the fall...

Oh my god. I’m a loser. So last night I’m walking to my car to leave for the day. Well it’s raining out, we have a dirt driveway with loose gravel and pot holes. I was wearing a pair of wedge sandals that I wear ALL the time – and anyways I guess I stepped on a rock wrong or something and my ankle started rolling...next thing I know, I’m flailing like a cartoon character and I go down! I fell on all fours!! I jumped up (well as fast as a 9 month pregnant chick can) to make sure no one saw me, hobbled to my car and then started crying! It hurt so bad. My hands are sore – they have scratches all in them and they are puffy. My left knee is all skinned up – I didn’t rip my jeans – I don’t know how I didn’t. My left knee has some scratches too! I didn’t hit my stomach thank god! I called the doctors and they started asking me a million and one questions:

Doctors: “did you fall on your stomach?”
Me: “I don’t think so, it happened so fast I don’t remember but I don’t think so”
Doctors: “are you bleeding”
Me: “to be honest I don’t know. I just got in my car and I’m driving home”
Doctors: “are you having cramps”
Me: “no but I feel like I’m going to puke. But that could be from my nerves”
Doctors: “can you feel the baby move”
Me: “to be perfectly honest – I don’t know, I haven’t been paying attention”

So basically they told me if I wanted too, I could go in to OB and be put on the monitor or they could see me tomorrow – meaning today. I said no that if I start to bleed or can’t feel the baby I would go to the hospital and I have a regular appointment on Thursday. So there you have it! It was so embarrassing and scary at the same time! I was just so glad that no one saw me go down...it must have been quite hysterical! The pictures don't really do it justice but you get some sort of idea!

We are starting our birthing class tomorrow night. I have my 36 week appointment tomorrow. They will do the strep b test and check to see if I'm dilated. I will try to post something tomorrow night or this weekend about how my doctor's appointment went. Oh and we are NOT closing on Friday. It's a long story...gets my blood boiling...can't talk about it right now...I will tell you later!

xoxo,

Deidra

34 days

Sunday was my baby shower!! It was awesome! Now I knew the day of the shower because I had given my mom dates that would work around all the other showers and such! So I knew it was on April 26. What I didn't know was what time and where. My mom accidentally told me what time the shower was at a week before the shower. Now I knew what day and what time. I didn't want to know where it was cause I wanted some sort of a surprise! Well as you will all recall...it was frickin' hot that weekend! Sunday was even hotter than Saturday! So I was asking Mike if there was a/c where my shower was. He said, "No, and I don't think they even have windows!" I wanted to die!! I needed a cool place! I was so hot and uncomfortable!!! So we are driving through town and the shower was at the Opera House in Farmington! It was so nice in there! And it was nice and cool! We have so much food and it was all so yummy! I think I gained quite a few pounds! So after we all stuffed our faces, I started to open all my presents! We got so many nice things! I was an opening machine! Everyone told me that was a record. There was a flurry of tissue & wrapping paper! My mom baked the cake. Now my mom can cook but she is NO baker! I had wanted Grammy to make my cake...well there was quite the debacle (too long to divulge in) my mom ended up making it and Grammy decorated it. It came out so nice! I didn't get to try any :( but I heard it was really dry! haha. Oh well...at least it looked good and I'm sure it tasted fine...just dry!

After I was done opening presents, we called Mike to come by and pick me and our presents up. There were so many gifts!! We filled the truck and Mike's parent's car! Our porch is full of all our stuff. I wanted to open everything and assemble everything but we're supposed to be moving soon and it's staying where it is cause we will just have to move it again in a few weeks! I did however attempt to put together our bouncy seat that we got...that was a mistake! It took me an hour and alot of swearing and Mike thought I was going to throw the thing out the window!! I guess I wasn't reading the instructions well enough! But here is the finished product!!!

My parent's bought us our crib and Mike's parent's bought us our dresser/changing table. Mike put it together so we would have one less piece to assemble! It took quite a while I guess. I love it!! Here is it! It's so much nicer in person than it was online!

My friend's at work at throwing me a shower on May 13! I will get to try my cake at this one! They told me when it was so I could be prepared! Hopefully we'll be moved into our new house by then and we can just bring the presents right there! I have started making out my thank you notes but I keep getting hand cramps! I'm not used to hand writting anything! So much is done on computers now!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE PRESENTS AND A GREAT SHOWER!!!!!

There are 34 days till I have the baby!! I'm hoping for 30 or less! I really do think I will go before my due date. Here is my reason: when I first called my doctor's office to tell them I was pregnant, they asked for the first day of my last period. I told them and the girl on the phone gave me a due date of June 4. At my first appointment I should have been 10 weeks according to my last period. When Dr. O'Regan was checkin' out my stuff he mentioned that my uterus was tilted (which by the way it's always tilted when I go to the doctors) and he thought I was farther along than they thought but it was hard to tell because of the tilted uterus. So he ordered an ultra sound. My appointment was on a Friday and I had the ultra sound that following Monday. When I got there, the sonographer told me that I was about 11 weeks along. But she said that her margin of error was 3+/- days. So she kept my due date the same...but she actually said my due date was June 5! SOOOO...to sum up all of the above, I think I will go before June 4 or 5! Anywhoo...I'm 35 weeks and only 5 to go!

Well my back is starting hurt, my vision is becoming blurred and I'm dying of THIRST! I have another doctor's appointment next Thursday and we also have our first birthing class that night! So I will definately have an update after that! Oh yeah and we are supposed to be closing on our house next Friday - May 8th! Wish us luck!!

xoxo,

Deidra

6 Weeks & Counting!

I have been really bad about writing in my blog! Sorry. It's been very stressful in the Howard/Moulton residence these past 2 weeks! But all is well! Things are actually starting to fall into place! First of all...the most exciting news ever...the bank finally ACCEPTED our offer!! We are closing on or before May 8th! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am! We had our home inspection this past Tuesday. That was interesting. It took FOREVER! But it's over with and now we are just waiting for our bank to get an appraisal. We have been working dilegently to get homeowners insurance and our part is done! Yay! My parents had bought us our crib - which by the way - is still in its box patiently awaiting to be assembled in OUR new house! The dresser/changing table that Mike's parents bought us arrived a day early! So on Tuesday - after the home inspection - Mike put it together! It's so nice! I love it. It's one less thing that we have to assemble when we finally move in. Mike said it took a long time to put together. It came in a bunch of pieces. The only parts that he didn't put together were the sides. But all the railings, legs and drawers needed to be put together!

I had my doctor's appointment yesterday. It went well. As you all know...I've been a little OBSESSED with weight gain. Well I decided last week that I don't care anymore. I can't really control how much weight the baby or myself gains. I have been diligent in trying to eat healthier at work (since work is my down fall - free lunch every day - super fatty)! Now every time I go to the doctor's I have to ask how much weight I've gained. They never seem to just tell me. I get to the doctor's office and I have to pee. They like to get a urine sample every time. Well...let me tell you...it's very hard to pee in a cup that you can't see. I peed on my hand, on the cup and most of it went in the toilet! So after that whole ordeal, I go and wait in the waiting room. The nurse comes and gets me and we head right for the scale. I get on and she tells me how much weight I've gained. Well I thought to myself, "that's a first" and I only gained a pound! I said to the the nurse, "what the heck?! I've been obsessing about my weight and when I try to not gain any weight I gain 5 lbs and then I told myself I don't care how much weight I've gained and I only gain 1 lb!!!" She just laughed and said that happened to her too. So I am officially done being totally obsessed with my weight gain. Every thing else was fine. I continue to have great blood pressure, the baby's heart beat is strong (around 140 bpm this week) and is very active!

I'm am almost done housing!! Only 6 weeks left. I am 34 weeks. The baby keeps moving around. This morning...I had for the first time...a limb of some sort under my ribs! I was trying to lean over to eat my Cheerios - wait they are Market Basket brand: Tasteeos - and I couldn't bend! It was the weirdest most uncomfortable feeling ever!! But the baby has since then moved on to another location. He or she has been very active lately. They don't kick me much anymore but they move around a lot. I can feel my belly shift. It is a very weird sensation. Not sure I mentioned this before but Mike for the first time - really this time - felt the baby move! And he or she was kicking him as well.

Well that's all I have for right now. I need to update you on the shower with some pictures but I don't feel like getting up to grab my camera! That will come tomorrow!

xoxo,

Deidra

P.S. - I wrote this Friday...and I'm just posting it today! :)

bad blogger...

i'm a bad blogger! I haven't posted anything in forever!! I have lots to say but it's 10 PM and I need to go to bed. I'm having my baby shower this Sunday!! So I will have some pictures to post and I'm sure stuff to blog about. We can talk about the house again too! Really quick - the bank accepted our offer! So I get to decorate a cute baby room! I will try to post some info about the house tomorrow night. I have a doctor's appointment on Thursday too...so I will have to update everyone on that as well!

xoxo,
Deidra

Wouldn't it be nice...

If I had a place where I could set up our crib? Or anything that we get? Well it isn't looking that way! Maybe but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm sick of this house crap...so I'm letting everyone know...I can no longer talk about the house cause it gets my blood boiling. So there is NO news and I don't expect to hear any soon. I'm no longer talking about it. Done.


Today marks my 32nd week! Wahoo!! Check out the 2 photos below:

This is what our baby might look like! We DO NOT know what we're having. A lot of people seem to think that we do know and we're just keeping it a secret. Well you're all wrong and to be perfectly honest...I'm kinda sick of hearing that! So another subject done. The baby looks like it might be pretty cramped in there! I've noticed a decrease in the kicking. But I can feel it move A LOT! I think it might have shifted it's position and maybe it's kicking my organs that I can't feel?! Also the baby weighs about 4 lbs! That's crazy. I've been having wicked heart burn. Now I do eat a lot of heart burn inducing food...but it's never bothered me before! I bought some Pepcid - the doctor said it was ok to take it as directed. So far it hasn't worked...but it is also the cheapy brand - Equate! Nothing but the best for me!

Oh yeah. I had my doctor's appointment today. I met with Dr. Baker. Now the first time I met him, he tried to make me feel guilty for having the downs test. I liked him much better this time! So I officially like every doctor that works at the Center for Women's Health! Which is good cause I have no idea who will be on call the day I have this baby! It went ok. As you all know - I have been totally obsessed with my weight gain. Well I packed on the pounds this time!! My total weight gain to date is 24lbs. Yikes!!!!! But they keep telling me to settle down - it's not bad. Well I think it is especially since I discovered the lone stretch mark on my belly! The baby's heart beat was good too! It was around 150-155 bpm. At my last appointment it was 135-140 range. Oh and I found out today that at my 36 week appointment...is the first internal. I don't know how I feel about that!!! They will check for bacterial strep 3 (or something like that) - which by the way they swab your cervix or somewhere in there - and check to see if I have begun dilated! So that is in 4 weeks. My guess is that will be around May 14 or 15.

Our crib came in yesterday. I was happy but at the same time, every time I looked at it or thought about it I cried. Here is the crib we got and the dresser/changer we want.

The color for these two is espresso. The reason for my melt down is that I'm sick of living in our place...I want a place of our own...I can't decorate a cute room for the baby! It is a super ghetto room. Most of you have seen the back room and how ghetto it is. How can I have the baby in here? So I asked Mike to move to either the porch or the garage. It was moved to the porch. So that's good. It weighed a ton too! It was 69 lbs. I'm glad I don't have to lift it or put it together.

xoxo,

Deidra

Time for some Belly!

Ok so I haven't posted any belly pictures in forever! Or at least that's the way I feel. I have also been avoiding posting a "bare" belly picture but I did it. Don't make fun of it. I'm a little self conscious about my belly. I have that stupid dark line (which by the way...isn't center...it's a little to the left) and my scar from having my belly button pierced is really exaggerated! But someone told me I might regret not taking a photo of my bare belly. I also discovered (much to my dismay!!) that I have a stretch mark on my stomach! I was totally devastated. I told Mike and he didn't seem to think it was a very big deal. I wanted to die! You might be able to see it if you look hard enough.




I'm officially 31 weeks pregnant! I have 62 days left till baby Moulton arrives. I also just entered my 8th month! Can you believe it?! I can't. It's flown by! Here are some interesting little tid bits about this week in my baby's life...the baby's ears have developed and hear (truly hear) my voice and other familiar sounds that they will recognize after they are born. Also their finger nails have grown to end of its fingers and can even scratch itself in the womb!! Oh yeah and I've noticed that the babe gets the hiccups quite a bit. It's the weirdest feeling! I feel my whole stomach move!!! They haven't been kicking me very much - or at least not that I can feel but I can feel them move. It's a shifting feeling...it's very bizarre.


Here is what the baby looks like all scrunched up inside!!!



My baby shower is at the end of this month! I can't wait! I know when it is...I told my mom the dates that would work best! I have seen my invitations...but just so you all KNOW...I do not know WHERE my shower or what TIME. I just know it's April 26th. My Aunt Cheryl was trying to tell me what they would look like. She kept saying she had the cutest picture of me. I knew the exact photo she was talking about. I was about a year old, it was Easter and I had on a cute dress and a white bonnet. Sure enough...I go to my Grammy's house and it's on her fridge! I said, "Grammy!!! You're not supposed to have my invite out where I can see it!!!" Then I was at my mom's house bringing Duke home and out of the corner of my eye, I see my invite lying on the kitchen table. I quickly looked away and threw mail on top of it so I wouldn't spoil any surprises. I yelled at my sister because she brought the mail in and just left it sitting right on top!! What the heck! Oh yeah and my name is spelled wrong on them...just a little fyi. But that's ok...I can deal. Most everyone knows how to spell it! I want to be surprised...kind of . I want to make sure I look cute but I don't need to know any other details besides the date.

Well it's getting to be my bed time (9 PM) and I want to go to bed. Hopefully by Monday I'll have another update on the house...still nothing since last Friday. Maybe we'll hear something on Friday! Countrywide (the seller's bank) has to respond my April 5 (a Sunday) but I think we'll hear something on Monday. Please keep your fingers crossed we hear something tomorrow!!!


xoxo
Deidra

mini house update

First...I didn't ask Betty about the house because I had already talked to our realtor and had some better news than before. Which I don't think I shared on my blog...so let me start by telling you all about last week.

Last week, Mike and I went and looked at the Wilson Street house (again) and then went and looked at another house on Pineknoll Drive. We checked on the Wilson Street house to make sure the roof hadn't leaked from all the snow melting and just make sure there were no other problems. All was well. We then went and looked at the Pineknoll house and I really liked that one. It was move in ready. It was another ranch that was all painted - in neutral colors - my favorite!! But it lacked a garage but it was on a dead end road and it was on a really nice lot. At this point we had NO news on the Wilson Street as far as whether the bank was going to accept our offer or not. We had HAD it with the waiting!! We told Diane (our realtor) basically to give the seller's agent and the bank an ultimatum. Either they give us an answer by tomorrow or we're walking away. Well...didn't that light some fire under the seller's agent's ass!! She called his bank - Countrywide - and they said they had until April 5 to respond. I was like WHAT?!?!??! WTF is taking them so long to decide. Then as if that wasn't bad enough that we had to wait another week and a half on top of 2+ months...they still had to do an appraisal or something that would mean we couldn't even think of closing until the end of April!! But we still have to get an appraisal so god knows how long it would take to close. We also wouldn't be able to go in and paint until we closed on the house which would most likely be a few weeks before I'm due! Not cool. So we thought about jumping ship and pursuing the Pineknoll property.

Yesterday, as you all know...I went to see the psychic Betty Lipton. I was going to ask her about the house but I received an email from our realtor letting us know that the seller's bank was working on the preliminary HUD. A HUD is a settling statement. It basically will let the bank know how much money the seller will have to come up with at closing and how much money he will "walk away" with. Which in this case, he will not really walk away with any money because it's a short sale, so it will let the seller and the bank know how much he'll be responsible for paying back after the closing. So bottom line...this happened a week earlier than they told us! Yeah! So there is some hope. We have decided that we'll wait out the Wilson Street and hope to GOD that the bank approves our offer and we can close ASAP! I would like to move in before my shower! I don't want to move all that stuff 2 times!

So there you have it. We're still waiting and we may get some news on Monday but I'm not holding my breath!

xoxo,
Deidra