Finally The Pics!

First I want to show off my beautiful daughter. She was absolutely perfect when I saw her during my 3D sonogram. She even smiled. The tech lady did however have to have me lay updside down and on my left side to get this darling baby to cooperate.. but I don't mind. Anything for a good photoshoot!!








Next is a pic of my belly button. I have been told by a couple people that it looks like a butt hole. Thank you Pam, Christa and Brenda.. No, it doesn't bother me. So you can be the judge. If this bare belly business creeps or grosses you out- I apologize and you don't have to look. Also important to note- I had just taken a shower and lubed up with my vitamin E oil and cocoa butter, so I look a bit greasy. The same goes for my 30 week pic at the top of the blog.



I felt that a side view of the belly button was better because I have verbalized my strong feelings about how front pics of a belly are dumb. What is the point of them? You can't see how big the person is...

Wobbling Happy

As my stomach continues to expand beyond an imaginable size, the wobbling continues to worsen. I began to have the pregnancy waddle at about 22 weeks or so, and boy has it gotten more impressive! I don't mean to walk that way, it just happens. I personally think it is because my legs have continued to expand as well. There is no denying the fact that my butt and legs have grown a bit too. I just blame it on making my body more prepared to carry this extra weight in front. However.. it is probably because I am just a lard butt. Oh well- I have every intention to work my butt off (literally) during the 12 weeks I'm off work (of coarse I will only work out intensely the last 6). I have continued my leg exercises as well as my tricep dips- but Jesus continues to provide me with cushion to support this baby (YIKES!). My weight gain has been appropriate thus far- but I still have 8 weeks left.
I also am one of those preggos that find it appropriate to hold her stomach while walking. I do this for a couple reasons. 1. Anytime I walk my bladder suddenly has absolutely no room at all.. none. So if I hold my stomach up a bit it takes a little pressure off. 2. I like to hold my baby. I like her to know that I am always thinking of her.. always. And I think that if I let her know that I love her so much- maybe she won't poke at my bladder. I mean, she can if she wants. I don't really mind.. but if she wants to be kind to my bladder- super! P.S.- ONLY 8 WEEKS! Holy cow! That is 5 weeks till full term. I couldn't be more psyched. I am off for 3 days and I am hoping to get a small amount of work done on the baby room and hopefully the baby's bathroom. We will see..



Speaking of the babies room- I just re bought the babies bedding and the valance that matches because they were on sale and I saved $20. Whoo hoo! I originally spent $140 for just the bedding and then Target had a baby sale, so I took back the bedding and got back all my money and then re bought the bedding AND the valance and only spent $120. Now that is what I call a deal! I also bought the breast pump on sale- $30 off. I am very excited about that- AND I got a $20 target gift card for buying a medela pump. I bought the Pump In Style Advanced. I have heard good things, I hope they prove to be true. I am going to be devastated if breastfeeding doesn't work out. I so badly want to use boobie juice as my baby girls primary source of nutrition. :) Plus- I am counting on that as another way to help me lose weight.

Running Randall

Joey and I recently had the pleasure of loaning out garage space to a fuzzy fella. We have decided to name "Running Randall" (actually Joey came up with the name). We kept finding weird things happening in our garage. We do vending and so we have a box of pastries (has donuts, cupcakes, zingers..ect), well when we went to get some of the pastries out we noticed that we had a couple packages of donuts that were open. The first package was crumb donuts (yummy!), and they only had a few nibbles out of them. The second package was powdered and they had like 3 donuts missing. Joey asked if I knew what the deal was and of course I had no idea. Joey then said that he kept finding stuff knocked off the shelves in our garage. And it was stuff that was on shelves really high up on the wall. Obviously we were baffled.. but we had no other reason to suspect a mammal friend visiting us and shacking in the garage. THEN.. on Saturday night we were hosting a Reid Shindig and Joey went to the garage to grab something and he saw an animal run across the garage. First and foremost we had to make sure it wasn't our first fuzzy child- The Son Bun. Thank goodness it wasn't, I would feel awful if he was stuck out in our garage. So.. we looked all over our garage and couldn't find this little critter. Important to note though- our garage is organized and recently cleaned, but still very very jammed full of stuff due to Joeys business. We kept hitting things on the walls hoping that this intruder would show his/her face- but no luck. Later on at like 2am Joey went to the garage and saw a possum run across the floor and vanish. We again looked very hard for him/her- but still no luck. This little turkey was probably "playing possum". What a little jokester this little animal is! Sunday my mom and step dad David come over- David used to be an animal control officer and this certainly wasn't his first rodeo when it came to getting a possum. However- Joey and David had the same issue that we had already had, this possum was playing dead somewhere and was no where to be found. We decided setting a trap would be the best way to hopefully catch this furry friend (even though Randall had it pretty good in the garage- plenty of food, space and privacy). Joey set the trap late in the evening and I had to go to work. Later, when I talked to Joey he informed me that we only had "one fuzzy guy living at our house now". Apparently Joey had went to grab something from the garage and Randall was caught red handed hiding behind the box Joey needed to get into. Randall got a little spooked and tried to run but was partially paralyzed from the fear of Joeys big muscles and the fact that he was holding cat tongs (which are similar to the old people grabbers). Joey grabbed Randall under the armpits with the tongs and carried him to the street as quickly as possible. Joey said Randall looked pretty scared and hissed a couple times. As soon as he let Randall go he ran rather quickly down the street. Poor Randall, but we just have too much stuff in the garage to let him permanently shack up out there. Here are a couple pics of cute little possums- the first is my favorite. I love how the babies are just holding on to their mother for dear life! I also love how Joey has just as soft of a heart for animals as I do- I think I picked a pretty great husband!!

Sooo Close

Once again I have managed to go over 1 month since my last blog. Wow.. I really suck at this blogging business. I just get tired or busy and my blog suffers horribly. Well, only 62 days till the due date of my daughter(I can't beleive I get to say that)! That is very very close in case you weren't aware. Because 62 days is only about 2 months and... wow! The pregnancy has gone by so fast! I have started to get serious about getting ready for the baby.. finally. I recently bought the high chair, bed set and the furniture. Of course, I waited until most of these were on sale to buy. However, I do have to return my bedset and rebuy it because it is now on sale with free shipping. Whoo hoo! I am all about saving $30! I have registered at Babies R'Us and Target- that was quite an adventure! My baby shower is going to be September 26th and I am pumped. My work shower is going to be the 24th and I am also really excited about that one as well. It will just be nice to be all ready for this precious baby. I am hoping to get the room painted pretty soon and then we can set up the crib. I also had my 3D (it was actually 4D) ultrasound last week. I will tell you more about that later, but Baby Antebellum proved how turkeyish she can be!

Here is a pic of the highchair that I bought. It is pretty nifty. It is a highchair that can also turn into a booster seat and then a "toddler seat". I have included a pic of all 3 ways the chair can be used. It is pretty nice.





I also will post my 28 and 30 week photos within the next couple days. I promise to do another blog by next week. :)