halfway!

HALFWAY!!! (as of this Saturday)

We find out next Friday, yes Friday the 13th, if it’s a boy or girl. I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to dote on the pregnancy, but now that the time is nearing to find out the sex, I’m getting extremely excited. If it’s a boy, it’ll be time to start fighting over a name (we can’t decide on even ONE name we both like!), if it’s a girl…. oh man…. it’ll be my first and I might go a little crazy for a while. I’ll THINK I need all this girly stuff Also if it’s a girl, there’s no fighting over the name, that’s been picked for a very long time.

I finally had to break down and buy some maternity shirts, I’m still wearing my own and as you can see in the pic…. they are RIGHT there. Usually I’m just at home and it doesn’t matter, but having a few shirts that fit will be nice. I have my one and only pair of maternity jeans and as you can see I have to wear a belt with them. What’s with that?! Not that I mind!

choir time

A pic from yesterday’s choir performance. My son is holding the “R”. He’s loving choir and appears to be doing an excellent job! He may have finally found something he’s really excited about. There are only 2 boys in choir this year, but luckily enough it’s him and his buddy that he’s always with. He takes choir very seriously and after the first performance I overhead him discussing with the teacher what went wrong. haha Great, my kid will be the one asking for more practices! He’s now wanting to learn to play guitar, sound like a good plan to me! Heck I think we all might end up learning how to play. Good Job J!!

bedtime routines

I’m curious about everybody’s bedtime routine for their kids. I’m left wishing I could clone myself at night, it’s stressful for me. C (2 years old) needs to go to bed earlier than J (10 years old) obviously, but it’s so hard to get C to bed without feeling like I’m leaving J out. This would be a lot easier if C was easier to put to bed……. but that’s a whole ‘nother topic, how to get kids to go to sleep on their own. Getting C to bed can sometimes take an hour! So if this process starts at 8pm, it could last until 9.

I want J in bed before 9, but I don’t make him go to bed at 8. But my having to put C to bed means J gets left alone to fend for himself for that time or he just ends up going to his room and entertaining himself… playing computer, reading or watching tv. Which really when you think about it, isn’t awful, some alone time is good too. But I know for a fact that we have some jealous feelings anyway so that’s what makes it most hard.

I NEED HELP! I don’t know how to do this.

How do you put your kids to bed. I’ve tried letting J hang out in C’s room while I read him stories before bed, but that never works because they end up horsing around and not going to sleep. Most nights C and I will take J down to his room, tuck him in, say good nights, give hugs and kisses and then head back upstairs to get C to bed. But I of course feel guilty thinking about J feeling jealous that I’m going to spend more time with C while he just gets tucked in and left alone. I think I’d feel less guilty if I could tuck them both in and they’d both go to sleep on their own. Not to mention, my stress level would be unbelievably lower!

So how do you do it?

Not to mention… I have NOOOOO idea what I’m going to do when the baby comes.

more water and more work

Living with leaks just plain sucks, there’s no nice way to put it. We’ve had light rain for the past couple days and my basement is leaking, my kitchen window in leaking, and my roof is leaking. GAH!!! As if it’s not depressing enough having all these gloomy days and watching the rain on the outside, now I have to see it on the inside of my house too!!

New subject… I’ve made it through that not so fun first trimester and I’m taking on some more evening shifts, which of course leaves me feeling all sorts of different ways. We NEED the money, like you don’t even know, but I’m going back to missing out on family time at night, which sucks. But really I’m just going to have to suck that up for a while and deal.

17 weeks (16ish week appointment)

Wow. 17 weeks! Where has the time gone?! I was talking to a first time Mom a while back who has a 9 month old and she was saying how 9 months of her baby girl’s growing up went so much faster than 9 months of pregnancy. I giggled to myself later thinking, yep that’s how it goes for the most part. Thing is, once you’re onto baby #3 there isn’t time to think about the pregnancy. Just like now, I’m almost half way through and wondering where the time went, when do I get to just sit and relax and enjoy the pregnancy. Well, lately it’s been about 2 am and I’m not really enjoying it then, I’m miserable and can’t sleep because I can’t get comfortable. It seems like just yesterday I was asking for this baby and now voila half way through almost. I look back on my last pregnancy and I blogged everything, I kept track of everything. Now it seems the only time I really remember is when I’m trying to find something to wear (as I have 1 pair of maternity jeans and 1 maternity shirt) or C punches me in the gut….. again. Those are pretty good reminders.

I’m not near as happy with my OB doctor this time. He just doesn’t seem “into” being a doctor this time. I’ve learned a bit more about him in these past few days which gave me a little insight into why maybe he seems a little off in his own world. My doctor’s appointment yesterday was our first time getting to hear the heart beat. I don’t care if I’ve had 10 babies, it’s still the sound of your babies heart beat and it’s amazing! After listening I said I wished I would have brought my Flip so I could have recorded that little heart beat. I didn’t do that with my other kids so that would have been something fun to have. He was a little shocked that I wanted to do that, he said usually only first time Mom’s care about that stuff. Which brings me to my point of him not seeming real interested. I’ve gotten the feeling that because it’s my third he sees this as all just routine stuff and expects me to be like eh ya whatever, alls good, cool see ya in 9 months to pop that thing out.

And he’s SO damn worried about what we’ll do for birth control after this baby. Seriously if he asks again I’m thinking I’m going to tell him I’ve gotten pretty heavy into religion and it’s now against my religion to take birth control so I won’t be needing anything. When I told him I wanted the same as I was on before this baby he was like WHY?? You plan on having more?? Ummmm……. MAYBE?! You got a problem with it?? He asked if we were gluttons for punishment. Me maybe yeah, the man on the other hand….. from the look on his face I think he was with the doc and was thinking OMG get me outta here!! haha But seriously…. he’s making me feel so uncomfortable and like this is all just boring routine stuff to him.

I spoke to my friend who’s also pregnant (about 8 weeks along) and also seeing the same doctor as me and she’s having the exact same feelings. We both loved him last time. And we are both on our third. He’s asked her about birth control EVERY SINGLE TIME, just like me. Every appointment. WTF?! Maybe next time we’ll just tell him to write it down so he’ll quit asking us and acting like we’re crazy. She too feels like he’s just not really into it anymore. He new and young so he shouldn’t be burned out all ready, unless he just made a wrong career choice.

Anyway… about the actual pregnancy. Things are good, great, grand! He FINALLY gave us a due date, because we asked! March 27th it is. Of course then he was like maybe a little before, maybe a little after. Oooooh no buddy, you say March 27th and you better have this thing outta me then. No if, ands or buts about it. haha I’m just kidding. Maybe he’ll/she’ll be  a couple days late and give Papa a birthday present he won’t be able to forget!

Speaking of he/she. Since I had my 16 week appointment kinda late, we’ll be going for an ultrasound around week 21. Which is a-okay with me, I said you just make that appointment for whenever you’ll be able to tell me if this is a boy or a girl. And so she makes my appointment for Friday the 13th!!!! Are you serious?! GAH!! haha Hopefully it’ll be some kind of reverse luck thing. Already when I left the office that day to have my blood work done they drew the wrong tube and I had to go back and have more drawn and the girl who did it the 2nd time sucked and it hurt like hell. That did not make me feel good about this whole Friday the 13th thing.

Zia already gave her guess, she says boy. I guessed very soon after I was pregnant and said boy, so everybody else better get to guessing. We have 4 weeks of waiting.

I was looking back at ultrasound pictures the other day. J’s pictures looked normal. In one of C’s pictures he looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle, had this weird band across his face in the pictures. And this baby looks like a bird!!

I now must go make the most of my quiet time while C is sleeping. Having 5 kids here for a good part of the day means lots of messes.