Woooo...

...I'm officially in the 3rd trimester. How did that happen?? Although the weeks seem to be creeping by at times, its also been flying by at the same time. Only 3 more months until our LO will be here. Yikes!

I'm dreading weighing in tomorrow. 2 weeks of eating every meal out is surely going to cause some major weight gain. Ugh. I go back to my midwives on Thursday and am sure to get a scolding.

On the bright side, thanks to daylight savings time changing this weekend, my morning walks with Maggie are in the day light again! I hate walking her in the dark. I know as we move further into the winter, the sun will start rising later again, but for right now it rises right before we get up! Its very nice :-)

Phew...

As I mentioned below, I am in a two week long training for work in Ohio. I arrived on Sunday October 24th and leave tomorrow! I must say two weeks seems like a LONG time these days. I've enjoyed the training but have not enjoyed eating every meal out, and having to do a lot of work in the evening to keep up with my normal duties. Its been quite exhausting!!

I am very excited to report that my husband has officially made progress on the house renovation and the nursery in my absence!! I am quite impressed with his determination to get everything done before I get home. Our house came with a good sized laundry closet right next to the kitchen, but there is no pantry. For a pantry my husband and I have been using a single hanging cabinet in our kitchen. However because that cabinet is stuffed with just two of us in the house, and all the other cabinets are full of dishes, glasses, and serving pieces, I was getting really concerned about how we could integrate a baby into the house. I literally have no where to put a bottle. A few months ago we made the decision to take over the current laundry closet and turn it into a pantry. But this forced us to relocate the washer and dryer. We decided to relocate it to the front of the house into a closet that was basically being used as a junk room. However this required us to do a little renovation to get the closet ready (widening the door frame, getting the closet plumbed/wired/vented, ect). Since I left, the new laundry closet has been constructed and the plumbing and gas for the washer and dryer has been run. All we need is electrical and we should be good to go! I am fortunate to have an electrician in the family so that should be done shortly! Once we get the washer and dryer moved, we can start un-plumbing the other closet and prepping it to become a pantry! Before I left for Ohio, I met with California closets and got a quote from them to build out the new pantry. It is a little pricey, so I am going to call Closets by Design to see if they'll come out and quote it for me. Once we make a decision on who to go with, we should be able to have the new pantry built out within a week or so! I'm really excited to get this project done! We're been talking about it FOREVER!

The other thing DH has been busy with is the nursery. He had the carpenter who was helping us with the closet run the hardwood floor in the baby's room. After that was done, my husband painted all the walls and the ceiling. I am sooooo excited to see everything when I get home. I also received my rug for the nursery so I am excited to get home and put it in the room! Eeek! Everything is actually coming together!!

We decided to go with the Polka Dot Border rug from pottery barn. Hopefully it will look good with the green walls...

Hope everyone has had a good week! Say a little prayer that I make it to my last day of class safely tommorow. They are predicting SNOW here in Ohio! eeeek!

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!