Fun with 5

I saw this on a friend's blog and thought let's take a break from baby blogging to do a random post so here goes...

 

 

5 things

 

 

...in my purse

1. Nexium it's how I survive the heartburn each day

2. Sunglasses at least two pairs, normally one black and one brown for different outfits

3. Gum, Trident Coolmint or Doublemint

4. Granola bar or some type of snack,  I'm hungry at random times

5. Lipgloss,  I'm a addict.   Two favorite brands MAC color Chai and Lippy London Butter color Yummy Mummy

 

 

....found in my bedroom

1. Dog beds,  see previous post about finally getting Zoey off the bed!

2. Too many pillows,  most the time on the side of the bed on the floor the fancy pillows are only on the bed when company is coming

3. iPads we each have one on our nightstand and at night he is playing soccer on his and I'm online shopping on mine

4. Water bottles,  I wake up every night and chug water

5. TV - some people are against a TV in the bedroom I am not one of them.  We snuggle and watch TV all the time in our room

 

 

...places I have been

1. Rome, Italy - The Colosseum is spectacular.  Put it on your bucket list people..

2. Philadelphia - Seeing Philly through my new husband at the time's eyes made me love the city.   He went on his mission their and was like a kid in a candy store showing me all the things he loved

3. Barcelona Spain - Such a beautiful city,  seeing Gaudi's masterpiece buildings and spending 8 days with my favorite brothers was a trip I will never forget

4. San Diego, CA - This is a favorite spot for Ryan and I,  5 hours away we have been MANY times. We love the Zoo, Sea World, the beach and the restaurants.  It will probably be the first place we take Holden this summer

5. New York City - I love this City,  I love walking to dinner and to the corner market.  I love grabbing lunch from the lunch truck, I love the Broadway shows and I love the feeling of NYC at Christmas time.   I have been 4 times and every time I find something else to love.   Ryan and I went in 2011 and said if we didn't ever want kids we could live in a small apartment in Manhattan and be happy.

 

 

...I currently love

1. Baths - I take one every night almost.   My stomach doesn't feel heavy, I bring my iPad and headphones and watch shows while I relax.  It's heavenly..

2. The way my dog lays her head on my belly.  I can't wait to see how my girls are with baby Holden.

3.  That my husband rubs my feet anytime we are laying on the couch together

4. When I feel the baby move,  it's the best feeling in the world

5. Firehouse Subs.   I LOVE the Turkey Bacon and Ranch so much

 

...randoms

1. I can't get enough milk,  I think I might be able to do the gallon challenge right now and actually do it

2. I put baby oil on my stomach and sides 3 times a day and so far no stretch marks.

3. One of my best friends calls Holden, Hudson all the time,   I think he might be confused if she continues after he is born

4. I am addicted to all things Apple.  I love my iPhone and iPad so much!

5. I have 69 days until I am a MOM!

 

 

Now your turn!



I'm LaMe

I really am..I miss blogging.  

 

I was going back and reading through my IVF journey and I was so good at documenting and expressing my feelings and then I got pregnant and got sick and that went by the way side.   I finally started feeling better, blogged a little and now I am at the uncomfortable stage again and go to sleep at 8:00pm which doesn't leave much chance of blogging.   I haven't pulled out my camera in I can't remember when,  my only form of pictures is my iPhone and what I post on Instagram. So I really am lame.

 

 

As far as my pregnancy goes,  we have about 10 weeks left!   I am hoping for 9,  I would like to be induced so we can be home for a week and settle in before Ryan starts the craziness of Grad School finals.  But you never know what baby wants to do.  Great time to have a baby huh? 

 

The nursery is still coming along,   it's a work in progress and we hope to have it all done by the end of March

This is a horrible picture but its all I have..

Ryan stripped, sanded and painted this little dresser for Holden. I love how it turned out.   Now we have a changing table left to do in the same color.  My mother in law already made a changing pad for it :)

 

I had a dream that after all these boy clothes and shoes that we ended up having a girl,  my last ultrasound helped clear up any confusion.  Holden is still definitely a boy!  It would have been a nightmare if he wasn't I have had three shirts made with his name on them.  One is even to go home from the hospital LOL

 

 

Now the only dream I keep having is that I don't make it to the hospital in time for a epidural.  I have had it a few times now and I woke up crying once.   I thought for about a half a second about going natural,  then I went on youtube and watched 2-3 natural births and that thought went away. It scared the crap out of me!  I want a epidural and I will make sure I am there on time to get one. :)

 

Other than preparing for our little guy to arrive we haven't been doing much.   Ryan has been studying like crazy for mid semester exams and I sleep alot.   We were able to go to St. George over Valentine's Day weekend and go to the Parade of Homes and have a nice dinner at The Painted Pony.  It was so nice to get away and just relax.

 

I am trying to train a few girls at work to do parts of my job so when I am gone the place doesn't fall apart.   My bosses are still in denial mode and feel like we have so much time before baby comes but it's really only 2 months away and time goes fast.

 

I feel really bad for Ryan right now,  I am at the uncomfortable stage and with pregnancy making me snore we don't sleep in the same bed all week, only on the weekends if we go to bed at the same time.   I miss having him next to me and just cuddling, but I know he needs his sleep for school and if he can't get it with me snoring then he needs to be in the other room and get a good nights sleep.   I always heard from people that being pregnant made their hormones crazy and they couldn't get enough lovin.   That has not happened to me at all,   being sick for 18 weeks is a real mood killer.   Then I felt great for about 6-7 weeks and that part of our lives got better and now here we are again almost 31 weeks and it's gone again.   I'm trying to keep it alive because I love Ryan more than anything and I'm attracted to him and I normally love our intimacy in our relationship,  but honestly it's hard.  I feel like crap most of the time,   I take a bath every night to help my back and I'm asleep by 8:00pm.  Sexy huh??   He is such a champ and I know our marriage is solid as a rock and that even though that part of our marriage isn't on full speed right now,  we still spend every week and weekend together being close and loving each other.   But I am ready to have this baby, recover and get back to some more me and Ryan time!  

 

I am going to try to be better about updating during this last stage for me to print out in my blog book and I am going to try to be better about taking pictures.   I have two baby showers coming up.  One by Kristen and Melissa in my ward that will be so fun.  They are so crafty and thoughtful and I am so excited.   And one by my friends that should have lots of people at it.  So I need to document it all! 

 

Until next time..

 

Holden

Holden has cooked for 27w3days.

He is still measuring a week big and still has long arms like his daddy.

My placenta moved so I do not have placenta prévia anymore, yeah! But he is still breech so he needs to move.

I don't know how he is comfortable his legs are folded up so they are in front of his face.

He still looks cute and still looks like he has my nose.

The dr tried to mess around with the 3D picture but his hands and feet were in the way so its not that great but Ill take it.

Success!

Before I married Ryan my cute adorable bulldog Zoey slept on my bed with me.

 

I mean look at this face as a puppy how could you not want her to sleep with you?

 

 

  

 

But I digress,   at first she slept with me because it's easier to potty train I think with them sleeping on your bed,  the minute they wake up and move it's out the door to potty at night.  I did the same thing with Maggie, but the difference was once she was potty trained she didn't want to sleep on the bed anymore.   Not so much with Zoey,  she was fine snuggling next to her mama at night and no one was sleeping on that side of the bed so it didn't bother me.

 

But then Ryan entered the picture, and he was not okay with a dog on the bed.   I was sad but told him we would work on weaning her off the bed,  so for the first month or two (oh okay maybe 3 or 4) she slept on the bed but on my side in between my legs.  She is not a teacup yorkie, she is a 50lb bulldog and it wasn't that comfortable so it motivated me to get her to the floor.  The next move was to buy a new dog bed and place it next to my side of the bed so she could sleep there.   It worked most of the time, but she would wake up in the middle of the night and scratch to come up or scratch so I would know she was there,  this went on for about a year. 

 

About this time Ryan and I bought a bigger bed and the room on the side of the bed on my side was getting smaller, so I moved her bed to the end of the bed to see how that would go.  It was rough at first with her waking up and coming over to my side to scratch but eventually she was okay with it and slept at the end of the bed.  

Now one thing that is not great about a bulldog is they snore, and not light either.   If Zoey is laying on her side she is much quieter and we can go to sleep,  if she is laying flat with her head in between her paws.  Oh its loud!  So I was getting up once or twice a night to roll her onto her side,  well the most amazing thing happened about a month ago.   I got up to roll her on her side and she looked at me with the annoyed look in her face and got up and walked out and went into the living room and slept on the couch!!!   I thought it had to be a fluke thing because the next night she was back in our room at bedtime again,  but once again when I rolled her over she got up and walked out.   Now most nights she doesn't even come into our room anymore,  she is perfectly happy sleeping by herself on the couch with no one to bother her and she can snore as loud as she wants.

No we just need to wait and see if she stays out there once the pack n play is in our room.  I have a feeling both girls are going to want to sleep by their baby at first.  Or at least our German Shepherd Maggie,  she is very protective...

I call this success!






Random..

It has been forever since I have blogged.  

 I haven't even posted about our trip to San Diego for Christmas. 

I need to post about our babymoon to Hawaii, which was AWESOME,

and progress on Holden's room, it's coming together!

 

But today I am just going to put a few random thoughts.

 

I will NOT miss this big fat belly when Holden gets here, but I will miss Ryan rubbing, kissing and talking to his baby at night through my belly.   My love for that man grows everyday. 

 

I love feeling Holden kick me every day, even if my poor bladder suffers.  Let's me know he is okay.

 

He is still breach and I still have placenta previa, so we find out next week if we have to have a c-section or not. If the placenta doesn't move I don't have a choice.  And my Dr. would want to do it at 36-37 weeks so then I would only have 10 weeks left.  Yikes!

 

I have lived in our house for 6 years and Ryan has lived there for 3,  and until the front guest room became Holden's room we apparently didn't need window locks.  But the minute it became babies room Ryan went out and got window locks. Because as he says "People are crazy and no one is going to try to take my baby"

 

It's hard to fathom that the next Mother's Day that rolls around I actually WILL be a Mother.   I told Ryan he better make it a good present :) 

 

I feel like a fool talking to my dogs about their baby brother coming,  carrying around the carseat or turning on the swing and letting them investigate everything, but the book says this is how you get your fur babies ready for their world to be rocked!

 

Pregnancy makes me snore, Ryan can't sleep through snoring.  I have tried a humidifier, breathe right strips, Vick's tent you name it.  Doctor just says some women snore during pregnancy.   Hopefully it goes away after because Ryan is sleeping in the guest room half the time and I miss him!

 

Finally at 18weeks I stopped being sick,  I want to document this so hopefully with my next pregnancy I can say it didn't last as long.  It was NOT fun and I was NOT enjoying pregnancy at all.   From 18 weeks to today (almost 27 weeks) I have loved it.

 

The only thing good about being sick during pregnancy is you don't gain a ton of weight.  Hoping to be at 20lbs for the whole pregnancy,  at +7 right now.

 

Not going to lie, the hospital tour at Summerlin Hospital scared me a little.   Watching them take off the bottom half of the labor bed and reveal the bucket underneath that catches all the mess.  My eyes were wide open after that.  Or learning about the lovely diaper's we get to wear afterwards because you are still bleeding.  So fun!

 

I never drank milk, except in cereal or to dip oreo's in.  I drink probably 2-3 glasses a day and go through a gallon a week by myself.   It's crazy.

 

Other cravings,   cutie oranges (eat 4 a day),  Captn Crunch cereal for breakfast everymorning,  cheeseburgers, banana's, popcorn, strawberries, apple juice and apples.

 

Things I am not liking,  sweets (which makes me so sad, I normally love sweets), sandwiches,  fish.

 

I am a shopaholic,  I can't stop buying him clothes and room decor.  I have a problem. He already has 10 pairs of shoes.

 

I need to stop though because looking at our budget after baby is born with day care, diapers and insurance going up.  We are going to be broke :)

 

 We have the crib, glider, changing table (bought at garage sale and grandpa refinishing), video monitor (gift), carseat (gift), bedding, swing and breastpump. 

 

When Holden is born Ryan will be 1 month away from finishing his first year of grad school.  We made it a year and only 2 left!!!

 

My mom and dad are going to watch Holden on Friday's while I work from 9-1 and my mom has already told me that she is not following my baby wise schedule,  she is rocking her grandson to sleep.  She is looking for a glider for her house as we speak :)

 

My Aunt is making Holden's blessing outfit and my Mother in Law is making a blanket to go with his blessing outfit.  I love that people I love are contributing to his special day,  they will go in his keepsake box for sure!

 

My boss is already negotiating with me on maternity leave,  asking if I can come in 1 day a week and add it on to the back end of my time off,  so I'll be out longer but work 1 day.  He is freaking out that the place will fall apart.

 

I feel like the next 13 weeks are going to go by the slowest in my life,  but the last week I know I am going to be so scared and wish I had more time!!