Bits and Pieces

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a....foot?
Yesterday Baby T was practicing being an acrobat. My stomach was changing shapes and I could feel him moving a ton. At one point I think he put all four limbs in opposite directions and pushed all at once. It looked extremely strange on the outside whatever he was doing. But even more impressive, I think he jabbed me with a foot or fist. My stomach stretched and you could tell he was pushing really hard and a little lump appeared on the outside. It kind of hurt but it stayed there for a few seconds before my stomach went back to "normal". Crazy kid :)

Fasting + Pregnancy = Grumpy
For the millionth time today (at least thats what it seems like lately) I had to fast in order to get blood work done. I think in my entire life I had to fast about 2 times before I was pregnant. Since I've been pregnant I'm up to at least 5 times. Don't doctors understand how bad of an idea this is? I mean, come on, I'm growing a child here, I need food!!!

Movin' on Up!
This is week 29 and that means a bunch. First, Baby T is the size of squash this month. I'm in month 7 of the pregnancy. I'm almost 3/4 of the way there! During the month of the squash, the baby should go from about 2 1/2 pounds to almost 4 pounds! Length wise he'll only grow about an inch or so and be somewhere around 17 inches by the end of the month. His energy is supposedly surging and I feel like I'm headed back to the first trimester world of exhaustion. Oh well!

Nursery Pictures

Here's the nursery progress so far.

Can you say nesting?

Everyone keeps kidding me about "nesting"...well it's definitely hit. As I look around the house there are a million things I want to get done before the baby arrives. This week I focused on the nursery. The rest of the house is a mess, but Baby T's room is really coming along. I spent this week sorting through things, washing all the clothes, sheets, blankets, and finding homes for different things up there. The bedding is on and it makes it look so cozy in there. I sit in there all of the time :) With the exception of a few things in the closet, everything non-baby is out of that room finally and Baby T's things are mostly put away. I only have one more bag of baby shower things to go through. Every room I am in I think of something that needs to be done. I even started cleaning out the kitchen cabinets today in order to make room for bottles, formula, food, etc. I hate cleaning out kitchen cabinets, so this is how I knew "nesting" was real, hah. Grad class work is taking a back seat to all of this baby stuff and so is decorating for Christmas. We might go without a tree this year, still undecided. I know there is still a lot of time before Baby T arrives, but like I said, every room I look at there is something I want to get done. As long as my grad class gets done, it'll be all good, and Christmas will come and be great regardless if we have a tree or not. Who knows though, maybe the spirit will hit me in a few more weeks. A benefit to nesting is that the house will get a really good cleaning and I'm getting rid of things without thinking twice. I feel like we 'clean out' often but we have so much stuff! I might be baby crazy right now, but it's enjoyable at least :)

On a side note, I feel like a complete fool....I just realized this blogger has spellcheck. What is wrong with me?? I've been using this since June! Geez.

Yay Laundry!

I never thought I would say this, but I was actually excited to do laundry last night and tonight. I started washing baby clothes and they are so stinkin' cute that its actually exciting to do the wash. Although, I'm sure this feeling will pass shortly after Baby T arrives. I did one load last night, then Zach and I folded all his little clothes and sorted it. Tonight is load number two, then I'll put them all away! Here's my only dilemma, what do I hang and what do I put in drawers? I guess it doesn't really matter and I'll figure it out. Knuckles has taken it upon himself to inspect every piece of clothing, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he doesn't start chewing things again. I put everything out of his reach for now just to be safe. Scooter on the other hand wants nothing to do with baby stuff and would rather just lay in the nursery "overseeing" everything that is going on. Works for me!

Baby Shower!

Thanks to all our family and friends for a great baby shower today! Baby T is lucky to have all of these awesome people in his life already. The afternoon seemed to fly by but I had a really good time and hope everyone there did also. Baby T has so many cute outfits! I sorted everything that needs to be washed and will start to fill his drawers and closet after its all clean. I must say, baby clothes are absolutely adorable! :) The baby is pretty much all set with the big stuff. I spent part of the night organizing everything into categories and then I can focus on figuring out where to put it all. Right now the nursery is covered with things. I sat up there for a while today and got a little bit done, but its going to take several nights of working before its all put away. I did go through all of the books and enjoyed reading everyones messages to Baby T and seeing books I haven't read since I was little. They are all on a shelf already next to the glider so we're set. I really enjoyed just sitting in the nursery before, but now I don't want to leave that room :) The more I organize I'll start to take pictures so everyone can see. After everything is put away I can start decorating too. Now that we have the bedding it'll be easier to figure out what we want to do. I can't believe in 3 short months Baby T will be here. Can you tell I'm excited?!? Zach spent some of the evening walking around with the video camera testing it out. Hopefully after Baby T arrives I can figure out how to upload videos to the blog and continue to keep everyone updated with videos of our little guy. I'm beat and am going to bed early tonight. Thank you again to everyone who had a part in our shower today, we really appreciate everything! :)

Success!!!

Just got the call, I passed my 3 hour glucose test! Boo-yah! Time to enjoy what I eat again, with moderation of course :) I don't know numbers, but they said results came back normal and thats good enough for me!

longest. morning. ever.

A little over 4 hours later and I'm done! 3 hour glucose tolerance test is really a 4 hour ordeal but its finished, and regardless of these results I won't have to do it again. Here's an overview of what happened today: After I checked in I waited about 10 minutes and had my first blood sample drawn. Then I had to wait about 30 minutes for the lab to get those results back and they gave me a double dose of the same sugar drink from last time. Only this time it was orange flavored and there was a hole in the cup, so I had sugary orange drink all over my jacket and a little on me. I got a new cup, finished the drink in my 5 minute limit and the timer was set. At 10:15, 11:15, and 12:15 I had my blood drawn three more times. In the midst of waiting around I talked to a smelly lady, wandered around the hospital, visited the restroom several times, read a book, looked through a Rachel Ray magazine, and did some Suduko puzzles. I wasn't too smart for bringing a food magazine, I was starving and couldn't eat. Didn't help that there was a little cafe right outside of the lab waiting room that I couldn't visit either. I learned I don't have great veins today. The first blood draw was fine, second time they used the other arm, third time was a disaster. They poked and poked, it hurt, and in the end they couldn't get blood from that arm. So to the other arm she went and it was less painful but still very bruised. Final time wasn't too bad, but I'll make sure I wear long sleeves for the next day or so to cover the bruises. At 12:30 I made it back home and promptly drank a glass of water and ate lunch! Now I'm ready for a nap. In the end though, if it helps Baby T and makes sure that we're both healthy and doing well then I'd do it again. Now keep your fingers crossed that the results come back okay. My goals were 95 or lower, 180 or lower, 160 or lower, and then 140 or lower. I can fail one of the four and still be conisdered okay. Time to wait some more...