Nesting?

DH mentioned it last night when I said I was going to fold all of Zoe's clean clothes.
I dunno... I don't think I'm nesting. Isn't that more of an urge/compulsion to do all of these things?
I have no urge to do them.... I'm doing them now b/c if I leave any of it for much longer, they will never get done.
Heck, Zoe's clean clothes haven't been folded since before Christmas (yes I'm admitting to that)....
There's stuff in there that we bought her while we were Christmas shopping :P
And the kitchen.. well, that was just long overdo.
We needed more counter space for a bottle & pump parts drying rack and with how dirty and cluttered everything was... again, if I had left it any longer, it never would've gotten done.
I didn't WANT to do any of it lol. I'm just on a roll right now and want to get as much done before the procrastination hits again.
Hell, we still have our Christmas tree and other decorations up and the hell if I want to mess with all of that. :\

Going to move all of my crafting crap in to the nursery in a few so I can start on the mobile.
Need to look up hero photos though so I can get those details right.
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Sleep last night was a little better. Went to bed sooner so woke up a bit earlier at 1:20. Thought I was in for another long night... and it did start off that way. My insomnia mixed with DH's uncontrollable sick snoring. But I eventually went back to sleep in about an hour or so. I did wake up a few more times after that, but thankfully wasn't up for more than 10mins.
But of course, Zoe picked today to wake up earlier than usual, and be fussy so I couldn't snooze for a little while longer. OH well.
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Trying my hand at making some bread today. We don't have a stand mixer or bread machine so this is going to be interesting lol. Hope it comes out ok. Nothing better than fresh made bread. I won't be able to eat a lot of it obviously, but if it comes out ok, hoping it will make DH feel a little better and it will be good for easy quick breakfast/snack/lunch meals.

I also want to make some cinnamon rolls. Again, I won't be able to eat hardly any of it, but having a nibble here and there should be ok :) Will probably make those later in the week.
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DH is off Tuesday-Sunday. He took the time off so we can get all of the rest of the preparations done.
Plus we really need to take our cars in to be serviced. Of course my mom would give us the SUV right before that had to happen lol. Again, like with the cleaning.. if it's not done now, it will not get done after Oren is born.
So yeah..... it's not going to be a relaxing vacation for DH or myself. That's for sure.

Taking a break

... from cleaning.
I really haven't done much and still have a TON to do. Lots of throwing away crap we don't need and putting up stuff that rarely gets used.
I've cleaned up the bottom cabinets inside and out. Scrubbed the hell out of them. They all had grease drops all over them and just looked terrible.
The big task is to come though. Cleaning out the plastic containers and spice cabinets and washing the dishes.

Went to Wally World this morning too. Needed a couple of storage bins for the rarely used items and picked up a few other things.
Was going to buy some yoga pants for after birth, but they only had teen sizes or plus sizes (2X and larger). WTF?
Guess I'll have to spend a little more and get some at Target or something... IF they have some.

I did buy some breast pads and fenugreek. Gotta start stocking up on them now.

Also bought myself a diet dr pepper and 2l diet coke. Last night's sleep started off well. Got to sleep quickly and slept great....... until 2:44. Woke up and felt that slight need to pee. Didn't want to get up but knew if I didn't I'd just have to get up in 10-20min needing to go anyway.
Got up... used the bathroom, laid back down and WIDE AWAKE. UGH.
I didn't get back to sleep until frickin 5:30.
Thankfully Zoe's sleep schedule has her sleeping in until around 8-8:30 right now and she'll play pretty quietly in her crib so I can snooze a bit before getting up.

DH was also up around the same time. Poor guy is getting sick or something. He's getting bad phlegmy throat and I guess just couldn't really sleep well. Feel bad since he has to work this weekend and I know it will probably be busy.
Will be an early night for the both of us I think.
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Felt hiccups again last night when trying to get back to sleep. It was weird and I have no idea how he was laying b/c I felt them on my far left side (was laying on that side), but also felt movement in the middle and on the right. So maybe transverse?
Again, not that it matters, but just so curious to know how he's positioned in there heh.

He was really active when I was awake in the night though. Having a good time moving around. At least that was a plus for the insomnia lol.
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We went to a country buffet last night for dinner. I thought I was doing ok with not getting too much bad stuff. Well apparently I did a lot worse than I thought b/c my sugar afterwards was 155!! O_O
Oops.
I know one high reading like that isn't going to do any harm but dang.... I need to be more careful when we go out to eat.
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Gross, disgusting subject incoming......

What the hell is up with dogs and wanting to eat cat shit??
Our dog Cid is a total shit eater (cat and dog)... and DH caught him yesterday getting his cat treat straight from the source. *BARF*
We know he's gotten to the cat turds before b/c we'll see that the cat has messed up the pee pads but nothing will be on them.
He's a great dog... almost perfect. He's so patient and mellow. Stubborn b/c he's mostly bulldog and his farts are lethal, but he's an amazing dog.... except for the shit eating.
Thank gawd he doesn't try to lick us. We put a stop to that a LONG time ago.
The puppy Pippin is just as bad with the cat poop... or would be if he was quick enough to get to it first. I caught him a couple of times when we first got him trying to eat his own crap but think I scared that out of him when I freaked out after seeing him try lol.
It must be something that happens while the momma dog is still pregnant.

MiL used to have a dog from the same momma and daddy dog as our Cid.. just a previous litter and her dog was also a shit eater (dog and cat). Maybe bad food quality given while the dog is pregnant. I dunno.

GROSS GROSS GROSS.
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Alrighty... my break is going on to the 2hr mark lol... need to get back to work.

Weird child...

Zoe is supposed to be napping.
Nope....
I hear her on the monitor chanting
"Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash"

o_O

Thing is... she doesn't even really like the cartoon. I think it's still a bit too old for her so she doesn't understand it, but my gawd does she love My Little Pony stuff.

Yesterday, everything was all about Apple Jack.....

Don't feel that big

After looking at myself in a mirror these last few days... I don't feel like I'm all that big.
I do still have almost 2m to go and I know I was huge by the time Zoe arrived though.
It's like I got huge really quick, but then it all sort of stalled and then evened out to normal.
I'm sure eating better is helping to keep things from looking like I swallowed a basketball whole too heh.

I'm really not sure which way this boy is. Sometimes, I think he may still be breech, other times, I think maybe he is head down again. I dunno. Not that it really matters that much. I'm just curious heh.

I just felt hiccups again. Only the 2nd time I've felt them. Still lots of time to feel more, I just remember feeling them ALL the time with Zoe near the end. She was working out those little muscles getting ready to breath her first breathe :)

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SO frickin tired right now. My sleep was ok once the cold started to go away, but then the waking up for no reason and not being able to get back to sleep thing kicked in.
Last night, I woke up at 2am and didn't get back to sleep until 4. WTF??
Just let me sleep body!!! We're going to be in newborn sleepless hell here soon.... time to enjoy all of the sleep I can get now. Not lay awake for no damn reason. Grrrr
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Think I'm going to have to use disposables on Zoe for a day or 2. Not sure why but her cloth diapers are irritating her legs where the elastic is. Want it to clear up before putting her in cloth again. Need to look up some info to see if it's a common problem and what could be causing it.
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My plan for this weekend....
Organize and clean the kitchen. It REALLY needs it. It's a giant damn mess and I'm tired of looking at it. Only really have myself to blame though. Having so many mismatched plastic containers and the lids and just everything in disarray is totally my fault. I'm going to get it done though b.c the hell if I'll be doing it once Oren is here.

Also going to start looking up and sketching out the plans for the hero symbols for the nursery. Still not sure what they're going to be made out of yet. Was thinking felt, but don't think it will have the look we want.

But I will be making some cute little felt hero dolls for a mobile. Think I'm going to focus on heroes that can fly for that one. Ironman & Superman definitely. Just need to come up with 2 more. Might include another female hero in there. Maybe Storm.

Oh and while on the topic of the nursery. I finished Spiderman yesterday! WOO! Actually didn't take as long as I thought it would thankfully. The pens I used to draw in the webbing on the costume are terrible, but they reluctantly did the job. Not as neatly as I wanted, but still passable.
I did take some photos. Will post some soon.

And yeah... I think that's it for plans this weekend lol. DH is working so it will just be Zoe and I as it is during the week. She'll be happy though. She'll actually be able to watch some tv instead of having to play with all of her wonderful toys :P lol

Weird

I forgot to mention this the other day.
DH was at his guy's night, I was sitting on the couch watching tv.
I started getting really hot and felt off and bad (think I was dehydrated). So got up to turn the space heater off.
Sat back down, etc etc.
Well as I was watching tv.... I felt a very distinct but light pop and heard a click sound come from my bump. WTF? It wasn't near the bottom, it was between my ribs and belly button area. Was a bit paranoid that my water broke or something but I haven't had any discharge or anything.
So... WTF was that? o_O
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Been feeling better. Still having moments of the off feeling, but thankfully no more day long episodes of it.
Cold is all but gone. Still have a slight phlegmy feeling in my throat but that could just be pregnancy related and not lingering cold.

Feeling overwhelmed again though. Still have so much I want to do and losing the motivation to get things done.
I am forcing myself to finish Spiderman today though. We'll hopefully be getting a call about the crib and dresser soon. Want to have the walls done before we get those in. I can't wait to see what the nursery will look like w/ them in the room though :D
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Zoe is doing well. No more pees in the potty, but she has been ripping off her diaper saying she wants to do it. I guess that's something? *shrugs*
When she does it, we keep telling her every few minutes to pee in the potty and she gets so annoyed by it she'll start telling us no :P

I think she's going to be fine at my NST. Sit on the bed with me w/ the kindle or tablet and play some games with her. Hopefully she'll take more interest in that and not the surrounding things.
We'll see.
Thankfully DH is going to be off for the u/s appointment. That's at least one I won't have to worry about. Will probably have to get MiL to babysit for the rest of those.
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And yeah... not really much going on. A lot of procrastinating but forcing myself to get some shit done before it's too late :)

That's my big girl!

Zoe peed in her potty twice yesterday! Actual puddle of pee, not just a couple of drops!
So proud of my munchkin.

I put her in disposables yesterday b/c it looks like the cloth diapers are causing some irritation on her legs. Well bad thing about disposables is that she can take them off easily. She waltzes in here nekkid from the waist down saying she wants to use the potty.
So I tell her to go ahead and use the potty.
Thought she was just playing around like she usually does until she got up, grabbed some napkins and started to sop up the pee in the potty.
Cue me trying my best to get my big ass up from the couch and stop her rofl.
Then she did it again (just pee not sopping it up) about an hour later :D
I put some big girl panties on her which she really loved, but I guess going twice was enough for her b/c I look over and she's coming at me with a slightly soaked pair of underwear :P lol

So yeah, she's making her own progress. She's growing up so darn fast.
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I am feeling SO off today. Went to the grocery store and felt like I was going to throw up and was getting hot flashes. Felt just like you would if you were getting a bad cold.
Really hope I'm not getting sick again.
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Anyone NOT able to tell if they were getting braxton hicks contractions?
I swear I can't tell if I am or not. From the descriptions I've read, it doesn't hurt, your uterus tightens and it feels like the baby is moving.
So uhm... how the heck do you know if you're having them and when? B/c my bump always feels tight and as for baby moving... well... yeah...
*shrugs* I think I'm pretty intune with my body most of the time, but not when it comes to that. I thought that tight heavy feeling I got when I was on my feet for too long was it, but I don't think it is now.
Oh well...

No thank you!

One of the women in Zoe's DD group just gave birth to her boy.
YAY for her, but OUCH for her poor lady bits. She said she tore almost to her urethra.. to her pee hole. Uhm.... no thanks! I'll be happy with my c-section thanks. O_O
What would that be considered... 3rd degree tear or 4th?

Either way.... OUCH OUCH OUCH. I dunno why women are so afraid of c-sections when THAT could happen to them too. In my mind... both suck just as much as the other.... there is no worse/better.

Anyway.. I hope she heals up quickly.
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DH told me that his sister (the one I gave the femara to), will be visiting w/ her husband the 13th-15th of March. I'm so excited and happy that they'll be here to see Oren when he's still nice and tiny.
Think they're taking a trip to Disney World and will be driving up here.

Oren should definitely be here by then whether if it's a week early or just born. Probably a week early I think.
We'll get that figured out in a few weeks.
Holy crapola I still can't get over that we only have 2 more months left. I can't wait to meet my baby boy!
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I think he may have flipped back to head down yesterday. I'm not entirely sure, but I was feeling a lot of movement closer to my ribs than low down yesterday.
Plus, I felt hiccups for the first time last night when going to bed and those were definitely lower towards my pelvis.
I'm just guessing though. He could be flipping all over the place so could be back to head up again lol.
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Zoe spent the night with aunt again. Sigh....
I already told DH that we're going to have to say no.. eventually :\
I really don't mind her spending the night and love that they want her to spend the night, but it's only going to be just her here for 2 more months. Plus, I just don't want Zoe expecting to spend the night every damn weekend. It should be a treat.. not expected.
We'll grow some backbones eventually and finally put our feet down :P lol