So I've not updated in a while, mainly because there is not much to update... Most of my energy has been aimed at finishing out the school year and getting ready for summer school. Even now I'm supposed to be doing report cards, which is why I'm updating! Sometimes procrastination isn't a college phase...
I am almost 8 months pregnant.. (out of my 10!) things have been pretty normal (as normal as pregnancy can be) mainly due to the fact that I've not had an ultrasound since the beginning of April! The tests they ran in the beginning are still in the back of my mind and the possibilities of what "could" be stay with me, but I feel like its better than just pushing it aside, forgetting about it, then giving birth and have to all of a sudden face it, so I keep things in the back of my mind.
On a more positive note, she moves around like crazy! Anytime music comes on she bounces around... I think she's going to be musical... She must get it from her dad rather than her tone deaf, rythmically challenged mom!
My work threw me a baby shower before school let out and we got a lot of cute stuff! I was SO glad to see some things off of my registry! Having a baby is funny. You are supposed to register, but for the most part people buy you what they think is cute or clothing of some sort. So now the baby has TONS of clothes and I'm looking at the registry thinking.. hmmm, swing, hmmm, diaper genie, hmmmm stroller, hmmm, diapers. I worry about not having any of these things, and having 80 blankets and 15 pink dresses. LOL I have to admit though, opening all of the little onesies and dresses has been really fun! Can I say though, that if you are reading this, and want to buy clothes, can we gear away from pink? haha her closet is starting to look like I hosed it down with pepto bismol.. :) And its starting to make me freak out that she may come out a boy! The whole thing is fun though, and people are so gracious and wonderful when you are having a baby. I've not had to buy a whole lot of clothing, because it just comes delivered to my doorstep each week! So thank you!
Our parents have been really great, my mom and dad bought our crib for us, and Dans mom bought the matching dresser. It was so exciting when these things showed up! It makes the room feel complete! I love having the papasan in the room, and I worry A LOT about when we get the rocker than Dan's pop is making us... we are quickly running out room in the babies room, and I hormonely want everything to match and I'm refusing to get rid of the papasan. Hehe. It's comfortable, and its mine and its familiar and I can sleep in it! But I think I'm going to have to get rid of it in order to make room for the rocker... I know it means a lot to Dan, so I will suck it up and get rid of my chair. In all honesty though, I'm contemplating getting rid of the massage chair first. It's hard to get rid of something you love, that is comfortable to you, that you know you can sleep in for something unknown! And at this point while I'm not sleeping, the papasan looks like heaven! :( At least Dan is on the same page as me when it comes to matching. I love all the stuff we get, but the room is pink, tan and brown and so things that are green, or orange or a different color wood tend to get stuck in the closet til we figure out what to do with it. I know when the baby comes we won't care, and everything will get pulled out and itll be a mis matched chaos, but now its fun to walk back there and see everything cute and pretty and how WE wanted it to be. I think I'm coming off ungrateful in this blog, so I should stop soon, but isn't a blog supposed to be able to be a place to express how you feel? Don't get me wrong, I am so grateful for everything that everyone wants to do, and I know that everyone wants to be involved and put their touch on things, and its so sweet to watch. But when you have 80 people putting their touch and advice into your lives, and your not sleeping, and your hormonal, its easy to overlook the thoughtfulness and jump straight to the 5 year old mentality of NO MINE! :) It'll pass. I hope....
I just know its going to be chaos when the baby comes. Dan had a good idea, that when Riley comes and gets to go home that we ask to just have a couple days where its just the three of us before people come flooding over. He says he wants to figure it out for himself without everyone here vying to hold her, and telling us how it should be done. I think its a great idea, but highly unrealistic. People get so excited and rightfully so about a baby!!!! I think right now everything is just an unknown for us, and so we are freaking out about the little things, because we dont know how to freak out about the big things yet...
I'll post pictures of my belly soon. I put one up on facebook, but give me a week or so and I'll put up another here. It's baby week on Discovery Health! YAY for having a day off. HAHA...
OH! My baby shower is in 2 weeks, and I am SOO excited to see the girls. Stacy, and Raimey and Lisa and Jenn and a bunch of others are coming and I CANT WAIT!
