Day 3

Hubby's is on day 3 of his 8 straight days of work. Not too bad yet, not looking forward to the back half. And then when he gets his day off, he's taking Peanut down to visit his dad and take in a work paid for baseball game. For two days. Then he comes back and goes back to working! I'll be missing him.

Cousin E and C visited, we all had a grand weekend. The boys played together in their own ways, and it was good to see my sister. Now it'll be forever likely till we see each other again, both being due soon. I'll miss that little zipper loving dude, he was such a good communicator for not speaking much yet. It was so nice to see, and it's always so nice when they can let you know what they want (Usually mom and dad!)

Starting this Monday we're on weekly appointments. Which is early for my new due date, but whatever, we all know she's coming on the first anyways. She's gotta be just like her big brother, amirite? And in two days it's my Birthday Month! A month of joy and laughter, of fun and games, of continuing to work on Peanut picking things I drop off the ground for me :D


Today's been a good day, yesterday was pretty not so cool. But we made do, still got out and watered, since we're now entering drought-like weather. No rain forever, none forever in the forecast. Gave his bike a wash and got him soaked too. Today we played in the water too, went down to the farmers market for beets and carrots and let him get good and soaked for an hour.

Gma and Gpa visited while we were down there and he enjoyed seeing them in-between going crazy in the water. He wasn't too keen on leaving, but Gma promised him tons of fun tomorrow, yaaaaaaaay!! I love Fridays!!!

Urgh, he's been asking since yesterday to watch "VGer" or Star Trek. This morning since 9am. He got halfway through it and came down here to tell me it was scary and didn't want to watch it? This is new. He's instead asked for Pikmin.... yes the video game. When I'm having painful or sick days, we watch video games on YouTube and it's got a spaceship in it. So I've queued up a few videos for him to watch. So I've got a little time here to take a nap, if little miss Almond will let me rest. Fortunately she hasn't been kicking much lately in bed (these fetuses love to attack the bed), which either means she's running out of room... or she's head up and her legs aren't able to do their job. I guess we'll find out eventually, we're kind of getting to that point where she might not turn much more though. Sigh.

Sideways Day

Oy vey, yesterday was just downright horrible. Dear little Almond spent pretty much the whole day lodged sideways in my belly. My stomach was sore all day, I'd wince if Peanut even touched it, never mind a good elbowing as he tried to snuggle up with me. If I tried to walk farther then just one other room she'd start beating up on me, the walking must have tightened up her space. But it took till after dinner till she finally readjusted herself. Let's not have a repeat of that. But we just had another perfectly healthy appointment so we'll stick to thinking about the good and not the bad.

In under 2 months she'll be in my arms, and in 27 days I'll be 31. Feels older than 30, and more then the obvious +1 reason. But it's cool, I don't care much about ages. Just... just feels older. But I'll have these two young'uns to keep me young for quite some time!

Two days till Aunt K comes with the E's! So excited to see them, bummed that it will likely be forever till we see them again. With us both having babies in the next few months, travel will get hard. Le sighs.

Peanut has had another rough week. Zero bladder control, all we can figure was that the milk we bought went bad (like 2-3 days after opening it?!) and that caused it. But for 3 days it was constant accidents. Poor kiddo. He seems to be over it now though, no problems last night and holding it fine this morning. Phew!

We need more Peanut-isms. This morning, after our morning pleasantries, the first thing he said was "Wanna come to my room and see my globe????"

Yesterday after I told him he could have PBJ for lunch, he ran down to the play kitchen to make me some too. Came up with bread and a hamburger covered in glitter. He was very proud. I quickly put the glitter in a harder to reach place ;)

Got to get some energy up this morning to head out, need an eggplant if I'm going to make ratatouille tonight. Ugh, at least I still have time to head out, it's not THHHHHHHAAAAAT LATE :)

HICCUPS!

I don't really remember hiccups with Peanut, but Almond has had them in spades. She even had them at her appointment the other day when they checked her heartbeat (still in the 150-155 range). They're nice for reliable movement feeling, assuming she's suffering from them in a convenient place to feel them. I couldn't really feel the ones at the appointment very much at all.

My PGP pain has been improving slowly, so of course then I went and got my TDaP shot. The T part of it is the bitch while the P part of it was for the baby. I just figured I'd go ahead and get it, forgot a little bit about the sleeping part. You know like how I already am not allowed to sleep on my back? And now I can't sleep on my left side as my arm hurts too much? So I'm stuck on my right.... sleeping sucks.

We're having another recurrence of middle of the night accidents. He agreed to wear a superman diaper last night, I hoped that might do it, but then he was up twice just to pee. So wearing a diaper makes him more aware of his bladder in his sleep? I might just put on an empty shell of the diaper on him at night, it'll keep him a little drier if he does have an accident then, maybe less changing will be necessary and maybe he'll get up on his own more until we're over this hump again. I'm guessing it's just stress, his mommy has had a week of having to tell him that she can't hold him/pick him up/etc etc. That can't be easy.

Though maybe I'd heal faster if I was sleeping through the night better ;)

PS from the future - the diaper shell so far is working great. That should jinx it!

Another week, another appointment

We went in again to check on Almond, no big news is good news. HB still 154, still kicking me, all that fun jazz. Took Peanut out to see Thomas, it was super duper fun, and Uncle A has flown out. This is also enjoyable. I enjoy the fact that I likely weigh the same in both this years and last year's photo, however this time I was rather pregnant. He enjoyed himself a lot, despite the fact that his father was recovering from almost dying to a cashew and his mother couldn't walk around without incurring the wrath of the braxton hicks.

He enjoyed the train ride, exploring the train sheds, seeing all to be seen. It was beautiful weather and wasn't too busy on the weekday. He really did great all day, we were really proud of him.

We then managed to enjoy Uncle A's visit by visiting every day. Despite the fact that dear K decided to come out the same week to work on Almond's room. Which is coming along very nicely. I'm not seeing the photo I'm looking for right now so you'll just have to wait your sweet time, as I'm not walking all the way up there just for a picture right now.

Father's Day has come and gone and also Uncle A has since flown back. And two weeks have passed and all that jazz. Never quite finished this post. We have another appointment tomorrow, so really the title still works! Peanut has been in a new rhythm where he hasn't been napping. It's been working out ok, he hasn't been unbearably cranky in the evening and he doesn't fight sleep. We'll roll like this until it becomes an issue.

We're also struggling with pain, I seem to have developed new pains the last 4 days or so, it may not go away until the end at this point. Though I'm still hopeful!!! And Peanut can only sit on my lap certain ways to prevent the pain. And other stuff too. I guess it's great that nothing came up earlier in the pregnancy. 2 months to go?