Questions from yesterday…

I’ll post some belly pics as soon as I take them. I know, I know. I haven’t taken a single belly shot this time and I’ll be 19 weeks on Tuesday. I feel like I’m taking pictures of displaced plushiness.

And also, two isn’t early to move a toddler to a big kid bed depending on the toddler. If they’ve figured out how to crawl out of the crib, it’s safer to convert it to a toddler bed. You lose your ability to contain them though… Dash hadn’t figured out how to crawl out of the crib yet, and he still gives me some troubles laying down, so I wanted to keep him in there until he was going down without a fight and not getting up and wandering around in the middle of the night. So far, we haven’t had problems with either of those and the big kid bed yet. He seems pretty content to stay in it.

On to the pictures…

We had a funny night the other night. First Dash took a bath and figured out the cold water faucet and thought it was hilarious to turn it on full blast, splash himself and say “Cold! Brrrr!” Pretty soon the tub was really full and freezing cold. Sorry if his lips are a little blue.

And I dropped my camera lens so a few of these are blurry. Looks like I need to go camera shopping…

Then he used it as a drinking fountain…

And after we were done, he put on his pajamas and insisted on wearing swim diapers.

And finally, Dash’s big kid bed.

1. I find out if this is a boy or a girl a week from tomorrow. It’s killing me! The bets are on… what do you think?

2. Dash has learned how to use several words in the appropriate context lately, and it’s made for some interesting nights. Mostly “no”. “It’s time for bed.” “No.” “Come on, let’s go.” “No.” “Do you even know how to say yes?” “No.”

3. We moved Dash to a big boy bed. Did I say that already? Bedtime was sucking it up big time (see number 2) and we thought a big boy bed would make it easier. It definitely has. I know it’s early, but he’s responding well to it.

4. Dash has a little girlfriend at the Little Gym. She’s adorable.

5. I have a series of cute pictures of Dash, involving drinking out of the bathtub faucet like a water fountain and wearing swim diapers over his pj bottoms. I’ll upload them tomorrow, I promise.

6. We made a lovely homemade mac and cheese last night.

Preheat oven to 350.
Boil a big bag of noodles.
In a skillet, melt half a stick of butter.
Add enough flour to make a thick sauce, about 4 heaping tablespoons.
Whisk until well combined and free of lumps.
Add 2 cups of milk.
Bring to a boil and then turn down to a simmer.
Add 3 cups of cheese. The stronger the better.
Stir until melted, add one good squirt of mustard and salt and pepper.
Mix with noodles, pour into a 9 x 13 baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.

7. I think next time we make it I’m going to add rotelle.

8. I’m sick. With the second cold in two weeks. Blah. And I can’t use my sick leave because I need it for maternity leave.

9. My old company laid off it’s two secretaries yesterday. I’d be really nervous if I still worked there.

10. We’re going to Florida in two weeks! Yay! I hope it’s warm down there…

From Valentine’s Night… I chronicled it for those of you no where near a Krispie Kreme…

Pulling our donuts off the line…

Usually there’s a back up of 20 donuts or so, so they’re hot, but not flaming hot. Not this night. The place was packed so she actually had to wait for them to come off the line. I couldn’t pick them up when we first got them.

Donutty goodness. 8 glazed (heart-shaped, aw), two raspberry filled and two creme filled chocolate ones.

Dash enjoying himself. He had fallen asleep in the car about 10 minutes before we got there so he was a little out of it until he got his hands on one of those gems.

Happy Friday everyone!

Dashy with the coconut cake John made for us…

Turn your volume up for this one, and forgive the actual video. As soon as Dash saw my little flip camera, he wanted it, so he’s the film director on this one…

That’s how freaking long I have to wait. Really, it’s the earliest I could get in and still be past 19 weeks so it’s not all bad. And I thought it was 4 weeks and 4 days away so when I realized it was 3 weeks instead of 4 it was like a Christmas present. I’m not only eager to find out what we’re having, I’m eager to see this little bean since I haven’t seen him or her yet. March 6th can’t get here fast enough. Seriously, how does anyone wait the whole 40 weeks?

Everything went fine this afternoon, Soheyl, my midwife, was able to find the heartbeat right away. We discussed VBAC statistics, one that I didn’t know was the chance of uterine rupture in a repeat c-section is 1/1000 and the rate in a VBAC is 3/1000. So I’m upping my chances from .1% to .3%. I think I can live with those odds. She’s going to schedule my ultrasound for 20 weeks, I’m 15 weeks 2 days today. (The ultrasound place was closed already so we’ll schedule it Monday) She also said if I scheduled it a week early or late, that was ok, too. So I’m going to try to get it around March 6th. Seems like forever but this pregnancy is going pretty fast. I’m sure it’ll be here before I know it. Not as soon as next week or anything, but still soon…

1. I cut Dash’s hair Sunday. What a freaking nightmare. What was I thinking? It turned out ok but it’s definitely choppy. I’m torn between giving up and never doing it again and trying again in 6 weeks…

2. I have an appointment Friday and I’ll make my big ultrasound appointment then. I’ll keep you all updated! The suspense is killing me!!

3. Dash is seriously addicted to Finding Nemo. He calls it his “fishy tape”. I kid you not.

4. The girl scout cookie girl came by the other day. Her mom specifically calls us because we order so much. When I handed the little girl our order, her eyes literally bugged out. I heart girl scout cookies.

5. It’s cold here! Stop it! I want my warm weather! The day that picture was taken (Sunday) it was a beautiful 63 degrees. It’s getting down to 18 tonight.

6. Motherhood maternity has fantastical new maternity pants. I almost cried when I put them on. The old full belly pants drive me nuts with that waistband so high on my belly and the low cut ones cut my belly in half and look really lame. These have a thin “secret belly” that covers your entire belly but doesn’t bind you. I could kiss the guy who invented these (woman? maybe?)

7. There’s a woman on my birth board who has three daughters named Hawaiian names. I won’t post them but they are all different versions of something-iko. Very Hawaiian sounding. She posted that if she had another girl she would continue the trend, but if she had a boy she was going to name him George. I don’t know why that cracked me up, but it really, really did.

8. And speaking of names, I have no problem sharing ours or the sex or anything like that. However, we’re torn on names and I’m not going to post them until we decide since I don’t want to be influenced too much. The girl name I really like, John knows a girl named that who’s “effing crazy” according to him, and tells me everytime I say I like that name. He likes it too, he just knows another girl named that who’s nuts. So that might be a dealbreaker on that one. Boo.

9. We’re going to Florida soon and I can’t freaking wait. I want 80 degree weather!! Another 6 weeks or so before we go. I’m not looking forward to the 13 hour drive at 5 months pregnant though. With a toddler. Thank goodness for Nemo.

10. Dash loves talking on the phone. The person he talks to the most is Paw-paw. For a while he’d pick up the phone and say “O?… Paw-paw?”. Lately though, he’s become obsessed with saying “toys” and there are of course tons of toys at paw-paws house. So now he says “O?… Toys?”

Happy Tuesday!!