29 weeks & 1 day

Nothing much going on around here. Let's see, we got the baby shower invites ordered and filled out for Derek's mom. They turned out pretty cute. We finished painting and putting the changing table together finally. Still have the glider and ottoman to paint. We received our silver dollar city passes this past week, I am definitely looking forward to taking little Miss Emily to Branson in the stroller. A beautiful red mercedes got traded in at Derek's work and I really want it. I will keep my fingers crossed! I babysat Abbie last night and slept fantastic! Came home, ate some cereal and slept a little longer. I could get used to these naps.. but Emily will be here in a couple months, so i won't lol. Hmm.. what else???

Oh yes, Derek and I made some "Parental decisions," we decided that if anyone is to babysit Miss Emily, they have to come to our house to babysit, even if it's for thirty minutes or an hour. We both feel way more comfortable if she is at home with familiar surroundings. And everything will be here at our house so really no one needs to watch her anywhere else. Sometimes you just have to stand up for yourself and be parents. Glad we have made these decisions!

Nursing school starts in January, I plan on going although Derek and I have talked about me waiting until August of next year so I don't miss out on our little girl growing up. But I feel like I keep putting it off longer. And I really just want to start and get it done with. I would be working days and going to school until about 8-9 at night. But I would have weekends off. I think homework would be the most difficult part, because my days off would probably consist of homework and not play time with hubby and baby. So I am thinking work full time, school part time, even if I just took two classes the first semester? Then I could have plenty of time for homework and still have time with my loved ones. I think this sounds like a decent plan. I really don't want to put school off for an entire year! I've put it off since 2006! I have a lot of thinking to do!

Well I have some birthday shopping to get taken care of for the hubby. I better hop in the shower and get started!

Sammantha

Raniy Days...

Another boring day, so I figured I would write about my happenings!

So as you know Monday I had my glucose test, and I was waiting for the results. Well, I don't have diabetes! YAY! But my not so bad anemia has turned into Severe Iron Deficiency Anemia... Looks like little Em is stealing all my iron and not getting enough for even herself. I have been taking a iron supplement since the first trimester when I heard I was anemic, but now it's gotten so bad that they want to draw blood at every appointment and keep track of it. Pretty sad, because I have been telling my doctor over and over again that I have been feeling horribly crappy. And she kept telling me to take a iron supplement, and every time she said that I would say I AM taking a iron supplement, you told me this weeks ago.

Ugh... I eat iron fortified bread and cereal. And I love veggies.. so I always make sure I am eating the ones with plenty of iron. Guess that wasn't enough. My meal plan consists of iron in every meal no matter what now. And an iron supplement a day (as I have been doing) except they wanted me to up the dose to 2 a day. Except I have read on mayclinic.com's website that it is not safe for a pregnant woman to consume more than one iron supplement a day, that it can cause still births and pre term labor, so I guess I won't be listening to the doctor. (not like she listens to me or prevents these kinda things from happening to me)

Don't get me wrong, I love being pregnant, but this is very frustrating. I could give a crap less about myself when it comes to feeling yucky everyday, but when it comes to my little girl I only want whats best for her, and the doctor never paying attention to me is really starting to piss me off. Derek and I both have decided that when it comes to delivery time we won't call our doctor to catch the baby, we will have some other doctor that is on call that night do it. I could care less! I just don't want my doctor messing me up! She will be my doctor til this pregnancy is over, and then she is done!

So enough about that... i've been feeling I guess you could say "not so hot" lately. Literally. The "your so big" comments are getting old. (This is how the women in my family carry children.. largely!) I am smaller then lots of women carrying babies and i've only gained 23 pounds. I have stayed with my one pound a week weight gain this whoe pregnancy. So as for anyone thinking I am huge or fat.. yes I am definitely overweight, and yes my belly is definitely becoming huge. But the comments don't make ME feel better. I have struggled with my weight my entire life, and once Emily is born I will loose weight and get back to a 3/4 or maybe even my tiny 2's. But for now, I can't do anything about it, so don't tell me how huge I am. It's only going to make me emotional and cry all day long. And trust me Derek hates it when I cry. So if not for me, do it for him. =)

So I am waiting on Derek to get his truck cleaned up. He had to rotate tires, and change oil, and clean it inside and out.. TO SELL IT! Yay! At first I thought this was a bad idea, all I could think about was big huge car payment and insurance going up. But then when I thought about all the things that could go wrong with this truck, i changed my mind. If his truck breaks down, we won't ahve the money to fix it and it will be setting, and then we won't be able to sell it or trade it in. So it's time to get rid of it. Plus the tax refund on buying a car this year while having a baby is a tax write off because they call it a growing family exspense. Pretty sweet.. well we can write off the taxes and lisence and stuff. but anything is better than nothing =) But anyways, I am bored! It's Saturday! I just want to go do something! I am at this house 24/7 and so need to get out and do something! Grr.. Come home Derek!

Well I may have more fun stuff to write about this next week. have a good weekend friends!
Sammantha

Tuesday!

So yesterday I had my 1 hour glucose test. You drink a nasty orange flavored sugary drink adn then sit for an hour and then they draw your blood. I felt pretty crappy after I drank it so i am a little afraid on what the results may be! My doctor said she would call me today, if I didn't hear from her call her Wednesday. I really hope I passed! They make you take it again and wait 4 hours if you don't pass. So I will make Derek take off work and hang out with me that day if so. So the lady taking my blood said she has worked as a secretary up front for about 2 years and was just now coming back to draw blood. She hadn't drawn blood for two years! Let me tell you.. she definitely needed some practice! I know I have baby veins but my goodness! Ouch! She put the needle in and didn't get my vein so started digging in my arm with the needle til she found it, felt so great! Not! My arm is all bruised up now =) Lovely! I look like a meth head lol.

So anyway after my lovely doctors appointment and glucose test I went out to eat with the hubby. I can't get enough of China Wok chinese food! Oh yes! It is AMAZING! I never eat everything off my entire plate anymore but I definitely did there. You kinda have to, it's a sad thing to waste such amazing food!

So after eating with Derek I went home, let the dog out, fed him, and took a nap for a couple hours. I've been so sleepy the past week or so, but I can't ever sleep. It's so annoying! I made Salmon and couscous for dinner and Derek came home sick, so he didn't even get to eat it. Poor guy. I had to leave him at 7:30 to babysit, so off I went to Abbie's (girl I babysit) and hung out there til this morning. Pretty much colored pretty pictures and watched Family guy. I couldn't sleep all night, I fell asleep at 6am, and woke up at 630am to get her up for school. Kinda sucked! So then I dropped her off at school talked to my sister on the phone for an hour and finally went to sleep... And guess what, my body hates me so I slept about 2 and a half hours. I'd like to think it's my body getting me used to not sleeping and soon having a baby around. I guess I will get used to it.

So today is cleaning day, I usually relax on Mondays from the weekend and try to get Laundry and dishes squared away on Tuesday, and then the mopping, vacuuming and all the easy stuff on wednesday. Hopefully I can keep that up when the baby is here. I doubt it though lol. It's 330pm and I've got dishes done and only one load of laundry left to do. Pretty proud of myself not going to lie! I'm going to make chicken soup tonight, it's my sis in laws recipe. And Derek and I are obsessed with it! It's got peppers, onions, diced tomatos, tomato sauce, chicken and some seasonings. Pretty awesome! I forgot to get bread for it though so I guess we will eat grilled cheese or something with it.

Wow I'm bored, pretty sad how all I have written about is what I have doen the past two days. I guess I could mention the majorly cute outfits I got Emily! I went to babies r us right before I went to lunch with Derek yesterday and found some cute little girl clothes on sale for $8.00 an outift, So I ended up getting her three outfits! I got her a peach colored shirt that matched these cute little peach plaid capris, and then a blue top that matched these blue and white butterfly stretchy capris, and then a really cute onesie with ruffled sleeves and matching rainbow stretchy pants! I think she may wear the rainbow outfit home from the hospital! So cute! Ahhhh... I love buyingmy daughter clothes! Tomorrow I am going book shopping for her book shelves. I need quite a few books to fill up those shelves so hopefully I can find a bunch at thrift stores or baby stores around town for cheap. I am sure once garage sale season is here I can get a ton!

Well I guess I am going to go finish up laundry and cleaning and start thinking about dinner and maybe cut up some veggies. Hopefully i will have something more exciting to write about in a couple days.

TTyl!!!
Sammantha

Bored...

So I figured I would put this on my blog since I talk to all the bump.com girls about it all I figure I should share with you!

You know you're pregnant when...

-you TRY to think about other things that don't involve LO, but realize after trying to think about other things, your still thinking about her lol

-you cry when you watch Forrest Gump, even though you've seen it a million times and never cried once before.

-you get mad at dh when he goes out to the store for his own craving snack, but never goes out to get you what you want.

-when you start craving what he is eating but realize he ate it all and there is nothing left for you, then you start pouting and getting sad about it.

-when you thought you had no cravings and you were normal and look down at your bag of peanut m&m's that you had to have and they are all gone lol

-you are so hungry all the time and you eat everything in site, that you actually get bored of eating and start crying because you feel helpless

-Your time is measured in weeks, not months or days.

-You repeat all the symptoms and side effects of puberty (stretch marks, acne, changes in bra sizes)

-You start to wonder if hot flashes apply to pregnancy, too

-You spend your tax return on nursery items

-You start to use language that only other pregnant women can understand ("Are you experiencing RLP? When did you lose your MP?")

-You dog-ear pages in What to Expect When You're Expecting (or some other book :)

-You spend more time in Hobby Lobby than you ever have before (buying those letters and paint to hang in the nursery, or scrapbooking stuff, or another craft project)

-you cry when you think about lucky you are

-you cry when dh sends you a random text message saying I love you, and then you write a 15 page text message back telling him how amazing he is lol

-you pee about 6 times a night, and always look at the clock in the bathroom and see it's at the exact same times every night!

-you get more annoyed with everyday tasks, cleaning the house sounds like having to move a truck load of elephants to the zoo... but when you get started you love it?

-you laugh at the stupidest things, and you start crying because your laughing so hard.. and then you pee...

-you text the hubby about 50,000 times a day, and tell him how sorry you are for talking about the baby 99.9% of the time, and then keep talking about her lol

-your so hormonal and have so much to say that facebook becomes your diary for the world to see.. I am sure everyone gets annoyed by it.. but you keep doing it, and really don't care.

-you wonder about how your little ones hair is going to look like, then gripe about if she doesn't have hair how sad your going to be, then you gripe some more if she doesn't look like you..

-you hate it if people don't like the fact that she will be dressed in pink every damn day!!! TOO DAMN BAD, SHE IS MY KID!!! not yours.. (that was meant to be nice) lol

Well that's all I got for now. Just thought I should share!!!

Lots of Cleaning and Planning!

I woke up today with the attitude that I really didn't want to do anything lol. I mean I think that is my attitude almost everyday but I really didn't want to today. But the more I walked into the kitchen and seeing all those dirty dishes stacked up and trampling over all the laundry piled up in the hallway I kinda figured it may be time to do a once over on the house. Darnit! So I got the bedroom cleaned up, the bathroom cleaned up, put all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and washed all the big stuff and put it away, started on laundry.. it's always a process, it never gets done in one day trust me! I plan on vacuuming after I am done writing and finishing the laundry.

We got our baby bedding this past weekend so I figure it's time to start washing it and putting it all on the bed and making it pretty. I will have to wash and iron the curtains. Hopefully we can buy a curtain rod this week and get that finished up. Our blinds ended up breaking this morning, so we will need to go buy another set of those, and then maybe get some of these things crossed off our list.

Well tomorrow night is going to be a busy night, we are re-doing our target registry. I am deleting it tonight and we got a coupon for a $20 gift card if we open a registry inside their store, which we totally will do! I just wrote down everything we need to put on it and we will go zap it all at the store! Yay! We also are going to barnes and noble, Derek wants to get a book for the "expected father" since i've read every book there is to read on being a mom and caring for a newborn he doesn't know what to expect at all. lol. I think it's time for him to get ready for Emily to be here. It won't be long!

Well back to cleaning! I swear I will come up with something interesting to write soon!

Sammantha

Saturday!

I love Saturdays! Every weekend that comes my way I know it's just one week closer to seeing my baby girl! So exciting! Yesterday and the day before I wasn't feeling so great, I had a fever here and there and just kept puking off and on. It was no fun! But now I am feeling tons better! Thank goodness! I have a awesome baby shower to go to with my mom in law at 3:00, and after that Derek and I need to get some sandwiches made and packed and go buy some bottled water and our fishing license! We are taking the boat out on the lake tomorrow and hoping to catch some fishies! It's been forever since we've gone fishing, it's about time! It's so sunny outside and it's supposed to be in the mid sixties today and tomorrow! Yes!!! Hopefully I can get some sort of tan!

So we got our bedding yesterday! I am very happy with it! I think the pink is a little off, but with the pink in the room it looks great together! It feels like everything is finally being put together and it just keeps getting closer and closer! So glad! Hopefully we will have everything we need by the time she is here, hopefully like 2 weeks before she is supposed to eb here actually, I plan on having everything ready and all our hospital bags packed by the time I am 37 weeks. I want to be ready! I want to go pick out a "take home" outfit for her, but Derek wants to wait til we have the shower and see what we get. Which works for me, I just love buying cute baby clothes! I have already spent about $50 on baby girl clothes, I should probably quit it, I buy everything at the used baby stores if they are in great shape, or if I see something on sale I will buy it. It's hard not to, just thinking about her wearing all these cute little clothes and little headbands and bows, I just feel the need to buy everything i get my hands on lol.

So, my mom in law is throwing our baby shower on May 1st, it will be from like 2-4 or so, just kinda a open house hang out kind of thing so people can come and go as they please. More family then friends, that will be nice! I love my friends, but I only have a few that I am super close to, so it will be nice to see all the family and hang out. I need to find a cute dress or outfit for the shower, I am thinking about buying a dress at old navy that I keep seeing, and then just wearing flip flops and a cute little jacket if it get's breezy at all. It should be pretty warm, I will just have to start looking around. I have a whole two months, so I'm not worried about it. I just can't wait!!! I am so happy we get to see everyone and show off the baby bump!

Well I really need to get soem cleaning done. Whoops.... So I better go! Also need to get ready for the baby shower =)

TTYL!
Sammantha

Another day...

Woke up to me being majorly mad at myself. lol. I kept dreaming about how fat I was and how skinny I used to be and then I woke up and looked in the mirror and just wanted to cry. I have actually gained about 75 pounds since Derek and I got together. I don't know how that is possible, but it is true. I know Derek says he loves me for who I am, but doesn't he miss picking me up in his arms and his friends being jealous of his girlfriend. Now nobody is jealous, if anything they probably feel bad for him. Once Emily is born I will be working out everyday. I just can't keep being this way. I will have to figure out some sort of diet that is healthy for breastfeeding and for loosing weight. Luckily it will be late spring, early summer, so I will have a few months to get back into shape. Even if I just loose 50 pounds at first. I don't care. I just want to be in the single digits again. I can't imagine how it will feel to be a size 9 or 7. My goal is still a 3/4. I looked amazing when I was that size, and I will get back there again. If I end up loosing all this weight and I am all toned up I don't think we will have anymore babies. I think it would be to hard for me to gain and loose all over again. We will just see what the future holds.

Enough about that stressful topic. I have so much to do today. First I am going to start by decorating the monkey cake for my friend Amber's shower. That's the most important, and laundry and cleaning can wait til last as always. After I get the cake done I will probably get some clothes in the washer and dryer and try to get the laundry done before Derek get's home. Also i need to clean up the kitchen, it's really just dishes that need to be done, but just dishes makes the whole kitchen look like a disaster. Then once all that is done I will finally vacuum this place. It's been a good week or two, and needs it desperatly. Then shower time and I can finally feel like I have accomplished something! I hope I have time for the library, i want to go look at books and see if I can find any good pregnancy books to read that I haven't read. Oh goodness, i am totally blabbering on aren't I... It's just my way of stalling so I don't have to get off my butt and work lol. Hmm...

Oh yes! I almost forgot... I have been tracking our bedding via fedex.com and it departed from Earth City, MO last night at 9:12pm, meaning it could be here today! Earth city is only an hour away, so it could totally be in transit to our house! Goodness I hope so! I've been waiting forever to see it and wash it and put it all on the bed and the curtains up. I am so excited!!! I am so glad mom and dad in law helped us out with it =) We're so lucky to have parents as great as them! God knows my parents are the crappiest parents ever.. but i'm just saying lol.

Well it's probably time to get off my butt and get to work on the monkey cake, our three day weekend starts tonight when Derek get's off work. Pretty excited!!! Friday will be painting baby furniture day, saturday will be Amber's baby shower, and Sunday will be taking the boat out and going fishing day! Hurray!!! Gotta love the begining of Spring! high fifties, low 60's all weekend! Woohoo!!

Well I will ttyl!
Sammantha