The Run Down of My Day

-Got up and ate breakfast.
-Took a bath and attempted to shave my legs. (This is a joke when you're preg.)
-Found a package on my door, it was my pack-n-play from my registry from Bobby's aunt Clarice, cousins Megan and Mary. (Thank you, thank you, thank you!!)
-Got gas.
-Went to my specialist appt. in Atlanta.
-Doc said my cervix was the same as last week. (2.1cm - 2.2cm)
-Saw baby playing with his feet. (SOOOO cute)
-Baby weighs 4lbs and 3oz.
-Doc told me that my next appt. will be the last one, then I see my regular OB from then on.
-Told me to come off medication at 35 weeks so I can start having contractions again. (I'll need to start again to get my body ready for real labor.)
-Their printer was broken so no pics this time. :o(
-Went to have lunch with my honey at work and tell him about the appt.
-Went to Staples to pick up a fax and fax some more leave paperwork to HR.
-Came home and started cleaning.
-Helped Ronnie with some special things he was doing for his GF's b-day today.
-Sorted some laundry and cleaned some more.

Now I'm getting ready to have dinner and sing happy birthday to Andrea. :o) Thanks to everyone who left me comments either on here or on Myspace yesterday. I love you all...

Anniversary

February 24th, 2008 my little boy was born an angel... it's been a tough year since then, but I do think it has made me stronger. I'm not gonna do a long blog on this subject because it will only make me upset and I really don't want to be. I just wanted to take a minute and thank my little angel baby and tell him I'm sorry I didn't get to keep him. I will always and forever miss him and love him til the day I die.

Mommy loves you little Brent...

Just Realized

Some of the socks that my aunt Mary put on the diaper wreath totally match some puppy dog onesies I got a while back at a consignment shop here in town. I can't wait to match them up and make little matching outfits! SOOOO cute!

PUPPY SOCKS

PUPPY ONESIES

(I got these for $0.99 at the consignment shop... 2 of them still had original Carters tags on them. I love bargains!)

Pics...

THE NEW 'DO...

31 WEEKS!

I've got to share the surprise I woke up to this morning... My parents went to Alabama to visit my mom's family. They came back with these wonderful gifts for my shower...

DIAPER CAKE!

DIAPER WREATH!

My aunt Mary totally ROCKS in the diaper cake/wreath creations!! They are SOOOOO cute!! And it's totally going to match the whole shower color scheme and theme. I can't wait to proudly display my aunt's hard work. It's pretty extensive, I don't even know how long it took her to make. I really hope she can make it to my shower, she's been pretty sick lately. If she can't come I totally understand, I'll just have to make sure and get a ton of pictures of everyone admiring it! :o)

Thank you SO much Mary - I love you!!

Paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork...

Wow, I really didn't realize that going on short term disability required so much paperwork. Authorization... certifications... notices... this form... that form. I got the list of the things I needed to do in order to receive my short term disabilty pay in the mail yesterday. I've been filling out and faxing forms for the past hour. At least I'm done for now, until my doctor signs my "Certification of Health Care Provider" form and sends it back to me so I can sign it and send it to my HR dept. Oh, and I have a 15 day window to complete all of it and turn it back in or else I won't get approved for any pay. That's why I started on it ASAP. Well... I would've started last night, but I wanted to fax things over when I knew someone would be in all the offices I was faxing to. Let's just hope my doc gets it done fairly quickly and sends it back to me soon. I see him next Wednesday, but that's only 3 days before my deadline to turn it in, so I'll probably call tomorrow and see if he got to it and when I should expect it back. The boredom of being at home all day is getting to me. My most exciting parts of the day are at 10am when The Doctors come on, and then around 5:30pm when all my family gets home. Soon, that will all change... my favorite parts of the day will consist of looking at my baby boy and changing him and playing with him. Memorizing every feature of his face. I just can't wait. 10 more weeks (or less)...

Funny Pregnancy Cartoons

3D/4D Appointment and Baby Shower Stuff

So I've booked my 3D/4D ultrasound appointment for March 8th. I'm so excited! I got the Complete Package which includes a 25-30 minutes session, a CD of all the images, a live 4D video clip on the CD, 18 color prints of my choice, an online baby album to share with friends and family, a baby brag book, a report for my scrapbook and a DVD of the entire session. I can't wait!! My 2nd baby shower is the following weekend so I'm going to set my laptop up on one of the tables and play the DVD. I can't believe in 10 weeks or less I'll be holding my baby boy... There's still so much to get done, but it'll be much easier after the showers. And when we get our tax return and hubby's bonus back so we can finally buy furniture. I sent my invitation design to Staples for printing. I had to do the graphic designing myself. I didn't like either the designs or prices on any of the wesites I went to. But it turned out for the best because I designed them after my cake and they are just adorable... I'm very pleased with myself, lol.

Cake design, though my cake will be square, not round.

Front of the postcard.

Back of postcard.

Our Weekend

We had a pretty good Valentine's Day. We slept in pretty late and just kinda hung out in bed all morning watching tv and cuddling. Then we got up and had some waffles and sausage and bacon. So good... I ended up eating too much and having to take a nap, lol. I woke up to my brother coming in my room with flowers and chocolates. He is so sweet... he was getting ready to go spend the day with his girlfriend. I came downstairs and my mom and dad had also gotten me chocolates and a really sweet card. Then Bobby and I got ready to go out for our date. We went to eat at Smoky Bones in Kennesaw and then went to go see Friday the 13th. (We're HUGE horror movie fans, in fact our first date we went to see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre re-make, that was on Oct. 18th, 2003)

I can't believe this October we will have been together for 6 years, it's amazing how time flies with the one you love and have so much fun with. I can't even express how much I love my husband. We are so opposite as far as personalities go, but we GET each other. I know what every look he has means with out him saying a word, we have our own special language that I'm sure if anyone ever heard, they'd think we're crazy, and of course our finger pointing. I don't know why... we just point at each other at random times. I love all these weird things we do with each other, but lately my favorite is when he puts his face up to my belly and talks to our son and kisses him every night and most mornings if I wake up while he's getting ready. I get really sensitive about the amount of weight I've put on, but he doesn't care and tells me that I look beautiful. I am so excited to open up another chapter of our life once our little guy gets here... Ok, enough mushy stuff.

Today we had a pretty nice breakfast too: biscuits, eggs, sausage, bacon and oatmeal. It was all excellent. Though I have developed some serious acid reflux. I had to take 3 tums after breakfast. Mom and I went to our weekly trip to Walmart for groceries, and then I took some more tums when I got home. For dinner we had enchiladas (one of my absolute favs) and I knew my esophagus would be a fireball afterwards, but it didn't stop me from eating them, lol. It was so good, but I think that's the last of the spicy/acidic foods I'll be eating for a while... It just hurts so bad, burping is almost torture at this point. Milk and club crackers help though. I'm a little upset that I have to give up OJ and chocolate. Mom said she had it really bad her last couple month of pregnancy too.

Maybe not eating so much chocolate is a good thing though, it'll force me to eat more healthily and hopefully get my weight under control. At my last appointment at 28 weeks I'd gained a total of 24lbs. I'm trying to not let my number of pounds past my number of weeks. So we'll see Tuesday at my 30 week appointment how much I gained these past two weeks. I just don't want it to be so hard to get weight off after the baby comes...

Anyway, that was my weekend. I hope everyone enjoyed their day with their honeys and had fun. Good night.

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(He's rubbing his little eye... SO CUTE!)

Baby face.