Lots going on~

Wowsers, what an active little one we have today. This baby has to have the largest rear end of any baby... ever. It seems as if he can't get comfortable or he just enjoys feeling his mama squirming. For the past two days he has not stopped moving his rump back and forth. Dr. rarely gets to feel the movement because he stops right when he puts his hand on my stomach but today he gave him a good show. I am not sure what he is up to in there. At least it doesn't hurt but it is the most uncomfortable feeling that never stops.

Dr. says I am starting to seem a little tired. He is totally right. I am exhausted by Wednesday night but make it through the day on Thursday and Fridays because of the adrenaline that hits once I get to school.

I went to aerobics class on Saturday that they are doing for all the faculty. I made it into a class for pregnant people. Just did my own thing in the corner while baby Chuck and I listened to the beat of the music. Maybe that's why Chuck is mad at me today! I just felt like I needed to move because I know any day now, the swelling is going to appear.

Tomorrow Chuck and I have an appointment at 3 o'clock. Dr. is working nights so he will miss this appointment too. Last time, it lasted a big ten minutes. We have our second childbirth class on Tuesday. We thought Dr. was going to miss it which I wasn't really looking forward to since it is on breathing techniques. I mean my coach has to know the techniques to get me through this. Luckily, it seems we have been reading the schedule lately and he WILL get to come to class with me after all!!!...... If they let us come back after our inability to stay focused last time!!

Dr. had a great birthday. Well, as great as you can have when you are feeling pretty bad. He got a lot of yummy food while MK and Doc, and Honey and Grandma were here! He got lots of goodies and more games for his Playstation 3! Dr. also asked for a stroller for his son. Thank you to MK and Doc for buying Chuck his stroller and car seat!!! They should be arriving soon so I will take the cars and get the car seats installed. ( For some reason I trust the firemen to do it instead of me or Dr.) Now we will be able to take Chuck home from the hospital with us!

It was a beautiful day here yesterday. Since Dr. was sleeping, baby Chuck and I did aerobics and then picked up a sandwich and went to the reservoir to eat. It was so nice sitting in the sun watching the sail boats sail by and the dogs playing frisbee. We SO needed that sunshine. ( I would do anything for sun at this point). We then drove down to the dam and watched a fishing rodeo that was going on. The reservoir dams up the Pearl River. So there were about 50 boats in the Pearl River ( which is only about 50 feet across) all trying to fish. I am surprised no one had tumped over or gotten hooked!!! There were also about 100 people standing on either side of the bank. We sat and watched them fish for a few minutes. Before we left, we stopped by the ladies room ( public restroom at the dam) so we would be able to make it home. I walked into the bathroom and, I am not kidding you, the bathroom was SWARMING with ladybugs. There had to be about 250 ladybugs in the bathroom. It was just amazing. I felt like I had walked into some type of dream as I navigated my way through the swarms. Such a nice ending to a beautiful day. I was hoping for another pretty day but I think the cold weather is back again for a few days. I REALLY need spring. Seems like this winter has been too long!

HOpe everyone is having a great Sunday!

Week 32

On Wednesday, we will hit 32 weeks! Here is what is going on with Baby Chuck now.....

By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You're gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, he'll gain a third to half of his birth weight during the next 7 weeks as he fattens up for survival outside the womb. He now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). His skin is becoming soft and smooth as he plumps up in preparation for birth.

First of all, if anyone can tell me what a Jicama is without googling it, I have a hundred dollars for them! Second of all, we know Chuck is a little bit bigger than average so I am probably carrying a little over 4 pounds of pure baby. And with his long legs he is more that 16.7 inches. I will not admit to gaining a pound a week and think I may decline looking at the scale at our appointment on Monday!

If you want to see what Baby Chuck probably looks like in the womb you can go here .

Cutie Patootie

OK, just have to share some of the cute clothes I have found for our little angel. He is going to be the studliest stud! Some of you have already seen these but I thought the ones that hadn't seen them would like to talk to the pictures in baby talk just like I talk to the clothes in baby talk.

Mom and I hit up a place called the Ginger House in Mobile to look at their sale items. We found this cute green corduroy outfit. The reindeer it buttoned onto the outfit so it can be flipped inside out and it has a race car on it and then you can completely take it off and get it monogrammed! Three outfits in one! The brown outfit has cowboys and boots on it. COuld not pass it up because of his Texan daddy!

These are two bubbles I found. I thought they would be great when he meets people at sip and sees! They are different sizes though so don't think I am going over board! When he grows out of one, he will move on to the next one!

I thought these were just too cute! Loved the blue color of the train and the cute corduroy pants that go with it. And how could I pass up a guitar outfit... the pants are red and white checked.

One of the wives in our wives alliance sews clothes (www.browniegoose.com). It is a lot more fun to think of things for little girls but I just had to order Baby Chuck something because every resident's child is dressed in brownie goose. So I chose a seersucker plaid john john and just a cute t-shirt for Chuck to wear to daycare.

Did I mention this is going to be the cutest little man I know. Melts my heart when I think about what he is going to look like! I am betting on a Dr. replica!!!

I will share some of the shower gifts soon! I just like to look at these clothes everyday just for fun!

Hearts

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone ( a couple hours early)! Dr. will spend his Valentine's Day saving lives.... surprise!.... I will spend it on the couch with the two craziest orange kitties known to man and the best kicker in the southeast.

I enjoyed my snow day. I just got enough energy to get up. Not going to say I didn't enjoy my 36 hours without getting out of bed! The pregnancy feeling comes and goes. It went for about 3 hours, think I am going to climb back in bed now though. I htink my body (ormaybe my brain) just knows when it is ok to "feel" pregnant. Thank goodness for laptops!

I am nervously waiting for Braxton Hicks contractions to start since every time I go to the doctor they ask if I am feeling them.

My first childbirth class is Tuesday night. Unfortunately Dr. will be working and won't be able to go. I am going to see if my next door neighbor (Ginger... our adoptive mother) will go with me (not only for support but to help me carry my 5 bed pillows in.... yes, they told me to bring 5 pillows).

Dr.'s birthday is fast approaching. He will be the big 30!!!! I have been trying to pry information out of him for possible presents but this guy is tough! I think he wants the baby for his birthday but I am afraid that will probably not happen.... let's cross our fingers it won't happen!

Yawn... back to bed.

brrrrr

At 4:30 this morning I received the best text of my life. It was a snow day. I don't like the fact that we are getting off so many days lately because my children are sooo far behind but coming from a pregnant women, I could not be any happier! I soooo needed this day off. I have some paper work I need to do that I can't get done with this new child in my room.

Here are some pictures of our snow day. They just said that in the next two hours, the snow is really going to pick up. Our trees are starting to lean and our power lines are starting to droop. Not as much as the 26 inches we had in New York during the blizzard when we first got there but we live in Mississippi. Where is the humidity and the sunshine? We moved to Mississippi for a reason and snow was not one of them.

snow day?

I can tell by Katherine's email that the snow is coming down in T-town! We here in Mississippi are still waiting. It is starting to sleet a little bit. We are expected to have 2 to 4 inches of snow and right below us is supposed to have up to 9 inches. Have I mentioned that our meteorologists love to lie. I kid you not, when I walk out the door tomorrow morning the sun will be shining and it will be a balmy 98. I think that meteorologists strictly exist in our universe to mess my life up. I have this love-hate relationship because I can't live without them. I have to watch them every time the news comes on and I trust them more than anything. However, they are never right. As much as I live to see the weather update, I would join in a protest against meteorologist world wide because I do not think it should really be considered a job. It is like you giving me a different jar of candy everyday and I had to guess how many pieces there are. Sometimes I may get pretty close and the other times I couldn't be farther away from the answer. But, no matter the answer, I still collect my pay check.

Ok, after my pregnancy rant, I hope we have no meteorologists in the family!

On the pregnancy front, I think my blood pressure sky rocketed when I got a new student yesterday. The whole administration, from not only our school but the student's last schools, were freaking out because he is such a behavior problem. What.... they call it a behavior problem when a child gets suspended three times in two weeks for fighting? Mrs. L, my assistant, says she prays every night for us that we will get through this. While, Mrs. L. prays, I shop for the riot gear.

The bump is still growing. It has gotten to the point now, even though I have about 9 more weeks, that people try to rush me out of their store because they don't want me to go into labor while I am there. The cafeteria ladies let me skip everyone because they want me out of the cafeteria ASAP as they are not trained in delivering babies. Baby Chuck and I are still feeling good. Still no real symptoms. I was starting to feel pregnant but right now I feel fine When I get home all I want to do is grab some food and go straight to my bed and just sit. I just don't feel like moving until the next morning when I have to get up. And I am not sure I even fell like moving in the morning.

Oh, and the email I just got from Kat said that their was a little ladybug that showed up at the end of their fun snow day. That reminded me that I forgot to tell everyone that we also had a little visitor the night before my baby shower last weekend!!!!

Happy early Valentine's Day!!! Drew will spend February 14th saving lives in the ER and I will spend it with my two orange babies and my other baby who is definitely working on his football moves.

Love to all and TGIF.... I wish I could say TGIS ( Thank goodness it's summer)

An Apple a Day

Baby Chuck and I visited the doctor today. We are down to our two week appointments. Dr. stayed sleeping because I knew it was going to be a quickie and he has to work the night shift tonight. First of all, the next baby I have, I am going to make sure I get pregnant and give birth in the same year. This paying two deductibles that they hit me with today was somewhat surprising..... I mean I wasn't that surprised but I was hoping they just wouldn't say anything.... they did though. So I just finished paying my last payment the last visit but I got to start all over today!

On a brighter note, Chuck's heart rate is just beating along and his kicking is getting a little outrageous. I think people at school are starting to take bets on my delivery date because they don't think I am going to last until April and they think he has started dropping. Someone told me I looked very FULL today. I said "I did have a fabulous lunch of fresh berries and spinach" and went on my merry ( or should I say mary) way.

I have been stressing because I just knew my blood pressure was starting to creep. Not that I feel any different. It just seems as though this whole "pregnant" thing has been so easy that surely something big is going to hit at any moment.... I think I am a walking time bomb. Well, my blood pressure was 132/90. Which I thought was surprisingly good... as long as it is below 140, right.... apparently I haven't been paying attention to the bottom number which the nurses seemed to think was rather high. Poop, I thought I got a good reading on the blood pressure. Well, the nurse knows I am a teacher and understands that arriving at the doctor only 15 minutes after leaving 18 2nd graders would cause anybody's blood pressure to be high. So they took it again when my appointment was over and I was at 124/72 which is significantly better! I laid down while I was waiting for them to come back and closed my eyes and pretended like I was laying on a warm beach..... hehe....guess it helped a little. So..... blood pressure is fine. Phew!

Not only is my blood pressure fine, so is my sugar! I figured they would have called if I was diabetic but today I asked if I could have my numbers from the test because my husband would want to see them. So at fasting, my glucose was at 86. Like I said before, if you are 120 you are automatically diabetic. (Don't quote me on this) At 1 hour ( after drinking some fabulous glucola) my levels were at 132. They should be below 180. At 2 hours, my levels were 130, they should be below 155. And at 3 hours, my levels were at 96. They should be below 140. So all is well in baby's mama's body! So maybe there is no time bomb.... or maybe the time bomb is in my tummy right now doing flips.....ahhhh.

I have started to pack my hospital bag and my team at school is going to be discussing a labor/delivery plan during our team meeting this week. I think they might be fighting about who actually gets to leave school to drive me to the hospital (of course, so they can be with me for support and not because they would get off early.)

So I am a lot less stressed than I have been the past two weeks. I feel like I should be nesting but I have no idea what I should do. Baby Chuck got so many fabulous things at his shower this weekend that I am slowly putting them away and washing things so they will be ready. Really, though, how long does that take.... an hour? I will post some pictures of some cute things he got and some of the cute clothes I have found for the little rascal.

Baby Chuck wants to say WHO DAT!!!!! to everyone.

We are going to put our feet up while we average grades for parent teacher conferences this week . Love to all!