Week 27: Getting the nursery ready!

Hey Guys!

This is the last week of my 2nd trimester and I'm starting to get to that point where I'm just looking at my calender HOPING it will magically say its December. Everything is continuing to hurt worse, no matter what position I try to sleep in (I'm super limited on those anyways) I'm just not comfortable. I feel like I'm back in the first trimester where I was exhausted all the time. I find myself going to bed at 9 most nights only to wake up at 10:30 for potty break number 1 then again at 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:45 and lastly when Chris gets up at 5:45. Most of the time I'm not even really fully asleep.. I guess I'm just resting my eyes!

Anyways I'll spare you guys my boring sob stories about how miserable I am at this stage in pregnancy!

Alden is now bulging out constantly! Every little movement he makes I feel on the inside and you can see it on the outside. It is FREAKY, but kind of awesome at the same time! He's been waking me up a lot in the night with his wild movements and although its pretty annoying its kind of cool that he is awake with me and I get to have the time with him in the silence.

In other news, we bought our paint for the nursery on Friday and I was so excited to paint! We painted 2 of the walls a color called Limish, which is like a pastel lime. Of the 2 remaining walls one will be blue and white striped, and the opposite wall will be solid blue ( The same blue as the striped wall). I spent time on Saturday getting everything taped off and then I ran out of tape. Sunday morning we went and bought some more tape AND a painting mask because yes we were responsible and read the paint can before I just dove in and started painting.

Jackie (my BFF/the godmother/Aunt rexie) came over and we finished taping everything off and then it was time to paint! When we first moved into the house and were doing some painting my dad came to help and taught me some techniques to help me use the least amount of paint as possible. It takes a little extra time but its worth it! Jackie and I did all the trimming/using the mini roller and then had Chris come in to paint with the big roller. It honestly didn't take that long and I'm loving the color!

We had to wait on the paint to dry before doing the other 2 walls and I needed my dad to come and lay the lines for the striped wall anyways. Luckily my parents came over on Tuesday and took care of that so the final painting will happen this weekend! :)

So to close this week's post out I'll leave you with some photos!

First, The "lime" color we picked for 2 walls... Pardon the mess! lol

Next the lines my dad drew out for us. The stripes with the bits of tape inside them will be the white lines, the ones without will be the blue. My dad went ahead and put the tape that way  I know where to tape everything off before painting.

Finally, just to give you an idea of what the room will look like when we are done...

 

Obviously the solid blue walls will be green instead. I'm just not a fan of using all one color, I felt adding the green would make it more fun and go along better with the Monster's inc theme. Yes I am registered for those adorable monster decals as well as the bedding, the Mike pillow, the Sulley changing pad! Alden is going to have an adorable and FUN room! 

So that is it for this week! I'm super excited to finish up the painting this weekend and then start hanging decor. 

Thanks for reading guys!

Week 26: Getting Things DONE!

Hey guys!

I'm now in week 26 which means I am getting even closer to having this little man out of my belly and into my arms. I am SO ready for him! I want to know what he looks like! Will he be pale like me or tan like Chris? Will he have my hair or Chris's hair? Is he going to look more like me or Chris, or is he going to be the perfect combination of us both? AHHHHH I cannot wait!

I feel like we've actually accomplished some things over the past week or so. For starters we went to Hobby Lobby and bought the letters and paint for Alden's name. Originally my plan was to buy rectangle plaques and paint them to look like the doors in Monsters Inc. since that is our theme, and then I would paint the letters one solid color and screw/glue/nail them to the doors. The issue I had was that the letters were either too big or not big enough and so I was getting frustrated. By the time I found some letters that would work and then meandered my way to the plaques, I wasn't satisfied with the way they were looking pre paint. Lucky for me I had a back up plan!

This plan involved getting big letters and painting them to look like the different monsters. This doesn't mean you have to be an artist, it just means you make them "look" similar to the monsters. So for Mike you would paint it green and add an eye to it, for Sulley blue with dark blue spots and so on. We picked the letters out and made our way to the paint isle. Chris pulled up an image of Mike and I started looking for the best green to match him.It took about 10-15 minutes to pick the color we felt was pretty identical and then we moved on to Sulley. As Chris is looking for a good image of him I start thinking about how much work this is going to be! I saw a color that was almost the same color as Mike and noticed it was glow in the dark! I decided hey... lets make this easy here and paint them all one color: GLOW IN THE DARK GREEN! Now if only I had decided that BEFORE we sat there for forever trying to pick out paint colors and letters! Jackie came over Sunday and we painted them. I'm so excited to get them hung up!

The other thing we did was put the crib together! YAY! My in-laws really wanted to buy us the crib and we were perfectly fine with that! We picked a black-brown colored bed from Ikea. It took forever to pick a bed because his room is not very big and nursery furniture tends to be really Bulky. I wanted less chunky stuff so that we can do things like tummy time in his room without there being furniture everywhere. We still have all our NYC themed stuff up on the walls for now, but soon we will paint and that will all come down!

The other major thing that happened this week was I went in for my glucose test. Lucky for me I was able to pick my flavor. I chose fruit punch which looking back I wish I wouldn't have because I LOVE fruit punch kool-aid... and now I don't so much love it! So for those who don't know, they give you 5 minutes to drink the whole thing and yes they were watching me the whole time. After you are done they give you a timer set for an hour and you have to wait. I went and saw my Dr., paid my bill for the month and still had time left over. They took my blood for the test ( and some extra to check my iron because of last week's episode) and I got to go home. I felt nauseous all day but that was it! They called me around 4:30 and said that I had passed my test so that means no gestational diabetes for me! They did say that my iron was still pretty low but my Dr. gave me a new iron pill so we shall see how it works this time!

That's about it for this week. I'm pretty much not sleeping and becoming more and more delirious everyday, as well as being kicked almost constantly! I guess I need to get used to not sleeping right? YIKES! I didn't do the little survey update last week so I'll do it this week. Maybe I'll make it an every other week thing since not much is changing right now.

How far along?: 26 weeks

Total weight gain: As of Tuesday I have now gained 11 pounds.

Maternity clothes?: I'm wearing them still! Whenever I go to Ross I check the maternity section to see if I like anything and if I do I get it. A lot of my tops still fit though but I'm sure not for long!

Stretch marks?: So I have these 2 claw mark looking bruise things on my left hip. I thought they were bruises/scratches from my friend's dog, but now I'm not so sure because they are not fading or changing colors like bruises do. I mean if they are then I guess its not horrible to have them on my hip and only 2 little short ones.

Sleep?: Nope! On Saturday I ended up getting up at 5:45 and cooking breakfast because I just couldn't sleep and I wasn't comfortable laying there anymore. This morning I woke up at 4 and couldn't go back to bed either!

Best moment this week?: Getting the glucose test over with and passing it! YAY for accomplishments!

Miss anything?: Still sleep! I miss being able to just sleep however I want too. I am so ready to sleep on my belly again.

Movement?: YESSSSSS! Over the past few days he has been moving almost constantly. Last night I just laid there watching my belly bulge out.

Food cravings?: The other day I just randomly wanted some pasta. It was 9 at night and yes we had already eaten. I cooked up some pasta, threw on butter, garlic, pepper, Parmesan and a dash of salt and chowed down!

Anything making you queasy or sick?: Still can't eat sugar on an empty stomach. Also for some reason Alden is just really not feeling meat right now.

Gender?:Still a boy as far as we know!

Labor signs?: Nope not yet! I do have a feeling he is going to come early though, but lets hope not THIS early!

Symptoms?: I think the biggest thing right now is my emotions. I had a break down last night because I'm just TIRED! My hips hurt, back hurts, I'm drained and food just doesn't sound good anymore. Thank goodness Chris is caring and loving during those times!

Belly button in or out?: In. :)

Wedding rings on or off?: Still on.

Happy or moody most of the time?: I'm still a ticking time bomb like most ladies are at this point. You never know how I'll react to you so YES.. please pretend to be walking on egg shells around me.

Looking forward to?: My baby shower! My mom said it'll be November 1st and I cannot wait to see all my friends and see all his new things!

Thanks for reading guys!

Week 25: First emergency hospital trip!

Hey Guys!

It's week 25 which means I have 15 weeks left on this journey! Its starting to go so fast and I'm starting to worry about weather or not Alden's room will be ready in time. What keeps me sane is that I remind myself that he won't be sleeping in his actual room for a while after birth anyways, so even if we don't get it ready until AFTER he's here it'll be OK. I think we will be alright though considering that Chris always waits until last minute to do things anyways!

So I had a MAJOR scare this week which could have been so much worse! For those who are friends with me on Facebook you know that I went to the hospital yesterday and that it was because of a black out I experienced while driving to work. That's probably about all you knew unless me, Chris or my mom told you more in depth. I figured I'd write about it this week.

I got up on Wednesday morning and started getting ready for work. Lately I've been eating oatmeal for breakfast which is exactly what I had yesterday. I took off for work and I felt 100% normal. I wasn't dizzy, nauseous, hot, uncomfortable.. nothing. I got over half way to work when the traffic built up, in the usual spot.. nothing new for me. So I'm sitting there cruising along when all of the sudden I started getting hot. I turned the a/c on high and I was able to cool down. Well then I started feeling nauseous and my heart started beating fast. I've been through this before so I knew I was probably going to throw up. The problem was... I was in the far left lane, there is construction going on so NO shoulder to pull onto, and there is NO way I was going to get across 4 lanes to exit. Now not only am I feeling miserable, but I'm trying to figure out where I am going to throw up at. I really wanted to avoid it if I could so I just tried to not to think about it. I kept telling myself if I could make it a little bit longer to my exit that I would be OK.

Things started getting really hazy and at this point I was starting to get scared. I thought that if I called Chris that he could keep me focused until the feeling passed, or until I was able to pull over somewhere. Well, he didn't answer at first. I'm pretty sure he called back within under a minute but it felt like FOREVER! I remember I kept saying " help me, someone help me!" I was just panicked. My plan wasn't working and I was getting worse. That's when I heard my phone ring and I knew it was Chris. I picked up and told him I was going to pass out. He kept asking where I was and I had no FREAKING IDEA! I knew I was on 30, but I didn't know the exit. I was fading in and out at this point and so he was talking to me telling me to pull over. At that point I just started pulling over and lucky for me the shoulder opened back up at that point. I'm pretty sure I almost hit a construction barrel. Once I realized I was stopped it helped me out because I wasn't panicked anymore. Then I noticed a lady pulled over behind me. She came up to me and I told her I needed help so she called 911.

I ended up calling my mom to tell her what was going on. It dawned on me that I hadn't felt Alden moving all morning. Combine that with the firetrucks that were now  in front and behind my car and I went BACK into panic mode! At first the firemen were talking to me about getting into a wreck and I kept telling them I wasn't in a wreck. Finally an older Fireman came up to my window and started talking to me and telling me that he's seen this happen to pregnant women ALL the time and that the babies are always fine.He kept me occupied until the medics got there. They took my blood sugar, blood pressure, checked my pulse, checked my oxygen levels. everything was fine!

By that point Chris had found us and came bolting up to the window. They told him I was OK but that I should probably go to the hospital for additional tests and to check on the baby. So that's exactly what we did. Chris left his car sitting there on the side of the road, got me moved into the passenger seat of my car and we took off! Thankfully we were only about a mile from the hospital.

FUN FACT: As it turns out my mirror brushed up against a ladies car(while I was pulling over, or while I was driving I'm not sure), which is why she stopped behind me. She thought I was stopping to give her my information. I didn't believe Chris when he told me at first because I was sure that bumping into someone's car would have brought me out of my black out. There was literally no damage, just a tiny little scrape. I think its probably best that that happened though, because she was able to see something was wrong and call 911.

We got to the hospital and they brought me up to labor and delivery right away. I got changed into a gown and then the nurse went to find Alden's heartbeat so she could put the monitor band on. She was having some trouble finding it at first and I could see the panic on Chris's face. I was trying my best to not get upset but its SCARY going through all that mess, not feeling him move and then not hearing the heartbeat right away. She found it and THANK GOODNESS. Chris looked like he was going to pass out. Of course once they put those bands on Alden started kicking and moving like a wild child!

I had to have some tests run and it turns out my iron was really low. I was taking iron but back when I was taking Zofran the combination of the 2 was just too hard on my stomach. My Dr. told me to stop taking the iron, and I haven't had any issues since then. They just told me to start taking it again and if its too hard on my stomach they can prescribe me one that wont be.

This morning Chris got up and cooked us a good breakfast and I took my iron. Either my stomach, or Alden were not fans because I ended up throwing it all back up! Thankfully I was able to make it to work and I've been doing alright. I feel pretty blah, but I'm making it through.

well that's it for this week. I'll leave you guys with the photo Chris took while I was laying there looking all sad.

Week 24: Goodbye 6th month... Hello 7th month!

Hey guys!

So I am now into my 24th week of pregnancy. It's amazing how fast and slow things are moving at the same time. I'm so ready for my little man to be here, but at the same time I want more time than what I have because so much still needs to be done! Before I know it I'll be racing to the hospital and meeting Alden!

So my hips are starting to hurt at a much more painful level. Oh and have I mentioned yet that my pelvic bone feels like its cracking in half? I'm a tiny person and so I figured dealing with the inevitable hip spread wasn't going to be a walk in the park, but no one told me about this cracking pelvic pain business! I'm hoping that things get shifted soon so that I can have a little relief! If not then you guys will get the pleasure of hearing me complain about it for the next 16 weeks!

I made the decision to go ahead and buy baby laundry detergent this past weekend and get to washing. I have so many clothes already that it was starting to get overwhelming and unorganized and I need to be organized. I got everything washed, sorted by size and hung up on different colored hangers according to size. I think I'm in nesting mode now because I don't have much energy, but when I get these small spurts I tend to spend them cleaning, scrubbing, straightening... things like that! I hope I can maintain my organization after Alden gets here but I'm sure it will go out the window along with a lot of other things.

Alden is now kicking and punching simultaneously so that is fun getting hit in 2 places at the same time! This morning Sunny was laying with me and Alden was just kicking him like crazy. only one time did sunny look at me like " Can you please stop it?" I guess he really doesn't seem to mind. Out of my 3 dogs he seems to be the most in tune with my pregnancy which is fine because he's also our only boy dog.

That's about it for this week. I will say that I saw a girl on my December 2014 birth club discussion board who also blogs and she does this cute update every week where she answers the same questions but for each week. I like the idea so I'm gonna try it and see how it goes! Let me know how you guys feel about it and I might keep doing it.

How far along?: 24 weeks

Total weight gain: So far just a little over 9 pounds. Not too shabby eh?

Maternity clothes?: I now own 1 pair of maternity jeans and a few tops. Most of my tops still fit ok in length, but are starting to get a little tight.

Stretch marks?: None yet! I've been using oils and cocoa butter EVERYDAY!

Sleep?: Not really! I'm either uncomfortable or I have to pee nowadays. Oh and Saydee (our 11 month old put bull) has now totally lost her sleep routine so she wakes up around 1-2 am whining to go pee, then again at 4 because she wants to snuggle my husband. Needless to say she is preparing us for waking up all through the night. THANKS SAYDEE!

Best moment this week?: Yesterday when Chris was talking to him and telling him how much we loved him and he was kicking like crazy!

Miss anything?: Sleep mostly. I also miss being able to just do whatever whenever sometimes.

Movement?: YEP! He's a mad man in there. I'm telling ya'll he's gonna have ADHD like daddy!

Food cravings?:It has been Jack in the Box egg rolls, but lately I'm never in the mood for anything in particular.

Anything making you queasy or sick?: If I eat sugar on an empty stomach I will be throwing up somewhere.

Gender?:Still a boy as far as we know!

Labor signs?: Nope not yet, and I'd like to keep it that way!

Symptoms?: Well as I posted earlier My hips and pelvic bone are killing me. Oh and I have a 10 minute walk from my parking garage to my office and now I'm starting to get muscle cramps like when you forget to stretch before working out.

Belly button in or out?: IN.. but its so teeny tiny I don't know how much longer its going to stay in.

Wedding rings on or off?: Still on thank goodness!

Happy or moody most of the time?:I don't even know anymore. One minute I'm fine and then the psycho train rolls into town and I'm bawling my eyes out without even having a real reason.

Looking forward to?:Getting Alden's room ready! We are doing a Monster's Inc. theme and so it is going to be a fun project for sure!

Well there you have it! :) See you guys next week! I'll leave you with my monthly belly photo.

Week 23: Pregnant Jeans and a buldging belly!

Hey Guys!

So I just wrapped up week 23 and it has been a super interesting week! First of all I finally went out and got myself some maternity jeans. I can still fit into my pre-preggo jeans (with a rubber band keeping them fastened of course) but they just weren't comfortable anymore. I have some skirts and dresses that I wear a few times a week, but I'm honestly not a huge dress person, and sometimes my office feels like a meat locker, so pants work best for me. As much as I seriously wish I would get away with yoga pants everyday... I know I can't, so I needed another solution.

Chris and I wandered into Destination Maternity and of course they only had ONE style of skinny jeans! I snatched them up. I was walking around the store trying to see if I saw anything else I liked (I honestly didn't) when Chris managed to find the ONLY piece of clothing with Dallas Cowboys on it. By ONLY I do indeed mean ONLY... there was one shirt left and it was a small and he said I HAD TO HAVE IT! So now... you guessed it.. I got it!

I must say that work has been more tolerable since getting my preggo jeans on. They aren't fancy or anything, but they do the job and hey they are stretchy with no buttons so much better than normal jeans!

As I posted in previous posts, my little man is now moving to where I can feel it. Also as I mentioned for week 22, Chris got to feel Alden moving too. Well the other day I was sitting at my desk B-O-R-E-D just waiting for a project to get done so I could QA it when Alden started kicking me super hard. I started wondering if I would be able to feel any feet or hands yet. I pushed my hand on the spot where he was kicking and waited. Let me just tell you that when I did indeed feel what I'm thinking was a foot I FREAKED out! I nearly came out of my seat! It is SOOOO weird!

Next thing I know I'm watching my belly and I start seeing it bulge out when he would kick. I ended up recording my belly and getting it on camera! I sent it to Chris and my BFF and they were able to see it too. Now my belly is getting little bulges all the time. :) I love it!!!

That's about it for this week!

Until next time.. Thanks for reading!