almost 32 weeks!

I'll be 32 weeks on Friday. CRAZY! Just over 8 weeks until this baby's due date. I'm kinda hoping it will be sooner and at the same time I'm hoping it wont be because how am I supposed to plan for my mother to fly from WA to be present at his birth??? Hmmmm?

I've been trying to decide for the past several weeks how I was going to go about this whole birthing process. I think I may have come closer to a decision today. My awesome sister in law Erica sent me a book about HypnoBirthing. Its been so excited and so great so far! I've been quite against HypnoBirthing because I've only heard horror stories about it. Well, I've never been a closed minded girl so I though I'd give it a try and read and research and guess what...I'm totally loving it!

There was a CD that came with the book and I was curious about it so I asked Mick if he would like to listen to it with me. He was completely knocked out within 5 minutes of the CD!!! hahaha. I even woke him (mostly because I wanted to make sure he was okay.) and he just wanted to go back to bed...at 8p.m. This is my husband who refuses to go to bed before 10 because he feels like we're too young to be going to be so early. "8 hours of sleep is all we need to be getting. Anymore than that is a waste of time!" Yeah...that's my hubby. I'm still awake because I thought we'd be spending the night playing games with family so I took a 2 hour nap before dinner. Due to weather we had to cancel game night. So here I am...awake.

I have a jar of Hershey's kisses sitting in front of me now. I've been debating eating one. I actually like them! Weird huh? (For those of you who don't know or have forgotten, I don't like chocolate. Especially Hershey's chocolate...)

Go check out a few of the latest things I've been making! :D

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baby and i are still growing lots and lots!

oh my goodness...

i was awakened at 4:30 am by a phone call from my baby brother who was having issues finding his flight to Portland...
he is so dang lucky i got my phone working again last night and that it was fully charged and sitting on my night stand and that the radio it sits next to is so old that it wigs out whenever my phone is near by, especially when it rings. haha.
no worries.. we got everything taken care of. i think...i'm still awaiting a second call from him saying he's on his flight!


and its all good. i'm going back to bed!

The Third Trimester

Braxton Hick...HA! oh my goodness, I can definitely feel them now. They're not painful just extremely tight and uncomfortable! Its a weird weird feeling, my initial response is to squat and push. Ahahaha!
He's moved facing toward my bellybutton now which means I'm feeling a whole lot more elbows and hands, knees and feet. Sometimes it seems like he gets super hyper and is all over the place and wiggly. It makes me laugh. :)
The only thing that sorta bugs me is when he gets the hiccups. Yeah...imagine someone living inside your stomach poking you. Over and Over and over...and over. Its a love/dis-like relationship. It does make me happy because its cute he gets the hiccups. hehehe.
I've been craving oranges a lot lately. Cold oranges. and orange juice. and I love to pair it with this really awesome tasting cranberry spice bread Debbie bought. My all-time favorite food right now. :D
I've been super emotional lately. Like WAY emotional. Many many things make me cry. Haha. I don't even know what to do about it except laugh. I call my mother a lot and cry out loud or silently. It always helps to talk to her. Well, at least listen to her talk my ears off!

My energy levels have gone way down again. I NEED at least 10 hours of sleep and have started taking naps in the afternoon. I feel like a bum sleeping so much but I just feel like I need it.
Anyways...these have been the new things of my third trimester. Can you believe I only have about 10 1/2 weeks left?! WOOHOOHOO!!!!!!!

Whoa...I just realized after posting that last post that I have EIGHTY DAYS left! 

...just a couple days over 12 weeks. I really can't wait.

oh yeah...i almost forgot i play the cello

Tonight I had the opportunity to play with my ward "orchestra"! It was sooo much fun! I forget how much I love to play. Baby tried helping me play by kicking the back of my cello through out the whole performance. LoL. The lady who led the little orchestra (which actually was a pretty good size, 21 people total and there are 5 others who weren't able to make it tonight) wants to put together a trio and she wants me to be a part of it! Cool! I do get nervous playing in Sacrament meetings but I always love being able to share my "talent"(????). Nah...it is! Its not my best talent but I can play, I can read the music, I can hear when I'm off key, and I love it! I am very excited to get back into it again! Its been too long!

'tis the holidays!

They're here! well, they have been here. Can  you believe Thanksgiving is over? Just two more weeks until Christmas!
I'm sitting on the bed while Mick sleeps. We've been up since six thirty a.m. Crazy huh? We decided to go ice fishing with some friends. I ended up being the only girl out of what felt like a million and eight guys. It was fun though. Chaz hung  out in my coat. He kept me warm and baby kept him warm and I kept baby warm. Family. sigh...it really is the best huh?
Both of my boys are completely zonked out! All three of my boys! ;) Baby was kicking a lot earlier but is now still. He's been extremely active these past few days! It must be that sugar syrup nasty throw up in my mouth stuff that I had to drink to see if I have gestational diabetes. It was sooooo gross and I felt extremely nauseous and dry heaved a lot and had a head ache and I really hated every moment of it. The nurse took like six tubes of blood from my arm too... Not really my favorite morning ever.
Well, I'm 28 weeks now. I feel like a whale. My shirts are officially getting to small. Last night as I was getting into bed Mick said I was officially pregnant. I guess that means he thinks I'm huge. Lol. He likes it...i think.
It's weird being in my third trimester now. I still feel like I have forever to go until this little guy makes his appearance. I guess I have about 2 1/2 months left is all! THANK HEAVENS! I get about two-three hours on broken sleep a night. I have a pinched nerve in my back now. I feel heavy. I grunt every time I get out of bed or off the couch. (bahahahahahaha! grunt is a funny word!). Meh, I'm not complaining. Just noting that pregnancy is uncomfortable from about day one. Well, day one of the third week. (That's when I started having morning sickness.)
I'm getting ready mentally for baby. I have decided to do a natural birth (am I insane?! Maybe...). I just feel more comfortable doing it that way than putting all sorts of drugs into my body. Every woman is different. I definitely am not against pain killers, heck I may even end up doing it that way! But for now...I'm planning on a natural childbirth.
Goodness, I really cannot wait until I can see my baby. See all his features. His tiny hands and feet. Chubby legs and arms (he was already chubby at 20 weeks so...).


SOON!!! (I have to keep telling myself!)

I love these baby feet!