Does anyone have an eraser I could borrow?

Does anyone have an eraser I could borrow? I need to erase the word "Sucker" from my forehead. I would usually say, "wow, how has over a week passed since my last post?" But I know exactly how it has happened. About 3 weeks ago, the head of my office approached me and told me he was going to be giving me some additional responsibilities. One of my colleagues was leaving, and rather than back-filling her spot he was going split her duties between me and another person. I was still going to retain all my current duties but would take this on as well. So the next week more details came out... apparently I was expected to move cubicles, and what was supposed to be 50% of the other job turned out to be more like 75%. So basically now I have 1.75 jobs. So last week, I finally got fully integrated in my new position, and I totally got my butt kicked. I stayed at work every day until after 6. Which may not seem late to some of you, but when you get in at 7:30am staying until past 6 is WAY too late in my book. It is just brutal.

To be honest, I feel like I am being used by my senior management. They know that I'm too much of a perfectionist to do either job crappy, so I'm busting my butt to try to do them both to my usual standards. Its so frustrating. Grrrrr... I would probably sit them down and tell them how this is too much responsibility for one person but then I remember the following is my schedule until the baby comes..

2 weeks - out of town work training (currently doing)
2 weeks - work
1 week - off for thanksgiving
4 weeks - work
1 week - off for Christmas/new years
4 weeks - work

then the baby should be here... or just about. So the reality is its just busting my butt for 10 weeks. Which is totally doable in my book. That's nothing.

After I return from my 12 weeks of maternity leave, I'll assess the situation again. If its too much I'll cry uncle and try to get some relief. Until then, wish me luck!

Nursery Progress

So we're making some progress!! We've pretty much picked everything out... now we just need to get it all in the room.

First, we're going to run hardwood into the baby's room.

And paint it Benjamin Moore Glazed Green. 

This is our crib which is now back-ordered even more, ugh!

It expected to ship Dec 30th!

We ordered the matching Dresser/Changing table

I've picked a land of nod bedding set called With a Flourish.
This is the bed skirt, bumper and crib sheet.

I'm also going to mix in a few other sheets (since I'll definitely need more than one). I bought  two while at PBK the other day. Hayley (shown above) and a purple gingham which isn't on the PBK site for some reason.

I ordered the above glider from a local baby store which is called the Heritage Glider. I believe it's made by Little Castle.

It will be finished in the "Zippty Scone" fabric shown above (which is lighter in real life).

I thought this was neutral enough that it would just blend into the room.

I think we're going to order the Green Trellis rug shown above from PBK.

Our carpenter should be coming in about a week to start working on the baby's room and another home renovation we're doing. I can't wait to start to see everything come together! I hope it all looks good!

Have I mentioned

How much my pug loves the snoogle? DH emailed me this picture this morning. Too cute!

I'm alive..

...but barely.

I got sick. Like really really sick. It started off as a soar throat and ended up as a serious upper respiratory infection. I work in cubeland, and a lot of the people around me have been sick so I knew it was coming. The problem is that I don't like taking medicine while pregnant, so I stubbornly held off taking anything. II used my neti pot, and bought one of these hoping I could cure this problem the "natural way":

(can you tell I was getting desperate?)

My stubbornness, in reality, probably made things a lot worse because the mucus backed up into all my sinus cavities and ears, and moved down into my chest. Yesterday, after trying to fight this off on my own for over a week, I broke down and went to the doctor. He confirmed what I already knew, I have a bad sinus infection. He prescribed Amoxicillin and told me to take some Robitussin DM. After googling enough to make me sufficiently comfortable to take these meds, I headed to the pharmacy to get all drugged up. I'm happy to report today I woke up already feeling better.  Let's hope this is the only illness I face this pregnancy.

I have lots to report on nursery progress, but that will have to wait until I get all caught up on work!

Anatomy Scan

This week on Wednesday we had our anatomy scan. I'm happy to report the baby is growing well and is now 14 oz! I was so nervous before the ultrasound and now I feel like a big weights been lifted off my shoulders.

Here are some pictures:

Full Body Shot

Profile Shot

(head is on the left with her hands up by her face)

Foot

Leg

I'm not sure I've talked about this yet, but I'm really hoping to have a natural birth. I wasn't able to conceive without intervention, but I'd really like to be able to give birth with as few interventions as possible. I hadn't been able to talk to my doctor about my desires prior to this appointment. Unfortunately, he basically totally shot me down. He's not really supportive of the idea at all. Its a shame because I really liked him, but I figured it was a possibility. So I'm officially switching doctors again. Although this time I'm actually switching to a Nurse Midwife. She and her partners work with a local hospital and are partnered with 3 OBGYNs who perform a c-section in the event of an emergency.  I'll be calling to make an appointment sometime this week and hopefully will be able to get in with them soon!