Crazy Pregnancy Thoughts

Last night I had a dream that if you pushed hard enough on my stomach, you could see the outline of my baby's feet. And her face. And when my friend in my dream pushed with her hands and found her head, you could hear the baby cry. Weird, hmm?

Just goes to show where my thoughts are these days. Doesn't help that I'm having killer heartburn today due to some yummy but stomach aggravating foods I ate yesterday. I am officially feeling ready to have this baby, and yet not. Do you ever really feel ready?

I've got some crazy nesting/cleaning/crafting to do and at least 3 good weeks to get it done. (But more than likely 5-6 weeks.) These are just some last minute projects I want to do, definitely not necessities for this baby.

Baby B is pretty much squared away. I only need to wash her bassinet linens to make sure they're clean as the bassinet has been sitting in my dusty garage for a few months. I don't know why I didn't just store all of the linens from it in my house when I first got it back from my sister all clean. Oh well.

I'm moving a little slower these days. Yesterday while teaching my class of 8 year olds, I dropped things on the floor about 5 times, due to my slowing clumsy reflexes. And each time, one of them jumped out of their chair and very willingly picked it up for me, without me having to ask. I have very sweet kids in my class. They really seem to try to help me a lot. I appreciate all that help!

Reed is getting better at sleeping through my middle of the night noises i.e. groaning when I roll over, getting up to go to the bathroom, getting up to check on some phantom noise I heard, getting some Tums/Maalox for heartburn. I guess I'm helping to prepare him for when the baby gets here. :)

Aftyn is content in her little world. Sometimes she talks about our baby, but generally she says she's crying, or waking up, or eating. Evidently all things I've talked to her about. Or somebody has. My favorite is when she comes and spontaneously kisses my baby bump. Love that.

Aftyn  has a great capacity to be a good little helper when this baby comes, and I think once she gets used to the change the baby brings, she will want to continue to help with all the big girl things she can do. Can't wait to meet our little B baby!

Whoops . . . . I Can't Believe I Did It Again

That's right, I weighed my produce at the store again today to figure out the cost and then left them hanging there.
Now I'm starting to wonder, why isn't anyone telling me?! Isn't anyone around watching or waiting to use the little produce scales noticing this pregnant lady forgetting her produce?
Evidently not. I'm beginning to get very frustrated with myself. But not too frustrated. I'm still laughing about it, but if it happens a 3rd time I might be downright ticked off. And probably stop weighing my produce to get an accurate cost.

The following Aftyn story would be considered bathroom humor, so if you can't appreciate a potty trained almost 2-year-olds perspective of her bodily functions, READ NO FURTHER!

Aftyn has been having some issues with pooping the last couple of days and we haven't been sure if she's holding it in, hasn't had to poop or what. Needless to say, today she has been making up for it I'm pretty sure.

At her last bathroom visit, she informed me after only sitting a few seconds and blatantly "pushing", she said "Help, stuck". And looked up at me with perfect faith that whatever was stuck I could help her with.

I couldn't help laughing. It was all too cute and innocent. And luckily, it wasn't stuck.

New Favorite Dessert Recipe

Recipe found Here

All I can say is Wow!

Things I've Accomplished and Want To Accomplish (Continued)

I want to apologize in advance - blogger is being dumb and won't let me space this out! Argh!! Things I Have Accomplished: 1. Learned to really like having house plants and even managed to keep most of them alive! 2. Taught myself how to sew useful things for my family 3. Taught myself to knit - but I'm no officianado. I can make pretty easy things only. 4. Re-upholstered a couch by myself. 5. Had a baby without an epidural - something I wasn't certain was at all possible, and hopefully something I can accomplish again. Things I Want To Accomplish in the next year: 1. Teach myself to crochet. 2. Have a gathering in our house when we get our backyard in. 3. Try 15 new recipes 4. Be a better friend. 5. Make a piece of furniture from scratch. That looks good. :) (Last weeks was pretty wordy, and this week I felt like keeping it simple. It's easier to read that way too.) :)

Aftyn-isms To Remember

Earlier today right around naptime, my mom came to visit and as she left reminded Aftyn to come to her house soon and swing. Aftyn wanted to go right then, but we told her we would do it later which seemed to appease her. A few minutes later, she still wanted to go and swing so I had her go and ask Reed if he would take her for a ride later to go and swing.

Fast forward to about 30 minutes ago, as Aftyn looked out the window in the front room. She stood looking for a few minutes and then said "ride". And then walked over to Reed and said "swing". Hilarious! She remembered all these hours later that Daddy had promised her a ride to go swing, with absolutely no prompting from Reed or I.

Aftyn likes to look at the field of cows by our house as we drive by and talk about the baby cows, the mommy cows, the daddy cows and even the Aftyn cows. What a funny girl. She makes me laugh at how sweet and trusting she is about what we tell her.

Aftyn calls washing your hands after you use the bathroom, "rub rubs" because you rub and rub your hands together with the soap and then in the water to rinse off the soap.

Baby Blanket - Done!

It may not look like much, but it's mostly made of minky so it is REALLY soft and each of those designs on that blanket have been zigzagged around. Let's just say it took a lot of work, but I am pleased that it's done! :)

Ankles Turned Cankles

I've had this strange phenomenon occur at least 3 times this pregnancy.

One ankle swells, the other one doesn't.

I'm mildly concerned it could be something bad and so I called my midwife today,

but I haven't heard back yet.

In the meantime, it's kind of amusing to be able to enjoy the lovely ankle on one leg,

and the elephantitis going on in the other.

Anyone ever enjoy this strange phenomenon while pregnant?

By the way, can you tell which ankle is swollen?

**In further updates, due to the noticable size difference in my baby bump this time as compared with Aftyn's, I'm going to try to beg my midwife to have mercy on me and have me deliver at some set point before 40 weeks.

Big babies run in my family and I'm afraid! **