Song of the Day #2

  Heavy in your Arms by Florence and the Machine.  I <3 it!

Blast from the Past- 2003

*Sniff*Sniff*... look what I found when I was cleaning out the office.  Look how little we are!  I still can't believe how lucky I am to have found my love at 16 years old.

22 weeks

Today marks 22 weeks.  5 1/2 months.  This is going very quickly.  Cravings of the week: baked beans.  Oh if I could have baked beans with every meal that would be fantastic.  When I was eating leftover sloppy joes the other day I ran out of meat so I just put baked beans on a bun and it was delicious.  Yum-o.  Second craving:  anything sweet after I've had my baked beans.  Lucky for me I have a husband who has a sweet tooth so as we speak he's leaving to go get blizzards for us :)  Take advantage of this buy one get one for 99 cents deal they have going!

I'm having a hard time sleeping.  Baby is in a weird spot and Max thinks I need a human blanket so I can't get comfortable.  I think I would have to have the bed to myself to be comfortable and that just isn't very nice.  So I lay there and attempt.  I watch movies.  Eventually I fall to sleep but wake up often to turn over to to get Max's elbow off my head or something like that.  Pee, that's a normal occurrence as well.  I hope this stage passes quickly.  I'm very tired.

My weekly pregnancy emails said that baby is 11 inches long and about a pound.  This baby was a pound at our 20 week ultrasound which was two week ago.  This is a BIG baby seems like!  I'm in for a rude awakening come birth.  Dexter was nice and small with a head in the 19 percentile.  I might not recover after this one, haha.  Let's hope I"m wrong or that baby will just be coming earlier than we think.

Baby A2 Registry

I don't know why but this conversation is highly uncomfortable for me but I have to have it...

I have had many family members and friends  asking when Baby A2's baby shower will be.  I cannot believe our family would be so willing to throw us another shower when we have just about everything we need from Dexter!  We are so lucky to have such people in our lives to support us in everything, not just when we have babies :)  Story goes though, we will not be having another shower.  We just don't need very many things at all and enough of everyone's generosity was extended when we had Dexter.

After much deliberation, we have decided to set up just a very small baby registry on Amazon.com.  The only thing we really, really need is more cloth diapers.  For those that don't know we use cloth diapers on Dexter and have since he was 9 months old.  We plan on using cloth on this new one as soon as the merconium stage passes.  Newborns require a whole different size of diapers and Dexter is still using his anyway so we definitely definitely need more.  There are a couple of other items on there as well but diapers is really what we need. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=baby&id=3NE9ECQX3EXXW

Here is the link to our registry.  If you need to look us up by name it is under either Max's name or my name.  Please PLEASE don't feel like you need to get us anything.  This just makes it easier for those that are quite stubborn and won't listen to us (tsk tsk!) and will buy us something anyway.  This way everyone can know that they are buying the exact brand that we like to use for Baby A2 and won't have to worry about us returning anything. 

Whew.  Glad that is out of the way.  I don't know why this is such an uncomfortable subject for me.

Song of the Day

I think I will do songs of the day every so often.  Not every day but often enough.  I frequently have songs stuck in my head that are so random it might be nice to keep track.  Today's song of the day is Never Alone by BarlowGirl.  I found it on my Pandora station :)

Yes. I read Readers Digest dangit!

It might be considered to some an "old people" magazine but you can get some helpful tips in there!  Let me tell you a story.  My husband is messy.  I don't know how he does it but he always makes a mess.  He can make toast and leave the kitchen a disaster area.  It is a very irritating habit but I try to just ignore it.  There are things I do that bug him too (*cough* like leave laundry folded in the baskets *cough*.  I really hate putting away laundry*cough*). 

Anyway, the microwave was disgusting.  And I mean DIS.GUS.TING.  I was not about to clean it though.  Dang nab it, I've cleaned it so many times and I am not the one that makes a mess.  I know to cover my dishes with a paper towel and I wipe away any stray messes.  This was all Max's doing.  So I went on strike.  As much as it grossed me out strike time it was.  A week passed by.  Then two.  Then three.  A month.  I couldn't handle it anymore.  This was serious.

The only thing in my favor was a helpful little tip I found in Readers Digest. Use hot water and baking soda and microwave it until just about boiling and the yuck in there will just wipe away and the smell will be gone! And it works! It took me less than 5 minutes to scrub away at the nasty thing and there was no smell left. THANK GOODNESS. I left a nice reminder note though for next time : )

All pretty and smelling delightful.

21 weeks

21 weeks.  Not too much different than last week.  Baby has been much quieter which made me a bit worried at first since s/he is normally so active but I guess we all need to have a bit of time to quiet down.  Baby A is back to normal I am happy to say. 

I'm really trying to think but there just hasn't been anything different.  I'm sleeping well, eating well enough, no new cravings.  We are attempting to make progress on the rooms.  The closets are built and now are taped/mudded.  I need to sand them down so they can be primed and painted.  After that is finished I can finally move our clothes out of Baby A's room so I can start in there.  I'm really anxious to get this carpet/trim business done with.  I told Max this morning that I would like to go away for a weekend and come home with it finished.  Haha, that is not the cheap way to do it. 

I feel like I'm getting panicky that time is running out.  My guess is that there could be anywhere from 16 weeks to 19 weeks until Baby comes but with such big projects on the horizon and with my hubby being such a busy man and away from home, it makes it so much harder.  And a lot of this is just so that the house is more appealing for daycare.  I also have to get the yard cleaned up a bit.  Don't misunderstand me though, just cleaned up.  I am no outside person.  It looks horrible right now and I haven't cared much since no one can see our house but again, I need to make it look more appealing.  Yuck.  Dog gone it.  I wish I could just find parents that understood that I don't like gardening!  It doesn't matter how my yard looks, just how my kids look since I'll be taking care of yours!

For your viewing pleasure (aka mine) a comparison in size.  Baby A2 wins.

My little man is awake now from nap time.  A short nap time.  I best go tend to him.

Unsettled

This isn't something I would normally blog about but I only have Dexter awake with me and I don't want to wake up my Monday friends so I guess that leaves this.

Pregnant dreams, while they can be just extraordinary, are sometimes just not very nice.  Now, I know this was just a dream but it was so real, the emotions were so real that since Dex woke me up I have been feeling really unsettled.

I won't go into too much detail because those of you that have heard my dreams before, they can get pretty weird and I remember every. single. detail.  In this dream I was trying to spend some time with Max and he blundered and made some sort of comment and I found out that he had been cheating on me with some girl named Breanna.  He had this whole other life figured out that I had no idea about.  He had moved us to a neighborhood that she lived near so it would be easier to balance the time between us.  I had asked him how he was spending any time at all with her since he is so busy and he told me that he doesn't play poker.  When he tells me he's going to a poker tournament, he's really going to be with Breanna. 

I was heartbroken.  I was so mad.  I just got up and left him there.  I ran and ran and ran until I found my Monday girls in some backyard and I broke down.  Even now thinking about it is getting me teared up.  And in no way, NO WAY would I ever think that Max would do this.  Ever.  But like I said, the dream was so real. 

I told them everything.  They were astonished that Max would do this.  Rachel was so mad.  Max had come to find me (who was watching Dexter I have no idea) and when he found me Rachel, RACHEL was so tongue-tied that she couldn't even piece together a sentence. 

This was just a dream.  I have to keep repeating that to myself.  I did wake up Max to love on me a bit and make sure that this was in fact a dream (of course it was, duh) but you know how you need reassurance after a scare like that.  I still am feeling quite unsettled though because of it.  I don't like these pregnant dreams sometimes. 

Maybe I'll feel better now. 

20 weeks

Hello 20 weeks!  Halfway there!  I cannot believe it. 

This week has gone by quickly and well.  I have had a few nights of insomnia but that will come from time to time with pregnancy.  I get pretty uncomfortable at night.  I am a stomach sleeper so I think that is really bothering me.  I get as close to sleeping on my stomach as bug will tolerate but s/he's very opinionated and will kick/punch my organs until I move. 

No new cravings of the week.  I finished off my jar of grape jelly.  Took me less than 2 weeks to finish up a jar.  That's when you know you are craving something!  I'm still "wearing" my  normal pants although I think I will have to give them up soon.  I can't button or zip them at all and it's getting a bit tight around my rear end.  Bummer.  All my maternity pants are too big still so I'm glad it's getting warmer out I can wear my dresses soon.

We had our ultrasound today!  I forgot how amazing it is to see your little baby on the screen.  Sure, s/he looks like an alien but still somehow so cute.  I already knew this from feeling the little bug but s/he is so, so, so active!  The baby was all over the place!  Didn't let us get one good picture of him/her.  And bug shared his/her opinion to the doctor several times when he pressed down too hard and bug didn't like it.  The doctor even felt his good hard kicks!  Did I tell you that Max has felt the baby from the outside?  I couldn't believe it.  It was on Monday night so not quite 20 weeks and Max can feel him/her.  Strong baby.  Anyway, healthy healthy baby.  Measuring 9 days ahead of schedule so that would put the due date at 7/23 (the day after my birthday) but since you have to be 10 days off the due date didn't officially change.  I just know the baby will come on my birthday.  I do.  The doctor definitely said he saw the gender of the baby but he was very good about not letting any hints out which is exactly how we prefer it.  Max and I like to wait until we have the baby in our arms.

My weekly email says that bug is 10 inches long from head to foot (about the size of a banana) and that I should expect to gain about a pound a week from here on out.  Yikes.  I just hope I don't gain 60 pounds like I did with Dexter!

Perfecto!

What a stinking perfect clothesline day!  I LOVE that spring is on it's way!  Finally a day where I had to wash diapers and it's nice outside!  And not only nice but windy!  Heck if I'm not doing as much laundry as possible to stick out on my clothesline.  Love, love, love!  Thank you Wisconsin for finally giving us some warm sunshine!

And just because I'm so stinking happy about it (if you couldn't tell) here is a pictures of my laundry.  Woot woot!

19 weeks

I started my weekly preggo blogs with Dexter at 8 weeks so I am 11 weeks behind with Bug.  Whoops.  Not that I haven't been taking the pictures though.  We've been good about that since I was 14 weeks.  Does this mean when Baby A3 comes that I will forget about this completely?  Sounds like it.  I sure hope not!

Back to business.  I turn over on Wednesdays so yesterday I turned 19 weeks.  I am feeling very good but at times I feel very large.  I know from previous experience and from every mother out there that of course, I will get much bigger but this pregnancy seems like I got big so quickly.  When I have a lot to eat for the day I swear I'm waddling by the end of the day and it just seems way too early for that. 

I am finally sleeping through the night.  I was getting up 2-4 times a night to go the bathroom but thankfully that seems to have calmed down.  I miss sleeping on my stomach immensely and know that soon I will have to give up on my back as well.  I hate restrictions at bedtime!

This baby craves orange juice like nothing else.  I also have been going through a lot of grape jelly this week.  Seriously, I love a piece of wheat bread loaded with grape jelly.  Yum-o.  Dinner is still the hardest time of day food wise but at least I'm able to actually eat now.  I think for the first 14 weeks that was not an easy task.  My morning sickness went away but has made an appearance a few times this last week.  Mostly when I get too full which is the opposite of before.  Easy enough to manage.

We hit a big milestone this week.  We picked out our baby names.  We had decided to go with Ayda Lynn for the baby girl name since that was the name we had decided on for Dexter if he was going to be a girl but to my surprise, we ended up changing that completely!  I will have to save Ayda for baby girl#2.  I feel so much better now that the names are done.  A huge weight off my chest.  I wish I could tell you but with all of these pregnant ladies out there, I'm scared someone will snatch our name before we have the baby.  I'm starting to see more Dexter's around and I don't like it! 

We have the closets in our bedroom getting started tomorrow probably so that means I can get our clothes out of the new nursery and start prepping it for painting and decorating.  I know that once the warm weather comes I am going to want to be outside and not cooped up inside decorating the nursery!  I also got the diapers all picked out that I am going to buy.  Well, sort of anyway.  I am going to buy 3 different types and see which I like better.  Use Angel's baby as a tester :)  Not even born yet and already going to help Auntie Jessie!  After hours and hours and hours of research, I found that DiaperRite had the best ratings for prefolds and so that is what I will go with for that.  Get some for the baby and a few for Dexter since the baby will be taking some of his diapers.  I will have lots of laundry in my future!  At least I won't be spending tons of money on disposables.  I can't imagine the money spent on 2 in diapers!

Bug seems to be a very active baby.  S/he is getting stronger and stronger so I can actually feel it when s/he's moving around while I'm moving around.  Before I had to be absolutely still if I wanted to feel Bug.  Yesterday the baby was moving around for a full 20 minutes solid kicking and punching me.  Maybe some cartwheels and twirlies too.  I don't remember Dexter being so active at this stage but then again, I didn't feel Dexter move until I was 18 or 19 weeks. 

I'm very excited about our ultrasound next Wednesday!  I know Max does not like the idea of the ultrasound pictures going up on the internet so I will probably only be able to post one but at least you will get to see our cute little bug.  I can't wait!