Long weekend & Photos

Happy Thanksgiving! (yes i realize I'm a few days late, but come up who wants to be on the computer on the weekend?!)

Wednesday night Dave stayed up late cleaning the house for our guests for Thanksgiving. I wasn't feeling that great so I went to bed early.

Thursday we were full steam ahead. I finished the mashed potatoes and the pumpkin bars and Dave prepped and cooked TWO turkeys. One baked, one Fried. He did an amazing job. Everything came off without a hitch. Everyone was there by around 3:00 so we all got to spend time hanging out. It was a really great group and so nice to be around such cool people. My apple pie turned out great! I can't wait to do another one! (look at me!)

Dave with one of the Turkeys

Frying the Turkey

My Apple Pie

Everyone!

Me-19 weeks, Monica-38 1/2 weeks



Friday Dave was sick and we were both tired....ahh exhausted. I went shopping with my mom for about an hour before I caved and came back home. We layed low and went to the movies that night to see "The Blind Side". Great movie.

Saturday I went to see my friend Reena who is leaving for Chicago today. Very sad to see her go, I was just starting to really get to know her. After seeing her and baby Margot, I went to early dinner with Prisha to get some pizza. Then we went to toys r Us to buy coloring books and crayons to cheer Dave up. He just laughed at me. (and yes I bought myself one and colored on sunday.)

Sunday we helped Liv move into her new place. Mark came over to get the big couch downstairs and he brought his HUGE truck. It was great. We even fit the table and couch from my parents house in it and took it downtown to Liv. After that I went to see my friend Rachelle who was in town from MD. It was soo good to see her.

I felt a kick last night. I'm pretty sure it was a kick at least. It was right to my belly button! It was so strange. I still can't believe we find out the baby's sex in 8
days!! I'm so excited.

Nov. 23 (just over 18 weeks)

Tuesday - 2 days to Thanksgiving

I'm very excited for Thanksgiving this year! Dave and I are hosting, and there will be nine of us there! (and possibly 4 dogs) I will set up the tripod and get a photo. Dave is making 2 turkey's, one in the fryer and one in the oven. I'm making 2 apple pies, pumpkin bars and mashed potatoes. Everything else is coming from others. I think we'll finally get to meet Olivia's new "friend" this weekend. I have been looking forward to this for a while.

Health: My back hurts. I'm going to try and do my yoga tonight. In between making the pies and cleaning the kitchen floor of course. We have to hang the picture in the dining room tonight and do a couple other small things. I think we're pretty ready.

Movement

Sunday evening Dave and I were at the book store in Mount Pleasant. He was in the process of giving me a hard time because I hate to read yet I love book stores...which is true but I had never pondering this on my own. So I'm standing there and I feel something. Yes I just had ice cream but still i felt something odd in my stomach. It was movement, back and froth. I was so excited. It was very faint but it was there. Of course I tried to get Dave to feel it but he couldn't feel anything.

This weekend was nice, Friday night Dave and I ordered Chinese food and watched The Proposal. Saturday I had the girls over for a "ladies night" and it was so nice being around a bunch of girls that I'm going to try and start a monthly girls night. Maybe game night or a pot luck thing. Something. Sunday Dave and I hung out all day, and went to a going away party for some friends. Sad to see them go, but VERY excited for there new life.

18 weeks!

So I didn't take my constipation medicine today and now my stomach hurts. It's just over the counter stuff and I try to take it every other day. But for some reason today is not my day. I'm hoping this pain will pass. Other then that I feel great. I did lose 2 lbs from yesterday so I'm trying to eat a lot today. I just had a bagel and cream cheese and i have cheese and crackers for later. I'm going to meet a girl tonight that has a bunch of small maternity clothes. She lives in N. Charleston but she's headed to Mount Pleasant tonight so we're meeting in the parking lot at Publix. Which means i have to stop at the bank on the way home to get some cash. Then i'm meeting a second girl with maternity clothes over in Park West. Hopefully I'll like most of the stuff. I found them both on craigslist. (i love craigslist)

Dave and I are meeting with Tiffany tomorrow does home daycare out of her house in Park West. We were originally going to meet a second women Sunday but we moved it out b/c this weekend was getting to packed. We have a going away party Sunday, and I'm having my girls night tomorrow night.

18 days till we find out what's inside me! I even talked Dave into going to Babies R Us that night after we find out!!! Hopefully we can meet up with my family for dinner to tell them in person!

By Request

As requested: Here is me at 17 weeks in the green, and 16 weeks in brown

Weekend Report

It's very funny because there are a lot of times right now that I either forget I'm pregnant or can't stop rubbing my stomach. It's one or the other. I don't know what it is about rubbing your stomach but I can't seem to stop. Like I'm waiting to feel something, or just infatuated with the size, shape, and firmness of this whole strange thing. When I have clothes one is one thing, but when I'm getting dressed in the morning or undressed at night and I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror..it's weird. My body is totally changing. I do love it though.

Saturday Dave and I were yard saleing fools. We hit ION for their yard sale then drove around Mount Pleasant looking for more. We only spent $3 the entire day. We were really searching for a dresser and changing table...what we bought was a infant car seat head rest, a book, and a baby holder that you strap to your body by Kozy Carrier. I looked up how to use this thing http://kozycarrier.homestead.com/instructions.html there are about 5 different positions. I'll let you know how i do. I will practice with a baby doll. I am babysitting Stella in Dec so once I have it down we'll put her in it.

Sunday I went to a neighborhood block party with my parents in their neck of the woods. All their neighbors are so sweet, and there were kids everywhere! It was great. One of their neighbors, Kristy, gave me a high chair! So excited! It's really nice. She has two kids, one of each, and is pulling together all their baby clothes for me. She is too sweet!

Fuzzy

I'm a little off today. Not feeling bad or anything, just off. Tired I guess and my stomach doesn't seem right. Might have been the cookie i had before trying to eat Healthy Choice pasta out of a plastic container. (gross)

I am having some trouble focusing on work sometimes. I keep thinking about the nursery and wanted to just lay around and watch TV with Dave. There are days when I actually miss him. (yes that's so lame and i know it)

I have a networking event tonight but I forgot my business cards, bummer! Now I have to go home first. But the event is close to my house so it's not that bad.

Apt

My appointment went well. Nothing much to report. The heartbeat sounds good and I was able to hear it! I put Dave on speaker phone so he could hear it too. I have been having some trouble with my stomach so Nurse Stone told me to take stool softer. So we'll see how this plays out. I went to Kit's Social event last night in honor of her friend Richie. I was in charge of the raffle tickets and giving people numbers for the silent auction. Tonight I am going over to my friend Sara's house for a Mary Kay party, then going home to change into my sweats and watch TV. It's so nasty out today that's all i want to do!

Kirk (my co-worker) and I went to get my new office chair today! I'm very excited about it and hopefully it will help my back. We went to get lunch after and Dave met up with us. It was nice.

Baby's Room

Our original idea for the baby's room was do a chair rail with trim pices from the chair rail to the base board. The trim would have been something like this, but different colors:

To do this we would have had to change out the baseboards. So we decided to go a different route. We are going to do crown molding and a chair rail still. Under the chair rail we're doing to do large squares in a checker board pattern. The squares would look something like this:

We're thinking two colors only for the squares, but we're still talking about that. We are going to do all white furniture and the top of the chair rail will be a cream color. It's a very dark room so we're trying to make it as light as possible. Once we know the sex i'm going to bring in the blanket from the bedding we want and have them match the paint color to it. Dave's co-worker Brooks said he'd help with the trim and crown molding and my dad is going to help with the paint. Dave wanted to do hard wood floors in there, but i don't think we're gona do that. At some point we might do hardwood floors in the entire upstairs, but i think we'll wait to we an afford to do all of it, rather then room by room.

The guest room will stay the same, and is the temporary holding place for all the baby stuff we have so far. I will admit i went a little overboard. But i'm done now. No more baby stuff until after the shower, I promised Dave.

BIG

I officially can't see my feet. I stood up straight and looked directly down and...nothing. I bought a new pair of maternity pants from E-bay. I need to stay away from that site. That an Amazon.com are killing me. I most recently bought a new yoga mat and I ordered a pregnancy yoga tape. Very exciting.

Over the weekend Dave and I went to Lowes for a HUGE shop. We bought all the paint and trim for the baby's room, mulch for the house, new plants, storage bins and some odds and ends that we needed. We planted the plants last night and only have one left. Dave picks up the mulch tonight and the trim tomorrow. We couldn't fit everything in the truck. I'll put up photos soon.

Tomorrow is our 16 week appointment. Just a normal one, nothing big.

Feeling Great, you?

It's Wednesday. I feel really good right now, might be the hot chocolate I just drank....so good. Erin (BFF from Denver) has a web cam now! So her and I got to chat last night on cam! it was so cool. It's going to be great when the baby comes, b/c she won't miss anything.

I even have a list of people to give my sister so they will get a text with a photo of the baby as soon as s/he comes. I'm so excited.

Mom and I are going to the sale together this weekend with Dave's truck. Oh, we're ready!

Update

I really don't have to much to report. Last weekend was great, we had two parties Friday night and cleaned the house Saturday day. Baby Stella and her parents came over Sunday to watch football and hang out. It was a good weekend. I didn't get much sleep b/c the baseball games have been SOOO late and we've been watching every inning. They don't play tonight so i'll be going to bed early.

I'm feeling pretty good, tired right now and my back hurts, but other than that feeling good. We have our next apt a week from today. Dave and I are gona be working on the nursery next month and get it all going. I've been on the hunt for used baby furniture. I found 6 different consignment shops in the area. So my goal is a dresser and changing table. There is a Jr. League sale this weekend and a yard sale in ION next weekend so hopefully i can find something there.

wish me luck!