A stressful day, surprise surprise...

So yesterday, i think i was officially the closest to hitting someone that i've been this whole pregnancy..and it wasn't even Frank! At work yesterday, there was a boy's soccer game early and then the jv football game later. I spent the first half of the soccer game down there with them, then i made my way back to my room to treat hockey girls and basketball girls, and to tape up the football players. Well, as fate would have it, when i'm not there, one of the soccer boys gets hurt. Now, it's not like there wasn't anyone there that could take care of him, there was an ambulance sitting in the endzone the whole time...but since it wasn't me, that was the only reason they needed to bitch! And it wasn't even the coach or the other players, it was a parent! And not even the students parent, but a different kids parent! It really really irritated me. Now, this is the same parent that complained that the soccer kids should get to play on the football field EVERY game at 7pm (so i don't get home until 10pm..sheesh), and this is the same parent that bitched that i wouldn't be there for the 3 game soccer tourney and ultimately made me miss the first football game. Now she has the balls to yell at me from the stands about something that wasn't even my fault. I had to litterally hold my mouth closed and grind my teeth together, and force myself to walk away, or i would have yelled something i shouldn't have, and probably gone into the stands after her. Honestly, i have a bad temper to start with, and i'm pregnant to top it all off...is she totally nuts?!! Every team out there wants the same thing, they want their athletes taped an hour before the game starts and they want their water our there about an hour before the game starts..that's reasonable..but don't bitch when i have to do it for EVERY team and not just yours! She really got under my skin..really really badly. This lady is very ignorant. Just because i'm carrying another person with me, doesn't mean that i can split into two and be everywhere at once, it just means that things are going to take me a bit longer now. Thank god boys soccer is almost over and i won't have to deal with her for another year.

Today i have a field hockey game and a middle school girls basketball game...and they are very understanding that i have to split my time between the two sports. I can only do my best people! Thank you for understanding and not being total jerks!

Still going...

Yes, it's week 39 and i'm STILL pregnant!! I know i'm officially not overdue and that i have a full week left until this little bundle of joy is supposed to be here, but i'm not sure i can wait anymore. I am pretty tired of being pregnant right now. I think the thing i am looking forward to the most is being able to sleep on my stomach again, i know it sounds like a stupid thing, but i miss it so much. I also miss having ankles. Now don't get me wrong, i have ankles now, it's just that by the time i get home at night, my calves have eaten them!



Baby girl is the size of a small watermelon this week. She is reaching 7lbs now. She has officially run out of room in my stomach, so now when she kicks and tries to move around, my whole stomach shakes and rolls, making it look like an alien is about to erupt from my tummy!

At my last appointment, baby girl was still the way she should have been, which is head down and face backwards. I'm hoping that she stayed that way and that she's finally dropped. I am anticipating seeing baby anyday now...i know that makes it more likely that she won't show up anytime soon, but i still hope for it everyday now! I have another doctors appointment on Wednesday, and i'm hoping it's all good news. I've been doing everything i can think of to help her hurry up and arrive. I've been walking all over the place, bouncing on my exercise ball, drinking raspberry tea...and i have no idea if it's helping or not! I am just gonna keep it up and keep trying to will her out. I need super powers darn it!

It was a close one...

This is another one of those posts with double meaning, but they are tied into one. I'll start at the beginning. Last night (friday night), we had an away football game with our "backyard" rivals...they are our actual rivals, but we always have such tough games with them, it is starting to come around. Anyway, of course it was pouring down rain for the first quarter. At least that stopped. Well, we should have won that game hands down, but in all honesty, we had the worst homer refs ever. I'm not just saying that because all but 2 calls were against our team and they were mostly crap, because i can say it honestly when we do things wrong. This was just a poorly officiated game the whole way through. But we managed to hold our own and go into double overtime...yes, i said double overtime. That is the first part of the close call last night. We managed to pull out a win on the last play of the double overtime.
Well, in all the excitement of the game, came my second close call of the night. I was so excited and worked up, i thought i was going to go into labor. I had a few pains, but they didn't amount into anything. I waited until the crowd cleared, and i said to Coach R on the way home, "You really wanted to deliver a baby here, didn't you?! Why couldn't you save the close games for when i'm off!". We had a good laugh about it, but it wasn't so funny at the time. Needless to say, we still don't have a baby yet. 9 more days, and she needs to hurry uP!!!

Another week down...

Well, another week down and still counting! No baby for me yet. I am really getting impatient now. I know i should be trying to enjoy these last few days of peace and quiet and basic sanity, but i just can't seem to! All i can think about is when this baby is finally going to make her appearance to the world!

This weekend, Frank and I are going to try to enjoy ourselves. We are going to sleep in and relax and basically do what we want to do, hopefully for the last weekend of our lives until we're too old to enjoy it! We've had our "date weekend" planned for almost 2 months now, and i honestly wasn't sure if we'd actually get to do it or not. In a way i was hoping we wouldn't, but in a way i was hoping we would. At this rate, i think i'm going to be pregnant forever! Elephants have nothing on me!

Getting what i wished for...

Well, i knew it would happen. I hoped it wouldn't, but i knew deep down that it would. When i first got pregnant and was trying to figure everything out for September/October, all i could think was that i was going to be superwoman and work right up until the 2nd or 3rd, and then be done, and i was going to give birth on her actual due date. Well, that was all well and good back then, but now that i am 11 days away from that due date, i want her out now! But it looks very well like i might be working all next week! AHH!! I know, i should be happy...i will only be missing a few of the other sports games, and i don't have to leave my kids in the incapable hands of someone else, but i also want this baby out now! Remind me to think twice before i wish for stuff.
At least next week at work will be better. This week has been all long nights. Every night there has been a soccer game, and they've insisted on playing at 7pm, which means i won't get home until close to 10 every night. Now, every now and then, SURE, play a game at 7 on the big field under the lights...feel special. But not every night! Do these people think about what this is doing to me!!! Well, it's not really doing anything to me but keeping me from being home with my husband and doing nothing...but still! Next week there are mostly away games, so i should be able to make it home a few nights to make dinner, and actually get to eat it. Thank goodness it's Thursday and the week is almost over!

More time...

Well, i had another doctor's appointment yesterday. I went in there hopeful that she would be more like her mother and not listen to the doctor, and be breech again so we could schedule a day for her to come out. I guess that sounds bad, but i'm just so ready to be done being pregnant and to meet her already, and she is ready to go anyday now. Well, who would have guessed she would have cooperated?! She stayed head down. Now i have to keep waiting and guessing when she will want to come out, if ever at this point! She hasn't dropped any since last week, so the doctor thinks that i have until at LEAST next week till she wants to show up. In a way it's good i guess because i had originally said that i wanted to be at work at long as i could so the kids wouldn't have to rely on someone else who doesn't do things right...but now that i'm this close, i'm totally ready to be done! The days don't seem to go fast enough lately, they just drag on. And i feel like i have a million things to do, and yet i feel like there is no time to do them all. I think it's because i'm feeling more and more tired and the due date approachs. All i want to do it sit around. I get a burst of energy to go for a walk or cook or something, then i just want to sit for an hour and veg. I'm not getting anything done that way, lol.

Another week closer...

This week, baby is the length of a Leek. If she has been gaining weight in the right amounts, she should be 6lbs 8 1/2oz right now.



Baby is fully developed and ready to make her appearance. She has been very active lately, especially at night. I'm am very ready for her to be here already. I could use some sleep. I know i'm not really going to get sleep with a newborn around, but i know i'll get more than i'm getting right now! And being able to lay on my belly, and not having to get up every few hours to pee, that will totally make it all worth while! And i'll be able to hold her and touch her, and Frank will be able to carry her for a little while, not just me all the time! He is as excited as i am right now, i think both of our nerves have finally calmed down and we're just anxious at this point.

I have a doctors appointment tomorrow and they will tell me if baby girl decided to stay head down, or if she wanted to be breech again. If she is breech, i will have to have her turned again, and they will induce me right away so she doesn't turn again. So i guess we'll see if i get to pick her birthday or if it will be a surprise.

You may now make your appearance...

It's officially ok now. I made it to the Bloomsburg Fair, had all the yummy food i could stuff in my ever expanding belly, and now i'm ready for Baby Girl to make her grand appearance. I told her she had to stay put until i made it to the fair, at least once, and she complied, but now i'm going to tell her to get out of my belly! She is the next thing on the check list, and we are ready!

Monkey on my back...

The past two days, i've felt like i've had another person on my back. My lower back is so achy, it hurts! And then yesterday i started to get lower abdominal pain along with it. I'm hoping this is a sign that labor will start soon. I know i think i'm ready and all, but i know underneath it all i'm really scared. But i think i'm just scared i'll do something wrong, like not feed her enough, or feed her too much, or put her diaper on wrong, or leave her in the car (that's my dream, that Frank and i leave her in the backseat of the car..and we know it, it's not accident). I guess those are all rational fears, minus the car one, that i'll just have to get over. I know i'm ready to be done being pregnant though, that's for sure.

On a bright note, tomorrow will be my goal date. I said that baby girl had to stay in my belly until at least Saturday, so i could go to the Bloom Fair and eat some good food. I am gonna go and eat lots and lots of good food, and walk around a lot too, so maybe she'll make her apperance soon.

To run or not to run...

Frank seems to think that my running is the reason that Baby Girl decided to flip, and he thinks that i should stop running now so she doesn't flip again. I, on the other hand, think that it is him poking and squeezing her that made her flip. So we've come to an agreement...I will stop running and only go walking if he stops poking her. I guess we'll have to wait until tuesday to see if it works.

Today, Ecko finally made his catch. There has been this squirrel that has been chillin out in the tree in front of our house for the past few months. The squirrel taunts Ecko daily. He likes to sit at the edge of the branches and stare at him, he runs across the wires by the house, and all this drives the dog nuts! Well, Ecko being Ecko, just wants to play! He wants to chase the squirrel and play with it like he plays with Dakota. Well, today he got his chance. The squirrel got ballsy and jumped down onto the fence to taunt the dog, thinking he could still outrun him. Well, Ecko waited and waited and waited, then he leapt at him (it's a game him and Dakota play often in the house). Well, needless to say the squirrel didn't get away. Ecko started swatting and nosing and playing, and, well, now...RIP mister squirrel. I still don't think Ecko realizes that the squirrel isn't like Dakota, and he tends to kill things when he plays with them. Now we just have to wait for Frank to get home from work to get rid of the squirrel before i let Ecko back into the yard.

Our little gymnast...

Yesterday i had my weekly doctor's appointment, and everything looked good. She is growing at a great rate, and she was weighing in at 6lbs 5oz...not too big, not too small. We even got another 4D ultrasound pic, but she was so squised in there this time that it looks funny. But low and behold, our little girl was being stubborn and a gymnast, because she was breech again. So we had two options. We could wait it out and see if she would turn on her own, and if she didnt we would have to have a C-Section, or we could try to turn her manually. I, of course, opted for trying to turn her manually so i wouldn't have to have a C-Section. So today we went to the hospital...they had to do it there because they said there was about a 50% chance that turning her manually could send me into labor..great! So we got there and we managed to get her turned, but they have to monitor you for about an hour afterwards to see if you start having contractions or anything. So of course, i started having contractions. They didn't feel as bad as they were registering on the monitor. They gave me and IV of fluid to help stop them, and another hour later they stopped, so i got to come home. So needless to say, we arne't parents...just yet. Now i have to have weekly stress tests and ultrasounds to monitor the baby and her position. If she goes breech again, which there is a good chance of, they will try to turn her and then they will have to induce me so she doesn't flip again. So i guess it's just a matter of days now until she arrives.

Finished pictures...

I've finally gotten around to taking pictures of the finished nursery (for those of you who haven't seen it in a while, or ever). Here are a few...

It's started...

So yesterday was an interesting day. I woke up early to a thunderstorm. It was a really good one, and it lasted for a while. Well, i was supposed to have a dentist appointment at 930am. They called me and told me that they had lost power and i was going to have to reschedule. Well, i wasn't mad about it, i just figured i had more time in the morning to get ready for my doctor's appointment. Well, i sat down and at breakfast, and wouldn't you know my luck, the dentist called back and said they got power back and i could come down. Well, it was about 915am and i had just eaten, so i had to rush around and get ready and try to brush breakfast off my teeth, lol. Well, i went to the dentist and i was there longer than i thought i would be, so as soon as i left i had to go right to the doctors office. Well, when i got there, they were still having problems from the storm. Their air conditioner wasn't working, and it was seriously hot in there. Needless to say, the heat and the rushing around all morning had made my blood pressure high, so i got the "slow down, relax more" warning. On a good note, i am efacing at the normal rate, and i am 1cm dilated already. I texted Frank when i left the office to let him know, and i think it just made him more nervous! Now he knows how real this really is, and how soon it's coming on. My goal for this week now is to relax as much as possible (with the exception of Saturday, which is homecoming at the school and i will have to work all day long and probably be stressed out). Let's all think early baby thoughts together, lol!

C-O-W-B-O-Y-S!

This weekend, Frank, my dad and I all went to Cleveland to see the Dallas Cowboys play the Cleveland Browns. It was my dad and I's birthday present to Frank. He had a great time (mainly because Dallas won, lol). It was very fun for all of us...aside from the long drive out. I attached some pics from our weekend.

Frank and I at the stadium...we wore opposing jerseys

I thought this was funny, since Frank is always saying "I'm going to take the Brown's back to the super bowl" for when he has to poop.

My daddy and I at the game

Well, it's now 36 weeks...only 28 days to go :) YAY!! This week, she is the size of a crenshaw melon. Now what the heck that is is beyond me. Baby girl is a little over 19 inches long and weighs roughly 6 1/2 lbs. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, the first of my weekly appointments, so i am hoping to find out her height and weight more accurately. I can tell that it's getting close because i am finally starting my weekly appointments. That, and the fact that when i tell people i have 28 days or less left, they say "wow, you're very close...you look great". That's what keeps me going, the fact that people think i still have 3 months left. I think if i was any bigger i would fall over and die!

Here is my 36 week belly pic. Can i remind everyone about the eviction notice? LOL!

Eviction notice...

This is the note i'm attaching to my belly in the morning...

My dearest "Baby Girl",
I love you with all my heart, don't get me wrong, but this is your official eviction notice. You have 30 days to get out of my belly. But don't worry, i've found you a new place to live! And the landlords are great people, if i must say so myself :)
The new place is much nicer than the one your in now. There are 3 windows that you can look out of, plush carpeting, and a nice soft bed with LOTS of room. It's a much quieter place too, and i hear the cook there is top of the line. There are lots of toys there, and lots of new people waiting for you to move in so they can come and visit. Did i mention it was much roomier than where you are now? It's definately got room for you to grow (i've heard the place your in now doesn't expand anymore...pity).
It's time to switch nests, little bird, so i'm giving you your 30 day eviction notice. Don't take this the wrong way, but, GET OUT!!

Love always,
Your current landlord

What's the big deal?!!

Here is my latest gripe. I just don't get it. Sarah Palin, the republican vp, has a 17 year old daughter that is pregnant. And we as a country are making such a big deal about it, like it will affect her being a good vp or not. Seriously? Seriously! I don't see what the big deal is. This girl isn't the only young, un-married girl in the world to have a baby, nor is she the first. Many young high school, even middle school, girls are having babies now a days. Many un-married women all over the world of ALL ages are having babies. I personally know many many people that are married and/or young and having babies. I know 14 year olds that are having babies! What's the big deal? This girl is staying in high school to finish, and she still has plans to attend college. She is still dating the baby's father...no, it's not marriage, but she's only 17 years old! She is making responsible decisions, despite her current situation. She is 17 years old, she can decide for herself what she wants to do. And at least Sarah Palin is sticking by her daughter the whole way. So who are we as a country to condemn her? It's just ridiculous.

Another week...

Well, i've made it to 35 weeks. Only 35 days left to go, thank goodness. I am sooo ready for her to be here already!

Baby's organs are done developing now, all except her lungs. They are still working on staying inflated when she breathes, but they will be completely done by the end of the week. She doesn't have much room to move around in there anymore, so she mostly rolls. She is 5 1/4lbs now, and she is about 18 1/2 inches long. She is the size of a large honeydew melon this week.

As for me, i'm in my last week of baby's rapid growth and my last week of swelling. Supposedly i should even out after this week is over. I can't wait for that, because i feel like a Macy's Day float right now. My ankles are very swollen by the end of the night. She will be here soon, not soon enough!