Ok so I’m about to complain about what is actually really good weather. Today the high is going to be 79, and to my pregnant body it’s more like 90. I feel very blessed to live in an area with such great weather…the problem is what the heat brings – SWELLING! I’ve been doing so good, but this past week has been very uncomfortable. Nothing destroys your self esteem quicker then big ankles! Especially when it’s hot and you don’t want to cover up, but then again are to embarrassed to just not care about the big ankles (notice I didn’t say fat-they aren’t fat-they are just big!)
Category: pregnant
Well Evan’s birthday is nearing it’s end and I think it’s been a good day 🙂 We got him some good presents he wasn’t expecting and went to Red Lobster for dinner. Oh Red Lobster is so good…the biscuits, the vinaigrette salad dressing, and this time they had this coconut sauce to go with the coconut shrimp-oh it was to die for! Probably just the pregnancy talking but man did I enjoy dinner tonight. We got this sampler appeitzer, bacon wrapped scalops (bacon wrapped anything is good), crab and lobster stuffed mushrooms, then to top it all off fried clam strips. Everything was just amazing…and Lennox even behaved himself for the most part. I feel like it was my birthday!
Had my monthly doctor visit today. Everything is going perfectly, got to hear Aidan’s heart beat (very strong) After this it’s evey 2 weeks for a while..I’m in the beginning of the home strech-thank goodness! I’m so tired of being pregnant!!! Cross your fingers my diabetes test comes back negative…I’m not really worried- but you never know.
Today was good day… we had friends over for an early celebration of Evan’s birthday (which is Wednesday). We don’t get together as much as I’d like but when we do it’s always lots of fun. It’s so weird being the only ones with kids in our group (no other kids coming any time soon). We always end up talking about Lennox and having babies – which of course I love to talk about because I don’t have much else going on right now(not sure if you girls realize how much it means to me when you are interested in the whole kid thing – makes me feel not so boring). It is just so nice to have an adult conversation… no matter what we talk about! I enjoy it immensely and didn’t realize how much I miss good conversations.
Rain + Dogs + Lennox + No Electricity = not a fun day 🙁 We went to target to waste some time… I like wandering these days. I look at carseats, bassinets, bouncy seats… clothes – well you know. It’s always a good brain exercise comimg up with ways to keep Lennox happy so I can concentrate on poking and prodding carseats. Today, first a his size basketball and then a big boy football…then two bags of peanut butter crackers. Oh yeah I’m a good mom keeping my kid busy with food! He was a very good boy though (well for the most part) I’m just so excited for Aidan to get here that looking at that stuff gives me something exciting to do that relates to him. It’s hard with the second pregnancy because with the first everything is exciting and there is so much planning and reading and getting ready it takes the whole nine months. The second one you’ve already read everything, have almost all the gear you need, and if your having another of the same sex then you even have the clothes. So what’s left? I keep changing things in our house…furniture set up, cleaning strange things – like taking down all our blinds and washing them in the tub. I’m lucky to have such a patient husband, because of course I can’t move furniture or get the blinds down myself. We’ve gotten to the point now that there isn’t much I can change, so I’ve become more into window shopping.
I’m torn between carseats…we have to get a new infant carseat because a cat we USED to have peed in the last one. Ok so I’m not really torn but the one I want is pretty expensive…but it’s got memory foam and feels so comfy. Is memory foam worth twice the cost of one without? I can’t really rationalize it – so no. The evenflo embrace seems like a nice compromise though. It’s cushiony yet affordable. Oh the things that take up your thoughts in motherhood. Like how I need a rocking bassinet, because it will fit perfectly next to our bed and we won’t have to kick bub out of his bed too early. I truly feel like I need it…like it’s some how going to make those first few months of infancy easier – you know since it rocks and all. Letting pregnant women make decisions is really not a good idea. We are normally very level headed and responsible people. During pregnancy that all goes out the window and something else takes over. I’m not really sure what or who…
So washing the floor with Lennox as a helper seemed liked a fun and good idea… until he took ownership of the bucket and dumped it! Things turned from fun to really NOT FUN! Note to self, Lennox is to young to play responsibly with buckets of water – umm – duh!
On a totally unrelated note… I’m completely in love with kalahari zambezi red chai. It’s naturally caffeine free and antioxidant rich. I believe it is made by angels and sent from God 🙂 I drink it all day long – mmmm-with honey and milk. Actually red tea of any kind is wonderfully amazing. We have this new loose tea store in the mall that was put there by the devil. Everything in that store tastes, smells, and looks way too good! Evan and I got some custom mixes from there and we are hooked. Luckliy for the monkey on my back – I found the kalahari, it lives at the grocery store and is much less expensive. We could easily go bankrupt with too many visits to teavana.
Ps. I’m glad I’m not a bus driver! I would hit things a lot and probably never be on time – due to the fact that I would always be lost.