Pregnant Moment

I've been told that the mind seems to dull a bit due to pregnancy. Granted, I'm not normally forgetful or a clutz, but things have changed. Example: Saturday night. We had grilled out with my parents and I cleaned the kitchen as normal. Sunday as I was cleaning the kitchen, I found the vegetables. These vegetables are the ones that were intended to go into the fridge right after dinner for an enjoyable side at lunch on Sunday. But I didn't find them in the fridge, they were in the cabinet with the plastic bowls, etc. Awesome.

Cooper

During the summer, we dog-sat for our friends', Brien and Stephanie, when they went on vacation. Their dog's name is Cooper and he is a black cocker spaniel. Just the cutest thing. If I actually spent money to buy dogs, I would have bought a cocker spaniel. But instead, I like to inherit them. :) Anyway, Cooper spent most of his days staring out our back door. I would let him outside thinking that he needed to use the yard, if you know what I mean, but he would just sit on the deck. I imagine that he was watching out for squirrels, which we have plenty of.

Luckily, Cooper and Calli get along very well. She tries to play with him while he tries to mount her. While at first this was very disturbing to me, it got to be funny when she would just sit down out of boredom. Bruiser has no clue there is another dog in the house. He just wants to be loved on and lick human hands, legs, knees, feet, what ever he can get to.

Movements

I think my favorite part of pregnancy has been feeling all of the movements. It's So amazing to feel her moving around and to imagine what part of her is sticking out of my belly. She's big enough now that you can hear her heartbeat if you put your ear on my stomach. That is so stinkin' neat! That's something I cannot experience, but I get to experience everything else. It's like we have our own little world and our own little secrets about when she likes to move and when she likes to be still. She's also big enough now that you can see her movements through my shirt. That's fun to watch. I don't know if I'll ever be that mom who can know which body part is protruding to make my stomach form odd shapes. But I'm gonna try! Hopefully when I visit the dr again, he can instruct me on how to do that...

Camels and me

I have something in common with camels. No, it isn't my smell or spitting. We both hold lots o' water. Now, don't get me wrong, I have had a very easy pregnancy. I've never gotten sick, I feel good a vast majority of the time, and people keep telling me I am a cute pregnant woman (who am I to argue?) But I do hold lots of water. Luckily, I am not holding it in humps on my back, but in my legs, ankles, and feet.

I have been eating right (most of the time), and have been diligent about doing yoga at 5:20am on 4 mornings a week. I drink water like it's going to run out before sundown. So I shouldn't be gaining mega amounts of weight. Uh huh. I got on the scale for my weekly weigh-in. I've gained 5 pounds this week. And since my pre-pregnancy pants still fit, I know I'm not holding the extra lbs in my butt or hips. So where in the world am I hiding this weight? Well, of course the belly is holding some weight, but I just want to believe it's all this water and swelling in my lower legs.

I'm holding out hope that the cooler weather will help some of this water retention go away. If not, I guess I'll be that woman that brags she lost 25 pounds before leaving the hospital (because its all just water)...

The tailbone's connected to the...

Can someone please enlighten me as to why in the world my tailbone has been hurting me for the past week? Seriously. I'm sure it has something to do with my hips spreading or some pregnancy phenomenon like that. But man, that sucker hurts! Maybe I should stop sitting on the floor so much... This is probably a good idea anyway since it's getting a little tougher for me to get up off the floor. And I've got 15 weeks left, it's not gonna get any better from here. Ooooh! Maybe I should purchase one of those donut cushions to sit on!

Shower time!

My sweet friend Summer and I hosted a baby shower for another precious friend of ours, Brooke. Brooke is 8 weeks ahead of me, which is great so I can get all of the low down from her before it happens to me, or I can call her and ask for advice and clues to what my body is doing. But on a less selfish note, I am so excited for Brooke and Bryan. I know they are going to be such naturals at the parenting thing.

Summer and I made Brooke a diaper cake. I had always heard of these things, and people seemed to "awww" over them. And I thought, cute idea! At first I checked them out online. Riiiigghhhtt. Not for $150 (beginning prices). So Summer and I thought we'd try out our creative hand. It turns out, we aren't half bad! At least we were pretty happy about the way it turned out, especially since neither one of us had made one before. I think I should go into business doing this... But I don't think I could really charge people a Ben Franklin and a half.

The shower went so well, and the food was fabulous. :) I had to pull myself away from the cookies more than once. And Brooke got some super cool stuff too. It made me so excited to meet their daughter, only a few more weeks.

Yep, Still Got It

As I was driving to work one day last week (I know, I should have written then, but life has been busy), I heard a honk. Now, I drive through Bella Vista every morning. The drive to school should take me 15 minutes, but with morning traffic, takes more like 25. This is all due to traffic in BV. So we are all packed on that road like sardines, but to hear a honk is a little unusual. I look up and see 6 smiling faces. A truckload of construction workers waving at me. I actually laughed out loud. If only I could have stood up and showed them my belly. I did manage to put my left hand on the steering wheel to show off some bling. Then I passed them.

I hear another honk. What? Another group of construction workers. I assume they are from the same company as the two trucks looked the same. I laughed almost all the way to work after that. So I've still got it, at least in the face I guess!