Moving Party!

So, what do you do when you have a bunch of furniture to move, but one person is preggo and the other is still recovering from knee surgery? You have a moving party! Tonight we had some friends over to help us transform the office into a "guest nook" and the guest room into the baby's room. I didn't think to take any before and after pictures (darnit), but between Mark's, Jeff's, Craig's, Bill's and David's muscles we got the dresser from the garage up to the baby's room, two sections of the gynormous desk down to the garage, the queen bed and two book cases down to the garage, the sofa bed from the garage to the guest nook, the TV and entertainment center from the baby's room to the guest nook, and the crib assembled!

And while we had everyone here, we took the opportunity to have dinner (thank you to everyone that helped me make dinner, especially Bill and Kari for dropping - er, I mean - helping with the pizza - hee hee) and play some poker too! It was a fun night (and I was actually feeling half human that evening - bonus!) and we are truly grateful to our friends for their help!

I promise to post "after" pictures when the rooms are done. Painting the baby's room comes next.

6 (and 1/2) month belly pic

I figured I might as well do the rest of the belly pics at the 1/2 month mark since that pattern was already set the last two months. I have had a good couple of days since I went to the urgent care clinic on Tuesday. I actually got my hair done today (first time since August) and watched a March Madness game with JJ and Beth at Chili's this afternoon. Hopefully I'm on the mend permanently, but if not, I'm not going to wait so long to go to the urgent care clinic next time. If I have to go once a week the rest of the pregnancy, so be it.

Again, if you dare to see the bare belly version, click here.

Our Current "Kids"

Our current "kids" have been such a support to me that I feel the need to acknowledge them in a blog post. Oni (pronounced Oh-nee) is on the left and Benny on the right. They hang out with me all day and follow me around. They constantly entertain me. One of these days I will get video of Benny throwing toys to himself. It is the cutest thing! Oni especially, seems to know when I'm feeling REALLY bad. He will lay next to me on the bed and occasionally nudge me with his nose even during the middle of the day with the sliding door open. His FAVORITE thing is to play outside so I know when he is choosing to be with me on the bed instead of going out, it means something special.





This is Oni doing his "Buddha sit."
He's my bud and is constantly checking
on me to make sure I'm okay.
If I'm feeling particularly bad,
he'll stay with me all day.

This is Benny keeping me company.
He RARELY hangs out on the bed.
It's only when I'm really sick
in the middle of the day.

ER Visit #6

Okay, I know you are going to think this is just a ploy for sympathy, but really, at some point you either have to cry or laugh about it. Today, I'm choosing to make light of it. I took these pictures with my iPhone while I was at urgent care. I finally got to the end of my rope with my symptoms (again) and had my friend, Julie (life saver!), take me to urgent care. They hooked me up with 2 liters of saline and electrolytes plus a shot of Phenergan. Totally worked! I felt GREAT the rest of the day! I may be going more often if I continue to feel as bad as I have been.

I'm 6 1/2 months so be looking for an updated belly shot soon.

Mommy's a Porker!

Losing 25 pounds to reach goal weight of 145 on the LA weightloss plan in 2007...$1100

Gaining all of it back (thanks to fertility drugs) when we started trying in vitro fertilization again in 2008 ...$50,000

Gaining another 30 pounds and tipping the scale at 200 pounds because I'm over 6 months pregnant...PRICELESS!!!

5 (and 1/2) month belly pic

Well, we missed the 5 month mark, for obvious reasons... You know what they say, if the shirt still fits...figuratively and literally. Things are definitely progressing along. The baby is moving a lot now (kicking my bladder is his favorite activity). He has definite sleep patterns. He wakes up with me about 6:30a.m., then is up for an hour or two, a short nap, then up for another hour or two, then a longer nap until about 8:00p.m., then up until we go to bed at 10:00p.m.

Click here if you dare to see a bare belly pic.

Baby's heartbeat

Today is 5 months and we just happened to have a doctor's appointment. I brought along my iPhone with my new iRecorder app and recorded the baby's heartbeat.