Nursery Picture Extravaganza

There isn't a lot of news to report since my last update. I'm still getting beat up by my kid on a daily basis, and in the last week it's been out of control and non-stop. In fact as I type this out she is kicking my ribs and moving around like a crazy person. Seeing that her space is growing smaller and smaller, her movements are exaggerated quite a bit. I seriously question the folks on that "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" show. How can you not know? If I didn't know I was pregnant at this time I would need to head to the doctor ASAP to see why my stomach keeps moving around on it's own.

So me and the booger a doing great. I don't know when it started but I started calling her booger a while ago and it just sort of stuck. I already sort of feel bad for her. A little. She is kicking me in the ribs afer all, so I don't feel that bad for her. ;)

Today was a very productive day. My mom and dad came over for a bit. Mom, TJ and I pulled weeds in the front yard until it started to rain and then we all head into the house to work on the nursery some more. It is now very close to completion!! Today my dad painted the rest of the molding, and TJ put up the molding that was already dry. We put her name on the wall, set up her crib, and put all of her bedding on. When we opened up the box that her changing table was shipped in we noticed it had a crack in it. It was shipped over 30 days ago so we can't return it, so TJ used some extra hold wood glue and it is drying in the garage now. Her room should be complete next weekend!

So with that I can't leave you with out pictures of the progress! I am loving how it is coming along and I can't wait to see the final product!!

32 weeks today, 8 more to go (Insert totally freaked out face here!! AH!).

29 Weeks

Can you believe I'm already 29 weeks?? I sure as hell can't! I feel like I keep saying it, but it's true: time has flown by! Things continue to go very well, I still have very little to complain about and most of the complaining is about my future soccer star and her perfected rib kicks. Or when she beats on my bladder and hips. She is super strong, and while I find it very cool, a lot of the time her kicking/hitting/rolling sort of hurts. I'm also finding that there must be no room for my stomach anymore, I can get about two meals a day in now. Anymore than that and I walk around with that uncomfortable I-ate-way-too-damn-much feeling.

I had my 28 week appointment with my doctor today. I start my bi-weekly doctors appointments now and I'm sort of in shock at that. Every two weeks. Only women who are close to their due date see their doctor every two weeks. I am now one of those women. Holy crap!! Since I'm pretty damn proud of how well my pregnancy is progressing I'll post my stats from my appointment:

29 Weeks 2 Days
Blood Pressure: 122/77
Weight Gain: 16lbs
Fundal Height (belly measurement): 28-29 CM
Madeline's Heartbeat: 150 BPM
Over All: GREAT! :)

The fundal height is right on track. I've managed to keep my weight gain down, and since I'm aiming for 25-30lbs total I'm right on track. Madeline's heart rate is right where it needs to be. My BP last appointment was a little high at first (when they took it again it was normal though), so over all I'm as healthy as a horse. I get to do the glucose test sometime before my next appointment. As someone who loved orange soda as a kid I hope that the rumors that the glucose drink tastes like Orange Crush is true. I go back to see my doctor August 5th.

TJ and I have started work on the nursery! We painted last weekend, and are waiting to buy and stain the chair rail and molding before setting up the room. Her crib and changer arrived a few weeks ago and they are still in their respective boxes. He doesn't want to take the plastic off the floor in the nursery, so we're waiting to get it all set up until after we get the chair rail up (next weekend).

I didn't think to take pictures of our progress (what little there is) until we'd already moved everything out of the room and painted two coats of primer. Originally the bedroom was painted 4 different (ugly and obnoxious!) colors - dark red, dark blue, green, and yellow. It took two coats of primer before we started painting. Below are pictures of day two, when the pink went on the walls.

Please excuse the mess, this was my craft closet before and we left my scrapbooking crap in there.

Finally here are the 29 week pictures I took on Saturday. I went back to blonde last week so I also put a new hair picture up.