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. :)

96 Days!

Lately time has been going by really fast. Joey and I have been really busy lately and when we aren't working or doing vending we just want to sit, relax and not do a darn thing. Well.. while I was being busy, time has just flown by! I only have 96 days left with this wonderful growing baby girl. I can't even believe it!! She has been so super active lately, I love it. I like that she lets me know that she is ok and that she is continuing to grow and get stronger. My belly has really taken off lately as well. In the last 2 weeks strangers have started to ask me about my pregnancy "When are you due", "How far along are you", ect. It has been such a delight. :) I worked hard on growing this belly and I am more than happy to discuss it.
Here is the only problem with getting closer and closer to the grand entrance... I am not ready AT ALL! I haven't started to prepare her room, I haven't started buying things and I still have no idea what we are going to name her. Do I feel a little anxious about this: YES! At work everyone keeps having there babies and each time it happens I think "Crap MB, what are you doing? You need to get off your lazy butt and get that room ready, clean the house and register". But instead.. nothing.. I do nothing. I know that we still have 14 weeks till due date, but if 26 weeks have flown by this fast- I can only imagine how fast 14 weeks will. I did pick out a dresser and book shelf that I think will go with Joeys old crib (if we use it). We just need to order it. It is on clearance- thank goodness! The amount of money they charge for furniture is enough to make me throw up!! Once we have that, I think it will all come together nicely. I am planning on have the baby shower on Sept 26th (thats a whole nother story.. sigh). But I am really excited for that! It is going to be a couples shower- should be fun.
On Tuesday I did my glucose tolerance test- it wasn't too bad. I drank the orange glucola. You are suppose to drink it within 5 minutes and I drank it within 3 (Do I get extra points for that?). I had worked the night before so I had to stop eating at 4 am- at least I think I did. I was pretty sure that Dr.Adams said you had to fast for 4 hrs prior to the test. I actually cheated a bit. I ate some yogurt at 4:10, and it took me a bit to eat it. Side note: A&E yogurt was on sale for 39 cents. Yummo! That is my favorite! I bought like 24 of them- those suckers are usually like 72 cents!! Ok, back to the GTT. So I drank the stuff and then went to the lab to have my blood drawn. Holy cow, I am pretty sure they used an 18 guage to draw my blood- it certainly wasn't a 22! Good thing I had a honkin vein for them. The lady asked how far along I was and I said 26 with the anticipation that she was going to say " You don't look like you are that far along"- everyone says that (or they used to). But nope, she said "You look further along than 26 weeks". She even asked if it was twins. LOL. I don't think I am that big- but I still enjoyed the comments. Like I said before- showing off this belly is a pleasure. :) After the test I did feel a bit nauseous because I had drank so much sugar on an empty stomach, but other than that I was fine. I do feel like it is a bit crazy to put a preggo npo for any certain period of time! Couldn't they just let me eat meat and cheese until I drank my sugar water? Oh well.. I survived. I will hopefully find out today if I passed- wish me luck! :) I have my 26 week doctors appt today and then I go every 2 weeks. Hip hip hoorey!!! I posted my 26 week photo and I also posted a photo with my shirt down- you will probably like that one better. Hopefully you aren't getting tired of the bare belly pics. ;)

Slightly Emotional

I must say my pregnancy emotions have been at an all time high. Heavens... Joey probably doesn't even know what to do with me. I cry so easily! Not only do I cry crazy easy- but I am quick to get mad about something. I do attempt to have a handle on these OOC emotions- but when tears start to well up there is absolutely nothing I can do to stop them. And I will continue crying as long as someone asks me about it. And all I can say is "I don't know.. I guess its these dang pregnancy emotions". LOL A couple weeks ago I had a crying outburst prior to leaving for work and Joey just tried to cheer me up- but there was nothing he could do. The next day after I got up from sleeping (at 5:00 because Joey had crawled in bed with me so I slept an extra 1.5 hours), I went downstairs to find flowers on the kitchen table! Joey had bought me these gorgeous flowers. And on top of that he had also went and had my prevacid prescription filled. I had ran out of the free samples and hadn't gotten my script filled yet. I had told Joey that my heartburn was nearing an all time high and that if I didn't work extra that night I was definitely going to get my prevacid (because P.S. Prevacid is AMAZING!). So he went ahead and got my script filled- it was sitting behind the flowers. He is such a great husband. I am very lucky to have him. Hopefully he will continue to want to keep me. I must get these emotions under control. Although, I must say.. it has been a bit better these last couple weeks. So maybe it was just a horrible 4 week stretch of a surge in hormones. Who knows. Here is a couple pics of the pretty flowers. :)

Domination Continues

Wiffle ball has been going strong again this year. Man I love me some wiffle ball. Joey has been out of control with his pitching- he should be a shoe in for the Cy Young Award. Im so proud of him! He continues to be undefeated while pitching. This year he made the all star team. North vs South. The first team for the North (Joeys division) was made up of The Hicktown Bombers (Joeys team). haha. They are pretty much amazing! The second team was made up of two players from The Woodcocks (Chris B- pitcher and Jim K) and Cody from Soco. The first got a strong lead in the beginning and then the second team finished the south off. Really, its no surprise. The North is undoubtedly the stronger division. Here is a couple pics of the winners!

Ages

I am very very sorry for the outrageous delay in updating my blog. I can only blame it on laziness and tiredness. I am so tired and so busy.. horrible combo. Not that the tiredness is anything outlandish or horrible.. just continuous. When my alarm goes off at 3:30 to wake up, I am having the hardest time getting up and keeping my eyes open. Maybe it is because I am growing a baby or it could be because I only get backaches when I sleep which decreases the quality of sleep. I don't know.. but its silly. However, I don't mind, just another reminder of my sweet baby growing in my womb.
Speaking of my womb, I absolutely love to feel the borders of my uty (uterus). I frequently ask Joey to feel it. I wonder how he feels about that. I mean, I don't ask him to feel it inappropriately.. just to feel the borders and when it is tight. I love the growth every week. Lately it has been tightening up and you can feel it really well. It tightened up while I was at the OBs office and he said he thought it was just the way she was laying because it wasn't completely firm in all quadrants. (Can you tell I enjoy talking about the uterus?) :) It is so weird to know how big it is compared to my pre-pregnancy uty. It is now about 2 inches above my belly button. Which, by the way, is really starting to flatten out. I used to have somewhat of a deep belly button, I don't know why.. just what Jesus gave me. But now it is slowly coming closer and closer to the surface of the rest of my belly. I wonder if it will pop out at any point or just get flat. Only time will tell. :)

So I had my 22 week appointment on Friday. All went amazingly well. Babies heart rate was 140 (super!) and she was moving lots. The nurse kept having to chase her around my belly to get a good consistent reading. Already as ornery as her father and I. Joey has been able to go to all of my appointments except for one. It has been wonderful to have Joey at my appointments. I think it is so cute that he wants to go to them all. He is going to be such a great father!! Dr.Adams started measuring my belly at this appointment. I was so excited when he said he was going to measure my belly. I don't know why I was so excited.. probably because it is related to pregnancy and I love it! I measured slightly big at 23 weeks, but he said it really depends on your pelvic shape. And he said the measurement is just the starting point and the ones after this are the most important because they note my growth. I only have one more appointment that is 4 weeks apart then I go to q2 week appointments. Whoo hoo!! And only 2 more weeks till viability! Not that being born at 24 weeks would be good.. but at least it would be viable.

My tummy growth has really taken off lately. I still need to post my 22 week photo, but you can see the outrageous growth from 18-20 weeks. I love it! My original plan was going to be to take a photo every week after 20 weeks. But I think I am going to stick to the q2 week photos until about 36 weeks. After that I will take them weekly due to the possibility of having the baby. Hard to imagine I have less than 18 weeks till my due date. I know that sounds like a lot of weeks, but it is only about 4 months away. CRAZY!! Another amazing development- Joey and I felt her kick on Thursday. I had felt her kick inside- inconsistently but still... I could feel it. Then on Thursday I was laying on the floor and she started to kick and I could feel it on my hand. So I had Joey feel her and it was so neat!! I love that we were able to feel her at the same time. I didn't want it to be one of those things where I could feel it for weeks before he did- I wanted to share this moment with him. Funny, as I was typing about her kicking- she started to kick. What a silly goose. I guess she knows what I am thinking about. :) Its weird, its almost like I know when she is getting ready to kick. I have this weird feeling in my gut, almost like my stomach is dropping, and then she starts to move and kick. Have I mentioned how adorable she is?!
Alright.. that's enough for now. Sorry for the long post. Much to update you on. I will attempt to 1.Post my 22 week photo soon and 2. Update more often. :) Wish me luck.