Snow Day

Well, I am home from school today, which as a kid makes you insanely happy, but as an adult I am just thinking about cleaning the house to keep myself from being bored!

Usually I love snow. I love sitting at the window watching it falling and the anticipation of a heavy snow makes me a little giddy. We already had interesting weather yesterday with ice and sleet and late this afternoon we are supposed to get a heavy snow.

Any other time I would be thrilled. But not today.

I am supposed to have my first baby shower courtesy of Vicki's amazing friend Miss Sally Marie on Saturday in Oklahoma. Well, with all the snow and gross weather, the chances of us actually driving to OK this weekend are rapidly diminishing by the second.

This is seriously disappointing and it isn't a good thing to disappoint a pregnant woman whose hormones have made her a basketcase, I like cried 4 times yesterday!

Plus, my mother wanted to see me get an ultrasound for her 60th birthday, that's right, Grandma's gettin' old! So, we have a 3d/4d ultrasound scheduled for Saturday night at a place in OK. I was pretty ho-hum about the whole 3d/4d experience, I personally find them a little creepy. But as it got closer and closer I started to become really excited about actually seeing the little guy.

So, long story made not quite so short. This sucks in a major way and for the first time in my entire life I am praying that it doesn't snow like they say it is supposed to and we will be in Oklahoma come Friday night! You can help me out and say a little prayer too if you don't mind :)

Happy Thanksgiving (a few days late!)

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here in Kansas City with Lane's family. It was an interesting experience being so pregnant and trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner. I kept joking with Lane that I was going to strap the turkey to his stomach and make him cart it around for a few hours, then he would know how I am feeling!

Our meal was very good, if I do say so myself... I am in love with the website allrecipes.com . It is where I got a recipe for the "Perfect Turkey" and the "Most Fabulous Green Beans" and they both turned out as advertised! I have done several recipes off this website now and I have had nothing but good luck.

I must say thanks to soon to be Grandma Vicki, or as we call her, Granny Bop. She was a great help on Thanksgiving Day. The meal wouldn't have been as great with out her!

In other news... birth prep classes have begun! It is a total experience being in a class full of very pregnant women and their very clueless husbands. We have only gone to one class so far, but it was eye-opening! No gross videos luckily, but there was plenty of anatomy photos. Lane has been very nice to me after seeing what all is going on the inside of my body to make room for Junior. I really enjoyed last week and can't wait to go tomorrow and find out even more wonderful and somewhat scary/disgusting facts!

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

Ahh... is their anything more precious and more annoying after a while than a brand new parent and all the pictures they have to share. Well, Lane and I haven't even birthed this little one yet and we have pictures to share!
Here is Lane and our great friend Robbie putting together Junior's little home.

Here is the fabulous crib put all together, we owe a big thank you to Robbie.

Here is my favorite part of the nursery so far, the glider:)

Here is me and my favorite chair!

And here is a side view of Junior's current home:)

Good Morning, Sunshine!

So, I am not the most graceful of people. I danced when I was little because that is what little girls are supposed to do, not because I had any particular talent.

I am also not what you would call a morning person. Anyone who truly knows me, knows that I am not really awake till about 9:30. I can make do and function within my classroom, but I am not little miss sunshine and I am not really all that aware of the world around me.

I tell you all this to help you understand my happy morning at school today.

I had what we call "triage" at school today. Basically that means that I have door duty and have to joyfully greet children as they walk through the door at 7:30am. Well, Thursday is Bagel day at school and I wasn't going to miss my bagel because I had to greet kids. So, I jetted off to the cafeteria for my bagel with peanut butter (yum) and hurried to be upstairs on time. On my way up the stairs (while holding my bagel and a big cup of oj), I greeted children happily like I was really awake and glad to be up and around at 7:30am.

Then it happened...

My gracefullness and my lack of awareness caught up with me and bit me in the butt.

I tripped (over nothing)

And fell

HARD

Luckily I caught myself

On my chin

Three hours later I had sticky hair from the oj, a second visit to the er (it is starting to feel like home), and 7 brand new stiches in my chin.

Junior was fine, other than kicking really hard because he was annoyed that I didn't actually get to eat my bagel or drink my orange juice.

In His Own Words

On Saturday morning we had a great home cooked breakfast of pancakes, bacon, and oj. Junior usually becomes very active after I have eaten, so I laid down and had Lane come see if he could feel Junior. Usually the baby stops moving as soon as Lane tries to feel him but on Saturday we were lucky and just as Lane put his hand on my tummy, Junior gave him a big whack!

The reaction of my husband to feeling for the first time his son moving:

"That's creepy".

Charley Horses and epidurals

I woke up last night with a horrible charley horse at 3:00am. I started crying and woke up Lane it hurt so bad. I think I scared him a little because at first he didn't even know what was wrong with me.

So, while that was painful it is not particulary interesting in our baby world... but the thoughts it led to are very interesting baby thoughts because they show that I am a big baby.

All I could think about after the pain started to go away was if a charley horse turned me into a blithering mess, what is labor and delivery going to do to me? I panicked a little bit as I laid in bed and tried to get back to sleep but I continued to think about the delivery (which are thoughts I had been trying to avoid). I realized I might not be as tough as I would like to pretend I am and an epidural might not be that bad. Those of you who have talked to me about the actual birth know that I am FREAKED by the idea of an epidural. The big long needle sticking into your spine, the numbness, it all just doesn't sound like something I want to experience. So, I have been saying that I think I want to try natural labor. Now, I'm not changing my mind necessarily, but my reaction to a charley horse has made me realize that an epidural might not be that bad.