OMG… Many apologies! We’ve had a very busy (and for the most part wretched) couple of weeks. I’ll be blogging about that later, via my random blog. Bear with this LONGGGG post but I'm making up for lost time. *smiles sweetly*

The name update is a pretty solid Baby Jake! No middle name yet but I'll keep everyone posted. Yay!

I can’t believe we’re in the 3rd Trimester! I totally sound like a Palmer student!! It’s exciting to less than 3 months away (83 days, actually – yikes) but being this far along does bring it’s own joys and sorrows. We were 28 weeks this past weekend! Yay! Squash baby! Trust me, it feels like it, too.

As far as JOYS go, like I said, it’s awesome to be getting so close to meeting the farmbaby. I know the time will pass more quickly than I think although sometimes (at night especially) it feels like it’s going by slooooooooooooooow. It’s also super sweet to have the baby getting so much stronger and moving around constantly! I love that, for sure.

Our friends had an AWESOME couples shower (with an adorable farm theme) for us a few weekends ago. We have the greatest friends EVER and although we didn’t expect our friends to get us anything, they got farmbaby TONS of super adorable, sweet and useful stuff!! One of my friends even bought Belle some barrettes and bath spa stuff so she thought that was pretty cool since she was helping us open all of the very thoughtful and bueno baby presents! Thanks A MILLION to everyone and to my girls (pictured with me below) who threw us the shower!!!

I’m continuing to buy baby stuff and we’re getting pretty far on everything we need. Yay! We still have to buy the furniture but we do have it picked out.

We are getting WAYYYYYY closer to moving into the new house. Kurt’s parents are almost done with their house so we’ll be moving on in very soon (appx 2-3 weeks). It will be soooo great to have all newly decorated bedrooms for all of us and whatnot. I bought Belle a new bedding set yesterday, too, with all of the accessories. She didn't really need a new bedding set BUT I cannot even stand the adorableness of it all!!!

And again, for anyone who cares, here is farmbaby’s super cute baby bedding:

This isn't the nursery but I'll definitely post pics after we move and get it done. My friend from work informed me today that her baby care classes told her not to use a crib bumper. Makes sense… but anyone with insight to the contrary, please let me know and I'll let her know, too. She already bought the crib bumper and I'm sure it's so cute. Thanks to her advice, however, I’m planning to not order that beyond cute crib bumper for Baby "Kevin" unless I hear otherwise that it’s fine??

As far as the SORROWS go…ha…these always make for good pregnancy stories. No one wants to hear about a perfect pregnancy where you gain the perfect weight and feel like you’re 20 years old the entire time and run marathons and whatnot. Everyones likes to hear how you fall apart around a certain time until you get to the point of considering suicide around forty weeks…particularly those of us mamasitas that have been there, done that. Ha!

Well, as previously mentioned I did test to be anemic last month. Needless to say, there is no way in hell I’d be eating the chicken or beef livers that are “highly recommended” once per week!!?? Did I say no way in hell? I meant NO EFFING WAY IN HELL:

Anyway, sometime last week or so, I started getting really tired again. Not quite as bad as Trimester Uno but just a general feeling of not being able to move. I blamed it on the non-liver eating but then I did some research online yesterday. Apparently, it’s normal to start getting all tired again around 28 weeks. Lovely! LOL. I had forgotten about this. In this case, my mind doesn’t seem all that tired but my body feels like I just swam across the freakin' the English Channel. One of the posters said she felt like she had 50 pound weights tied to all of her limbs. LOL. Pretty much, pretty much. Ha.

Another LOVELY thing is the round ligament stretching. You moms feel my pain. Anyone who isn’t sure what I’m talking about, if you were ever in gymnastics, it is the exact same feeling you’d feel the day after conditioning day, when your coach made you do the straddle splits for 3 minutes straight. Nice. Or when your jazz dance teacher made you sit straddle on the floor against the wall and she pushed your legs to the wall and made you count out loud to 60. Forgot about this, too!

I need to go to the chiro tonight because this child is apparently pressing on my sciatic nerve so I have to sleep propped up on the couch, which I hate not sleeping upstairs with Kurt but I do like watching HGTV periodically throughout the night. :) In my research yesterday, I found this is apparently a common pregnancy symptom, called “sciatica” and it may go ahead and last the entire rest of the preggoness. Ha…not cool. Here’s to hoping Brad can crack me into shape. Yay, Brad!!

One of many reasons I’m looking forward to the new house is it’s a ranch-style. Our current house has a huge beautiful staircase but I about pass out after I get to the top. LOL. Farmbaby has decided to take over my lungs, too, apparently.

Heart palpitations can be somewhat freaky because all of a sudden you’re aware of your heartbeat. This happened to me with preggo #1 and now with preggo #2. It’s not too scary but it definitely wakes me up!

Final thing I forgot about and haven’t had since being pregnant last time is the dreaded heartburn. Oh god. Last night, it decided to rear it’s hideous head. So I did some online searches and found out it’s totally normal to start right about at this time. This was conveniently around 12:30 a.m. I found some posters saying, again conveniently, how ice cream was the, and I quote, “ONLY thing that helped them.” Haha!!!!!!! I thought, “Well, now THIS is something I can do!!” Luckily, we had the Whitey’s Vanilla on hand so I prepped a bowl of that and watched Real Estate Intervention on HGTV. Yum!! Obviously, I can't do this every night (waaaah) so I'll have to ask my midwife for other suggestions. :)

All of these stupid little sorrows being said, however, it is still worth it times a MILLION!! At least this time around I know all of these particular little dramas disappear come January 4th and are replaced by entirely new baby mama dramas. Can’t wait to cuddle the sweet babe!! Yay!!!

Mucho mucho love,
~Us