When I say bloat...

... I mean it!
Took this photo before we left to go grocery shopping.

I'm not pooching it out at all lol. That's just pure food bloat.

Oh well... just can't wait for it to actually be baby b/c right now I just feel huge and fat... not in that good pregnant way either :P lol
That does make me actually look pregnant though :D  Makes it look like I'm carrying really high hehe

April 1st

Hopefully not too many idiotic jokes will be played today.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good joke/prank, but yeah, it gets irritating sometimes lol.

Anywho... everything has been good here. Finished up the base coats for the painting on the wall. It's gonna be soooooo much work, but I'm ready for it. Hope my body is as well.

Man, yesterday I was SO frickin bloated all day long. I swear I looked like I was 7 months pregnant which I guess I'm not far from. But man, my stomach was so hard b/c of the Chinese food I had eaten the day before for lunch.
I hope I poo today b/c I know it will help.

Today is going to be just grocery shopping and working on the painting.
DH had a great idea for it.
The scene that I'm doing (sorta) has Luke and Leia, R2D2 & C3PO standing in front of a big window looking out in to space.
DH suggested that I could change Luke and Leia in to Kermit and Miss Piggy :D Great idea *nodnod*
AND he suggested that I use the wall sticker stuff which I was thinking about doing anyway to make it a little easier. Most def for those 2 at least.
I really hope this looks good when I'm done.

Busy

Today has been a very busy day. We were home for a little bit to eat some lunch and then we went out again.

No crib today. Boo lol
The place didn't have one of them that we were wanting to look at, but they are getting it either next week or the week after so hoping to see it then.
We've narrowed down our picks though between that one and this other that we really like. DH just wants to look at the other one before making a final decision.

We got the dresser today

Honestly, it's not the greatest quality. Like something you'd buy from Walmart. Not bad, but not great.
We'll def be replacing this within the next few years lol. It's not a bad dresser or anything, it's just not the best quality.
But yeah, dresser really doesn't matter too much anyway. It will hold clothes and possibly diapers and the changing pad on top and that's all that matters lol.

We have another dresser. This one is DH's childhood one that he's had since well.. childhood lol. He doesn't even remember when he got it so it could be older than him.
It needs some repairs to it, but it should be pretty simple.... hopefully :P
The color on it seems to just be painted on. I'd like to paint it, but really, it doesn't matter if it stays the way it is.

We went to the clearance part of the furniture place today. They had a lot of nice stuff marked down hundreds of dollars, but nothing that we really wanted. We're just being picky.
We did buy a crib set though :D
It was $120 which is a bit pricy, but that was for 9 pieces.
Lemme see.. there's the blanket, sheet, dust ruffle, 2 curtain things, an accent pillow, bumper, toy bag, diaper bag.... erm yeah that's it heh...
It's the perfect color and matches the room spot on.
Also, it's not too girly other than the color which I really like and the design is very simple.
Here's a photo of the blanket and the pillow. It all looks like that so no point in pulling it all out of the bag lol.

It has dragonflies on it <3... Love dragonflies. Plus I still get that 'dragon' kind of thing in there for the Chinese zodiac too hehe well.. at least in name :P

Just gotta wash it or spray it down with something b/c it was the one on the floor. Who knows how many grubby hands have touched it! lol Ew

And finally, we bought a glider/ottoman online. It's backordered though until the end of April which sucks, but hopefully it's nice. It didn't cost too much thankfully and shipping was free so woo! heh I'll post photos when we eventually get it.
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This little girl is moving up a storm right now. Was pretty quiet for most of the day and she is just moving all around right now. Started a couple of hours ago and she's been going since.
I'm starting to feel her kicks above my waist line now. Seems like just yesterday that I was saying how I could feel the top of my uterus below my waist.
Wonder what she's doing when I get the weird bubbly feeling. It's down further and from the u/s I had, she's head down... maybe it's her little hands moving around?
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Oh and before I finally stop... I had to post this video up. It's SO frickin cool and sorta weird.
It also makes me want to jump in and soothe the poor little crying baby.
It's not anything terrible lol, just neat.

Woot!! 1 thing down

We bought a dresser! YAY!
We went to a locally owned furniture place we saw listed on craigslist.
There was a particular white dresser I wanted to look at. They didn't have it there though, but we bit the bullet and went ahead and bought it.

We'll be picking it up tomorrow! We got there just in time since they were leaving tomorrow to pick up their orders. YAAAAAY! I'm so excited to get it :D
On their website they have it listed for 220, but we paid 202 plus tax. A LOT cheaper than expensive overpriced nursery stuff.

Now we just have to get the crib, and hopefully a glider w/ ottoman too heh. Found some really nice cheapish ones online. May have to convince DH to go back to the terrible traffic side of town tomorrow.
It's gonna be a very busy day.
Going back to the baby furniture place, gotta go to pick up the dresser, have to go to this health food store to get a 5gal water thing and yeah, whatever else that we can come up with.

"Are you showing yet?"

UGH... it's so insensitive.
I know I go on about being fat and such, but just to be asked that just rubs me the wrong way.
Yes, I know I'm fat, but damn, I wasn't THIS big before was I? Geeze...

Thankfully it doesn't bother me a huge amount, it's just irritating.
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Oh I can not sleep on my back. I was laying in bed with DH trying to feel LO move, and my lower back started to ache like crazy. Guess that's a good thing considering how I'm not supposed to sleep on my back (which I havent been).

LO was being a stubborn little girl last night though. I'd feel a kick or 2, DH would hurry in and put his hand where I felt it, and nothin....
It happened a few times too. Just bad timing heh.
Made him talk to me while he had his head in my lap. NO not going anything pervs! lol
I just wanted him to talk so she could hear him close.
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DH is working outside right now trying to finish up the frame to the gardens. We decided to do them smaller since before they were just a tad too large.
Really need to start planting very soon. We have a long warm period though so starting things a bit late shouldn't be a problem. Going to have to remember to put down some sort of insecticide though. I know it's not great to use, but we really need it. Last year I didn't put any down and the plants all looked terrible and the cucumber plants that usually overproduce barely did anything.
So yeah, something will have to be put down for all of the grubs and whatnot, and then spray every once in a while if things start looking bad.
Can't wait to hve some fresh veggies though!
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Wow.... it's hard to believe that in just over 4 months... we're gonna have a baby and that's if she stays put the entire time.
Looking at it that way, it seems like time has flown by. Weird how that works lol.
Wow... 4 months... pregnancy really doesn't last very long does it.
Living through these months feels like forever, but thinking about the time that has passed and how quickly the end is approaching... just wow.

AhHa!

I remembered! hehe

I asked DH the other day who he thought the baby was going to look like.
He paused for a min so I spoke up and said that I think she's gonna look like him, and he totally agreed.

Ya know those people with really strong genetics? Well that is DH's family.
I think it's b/c they have pretty distinctive features.
Like his mother has a shortish nose that kind of points up a little and a very strong and low lying brow.
DH and his 2 sisters look just like his mom. Well, the older sister does favor the FiL, but looking at them all together, you can tell who they really take after though and it's MiL.
MiL's brother that has 2 kids... both of his kids look like him, especially his son and both kids are tall like the dad too.

I'm sure if DH's aunt and other uncle were able to have children, their kids would've looked exactly like them as well.

And now SiL with her little girl. Seriously her LO looks just like her. The brow isn't as strong, but the nose and everything else def resembles momma more than daddy.

I think that's how it's going to be with our girl and hopefully whatever other kids we have.
I don't mind at all b/c of course I think DH is a handsome devil lol.
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AND.... I'm pretty sure baby was using my bladder as a pillow earlier. Just SO frickin uncomfortable and the feeling of having to pee every 10min was very strong even though I really hadn't had much to drink.
The tech at my last scan mentioned that LO was resting right on my bladder, but I never really noticed.

I mean I'd have times when I'd have the urge to go and only a trickle would come out. And then 10min later, have the urge to go again and have a full flow, but didn't think much of it I guess.
Maybe it was her resting on my bladder causing that to happen? *shrugs*

It was one reason other than just wanting to feel her move, why I drank the lemonade. I wanted to try to get her off of my bladder b/c it was really starting to ache.

Alrighty....

Lets get the negative post off the top, shall we.

So other than the frustration at DH today, it's been ok.
I've been feeling pretty tired lately though. Just have not been sleeping well.
I get to sleep fine, but staying asleep, and getting back to sleep has been a big problem lately.
Just feel drained. I just want to sleep better!
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Went to visit DH's grandfather in the hospital today. Nothing serious or anything.
Of course my pregnancy and baby came up. That's totally fine and all, but then the person (grandfather's girlfriend's daughter) started to go on and on about all of her grandchildren... her most recent one which is only a few weeks old and how that daughter is SO fertile.
Really???
I do not want to hear how fertile your family is lady.

And then I had to hear how everyone thought I was having a boy. UGH. The ONLY reason people thought that was b/c SiL just had her girl, and my brother has 2 girls. So I guess DH's sperm and my egg didn't get the memo that we were SUPPOSED to have a boy :\
Even though I know they're happy about this, I still get a HUGE sense of disappointment from the inlaws.
I mean hell, we're not the only couple on that side. Geezus, they act like DH's 2 other sisters will NEVER have children (or more children) so they will never get a boy!

UGH that just annoyed the shit out of me!
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DH and I should be going to a furniture place tomorrow. They have a dresser for a little over $200 that we want to check out along with whatever else they may have.
REALLY hoping it's nice b/c, even though that's still 200... it's a whole lot cheaper than buying the expensive shit in a baby store/section.
I swear that stuff is so damn overpriced it's ridiculous.
So yeah... FX!
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Need to get a protractor. The painting I want to do is so precise and I need one to make sure the angles are equal everywhere etc. Gonna be such a pain but hopefully worth it in the end.
DH wants to put down the base coat. He's already painted the rest of the room the lavender.
I was afraid it was going to be too light, but it's def not lol. It's SO frickin girly looking hehe I'll get a photo onces all of the tape has come off.
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Figured out how I can get baby to move heh.
I was worried b/c baby wasn't really moving last night or this morning and I remembered that she gets pretty active after I drink something sugary.
So I had a glass of lemonade (YUM), and about 30min later, she started kicking and whatever else in there heh.
Wondering what she's gonna do with that glucose drink at my next appointment lol.

I'm still not really used to feeling the movement yet. It doesn't weird me out as much, but sometimes when it's a very strong movement.. it's still just really strange.
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I have NO frickin idea what the hell to put on our registries. I made one for target, buy buy baby, babies r us, & walmart.
I have no clue what to put on there.
I put on crib sheets, shampoos and washes etc, but pfft... we don't know anyone rich so can't exactly put expensive stuff on our lists as well, ya know?
Not that I expect anyone to buy us something expensive or anything, and I will be more than thrilled if someone got us baby shampoo, wipes etc.... it's just difficult when you can't put on the pricier things, ya know?
I'm trying to add only things under $30. I think most of what I do have listed is under 20 actually.
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There was something else I wanted to yammer on about but I can't remember now... oh well... I'm sure it will come back to me later