The 9th month

Can you believe it is here already? I'm almost 37 weeks now, well I will be on Tues the 11th. We've been attending Childbirth Preparation Class for the last 6 weeks with the last one being last night. I learned lots of relaxation techniques that I hope will be helpful when the big day comes. Man Meat was dragged to all of them against his will. The first hour and a half was usually class room type stuff. We got handouts and watched videos. We watched a wicked video of a C-section. Of course we watched a lot of birth ones too and I can't helped but think to myself that all the woman look like dog poop while they are in labor. Or they are making dog whimpering noises. Or they looke HUGE in their hospital gowns. I and hoping and praying I don't look or act like that when I'm in labor, but of course I probably won't give a crap at the time. And fortunately no one is going to be taping it and putting it in an instruction video to be viewed 20 years later. Yes, all the videos were from the late 80's early 90's. Terrible hair, terrible maternity clothes. Anyway, I do envision myself looking fresh and rosy during my labor and please no one tell me differently. Don't burst my bubble. I know deep down I will look wretched, tired, dazed, and probably make more dog noises then the Pet Nanny.

I also started Breastfeeding class which I all Boob class because I like the word boob. I have that for 3 Mondays. At the first class I learned how to swaddle a baby, the 5 S's, Swaddle, Sideways lay, Swing, Shoosh, Suck to soothe a baby, how often to feed then (at least 8 times a day), burping techniques, and more but since I have no brain that's all I can remember. I should have taken notes.

My tummy is 41 inches around at my waist. That's an inch bigger then last week which leads me to believe that he may be dropping a bit. I have an appointment today which starts my every week appointments until he's born. I don't know if this is because he's moved down a little bit, but I have been having terrible pain in my ribs in the back, right along the bra line. It feels like a joint that needs to be cracked really bad. Or like the material between my ribs is aflame. It does not really make it feel better to rub it. In fact, if rubbed to vigorously it sends the muscles in back into spasm. The pain is primarily on the right side but occasionally it will get pretty bad on the left too. It may be because he's moved or because he's just a heavy little dude and getting heavier. Man Meat puts IcyHot on it for me at night and that feels better and Tylenol helps a little bit. Overall Tylenol just really isn't a good pain killer for me. It never has been. When I was taking it for my headaches it never really did squat and now for this rib thing is lessens the pain, but that's it.

Man Meats birthday is next Wed. I think we are going to get a new camera for a joint present. We will have to go camera shopping this weekend. Our camera is about 5 years or more old and it just doesn't take a good picture! They've gotten so much nicer since then. We also want a camcorder, but since a lot of cameras do short videos too we can get away with just a camera for now. I hear the Samsung Powershot is good, so says RoRo and she's smart about that stuff. Everyone's been asking me for more pictures of the belly too. I guess we'll have to get a new camera and take some nice pictures of it before we run out of time!

That's all for now! If anything momentus happens at my appointment I'll write more about that. Otherwise...to be continued....

Dextrose tastes yummy!

Had a Dr appointment today. Officially I am 29 weeks 3 days. I had to do another glucose tolerance test and I really like the taste of the dextrose they give you. I chose lemon-lime again because I enjoyed it so much last time. My glucose blood sugar was good. It was 108 and only needed to be under 130. 130 or more would indicate gestational diabetes. Upon returning to the office Ro Ro asked how my glucose was and I told her it was good and she said "Of course it is, you're perfect!!" She knows me so well. She too is a Virgo.

Other updates...my BP is normal. I have no swelling or vision problems which would indicate preeclampsia. My pee pee is normal. I have a lump in my right armpit that was there even before I got pregnant. It has gotten a wee bit larger so she checked that out and it is just an accumulation of breast tissue, nothing to be alarmed about. We listened to Gummi's heart beat and it sounded strong and healthy.

I feel like I have definitely grow. I weighed in at 143.5lbs which is a 16lb gain from the starting point. That was approximately a pound a week since my last appointment. I weighted 139.5 last time. My fundal height is 29cm. I had to look up exactly what that is and basically it is the size of my uterus from the top to my pubic bone. Last appointment I was only 23cm so my uterus has grown 7cm in 4 weeks!! That is a lot! It is caught up with where it is supposed to be. Your fundal height should match the week you are in approximately. I knew I had grown and gotten heavy. 4 lbs and 7 cm change from last time wow!!

I talked to the Dr about not being able to breath and she basically told me that is just the way it is. That because I'm tiny and there isn't a lot of room for him in there. What is worse is that I still have 2 months of growth to go and he's only going to get bigger and bigger. Let's cross our fingers that he isn't overdue! He better come out on time otherwise I will be suffocating! Small ladies, this is the one time in your life that you will wish that you were a bigger person.

That's all for the Gummi update. We chatted a little about birth control after he's born and whether we want him circumsized. I'm now going to have appointments every 2 weeks instead of 4. The next one is July 1st and I get to see Rachel again. She did my very first appointment. It will be neat to see her again. Then one more on July 15th before Twinkies wedding to make sure everything is good to go for that. I need to make sure I'm still exercising and doing my Kegels. I signed up for Childbirth Preparation classes that start on July 6th and go for 6 weeks every Thursday. When I start breaking up the weeks it seems like it will go by so fast! I mean, we are already half way through June!! Then it is July and the wedding, then it is the last month already, 9 MONTHS!

6.5 months aka 11 weeks left

Gummi get down outta my lungs! He's really high up! I measured 39 inches around at the waist this weekend. I also discovered this weekend that from the back, I don't look pregnant. Maybe my love handles are a little bigger, but really, here's a sample. Kind of far away, but you get the picture.



This picture is from Mr Robot's going away bar crawl. 25 bars in Juneau and they made it to 15, which I think is pretty impressive. Trish hand drawed all out shirts, she is so talented! We got so many compliments on them. The front of mine had a big red gummi bear on it. I'm sad that the Robot is leaving. I think he is pretty upset too. I mean, we are his best friends, Man-Meat is going to be very torn up. I know I will cry, and I will miss Violet sooo much!!

I have an appointment on Thrusday the 18th so I'll have more info them, but here's some more belly pictures from this month, the 6th month! Already!!

My coworker BV got back from a month long trip visited her daughter who just had a baby. She said it didn't look like I've grown hardly at all. I don't think my tummy is much bigger, but it feels super duper heavy. Like I have to heave-ho it around everywhere. More later, after my appointment!

Over the last month....

Sorry it has been awhile! While I've been gone a few events have unfolded. The bestest thing was my Mommie can to visit! It seems so long ago now, but she was here from April 28 to May 5th. We had a wonderful visit. We gardened and walked Sisterpoo and relaxed. It was gorgeous weather for most of the time she was here. The only hiccup was on Thursday when she was here, that would be 4/30 I guess we were gardening and it was warm and sunny. I bent down to dig some dirt and when I stood back up I got a really poudning sudden headache. I thought maybe I was just dehydrated and kept on going until we were done. When we came back inside I downed a whole gatorade and we ate lunch, but my head was getting worse. We kind of relaxed a little after lunch and I started to get really nauseous and proceeded to upchuck all my lunch and gatoradge. Fortunately that morning I had called the doctor because I was having some persistant pain in my lower abdoment, particularly when I was walking about. They wanted to make sure it was contractions or something else. The appointment was about 45 minutes away. At the doctors they weighed me, I was still at 134, so in the last 2 weeks since my last appt I hadn't gained any weight. They hooked me up to the fetal heart monitor that they put you on when you are in labor. It monitors your uterus and the baby's heart rate to make sure he's not in distress. I was attached to that for about 20 minutes and Mommie got to hear the baby's heart beat a whole lot. You could also hear when he was moving around, which is more then what I could feel. Everything was fine with my uterus, no contractions and my cervix was still long and closed. We got a ultrasound pic that I let Mommie keep for a momento. It turns out that I had vaginosis of some kind which was contributing to the pain in my abdomen. It is also all the uterine ligaments stretching and pulling. Since I'm "slight" as she put it that will happen. I also need to make sure that I'm peeing as soon as I feel the need because that is where my infection came from. She also said I had a yeast infection. So I got some antibiotics and yeast medicine and got to feeling better. As far as puking and the headache, they attributed that to "a bug" that was going around. I felt better after a while and had tiny bouts of nauseau over the next couple days. I discovered that RoRo got really sick that weekend with probably the same thing. I did linger for awhile before going away.

It was so wonderful to see my Mommie. I miss her so much, and all my family and friends that aren't here with me now.

I celebrated my first Mother's Day! Man-Meat got me white and blue roses because the baby is a boy. So clever. He got me a really nice card too. He's so great!!

May12th was our 4 year anniversary. I got more flowers at work! A huge bouqet of lilies. All my flowers are still alive too. The lilies are starting to go, but some of them still look good and my roses at home are doing ok. For dinner Man-Meat cooked me filet mignon and lobster on the grill. I whipped up some garlic rolls and steamer clams. We had artichoke too. We were so stuffed!! I didn't even eat any of my steak! The steamers were probably the best part. The lobster was very tasty, but we both realized if we are going to spend moolah on seafood we are going to get king crab. The texture is nicer and the meat is more flavorful then lobster. I've been craving streamers every since!

On May 10th we went to watch our friends J&J baptize their baby girl. It was very special because Man-Meat and I are the godparents. She was adorable. The day before I babysat her all day. She was such a good little girl. She got a little fussy with gas but nothing I couldn't handle. She was very scheduled, eat, sleep, change, play. Very happy and content. I can only hope Gummi will be that good!

On Sat May 16th Man-Meat, John Boy, and Mr. Robot went brown bear hunting up in St. James Bay/Boat Harbor. They went out at about noon. The weather was clear and sunny, but there was a breeze and they had to go across Lynn Canal to get there. I was a tad worried about them coming back across with the wind kicking up. At about 6:00 Mr. Robot called from the mouth of the bay and said they had shot a bear, about a 7 footer. John Boy and Man-Meat skinned it out in about an hour, but by now the wind is really going and the sun is going down. It gets dark at about 9 now. They called when they were headed out and I figured they'd be home in about an hour and a half. About half and hour goes by and Man-Meat calls, and they've bearly made it anywhere the weather is so bad. He didn't say it at the time, but the seas were about 6-8 feet, huge rollers. They kept having to stop and take breaks because there were taking such a beating. At this time they were just coming up on Lincoln Island. A half hour goes by again and they are now coming up on North Shelter, even less progress was made then the first hour! Another half hour and now it is getting to be 8:30 and dark is definitely upon them. They've decided to pull into Amalga Harbor instead of trying to get to Auke Bay (a virtual impossiblity at this point) and I have to go pick them up in John Boy's truck leaving right away. Meanwhile, all this day and evening I was "babysitting" T-Rex because she just had some endometriosis spots burned off of her uterus the day before. She was completely unable to sit up on her own. Fortunately, Ashton had arrived so I was able to leave to go get the boys. I had just made myself a taco for dinner, and threw a wistful side glance at it as I walked out the door. It took about half and hour to get to Amagla. It was a beautful evening on land, the sunset was amazing. I saw a deer on the side of the road too and prayed for it to stay there because I didn't want to wreck John Boy's truck! The boys were already there when I got to Amalga and I bounded down to the boat to check out the bear. I jumped in and stood on the deck looking around and didn't see it anywhere. When I turned around there it was at my feet, I had jumped over it! The head was enormous!! I took pictures as John Boy proudly heaved it out of the boat and carried it up the dock. He was covered in blood and the carcass really stunk, but it was amazing. Man-Meat has bear fever now! It is going to cost around $1500 to get the hide made into a rug and get the skull prepped and sealed. The hide itself is brown with a blonde ruff.

I had a Dr appt yesterday 5/20 for my 25 weeks. My tummy measures about 23cm from my belly button to somewhere down below. I now weigh 139!! I gained 5 lbs in the last two and half weeks! But I'm still right on schedule and average. That puts the total at 12 lbs gained to far. I have to post some tummy pics asap! There is a huge difference between when Mommie was visiting and now. I can tell Gummi's been having a growth spurt because I am hungry all the time. I'm still reaching for healthy snacks though, fruit, yogurt, wheat thins. I don't go crazy. When the doctor had the doppler on my tummy to hear his heart beat he kept kicking right where the sensor want was. You could see my tummy jump up when he did it. He's getting stronger, I can really feel him thrashing about in there now. Sometimes it feels like he's trying to kick his way out. It reminds me of Family Guy when Stewie is born and he has a map and compass to escape from Lois's womb. The doc also gave me the go ahead to go out of the boat if I want to which is awesome because now I can go fishing!!! The best part about my appointment is.......she also gave me the go ahead to go to Colorado for THE FISH AND CHIPS UNION!!! She's going to have me come in right before just to make sure, but she saw no reason I couldn't go! YEA!!!!!! Next appointment I have to do the gluocose test again for diabetes (rabies ha ha) on June 18th. Time is suddenly moving fast again!!! He'll be here in no time!!

I'll try to get some tummy pics posted really soon I promise.

Major appointments last week

I forgot to weigh in on my ultrasound stuff! Here's pictures. By the way IT IS A BOY!!

He's was about 140z when these were done on 4/16/09. The ultrasound showed a strong heart, 2 working kidneys because there was pee in his bladder, and a tummy full of amniotic fluid so he's swallowing. For the first 45 minutes of the appointment he had his hands over his face and legs crossed tightly at the knee so we couldn't see anything! She kept going back to check and still, her was tightly clamped and wouldn't give up the goods. We did see that his lip is fully formed so no hair-lip. He was positioned with his head up and feet down which is why my belly is so high up right now. I knew he was like that because I was feeling a lot of movement down at my waist band and everytime I bent over his head was knocking the air out of me. He has lots of room to move around in there right now and I feel him all the time. I have an anterior placenta and our umbilical cord looks good.

He ended up falling over to the right side and the tech was having a hard time getting a good view of his kidneys so she had me roll to my left a little. She panned back over to the crossed legs and while hovering there he shift and opened them right up to reveal his penis! Yay!! The tech was like "there is it" and Man-Meat says "there what is?" So she circled it to make no mistake that he is definitely a boy. We were also then able to get the good profile shots after he moved. He was sucking his thumb then he moved his hand up to his forehead. He had his little thumb out the whole time, like thumbs-up! It was all amazing to see. I can't believe that that is inside my right now.

He moves around all the time. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and he's moving around. Most of the movement is still really far down at my waist band. Speaking of that, I was able to button my pants completely on Sunday. Weird! I haven't been able to do that for two weeks, then all of a sudden I could. He must have been way up there. It is weird how that can change daily.

I had a follow up appointment on Friday after the ultrasound. I weigh 134 now, so I've gained 7 lbs. That is about a pound a week since my last appointment so I'm right on schedule. My belly is measured from my belly button is the correct size. I didn't have to do any blood work this time so it was a quick trip. We listened to the heart beat again. All very standard and normal. I hope things keep going as smoothly as this!

I ordered a crib today. We ended up getting a mini crib because we are tight on space with the nursery in the bedroom. I would love to have T move out and use that second room. It is the perfect size to be a nursery. I could paint it and get a full size crib and toy bin and everything. Even a changing table! For now though I can't have any of that. As it is my good buds bought us a glider and ottoman so we had to find a spot in our room for that too. If I got a full sized crib it would come all the way up against our bed and I wouldn't be able to get around it. The mini is about half the width. T is going to be great to have in the house after he's born and she's said multiple times that she can be out by the time he's born, but I'm so at odds with that. I want her to be there, but I want some space too. I'm glad I finally just bought the crib, that is one load off. Now I'm still stressing about a stroller. Do I or don't I? I could just wait until spring. I don't really see myself pushing a stroller around in the snow. I'd rather carry him so he stays warm if I go out at all. Then there is the question of what to carry him around in. There are a ton of different kinds of slings, wraps, snugglies, and carriers. Times like this I wish I lived somewhere will more resources. I only have two places to shop, Fred Meyers and Walmart. Everything else has to be gotten online. I really wanted to have a dinosaur theme, but I can't find squat for dinosaurs! I think I'm going to bypass a themed nursery and get basic blue stuff since I have to get mini-crib sheets and all. They don't make themed mini-crib bedding. I'm going to have at least one quilt that I know of. So if I really want dinosaurs I can make a dinosaur quilt and use it with the regular blue bedding. FYI porta-crib bedding should fit my crib.

That's all for now!

Walking and running

It has been nice after work so I've been able to take Sister-pie for walks after work. The first time I actually did some running! It felt to good! I didn't get too winded and I could run for quite awhile. The only thing that slowed me down was my poor old chubby dog. She was practically begging me to stop. I was like, come on Sister if I can do it and I'm 5 months pregnant you can do it too! She's 10 and overweight so I don't want to push her too far. Besides, it kept me from over doing it too. I wasn't wearing my heart rate monitor. I hope it stays nice! It felt so good to get outside and get the stink blowed off.

I have a Dr. appt tomorrow for the big ultrasound! I'm excited and nervous. I'm so ready to have a boy now if it isn't a boy I will be dissappointed. I also found out that when Pop Pop found out it was a boy he cried. He wants a boy so badly.

Last night Man-Meat got to feel Gumgum moving a whole bunch. He put some lotion on my gummi tummi first then we were laying there watching Deadliest Catch and he put his hand on my tummi low underneath my belly button and pushed in a little...and Gum pushed back! He kicked about three times pretty hard. It was really cool for him. I've been feeling him for weeks so it was exciting for Man-Meat to finally get to feel him. Here's a couple pics of me at 19 weeks. I'm 20 weeks now and a bit bigger.

My mom is coming to visit from the 18th to the 5th. I'm so excited because I just saw her and now I get to see her again! Then again in July! I miss her and my family so much. We are going to have a baby shower while she's here. I think I've found all the big stuff that I need, like the car seat, crib, and stroller. I read that I can't jog with my baby until he's at least 6 months old because it is too jarring so I started looking at non-jog strollers and found some good ones. I still really want a jog stroller though because they are more maneuverable in snow and mud then regular strollers. We have a lot of that, especially also because it will be winter shortly after the baby's born. But I guess I could always walk with a snuggly instead of a stroller, that way baby stays warmer too. I guess they don't fold up as small either so it might not fit in the beamer while regular strollers would. But really I'd only take the jog stroller if Sister was with me and then I'd need the truck anyway. There are so many decisions to make it is overwhelming! Weigh in on any thoughts about strollers after you read this.

CO visit

I have just returned from visiting my wonder family in CO. Once again while I was gone all my clothes shrank! What is it about vacation that makes Gummi grow bigger? I've been really good about exercising in some way every day. I've been eating really healthy, except the yummy desserts my mom makes when I'm there. She has lost something like 30 lbs since the last time I saw her. She's weighs less then me!! Last time I stepped on the scale I was 130.5. I actually lost a couple pounds while I was down there. I think it has to do with my prenatal pilates DVD that I've been doing. I've been working the buns and thighs workout everyday so my butt has gotten smaller and tighter. I love that DVD! I think I've mentioned that before. It is perfect for me right now. When I do cardio it takes me like 20 minutes to warm up and be comfortable enough to actually get my heart rate up. So half my cardio work out is warming up! I haven't attempted to run in awhile. I have to get back to the actual gym and try that out. I feel bad paying for a memership then going home and doing the DVD because I love it so much. It is low impact, low stress for Gum and works all the muscles for labor. I love to walk too, but I can't make dinner and work out at the same time if I'm at the gym like I can at home. I have to make time for the cardio though. I have to maintain my heart health and endurance for labor.

I miss my lovely family so much! I was only with them for 4.5 days which is hardly long enough. I wish they didn't live so far away! I'm trying to get my mom to come visit at the end of the month and I will see them all again in July then a bunch in Sept and Aug. I think Wad is wanting to come in Aug sometime too. I feel like an addict! I got home and all I wanted to do was surround myself with my friends. I crave talking to Mank. After leaving my family is makes me miss her all the more. At least before I could come home and she'd be here. Thank God I have Man-Meat. I can't imagine going through pregnancy with out him. How do these women do it? I hope I never have to. I hope he's with me forever. After seeing the fam I always have anxiety that something is going to happen to them before I can see them again. I know it is completely irrational to worry about things that haven't and probably won't happen but still! They are all so important to me. Wow, I'm depressing myself right now ha ha!

I had some more tummy pics taken that I'll put up when I get them. I have a dr appt next Thurs to get an ultrasound then a consultation and regular appt with my doctor on Friday. I also have a dentist appt on Monday. I don't know how I managed to schedule all these appointments at the same time! I think I'll probably get in trouble for not gaining enough weight.

Also! Crazy stupid thing I did when I was in CO. I was walking in the pasture with the horse and cow and Twinkie was on the other side of the fence with her doggie. She yelled "Look out!" and I turned around to see the crazy cow running pel-mel at me swinging her head because she wanted to play. Not wanted to be smooshed by the cow I ran towards the fence and dove underneath of it executing a tuck-and-roll maneuver and coming back on my feet. It was fine, I didn't hit the grown hardly at all, it was very fluid and smooth, but when I stood up I thought, that was an idiotic thing to do! I'm pregnant for God's sakes! What the hell is wrong with me!? I can't be jumping and throwing myself around! Stupid. So I was scared for a little while that I had done something to Gummi, but he obviously didn't notice or care that I had done that. He was prefectly content and protected floating around in there. It was actually quite gracefully and non-jarring of a roll and probably looked pretty cool, but I need to remember that I'm pregnant. If I hadn't been I would have turned around and played with her. She's huge though!!

Forgot!

I forgot to post the belly pick my lovely RoRo took for me at work on Thurs (March 19th). Ignore the double chin, but notice the rockin hair. I also forgot to mention that when I was in Spokane I stopped into VS and had to buy a D-cup bra! Wowza! They are pretty heavy. I can feel the difference. I think all 3 lbs are in my bra. Gummi is going to be onion sized this week. These are the pants I could button before my sojourn to Spokane and after I couldn't.

Finally something new to report!

So far I've been really healthy. The headaches are still there all the time, but I got the ok from my doctor to take phenegren if the get really bad. That is an anti-nausea medicine they prescribe for morning sickness. It makes me pretty mellow and just feel good all around. So far I haven't had to take it.

We went to Spokane over the 12-17. It was the strangest thing. Before I left I had no gummi tummi bump and after I did! I went back to work on Wednesday and couldn't button my works pants. I was standing at the printer putting out the vibe when suddenly BV yells "Oh my gosh!" I look over and she's staring and pointing at my all-of-a-sudden belly. Now I am acutely away of it. By they way flying sucked. I was so effing motion sick the whole time I couldn't eat or drink. Next time when I fly to CO (by myself) I'm taking phenegren with me. Also, on Friday March 13 I really felt Gummi move for the first time in my lower right side. It felt like a little thump, like a heartbeat.

I had a Dr. appt on Friday March 20. We had Mr. Robot come and see the ultrasound with us. He enjoyed that since it will kind of be his little brother or sister.....and speaking of the we got the following picture from the ultrasound....

What is that? you may ask yourself. Allow me to explain. Dr. H would not conclusively say what that dangling object in the middle is, but she did say a girl looks like a hamburger. That does not look like a hamburger to me. She found the umbilical cord elsewhere so it isn't that either. She said "It looks like you have a boy" but then said she was only 50% sure of that and she wouldn't stake her license on it. We have a big ultrasound on April 16th at the hospital that will hopefully be more conclusive. Here's the other ultrasound. When she first stuck the wand on me the baby was laying perfectly in a fetal position and you could see the whole body, then the machine ran out of paper so we couldn't print the picture. This is the next best on that she could get.

If you can't tell what his going on here I outlined the baby part so you could see a little better. He's on his face with knees slightly tucked. His head isn't really Stewie-football head shaped. The ultrasound doens't always pick things up the right way. As I said before the picture that we had right off the bat was the best. Well, soon enough you will all see for yourself! I'm almost half way done!

My friend Ja9 went boy shopping yesteday as soon as she found out. Man-Meat and I are going to be the Godparents for there little baby girl that was born on Feb 3. She is such a tiny little doll. It will be very official as we are going to the church when she is baptized and everything. I'm going to have to find something nice to wear. I should be starting to grow a while bunch now. I have a long way to go to actually look pregnant for reals. The tummi is hardish and I can feel its weight when I lay on my back and feel is pushing into my body when I lay on my stomach. Both of which I'm not supposed to do, but when I'm moving around in bed it happens from time to time. I've been really good about walking at the gym or doing my prenatal pilates video. I don't think I mentioned before but I've only gained 3 lbs since my first appointment. I have no idea what I weighed before that, maybe 25 or 26lbs at the most. At the first appt I was 27lbs, and at the last one I was 30lbs. I keep waiting for it to start piling on. Soon enought I guess! I just want to stay fit and healthy so my labor will go smoother and I won't have to lose a bunch after he's born. Now that I have to commit to a name I'm all mixed up as to what to call him! I know I want the name Grant in there somewhere, but first or middle I don't know. And what will the other half be? We had Lincoln Grant picked out, but now I can't commit to it. I've been leaning towards Grant Theodore. Theodore is my 93 going on 94 year old grandpa's name. I think he would feel honored if I named our baby after him. Then the baby's initials would be GTS vroom vroom! The nursery is going to be dinosaurs. Man-Meat wanted AVP but I think it will be impossible to find an AVP crib set and accessories! Besides, that is not cute, that is scary. At least dinosaurs can be cute too.

PS...

I just wanna thow it out there that I miss my Mank-a-licious so much! She will be in NC tonight pulling an all-nighter to get there. I love you!!! Drive safely!

Starting to show??

It has been awhile! I'm starting to get a little tummy that is more then just bloat. It is getting hard too. When I lay on my stomach it feels like I'm laying on a ball. Although I'm not supposed to lay on my stomach anymore, or my back. I guess when you lay on your back the weight of your uterus can pinch off a blood vessel that supplies the brain and the baby. I keep forgetting though because I love to lay on my back, be it watching TV or reading in bed. I'm supposed to lay on my left side primarily because that keeps pressure off my sciatic nerve. It is a good thing I generally fall asleep on my left side already.

I did prenatal pilates last night with my friend Trish. It was a lot of arm work since you aren't supposed to put a lot of strain on the lower body. My arms are sore today. It did make me do some squats and lunges also. I like the DVD because it had a core section, so I can do some ab works without killing myself. I kept wondering why she had her legs apart until I realized it was because she couldn't pull them up to her chest the traditional way because her belly was so big. The instructor was hugely pregnant. I was doing all the exercises like her with my knees apart, but my feet together and wondered what muscle group it was working. Duh! So I put my knees together...slut. I've done a lot of pilates in the past and was impressed with the modifications for pregnant women. I can see how down the line some things will become much more difficult. I will definitely be using this DVD a lot. My favorite part was during the ab section because as you get bigger you put pillows behind you so you don't have to go down to the floor all the way. It was awesome to lay back into the "crunch" and fall onto soft pillows instead of heard floor. I ended up not using the pillows this time because I don't need them yet. I think that's why I'm hardly showing, because my ab wall was pretty strong so Gummi has to be a body builder to break down that wall!

I've still been getting to the gym on a fairly regular basis. I can still run a little but not for very long. Everything feels all loose in the tummy area. I can feel it jiggling and bouncing. Not matter how hard I try to tighten it up there's still some that moves about in an uncomfortable manner. When I run for too long it feels like my uterus is going to fall out.

We are going to Spokane this weekend to see the inlaws, both regular and great. I have to definitely go by Victoria's Secret and get some new bras. I completely fill a C cup and they are only going to get bigger. I think I'm going to grab a coupld 34-C's and a 36-C for future growth. I read yesterday that when you go to by nursing bras by a whole size bigger then what you wear because once the milk comes in they get EVEN BIGGER. Momma!

Gummi is the size of a softball...but wear is it hiding? My stomach is no where near the size to accomodate a softball. Go ab wall! Hold back the dam! It will fall soon enough.

Sorry it has been awhile!

First things first, I have new baby pictures!

These were taken on Feb 17th when I was 12 weeks and 1 day. Now I am 13 weeks and 2 days. Officially I am moving into the second trimester. The best news right now it is I haven't had a headache is about a week. AHMazing!

As you may already know, my beloved Mank has moved away. I still wake up in the morning and can't believe she is not going to be waiting for me at work. I am still moved to tears thinking about it. Everytime I respond to her text messages I get choked up. Jeez I miss her! Ok, I can't talk about it anymore. But real quick, she is in Utah and her in-laws are making her crazy. But that happens to everyone at some point or another.

It was Mr. Robot's 30th birthday on Tuesday so we all went out on Saturday. Ok, first actually on Friday night we went over to our new friend Trish's house for pizza and fun. I made another new friend named Ashton and Jake was there too. Man-Meat proceeded to get ham-boned as did all the other males. Ashton's husband's name is Leroy, which, in my opinion, is the best boy's name EVER! I've never known someone named Leroy, but I always wanted to. Now I do and it is awesome. So, then on Sat we went to dinner at the new Italian resaurant Taratino's. It was pretty good, although not my favorite. Then we all went to the Buoy Deck but they were closed. Fortunately we had the hook up since it was Mr. R's birthday so we got in for a couple drinks, the boys played pool and the girl's got bored. We left and walked down to the Hangar. At this point Ms. AAH was good and shliquored and kept buying all the girls shot after shot. Ashton asked what the baby's name was going to be so they drank to "Samantha" at every shot which made me feel included.

We ventured over to the Imp and danced the night away. Many more shots were taken and much fun was had by all. I saw some people out that I hadn't seen in awhile so that was nice. Me and Gummi danced a bunch because it turns out Ashton will dance to every song if you let her and every one knows I'm the same way. Ashton and Leroy took Mr. R and Ms. AAH home earlier. Mr. R stayed in the corner for a lot of the night. That was some ridiculousness actually. He was having fun doing his thing when of course Ms. AAH freaks out and starts a fight between them. Normally he doesn't care, but I think he's just getting fed up. He asked me to dance and halfway to the dance floor I turn around and Ms. AAH has him by the arm and is yelling at him about how if he wants to dance it should be with her. Well, WTF!! It isn't like I'm some drunk slut he's going to grind with on the dance floor, I mean, really he called me "Mom" for God's sakes. After that he just rolled over and sat in the corner and didn't really say or do anything. That sucks because it was his birthday and he was having a great time up to that point. At about 12:30 I was over by the pool tables and Mr. R comes up and asked me to take him home, takes my arm and starts pulling me towards the door. He wanted to go right now! I didn't have my jacket or keys or anything, so I managed to convince him to come back and sit down while I get my stuff. I was going to take him home then come back for everyone else. Then he disappeared for awhile. I think he was not feeling well and that's why he wanted to leave right away. Asthon ended up giving them a ride home later.

We stayed out intil bar close then went to Pel Meni's. Once there John Boy tried to start a fight with a big samoan guy because he was saying the word negro really loudly. Yikes! Touchy situation that was! John Boy's pretty big and could have put up a good fight, but you just don't want to be on the samoan's bad side. They are a nasty bunch in Juneau! I didn't go to bed until 4am. John Boy and Trish stayed at our house. I think John Boy passed out shortly after I went to bed, but Trish and Man-Meat were up until 6am. Then we all got up at 9 and I had to take John Boy to his truck so he could go home and take care of his dog. Later we all went for a walk with the dogs and Sister got a long great with John Boy's dog Sambo. He brought Sambo over to the house for a visit at dinner and brought pizza so we ate pizza and watch the Oscars. Overall the weekend went by way to fast and I didn't sleep hardly at all. Bummer!

Man-Meat's mom got into town yesterday and last night she rolled over on her shoulder wrong and dislocated it! TT took her to the emergency room this morning and they had to sedate her to put it back in place. Now she has this semi-body brace with velcro all over it to keep her arm immobile and has to go home early to see and orthopedic doctor. Crazy! And how painful must that be seriously!

News new news

So some craziness has happened since last time I wrote. I'll start with Friday night. We all went out for Mank and Z's going away party. It was super fun. We went to the Hangar for dinner and there was a group of 17 at a big long table. I ordered cheese totellin's sauteed with proscuitto and mushrooms in alfredo sauce. It was Auhmazing! I ate almost all of it despite the fact that I wasn't hungry. I sat next to Z's chief who has severe social anxiety and tormented him all night with my loud close talking and direct and inappropriate questions. Black Velvet and her husband were there drinking tequila and having a great time for being the eldest in the group. Man-Meat changed her to a drinking contest while BV got tipsy. She almost forgot to pay her bill! T-supid was there too, and we all hate him. He sat in the very middle of the table all stretched out with his arms over the backs of the chairs like he was King Shit. I wanted to slap him. Our new friend John-Boy joined in, but had to sit on the other side of the table. That was fine because that's were all the single girls were (and some married that didn't care). He made lots of new friends.

After dinner we went to get jiggy at the Imp. I hit a certain point were I was so tired I felt drunk so I had a great time. Everyone danced and partied. There was this crazy woman who showed up on the dance floor. She had this giant coat and those duck boots that are half leather, half rubber and she reeked like BO. I think she was on drugs. She was a big lady...looked like a lesbian. She took off her shoes and never left the dance floor except to get drinks. She danced like a caveman, a possessed Christian, an African shaman, and did 360's on the dance floor all night. We stole one of her shoes and hid it for the night and she never knew. It was very strange. There was a small amount of tense undercurrent to the evening because both Z and 6pack were out at the same time and 6pack was being particularly obnoxious and annoying, and grabby. No one likes that. At one point I had to literally shove him off me. I knew I'm throwing around a lot of new nicknames, if you are confused I'm sorry, but part of the puzzle is figuring out who they are! Mank left at about 12:30 and we stay only a little bit longer. John-Boy, Man-Meat and I went to Pel-Mini's of course for a snack (although I did not partake).

Saturday morning I learned that 6pack had texted Mank about how weird she was being on Friday night. He is so annoying! I thought Mank was acting exactly herself. I think he was just angry because she wasn't paying all her attention to him. The only different thing she did was that she couldn't really be on the dance floor because every time she went out there he was all over her and Z was right there watching. Awkward! So she told him he was overstepping his boundaries yet again and to back off.

Sunday I went to a goodbye brunk for Mank and RoRo and crew. It was nice and brunch was good. It was getting closer and closer to the dreaded Tuesday that Mank was leaving. I tried so hard not to think about it. They came over for enchildas and hung out all evening. I think it is great that Mank and Z want to spend there last days with us. I woudn't have it any other way.

Monday we went to a going away lunch at the Red Dog for Z. Mr. R was there so he came and sat with us. It ended up being 2 hours long and I felt bad for being gone from work for so long. I had sliders! I love little food! I asked Man-Meat to make me mini burgers next time we had burgers. It was pretty greasy though and I felt kind of yucky afterwards for awhile. Mank came over and made us chicken fried steak for dinner with is Man-Meat's favorite meal. Jake also came over and brought her baby because he and JBP are buddies. Man-Meat was a little overwhelmed with all those babies running around and poor Sister was too. She complete does not understand children. I think if she watched one grow up and get used to it she will be different, but to be thrown into the mix with two toddlers she was freaking out. Oz was also over for a little while. It was a very lovely last meal. It was the last meal Mank would be cooking in Juneau.

Then the craziest thing happened......

Tuesday morning I get a call from Man-Meat 2 minutes before my alarm was to go off. He announced very happily that he had great news! Mank and Z had missed their ferry! How is this possible? They were not supposed to leave until 7pm that night, how could they have missed the ferry if it was still here? They misread the ferry schedule and their ferry had actually left at 4am that morning!! I thought "Great news? This is terrible!" A confusing reaction I know because I would want nothing more then to have Mank for another week. But I knew she would be horribly upset, their entire trips plans would have to be redone, and we were prepared to say goodbyes and move on. Mank had called Man-Meat from the bathroom in her hotel, in which she had locked herself in fear of killing Z. And of course, she was extremely angry and dissappointed. I would have felt the same way. There was so much build up to them leaving, then all of a sudden they are staying for another week. I feel like I already said goodbye, like I already went through the hard part, not I'm going to have to do it all over again next week. I hope it will be easier now. It actually feels like they already left and are just back for visit now. I'm probably fooling myself. On Monday night I was awake at 3am crying and trying to figure out how I was going to say goodbye. I wrote a note out that I was going to copy into a card, I was completely prepared. I had taken today off (I am at work and moved my day off to next week) so I could sleep in because I knew I'd be crying all night. Now everything is thrown for a whirl. We are doing another brunch for them on Sunday and they've been over for dinner at nights, they are coming to trivia tonight, but it all feels like borrowed time, prolonging the inevitable. Like a long slow death instead of a short painless one. My goodbyes are best done like ripping off a bandaide (or in this case ducktape off a hairy back, painful). This is not the goodbye I imagined, but I guess since I get 7 more days with my favorite peolple I can't complain.

Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady

I have read everywhere that pregnancy makes you constipated. I am here to be an exception. Not only am I still going, but today I've pooped three times! The miraculous thing about it is the experience was different every time! Maybe it is all the fiber that I'm forcing myself to consume, aka vegetables by the pound, wheat bread, and probably the major culprit, mama's chili recipe. Beans bean the magic fruit! The worst thing about it is if I don't go when I have to go I get a tummy ache and super uncomfortable so pooping at works has become a must-do. I hate pooping at work because no doubt every time I've just gone someone walks into the bathroom right after me! But, it is a good thing I recently moved my desk and it is not closer to both the kitchen and the bathroom, DOUBLE PRIZES!

My God-forsaken headache has returned. I woke up with it. So far I took 2 tylenol at about 12:30 and another 2 at 5:00. It really is almost a waste because it does practically nothing. The only benefit is it take the edge off just enough to where I can concentrate a little better and not burst into tears.

I'm taking baby JBP swimming tonight for the first time at Mank's hotel pool! I hope the cold water makes my head feel better. I'm so excited to see the little man swimming around and experiencing the GIANT bath tub. He loves baths so I'm sure he will love the pool. I'll be showing off the beginnings of my bump. Yes, indeed it is starting to become apparent, however at this stage it looks like I'm just fat. I know the different though because I can no longer suck it in and it is starting to take on a slightly pointed quality. Also if I stretch back it stays sticking out instead of stretching flat like my belly roll used to. At least Baby S is right on schedule. My week-by-week book says week 10 and 11 you will start to show slightly. Good job Baby S! I held the "actual size" picture up to my tummy and that baby is huge already! No wonder I'm starting to show! It is about the size of a kiwi. I'll have to weigh myself and see if I've gained any weight. At my first appointment back on the 26th I weighed 27lbs, and I know I had gained weight at that point already. I'll keep you posted on the weight gain too. Average weighted individuals are only supposed to gain 25 to 30lbs. I don't want to gain too much because it is bad for the baby and myself! I'm estimating my starting weight to be 125 so no more then 155 lbs. That seems like so much! There is a break down in my book where most of the weight is fat, amniotic fluid, and baby of course. The rest is other fluid like water retention and some other stuff. I'll find a break down and post it. Here we are...


Baby - most babies pack on roughly 6-9 pounds (though some will weigh as much as 10 or more!).
Placenta - the placenta generally weighs in at 1-2 pounds.
Amniotic fluid - the amniotic fluid generally comprises 1-2 pounds of extra weight.
Uterus - the uterus grows and expands to roughly 2 pounds.
Breast tissue - most women's breasts add 1-2 pounds of weight during pregnancy.
Blood volume - a woman's blood volume adds an additional 2 pounds of weight gain during pregnancy.
Fluid - Women's bodies generally retain as much as 4-5 pounds of fluid during pregnancy.
Maternal fat stores - your body stores roughly 7 pounds of added fat to help nourish your baby and provide you the energy necessary to breastfeed after pregnancy.
(source: http://www.womenshealthcaretopics.com/preg_weight_gain.htm)

Now you know!

Auntie Twinkie Here!

Well looky here! Wissa seems to have entrusted me with her login and password for her Sirevog Spawn Blog! EEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!

Let's see... I never thought my dearest Twinkie would want, let alone HAVE kids. So, it came as quite a pleasant surprise back in 2008 when she told me she was going to stop taking birth control. I was like "YOU want kids?" And she's all, Yeah.

Ok, so then the day after Christmas she calls me and tells me to go somewhere where I am alone. I was out at the dome house where no matter where you are in the place it sounds like the person talking is in the next room, so I went to the upstairs bathroom and closed the doors. I should have turned on the water, Unit style, to block out the voice even more.

Anyway, she told me and I was so excited and so surprised... and I had to keep it a secret. I did tell Fish, my future hubby, and he was excited, too. Oh, by the way (Shameless plug here) if you want to check out MY blog, click here.

Well, I better go do what I'm supposed to do... put a countdown on this site. Talk to you later! I can drop in ANYTIME now since I have the sign in information!!! Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!

I love my Twinkie and I am so happy for her and I have had two dreams where she had a girl, so I'm guessing Baby Sirevog will be a girl, but something tells me it will be a boy. ANyone want to place wagers on this? Let me know!!!

Auntie Twinkie or Chips

Ketchup

Sorry it has been awhile. Twinkie will not be happy! The delay is posts comes from the downright excruciating migraines I had last week. Starting Thurs and cruising through Sunday. I was actually trying to think of a word worse then excruciating. I might have to make one up! Beings that I can't take any medicine for them I am totally S.O.L. with the pain situation. I can take 2 tylenol, that's it. Any one who has every suffered from a migraine will tell you that is just not going to cut it! I did my best.

It all started Thursday afternoon. You see, my friends Mr. Robot and Ms. Aaah got to drinking Wednesday night at trivia and their relationship and alcohol just don't mix. It is toxic! They get into their customary drinking fight and I heard it was an all-nighter. As in Ms. Aaah showing up at his house at 3am still going on about it. Thursday afternoon she decides that I am the only person she can trust to talk to about their problems. For one thing, I am on Mr. R side. I've known him for way longer, he's like a son to me, my loyalties lie with him. How uncomfortable would it be to have Ms. A telling me all their nitty gritty stuff? What if I give her advise and she goes back to him and says "well wissa says blah blah blah" which she has done before? Besides I have my own life and am tired and pregnant and just don't have time for their pettiness. She was texting me all afternoon and my headache started, so yes I blame her. I knew I was going to say no, it is an akward position for me to be in. I have such a hard time saying no when people are asking for my help. I was really at odds! I want to help her because she is Mr. R's fiance, but I don't have the energy or patience, or loyalty to do it. Therefore, migraine time.

I tried going to the gym because everything I've read and even my doctor told me exercise helps migraines. I am here to tell you IT DOESN'T. When I was done at the gym my headache was 5.7 times worse and getting worser (more worse?). I even cried on my way home. I tried so hard to tough it out. I watched all our shows with Man-Meat and as soon as I laid down in bed it all kind of hit me how hard I was trying to block it out. No kidding, as soon as my head hit the pillow I started bawling. There was nothing I could do to stop it. Man-Meat got me ice packs and towels and tissues and made sure I was comfy. I took 2 tylenol and laid as still as possible. The ice packs worked wonders. My head was pounding so hard I could literally feel the wash cloth on my head moving. I could see the veins pulsing in my forhead worse then I have ever seen. I was eventually able to fall asleep.

When I woke in the morning I felt absolutely fine. However, but noon on Friday the headache was back. I went to lunch and felt like I could tough it out for the rest of the day. Fat chance! I ended up going home at about 3 and I can't believe I stayed at work for even that long! What was I thinking! Well I wasn't because thought it nearly impossible when you have a migraine. Pretty much sobbing and drooling is all I can manage. I went home and went straight to bed with my ice packs. I started to feel much better then fell asleep. When I woke up about an hour later the headache was back in full force. Damn! More the of same followed with the headache always lingering coming back in nasty waves then dwindling all weekend.

Fortunately by Sunday I was feeling ok. I did take 2 tylenol in the early afternoon. We had a huge superbowl party. I made hot wings, fried vegetables, guacomole, another avacado dip, onion dip, all the goodies. I fried the veggies with this new deep fryer we got on Sat. The one and only reason I wanted it was to make fried pickles. If you have never had the honor, you should seek our fried pickles at your local bar or pub and try them. They are amazing! And I LIKED THEM BEFORE I GOT PREGNANT, so it isn't a weird pregnancy thing. Seriously though, I know have a deep frying and will gladly make a batch for you if you want, or we can go to Henry's where I had them originally. The party went off well. Oh! I also made mini bagel dogs! They were a huge pain in the ass but they were so good I will make them again. Basically you make bagel dough and wrap it around a lil smokie. You have to boil the smokies for a couple minutes then back until golden brown. They are quite like the ones from the store, but they were still amazing. I made almost a whole package of smokies into bagel dogs and it took about an hour to roll them all up. It made one cookie sheet worth. Oh man they were good!

This is Mank's last week at works. Waaaaa!! They she's gone on Tuesday. I took Wednesday off to deal with it.

The good news is I feel great now! I still haven't had any morning sickness except for those few odds days around 6 weeks. The headaches are the worst things I've experiences besides being a moody bitch. Poor Man-Meat can't keep up! One minute I want to hug and cuddle, so he does, then I'm like don't touch me. It is very strange to be this uncomfortable in your own skin. I feel like it really doesn't belong to be anymore. It belongs to my little gummi bear and I'm just a house guest. I get this anxiety at night that I absolutely have to get into my jammies right now! If I am not in jammies I start to freak out and Man-Meats gets bitched at. It is the weirdest thing, kind of like my shower claustrophobia, I have "day clothes" claustrophobia. It even happens if I'm in work out clothes which are as close to jammies as clothes get. Twinkie will probably get a kick out of this section.
My gummi is the size of a walnut at 10 weeks. I was reading online that some woman are already in maternity clothes by now. I look and weigh exactly the same except my pants are oddly tighter. Maybe it is such a small change that I can't notice it. I guess if I really want to be critical my belly is a little bigger, but that's from bloat and the fact that I eat all day. I don't eat a lot, just a little but I do it all day long, but again, no weight gain. It is also nearly impossible to suck in my stomach or flex my abs. Try as I might it doesn't happen. I'm still going to the gym at least 3 times a week. I walk and do the eliptical. I can run a little bit, but get tired really fast and I have to warm up for 15 minutes of walking before I can even attempt to run. I do run though because it feels great , just not very much. I guess in a 45 min work out I run 15-20 minutes off and on depending on how I'm feeling. Thursday-headache night I only walked and comparitively slow to the speed I normal go, but that's because I felt like rat poo.

Oh! Speaking of rat poo!! We've had a mouse in our kitchen since this really cold snap in December. We have traps and sticky paper everywhere. We hadn't check the traps under the stove for a while so we pulled them out and this is what we found!


DOUBLE PRIZES!!!

And the fun doesn't stop there! Violet, our beagle dog-neice was hanging out on Sat. We were resting from the headaches. She got up and wandered into the kitchen. She loves food and is a compulsive water-drinking. If there is water in the bowl she has to drink it all. I thought she may have been getting up to check the status of the food and water bowl. A few seconds later there is a commotion in the kitchen!! I just up and there is Vi with a mouse cornered between the kitchen cabinets and the fridge. They are both motionless. I said to Man-Meat "Mouse! Floor! Kitchen!" Then told Violet to "get the mouse, get it." She snapped out of her trance and wandered casually away leaving the mouse behind. At this time Sister has gotten up and she sees the mouse and I tell her to "get the mouse." Her large bodies self rushed over there and stuck her nose right on it. It understandably tried to scurry under the fridge, but only made it half way and stopped. I put some winter gloves on and tried to get it, but got squimish and made Man-Meat do it. He pulled it out by it's conveniently long tail and held it up. It had blood on its back so Violet injured it in someway when she pounced it. Man-Meat flingged (flung??) it over the deck and to it's most certain death. The count is at 3 which only means there are more out there.

First appointment

On Jan 26th the Sirevog's ventured out into the blizzard to go to our first appointment. It was about two hours long and we saw a nurse/midwife named Rachel who I loved. My regular doctor is out of town and I will see her next time. The first part of the appointment was uneventful. She went through the whole pregnancy checklist, family history, do you drink, smoke, do drugs etc. We talked about what is going on inside and outside. She calculated our approximate due date which is now Aug 31st. Yes, another August birthday. Previously we thought it was Sept 7th, but we got more proof later in the appointment... ...which is the fun part! The stirrups came out and I got that oh-so lovely feel you from the inside exam. Thank God I didn't have to have a pap smear, but I still got the speculum, yum. She wheeled in the ultra sound machine, lubed up the giant penis-looking ultra sound wand, and away we went. After only a minute of wiggling around my uterus came into view and right there in the corner was Babee S. It was looking right at us! See picture.

It was so awesome! We couldn't hear its hearbeat but we could see it. We also saw it wiggling around a bunch, shaking it's booty, waving arms and legs and doing side bends. As you can see I am approximately nine weeks according to the size the babee. We got another picture too then I got to go give blood. I love giving blood, I think it is amazing. It only hurts a tiny bit.

Oh, and the other cool part about my appointment is they gave me a Nose Neti! I've been looking everywhere for one and no one in this town has any idea what it is! So now I have my very own.

Visitation

I had to stay home yesterday. I got a migraine. Whereas before being pregnant I could take an oxy and sleep for 8 hours to get rid of it, now I can only take tylenol. No more then 2, which holds the headache at bay for all of an hour. It was sucky. I looked haggard. Migraines make me nauseous so add that on top of the already soft tummy that I have it was a bad day. Oh, and the night before, since I was in such a wicked mood from my migraine, and I found out my friend's husband was in a coma and going to die, I yelled at Man-Meat twice really bad. I told him I "effin hated" him. What a horrible thing to say to the father of my spawn! I was out of control. Stupid hormones. They caused my headache too.

One really wonderful thing that happened yesterday is while I was completely zonked I had a delightful dream about Grandpa B! Man-Meat and I had just moved into a new house. I don't know where but it was a sunny day and the house was pretty new. It had a big tall ceiling and gabled windows and big bedrooms. It had a deck that wrapped all around the front. Everything was bright and sunny. We found this bedroom that we didn't realize we had when we bought it. So it turned out to be a 3 bedroom house instead of a 2 bedroom. Grandpa B pulled up outside in his blue car to pay us a visit and check out the house. He was the Grandpa B I remember from when I was 5. He still had a lot of dark hair and was wearing a red plaid shirt thant Grandma B probably made. He came in and I was showing him the "found" bedroom. He sat on the bed and talked with me a little bit. I didn't have to shout at him to hear me. The windows had cobwebs and we talked about cleaning those out. Then I woke up. It was so nice to see him! I wonder what all the symbology means. I never remember dreams but I remember almost the entire dream. I'm pretty such I conceived my baby on his birthday. It is nice to think that he's watching out for me and his great-grandchild.

Scolding

Ok, I'm sorry. I got a scolding by Auntie Twinkie because I don't write enough on my blog. I don't have much to update. I feel wonderful. I'm not sick at all and back to being hungry all the time. Of course I have to pee a lot since my kidneys are working overtime to move my ever increasing blood volume. I am so thirsty too which makes me pee more since I drink more. I read today that my baby is the size of a blueberry and is going to double in size this week. I keep slathering on the cocoa butter lotion waiting for something to happen!

I am so pissed right now and I'll tell you why! I have a hard time staying asleep. I think because my prenatal vitamins upset my stomach and I take them at night so it wakes me up at like 2 or 3 or 4. I'm just really uncomfortable, not really sick. I can't find a comfortable position, then all of a sudden I'm asleep again. Well, last night I was up at 1 and 2 individually with the problem (and of course to pee), then at the lovely hour of 3am Man-Meat's phone starts freaking out! At first I think, oh it is probably 6:00 and his employees are calling in sick because that's what they do. But it keeps going and going, ringing and text messaging popping up and I glance at the clock at realize the actually time. I holler at him to turn it off or silence it because he doesn't wake up until the 10th ring or so. Then our home phone rings and I can hear it downstairs. They were both downstairs, that happens sometimes when we are too lazy to bring one back upstairs. Then Sister jumps out of bed and rushes too the bedroom door and I'm like WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON! IT IS 3 AM! I jump out of bed as well and Man-Meat says "Come on get back in bed its just AJ at our front door." AJ!! AJ at our front door!! Perfectly acceptable on a Fri or Sat when no one has to work the next day but not on a Sunday night with the ever dreaded Monday morning right around the mountaintop. See, he's our incredibley lazy friend that would rather pay for a cab half way from down town rather then the whole way to his house in the valley. He does this from time to time and crashes out in the 2nd bedroom, ehem. By now, I'm up. I'm wide awake. I pee again and while I'm in the potty I hear AJ throwing rocks at the 2nd bedroom window trying to wake up, ehem, TT. Finally she gets out of bed and lets the lazy bastard in. I get back in bed, however, I can hear them talking, Sister is still out of sorts because something is going on downstairs and she just HAS to check it out, my body is uncomfortable, I may have to pee again in a second, so 2 hours later I finally find my way back into sleep. Just in time for Man-Meat's alarm to go off. Looks like AJ needs a scolding too, or a severe beating or a public flogging or or or or

Feb 10th

I forgot to mention that my beloved Mank is leaving on the ferry on Feb 10th. Waaaaaa!!!

I Love Saltines

Ugh, I've been sick. It all started on Sunday morning. I was absolutely fine when I woke up. I had been cooking a batch of chicken noodle soup all night. I smelled so good I thought I'd have some for breakfast. I spooned some into a bowl and dug in. It was delicious. I had about 2 maybe 3 bites left and I felt the sudden urge to burp a great big burp. So I did, thinking nothing of it. However, there were more then meets the eye to that burp. I literally had to clamp my hand over my mouth and the hot soup I'd just swallowed came spilling back out of my stomach into my hand. Of course I jumped up and ran to the bathroom. I had another urge to burp and thought better of it. Instead I ran upstairs and jumped in the shower then proceeded to vomit up all my soup! It was so strange because I felt completely fine through the whole ordeal. I didn't feel nauseous or anything. I was simply tossing my cookies (or soup as the case may be). After was a whole different story. I got out of the shower and felt like dog poop for the rest of the day. I couldn't eat anything and was completely nauseous.

Finally dinner time rolled around and I was pretty hungry. Man-meat made a wonderful delicious steak dinner with baked potatoes. I was hungry from not eating all day so I cleaned my plate. Big mistake. I was MISERABLE all night. It felt like when someone punches you in the stomach...only it lasted hours and hours. I still felt terrible in the morning (Monday). I had a half a peice of toast and brought some crackers to work. The thing is is there is a nasty stomach flu floated around and Mank just had it. I couldn't tell if it was that or morning sickness. I had a bagel and a tiny bit of scrambled eggs for lunch and felt ok. It kind of came and went all afternoon. I sipped water and had crackers then at about 4:30 I was feeling so miserable I had to do something. I went to the bathroom and all I did was one little gag over the toilet and all the water I'd drank all afternoon came wooshing out. Three good heaves of only water and I felt so much better.

We went to dinner at Mank's house and they made...wouldn't you know...steak and potatoes. Well, steak was out of the question. I had a baked potato, some broccoli and cheese and a roll. I was really hungry and felt absolutely fine during and after I ate. When I woke this morning I felt super duper! I had 2 eggs and toast with peanut butter and orange juice for breakfast. It has been going really well. My tummy hasn't been super duper all day, but has been miles better then yesterday and the day before. I'm operating at about 90%. I had some crackers and water a moment ago and I think that combo isn't really doing me well. Maybe just crackers. Liquid of any sort isn't really agreeing which sucks because I'm so dehydrated and thristy! I get that sloshy stomach feeling and it feels gross. Again, I don't know what to make of this. Is it morning sick (or all day sick) or is it a touch of that flu. My immune system is in hyperdrive so maybe I'm not getting it as bad or what's going on. It is probably my wee one.

Speaking on wee one he/she is the size of a sweet pea this week and a tiny heart is forming. I might even be able to feel fluttering in there by the end of the week. Of course, would I be able to discern that from an irritated gas bubble? I don't know, time will tell.

She's Going Down!

A strange thing happened this morning. Well, first I woke up at 4am and I was starving. I should have had a snack before bed. I ate dinner at 6, but it wasn't a lot. As I was watching a movie at like 9 I thought to myself, I need a snack. No I just ate dinner. I should have eaten, but I didn't and I didn't at 4am either. The weirdness occured while I was in the shower...

Sometimes I get "shower-anxiety." Sounds strange, but basically I'll be showering away, and it is all hot, and I get like, really hot all of a sudden and feel like I have to hurry this shower up and get out asap. It happens every now and again. Maybe it happens to other people, I don't know. I feel like I'm stuck in the shower because I have all this cleaning left to do even though I want to get out. Maybe it is a strange form of claustrophobia.

Anyway, I got stuck in the shower this morning. As I hurried up to finish cleaning I started to pass out!! My vision started to fade away and my hearing got fuzzy and I got really hot and a little nauseous. At first I was thinking "Oh no, here's comes morning sickness!" but the nausea wasn't the worst part, it was the dizzyness and my vision closing in. The last step of my shower before I get out is to seal my hair follicles with cold water. I always run cold through my hair then turn the shower off. Thankfully I was at this step in the process when this started happened and the cold kept me going, otherwise I might have gone down. I turned off the water and had to lean on the edge of the tub as things started going gray and I got all sweaty. I grabbed my towel, ran it over my bod, and sat on the toilet. I got the chills, and pooped, then felt much much better. I don't know what caused this, maybe I had low blood sugar combined with God knows what.

I'm always telling people when they don't feel good that they just have to poop. Who knew!

1/6/09 Bad day

Oh yesterday was a bad day. Thank goodness it was my Wad's birthday and he heard from my long-lost nephew Cody, that was the bright spot. Otherwise, suck. Found out my Mankosaurus is leaving me in 1....yes 1 month. That is the most horrible thing that could happen during my pregnancy right now. I thought she'd be here with me until July, but no. She's leaving in the middle of Feb. I guess I should be used to it (here comes some drama) because everyone leaves me here. You know who you are! At least my Man-Meat is still with me and going nowhere. He'll be right with me when I am a snotty mess after Mank leaves. I just don't know what I will do. I really really don't.

Ok, bad news #2. My other best bud is dating this girl, she's perfectly nice but o-so wrong for him. They were enganged, she freaked out at my birthday party of all places, and he called it off. This was August. I get a text yesterday from her stating "The wedding is back on" like I am supposed to be thrilled about this? Huh, NO! That's all I have to say. No.

Now I'm just trying to be happy for my BFFF that she is moving closer to her family. She's going to NC, and expensive plane ride to say the least. It is warm there in the summer so it won't be terrible to visit her which of course I will have to...a lot. But I'm used to having her every day and always someone to call and hang out with. Now, I will have to settle with myspace, facebook, email and phone calls. My other friend will be leaving us as well, possibly going to Florida. It will be easier to see them both in one trip if they are in the same area, however will we want to visit him if he's married to the nightmare? I think I can over come it, but I'm not sure about my MM.

Start of Week Fiver

It has been a day let me tell you! Lots of craziness happening at work. I've been the boss for the last two weeks and this is the third and final week. It has been so quiet until this week when all the shiz hit the fan. Not to mention that every whack job in town paid us a visit. Including, Jose...who proceeded to yell at me how he was a Philipino-Americano, he is a citizen of the United States of America, and his phone should work. It is disgusting! Disgusting that his phone doesn't work. Well, he's using a international calling card from God-knows where so it really ain't my problem. Then he wandered away talking to himself. Oh, but he did say I was his heroine today. It I was a man I'd be his hero, but I am female so I am his heroine. Yeah me.

I was a wee nausous this morning. I thought maybe I shouldn't eat my egg. Usually that's all I have, an egg and a glass of milk. This morning I thought I'd better have a peice of toast with some jam first then see. So I ate that, then ate my egg and had my milk and everything was fine. It was like the teeniest, tiniest bit of nausea. I am so paranoid to have morning sickness. I hate that watery-mouth, swallowing a bunch feeling. Every time I have the smallest stomach twinge I'm like "ok here it comes!" I also get a little fluffy tum when I get hungry. AAH, I don't want it. I read that the sicker you are the healthier your baby. I also read that if you get motion sickness or migraines you will get bad morning sickness. Double negative for me! I get both those things. I can't even read a text message in the car without getting nausous. We won't even talk about the migraines.

I have a sinus infection yuck. I can't lay down because I start to drown in mucus.

Let's talk about "advice." We just had a little discussion of sorts about how my sis-in-law was concerned with being positive all the time around me because I'm pregnant. I think she's concerned that I'm not happy about being pregnant. I actually think it is the coolest thing in the world! I'm so excited to have the experience of being pregnant and see what it is all about. I've always been really laid back about going to doctors and things going on in my body because I studied it. I know physiology. I know what an orange does when I'm digesting it. I've studied reproductive systems. I'm very aware of what is going on when my blood circulates through my lungs and to my organs and subsequently my baby. My coworker BV (who I love and who's opinion I value) says "oh that will change, you will stress about your health and your baby's health." Well no kidding. Of course I will! I don't need other people to tell me how I will feel. I want to experience this in my own way. And of course they went on to say that it hurts so bad "aren't you excited" etc etc. I vow right now to never tell a pregnant woman how she is supposed to feel unless she asks. I vow to never say "aren't you excited" about all the bad stuff that I know for a fact they are NOT excited about. Sarcasm doesn't really fly when you are pregnant. It is like that part of your sense of humor goes by the way side for awhile. I'm sure it will come back, but right now I just don't get it and it hurts my feelings.