10 Week Countdown

It's weird to actually be counting down for once. This whole pregnancy I have been counting up. I think 30 weeks (and 10 remaining) is when you really start to feel like you are on the downhill ride to the most wonderful day of your life, next to your wedding. Of course I assume that subsequent births are equally joyful, I wonder if it ever quite compares to the time you hold your first child in your arms. The amazement that you and your husband have actually created another little person (not to take any of the credit from God who obviously plays a rather large part in the miracle of life).

Updates for the week.

More good news from the Perinatologist, yay! FFN was negative and according to my doc, my cervix is "a mile long". Both are very welcomed news (thank you prayers still going up). I even got to see Guppy yawn on the sonogram. It was seriously the cutest thing. Between her sonograms and all the baby clothes I've been washing and folding, I think I've hit my quota for the word "cute"... for a lifetime. I'm fully prepared to continue this trend as my shower is this weekend! I think it's cheating that Babies R Us allows me to see what has been purchased off my registry. (I look anyway.)

Off the topic of baby for a minute.

In preparation for my shower, I finally got my hair cut. Only about two months overdue, no biggie. I have to say goodbye to the ponytails for a while and dust off the hairdryer I guess. I drive about 25 miles to my hometown to get my hair cut by the woman who has been cutting it for 8 years now. There are two major benefits to this. One being that I just don't trust most hair dressers. You have to earn my trust to be able to take a pair of scissors to my hair and I learned a long time ago that the ability to listen is a prized commodity. I may have also been scarred by a bad bangs decision as a young woman, but weren't we all? Second benefit is that it is across the street from my favorite place to eat. A sandwich shop that is one year older than I and a place I've been going to for as long as I can recall. I enjoy the experience literally from the second I walk in the door. The place smells like heaven and no other place smells anything like it. I savor every bit of my half chicken salad sandwich, carrot slices, broccoli cheese soup and raspberry tea. I look forward to sharing that place with our daughter someday.

Our Guppy is pretty consistent in her position. From the bumps that show up (and all my sonograms giving clues to what those bump are) this is a pretty good baby map. She is breech but that could still change. I'm noticing that my belly is resembling the shape of an egg (appropriate as Easter is just around the corner).


February 23, 2010

Bouncing Beagle and Bouncing Baby

29 weeks today!

Last Thursday we had quite an event take place. A snow of historic proportions in the Lone Star State. First you have to know that Texans get excited over trace amounts of snow. You know, the kind that barely covers the yard and melts as soon as it hits the pavement. You'll see little grassy snowmen that took every spec of snow in the yard to make but people are still happy. That fluffy white stuff is magical around here. By our local news you would have to assume that absolutely nothing else is happening in the world that is more important than the snow that is falling out of the sky. Although, my whole 28 (almost 29 ::gasp!::) years, I know I've never seen a prettier snow. We had somewhere between 12 and 14 inches and it broke just about every record for the day, month and season. So much snow that our little Beagle could only navigate by way of doing some sort of jumping that resembled a bunny hop and left Jason and I almost in tears from laughter. What's that? Pictures?

Our barely recognizable street

Daisy mid bunny hop

In other Beagle news...

Daisy is adjusting well to all the new baby things in the house. This is her after I sorted the hand-me-downs I got from my sister.

In Guppy news...

Last night I watched my belly jiggle like that fat man's with the red suit. At first a sonogram is the first tangible evidence of your baby. Then it's feeling the movement. I think SEEING the movement has been the most fun so far. It's hard to believe that it all started with something that felt like a little muscle twitch. I basically had to sit completely still, mute the tv, focus and wait... then I might have felt something that may have been the baby or may have been my stomach digesting my lunch. I look forward to her birth more than anything but I know I will miss this. I think part of it's charm is that it's just me and her much of the time. I sing to the radio and enjoy the fact that she is hearing me in there. Oh, I have decided that if I get her used to my singing in utero then she will come out being comforted by it and maybe even liking it. It will take her years before she realizes that her mother has no talent for singing.

The crib is assembled! Daddy and Grandpa (aka Jason and Dad) put it together this weekend. It was pretty cute. Yes, more pictures of course.

Teamwork is key


Dad being dad!


Success!

I am still waiting for the comforter and valance to be done so no pictures of those yet.


Last but not least, some pregnancy thoughts, observations, etc:

More stores should put their bathrooms at the front of the store. Does Hobby Lobby realize how huge their store is? My bladder deserves a medal for that walk.

I now know what my body will feel like when I'm a senior citizen. The knees, the hips and no kidding, I woke up to my left elbow aching this morning.

I never used to pay attention to the difference in brands of toilet paper. When the bathroom becomes your second home you start to notice these things. Angel Soft is neither angelic or soft.

February 16, 2010

Sneak Peek

This is what happens when you are home all day staying out of the cold. I took some pictures of Guppy's things. Some of what is included is her coming home outfit, her new lamp, and part of the art project I'm working on to hang in her room.

Third Trimester!!! ::Happy Dance::

Today is a big day for us. I am officially in the third trimester! 28 weeks and in the home stretch. I can't say how great that feels. I feel myself getting more and more excited about how close we are getting to having our baby girl. I did mommy chores yesterday and found myself smiling for the first time while doing laundry. How can you not smile when you pull out those tiny little socks that you know will someday be on some cute tiny little feet? Those same little feet that are kicking inside my belly right now. Yes, doing her laundry will quickly loose it's charm, I realize that. But for now I'm having fun folding her freshly washed blankets and hanging her strawberry themed onesies.

I had a routine appointment with my OB last Friday. My doctor walked in and said "Look at you looking all pregnant" with a big smile on his face. Love that man. Then yesterday I had an appointment at the Perinatologist and had another FFN done, current measurements of our Guppy taken and a cervical check. All good! FFN was negative, cervix is still measuring well (about 39 millimeters) and baby girl appears to be weighing in around 2 lbs. 8 oz. I feel myself relaxing more the further along we get. Oh, and I heard the word "textbook" without a negative in front of it. Monumental occasion. Evidently my cervix (MY cervix) is textbook. Well! It's nice to hear I fit into the "normal" category at least once. I suspect this isn't the sort of thing I can brag about in public though. What a shame.

I think a picture post is coming up. I will soon have my hands on the following items; crib, bassinet, valance made from her crib bumper, and the bedding comforter (now on a canvas stretcher). I also bought a lamp from Hobby Lobby and have made some art for the walls. I think her room is going to be such a happy place and I can't wait to share pictures of it when it's done.

February 9, 2010

[Quick side note here. I just want to say thank you to all of you who have actually cared enough to read my rambling posts. Some of you I know personally, some of you I know as my "internet friends", some of you I have never even spoken to. I even had a comment posted by the author of Hannah's Hope a little while back and that was pretty cool! This blog started out as a therapeutic place for me to say all the things that were weighing heavy on my heart. I am so happy that it has transformed into a place where I get to share such joyful things! What makes it even better is to know that there are people out there who care to come here and see how we are doing. Whether this can be a source of comfort, hope, insight, humor or just a way to keep up with what is going on, I am just happy to share it with all of you. So thank you!]

"Every child begins the world again."
~Henry David Thoreau

All Belly, Baby

I will have to come back to say more later but I took some belly pics since I am 27 weeks today! Jason will give me another progesterone shot tonight which he seems to be quite the little expert at. My hero. I have an appointment with my OB this Friday and another appointment with my Perinatologist on Monday. I look forward to my appointments, I wonder if that is normal.

February 2, 2010


Proof that mommy does have a head. I'm not sure that I'm sticking out more or if I'm just getting wider...


See? I also seem to have misplaced my belly button somewhere.

"Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch."
~E.B. White, Charlotte's Web