29 Weeks

What a hot and miserable weekend weather-wise.

Friday was an early celebration for my mom's and Mike's birthday. We met my parents for dinner at Trabucco Oaks Steakhouse. Yum! I <3>

Saturday was a soccer game at 1:30.....the coach prior to J's game said to us, "We beat the team you guys are playing last weekend 4 - 0". Good to know....

J's team won, 11-0.

Good for them, even though it was hot as hell.

Brody was in rare form throughout the game. Flirting with all the ladies. He is not typically shy, but I have never seen him walk up to a group of girls, and sit right next to them and start "chatting" away.

During half time, he ran up to sit in on the coaches meeting with the girls, and the ladies on either side of him were taking turns feeding him grapes!!!

It was pretty interesting.

Anyway, here is another random room picture, they are slowly coming together, and I will update with more as they come.

Brody's shelves. I am not sure what to do with the books on the top one....they are all paper pages and he will destroy them if he can access them by himself, but they look stupid standing upright too, since they are so tall....

28 Weeks, 3 Days

Enough said.

My Birthday

Probably the only belly picture you will see...

Here are some random shots from my birthday.....

I got a glider as a gift. I was not wanting one. I didnt have one with B, and didn't really miss it. But, when we moved B into his new room, and had his bed on the smallest setting, he would ask for me to read him a book. I had nowhere to sit...I can kind of wedge my fat butt onto the bed, but then he is not comfortable....So, I told Mike I wanted a chair for his room. I looked and looked and couldnt find anything I liked...

I was at BRU, saw this one, it was on sale for a cheap deal, the ottoman was free, there you go.

It will move to the babies room, once it is finished.....but in the meantime, B likes to borrow it.

We spent my birthday and the week following out at my parents lot in Temecula. It was ridiculously warm, so I was able to wear my dress into the pool.

Brody saw his first catfish. Isn't it a wopper?! :/

And then my cake...which we bought on Wednesday....and then Mike wouldnt let me eat it till Jennifer and Donny came out.............ON SATURDAY!

I am pregnant, and had a cake dangled in front of my face for 3 whole days and wasn't able to eat it!

Onviously I survived, and the cake was still in decent condition.

Big Helper

You can always count on Brody to help out whenever work is being done.

Baby Clothes Chaos

Well, it is official. I have enough clothes for the octuplets!!

All 8 of them will be beautifully dressed for the first month of their lives.

Oh wait. I am only having 1.

(Thank god..)

I went through all of B's old clothes, all of which I saved in case. I know that when I had him, I LOVED white onsies, then I bought all sorts of boy hats and socks to go with them. Obviously white is unisex, so they are all usable again!

And with my neighbor loading me up with girlie stuff, I am pretty much set for the initial month.

I would like to point out that I have an 8 drawer dresser for Baby Harlee/Farrah/Pat/X/Beth?, and all drawers are overstuffed.

This sounds like a blessing but the "terrible" thing is all clothes are in newborn and 0-3 months size...so most of it will never see the light of day.

Anyway, I was out an about yesterday and I stopped at Old Navy...which I LOVE. Our Old Navy always has clearance items, and then takes an additional 50% off of the lowest clearance price. Is that normal? Anyway, I can typically find the J's jeans there for $5.00 a pair, which can't be beat. Brody's section is usually beat down and full of ugliness so that sucks, but I took a walk through the baby section, and scored big time! I bought 2 overstuffed bags of girls clothing for $38.78. Shorts for $.97, ect. It was fab! And before you continue to think I am nuts, let me point out, that I bought nothing in 0-3 months...everything will be stored for months, but for $.97 for shorts and shirts, I couldn't pass it up.

Being I was able to go through all of B's old things, I was then able to update my registry being I now know what I need.

I finally feel like I am making some progress, despite my lack of sleep.

(By the way, it has now been over a week)

Mike so nicely suggested I try sleeping on the couch tonight if I wake up at 1am.

I have to give him credit though, he really did try to make it sound nice and like he cared, and was saying it only for my well being. I, obviously know better, but good for him.

My ailments: The return of morning sickness. Restless legs, backpain, nosebleeds & bloody gums, and the heinous pain in my pelvis.

Positive notes: I feel baby alot of the time and have been able to complete almost a weeks worth of kick counts (I did 2 total while carrying B - he never moved..scary), and am slowly actually making progress on making the house organized before this kid is born.

28 Weeks

11 more to go! Halle-fricken-lujah

I am living in a zombie like state due to lack of sleep already so I dont even have that to worry about once the baby is here. Everyone always says "sleep while you can, because once the baby is here....."

So, I started early.

Yesterday was somewhat eventful.

Mike finally hung the shelving in B's room. Huge. I am so sick of seeing all of his things that he can't have constant access to, all over our bedroom. (nice book, a ceramic piggy bank, a clown music box). I am hoping within this week, to have an adult bedroom back..which will be a first in 2 1/2 years. No pack and plays, no kids books, no cartoon DVDs...

Then we had Janee's soccer game. They tied 4, 4. Which was awsome. They were down 0-2 for the whole first 1/2 of the game almost. They scored the tie in the last 2 minutes of the game.

Last year, they won every game, and this year won every pre-season game, and their first game of the actual season, so not that a loss would be a big deal, but a tie is obviously better. The game started at 10, and by 11 ish when it ended, the heat was almost unbearable for me. I hate pregnancy in the 100 degree weather. Seriously. It is 4,000 times more uncomfortable than it typically is for me.

I went and washed and put away all of my neighbors girl clothing so I know what I am missing. I have about 30 size newborn girl onsies, alot of which there are 2 of. I am sure Pat will be in newborn clothing for a week or 2, so most of these are un-neccesary, but still much appreciated.

I also, think I have started a new symptom - restless legs. How annoying. While researching how the hell I can get some sleep (and finding out nothing), I also looked this up. I read that it could be lack of iron. I will call Dr. on Monday, and talk to her about it, but luckily we had steak for dinner, and also luckily my new craving is maple and brown sugar oatmeal.

This is ground breaking news. Mike sat in bed last night during "The Dark Night" eating a Mrs. Fields ice cream cookie sandwich, of which there are 8 more in the freezer, and I had a bowl of oatmeal with fat free milk.

So, this weeks agenda is finding a temporary pediatrician for Pat's birth. I am hoping I can use the same one I used for B when I delivered at Irvine.

Confirming if anesthesia is covered for my delivery at Hoag. (And if it is not???)

Hopefully confirming a name.

Making a list of everything I am still lacking for this kid. I think I have its room all decorated in my head. I found some kick ass crib sheets I am in love with!! Which just also happened to match the color I was thinking of painting the walls, and go with the antique bronze hardware and lights we already purchased.

And, hopefully getting some sleep!

27 Weeks, 6 days

This is day 5 of no sleep.

I go to bed just fine. I am hardcore asleep. Then at about 10:30/11 pm I wake up. Wide awake. almost like it is morning and I have slept for 8 hours. But then I can't go back to sleep.

I am a mess.

I just spent to much time googling this issue, and apparently it is normal, and they dont offer any advice.

I hope this is a fluke, because I have become pretty useless during the day.