8:48 a.m.

so far. . .
Obie has woken up with his first black eye. . .pictures to come.
He snuck downstairs
found a yellow marker
decorated his face
& a small portion of the couch
got growled at
threw a pillow, hit my coffee and splattered it

gave me a hug
shared his yellow (blanket) with Juma
petted Lily so kindly while cocking his head to the side
read several books with his sister
turned off the tv
begged me to read him a book
and
let me change his diaper without putting up a fight.


I love Obie.

Doctor. . .

Today was the doctor visit. 35 1/2 weeks basically, so from here on out that where I'll be at 4:20pm on Tuesdays. Nothing exciting. Really. I was hoping for a much more exciting visit. . .but no. There was not long wait, which was nice but I was so thirsty throughout the whole thing. The nice little scale went up 3 pounds so I'm at a total of 28 pounds. My blood pressure was up a little from normal, its usually low and I was informed that I was at a 1cm. Yep. A stinken one. . .I'll be working on that. . .I let the doctor know. I'm not sure how yet but I'm going to some progress for next week. I asked if this baby will "drop" and she said since its the third probably not until right when real labor starts. Bummer. I feel like I'm breathing like an elephant. Basically I can't breath. I can't imagine being obese and feeling like this all the time. Its awful. I dread making calls at work because I feel like I sound like I just ran a marathon. So thats my complaint for the day. . .oh and one more. . .I can't stop drinking. . .water that is. I am so thirsty. Last night, throughout the night I drank almost 36 oz. Try to drink that much, plus sleep, plus go to the bathroom throughout the night. . .I'm not talking about a 12 hour night either. More like 8-9 hours. Just so you know it doesn't work that well. Even if I drink more during the day, I'm still thirsty at night. Like I said before; 35 1/2 weeks down. . .4 1/2 more to do.

Interesting Article. . .I thought. . .considering all this panic!

Check this article out.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Learned-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx

35 weeks 2 days. . .December 5th here we come.

Well, hopefully not. Hopefully, its more like. . .end of November here we come. Tomorrows my doctors appointment. It will be my first of the new weekly ones. So every Tuesday from now on that is where I'll be at 4:20 p.m. Here are a few pictures from today. Obie hit my camera with a balloon on Halloween night and broke my flash. According to the camera store it would cost about $200 to get it fixed. . .a flash that would attach and work better would cost slightly less then that. I'm going to be needing my camera so I went ahead and bought a flash. . .the only problem is I can't figure out how to work it. I figured I better get it working since I plan to be taking a bunch of pictures in the next few weeks. So due to lighting issues this is what I could come up with today.

Dream, Dream, Dream

The past two nights I've been sleeping better, which is so nice. The only weird thing was Saturday night I had a weird dream. I saw our baby. . .through my stomach. This baby moves a lot. . .a lot. . .a lot. The way it moves is also more painful then how Grace or Obie moved. So anyways, in my dream I dreamed it was stretching outwards and flipping over. Because it was pushing out so hard it made my skin stretch and get really thin. . .so thin I could see through it. (so weird yes I know) Anyways, as if was flipping I pulled up my shirt and I could see the back of its head. . .it was covered with dark hair around the sides and the top was a little thin (I remember thinking this kids going to need some hats), then because of the flipping I could see its face. It had a little head and looked dark, I realized with was still doing its flip so I quickly asked Mike if we should keep looking to see what it was, its butt was coming up, and I looked. It was a boy. I was so excited. Mike wasn't sure what to say. He was a little in shock that he could see through my belly. In my dream I still had several weeks left but it made me so anxious to have the baby be born. The whole dream was a little bizarre. . .really bizarre. It did make me excited in real life to see what we are going to have though. . .just a little bit longer.

Movin Up in the World. . .

Its a little bit scary. . .I just ordered a dishwasher. That's right. A dishwasher. Full blown regular size dishwasher. No dishwasher exists in this house but we talked to a plumber and our neighbor and it seems doable, so we are giving it a try. I am so EXCITED. . .just worried that for one reason or another it won't work out. . .I'm not sure why. . .but there is hope and we will hopefully have it installed and ready to go soon. Ahhhh. . .so nice. This is our Christmas present to each other. We figured it would be better to get something we could really use and enjoy so this it it. . .Mike is excited too! (just so you know) Next thing on our list. . .a laudry putter away robot. . .one day.

35 weeks down. . .35 days to go.

I ment to have a picture today but I don't. Maybe tomorrow. I haven't been very happy today. Its been taking me 2 hours to fall asleep at night (for the past 2-3 nights) and I sleep awful. I get so hot during the night, I feel like I can't move, I feel so thirsty but don't want to drink since that just leads to me having to wake up and go to the bathroom again. I am officially uncomfortable at bedtime. I am officially uncomfortable bending over. I am officially uncomfortable sitting at the table. I am officially uncomfortable. I'm also restless. There are so many random things I want to do but doing them makes me. . .uncomfortable. During the kids nap time Mike helped me clean up/get rid of some junk in the basement which helped a bit with my mood. I'm also starting to swell up a bit too. I don't want to complain too much. . .I know it could be way way worse I'm just declaring I have hit the uncomfortable point. I would like to be able to bend over or pick up the kids and not be in pain. . .I don't dare say I want to sleep comfortably and feel rested, since we know that probably won't happen for a very long time but being able to sleep on my stomach without my big ol' body pillow would be nice. So basically I am excited to say 35 weeks down and 35 days to go. . .hopefully at most. Its a nice thought. 35 days. Pretty good. Tuesday is the doctors appointment and I'm hoping for some progress.