Letter to baby

Dear baby,

I love you and I love to feel you move around. I am comforted every time I feel you move as it lets me know that you are developing and doing well. It makes me smile to feel your cute little “bops” from the inside. But please, oh could you please, stop kicking me in the bladder? As we are half way done, I imagine that your kicks will only get stronger and I have no desire to pee myself in public.

Thank you,
Your loving mother

Tuesday's list

Seeing good friends you haven't seen in forever, and having a great time
Costco Truffles
Warm fires at night
Flannel PJs
(Can you tell I am ready to go home and go to bed?)
Having someone else cook dinner

Sunday's list...a little late

Well, it looks like I missed a day...oh well. It was such a good day that I thought I would share it with you.

Brian and I went out to brunch at our favorite place, Newport Seafood Grill, and found out that we won a $500 gift card. Looks like we will be enjoying Newport for free for awhile! :o)

A couple weeks ago, they were handing out promo cards that you could take in for a chance to win $10 or $500. We took our cards in and each time we got $10. And that was great, I'll take $10 off my meal anyday. But, they had a second chance to win if you registered your card online. So, I did, and we didn't even know we won the $500 until after our meal when our waitress came up and said,"You guys were $500 winners?" And I said, "No." Then she said,"Well, this card has $500 dollars on it."

It was awesome.

We celebrated by going to see The Blind Side. (We were going to see it anyway.) What a great movie. Thanks for the tip Mom.

It was a good day.

Saturday's list

Today I am thankful:

that as my butt gets bigger, with the increase in surface area, the cellulite is spreading out and it looks smoother. It might be bigger but it looks smoother. :o)

Sleeping in
Pre-made salads

Friday's list

Quizno's Honey Mustard Chicken Salad
Weekends
In season pears

Thursday's list

I have noticed that I have not been posting very often, so in an effort to get myself on here every day I have decided to put up a list of things that I enjoyed, or made me laugh, or that I am thankful for.

Without further ado, here is today’s list of things I am thankful for:

• My husband, who has really been supportive, funny and, for the most part, nice to be around.
• Airplane air-sickness bags
• Summer and my wonderful new haircut
• Toasted Almonds
• Alice and Nicki
• Chocolate
• Clean public restrooms
• People who can laugh at my forgetfulness
• Zoloft

Baby Update

Today is the beginning of week 17 so I thought an update was in order.

About two weeks ago I started to feel the hardness that is the uterus/fluid/baby. I would lean on the counter to get something and I could feel what felt like a grapefruit in there. And the weird thing is, the grapefruit moves. At times it feels like it is trying to push its way out. It moves to the front and my stomach looks pregnant and is rock hard. Other times it is like the grapefruit moves into my lower back and my belly is just as flabby as before I was pregnant.

I have started feeling pressure and “flutters”. One day last week I was in bed getting ready to go to sleep and I could feel this really hard ‘lump’ on one side of my stomach. I moved on to my other side and the ‘lump’ moved too. It was cool. I often feel a lot of pressure right below my belly button, like the baby is trying to push out, almost like it is pushing against the waist band of my pants.

I can also feel movement, like the baby is doing summersaults. I don’t feel anything yet that feels like a kick, but I can feel something. I imagine that if blankets had feelings and a cat was under the covers crawling around, I am feeling what the blanket would feel.

Wednesday Worries

I often have these random worries that wander in and out of my head and I thought, who better to share them with than you? I also then thought that as a favor to you I keep the sharing of said worries to one day a week. So, welcome to the first ‘Wednesday Worries’.
This week I have two random worries. The first is, how I am going to shave once my belly gets big. Am I going to have to have Brian do it? Should I just spend the money and get waxed? (Ugh, yet another thing to spend money on!) I guess I could test out a few of my friendships and see if I can get one of my girlfriends to shave my legs. HaHa. Or I could just use this as an excuse not to shave at all…it will be winter after all.

And the second is, what if I can’t get my shoes on? I wear tennis shoes everyday because I hate to have my feet hurt or be cold in the winter and I am having visions me bending in all sorts of weird ways in order to get them on my feet. Otherwise, I think I am going to have to ask Brian to help me put on my shoes every day. Maybe I will buy a long handled shoe horn so that I can shove my feet in the tennis shoes without bending the heals. And that reminds me, I need to go buy new tennis shoes, which I hate. It always takes forever to find a pair that fits my feet the way I like. (Side note: attention shoe manufactures, please make arch supports higher.)

Am I going to have to switch to slip-ons? Am I going to have to wear flip flops…starting in like March? Brrrr! That means I will have to wear toe socks (which, by the way, I totally would) but that means I will have to get them on. And isn’t that just as hard, if not harder, then getting on shoes? Or if I don’t want to wear socks I would have to do my toenails.

Ohhhh, wait…

Pedicures! I think I just figured this all out.

This doesn’t address the cold feet problem but it does allow for pedicures, I guess we all have to make sacrifices. ;o)