So....I planned on writing this post on Monday about what we did last weekend and a week 19 baby update. Well, thanks to some funky virus I came down with plans changed. Sometimes I feel like this whole pregnancy thing is a walk in the park...then I get a reality check like I did this weekend and I wonder how I will ever do it again. I don't want to complain because I know so many women struggle the ENTIRE 9 months (10 really) with puking and fatigue; but when you are sick and pregnant it is NOT FUN! Friday I decided to clean the house top to bottom like the good ole days (before the whole with child thing) and ROYALLY messed my back up for the second time in a month. I know I just need to space the cleaning out instead of going all OCD crazy lady like I am so used to doing. I just need to relax and remember that once the baby comes I won't be able to spend hours and hours cleaning because he will need me; and I don't want his memories to be filled with me always having to clean before I can play or give hime attention. It is easier said than done, but I am learning to try not to sweat the small stuff. So Frank was pretty frustrated with me when he came home to a nice clean house but a crippled wife. Ha! He watches me when I bend over to do things and is always saying, "see, your not bending your knees!!" He is like a little pregnancy nazi sometimes. He just cares about his wifey and babe.
Anyway, Saturday I was feeling better so we headed out to run some errands and pick up the paint for the nursery. We got home and cooked out and started taping things off. Frank started painting and I tried to sew a bib. HA! First, I am clearly not the smartest kid on the block bc the pattern was half a bib (because your supposed to tape two together) and I just started cutting away....then was like..um where is the rest! DUH!!! So I started over and things were going ok until I tried to attach the bias tape to the edges with a zigzag seam and it was a HOT MESS!!! The machine was only doing zigzag on one side and some funky seam on the other...then I tried to take it out and ripped the fabric. It was like midnight and I was over it and of course Frank's room was coming along beautifully so he rubbed it in that he is the crafty one! He is probably right. So we went to bed and within an hour I woke up feeling like CRAP!!! I was up probably 10 or 15 times through the night achy ALL over. I seriously thought I was getting the flu. Finally around 7 I woke Frank and took some Tylenol. It helped and I slept till 3. When I woke up Frank had finished the room (it looked so good) I hated that I wasted the day. I took it easy for the rest of the night and continued to take the Tylenol and Monday morning I thought things were getting better. I was WRONG.
On my way to work my entire body started aching again. I swear my hair even hurt (dramatic right?). I was getting a little scared so I called the doc and she said a virus has been going around so I should keep taking Tylenol every four hours and rest (not possible when your working 7pm-7am). The Tylenol helped a little but it was NOT fun feeling like that. After taking it easy and just sleeping and working the past three days I am feeling much better. It is just hard when you don't know what is wrong with you and want to make sure the baby is ok too..oh the JOY!
Weeza was due to get her yearly check up today so we went to the new vet out where we are now living and poor girlie got all her shots. She was so good. Amelia is due next month. They took her to another room to do them and I didn't really like that. HA! I am sure I will be such a mess when Cash gets his shots. I am always saying how annoying parents are when we are trying to stick for an IV, but I totally understand why they are. It is sad to see your baby being poked and prodded.
Just a quick update on week 19....(even though it is almost 20...YIPPEE!!)
- I have been feeling him a little more lately. Kind of just a strange gas bubble feeling and some slight swooshing movement. No kicks yet
- He is the size of an heirloom tomato and weighs 8.5 ounces.
- I don't know if it has been because I am sick or because he is getting bigger; but I get more full faster these days. A couple times I ate my usual dinner and felt like I was going to explode after. This is a good thing. Hopefully the all day/night hunger fests won't come back or I am going to end up 500 pounds by November.
- I ordered his first two monogrammed John Johns today. One is a brown gingham TURKEY one to HOPEFULLY wear home from the hospital. It will be pushing it since his due date is 11/22 but if he comes late he might just have to be an expired turkey bc it is too cute. His Nanna is NOT going to like or understand why his southern mother won't stop putting his name on EVERYTHING...when I told her it was big in the South to monogram she said she worries he will get abducted! I LOVE her crazy self!
- We are counting the days until next WEDNESDAY when we get our anatomy ultrasound. Prayers are welcome that everything looks perfect.
Frank bringing the crib upstairs and putting it together....
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| The finished product...LOVE! |
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| Frank working so hard to get those stripes straight! |
| They had to try it out.... |
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| My disaster!   |
I love your week-by-week updates on baby Cash! Frank is going to be a wonderful daddy...it's so sweet to read how excited he is over everything. And you are obviously going to be a wonderful momma. It'll be so cool to show him this one day and to see how much he was already loved. Keep the posts coming. :) Love and miss you!
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