Six pounds up and Six weeks left.

34 weeks! YIKES! this means only 6 weeks left until D-Day! I had my appointment yesterday and was a little shocked to see myself up 6 pounds in the last 2 weeks! apparently the little monster is starting to pack on the pounds. (this is what I am choosing to blame it on, because I'm sure it has nothing to do with the ice cream, brownies, and chocolate bars) Everything continues to look good with baby. He is still growing right on schedule and moving like crazy. My legs and feet are still incredibly swollen, but again it hasn't been too terrible.

I had my birthday this last weekend and spent it doing all sorts of fun things. I got up in the morning and did some garage sale-ing. I got a $300 breast pump for $50. I figured I can just buy new parts and just sanitize the heck out of the rest. All in all it was a really good deal. I also decided to take in the all city garage sale. This event always makes me laugh as people think they can sell their junk at insanely high prices. For example people were selling bottles of shmpoo and conditioner for $3 and $4 a piece. I only ended up buying a little outfit the the baby, but it was still entertaining.

After the sale, I decided to treat myself to a pedicure. Below you will see a picture of my superbly pedicured nails. I had a male do the pedicure again. For some reason there can be 30 girls and 1 guy in a salon and I will 99% of the time end up getting the guy. Anyway he did some weird voodoo stuff to my feet and cracked all the little bones because he said it would help with my back pain. It was quite interesting. While I was waiting for my nails to dry Nate surprised me by coming home early from work to take me out to lunch :) We then took in some more garage sales and purchased a new air hockey table. I must say, it's pretty sweet.

In the Afternoon we decided to go home and finish painting the nursery. I think that it turned out pretty well. The blue is a little intense, but overall I like it. I have a few more projects to finish and things to put up, but it is pretty finished for the most part.

In the evening we went out for dinner to the blue moose. It is one of my favorite restaurants, and your meal is free on your birthday. After, I made nate take me to see Sex and the City 2. We were both less than impressed and sadly, the best part of the two and a half hour movie were the previews. On the way home I was getting in the car contemplating what a great birthday I had had and all of a sudden I felt a rip. Sure enough my pregnancy pants ripped right up the middle. I guess my clothes are starting to feel that 16lb weight gain I have had.

Hopefully it won't be too much longer now. Every day that goes by I marvel at how incredibly blessed Nate and I are. I try to not take a single thing for granted and enjoy each day that we are given with this wonderful gift.

Friday, Friday, Friday

All I would like to say this morning is thank you cold medicine for the best 4 hours of sleep I have received in a very long time! (I guess it also helped that I slept 10hrs yesterday as well :)

Everything continues to go well with baby. 33 weeks now, and I can't believe it! Time just seems to be zipping by! Nate (and yes, just nate) finished painting the nursery last night! We ended up painting it a cornflower blue and Now today I think we are going to paint a dark brown strip to break it up a bit. Hopefully it will look really cute when I get the crib, bedding and accessories it there. I will definitely post pictures. I think once we get the nursery done things will really start to feel more real!

I am hoping to go garage sale-ing this weekend starting this morning. Last weekend I got a really cute baby sling, so I hope to pick up some more treasures this weekend. I am having a hard time paying full price for a lot of baby things when 1)babies will use them for such a short period of time and 2)I am able to find good deals at garage sales!

I decided to put in for a 12 week maternity leave at work :) I am a little nervous that it will get to be too long, but I have a feeling that once this little man is here I will be glad that I put it to spend the whole 3 months with him. I say this considering that he will most likely have to go to daycare 3 days a week or else nate will be staying home with him (More than likely the first one) I looked in to some daycares last weekend and YIKES are they ever expensive! I wanted to use one that was not too far from my house but they only accepted full time infants which would cost $700/month! I would only need daycare 3 days a week, so I am hoping to find someone who can do it only part time. Still on the search though.

My ankles continue to swell up like crazy while I am at work. I bought a pair of support hose which make a world of difference, but they still are swollen when I am done with my 12+ hour shifts. But I must say if this is my biggest problem is pregnancy, I consider myself very lucky.

Well I am off to start my garage sale-ing journey today. Hopefully the rain doesn't wash me away.

8 more weeks...yikes!

So we are officially under 2 months left. I am so not ready!!! This little man will be here in no time and to be honest, I am a little terrified. :)

We went home to Williston this last weekend for Abbie's high school graduation, and it was nice to be home. We got to see family and take it the craziness that has erupted in Williston. I also hit up some garage sales and got some cute stuff for baby. One of the pastor's at New Hope is having a sale in 2 weeks and let me go through her stuff. I got 4 bags of clothes! It was very nice of her.

As you can see from the picture, my belly is getting quite large! Not many clothes fit any more and I am finding it hard to believe that this little man still needs to double in size! He moves around like crazy. I am even finding it hard to fall asleep because he moves around SOOO much. Not that I am complaining. It is an amazing feeling. I definitely think I will miss this part of being pregnant when it's over.

I still have my cough and it seems to be getting worse. I have had it for 5 weeks now and lets just say I'm over it. I get up and cough my brains out and then proceed to puke my guts out because I have been coughing so hard. I have an appointment on Wednesday, so maybe Dr. Howick can come up with something new to try.

Well Lots of work to do today. Must stay motivated :)

GoodBye Ankles

So this last weekend at work I was a little shocked when I looked down and realized that my ankles were no longer there and had been replaced by a swollen mess. I guess I really am in my 3rd trimester now.

Baby has been moving like crazy this last week. I don't know if He is just starting to get more uncomfortable or just letting me know that he really is getting bigger and stronger.

My clothing choices seem to be getting fewer and fewer. I am down to one pair of jeans (even with the hair binder trick) and a handful of shirts (mostly maternity now). I even tried on Nate's pants the other day when working in the yard and they were even a little tight! (YIKES) I have only gained 7lbs to date, so I am happy about that. I feel that I am right on track as far as weight gain goes. I did order a few more maternity shirts from the GAP this morning that will be nice for when summer arrives, which I am hoping is sooner than later. Lately it has been typical May weather here, RAIN RAIN RAIN. Hopefully the sun will show its face again soon.

11 weeks left! I am getting so excited to meet this guy. I am so curious to see if he looks at all like me. He will probably come out with dark brown hair just like nate, but I am hoping that he bears at least a little resemblance to his mother :) I am also really curious how big he is going to be. I was 8lbs 10 ounces, and I am really hoping he is a little smaller than that. He has been measuring bigger than his gestational age at each prenatal visit though....I just hope he's not a 10 pounder. I don't know if I could handle that :) Either way I am sure he is going to be adorable and precious and I can't wait.

Sick of being Sick

Well this last weeks has been a long one. I have been sick for the last 7 days and let me just say being sick and being pregnant do not go well together! Thankfully Nate has been amazing at taking care of me and I am now finally starting for feel a little more normal.

On Friday Nate and I went to Fargo and we decided to purchase the stroller and car-seat. This is the one that we picked out. Nate made sure to try it out in the store to make sure that it handled well and could accommodate all of his daddy stroller pushing needs. This is our last big purchase that we needed to get before baby arrives, so I think we are doing pretty well.

I ordered the crib last week and it got in today, so Nate is picking it up after work :) We just need to paint the nursery now. So many little projects and so little time to do them...

Baby has been moving and kicking like crazy this last week. Sometimes I will just sit and watch my belly move. It will just ripple from one side to the other. Nate loves to feel his little butt sticking up by my diaphragm.

I was still measuring one week ahead at my dr. visit on Friday, so that's good I guess. I just hope I don't have the makings of a 10 pound kid in me. I have still been contracting which has been kinda' annoying. They are only 1-2 times an hour right now, but I've been watching to make sure they don't get any more frequent than that. I just wish they would stop. They can come back in about 10 weeks when I'm ready for them.

I must really be starting to look like a pregnant person now because at the mall on Friday One lady gave me a $10 gift card because she said she wasn't going to use it and figured I could since I was going to be a new mom, and then in the bathroom the lady in front of me let me use the only open stall first since I was pregnant and she "remembered what that was like."

Well I suppose I should do something productive like clean or cook or do laundry.

bulging at the seams...

So we have officially lived in our house 1 month! woohoo! Projects are coming along nicely. Nate is in the process of finishing up the upstairs bathroom, and then I think it will be on to baby's room. We have the paint and everything, so it's just a matter of finding the time to do it.

Baby has been moving a lot the last few weeks. He kicks and squirms all the time it seems. This is such a fun part of the pregnancy in that I feel pregnant, but I don't feel nauseated or terribly uncomfortable. The other night at work I snuck back to the room where we keep our ultrasound machine and snuck a peak at baby. I am not an ultrasound tech by any means so I was only able to make out the obvious things like the heart

and spine and head. He seems to be getting bigger though (this is also evident by my bulging belly.)

So I have the day off of work today and it is supposed to be 70 degrees today :) Yeah for spring finally arriving. I have had such spring fever lately. Summer will be here before I know it and then it's baby time! I suppose we should start discussing a name or else he will have to go by baby boy for the rest of his life. Naming a child is not an easy task, and we would gladly take any suggestions :)

6 months down.

Well we are down to the last three months! YIKES! I don't know how ready for this I really am. It has just started to hit me that in 3 months, my life will be dramatically altered. Not that I didn't know this before, but as I look around and see all the things changing/that will change, it is a little daunting. I have also started to panic as the nursery is not even close to being started and 3 months doesn't seem that far away....oh well, all in good time.

I am absolutely loving the new house. It is also nice to know that we have very concerned neighbors. This last week we had a friend come through on his way home. He got in around 11 at night and it was dark and he was having a hard time finding our house. He was driving really slowly around our neighborhood with a lawnmower, snow-blower, and bed in his truck. Apparently someone called the cops who in turn called backup because "some creepy guy was lurking around our neighborhood and it look like he might have stolen a bunch of stuff" Well the cops came to our house to investigate where they found ryan (a rather clean-cut guy). They questions his motives for being at our house and then proceeded to ask nate if his parents were home....Nate replied no. The cops then asked if he lived here with his parents. Nate then explained that he in fact owned this house and Ryan was a friend of ours kind enough to bring stuff up from his parents house for us. It gave us a good laugh, but I'm not too sure the cops believed us :)

I am starting to look and feel more pregnant. My baby bump has started to show through my scrubs at work, and I have been having trouble finding clothes in my closet that still fit my expanding waist line. I have enjoyed being woken up in the morning/afternoon by kicks and jabs to my side. Somedays it is like he is doing acrobatics in there. I can feel him move from the left side to the right and then back to the left again. He is one active child already!

One of my dearest friends had a great loss in her family this week as her sister-in-law lost her beautiful baby girl she was carrying. It has brought such grief and sadness to my heart this week as I have thought and prayed for her and her family. I can't imagine the pain and anguish. I am forced to deal with this kind of loss more often than I care to at my job, and it never gets easier, and I still find myself weeping uncontrollably. My heart breaks for them.

Well, the laundry is piling up, the bills are needing to be paid, and it is a beautiful day outside.