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Sunday, July 27, 2014

34 weeks!! and Baby Shower day!!!

How big is baby:  34 weeks, Butternut squash
Total weight change:  Weighed myself this morning and I am up a pound from starting weight, so including what I lost and gained back that is 11 lbs.
Symptoms: sleeping kind of sucks because my hips get so sore during the night, other than that the emotions have kicked up a notch
Maternity clothes: Yes please, it is like wearing jammies all day!
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: I could sleep all the time if I was able to!
Best moment of this week: Had a wonderful baby shower today. I feel so loved and spoiled. I have piles of stuff to go through and sort. There is a pile of diaper boxes in the garage that comes up to my shoulder, 10 huge packs of diaper wipes so far that I have found in my little bit of searching the bags!
Miss anything: Not peeing all the time! Solid night of sleep. Sleeping my on back or belly.
Movement: She is a crazy one sometimes... I can just sit and watch my belly go insane!
Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Chicken....
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: stretching and itching, has been really sore a few days lately but still an innie
Looking forward to: sorting through all the baby shower stuff, making a list of what we still need and going shopping!
Milestones: 6 weeks left! next week is 35 weeks done, 35 days to go! EEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!

some of the diapers, I added more after this was taken!
Some of the pile, it goes back into the corner!
Another pile!

Monday, July 21, 2014

33 weeks!

So I missed last week but there was nothing new to report really! Just getting bigger and actually looking pregnant! Wish it was the cute round bump some people get, but is is more spread out and twice as big at night as in the morning!

How big is baby:  33 weeks-durian fruit, whatever that is! Lol!
Total weight change:  This morning I was at my starting weight, yesterday I was down 2 i dont know! At my dr appt last week I was up half a pound.
Symptoms: really achy right hip at night makes sleeping not fun! Heartburn way better with a higher zantac dose so that is nice!
Maternity clothes: Yes please, it is like wearing jammies all day!
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: Ahhh sleep, I love you so much! But that darn hip an getting up to pee at least once a night sucks!
Best moment of this week: desk has been moved! Furniture arranged for now! Made a crib skirt with my mom that I love so much!
Miss anything: Not peeing all the time! Solid night of sleep. Sleeping my on back or belly.
Movement: She is a crazy one sometimes... I can just sit and watch my belly go insane!
Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Chicken....
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: stretching and itching
Looking forward to: baby shower is this weekend!! Yay! I am bad and stalk my registry, going by that we are basically getting nothing, and 2 diaper pails!
Milestones: Single digit weeks!! yikes!


I am having a day though... I am supposed to be training the guy who is going to cover for me... Yeah.. he sucks. He never wants to train. I sent an email to my boss and him (oh he is my boss's son) with a list of stuff asking if he is to be trained on everything.

I get a reply from my boss stating that yes he would like him trained on everything if I get a chance to show it. I wanted to write back that I am more than willing to train him at any point I am not the one who is avoiding the training, but decided that was not the best idea.

Also in the same reply was a question asking me what I thought my availability might by while I am on leave in order to help them should they have questions. Uhh.. If I am taking STD or FMLA (I am doing both) Legally I can't work during that time off especially the STD. Not that they would find out but if they did I could not receive my benefits. So I put off responding until he cornered me in the break room and asked me. So the only response I could come up with is that I could have my laptop with me and try to check my email once or twice a week. He did not seem thrilled by that answer but whatever. 
And how am I supposed to know what I will be able to do. I have never had a baby before. I am just so frustrated.

and then lets top that off with the stupid son, knowing I had a 15 bullet point list of things off the top of my head that I want to train him on sees me and asks "so is there anything that you need to show me" I just stared at him because I did not trust any words that may have come out of my mouth at that point. So after a bit he goes "well I mean you have stuff to show me but like when, later this afternoon maybe?" I responded with I am available whenever you are to show you everything. His response.... "how long do you think it is going to take?" I said well that really depends on you. So he then said "it depends on how smart I am right?" So i just said yes and walked away. Never heard from him again for the rest of the day.

I am getting so frustrated by the whole freaking thing and know I will be blamed for everything not happening because he refuses to learn. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Monday, July 7, 2014

31 weeks!! Only single digit weeks left!!

How big is baby:  31 weeks a pineapple
Total weight change:  I am up 2 pounds from starting weight, 12 including what I lost and gained back (same as last week)
Symptoms: Heart burn is getting bad, a couple days of swollen feet.
Maternity clothes: Yes please, it is like wearing jammies all day!
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: Ahhh sleep, I love you so much!
Best moment of this week: Got the nursery painted, some of the decor up, glider ordered.

Miss anything: Not peeing all the time!
Movement: She is a crazy one sometimes... I can just sit and watch my belly go insane!

Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Chicken....
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: stretching and itching
Looking forward to: Appt on the 15th, shower on the 27th, getting the crib put together.
Milestones: Single digit weeks!! yikes!

Sunday, June 29, 2014

30 weeks down 10 to go.... that is only 70 days... 70?????!!!!!!!!!!!

How big is baby:  30 a large cucumber or a cabbage
Total weight change:  I am up 2 pounds from starting weight, 12 including what I lost and gained back
Symptoms: Heart burn is getting bad, a couple days of swollen feet.
Maternity clothes: Yes please, it is like wearing jammies all day!
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: Ahhh sleep, I love you so much!
Best moment of this week: E feeling her kick! Watching my belly move as she has a dance party! Oh and finishing painting the nursery today!

Miss anything: Not peeing all the time!
Movement: Oh my gosh... so much. I can feel her and see her so much more now that she moved. It is so strange to feel her up  higher!

Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Chicken....
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: innie but looks like it is stretching a bit!
Looking forward to: my appt on Tuesday to hear her again! We also have a newborn class this Thursday so that will be interesting!
Milestones: Uhh... getting down to single digit weeks!

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

29 weeks (a little late)


So I am actually 29 w 2 d.... but still.... 
How big is baby:  29 butternut squash
Total weight change:   I am +1 from starting weight! woot!
Symptoms: hungry all the time and peeing a lot.... tiring easily....
Maternity clothes: Pretty much all the time... some are still a little baggy
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: Ahhh sleep, I love you so much!
Best moment of this week:
This might be a best moment for my next post because it just happened tonight... But E finally got to feel her. She was going nutso so I had him put his hand on my belly and after a bit he felt her, he jumped at first... but went back for more. It was so cute!
She also flipped from Transverse to I assume where she should be. That happened Sunday night, I guess she was feeling cramped after all my bending to paint! So my bump has shifted and is so strange to get used to!

 Painting the nursery!! well 2 walls!! It is small so there was some furniture shuffling happening!
I picked up the paint on Sunday and did 2 of the purple walls. 
Need E to move his desk around so I can do the last purple wall and then more moving to do the green wall. I love the purple... 
I have just gone and sat in there a couple times. Even E loves it!!


Miss anything: Not peeing all the time!
Movement:
More and more every day!!

 Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Protein...I have to force myself to eat meat.
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: innie but feels like it is stretching
Looking forward to: painting the rest of the nursery. Our childcare class is next week, that should be interesting...
Milestones: Freakin 3rd tri... holy shit... where did the time go?


and here is the new bump now that she moved... 

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Dating (back in the day).... More specifically strange dates...

So this came up from a group I am a part of... What is your strangest date...
Welllllll online dating left me with quite a few of those stories! So I thought to change it up from being all baby all the time I would share a bit of my crazy dating history!
Online dating eventually worked out cuz that is how I met hubster!!!

But I did have one in high school as well...
My brother is a year older than me so my senior year he was in college and his suite mate in the dorms was HOT so I spent a bit of time visiting my brother (we are really close so this was not super odd). At some point the suite mate and I exchanged numbers and started chatting a bit and decided to go on a date. 
My parents didn't really think this guy was all that great so we met up somewhere and drove down to a nearby town that has lots of shops and restaurants. He decided we should pretend to be french tourists. He was hot so I played along. We had a blast and people thought we were drunk.
As the night wound down we got back to where we had met and sat awkwardly in the car for a bit before he leaned over to kiss me... Like with his teeth... It was all teeth and hurt...
Dude you are so hot how do you not know how to kiss?
So we start over all nice for a minute and then it is back to all teeth again... That ruined it for me!
We chatted when I saw him but that was all. And my brother was soooo pissed when he found out we went on a date!

That one wasn't super funny but memorable!

After my boyfriend of 6 years and I broke up and taking a break from dating I tested the waters of online dating... Wow! There are some crazies out there!

Strangest date - possibly!
I met this guy on match.com we chatted a bit and talked about all kinds of randomness. Well at some point I said something about a coworker getting flowers and how I never had. He stalked me enough to find out where I worked and sent me flowers to my work. We had only emailed at this point, it was a GIANT arrangement. I got a creep vibe but also felt bad so agreed to go on a date with him.
So must have memorized all the stuff I had put on my profile like favorite song etc... I was running late so just told him to pick me up at my house. So he did and made sure I noticed he was wearing my favorite color, we got in his truck and he had put my favorite song on a CD on repeat.
We went to pick apples or something and came back to my house and I had chili in the crockpot which he gushed about being the best he ever ate and then he snuggled up to me on my couch (head on shoulder his feet tucked up on my couch) and asked to look through my photo albums because he wanted to see me when I was younger... It took forever for me to get him out of my house. My BFF kept calling to check on me and see if he was still there or not!
He emailed me as soon as he got home about me being "the one" and it being the best date he had ever been on.
I emailed him that night that things were not going to work out between us
... I think he was crushed.

Another guy... we actually had 2 dates. Although I should have called it quits after the first one!
We had talked for a while and it seemed had a bit in common. So we decided to get together and hang out.
I was living at a house with lake access so we decided to hang out for a bit there and go swimming. Once we set up the plan he decided to tell me that Oh wait, not only did he not have a car, he also didn't have a license because he lost it from a DUI... And he lived a half hour away.
Well silly me decided I would go pick him up. We actually had a good time hanging out for a while and I took him back home (well his moms house cuz since he couldn't drive he also didn't have a job and therefore had to move back in with his mom) We talked in the driveway for a bit and had a kiss or two...
We kept talking and decided to go on a second date. To the renaissance festival... he still couldn't drive, so I had to drive 30 mins to pick him up and then from his place 2 hours to the festival. On the way he had me stop at an ATM so he could get money. Awesome, I suppose he is paying if he is getting money. We got to the gate to pay to get in and he bought one ticket... and then looked at me... OKAYYYYY guess I am paying for myself! and then he got a second ticket, I must have made my bitch face!
We walked around and were having an okay time. It was super super hot that day so we sat down to watch the joust. And he got up and bought a gatorade and came back and chugged the whole thing while I watched... Then asked if I wanted a drink. I told him no I was good...
We finally made it back to his apartment (he had moved) and he wanted me to see the place so I went in and got the tour. Which he made sure ended in his bedroom where he tried to put the moves on me. I shot him down.
We talked for a few more days after. And I decided things were not going to work and told him so.
The guy lost his shit... blasting me over email about leading him on and giving him the wrong impression and what a bitch I am, why would I go on a second date if I knew it was going no where etc...
The worst part... A few months later I went back to school for my MBA, and he was also taking classes there so I saw him in the hall ALLL the time. I got the death stare for a while from him.
But I didn't care because while he was doing that I was happily dating someone new who was mostly normal!

Monday, June 16, 2014

28 weeks! Third Tri!

How big is baby:  28 Eggplant
Total weight change:  Ummm so this morning I was only a half pound down from my starting weight! (still the same as last week)
Symptoms: we got a new mattress so sleep has been so much better. My asthma has been decent and tiring easily
Maternity clothes: Maternity clothes are so comfy, but they tend to fall down since I don't have much of a bump to hold them up so I am having to wear just a few things.
Stretch marks: only what I started with
Sleep: Ahhh sleep, I love you so much!
Best moment of this week: deciding on paint colors! wooo!! And  buying the fabric for my mom to make the quilt.

Miss anything: Not peeing all the time!
Movement: yes! But every time I think maybe E will be able to feel it and go to put my had there she stops... such a stinker!

Food cravings: I just love fruit still!
Food Aversions: Protein...I have to force myself to eat meat.
Sex: Girl!
Labor signs: no way again
Belly button in or out: innie
Looking forward to: painting!
Milestones: Freakin 3rd tri... holy shit... where did the time go?