Pregnancy Highlights

How far along: 32 weeks 4 days

Size of baby: 4 pounds & 17 inches

Weight gain: It's happening. All belly though.

  Sex: Girl! Charlotte Rose

  Movement: She's still super active, it's just less jabby and more stretchy. She's obviously cramped.

  Sleep: Ehh. I have to be surrounded by pillows, and I wake up every 2 or 3 hours. Oh and the dreams are WEIRD.

 Symptoms: Hungry. Lower back pain. Kidney stones. And I'm a hormonal hot mess :)

 What I miss: Sleeping comfortably, and being able to button my jeans haha

 Cravings: Sugar.

 Aversions: Tea. Meat.

  Best moment this week: My baby shower! And getting to see everybody who came.

 What I am looking forward to: Getting the nursery done. We're ordering her crib and bedding on Friday :)

32 weeks

 Milestones: She's getting fatter! She's also preparing for delivery by flipping over head down. She's a smart baby.

A Boy and His Dog

Snuggle buddies.

Having a "man talk"

They were raising the roof

They look like they were trying to eat each other, but they weren't really "trying" that hard

It's love. Told ya.

He loves to pose for pictures, believe it or not.

Joe and Keech are bff's. He loves that dog more than anything on Earth. No matter what he may tell you. Obviously demonstrated by these pictures. I may or may not have been replaced :)

Oh television....

So I've been watching a lot of tv lately. Not working has left me with a limited pool of things to do, so I fill my extra time with some really good and really bad television. I've noticed that since being pregnant, shows that deal with pregnancy have started to either get on my nerves, or I'm totally hooked. For example, last night on How I Met Your Mother, Ted's know-it-all ass decided he knew more about Lily's pregnancy than her doctor did. I mean wtf Ted? He came in with some article he had found online contradicting everything her doctor had told her, and since it was on the internet, it must know better right? Ugh this annoyed me sooo much. He then informed her that "they" would be doing a natural childbirth with no medication. Oh really Ted? I was unaware that you and Lily were married, or that you were the pregnant one. He eventually learned his lesson by the end of the episode, but it still irked my nerves. Why do people, who have no business even having an opinion, seem to think they need to tell pregnant women what they should or shouldn't do? If the woman has made the decision to have a child, what makes you think her decision making skills stopped with that? Oh and A Baby Story is another one of my favorites right now. Except today I wanted to scream at the midwife on this particular episode. The mom had gone into labor and was having such horrible pain that at just 2 centimeters she was begging for an epidural. I'm talking begging! And instead of doing what the mom, who was feeling ALL the pain, wanted, this midwife, her doula, and her idiot husband kept telling her that no, she really didn't want one. She was getting sick with EVERY contraction, she couldn't breathe, it was just bad. This hateful midwife kept ignoring this woman, and her stupid husband, instead of being an advocate for his wife, just sat around looking like he was in outer space letting the midwife make medical decisions for his wife. They made the poor thing wait 16 hours before the mom finally called in a nurse on her own and told a nurse to get her an epidural. I mean what the heck? Then the same mean midwife was yelling at this woman while she was pushing. The things said, and I'm direct quoting here, were "Stop being weak and push!" "Your disappointing. This is not that hard" and "Quit being selfish and do this for your baby. Its not about you" I was livid just watching this. Had that been me, I don't know what I would've done, but I wouldn't have been pleasant and that bitch would've been fired on the spot. I mean, it's called labor for a reason. It's hard, and it hurts. This episode also upped my anxiety about not being listened too come time for labor and delivery. Luckily, Joe knows my birth plan, and he supports whatever I want to do. His exact words were "I'm not having this baby, you are. I'm not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't do, its your call. Just let me know so I can make sure everybody does what they're supposed to do." I of course cried when he said this, I'm a hormonal mess after all. After watching that other husband, it's nice to know Joe is on it and on my side :) My other tv show obsession's are Make Room for Multiples, Baby's First Day, Mike & Molly, Up All Night, pretty much anything on E!, Four Weddings, and Grey's Anatomy of course. So they're all pretty much baby related except like 3, but whatever.  Keech prefers the baby shows anyway :) I need to go clean my house now. We're leaving Thursday for NC (EEEP!) and I hate leaving a grody house b/c then that means I come home to a grody house, and that is just totally unacceptable ;)

Pregnancy Highlights

How far along: 31 weeks 1 day

Size of baby: 3.3 pounds & 17 inches. A squash basically :)

 Weight gain: Just know that it's happening.

 Sex: Girl! Miss Charlotte Rose

 Movement: Constantly! But it's more stretchy and less jabby.

 Sleep: Still hit or miss. I have a pillow mountain I have to have. Belly and back support. Poor Joe :(

 Symptoms: Hungry. Humongous belly. My back hurts all the time. Uncomfortable in general.

 What I miss: The little girl at Starbucks not giving me attitude when I order a frappuccino. Your 17, and not my doctor. If he says I can have caffeine, then I can. Don't give me tude, just my coffee please.

 Cravings: Mashed potatoes, and pumpkin spice frapps

 Aversions: All meats. Ranch. Tea.

 Best moment this week: We went to see Moneyball, and when the girl in the movie started to sing Charlotte started to dance. When the song ended, she stopped. Then she sang again, and she started again. My baby loves good music already :)

 What I am looking forward to: My shower on Sunday. OMG I'm so excited! And meeting her. Soooo close!

31 weeks 1 day

Milestones: Her immune system is almost fully developed. Also, her brain has most of its little grooves and squigly lines in it, more brain like. Oh. And all 5 of her senses are working now. Basically, my baby is a beast.

I'm not sure why the picture ended up in between the milestones and what I'm looking forward to, but when I move it, it deletes stuff so we're not gonna mess with it. Also, I found an outfit for my shower and I LOVE it! I'm so excited about it! I feel pretty in it, and not like a huge pregnant lady so I'm pumped!

Finally October!

It's finally October! I feel like October means it's officially Fall, and who doesn't love Fall?! Some of my favorite things about October are:


* My birthday is this month! Does this really need more explanation?
* It's finally starting to cool off.
* Halloween!
* Only a few more weeks and Miss Charlotte will be here :)
* My baby shower is next weekend! EEEPP! So excited!
* It's October. Even the name is cool.
*  The colors. I look FANTASTIC is reds, oranges, and yellows. Just sayin...
* Boots and jeans.
* Pumpkin spice frappuccinos. Yummmm
* Junk soup and clam chowder :)
* I'm partly in charge of the battalion Halloween party. Super excited!
* Keech looks like October.

I know there's a ton more, but it's just too much to put into words. I feel that strongly about this month. Haha I mean who doesn't love this time of year? It's still warmish, but your not melting, and the Christmas shenanigans haven't started yet. It's a relaxing time. I woke up this morning so excited that it was the first. We've got 8 1/2 days until my baby shower, 13 1/2 days until my birthday, and 30 1/2 days until Halloween. So much fun this month!! And now I'm off to go find an outfit for my baby shower. I can't have my guests looking better than me, its against the rules :)