20 Weeks

Ding! Times up, turn baby around when halfway done. Wait what? Erm. I think I'm just going to leave her in there and hope she finishes cooking. Less than three days till the possible gender reveal! The cats are practically giddy with excitement.

Oh yeah, we're halfway through, woohoo! Celebrated today with Mom for Mother's Day at the Great Dane, then worked s'more, and worked s'more on the garden. Then Boi raked up leaves, and I discovered a limit in the number of times I could bend over to assist while cleaning up the yard. So many sticks, too few times able to be able to bend over.

Mom and I did her village wide garage sale on Friday, got s'more sweet swag. Like a baby swing... rocker... thinger. Fancy and in good shape. And some children's books, and clothes, and a few simple toys like blocks. Lot's and lot's of bottles, and milk storage packs and etc. Mom got some train stuff too for her crib :) we saw a crib, but I found the model on a recall list, so that was out.

Kittens are getting hungry, I'm is getting tired... which is saying something after sleeping 11 hours last night. Boi gets to go in to work an hour later tomorrow, but I should still get him to bed.

Craaappy Day

Woke up this morning with a migraine, a nosebleed, and eventually some fun nausea. Generally I still don't feel great for the first few hours of the day, but it's looking like it's going to be an all day thing this time. Can anyone say yahoo with me?

Cats need food too, I can't call Boi, he doesn't get reception at his temporary worktown. Hopefully it will clear up so I can still attend the storm spotter class with K, and I can swing out for food then, or even still before. Don't want to go now though, I'm dizzy with this headache. Speaking of K, she dropped off two organic cotton onesies in super cute colors :D Peanut is spoiled already!

Two more days till Peanut is half-baked, 5 more days until the anatomy scan. Today and yesterday I've been really excited to find out what Peanut is. I figure at least then I have a clear image in my head for who I'm blaming for my nosebleeds. Well, that - and the good stuff ;) 

Wow, I'm making a lot of grammar mistakes, perhaps it's not advisable to blog while under the influence of a headache. I'll get a cat instead I guess.

Popcorn

Sunday evening, Sunday night and again Monday morning I felt popcorn going off in my belly! Peanut officially sent me some unmistakable kicks! Boi tried to get his hand on my belly on time, but it was too late. Even though some ladies on my board say that they've felt it through their bellies, at ~8oz and my nice layer of baby warming fat, I think it's going to be a few more weeks for us anyways. Alas, nothing since Monday morning, or at least nothing distinct.

We had a very annoying weekend, with the sump pump backing up, the dishwasher freaking out, and the garbage disposal just plain dying. Boi fixed the sump pump, took a few tries but eventually figured it out, and after draining and tinkering with the dishwasher, it just started working again. This has happened once before, gosh darn it I just need a new kitchen. And a new master bathroom still. And a new sliding door. These three things would make me happy. Too bad all these things cost money, and suddenly we have a money eating baby on the way ;)

Boi is in Wautoma this week, a long drive for what he calls frustratingly easy work. Not entirely sure how to take that, better then frustratingly hard and awful work I guess? But still not great. Oh well, one day down for him, well a day and a half, and he got home at a good time last night though, maybe he'll be home when I get back from yoga :) Hopefully he'll be in good mood! I want to make plans to get out of here for a few days!

Speaking of yoga, I was going to leave soonish for that. Dinner first at mom's, I'm going to bring her some flowers from the garden :D At least it's not snowing out there, boo for snow in May, hopefully they still look ok. I'd bring them in here, but the cats would for sure eat them. They're such squishy pigs :) *makes piggy faces with the one sitting by the computer* Yeah, she takes that as a compliment, darn it!

Peanut's wearing pigtails today! Bwaa haa haa!

First Garage Sale!

Huzzah for garage sale season! K and I went out and did some intensive garage sale-ing, in the rain. Came out with some stuff, the cutest blanket ever, a bunch of fitted sheets, a musical mobile, (a bumper that i'm not sure about...), a baby monitor, clothes and bibs and shoes and a puzzle and hangers, and a baby album, all for a steal.

Peanut is 19 weeks today, or as I affectionately sometimes say, -21 weeks old :) In one week we'll be halfway there! Kairi is especially excited about this suddenly, cat is crawling all over me *getting.... strangled.... with love....*

Also K gave me a random site name website, so today, since Peanut is a boy today, his try-on name is.... Diggery Ashwin. Yeah, I don't think Boi is going to buy that one.

Ugh, last day of April. I can't wait for May! Say goodbye to this cold icky weather, say goodbye to a malfunctioning sump pump, dishwasher, and garbage disposal, and a questionable vacuum cleaner. Say goodbye to puking, to headaches, to gagging, to forcing myself to lay down and not do anything to stop the pains, to feeling exhausted and feeling like crap. May is going to be all about finally being able to focus on work, being able to work in the garden, to opening the windows, to starting on the nursery. To growing a cute bump, even though I'm told I look pregnant, I still want a proper cute bump. To feeling real movement, to reading to Peanut. To taking a few days to escape WI with Boi on one last outing before travel gets more difficult. 

May is going to be all these things, just you watch.

Yay for Mom's

My headache won't go away, through showers and Tylenol and quiet time. So I decided to get my jacket on and head out to the store for a few groceries and some soda, since apparently Boi drank the last few last night. Alas, this was apparently too much activity for Peanut or my head or something because I ended up throwing up before I got out the door. Sigh. So I plopped down and started complaining to my brother, and he suggested that maybe Mom would bring me over some soda. Now I hate to play the mom card, but I didn't really feel like having this headache all day, nor did I really want to risk getting sick again by pushing myself past what my body was clearly up for today.

So she brought me two, one for now, one to hide for in case it happens again :)

I'm feeling better now, not perfect but no longer miserable. Alas it's Wednesday though, there's an excellent chance I'll be going to bed alone tonight.  But I did my best to put positive thinking and thoughts in Boi's brain before he left this morning. To try to focus on what had to get done today and start it earlier then he might usually. Here's hoping!

At this point my uterous weighs over 2 lbs, with Peanut growing to 7 ounces of that, and is the size of a cantaloupe. But alas my stomach muscles are staying stubborn holding out on letting me pop. So I just continue to stick out funny, but I went and got, what I hope will be the last pair of pants to buy. They're convertible, so will serve dual purposes. Also comfy. I think I'm going to go be comfy some more in them.

Long Weekend

Well, the weekend is over. Boi's long week ended with baseball and fluff, but now he's back at it. He'll be home again Thursday though :) Got some unusual pains from about noon on Friday till noon on Sunday. Sharp pains are normal on either side, but no real explanation for them dead center under my growing belly. The ladies thought maybe they were braxton hicks, or perhaps the baby was hitting a nerve. Or maybe it was just stress. Whatever it was they've been gone for over 48 hours now, so I'm feeling a lot less stressed about it.

We're 18 weeks now, just two weeks away from halfway there. I'm starting to get some aches and itching around my bellybutton, I hear that it can get painful once it really starts to stretch there, yaaay. Ooh, an itch right now, gotta try to ignore it. And now suddenly sleepy. Stream of consciousness blogging at it's finest.

Just haven't felt like blogging I guess this week, sorry about that. Last night sleep was fitful, I kept dreaming over and over that I was dead or dying. So when Boi was getting ready for work and we were chatting a little, after he stopped talking, I fell back asleep and continued to converse with him. He prolly thinks I'm crazy now, after he jolted me back out of my doze to ask me what I was talking about, bleeeeeh. Dragged myself out of bed an hour later, at the very least I haven't felt sick at all today. Just exhausted.

We were playing a game last night of, name that feeling in my gut! We got one feeling that I couldn't for sure say wasn't gas or my stomach or anything else. But alas, still not certain of anything. Oh well, maybe in a few more weeks... I'm going to go close my eyes now...

Dreams!

I dreamed last night that I was about to have the baby :) Though it was quite weird, my doctor sat me down on my couch, so I could see out the front window, and I watched lots of people drive down the hill to come to visit, then I got tired of sitting there and I got up and walked around to talk to people, when someone was like, hey you had the baby! And lo' and behold I was holding a little newborn out of nowhere. Man that must have been an easy labor :) So the obvious next question was what was the gender? So I peeked in the diaper, and declared that she was a girl! Yaay! It also was a poopy diaper, but hey, no dream is perfect. But then someone said I must be sad because I already had two little girls?

And then I woke up to Boi getting up.

Unsure if it was a 'premonition dream', due to the fact that apparently it was a third baby... but then I thought maybe my brain was confused with the cats, since I never did see any other kids in the dream. But my brain was stuck on it, and I drifted back to sleep while Boi showered, and this time I did have two older girls... and an infant boy. But it was just a fact of the matter while I went and tried to resolve my schedules at both Target and Best Buy, telling them I couldn't work because I just had a baby.

So now I'm even less sure I can trust the first dream. The second one was clearly tainted by the sudden end of the first dream, but this is the first time I've dreamed clearly of a gender. I've heard ladies say they start dreaming about their little one and it turns out true. I guess just wait for another one and see if I dream of the same baby twice. Because they were two different babies all together.

Call me crazy, but I just found something nice to think about through the end of April :) And over halfway to 18 weeks!