Week 24

Beginning of the THIRD and FINAL trimester is here! WOW! I sure hope labor goes this fast. Well, wait a minute. That may mean it happens too fast for drugs, and that would be AWEFUL!!! I WANT DRUGS!!!!

Anyways, dreampt that AbbyGale had a hair ball behind her left shoulder and I was cutting it off as she was walking away from me. Hmm... decided baths were in order and I gave Niner a bath before Adam got home yesterday, and then he and I gave Abby one. They smell so fresh and clean... Honey I Washed The Kids from Lush is the best dog soap ever. Course it's not made for dogs, but it surely can be used on dogs!

Also, wake up with strange songs in my head EVERY FREAKING DAY!! It makes me not want to listen to music cus it hinders my restful sleep...singing to myself (and the baby) all damn night long. Adam doesn't quite understand. Cus periodically he will start to sing some song RIGHT BEFORE BED! And I am all "honey, don't sing that. I don't want it stuck in my head!" Ah, well...

Also, baby has been getting hiccups for the last week or so. A week ago Thursday I couldn't quite figure it out. There was this repeating in and out sensation in my lower belly. I was hanging out in the nursery (hehe sounds so funny to say) and flup-flup. After a while I realized that it was happening regularly and began to pay more attention to the sensation. SURE-AS-SHIT!!!! There it was. Hiccups. Happened twice that day. May have happened before and I just didn't know it! Now it seems to happen every other day or so. Which brings me to my oddbal questions:

1) How can he get the hiccups when he DOESN'T BREATHE AIR???

2) Does he sink with gravity in the amniotic fluid? Or does he just float around cus he doesn't breathe air? Or what?? Cus sometimes it feels as though he floats around. Just cus I am on my right side, doesn't mean I feel him sink down there.

3) We were at the nursery (OH OH OH! He has the hiccups RIGHT NOW!!!!) at the hospital before my Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) appointment for my third videotaping of the baby, and we saw a fresh new baby girl. Her ambilical cord had been cut (obviously) and was clipped with a CHIP CLIP!! Anywho...the belly button was pink like skin for about 1/2 inch, and then the other 2 inches or so was white. Like weird white. But it wasn't white right where the clip was, cus the clip was about halfway in the middle of the whole-piece-thing! It was white about 3/4 inch below the clip (towards the button of the belly) and then white for another inch or so beyond the clip. HOW DOES IT KNOW WHERE TO BE WHITE AND NOT BE WHITE? I guess the white part will die and fall off, but I am not really clear on how all this works. Very confused...

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OKAY! NOTE TO SELF...never eat mozzerella AGAIN while pregnant. I was so swollen for 24 solid (haha) hours, it was AWFUL!! I couldn't believe it! OMG! It was so bad!

So this brings me to think about all the crazy things that you may or may not experience while pregnant:

1) Hemmorhoids - well, so far so good, none of them plague me! Thank GOD!!

2) Sleep problems - again, chalk that one up to luck cus I sleep pretty dang good. 'cept for the strange dreams and songs that get stuck in my head. But as far as being comfortable, I am good to go!!!

3) Heartburn - none yet. Of course I feel really lucky that I didn't have worse morning sickness. I had some nausea but didn't throw up once! YAY!

4) Mood swings - okay let's not joke around here - THEY SUCK...and poor Adam having to put up with me when I "have a moment". Which the "moments" are really 2 different things. There is the a) restless, cranky, jittery leg thing when I am usually too hot, or uncomfortable, and Adam knows I need to go RIGHT TO BED... and then there is the b) mood swing. Which 'swing' is not the best word for this situation. It's more like a bomb, or crash, or jolt. It happens so fast, and is so intense that I know Adam just wants to turn and run for cover! Hell, I even want to run from myself! It sucks. I have had 2 VERY BAD ones, and many many many other not so bad ones. The worst one was at night, after Ang had left after being over, and I got NOTHING done but supporting her and her finance maintenance, and then Erin called and I should have not answered, or told her I would call back, because I was just stewing (funny word really) and it made things worse, and THEN, Adam was so tired, that he was falling asleep!!! during my intial vent session, which only FUELED MY FIRE!!! I called him a name I would have never ever ever even thought about calling him before, and told him to get outta my face!! It was a horrific experience! Now I am sure there was a second big mood swing,

A.D.D. - my new favorite word is INKLE!!! I decided this when I used the word inkling, and wanted to start using the present tense of this word in my every day lingo! I had an INKLE!! Say it. Out loud. NOW! It makes me giggle....hehehehe

Oh, and Danielle's shower is this weekend! Thank god! I need a mani/pedi and I am really looking forward to high tea at the Adolphus! It's so much fun! Plus, we get to ride around in a limo all day! YAY!! I have only been in limos for funerals! Never for prom, or wedding, or anything. It seemed to be too much money for what it was. But this will be great since we have the same limo all day, and we can store our food and champagne and sodas and gifts in there while we get pampered and have high tea. (i said high...heheh)

I am really excited about the tea because we are having organic verbena mint, vanilla bean, and pear caramel!!! And I have no idea what delicious treats will be served with the tea, but I know it will be special!

Ang is making chocolate covered strawberries, mini carrot cup cakes with cream cheese icing, and lemon blueberry truffles!!! DELISH!!!

I am making some exotic sandwhiches of which I haven't decided which ones yet. Maybe grilled open-faced vegie, pesto, and mozzerella sandwiches, or cucumber, radish and watercress with truffled goat cheese, or crisp cheese-filled eggplant sandwiches with pomegranate molasses (haha MOLE-ASSES!!!), or portebello mushroom with tahini sandwiches, or tarragon-caper egg sandwiches with smoked salmon, or grilleed gorgonzolla, pear and watercress sandwiches, or morccan carrot and goat chees sandwiches with green olive tapenade, or pita sandwiches with eggplant, peppers, tomatoes and cucumber, or grilled eggplant wioth lemon aioli, feta, and mint, or salmon and cucumber layered sandwiches!!! MMM...

My favorites are the first four! Grilled open-faced vegie, pesto, and mozzerella sandwiches, or cucumber, radish and watercress with truffled goat cheese, or crisp cheese-filled eggplant sandwiches with pomegranate molasses (haha MOLE-ASSES!!!), or portebello mushroom with tahini sandwiches.

WOW! Whatever shall I do????

Well, I guess I should get back to work now! DANG!