnit. There goooooooooes Peanut actually, doing something on the right side of my belly. Yesterday he was using my southern region as a trampoline, pain down there, then pain up by my ribs, back and forth. Just getting in his exercise at Momma's expense. Yay for him getting big enough to feel more!

Should be a busy week, it'll be another 4 day week for Boi, so he should have a little more energy to help out. There are a bunch of things that I want to do, but I shouldn't *pout* Boi did some work downstairs, I was really very impressed, but I went down there last night, hours after he finished, and even though it looked ok, it still irritated my throat *sigh* so I really should stay away. Don't want to inhale any particles that might harm Peanut. The windows are open though, so... I guess it'll just have to be a gut decision on when it's safe again and when it's not. If I could find our mask, I could at least head down there and work on cleaning up a lot of the surfaces. I'm also kind of on the edge about painting, we only have zero-voc paint and primer, so it ought to be safe. But there are so many other things to do, I might as well leave that stuff to the non-pregnant people anyways. Also the people who aren't sick, lol. But maybe nesting is settling in a bit? Hard to say, I could just be excited to do *anything* besides sit in a position that doesn't obstruct my breathing!

Eh... yeah... there are other things to do, gotta get back to working now that I no longer feel near death. And the house needs to get cleaned, kinda got it started a bit yesterday, but it's still a wreck from my bad week. My brother is stopping by this afternoon with the original Star Trek movies, Boi has been anxious to watch at least the Wrath of Khan for weeks now. And I'll sheepishly admit to never seeing them. I always was a TNG girl. Boi jokes that Patrick Stewart is the real baby daddy since I love to wear my Jean Luc Picard top (thanks bro!)

I've decided I need to come up with some pregnant woman rules. Boi's doing a good job, but hey, it's fun :

1. Remember, I'll be just as sweet and loving to you the next time you're pregnant.


2. Clean the bathroom for me, I can't stand any chemical smells


3. Kill any bugs you see, otherwise I'll see them later, they'll be on the ceiling, and I'll feel the need to somehow get to it to kill it.


4. Even if you don't really care about my crazy planning, pretend to listen. I get enough indifference from the cats.


5. Don't ask me why I'm crying or ask me to stop. I've already asked myself these things, I don't know, I just need a hug.


6. Yes, I can always use a hand getting up. It just hurts less.


7. I'll let you know if I DON'T want a foot or a back rub. You can assume I can use one at any other given time.


8. Don't eat what I'm craving unless I offer you a taste. Trust me, I NEED all of it.


9. If what I'm craving requires you/us to go out, get something too. Don't make me feel fat and wasteful!


10. Don't make jokes when I stop working before you. I don't want to get out of breath or get a nosebleed, and plus remember I do stuff around the house all day that you likely won't notice anyways!

10 rules are good. Got any of your own?

More Allergies

I've been trying and trying, knowing no meds is always best, but I've given up today after waking up at 5am coughing until I threw up :( So Boi is out now getting Benadryl and cough drops for me. Hopefully it clears it up AND it rains and washes it all away. So this shall be a two part post.

 

Sooo we gave it a shot, it cleared my head and made me drowsy at the same time. Not a whole lot more... at least not for sure with my airways, they still closed up on me. Too late to call aside for an emergency situation though, so we'll see how I do tonight.

Boi has finally felt Peanut! His hands are too rough, or something, but today he put his ear up against my belly and a few seconds later Peanut gave his ear a kick :D He kind of gave a giggle and went back for more and got another little kick. Super exciting! Now he has an idea of what I mean when I say it's weird ;) Well, the rolling around is more weird than the kicking, but hey.

Boi has off today and tomorrow, he's been a good sport today, and he got to play WoW on my PC (which is a far different and better experience than his laptop). I'm very lucky to have him, I would have been very lost this week without his help.

I haven't watered anything this week... that can't be good... hopefully I'm not killing everything Mom!