Saturday, February 26, 2011

Pizza and The Outfit

I guess this blog post will have a few different things in it (pictures included, yay!)

The First...

This is the most awesome pizza we ate for dinner tonight. We went all out on it. We have this recipe off the internet for a mock recipe of the BBQ chicken pizza from California Pizza Kitchen. Only we have taken it and made it our own. I mostly just use the crust recipe now (cause I love it) and then do whatever the heck I want with the rest. First I make come bbq sauce. I've come to find there aren't a lot of bottled bbq sauces that are up to my taste (cause it's so fined and all...) so I make my own. Ketchup, brown sugar, minced garlic, lime juice, red pepper flakes and whatever seasonings I have on hand and feel like using. Then we cook up chicken, and put it in the sauce and spread on crust. The we add the rest of the toppings. Tonight had everything we love... chicken, bacon, green onions, avocados, tomatoes and of course plenty of cheese. Now the secret to awesome cheese on pizza is to put a layer down after the chicken/sauce mixture and then even more on top of all the toppings. Yummy. I ate a ton. I'm still full. Also, Jamo made a big ole batch of rice crispy treats. I might explode. Happy sigh.

The Second...

This is one of those silly things that I think some of us mother's to be (especially the first time around) think about: Baby's first outfit. All important and critical right? Right. So after searching and searching I think I have found the one, the outfit that baby will come home in. And isn't it adorable? I LOVE the colors and I have a special place in my heart for plaid. Plus it seems like a decent summer outfit for my baby to where for an hour and then spit up or poop on. So there it is, the most important decision has been made ;).

And Thirdly...

Some of you may remember when I built this shelf and only had two sad lonely green cubes in it, just waiting to have gender specific colors to accompany it. So here it is all boyified. And we're going with elephants as our theme, so there his elephant is. Also other cute baby stuff will go in it at some point. I found this cute elephant piggy bank on amazon that I want, one day I will have it and it will sit somewhere on this silly shelf (or maybe somewhere else, who knows). The best part of this, which you can't see, is that this shelf is now sitting on our futon due to lack of space. We're awesome.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Adventures in the ER

Jameson woke up nice and early this morning to go to work. I, as usual, got up then to go the the bathroom (I've calculated it at everything 3 hours during the night). I came back and laid in bed. And that's when the pain started coming. Now, I've had this before, I know it was caused by the McDonalds we ate the night before. A doctor before told me it was IBS. So I laid there and thought I would be fine, but alas, I thought I was going to die. Jamo went to work cause I told him I would be fine. I threw up, got on the computer and started feeling better. So I decided to try and sleep again (it's like 5:30 am at this point). As soon as I lay down it starts hurting again and I get really nauseous and puke like a maniac (tmi?). I then try and lay in bed and see if it will go away. After dieing and crying I decide I can't take it anymore and am going to the hospital. So I told Jamo that I was going, and he left work to come meet me. I drove myself to the hospital, cause it's not very far at all, stopping at times to puke out the car door. So I get there and find a lady at the check in and she asks if I'm pregnant and how far along. So I tell her and she gets someone to get me a wheelchair to wheel me to the OB floor. I also had to get a bucket to puke in on my way up, they got it to me just in time ;). So I get to the room and the beds are all messy and she has to clean one for me. Meanwhile, she tells me to put on a gown. And for the life of me I could not figure out how to snap that stupid thing up. They really need to make idiot proof ones for those who are in so much pain they can barely stand, let alone figure out there gowns. So I had to have her help me. And you know what I found? When you're in that much pain, you don't care at all about being umm, modest? I was like, just put the darn thing on so I can sit down. So I sit, they check my blood pressure, hook me up to a baby heart rate monitor (they suck at finding it and mostly just found mine in my stomach). Baby was fine, heart rate was normal, but I was in deathly pain. So after all the hoopla and basics they tell me to wait for the doctor. They sit me up and I start feeling better. By the time the doctor comes in I'm feeling almost normal (of course). He asks me like two questions and then tells me I probably have some acid reflux thing, because he, himself, has it. He starts telling me what symptoms I have and what it should feel like. And I'm like no, those aren't my symptoms. And start going more into detail. After that he started semi listening to me. And said it might be my gall bladder or acid something or other (he was really hung up on it). But also that there wasn't a lot he could do about it and that more tests would have to be run. And some of those couldn't be done until after the kid was born. So he ended up calling my OB, who ps, I've never even met do to a change in doctors that happened this past week. And they told me to take zantac and to make a follow up appointment. Needless to say, I think the guy was an idiot. And they pretty much did nothing. So I'll probably be billed for sitting in a bed being hooked up to a baby monitor and having a doctor too hung up on his own illness to even think my problem might be something else. Oh well, it should go towards our deductible, which I should be hitting anyway this year with this kid. Also, I think they should just take out my gall bladder. I think it would be best and maybe I can eat without fear again. And since I know I'm hitting my deductible this year, and mostly likely my max out of pocket limit, we might as well throw it on right? While we may have crappy insurance, it's still nice to have it. So I need to call my doctor tomorrow and see if she wants to see my sooner than the 8th, which is when my next appointment is. I just hope they take this seriously this time and finally fix it, cause I'm sick of it, dang it.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

crafty baby fun

So since I found out we're having a boy, I've been doing some of the craft projects that I've been waiting to do. And here is what I did this week...

The big one is a diaper holder pouch that goes in your diaper bag. The smaller one is a travel diaper wipes case that I made fantastically awesome to match. And the button and string is a pacifier clip.

And I think they'll go nicely with this awesome diaper bag I bought, that should come at some point :S...So yeah, fun times. Now I need something new to do with my time.

Friday, February 18, 2011

21w4d

I'm trying to keep up with taking photos of myself occasionally as the pregnancy goes on. So here is my second photo on this blog of me at 21 weeks and 4 days...

I still don't think I look much different. I did eat quite a bit today though, so maybe a little bit bigger? Probably not. I feel like I've gained a ton this week though or should have with all the crappy food I've been eating (baby like).

I've also hit some nesting, especially since finding out that our sweet little baby will be a boy. It's really hard not to buy everything in the store. And then I've been making baby crafts the past few days (photos to come later). Bad part is that I've done so much that I don't really have a lot left that I wanted to do. And now I'm bored. But I do plan on doing some reading, on account of I have library books that need returned and another on reserve. I did finish "Emma" today though, it was an accomplishment for some reason. Anyway, nesting. I think we need to do our tax returns cause babies are expensive. Anyone want to buy us a crib? It's crazy. And I realized today how many clothes a kid actually needs and what a lack of them I have. I'm sure I'll get enough by the time he comes, but man!

Is it bad I'm bored with my own post tonight? And I feel like I'm rambling about nothing. But yay for a photo! K, that's all.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Lists and Sleep

So I've decided that I need to do more with my days. I need to be more productive with my time. And there are some projects that I want to get done before this baby comes and I have no time to do them. I have daily goals and longer term goals. And I find that I know I should be doing something, but I completely forget what it is. I'll make whole lists in my head the night before and forget them all in the morning. I'm going to blame this on "pregnancy brain". It got really bad yesterday. So along with all my daily habits I want to acquire, I'm making a list of things to do the next day and writing them down. So today, on my list, I have: grocery shopping, exercise, actually making dinner, clean the living room and digi-scrap the 4th of July. I also need to make sure my lists are realistic.

Also, the baby is kicking my butt. You would not believe how tired I was yesterday. It was bad. I got 10 hours of sleep, which is pretty typical right now. But I don't know if I was a bit sick or just had an overly exciting day on Monday, but I couldn't function. Jamo suggested I take a nap (I hadn't been up an hour yet), so I did. I woke up 4 hours later! It was crazy.

And my dreams are out of control. A lot of them are doomsday, end of the world, people chasing me, trying to save the world dreams. And the ones this morning were intense and just kept going! Sleep and I are fickle friends lately.

Monday, February 7, 2011

And it's a...


And that about sums up this post!

Friday, February 4, 2011

My Awesome Baby Shelf

Yesterday I was slightly bored. And I think I'm already having huge nesting desires. So I broke out the boxes that had the shelves we bought a while back (they were on sale, woot!) and decided to build them. So here is where baby clothes and baby supplies and cute little baby things will go. We're going to buy more cubes once we know the gender (3 days!). But we like green no matter what it comes out. Now only if we had somewhere to put it. I'm slowing getting rid of our big furniture in here. First the over sized chair. Also contemplating getting rid of the futon. We just have no room. Anyway, here is the picture...

Thursday, February 3, 2011

First Baby Dream

I had my first official baby dream since becoming pregnant. It was a girl. And I sucked as a mother. First I was living at my Dad's house and they went camping. When they came home they asked where baby had slept I told them her car seat. So I go to get her out of there and I find I have placed her in a plastic grocery bag for easy carrying. Once I got her out I was holding her and Dad said something and then I kind of dropped her on the couch. Everyone freaked out, I got mad and went to my bedroom. I must say that for being newly born, my baby was very smart, like almost talking and understanding things I said, like "put your arms up" and then giggling a lot when she did it. Then I went back downstairs to get my stuff. And then I woke up.

Apparently I'm going to have a girl. And apparently I'm going to suck at raising the poor child.

Rescheduled and Kicked

Our ultrasound yesterday was canceled due to the weather. We were supposed to get this snow storm of epic proportions (so said all the weather people). While we did get the ice they said we would on Monday, we did not get the 8-12 inches of snow promised. We did get a couple of inches of some wintery mix, which you can pretty much walk on. We were so ready to be bundled up and snowed in... we even bought snacks.

The point though, is that we did not have our ultrasound. We have rescheduled it for this upcoming Monday, the 7th. Of course, we're supposed to get more snow. It doesn't look like it's going to be much though. And so they better not cancel it again. I will be mad. How am I supposed to buy tons of cute things when I have no idea what the little thing is. I would also like to quit referring to "it" as the "thing". So now we wait until Monday, again.

And a new development has taken place. I can now feel this baby moving around and sometimes kicking me. It's weird. And last night I was laying in bed and I had my hand on my lower stomach and that thing kicked me so hard I could feel it on the outside! It was crazy. I think there might have been a scream of surprise. So that's pretty awesome, and kind of like proof that I'm not crazy and I am actually pregnant.