Tales of Li'l Foot

Hmmmmm…baby brain…placenta head…whatever you want to call it!!!!

This is now the second time I am typing this as my stupid web browser crashed as I was trying to log on to Sirius satellite radio so as to drown out the jerk who sits in the next seat over from mine who is incessantly clicking his mouse to scroll down or something and it irritating the living you know what out of my ears….grrrrrrrrr! I really need the ear plug that the doctor just surgically removed from my niece’s ear after being in there for over a month…YUCK…never mind I’ll get my own new ear plugs as that one is probably less than sterile.

Anyhoo, back to the subject at hand. I just had to click on the “Forgot Password” button on the blogger homepage and while I was at it, I had to click on the “Forgot Username too” button as well. I’ve fought it off as long as humanly possible, but I think the forgetfulness of pregnancy is starting to take over. (If only I could just happen to “forget” to go to my bosses house upstate on Saturday for what he calls a “mandatory department meeting BBQ”. My ass mandatory buddy!!!! more about that later) So it’s only because I was emailed my username and was able to recreate my password that I am able to bring you this blog! Ugh! I am not a forgetful person, but I guess the brain reached its capacity for the year.

I went to the doctor yesterday and met the “new” doctor in the medical group that I was stressing in my premiere blog. It didn’t go as badly as I thought it would. She was actually very nice, she was no Dr. McG, but she was okay. I think one of two things was going on yesterday. As she put the doppler on my stomach to hear li’l foot’s heartbeat and moved it here, there and EVERYWHERE the heartbeat was hiding. Now, I can only deduct one of two things…either she’s a bit new to this whole scene or the baby just didn’t want to cooperate yesterday and was busy doing other things inside……or maybe a combo of the two! Who knows! But the doctor was trying to find the heartbeat for a good 5 minutes. She was finally able to hear it but not without a li’l foot fight…I think li’l foot just wanted it to be over…but again who knows! The doctor measured my belly (the placenta) and it was right on target at 20 centimeters. My next appointment is scheduled for October 2nd (my grandmother’s birthday (God rest her little soul) and coincidentally the day after my birthday…..YAY…my 30TH BIRTHDAY people!!!!!!!) and guess what…the next appointment is schedule with Dr. McG…YAY!!!!!!!

But what am I most excited about right now…at this very moment…well, I’ll tell you! Tomorrow we have our Level II ultrasound at the hospital for our 20 week ultrasound. That’s right, I have reached the half way mark and we are so excited to see the baby and say hi tomorrow afternoon to li’l foot…I’ll say hi to li’l foot for you too!!! We asked my mom to come with us because we’d love for her to have a live shot of li’l foot instead of a picture after the fact. What better gift to give mom for grandparent’s day (which is this Sunday by the way)…Happy Grandparent’s Day mom!!!!!

So what else am I excited about…well I ordered
this…

and this…

and this…

and this…

and this…

and this…

and……this…

In order those items are a night light, switch plate, hamper, lamp, growth wall chart, shelf and hook to hang on the wall and a little rug. Each item is an extra accent piece of the bedding set I chose for the baby’s room. I registered for all the other pieces but the registry doesn’t have these pieces so why not get them on my own. Who’s gonna argue with me…I’m pregnant remember!!!! I’m sure someone would have something to say but isn’t and I really don’t care because they couldn’t have been delivered to my house at a better time. After a less than desirable weekend and my separation anxiety from being apart from hubbie for the past few days and having to work on Tuesday I took yesterday off to go to the doctor and then we went to lunch at a cute little Mexican place and then we bought a black & white cookie and went to the park to eat it and enjoy the outdoors and then we went to the Gap where by the way I bought the baby’s Halloween outfits (not costume…just outfits for the week of Halloween) for NEXT year…that’s right I totally went there…the baby isn’t even born and I bought outfits for more than a year in advance…got a problem with that…tough…they were cute. Will they go on sale by the end of October this year…most likely…will they have the size I want…probably not!!!! And these 4 little outfits included buying a little pumpkin hat complete with the green stem on top of it…SO CUTE…you just wait and see!!! So then we went to our dermatologist appointment in which we both got a clean bill of skin health. Although Sean got the “you really shouldn’t get tattoos in case I have to remove a mole or something from that spot” speech from the doc. Teehee…again…doc didn’t give me any problem with my tattoo on my hip…no one wants to mess with the pregnant woman and tell her what she can and can’t do…gotta love it (although it really was that he probably didn’t care as much about mine as he did about hubbie’s because hubbie is prone to more moles and stuff being Irish and all)! We arrived home and as we opened the door (the cleaning people had been there earlier in the day…and by the way they clean our house every other week since last Thanksgiving season and I still have yet to meet them) and as I opened the door they had taken in the UPS boxes that had been delivered with the said above items. And it was just a better day than I had had in a while so the boxes couldn’t have had better timing and it was so nice to go through everything and think about the baby. There also was a purpose involved in buying this stuff too. We need to paint the baby’s room and in order to do that I needed to see the color in the set so we could choose the right color. There is a method to the madness…trust me!

If you’re curious, this is the crib set I chose that goes with all the extras above…

It’s a set called Alphabet Soup by a company called Cocalo. I especially LOVE the fact that it ISN’T light green or light yellow (the universal sign/color for “we don’t know what the hell we’re having so we can’t choose pink or blue”). And since it’s primary colors the baby will be able to focus on the colors sooner (babies have a hard time focusing on those light baby colors just in case you were wondering. So in keeping with that NO GREEN OR YELLOW scheme, we are painting the baby’s room Orange, kind of like an orange as appears a little bit in the set but you’ll just have to wait and see when it’s done (I’ll take pix but it’s a ways off (haven’t even bought paint or even decided the exact color orange) at this point so don’t hold your breath).

So overall I’m feeling much better, my bronchitis is gone, just a lingering sniffle here and there but I don’t think that’s gonna go away..it’s an occupational hazard of being preggers. I feel the baby move at least 3 or 4 times a day now…poor hubbie thinks the baby is messing with him because anytime I tell him the baby is moving he comes rushing over to feel it but then the baby stops moving…but hubbies say will come too. I love laying in bed at the end of the day and having hubbie turn to me and be taken aback because the every growing belly is not disappointing each and every day. It’s growing and as it grows our excitement grows too. Although at work I still have people tell me I don’t look pregnant, like this morning for instance when I was in the cafeteria and some commented that very thing and how she has a friend who was out to here when she was 20 weeks. I guess it helps that I am still wearing my pre-pregnancy pants (or some of them anyway…woohoo). Shirts are another story, but whatever!

One last thought about that stupid BBQ I mentioned at the start of this entry. It is the stupidest thing ever. I spend the most of my time with people at work instead of with the people I truly love (my family and friends)… why then must I be subjected to yet another day of spending it with people from work when I’d like to catch up and spend time with my family and friends…so not fair!!! I’ve been told “no excuses” though…so all I can do now is pray for rain (AND SO CAN YOU!!!!!!!!) on Saturday. Rain = No “forced” BBQ!!!!!!!! So hop to it…do your rain dances, rain jigs, pray to the rain god/goddess, etc. whatever it takes, just please let it rain on Saturday!!!

Probably won’t hear from me until Monday most likely and guess what…by then you’ll be seeing the pictures from our ultrasound tomorrow!!!

A parting thought…and a sure way to make you smile and/or laugh… I’m going to a Shakira concert tonight. Ask me if I even know one song by Shakira! Ask me if I’m even going to be able to understand one spanish word that comes out of her mouth! My music preference falls under the country category at this point in time and I’m sure she doesn’t sing any country. HAHA!!!