Leg, punching bag... same thing

It's official, I'm gigantic.  No, like, really big.  When I sit, my Budda belly pushes against my legs.  I think there's so much belly pressure against my legs that the baby starts punching my legs to tell me that I'm squishing him.  What the heck?  I didn't know that was possible.  People at work really want to rub my belly, but once the get within an inch or so, they switch to a hover around a crystal ball movement.

It's not so bad, but besides not eating hot dogs, the sleepless nights, and my new kankles, it's pumpkin latte time and I'm missing out.  I'm kind of sad.  I stood in front of the pumpkin latte poster eating it with my eyes like I do every morning at work with the doughnuts in the cafeteria at work.

Monkeys and the Mechanical Engineer

I had my Tuscon region baby shower!  The baby got so many gifts and little clothes.  There were cute little monkey decorations and great cake.  I may have accidentally ate 3 pieces of cake.  It wasn't all at once, it was kind of over several hours, and besides, I'm pregnant so it's totally okay.  I went through all the baby gifts and organized them and then re-organized them.  Mike put a bunch of stuff together and it didn't take him long at all.  I think he liked putting it all together : ).  So, I think we're all set now!  I'm pretty sure we're ready, but I don't really know since I've never done this before.  There are some more things I'd like to get done, but they're not "need to do" type of things.  But, I'm so big now that I don't think I could do any of them very easily anymore.  I'm so big that a girl at the checkout said that she was pregnant with 6 pound twins and she said that she wasn't as big as me.

Oh ya, it's Mike's baby

33 weeks

People are so nice to pregnant people!  I dropped a jello box at the store and someone came over to pick it up before I could finish thinking about how to pick it up.  So many people have come up to me and just started talking to me, asking me questions, or making fat jokes (e.g. "lay off the beer, man").  Although, I'm still getting the "are you having twins" question quite a bit.  I will give them some credit because we had an ultra sound done and they estimated that the baby is 5 pounds!  The Internet indicates that he should have been 3 3/4 pounds.  This is going to be one healthy baby boy!  The woman doing the ultrasound was impressed at how well his hair showed up and said that he must have a lot of hair.  It showed up as little wispy tufts in the ultrasound.  It was crazy and more than amazing, it was crazamazing.  I think he's going to look like Mike, which I'm pretty happy about, in case there was any doubt that it's Mike's baby.  : )

Anyway, we did our first load of baby laundry!  I didn't know if all of it should be washed or just the newborn to 3 month old clothes, but if this baby is really 5 pounds right now, he will be wearing everything in the first month so I should wash all of it.  So, I washed all of it.

Hot Dogs and Breast Pumps

I had my first baby shower! It was my Phoenix region baby shower and it went smoothly and deliciously. I'm still excited about having a baby shower even though it already happened. I ate, played games, and opened presents for the baby. There were so many gifts for my baby! I was getting nervous about not having anything ready, but this started us off well. I got so excited seeing all the gifts. I'm really starting to get excited and realizing that this is going to happen soon. I mean, I know this is going to happen soon, but it's sooner than I thought. Before I got pregnant, I thought being pregnant would last a long time, but it's happening so fast. The thought of not eating a hot dog for 9 months seemed unbearable, especially when people started telling me that it's actuall 10 months, but I feel like its almost hot dog time! It's bitter sweet, I'll get a hot dog, but I won't have my little guy with me all the time. He keeps me company at work. Who am I going to talk baby talk to at work when he comes out?  I guess I can talk to my jar of peanuts.

Anyway, I love going through all my gifts.  I can't wait to organize it all. Poor Mike, he's surrounded by onesies and breast milk accessories.

Uh....

I think there's a foot coming through my belly button.

A little vacation and a little elbow

Coeur D'Alene

Ah, I had a great Fourth of July vacation! We went to Coeur D'Alene for several days. It was chilly and overcast, which was totally awesome in comparison to the dry, hot, oven environment in Phoenix.


Phoenix





I usually run cold and I always have sweaters in my car. But now, I'm experiencing Phoenix through normal body temperatures and I do not like it. It's really hot here. Poor Mike, he runs hot and I'm only now understanding his arguments for lower A/C settings. Anyway, our vacation was great since it gave me a break from the heat, even though we came home to dirty, muggy, monsoon weather.

16 & Pregnant Prom Pose

We had a great time relaxing, playing games, eating, looking for chipmunks, hiking, boating, exploring an actual farm, and going to buy groceries for what seemed like many days.  We also got to watch fireworks and the main event was that Mike played in a 3-on-3 tournament in Spokane.  Their first game was against the team that actually won their bracket.  I wonder if mini-Mike is going to play basketball.  I know Panchita loves a little one on one with papa-Mike.


Mike gets some hang time



One morning, on this awesome vacation, I woke up and do my "flip to my other side" sequence.  I was on the part where I'm on my back, ready to start the roll to the opposite side, and the baby started moving.  Dang, I woke him up.  My belly button hurt A LOT, so I put my hand on it and there was an elbow sticking out of it.  I looked down and noticed my belly button was super-ultra-extreme-outty.  No, it wasn't just an outty, it was an inside outty.  I had a small freak-out.  It's just not normal.

My Little Coppertop

This may seem obvious, but I discovered today that I have a human INSIDE my body! What?!?! It's finally sinking in that there's a HUMAN inside me. I can't believe I'm making a little boy from scratch! I don't know what I'm doing and I have no clue what's going on in there. It's so weird.

Anyway, this morning it really hit home because everything felt really different. Every morning I have a routine for changing what side I sleep on. I can't believe that I actually have a set procedure for something so simple as flipping sides. So many things have increased in complexity now that I'm pregnant! Let's get back to the story...this morning, when I woke up around 5:00 am to change sides, I followed my procedure on flipping. First, I move my Snoogle out of the way, then I flip onto my back since baby seems to dislike when I flip too fast. Then, I stretch a little and when I was going to begin the big flip to my other side, I felt the baby move. But this was a different move, it was like I could feel him moving around like alien-style. It was like that scene from the Matrix when Neo "wakes up" in the fluid sack and you can see his hands and arms moving around in the sack. It feels like what that looks like. It was amazing. I looked at my Budda belly and I could see something moving. Maybe an elbow or foot or something? I wish I could see what is going on in here! Right now, it's not only exciting, it's also a little gross.