New Pics :)

Pics from this weekend. I'm 25 weeks exactly in these honies:

My Farmer, Me & My Lil' Farmer

Me & My Lovely

(and our cool cat Angel Baby in the background)

Just My Lovely

Fun Times!

Please don’t think from this post that I’m not BEYOND grateful for being able to get and be pregnant! I am overjoyed, overly blessed and being able to be preggo and be a parent is by far the best experience in the world! My morning yesterday was awesome. I laid in bed for about 40 minutes feeling the baby kick and swim all over the place (awww) then when Belle left for school she surprised me and said, “Good luck, Mama,” because she knew I had “a test.” The test was the glucose test at the medical lab but she just knew I had some kind of test. It was soooo sweet and adorable I cried. Of course, I’m preggo and hormonal so I cry easily but it was just adorable!

However, there are still some funny/not so pretty things that go along with the best experience in the world that I thought would be interesting to share. These are particularly true and funnier things start to happen as the pregnancy progresses.

I’ll may write some of these in the 2nd person (?) so as not to incriminate myself on any of the charges…

Having your midwife very sweetly tell you (in front of your husband) that you could use a “few more walks.” This happened last Friday. Lol. Few more walks, few less cupcakes, etc. Same thing. She really means A LOT MORE WALKS. A LOT LESS CUPCAKES.

Just the fact that your husband generally stays the same size while you grow to resemble that of a hot air balloon. = Annoying!

Retro Comment:
“Hypothetical husband”: (innocently, around 14 weeks or so): “Will your stomach stick out farther than your chest?
“Hypothetical ME”: (unimpressed and prob hungry - lol): Have you ever ___ing seen a pregnant woman before? (grrrrr…hissss…..)

Sleeping becomes a thing of the past, already. Being pregnant is amazingly wonderful but it is not “comfy.” It’s not like carrying extra weight from Doritos or donuts and is just part of comfy old you. It feels like you ate a bowling ball on short notice so this feeling is particularly problematic while laying down because you wake up every 15 minutes to turn to the other side…. See next point…

Yesterday a.m. I flipped a ladybug that was on it’s back over onto it’s feet. It’s feet/hands/whatever were all wiggling in the air and I felt so bad for it! I realized last night in the middle of the night that THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE while making these turns (a.k.a. flops) every 15 minutes!!!

Peeing every 4th flop-over is fun! Especially when you only have one bathroom and it’s downstairs… Did I mention how excited I am to move into a ranch-style?

I do not believe people when they say the forget the pain and suffering of being in labor. This is not true unless they were doped on some serious druggage. But I understand forgetting pregnancy pains. I had TOTALLY FORGOTTEN about the killer leg cramps that wake you up half-screaming into the middle of the night!!!! Obviously, I remember them now!! Everytime I wake up half-screaming into the middle of the night!!!

Some people say taking a “babymoon” rocks it hardcore. I ABSOLUTELY LOVVVVVVVE beach vacations BUT if I don’t even want to see MYSELF (eeek!) after I get out of the shower, why in the HELL would I want to wear a swimsuit on a beach? I would have to look at myself in the mirror before I went out to the beach, and that would ruin my entire day (it’s not just the stomach that gets bigger, people). Besides, without tequila, the beach is a bore. For reals. Okay, well not a total bore, per se…but I wouldn’t think it’d be worth two grand for five days if liquor wasn’t involved. We like to pay for our tropical un-sobriety and have an amazing time on our vacations together.

I cannot believe I used to make it through yoga class at the Shala. Seriously. After going up the stairs this a.m. to get dressed for work, my calves were burning like I just finished Vinyasa III followed by a steep sprint uphill, Bix-style. Ridiculous.

I’ll try to think of some more but these are the highlights as of late! :) :)

Mucho love!!!
~Us

Lab Update

So yahhhhh...went to the lab! Ouch! Really, it wasn't too bad besides being starving and tired. Fasting for 12 hours and leaving the casa at 5:30 a.m. REALLY isn't my cup o' tea. lol.

The test was like 3.5 hours. Crazy! After my first blood draw, I had to drink some sugary orange drink think within five minutes. The blood/needle supervisor guy mentioned there were recliners in the waiting room so I could take a nap before my next blood draw in an hour. I thought he was totally kidding but JACKPOT, BABY, he wasn't!!! They were parked in front of the t.v. that was showing The Today Show. So me, my book and my blackberry hung out and napped, read and checked out the news from the recliner. They called me every hour for the next three hours to give a vial of blood. Vials?!?! What happened to the finger prick? Srsly, ppl. Don't I need that blood for something?

I might have mentioned before that I effin' hate shots and needles. For reals. SO WHYYYY do I always get stuck (no pun intended) with the new needle girl??? *Waaaah* Granted, everyone needs to learn and she was really nice. And I'm sure she was overly nervous b/c the supervisor was sitting directly outside of the room staring at us. On the second draw, she stabbed my arm and couldn't find a vein so was WIGGLING THE DAMN NEEDLE AROUND IN MY ARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again, I HATE needles so I was about to throw up but I couldn't BECAUSE I didn't want to drink the orange drink and wait an hour AGAIN! So she called the supervisor guy who held down the needle, did a quick movement and apparently stabbed the vein before I surely would have fallen unconcious.

The next two hourly sticks were uneventful and she did do a good job. No more in-arm needle wrestling. Ugh!

So they will call me within two days with results. I will post the scoopage. While having gestational diabetes does sound like a huge pain in the finger (apparently, you have to prick yourself 4 times per day?), it would be kinda nice to be under a strict diet. :) Hopefully, my test comes back negative though and there won't be any more needles in my immediate future :)

Love,
Us

OMG STARVING!

Hola! We had our 25 week appointment on Friday. The good news is Kev was great and measuring perfect! The bad news is I failed the anemia and glucose tests. Soooo tomorrow at 6 am, this mamasita will be camping out in the waiting room of the medical lab for 3.5 hours for the gestational diabetes test. Apparently, only 1/3 (or less?) Of preggos that fail the glucose test also fail the more intensive test...so fingers crossed I don't fail tomorrow as well. :).

More bad news is that I have to fast for the test, so needless to say I'm starvingggggg! Lol.

Today was a weird day. Either I truly was exhausted for no reason (other than the bun in the oven), or I was secretly trying to avoid cleaning the garage. Last night I got into bed at 9:17 pm (rockin' Saturday night-haha) and that was the exact same time I got out of bed in the morning (not counting the five times I hit the ladies room during the night). I think I slept too long because I was super tired all morning and early afternoon and spent most of it on the couch with Belle watching Disney channel shows. This is so not like me so I will blame it on the garage thing. It was nice to have arelaxing day with Belle, though. :)

I did go out to the garage around 4 pm to finish dealing with my garage stuff for the big move. I decided to wash, fold and store all of BelleKs baby to 24 month clothes. They are sooooooo cute! It is super sad though because even though I haven't seen them in YEARS, I remember every single adorable little outfit and it doesn't seem like that long ago that she was crawling around in them, learning to walk in them, or I was putting her in those super adorable sleepers after her nightly baths. It definitely reminded me how fast the little farmbaby is going to grow up!
On that note, I better go to bed and get ready for our big morning at the med lab!

Mucho love!!
Us :)

CORN BABY!!

I mentioned I loved Thursdays because thebump.com rolls me over to the next week a couple days early :)




So apparently, I'm 24 weeks and the lil guy is the size of an ear of corn! Which is SUPER adorable to me because obviously I like farms and the harvest and whatnot!






We also picked out the mini-farmer's bedding. It's super cute from a super cute store, Land of Nod. In case you care, click on the green-bolded link and here it is along with a pic:




I ordered the quilt so I can pick out a paint color for the nursery. This whole giving birth thing is starting to get real and I'm getting REAL SCARED! :) But excited, too, for the farmbaby!


Mucho love,
~Us

Muy grande!

The babe continues to get big and shock people with the January due date :). I'll take this as a good sign that Kevin is happy and flourishing! :). Tonight I went to Hy-Vee and found some awesome coffee ice cream by Starbucks. Yummmmy!!!!!! It was so good but I still do like Whiteys a lil better I must admit :)

I don't have anything too exciting to report. Boring! We have mainly been focusing on what the baby needs and how kids cut into the vacation fund. Lol.

I've been "kinda" indecisive lately. Ha! After we found out the baby was a boy, I decided I wanted the same stroller we had bought but in orange and tan instead: Oops! :) So poor Kurt had to drag the blue and green one in from the farm and exchange it for me. He's so sweet. I think exercising patience for hormonal, dramatic, mind-changing pregnant wives prepares men for babies being on board. 3 am feedings may seem like a walk in the park compared to reviewing 1,517 crib bedding sets (before the wife chooses one of the sets the husband didn't really like anyway). Haha!

Big sis went to the orthodontist today. We found out she needs dental surgery asap and a follow up in 6 months to come up with a plan. I am sooooooo glad we are doing this early on! The x-rays showed her permanent molars being impacted/jammed on the next molars over so they are not able to come in but keep trying and by doing so, are stripping themselves and grinding away the permanents! Double yikes!!!!! I had noooo idea although I knew she'd need braces eventually. She's classified as "severe crowding" and she still needs to lose 12 baby teeth! So it will only get worse unless we come up with a plan for the next several years. The ortho was awesome and had a great kid-friendly office. Belle's not impressed with the teeth pulling but I bribed her with a gallon of Whiteys Cotton Candy ice cream so she is ready to get the teeth out NOW. Haha!

The only sucky part was discovering my insurance company dropped my health but not my dental coverage when I called to report changing to Kurt's coverage after we got married. So this whole dental deal is going to be out of pocket and be very un-fun bc they also make you cancel your H.S.A. when you drop your health care coverage. Grrrr! Apparently, I need to wait until open enrollment or experience a life-changing event to cancel and switch to Kurt's dental. *rolls eyes* :) I will have to ask my friend who works in insurance why in the world they wouldn't want to drop as many individuals as possible...it seems like it would only benefit them since they are paying most of the premium? I'd think they'd jump at the chance to oust me and Miss Dental Issues from their plan? lol.

Hope everyone is well!

Love you all!

Us :)

OMG

Times in my life I've been up at 3:30 am eating peppermint ice cream = 1. Right now.

My only explanation for what happened is I got up to let my dogs out. Upon seeing three deer in the backyard, the lab and the herding dog decided now would be a good time "guard" the perimeter from the "very threatening deer" by standing at the fence and staring aimlessly into the darkness for a very long time (the deer obviously ran far, far away when I opened the door and weren't coming back). Duh. Here are a couple pics of the bounty hunters:

Anyway, so while waiting, I checked my facebook updates from last night and saw Emilene's post about pineapple sherbert. Yum!!! I then remembered my Whitey's Peppermint stash in the freezer and voila! Heaven at 3:30 am and I'm sure no un-pregnant chica would ever do this...especially since it's pretty chilly in el casa! So I'm sitting under a huge blanket eating ice cream while the lab (she later decided she was successful in scaring off the intruders and wanted back in *rolls eyes*) sleeps at the foot of the couch.

Anyhow, that's my "scoop.". Nothing new to report except I FINALLY gave in and have switched to maternity clothes. Ahhhhhhhh... The bella band has been my BFF for months and has allowed me to wear my Limited work pants this whole time, but it's time to part ways with The Limited work attire for several months. Yesterday I was soooo comfy in my "stylin'" (not) maternity outfit. I felt like I was wearing pj's!

Mucho love to you!
~Us