TIRED...

I am sooo tired I just can seem to sleep lately, aside from getting up to go to the bathroom 3-4 or more times a night, I just don't sleep well. (one night I actually got up 6 times). Anyway right now I feel like I could take a nap right at my desk, but instead I am trying to get all my work done so I can get out of here a bit early to start my long drive to Port St. Joe. I will pack my Moo Moo of a swimsuit and sleep on the boat this weekend...if I sleep. Everyones response to my lack of sleep is to get used to it because that will be the rest of my life. Yea!

Anyway since I shared Ada earlier this week and it so happens that I finally got a new picture of William (or Jeffrey Jr) I thought I would share that picture with you all. Please know that this picture is like gold, getting Amanda to upload a picture and email it takes alot of coaxing. Until I had the blog I never uploaded pics so we will see if I manage to do it post baby. Or I may be like Amanda who got this picture from Jeffrey's mom, but isn't it the CUTEST!!!

Also while I am sharing pictures I thought I would share this picture of Michael which I made him take on his cell phone. I told him if he didn't take it I was coming to the courtroom and taking it myself. Anyway...Michael occasionally acts as a judge and today was one of those days. He does something called "first call" and he goes over the charges against the inmates with them...atleast that is how I understand it. So that is why he is in a robe.

Go on...feel me up...

When you are pregnant people touch you all the time. Luckily I have not been felt up by a stranger yet! And some of my friends say I want to touch your stomach, but I will leave you alone. Just so you all know...if you are a girl and especially one of my close friends (which you probably are if you care to read my blog) then it is fine. Go on and touch my stomach, it doesn't bother me. Now I cannot say the same for men...if your a man I am a little more apprehensive about you touching me. But to date only a couple of men have touched my stomach and they were like family so it was fine. And if you want to talk to my tummy that too is fine by me. Amelie practically knocks me over everytime she sees me rubbing and talking to my stomach. I think she is in fact trying to tell the baby secrets because some times she speaks too quiet for me to hear...and ya'll who know Amelie know she isn't known for her quiet talking. So Lindsay wants the baby to love New York, and Amelie is telling the baby secrets in utero, and Anne is trying to sway the baby to be a Tarheels fan. Please let me know if there is anything else ya'll would like the baby to know.



This picture is from Anne's engagement party, Amelie is in the brown top, Anne is in the yellow. Amelie is standing next to her boyfriend Kent, and Anne is next to Christian. Somehow Whitney managed to escape this picture...but we all had a great time hanging out that night.

This picture is of the little hat Anne sent to the baby. Given the due date of December I am sure we will get alot of use out of it.

Day 143 and Growing

I swear I grew inches over the weekend...and it should be no surprise to me because in the last week and a half I have been eating like a horse! It is upsurd! I have been told by my little journal that I should start noticing an appetite increase on more than one occassion, but it has not been until now that I have noticed such a drastic change. And as day 143 says in the pregnancy journal these next couple of weeks are a big growing time, the baby will double in size by the end of this month.

So I have been meaning to share this fun book with everyone, because it obviously goes right along with the blog's theme. This is a precious book that Alexa brought me when I was about 10 weeks pregnant. She says that "Little Pea" is the one that they have and one of Ada's favorites! Speaking of Ada, I asked Mrs.Bullock if I could get a new picture of her this weekend and she abliged so i will share with you below.

So now to share some more fun stuff. Lindsay has sent the "fetus" as her card said a little of her NY spirit with this little onsie.

Day 140

Today is the 140th day of my pregnancy...only 126 days left to go. Presently the baby weighs about a pound, maybe a little over, and he is about 7.5 inches long. And this morning I think the baby was fully using every ounce of his weight to get me out of bed. He was doing some serious pounding. Day 140 means that tomorrow I will have 22 weeks behind me and be at the beginning of the 23rd week of pregnancy...I think. It is all so confusing because there are so many different ways of counting it. Tomorrow is the start of Lunar Month 6...whatever that means! It is LNMP week 23, or week 21, meaning that 21 weeks ago the zygote formed. But onto the cool stuff that happened this week...the baby now has the capability to grasp things. But with very little to hold onto he is probably just holding the umbilical cord.

Editorial Correction!

This evening I was informed by Jessica that I had mistakenly left out one of the babies names. Jessica has been refering to her as "whatchamacallit", hopefully I spelled that correctly otherwise I will be forced to run yet another correction. Anyway since most of you do not know who Jessica is, I thought I would post a picture and share.

Nursery Part III (more like 300)

So I wish I could tell you all that the nursery was finished the paint color chosen and the only thing we were waiting on was the baby...but I cannot. I now have 4 paint colors in the room on the walls in about 12 different spots. It is pathetic. But now I think I am going with brown walls. Momma said it is going to look like a cave, while others have wisely just kept there mouths shut. Anyway here is a picture of a nursery that is sort of serving as an inspiration, and a picture of two of the latest paint colors that I am looking into. Now try to remember that their will be alot of white furniture in this room plus plenty of art on the walls so the brown will only be in the background. Also I am using just the toile fabric and so the fabrics will be bright too. I am still on the hunt for fabric to serve as curtains.

1 lb.

So we went to the doctor today. And we had an ultrasound. We've seen fingers and toes and everything looks perfectly normal. My placental fluid is good, my sugars and protiens are good, my weight gain is on target, and my blood pressure is good. So far everything is going very well.


Today's ultrasound is on DVD, so we can see everything in motion. The babies feet are up by his head, he opens his mouth and either yawns or swallows, and he appears to be scratching his head at another point. And yes today we could have found out girl or boy, but we are waiting, so you will notice a strategically placed line on the video. Also the baby weighs 1 lb. today. When you notice the screen seems to be moving...that is either me laughing or the technician poking me in hopes of getting the baby to move for a better picture. At one point the tech measures the head, the second circular measurement is of the stomach, and she takes the heart rate which is 145. At one point the technicians arrow is up near the eyes pointing to a white dot, which is the pupil and the baby was moving all around. The video is broken up into two parts because the technician had to take some other views for her files.

So I will complete this post as soon as I can figure out how to get the ultrasound onto the blog. It is a DVD and it is in a format the blog does not like.