25 wks.

Man, I feel like I haven't blogged in FOR-EV-ER!!! Well, I had some things I wanted to blog about and then after they happened and I was ready to my danged computer went CRAZY!! Well, we thought the computer went crazy, but apparently the adapter did. Great! Another adapter. This will make number 3 in like 5 months. Ugh! It's better than having to replace the computer though AND this way I don't have wasted homework stuck on my computer.

Anywho! I'm 25 weeks:) Tomorrow I will be 100 days away from my due date!!!! Holy cow it's getting close! I used to say that sometimes I waddle.....then I saw my shadow......I waddle. The hips hurt. I'm feeling a lot of pressure and some Braxton Hicks. I went for a jog a couple of nights ago and holy Braxton Hicks! I haven't jogged in a little bit so I wasn't pushing myself, but walking causes me to have them anyway so I guess it's common sense they'd be there for jogging. Oh, and I swear my belly is HUGE after working out. This weeks picture is after working out so I do think it's a bit bigger than normal BUT I have grown a lot lately! I was doing so awesome with my weight too......and then I gained 3 lbs. this week. AWESOME! I did the same thing with Victoria though so I guess that is just how my body works. I have gained the same amount so far as I did with her but it has been spread out a little better. I started this week at a 15 lb. gain (159) but now I'm up to 18 (162) as of this morning. It better stop creeping up every morning though or I might be in some trouble. I'm chill with the whole 25-35 and with Victoria I gained 33. If I gain that again then that's fine. The baby's gotta grow right? And then of course she needs though fat stores to eat off (that sounds gross, but that's just how it is).

Here's the belly:)Sorry for the craptastic photo; we couldn't find the camera so this was taken with the video camera.

Here's the side-by-side:) I've been waiting to do this one!!! I felt like 25 wks. I just POPPED with Miss V. This is definitely a different shape going on. I'm not sure if I think it's bigger or just more spread out......just don't know what to think about the shape this go around.

I'm not even going to resize that. I know it hugemongous but whatev. I'm totally not standing the same, but can't do much about that now. I think this one is DEFINITELY lower..........any thoughts? I mean I KNOW there are people other than me reading this. I have that dandy map at the bottom that tells me so;)

Fighting Sleep

Ugh...I fight sleep. Does anyone else do this? It's not that I'm not tired; I just don't want to lay down and close my eyes. It doesn't make any sense at all to me. I am so freaking tired right now for example. I got tired of fighting Miss Priss to sleep earlier (she get's all kinds of crazy hot and sweaty if you cuddle with her, but insists on being cuddled) and so finally I told her she was just going to have to go to sleep on her own in her own bed. She's actually gotten a lot better at this lately as long as she gets in some cuddle time first. Anywho....I was crazy tired at that point so I said to myself that I was going to go lay back down and go to sleep as well........but I totally didn't. That was like 2 hrs. ago. I'm sitting here yawning and typing. I have no stinking clue as to why I don't want to go to sleep. I'm exhausted, I'll be exhausted tomorrow, there's nothing I HAVE to get done right. this. second. I just don't get it. Please, please, please tell me other people do this. There's nothing for me to do right now; I'm bored as all get out because no matter how many times a refresh FB and my email nothing is happening. I guess I could read. My point is there is nothing so exciting (or even not exciting) keeping me up. Even if I were to lay down right now I have such fight in me I wouldn't go to sleep. Maybe that is the problem. I HATE laying there FOR-EV-ER trying to sleep to no avail so I just don't bother. I was on Lunesta for a long time for this but stopped taking it because I heard it hurts your chances of getting pregnant (and we were trying for my little Victoria). I never resumed it because I was nursing, and then I was trying to get pregnant again. Yes.....that does seem a bit odd. I nursed for 20 months though and one of the only reasons I stopped was in hopes it would help me get pregnant (the other reason is it was getting a little disturbing for me since Victoria could dig it out herself and say please and thank you in regards to it).

I think I have some heartburn going on too......not positive. I'm going to go make half a pb sandwhich. Wish me luck with the sleep thing.

Confusing Trimesters......and months......and due date

This blog has definitely turned into me talking....typing.......about whatever comes to my mind. Sorry about that. Anywho......topic du jour is how confusing it is knowing dates when you are pregnant. For me it is easiest to just go by weeks. Anyone that has been pregnant or know anything about pregnancy will know that when you say you are 23 weeks along you are more than halfway. I hate trying to deal with months. Right now I am 5 months, working on 6 months. I don't go around saying I'm in my 28th year though.....I say I'm 27 (well, I say I'm 25, but that's a different story), so IMO you can't say you are 6 months until you are finished with you 6th month. It's hard to even know how your weeks break down into months considering there are 4.3 weeks in a month. Next up is trimesters....that is pretty hard too because you get tons of different info. Some website or people consider the 1st trimester to be over when you turn 12 weeks while others don't consider it over until you turn 14 weeks. I always thought it was 12 and stuck to that. Mathematically I know I'm wrong since 40/3=13.3, but not everyone is pregnant for 40 weeks. 2nd trimester is more of the same......it varies from when you turn 25 weeks to 28 weeks. I do 27. I've just been thinking about this a lot since I'm now 23 weeks and only a short 4 weeks from the final stretch. I am pretty sure it was just yesterday that we were trying, and trying, and trying to conceive.

My next appointment is Sept. 2nd and it's an ultrasound and then after that the next one is Sept. 6th.......I get to do the fabulous glucose screening test then. YAY.......not. I really wish they did ultrasounds in my doctors office because I am really over having appointments less than a week apart in the same building. Hopefully this is the last one. Then I go to appointments every 2 weeks......craziness.

ETA: I babbled so much I forgot to mention why due dates are confusing! LOL! If you go by my last cycle I'm due on Nov. 27, but according to the 1st measurement at the doctors my due date is Dec. 2. I'm sticking with 11/27. I mean going by measurement it less accurate IMO. That little cursor just has to be off a teeny tiny bit and it messes with your due date. UGH. Whatever.

BTW, I did 2 very exciting things to prepare for baby this weekend:) I ordered the crib (which was $200 off making it a whopping $99) and I bought the coming home outfit! Pictures below.

AND.....if everything goes as planned then I will be the proud owner of this fabulous bag at the end of the day:)

It's a retired print on ebay:) I'm a stay-at-home-mommy so I don't really have a ton of disposable income. It actually just went down because I'm not going to be watching one of my kiddos anymore after Friday. So...point is I don't go splurging....I look for good deals and found 3 great ones in the last 3 days (oh and my dear sweet parents are buying me the crib....they are AWESOME)!

22 weeks 2 days

I cannot believe I am over half way there now! I am definitely growing and so is little Miss Emily:) I can feel her moving around all the time. It's quite a big change from Victoria. I had and anterior placenta with her, but I also have one this go around so I'm not sure what the difference is...........Maybe Emily is just a stronger mover. I just know that had the movement been reversed I would have been seriously freaked out by the lack of movement I felt with Victoria.

I've been feeling pretty great aside from the hip pain. The nausea is mostly gone now so that's a plus! I can't eat a lot in one sitting, but I haven't really been able to the whole time this go around. I could really put some food away when I was pregnant with Victoria, but this time I think I'm starving and I could eat a lot but I really can't. I just kind of stay hungry all the time. Oh well....definitely worse symptoms I could have. I'm not having any trouble gaining weight; I can tell you that much! LOL! I have gained 13 lbs. (157) and here's the growing belly.......

I don't quite know what to think about the shape going on........I'll let ya know in 3 weeks. I just think I was more round with Victoria at this point. I have a photo at 20 weeks with her and the next isn't until 25 sooooo.......Heck the whole pregnancy has been completely different so why not the shape?

My how far you've come!

I was glancing over some of my past blog entries last night (like this one) and was amazed how back in January Victoria was just starting to put 2 words together. She is now saying full sentences can tell you exactly what she's thinking. She says things like "I don't want that one." and "I like macaroni and cheese!" and "Where'd my purple baby go?" She is easy to understand for the most part and I can't believe it was just 6 months ago that she was just starting to get the hang of it. Children are amazing with how quick they change!

ETA: I know this is not really an exciting entry for most BUT I like to have updates of my little girl. Like I said, I was shocked when I realized it was just 6 short months ago that she was just starting to put 2 words together. I also wanted to share 2 of her Daddy's favorite things Miss Victoria says......"No, it's my do it!" "I like it!" "Uh-huh, I do." and "Moon and back, thiiiiiiissssssss much!"

Stupid Type A Personality

I'm not sure why I bother planning things out way, way, way in advance. I NEVER stick to the original plan. Case in point...I made poor dear hubby trudge through about a billion of girl names as soon as we started trying for baby no. 2. Girl names are hard for us. We decided on Nadia Ragen. After many months of trying and no luck and many people giving me the the puke look I was no longer keen on that name. I like it again now....oops. If we have another baby, and if it is a girl, we will most likely use it. After I FINALLY got preggo we started looking at girl names again....we decided on Emily Elizabeth....now I have people left and right asking me if I'm naming her after the girl on Clifford. Are you serious peeps?!?! Yes, I'm naming my child after the girl on Clifford.....(enter sarcasm here).

Anywho....as some of you may have noticed I wrote a big 'ol blog here on how I was going to do nurseries.....it's changed. Surprise, surprise. I went to order the fabric for the bumper.....discontinued and no more in stock. I debated something else, but I realized just for the bumper I would easily spend $100. I decided to break down and just buy something else. I decided to go with this beautiful set from Land of Nod

We are still doing the beadboard, but we are going to paint it peridot by Behr now....it's a light green color....I can't figure out how to show you on here.........sorry:( Trim will be white and upper walls will be AWESOMENESS! I'm pretty excited about this; ask me how I feel during the process and I'll probably not feel so great. I had planned on doing lavender with a super great vinyl monogram, then I decided to go with lavender damask wallpaper (I was a little worried about if it would be too busy but decided to just roll with it).......the hubs vetoed the wallpaper, so now I am going to follow Emily with Jones Design Company's lead and try out this

She has a great tutorial complete with template and I'm feeling pretty good about it. The hubs LOVES it so we must go with it. We'll do lavender walls (haven't picked the exact color) and paint the stencil in white. When we agree on something we just have to use it because it does not happen very often;)

We aren't positive on the curtains yet, but I can say they'll be white. Then there is the lighting.....my goodness......I want a chandelier, but surprise! hubs isn't feeling it. My second choice is a basic white fan with light. Fans cut down on SIDS and provide white noise; if we can't agree it might as well be sensible. Oh, thing is hubs of course LOVES the fan idea........go figure.

I cannot wait to show pics!!!! I may give some before pics, but only if you promise not to make fun of the spot on the wall I had the grand idea to stencil on a saying and ran out of room. I have big ideas; not the best on planning them out though. There will definitely be after pics. I am so excited!!!! It'll be my first DIY with photos:) Hopefully it goes better than the DIY hospital gown I never showed. I'm still working on those BTW.....they're not gorge by any sense of the word though.

I'm about to burst with exicitment right now.........wish we could go start it!!!!! We just don't have ANY of the supplies. LOL!

Moments I Live For

Sometimes........a lot of times...........being a stay-at-home-mommy is tough. I'm the one who disciplines the most, I'm the one who gets to hear the crazy fits, I'm the one who gets to feel like I'm talking to a brick wall a lot of time,BUT then there are the other moments.......the ones that I absolutely live for. I love to watch my baby sleep, get big hugs, and hear all the new stuff she's learning....then there are the quirky things too. Right now, I can't seem to talk Victoria into wearing clothes. She laughs at me and runs away when I try to get her dressed so most of time I say the heck with it! She's 2........she gets to be naked if she wants to.........while we're at home. Yesterday, I was getting a snack ready for her and she apparently decided that would be the moment to strip down. The next thing I know she has pulled her little chair over to the counter, climbed on it so she could "color" with a pen and paper on the counter while eating her snack. You can see the red cup with her water and the bowl is somewhere in front of her. It touches my heart to know at that moment how precious and innocent my little girl is. These moments melt my heart.

I love how she is standing there with such attitude................all cocked to the side:)

Then there are these moments that have the same affect on me....

If anything can melt my heart more than my little girl it is watching my husband be the best Daddy in the world. I fall in love with him over and over and over again. He comes home early on Fridays.........most Fridays (sometimes he golfs) and today when he got home he put little girl down for her nap. He loves that little girl more than even I can imagine..........I'm pretty sure she is his whole heart..and I like it that way :)