Twenty-five weeks...

and only 15 weeks to go! Wahoo!! Today started my 25th week...I'm almost done...more than half way...I'm just waiting for my popper to POP! I'm still in the triple digits as far as days left being pregnant but in 6 days, count them 1,2,3,4,5,6 days until double digits!! I can't wait.

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Same old same old. Drive 30 minutes - wait 15 minutes - pee in a cup - weigh me - check my blood pressure - wait another 15 minutes for the doctor - lie down and they feel up my stomach - listen to the heart beat (my favorite part) - call it a day! Although...I might have to do the glucose test, where they check to see if I have gestational diabetes. I can't remember though.

I need to get an updated photo of the baby bump. It has gotten quite large over the past week. I have really noticed it getting the way. It's still not quite big enough to be a kick ass shelf but it's well on it's way! I will try to post one this weekend. Baby Moulton continues to be very active. I mostly notice the movement when I'm sitting down at the computer! It must not like being all scrunched up! Also when Mike wakes up in the AM they are all about wanting to be awake. I hope this doesn't mean they will be a super early riser! I like to get up early but not at 5 and even though I'm an early riser...I am NO morning person! Perhaps Mike can get up with the baby!!!

I was going through some things I've collected from going to register at Babies R Us and Target...and found some diapers. They are so tiny! And they smell so good! Too bad they don't stay smelling good ;) I think I'm starting to get excited about having the baby, but I'm also nervous that we won't have a house in time! I'm really annoyed with the whole situation! Our realtor keeps telling us "we should hear something this week"...well it's been about 5 weeks and NOTHING!!

Ok, I'm hungry...must eat. I will post an update apres my doctor's appointment and I will also have some photos to post!

xoxo
Deidra

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day (a day early)!! I am officially 24 weeks! It seems like 20 weeks came so quick...now it seems like forever for me to reach 30! I only have 110 days till my due date and I'm almost into my 3rd trimester! March 12 (1 month away) starts my 3rd trimester.

Here are some interesting little tid bits 'bout my baby:

*the baby's face is complete

*the baby weighs a little over a pound

*the baby's crown to rump is about 8 and a half inches

*the baby is growing it's hair and eye lashes

*the baby is getting bigger & there is no space for them to do their acrobatics

I thought that was interesting...and this is what baby Moulton could look like. They have been very active the past few days...I wonder if it has to do with all the stress?!?! This past week has been the week from hell. I'm so glad it's Friday and I have the weekend off! Although, I think I will make an appearance this weekend at the YHI. I have so much work to do. I'll be glad when I have the baby and I will get some time "off" of work! It won't really be a vacation but it might be more of a fulfilling job! We also still have not heard about the house. This is really starting to p*ss me off! I just wish the bank would decide! I do not have the patience for this...perhaps this would be a good time for me practice - I better get better at having some patience for the baby!

As most of you know, Mike helps coach the varsity basketball team in Farmington. They had a game last night...it didn't go so well...but that aside - I went to watch and the baby was enjoying the music! It kept moving the whole time. It either liked all the noise or else it hated it. But it seemed to me that they really enjoyed it.

There are so many people pregnant right now...it's crazy. I was talking with a friend about it and I think that we could fill a kindergarten class with all these babies! I think Farmington will become a class I after this little baby boom! We were also discussing what other people were having and out of all the people that we know are pregnant...I'm the only one not finding out what I'm having! I like not knowing. I feel like that will be my motivation to PUSH this baby out! I have a cousin in NC (Samantha) who is also pregnant. She's about a month behind me...she's due sometime in July. She too is NOT finding out what she is having (yay)!! I feel like more and more people are starting to go back to the "old fashion" way and not find out...but there still a lot of people who want to know so they can plan! I am no planner and I like this little element of surprise. There so are so few surprises left in life and I feel like this is the last and greatest one!

Well I have to get to bed...I'm watching my niece and nephew tomorrow morning and I will need all the sleep I can get!

xoxo

Deidra

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This is how my past few days have gone and felt -&#*&dfakjsdl (#*$#(*! Yesterday was a kind of crazy day and so was today. Yesterday started off ok. I got an email from our loan officer regarding our loan and we had a crap load of documents to get into her by today...so we had to scramble last night to get everything together! Then I got a phone call from our realtor and she had spoken with the seller's agent and they are expecting an answer from his bank this week regarding our offer. I haven't heard anything since.




I was a mess today. I woke up nice and early because I had to pee so bad...well most of you know that I have been refusing to get out of bed to go the bathroom before I wake up in the morning. So at 4 AM I had to pee so bad! But I just rolled over and fell back asleep and thought I was going to explode at 6:10!! I made it just so you know. For whatever reason I thought I might be able to wear regular jeans today...WRONG. I figured they would ok, I mean they were an "oh my god" junior size. And I wore a new shirt that my mom bought me that is a little on the boobilicious side but it's cute. I also have not done laundry since last weekend and have no socks...so I decided to wear athletic socks with my dressy boots...well this awesome clothes combination drove me nuts!! The jeans were basically cutting off my circulation...I had them unbuttoned and unzipped all day...took my boots off and complained about my bra all day long...so that basically set my mood for the day! The processor for our loan was relentless today as well...She must have called me and emailed me, no lie, 10 times today! Needless to say today sucked. It has just been one thing after another all day long!





But enough about that. Last night, Midge and I went to my parent's house to visit. Midge, once again was a total BEEEOOOCCHHH with Duke. I got some cute pics of them and a cute video. I would post the video but they are kinda dark and hard to see and there is A LOT of barking from the dogs. I hope Midge gets her act together before the baby is born. She has total only child syndrome. I just hope she loves the baby!

I have become totally obsessed with my Babies R Us & Target registries! I check them every day! I noticed that someone has bought my first gift...the high chair!! Yay...my first gift! Thanks! I need to stop because it will begin to consume me!

Oh I forgot to take pictures of the Governor's Inn...but my mom is still exploring other options. I really wanted a nice baby shower...but I got thinking about it...who likes going to showers? No one...basically the only person who likes them is the one opening the gifts! So I talked to my mom about it and I would rather her take the money she was going to spend there and put it towards something useful...like the baby's room decor or other necessities! I'm no longer part of the planning committee...which is good. I will now have some element of surprise. From this point on...it's up to my mom, Mike's mom, my sister, my aunt and Stacy and Megan! It's in their hands now! I can sit back and relax! Something I don't know how to do!


xoxo
Deidra

Baby Shower

My mom, my aunt and I are going to check out the Govenors Inn today as a possible location for my baby shower!! My sister was supposed to go but she can't...so she'll just have to check it out later! I'm going to take pictures and I will try to remember to post them.

Wish us luck! I really want to have it here. I wanted a place (and my mom too) that was nice & cozy! I also wanted to have it somewhere that people do not usually attend! Just to mix it up a tad!!

xoxo
Deidra

Week 23

Well this week has been less than great. I started working 5 days a week again. I was getting too tired working 10 hour days. I'm gone for 12 hours a day and I get too tired and then get grouchy! So I'm hoping that by working 8 hour days again I might be a little more tolerable! And after I have the baby I can't keep working 4 tens...the baby would be in day care for WAY too long!

As of today...there are only 117 more days till I have the baby! I can't wait...well I can but I can't. I'm not ready to have the baby just yet. I still like my time with Mike and Midge! And we haven't gotten a house yet! Oh and speaking of the house...there is the latest update: according to the listing agent (the seller's real estate agent) the bank said the short sale process takes 30 to 60 days to give an answer. We put our offer in back in January (I can't remember the exact day) but it was about 3 weeks ago. So we're about 21 days into the 30 to 60 day time frame! So I'm trying to be patient but you know me...I have NO patience!

The baby is very active! It seems like 3 weeks ago I couldn't feel the baby move at all! Every time I went for an ultrasound, I would see the baby moving all around and couldn't feel it. Well now I can feel it all the time. Each day I feel more and more...the movement, punches and pokes get stronger and stronger! The baby seems to be an early riser like it's mumma and daddy! Every morning when Mike gets up (5 AM) I roll over to steal his side of the bed and the baby starts with their acrobatics! Which means I can't sleep until it calms down! And it seems that whenever I have to go pee...it feels the need to be extremely active and kick my bladder!

I guess the baby weighs roughly 1 pound now! If you could go inside and see baby Moulton...here is what he or she might look like!! This baby is kinda freaky but that's how well formed they are at 23 weeks! They say they look and are about the same size as a small baby doll!

Mike has not yet been able to feel the baby move. Every time I feel the baby move I try to have Mike feel it...but by the time I get to Mike, they have decided to stop moving! I guess the baby is kinda shy...not a trait they get from me!! No one really has felt the baby move. I tried to have my mom feel it...but it stopped when she put her hand on my stomach! And I even had Alice try...and again...the baby stopped moving!

Well I'm feeling awfully exhausted from my busy week! We renovated our office at work and all I've done all week is move my stuff out...move it back in...jump around from desk to desk and I'm beat! I got WAY too much exercise running around between the buildings and moving all our office junk!

xoxo

Deidra

My Weekend...

Where do I begin?


Friday Mike and I met with our loan officer to sign some documents and ask some questions about our loan. We learned that a short sale is more complicated and takes more time than a foreclosure! That was news that I DID NOT want to hear! We still have not heard a thing about the house. I'm getting impatient!

Saturday we went to New York for our friend Donel's wedding. I could not sleep Friday night! I think I was worried about packing and forgetting stuff! So I woke up at 5:50 AM. We left around 10 AM and it took about 4.5 hours to get there. That was an interesting ride. We went the "back way" through Vermont and over Hog Back Mountain. We stayed at the Franklin Plaza Suites & Inn in Troy, NY ( I think that was name of it).

The church was AMAZING and so was the reception!! The reception was at the Franklin Plaza, which happened to be the old Bank of Troy. So it was an old bank turned into a reception hall. It was awesome inside. The coat room was an old safe! Check it out!

Pretty cool huh?! The food was really good too...but we didn't get our entrees until 10 PM! Stacy was in the wedding so Jason, Mike, me, mum, daddy, Aunt Cheryl and Uncle Richard all sat together. Of course, because I'm pregnant it HAD to be open bar the entire reception! So needless to say it was a long night for me but it was a lot of fun!

Here is a fat-so picture of me at the wedding! Someone at work told me I was "big as a house" which offended me a little...but then they tried to make it better by saying "but you're supposed to be". That didn't really help!

We left NY on Sunday around 9:30 AM and got home around 1. It was a fun weekend. We went to Steve and Lindsay's to watch the Superbowl. And that was my weekend!!

I was pretty tired Monday morning and I was letting her highness out and she decided that she wanted to go near the road...so I walk down off the porch (which I never do in the morning) in my slippers and I fell!! I fell on my left knee first and then on my right knee and then ended up on my butt! So I'm pretty sore today! But I think I'll make it!

Here is another picture of my belly! I'm 22 weeks and there are only 18 weeks (or less ) to go!! I took these pictures myself...sorry if they aren't very good!

xoxo
Deidra