Superbowl Sunday...1 week left

Yay! Superbowl Sunday. Since we've had Delores we haven't followed the games very closely. Usually we are busy cleaning on Sundays or Josh is on call and you can forget the game at 8:00. We are in bed before the first quarter is over. Having children makes you old whether you want to admit it or not. It's is just so much easier to accept your oldness and go with it than fight it.

Last night was great. Delores didn't get up at all until 6:00 and she had a bottle. I expected that though cause she wouldn't eat dinner last night before bed. I think she is cutting back teeth. She has all her usual teething symptoms, congestion, sneezing coughing, irritability, more cuddley than usual, but I can't see any white buds. At least she slept good though because after the night before last I needed a good night's sleep.

Yesterday was great too. We got our storage building in the backyard, we just can't get Josh's truck out of the yard. lol. It had been raining for 2 days and when the man is determined to get something done he will do it at all costs. So now his truck is stuck in our backyard and our yard is all torn up. I can't get mad though. He gave me the puppy dog eyes and I knew that he knew he kind of screwed up.

After that, and after Delores got up from her nap, we set off on our Saturday adventures. We went and had our taxes done first. Oh my goodness! We were there for an hour and a half and we got a women who had no idea what she was doing. Because I had worked there two years prior I was all over her. Bless her heart she had no idea what she was getting into when she took our folder. She put Delores's middle name as her first name (and didn't even spell it right), she put the wrong address in for one of Josh's W2s, she put student loan interest as education credit, and she claimed Josh's mileage from his last job as if he were self employed. Not to mention she just kept forgetting paper work and couldn't find our real estate tax on our mortgage paper. Not that it wasn't there, she just didn't know where to look. It's been two years, but I bet I could have sat in front of the computer and did them about an hour faster than she could have. The manager was so embarrassed that she waived the additional $42 the lady cost us from putting the information on the wrong page. Ugh. It was frustrating at the time, but it was pretty funny after we were done. I don't know how the women made it past the first day of training unless they were just desperate for employees this year. I know I shouldn't be saying all that about the poor women but maybe she just needs to learn she is just not cut out for taxes. Not everyone is perfect at everything.

After that we were starving and just stopped at McDonald's to eat and feed Delores. She is so funny. Delores doesn't like meat and does not like anything made with potatoes, but suddenly when mommy is eating it she loves it. She ate probably a third of my french fries, and two of my chicken nuggets. That is probably why I haven't gained hardly any weight this pregnancy because she keeps stealing my food. Lol, funny girl. After that she ate some strawberries I brought for her and we were off again. Next place was Wendy's because I gotta have my frosty fix. Then Garner's to pop in and get my vitamins. We skipped babies r us because Delores was getting sleepy and I couldn't really remember why I needed to stop there in the first place. The last place was Jc Penny to pick up our maternity pictures. They turned our pretty good. They always print extras and try to sell them to us and when we turn them down they get frustrated. Josh made a good point though. Why bother? They are just going to throw the pics away anyway so why do they bother wasting money and paper on the chance we may buy them. If we want more prints we know where to go. Sheesh. Anyway, after that we headed home. Delores fell asleep in the car so we hung out in the driveway until she got up. Then about an hour or two later Andrea showed up and we did bedtime and went to the melting pot.

If you have never been to the Melting Pot you need to go and get the 4 course meal. Oh my goodness! It was so so good. It was so laid back too. No rushing to get us out the door. Each course was so leisurely. We were there for 2 and a half hours. We had an interesting waiter who had to be a stoner. He said "awesome," so many times it got to be funny. He kept saying that he wanted to eat our food too. Lol, Josh joked that he probably had the munchies and was out back hitting a doobie in between our courses, Lol. I started playing a little game too. It was the "try to make it back from the bathroom before he brings the next course," game. I got up to pee 4 times while we were there. Oh and they sat us in one of those tiny two person booths so it was extra fun to try to get in and out. I got so many stares and from the vision in the bathroom's full length mirror I could understand why. I am huge! Lol. Anyway, when ever we go out we always get sat at one of those booths and we have come to the conclusion that they do this just to be funny. I am a 9 month pregnant women and Josh is a 6'7" man. How in the world are we suppose to fit in one of those booths comfortably? While next to us there are two skinny people sitting in a booth wraps around to easily fit 4 adult people. It's just getting ridiculous. The food was to die for though and you should definitely try it.

We came home exhausted from all our eating and we went straight to bed and it was a terrific Valentine's day. Nothing special, just fantastic food, with just me and Josh and great conversation. It was just what I needed and I was so glad to get it before this baby comes.

Speaking of which, I am now 39 weeks pregnant with one week to go.

Wish me luck with this last week!

Church today, cleaning, and the Superbowl. Hopefully some relaxing and some cuddle time with the hubby. Oh and probably get the truck out of the yard so Josh can go to work tomorrow. Lol. Have a great Sunday!

Saturday part 2

Last night Delores slept great. She got up at 9 and 12 and I haven't heard another peep out of her all night. So no bottle, yay! I, on the other hand, did not fall asleep until 1:00 and popped up wide awake at 6:30. I also got up a couple of times to pee and to kick Ava's kennel because she woke me up whining because it was thundering outside. It had to have been the allergy medication. When I do fall asleep normally I sleep pretty hard and sleep in a little later. Not today. My tiredness will probably hit me around dinner when it starts to wear off. I guess I'll take advantage of this time and get a shower before anyone else gets up.

Blog ya later. lol

Technically Saturday...8 days left

Well, after all the posting I've done about being sleep deprived, I cannot fall asleep.  I'm not sure what that's about. Maybe I'm too excited about spending the day with Josh tomorrow. Maybe I'm getting too eager about this baby coming. Or maybe it's the half of an allergy pill I took to help get rid of this headache. I don't know, but I've been laying in bed for about 2 and a half hours trying to go to sleep and nothing is happening. And bless my dear hubby's heart, but he started snoring and I just can't sleep through that. I could sleep though the sound of a chain saw running before I can sleep through my husband's snoring. It didn't use to be like that, but I am such a light sleeper in this pregnancy that we can't even sleep in the same room right now. I wouldn't say it if I didn't think he would say the same thing, so don't bash me for talking about him behind his back. He will admit it in a heartbeat.

This is a little off topic, but why in the world are commercials choosing ugly people for their casting? It irritates me. I guess they are trying to relate more to the general public, but some of those people are just really ugly. Like the people on the Hillshire Farms commercials (and no, I'm not talking about the kids). Those people look like they've been pulled out of a homeless shelter and put in their commercial. Sorry I was just wondering what's up with that.

So today went pretty good. Still felt pretty uncomfortable and today I felt nauseous and got a headache. I tried to lay down on the couch, then in bed, then in the recliner, and then back on the couch with no success of a nap or comfort. But I did enjoy my relax time so it wasn't pointless. Oh but Josh did surprise me with some pickles from the pita house. The best when you are pregnant. I love em anyway, but you just can't beat homemade pickles when you have that craving. The only thing that would have made it better is a frosty. Pickles and ice cream. So cliche, but so good. I love him for that.

Tomorrow (or today really) Josh and I are having our Valentine's day early because the baby is suppose to arrive Valentine day weekend and he's on call that weekend. We have nothing really planned for the day, but tomorrow night we are going to the melting pot for dinner. We wanted to go see a play or a concert or something, but the only thing going on is the circus and that's just not very romantic. So I think we are just gonna go window shopping at the mall and plan for things to buy each other when we have expendable income, AKA tax money. I know that's bad, but let's face it, Josh is the only one bringing in money to a family of four, and we are paying our bills on time all year long. We don't really allow ourselves to splurge on anything, so when we get our tax money we feel more comfortable with buying unnecessary items.

Also tomorrow we have to do our normal Saturday running around after Josh drops our new storage building in the back yard. So we have to go to Garner's for prenatal vitamins, babies r us for some last minute stuff, the mall to pick up maternity pics, M&M tax to get our taxes done, and somewhere in there we will have lunch and Delores will take a nap in the car. Then maybe we will come home in time to get decent looking for dinner. If not we will just come home, do bed time, and leave.

So we have now officially 8 days left to this pregnancy thing and I'm starting to get scared. I don't know how I'll handle being a mom of two. How do I take care of a 1 year old and a newborn at the same time? I don't know. I can't even fathom how I am going to tackle this task. If I wasn't so uncomfortable and in so much pain I'd say she could gladly hang out in there for a few more weeks. I guess everything happens for a reason and God wouldn't give me a task I couldn't handle. That whole staying positive thing will just have to kick in overtime and I may have to start taking my antidepressants again, but I'm sure I can make it. Maybe.

Well have a good Saturday!

finally friday...9 days left

Morning! It was so hard to get motivated this morning. It is rainy out side and dark and it is a friday. By this time, as mentioned before, I'm just not into doing the same old same old.

Last night was better than the night before, but not much better. Delores got up 3 times and the extra pacis in her bed did not help. Maybe if she was confident that I would be coming in after her it would work, but she knows Josh's "week," has started and she has started standing up in her crib wanting to be picked up instead of just sitting there waiting for her paci to magically pop into her mouth. Josh had to give her a bottle at 5:30. I just don't get that. When she knows it's my week she will sleep through the night and not even want a bottle when she gets up at 8. Suddenly when daddy takes over she will put up a fight to get one. Odd how children work with different people. Of course I got up 2 of those three time because I'm just programed to do that and Josh is still getting use to it. Sometimes it is just easier for me to do it myself. Which is probably not a good thing cause she's gonna have a hard time getting use to Josh going in there if I do, but I really just want to sleep and I know she will go right back to sleep if I go in there. At this point what is best in the long term is taken over by the fact that I am so exhausted.

Yesterday was pretty good. Delores made up for her fit she threw the night before by sleeping till 9:30. It didn't throw her day off too bad. She just didn't have her second nap. I still laid her down and let her play in her crib for about an hour while I got some stuff done, but she never did go to sleep. Andrea stayed till 3:00, so that was a big help. My chiropractor's appointment was not fun. It hurt so bad. I guess because my bones are so soft now in preparation for the baby. I didn't have any pain after the adjustment but oh my goodness it was taking my breath away and making me sweat. I would have cried if he was someone I was close to but I just don't do that. He made one last (hopefully) appointment for next thursday and I am not looking forward to that. I may actually cancel depending on how much pain I am in anyway that day.

Last night around 5:00 I started having interesting BH contractions. They were very low and very painful. They didn't really remind me of real contractions, but they were different from the false contractions I had been having. So I assumed we were probably in labor. They were about 7 minutes apart for about 2 hours, but I am a firm believer in being 100% sure before I notified anyone or called my midwife (Amy). So, with Josh's help, I got up and did our bedtime routine, ate dinner, and went and laid down. They were still there but they had tapered off to very irregular times. So about 9:00 I told Josh that they were just too far apart to do anything about it so I was gonna go to sleep and if they became more regular I would wake him up. They never did and here I am. Another day of painful disappointment has come and I am beginning to feel she will never be here. Of course she will in her and God's own time, and every pregnant women feels like that, but my belly feels like it is gonna burst from the inside out like the old Alien video. Lol.

Today my wonderful FIL is going to come get Delores to play with her for a little while and let me get some rest. I have mentioned this before, but this is bittersweet. I know she is going to miss her second nap, which means she will sleep horribly, which means that I will sleep horribly, which defeats the purpose of her going to get more rest in the first place. Lol, but they are like best friends and I'd rather her get out of the house and have some fun with her favorite person and give me some time alone than keep her here and wear me out.

Well I hear Delores talking to me through the baby monitor so I better go get her and start our day. Just one more day till I get to spend some quality time with Josh and one day closer till our due date. 9 more days!

Thursday and 10 days to go

Well last night was no fun. Josh and I rotate days on when he gets up with Delores at night. We just started doing this recently because I started thinking that "I'm not going to be able to do this with 2 kids." So the days that he isn't on call, minus the day after he gets off call, he is on night duty. It equals out to about 7 days on for him and 8 days on for me during a 2 week period. We have done this 3 times, so 6 weeks, and it has been horrible every time he goes on. She just assumes I'm gonna be the one to come in and rescue her in the middle of the night and when it isn't me she throws a fit. So last night she got up close to around 10:00 and josh went and laid her down. She cried a little and went back to sleep. At 4:00 she knew what was coming and it did not make her happy. Josh went in, tried to lay her down, and she screamed bloody murder. He went to make a bottle and I got up to see what time it was. When I saw it was 4 I thought maybe I'll just go in and she'll be calmed by me. Well she didn't want to let me go. When I tried to lay her down she just screamed harder. So Josh brought me a bottle and I gave it to her, laid her down, and tried to go back to sleep. After about an hour, and just when I was about to doze off again, she started screaming again. This time we just ignored her. She cried I guess for about 20 minutes then finally went to sleep. Poor josh had to get up for the day and I went back to sleep for about 2 hours. It is so frustrating because I know I can't get up with her when we have the new baby. I will be breastfeeding and it will be every two hours for the first month or so. Delores won't cooperate for josh and I can't sleep through her cries even if I'm in another room with the door shut. I told Josh last night "what did I get myself into?" Because seriously I feel like I am never gonna sleep again. Today I'm gonna throw all of her pacis in her crib and hope she can take care of herself during the night.

Yesterday, was very tiring. For some reason Delores just wore me out. Nothing was different about our day. I just don't have to energy to keep up with her anymore I guess.

Today I have a chiropractor appointment at 10:45. It has been about 2 weeks since I went last and I am really looking forward to it. I feel so much better after the appointment. I just love to have all my bones popped and put back in place.

The rest of the day will be pretty ordinary I guess. Andrea, Josh's sister, will be coming to watch Delores during my appointment, and probably staying until her second nap. So I'll have some company today. I start to feel really negative towards the end of the week because I am so tired of doing to same old thing. Day in and day out with Delores. I don't normally have outside adult contact and I don't get to go anywhere during the week. So by friday I am stir crazy, ready to get out of the house, and ready for some adult conversion. I'll be honest, I don't get kids, and before I had one, was not good with them. I do feel like a career mom and not a stay at home mom, so not being able to work for this long plus longer after the birth, has really taken it out of me. But I am trying to stay positive and just keep saying that it is almost over and in about 3 months I will be able to get a job (hopefully, if I can find a job). It will go by fast once the baby gets here. Right now I'm just in a rut. I hope just 10 more days to go now!

Have a great Thursday!

Wednesday and 11 days

Well here we are at hump day. I feel like sometimes I'll never make it this far, but then I always do and I start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm pretty proud of myself this week. I have gotten up before Delores to have some me time everyday and done this blog. I can tell how much it has made a difference too. I am not a morning person and I would rather sleep in, but being able to get up and motivated and not have to stress has really put a positive spin on my day (for the most part).

Yesterday, as I mentioned, I had my 38 week check up but before that I had to make a trip to Walmart. I swear that place is the devil. It appears as if it is an awesome place because they have everything at really low prices, but that is just to suck you in and then torture you while you are there. It took me 2 hours to buy groceries and I spent almost $200 on just the necessities and I felt like I had been hit by a truck after I was done. It made me 20 mins late to my midwife appointment because no matter how hard you try you just cannot get out of Walmart in a timely manner. I hate Walmart! But what am I suppose to do, they have the cheapest prices and they have everything and we have to eat. Maybe that will be my 3rd goal; Find and alternative to Walmart. Anyone have any suggestion please let me know. On a lighter note I did get all the stuff for my birth and for the baby. So no more stressing out that the baby is gonna come and I won't be ready.

My actual appointment went good. I was Strep B negative. Hemoglobin good. Perfect blood pressure. Perfect urine. Fundal height at 35 cm because the baby has dropped and some news that she will probably be bigger than Delores and we are shooting for the earliest due date, the 13th. At one time my due date was any where from the 13th to the 20th, so I am glad she will be here very soon. Eleven days as a matter of fact. Oh my goodness when I say it like that reality really sinks in.

The rest of yesterday was pretty normal except for being stressed about running late and not being able to drop my prescriptions off at the hospital and pick them up after I was done with my appointment. It worked out though because the said they couldn't get fill them till tomorrow (today) anyway because they would have to order them from the L&D floor. Amy (my midwife) said she had a ton of extras too, so if I deliver before I pick up the prescriptions it will be okay. After all that I was in a ton of pain and thought "surely if this baby is ready to come it will be here tonight." But, alas, no labor. Just some painful, and now annoying, BH.

Have a great hump day and groundhogs day (anyone know what happen with that little guy this morning? i don't watch the news [different blog on that another day]).

tuesday and one day closer

Morning! Josh is officially off call tonight after 4 long days and I am very excited about that. I know it is part of his job, but it is the most difficult test God has put me through in a long time. The loneliness and stressfulness of pretty much being a single mom for a half of a week and then going back to normal is intense. You never really can get use to it because it is always changing.

Yesterday was pretty normal. The only thing exciting to note is that I got Delores to eat broccoli. This is a big step for us because my very picky eater will only eat carrots, peas, and corn since she started eating finger food. You other moms gets it. I don't have to explain it to you.

Today I have my 38 week check up and it will probably be a busy day. I have a lot to do on days that people can watch Delores for me. Especially since the baby is coming. Because I am have the birth at a birthing center I have to get certain prescriptions filled for after delivery at the hospital. I have to get certain birthing supplies and certain things for the baby to use in the delivery also. I so don't mind, but it just takes time. I've had the prescriptions for a few weeks and haven't been able to make it to the hospital and it freaks me out because at this point I could really go into labor any time and I wouldn't have those things. I'm just glad I made it till today. After today this baby can come sooner than later. Ha Ha.

Everyday gets a little harder to carry my belly around. I've notice 5 new very small stretch marks on the underside of my belly because of how low she is carrying. And even though I am going to the chiropractor and doing some prenatal yoga, the pressure she is putting on my hips is really starting to cause excruciating pain. I can't imagine going on like this for 1 week 5 days, but I guess if I have to I will.

Well Delores has gotten up early so I need to go get her and start our day before she gets impatient and throws a fit. lol. Have a great Tuesday!