When we were discussing middle names for the baby (see
this post) FIL commented that ‘William’ was a good name (since it’s my dad’s and his name.) Needless to say, that automatically scratched that name off the list. I would only be naming the baby after MY dad, not FIL and, as I suspected, he wouldn’t see it that way. One less name to consider.
My brother (see
this post) had the nerve to tell my mom that he’s “happy” that his girlfriend is pregnant. Happy?!?! Really??? That’s the emotion he has?!?! I’m 26 weeks pregnant and still anxious about ‘being ready’ for this baby and I’m in a committed relationship and we BOTH have jobs. I just don’t get it!
Our vacation was very relaxing. Unfortunately, the cruise was 80% 70+ year old passengers. I’ve never seen so many wheelchairs in my life. Two weeks on a
floating convalescent home cruise ship is a little long for us. I was very ready to come home…just not ready to come home to reality.
Things are going great with our little boy! I had a dr appointment on 11/30. At that appointment I’d gained 10 pounds in five weeks (21 lbs to date!!!) Yikes! She helped me to justify it by saying that I was just on a two week cruise and Thanksgiving fell in that time too. She’s so wonderful! They’re not concerned about the total weight gain but she doesn’t want to see so much weight in a short period. We got another ultrasound (our 14th!) and the baby is looking great!
At my doctor’s appointment we were talking about Braxton Hicks. I’ve been having quite a few of them. She was worried about their frequency. This weekend I had my first visit to labor and delivery because of her concerns. I was monitored and everything looks good. My cervix is “nice and long.” It appears that all the excitement is in fact just BH and I need to up my water intake (I don’t even know if that’s possible) and rest. Ha! The excessive BH did get me an extra OB appointment. She wants to see me in two weeks and again in two weeks instead of the normal four week appointment.
While in L&D, we got our 15th ultrasound. They did a few extra measurements. Our baby is HUGE!!! I was 25w4d and the circumference of his head is measuring 27w0d, his belly is measuring 27w2d and his femur is measuring 28w0d! We also got a quick view of his face and his cheeks are super chubby and extra kissable just like the hubs' but it looks like he might have my long, gangly limbs!
We’re having another 3D ultrasound on Friday, 12/17. I can’t wait!!! I confess, I’m addicted to ultrasounds!
I haven’t talked in great detail about our living situation but we live with my family (which actually means my mom and dad, my dad’s mom, my mom’s sister, my brother, his girlfriend and us. It's a huge house so its not as bad as it sounds.) My parents have a 1200 sq. ft. ‘apartment’ on top of their garage/additional bedrooms. We’ve been living in about 600ish sq. ft. of that for the past two years. It’s basically a huge master bedroom and bathroom. Up until recently, that’s really all the space we needed. We knew we’d eventually finish off the rest of the space (its basically bare bones…no dry wall, sub-flooring only, etc…) but the rush came with baby. Now we are in construction hell! I guess there’s never really any construction heaven. It’s just chaos. It’s taking forever, it’s a mess, its costing more than I planned…blah, blah, blah, yes, I’m whining. Well this weekend we had to move out of our master bedroom into the main house guest bedroom so that they can do finish up some of the construction. Unfortunately, this means we moved from 600ish sq. ft. to a 12x12 bedroom. To say its cramped is quite an understatement. It also didn’t help that I got a nasty cold this weekend. I was sick, uncomfortable and living in a tiny shoe box. There were some tears shed! Luckily, it’s only temporary (4-6 weeks but I’m praying for 4! Please God!!!) Anyway, the final product will be a slightly smaller (aka normal size) master bedroom, a baby’s room, a small, but fully functional kitchen, our own laundry area and a full living room. It’ll be nice once it’s finally done but I reserve the right to complain in the mean time.
Our laptop got sicky this weekend too! It just shut off and decided it didn’t want to turn back on. So not only was I stuck in bed but I didn’t have my laptop to entertain me or catch up on blog reading. I was bored out of my mind. That probably had something to do with the tears shed over the weekend. Unlike me, the laptop was still under warranty so it’s in being fixed (it’ll be at the computer doctor for 2-3 weeks!) Because we’re spoiled rotten, we went and bought another laptop (we had planned on buying a second at some point anyway) last night so I’ll be able to do some blog reading tonight! Woo hoo!!!
I avoided my IL’s over Thanksgiving completely!!! We told them that the hubs was going to be working so we were unavailable. In reality, he was working, on our apartment. At least I didn’t have to deal with SIL! I wish we were going to be able to avoid Christmas too…and all of 2011...
I also learned recently that I don't qualify for family leave. Apparently, I need 1,250 hours of working time logged in the year prior to leave. Due to my taking advantage of my sick time (I admit it) and the sick time I legitimately took while undergoing a year of fertility treatments, I won't have enough hours by March. I should've known that I needed the hours and I'm totally beating myself up for this. I'll still be able to take the extended leave when the baby is here but it'll be a personal leave which means I'll have to pay out of pocket for our medical insurance, $1,230 a month!!! I'm still working on seeing what all my options are but I'm so stressed. I can't believe I let this happen!
I’m feeling very disconnected lately. I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like, I haven’t been commenting as much as I’d like, I haven’t gotten caught up on the 500+ unread posts in my reader from while I was on vacation… Some of you got your BFPs, some got another horrible BFN, some of you found out the gender of your bundles and some of you even gave birth! I’m so behind! I feel like life is just spinning around me lately. I can’t get a grip on it. I apologize. I’m still here and I miss you all.
Well, I think that’s enough for now. I’ll leave you with some recent pics from our cruise. I’ll be posting another post with belly pics!
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| Our room...before we got it messy! |
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| The living room |
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| Dual TVs and wet bar |
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| Us in Kauai at my Great-Uncle's house |
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| Enjoying Poipu Beach |
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You can't really see us in this pic but that's not the point. This is the view from the lobby of the Hyatt.
I WILL be returning to stay there one day! Amazing! |
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| Okay, anybody heading to Kauai or Waikiki needs to go to Puka Dog. I heard about it on Travel Channel and begged to go there. It was everything I imagined, and more! We went to Puka Dog on both islands because it was that good! |
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| One of our last dinners |
