And so it begins...

So here I am cruising along with this pregnancy thinking all is well, I hit 28 weeks..Great..and then I wake up yesterday morning with terrible tailbone pain!! Yes completely out of the blue it hits me and now I can barely sit, stand, walk, bend over or lie down!! I wake up in the middle of the night if I move due to the pain, ummm this sucks!! So now all of a sudden the last bit of my pregnancy doesn't look so short any longer, thinking about having to deal with this pain for another 11 weeks sounds like a nightmare!! This is the first time I've ever had or dealt with this kind of pain during pregnancy, but I googled it and it sounds like it's pretty common. The bad news is it doesn't look like there is anything I can do to relieve the pain besides deliver. Wonderful!!

27 weeks

I finally have a official due date, and we're going with the date of my last period, so it's May 14th!! I will be induced a week early which is May 7th or better known as Harrison's Birthday!! Who knows what day we'll officially pick, but I'm hoping for it not to have to be the 7th, although Harrison thinks it would be great to have his sister on his Birthday!! Thinking he wouldn't think it was so great next year!! Nothing like picking "the day" and scheduling it around what works best for everyone, I will always wonder what it would feel like just to go into labor!!

I had a Dr. appointment last Friday along with a ultrasound, got to sneak another pick at our little girl and of course confirm it's still a little girl...and it is :) She's adorable if I do say so myself and reminds me of Max! I love getting the chance to see her sweet little face already!! I remember when I got to see Max in 3D before I had him, I swear my heart grew two sizes bigger at that exact moment, as it did this time as well :) Here is our little sweet pea...


I've been feeling pretty good, feeling much more pregnant and umm looking it if I do say so myself. I finally broke down and ordered some maternity shirts hope they get here soon, I don't want my belly poking out of the bottom of my shirt when I'm out and about! I'm still around that 3-5 pound weight gain, promised the Doc to have a couple of milk shakes per week!! Thinking this won't be hard with the nice weather starting down here, it's been close to hitting 70's or in the low 70's, makes going for ice cream sound like a good idea!! I could complain about a few aches and pains, but I know that it just comes with pregnancy and knowing that these last 12 weeks will be my last 12 weeks of experiencing this I'm trying to just take it all in!! So here I am at 27 weeks, or 27 1/2 if you want to get technical ;) That is a baby bump that cannot be denied!! And I'll say it again, I suck at taking these pictures!!


Speaking of 12 weeks can I just say holy crap!! I feel like I have all the time in the world to get things around but I think it's really going to sneak up on us! I really have nothing around and ready, like I said in my last post we were hoping to move so I kinda was putting everything on hold until that happened, but now that it's not I have to figure it out in this house for now. Which I think means...

• She's going to camp out in our room with us.
• Max is going to get to keep the crib until he's ready to leave it, I have no nursery to hurry up and decorate so why force the kid out.
• I need to find a dresser to paint, I'm thinking a old vintage looking dresser in a nice pink, what do you think?
• I need to make room for this baby in my room..yikes!! Tim is against putting the baby in my walk in closet so I guess she's gets to camp out by his side of the bed :)

A few little things that I would like to remember...

• I'm still trying to sleep on my stomach with a pillow to help keep me propped up and when I wake up in the morning, she's curled up on the opposite side, you can see her protruding from the one side of my stomach and it feels like you can grab right a hold of her!! This is definitely one of the highlights of my day!!
• She seems pretty quiet, not a ton of crazy moving and shaking going on in there!
• At her 27 week ultrasound she weighed 1.9 pounds and was in the breech position.
• I'm much wider this time around than I was with at least the last two boys.
• I seem to grow as the day goes on some days, in the morning I might start of pretty small and end the day looking pretty big. Weird, I don't really remember that happening, but it has been awhile!!

I know that was a long post, just a few things I wanted to document for memory sake and had to share the pic's!!

Valentines Day

I must admit that this year Valentines day was not quite the event it usually is. I had big plans like I always do, but then sickness hit us and well those plans never really happened. Max and I ran out to Target yesterday morning to pick up the "guys" (as Max likes to call them) gifts for V-day. We ended up with a book and new lunch box for H, a book and skippy thing for Liv, books for Jack, and a play-do set for Mister Max.

I usually will pack them a very special lunch, but on this certian day I didn't wake up to pack lunches or to even see them off to school making sure they were wearing something pink or red, nope Dad took care of that and well that stuff means nothing to him. Insert guilt. I did manage to pull together our annual scavenger hunt which has become a tradition the kids look forward to every year. I punch out 6-8 hearts in their assigned colors (somewhere in their lives I color coded them, Jack-green, Olivia-pink, Harrison-blue, Max-red) and use the hearts for a scavenger hunt for their gift. The kids love this part, and I'm pretty sure enjoyed that way more than their gifts!!

We ordered pizza for the kids got them fed and headed out to dinner by ourselves...gasp!! Jack held down the fort while we enjoyed a hour without crying, whining, complaining and of course fighting!!

In other news we found out yesterday that the house we were in the process of trying to get is gone :( We've been trying for the last 3 weeks to get out of our lease so we could move into what I dare to call almost the perfect house for house. I'm super bummed, I spent a fair amount of time living in the house...mentally of course. We would of gained a LOT of space, a great fenced in back yard, and the kids could of walked to school. I'm so disappointed but I keep trying to tell myself that it just wasn't meant to be so it is what it is! We have now decided to ride out the length of this lease (November 1st) and just wait and see what and where we go from here, I'm not use to this limbo life style and it's a little unsettling for me. So now we need to figure out a way to squish all 7 of us in a four bedroom house!! I know this is do-able it's just not ideal.

Sick

Tuesday night I said to Tim "I can feel something settling in my chest", I felt fine but could just feel it coming. Wednesday I woke up with one of those horrible tight awful sounding coughs. I felt like crap, Tim insisted I go see a Dr. that morning, this sounded incredibly unnecessary to me but he drove me there so off I went!!

They made me wear a mask, like it wasn't hard enough to breath already!! And then for the first time ever I got to have the flu test done, umm not pleasant!! As the nurse firmly held the back of my head she proceeded to shove a q-tip type thing up into my sinus cavity and hold it there for 30 seconds. This was not pleasant at all!! It was negative and I went home with a antibiotic and the feeling that I would surely be better tomorrow!

I'm not better, I'm actually a little worse today the medicine makes me very sick to my stomach making it almost impossible to eat anything and keep it down when a coughing fit comes on! And the coughing, well we're all friends here, the coughing is terrible and makes this pregnant women pee in her pants every time it happens! My stomach muscles are so sore and my chest feels like it's been hit by a truck.

I'm running a low grade fever, in the high 90's or low 100's but I hate to take any kind of meds for it. Instead I take baths that are too hot, the kind you should not be taking while running a fever or pregnant, the kind where I don't even touch the cold knob! We do have the scalding safety set so it's not that hot, just enough that it burns a little when you get in and makes a sharp ripple of goose bumps over your whole body!

I can't sleep maybe 30 min's to a hour at a time before I shoot up and cough my lungs out. Hopefully tomorrow will be the day that I start to feel better, I'm sure my family would appreciate that too!!

I know you were all dying to know what was going on with me ;)