How are you doing, Kim?

Wow...how am I doing...what a big question!

Ok...sleeping? Not really. Hubs loves me lots, and I love him back, but DAMNIT STOP SNUGGLING ME!!! I wind up way to hot and scrunched up against the wall of the waterbed. Yay for the waterbed, though. I can still comfortably sleep on this bigass belly.

Do we HAVE to talk about weight? Fine. So far, I have gained about 30 lbs. Yes 30. Close your mouth. Let's move on, shall we?

Stretch marks are only on my piercing. I look like a freak with a red flower on my bellybutton.

Peanut is busy all the time now. It's amazing, and I know I will miss this feeling of not being alone. Alas, she is a clever one with a great sense of humour who finds it hilarious to kick me in the bladder. The REAL funny thing about that is we don't kick once, we kick 85 times...THWACK! THWACK! THWACK... Oh tons of fun! And then there's the neat way we like to get wedged in funny so that mommy feels like she's got MAJOR gas pains all of a sudden. When I poke her, she gets out of the way though, bless her heart. What's really neat, though, is watching my tummy change shape as she moves. It's spooky on the one hand, but on the other hand, it really hits home that there's a person in there, and it makes me all sucky.

I am getting heartburn LARGE. This past weekend I went into the Mac's in Elmvale and bought 4 rolls of Tums on the way up to Wasaga. The girl behind the counter had a chuckle and asked if that's what the baby has done to me. I said pretty soon I'll be taking out stocks in the company. Guess she's gonna have lots of hair!

I am starting to be sore and achy all the time, and I can see how I will want to be done with this before very long. Although I love having her with me all the time, I am dying to meet her, and I am just plain uncomfortable at times. I am finding that in particular, my hip joints feel like there is no strength there at all. Sometimes I stand up and feel like I'm going to fall. I am trying to keep walking in the mornings, but it takes a lot out of me with this heat. My back is starting to hurt too, so bending over is becoming an issue already, and my swollen feet and ankles are waaayyy too sexy.

The nursery hasn't been started yet, but we have all the pieces...we just need to assemble the puzzle. I am really looking forward to that part. SOOOOOO looking forward to it! I am not going up north this weekend so that I can get a head start on throwing out a lot of junk I have been hanging on to, and preparing the room for painting. I have done WAYYYY too much shopping. Maybe for shits and giggles later I will take pictures of all the goodies that my serious lack of willpower caused me to be unable to resist buying. I wonder how much $$ I have spent so far? Hopefully I am not completely poor by the time the baby arrives!!

The prospect of delivering this child is terrifying. I am hoping to get into some childbirth classes soon so that I can have a good idea of what is going to happen. Knowledge is power, after all....right? RIGHT? Um...what else? I have registered with the hospital. I have registered with Toys 'R' Us... The main feeling I have right now is of time running through my fingers like water. I feel like the baby will be here before I know it, and I am scared I won't be prepared. But I can't wait. All at the same time.

I think I'm going loco.

Sleep Issues

In and out, no prob. Rolling over, not so good, lol. Getting in is easy. I just sort of fall in. Getting out involves rolling over so that I am facing the floor and my foot is under me. Upsy daisy, and away I go. I told Joe that I don't know how long it will last, and pretty soon he's gonna have to get me up! I can still sleep on my tummy, my sides or my back and feel comfy...it's just getting there that's the issue. The bed is so squishy it takes 3 times the effort to roll over than a normal bed would, and I am just so stiff and unflexible lately that it makes it really hard. Add in the fact that Mr. Joe seems to want to snuggle me and the baby all the time, he winds up on MY side of the bed, and I get wedged in between the wall and the mattress. I also find the bed too warm. I find Joe too warm. I didn't think the heat would bother me since I'm usually too cold all the time, but wow. I can't sleep because of it a lot of nights. That's why I wedge into the wall...I'm trying to get away from Mr. 'I Want to Snuggle But I'm a Furnace' Man! One o these days...One o these days, I'm gonna send im to da MOOOOOONNNN!!!

I've HAD it. I've REALLY Had It!

Maternity pants!!

Are they designed by the devil to make me look like a bumpkin having to pull them up all the time? We can send people into space, do an operation on someone from across the world, and I can see my baby in 3D, but so far noone has come up with a maternity pant that I don't have to pull up every 3.721 seconds. I walk down stairs...pants are falling down. I sit down and stand up...pants are falling down. I think about my pants...they fall down!!!!!!!

SOMEONE PLEASE INVENT SOME DECENT MATERNITY PANTS!!!!! I don't care if they're underbelly, overbelly, button to the bra, or suspendered. Just make some stinkin pants that don't fall down!!!!!!!


Thank you.
I feel better now.

So there.

I think I have gained a hundred and seventeen thousand pounds. I am sure I am out of range of where I should be anyway. But popsicles are necessary, and I am not stopping ice cream either.

See3D

Went to have the 3d/4d u/s on Saturday. I woke up waaaayyy too early out of nothing but sheer excitement. Peanut was really busy, so I thought it must be a perfect day for taking a peek at her in her cramped little world. I was a good girl and I remembered to eat my chocolate before we went, and I even had some juice which usually gets her going. Into the office we went, and Joe and I were so excited you'd think we had ants in our pants. A nice lady invited us into a darkened room, and there she showed us the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in my life.

Our daughter.

She was very sleepy from her busy morning, but we got to watch her yawn several times, and learned that she always does the oh so cute lip smacking thing after she yawns. It's really incredibly amazing what you can see. Joe was touching my foot for a lot of it...it was so nice, like he was holding my hand. He would squeeze whenever something special happened. We watched her suck her thumb, and then she gave that up and started to suck her toe. When she dropped her foot away from her mouth, it felt like a kick. She went back to sucking her thumb, at which point she fell asleep for a couple minutes. After some wiggling of the wand by the u/s tech, she woke up, opened her eyes, and entertained us by yawning, rolling over, and hiding from the 'camera'. After having me roll over, she showed us many funny faces, including something that looks like a smile. She is very fond of that particular expression, and showed us her sweet smile several times, melting us completely.

After we were through at the u/s place, we took our DVD directly over to my mom's to show her, my stepdad, and my sis. I particularly enjoyed the chance to watch it again as the first time I was watching it all sideways! They were amazed and happy with the results. Then we took the DVD up to the trailer and showed it to MIL, who was really excited about it too. I did not cry at all; I was very tough.

This morning I asked Joe to put it on again, and we sat and watched it just the two of us. I cried and cried and cried, and Joe kept wiping away my tears and saying "Look at her cute chubby cheeks!! Look at those lips! I think that's Daddy's chin..." I just can't believe that she really is in there...that inside this lumpy ol body is that tiny angel. She looks just like Daddy, too, just like I knew she would. But how can we have created something so perfectly beautiful just by having an evening of fun? It's such a miracle...it squeezes my heart to think of it. Seeing that face come out of the darkness like that...It just makes everything worthwhile. I can't wait to meet her in person, but I feel that much closer to her already. She is already our entire world. All two pounds of her.

Antici.....PATION!

I can't wait to see the u/s tomorrow, but Joe is even worse than me. Last night he told me that he had to go to bed early. I asked why, thinking maybe he had an early meeting this morning. Nope. He said "Cause I won't get any sleep tomorrow night, I will be so excited!!" Meanwhile, he is asleep on the couch right now, but at 10:15 he told me "In 12 hours we will see Peanut again!!" Poor guy. He caught my cold so he's tired, but he's excited anyhow. Now I'M the one who can't sleep! It's worse than the night before Christmas when you're 10! Mind you, I used to tell my mom I had to go to sleep early so that tomorrow would come faster...maybe that's what I will do!

Anywho, wish me luck for tomorrow that Peanut cooperates and we are able to see her face...Actually...if you could also wish me luck that we don't get any surprises, that would be great too!

Coooooool...

It's soooo hard to get any work done in the day because I tend to sit and stare at my belly lately. It's got a life of it's own for sure. Even now, when I sit sort of reclined, my tummy seems shifted entirely to the left. My tummy is squishy and lower on the right. The left is at LEAST an inch higher, and harder. I guess Peanut is over there somehow...? Anyway, it's all such an exciting mystery...you can't help but sit and wonder what's going on in there, you know? Like...was that a foot, or a hand, or a knee or an elbow that just hit me? Is that just rhythmic kicking or 4 hiccups? I am totally loving this part of it!