Watch our boy move and groove!

After three nights of trying, I was finally able to capture his movement in my belly on camera! Look closely and you'll see my stomach twitch where he is moving! Where I put my hand on my stomach is his head! Soooo amazing!

I must confess ...

It was tonight at dinner telling this story again that I realized I needed to confess to my bloggers my latest craziest thing I did. Before you read this, don't judge me -- I'm sure I could pull up dirt on you if I needed to!

Picture it ... Saturday, July 18th, out on a wheatfield in Pasco in 106 degree heat. I was at a wedding taking pictures with my friend Andrea. When she and I were discussing on how to best "dress" for comfort in the heat she suggested that we wear our husband's underwear. Boxer briefs to be exact. She had this piece of advice passed to her and she said it worked awesome because they end up being super big and then you don't get "leg chaiff" from the sweat! Being that I am pregant and was so scared of being uncomfortable in the 100+ degree heat for 8 hours, I would have tried anything.

So on went Blake's underwear on my body and a second pair in my purse in case I needed them later. Also, my nurse-friend advised that I bring the baby doppler, which is used to hear our son's heartbeat. That way if I got scared of being overheated I could check his heartbeat and make sure he was plugging along. Not sure how many of you know how a doppler works, but it needs a liquid gel to create the acoustic sound ... a gel in the form of lube ... yes, lube. So in my purse was my husbands underwear, my hand-held doppler wand, and an economy plus size of lube.

You can now imagine my embarassment when one of the ladies at the wedding happend to walk over to where my purse was on teh floor SITTING OPEN and she saw everything inside. She looked at the purse, looked at me, back at the purse, and then with shock and I'm sure disgust walked quickly away thinking I was some sort of freak.

I figured I'll never see her again and zipped up my purse and went on about my afternoon. So how's that for a what's-in-your-purse-story???

26 Weeks!!! (aka 6.5 months!)

Here we go again with another mirror shot!! Starting to get out there!!!

And they were movin', and goovin', and dancin' to the music ...

So, I am sitting at my desk right now editing pictures and I look down and I see my entire stomach shift to the side! I feel it and I feel the hardest thing I have felt!! That must be my little man's head protrouding out the right side of my stomach. It is the coolest (and at the same time strangest) feeling to feel this little alien tossing and turning in my tummy! Maybe he's providing editing suggestions :) See the arrow for where his head is! Can you see???

Let the decorating begin!!

Now that the furniture in his room is together I can start decorating! My good friend Shannon is painting me canvases for his room that match his bedding (Thanks Shan!) and I am enjoying frequent trips to TJ Maxx, Ross, Value Village and Burlington looking for all the little accessories! So far I found a great orange piggy bank, an awesome blue retro lamp, and a cool painting that incorporates the colors of the room! More to come, this is just phase one! :)

I SLEPT!

Thanks to the magic of modern medicine (and some help from my psychologist friend!!!) I slept last night! After about a week of insomnia and even a period of time without ANY sleep, I had enough. My Dr prescribed me Fenagran, which is commonly given to women who have really bad nausea to get them to sleep. For me, I just needed it for sleep! Blake and I went to dinner last night, came home, watched TV to relax, popped my pill, then went to bed and practiced my deep breathing and before I knew it, it was 8am!!!!!!!!!! It felt so good to have a FULL night of sleep! I am going to keep taking the pills for a couple more days to get myself fully back on track! Wahoooo :)

3:05 am, 3:42 am, 4:12 am, 5:30 am .....

Calling all preggos and former preggos --- any one ever have insomnia??! Oh man, for a few days now I have been waking up in the middle of the night and can't go back to sleep! I am totally awake! I don't think I'm stressed or thinking about any one thing in particular, I just wake up and feel like I could go to work or do stuff around the house!

But ... then 6:00 am hits (when I shoudl be getting up) and instead that's when my body decides it's tired again and wants to go to sleep!!! Urrrgh. So frustrating! Then I am a zombie because I was up half the night!

I do know, however, that Saved by the Bell is on from 4am-6am and really enjoyed catching up with Zach and the crew this morning! :)

Advice?

24 Weeks!

You guys are funny ... apparently I'm not posting baby bump pictures fast enough for your liking! I will try to remember to start doing more regularly every week and a half or so, it's just been crazy busy (as always!). Here you go!

The baby's OREO experience

So, I was laying on the couch reading a magazine eating a couple OREOs when I noticed some weird pokes going on ... then out of the corner of my eye I happened to see my stomach moving through my dress!!! It was like a little alien was poking me all over and my stomach would twitch out all over the place!

I have been trying to watch my sugar intake, so I figure that by eating the OREOs probably put our little guy on a sugar high! So what did I do?? ... eat more to make him keep doing it! Everytime he would slow down I would eat 2 or 3 more and watch him start up again! He eventually stopped ... probably because I put him in a sugar coma and I decided it was best to pack up what was left of the OREOs and put them back in the cupboard!

So fun while it lasted!!! Love you baby boy!