28 big fat weeks

Although I have enjoyed being pregnant (mostly), I can't wait to have my body back to myself!

Ben's Birthday

Ben's birthday was yesterday. I think he had a great day. We stayed up until midnight the night before so he could open his presents. I woke up with him that morning and made him pancakes while he got ready for school. When he came home he had his confetti cupcakes with purple frosting, as requested and Little Caeser's Pizza. We also played X-Box together and snuggled with the doggies. Everyone did their best to do whatever Ben wanted all day. He got a ton of phone calls too, which he loved!

Ben wore one of his new shirts from his mom and his new watch from me!

Left for Dead...a zombie game for x-box where fat zombies puke on you and "smoker" zombies strangle you with their tongues. Sounds fun, right?

The Crib

Ben and I got to set up our crib recently. We did a lot of research and picked one that we really liked. Unfortunately, I didn't get the camera out until all that was left was putting the wheels on. Ben was a great sport and we figured the very confusing directions out together. We love it!!


We had to try it out with the doggies. The "mattress" in the pic is obviously not the one we're keeping in there.




The finished product!

We're having...

A BOY!!!!!

Unfortunately, both Ben's and my disk drive is broken so we can't put our ultrasound pictures on here quite yet.  We are SO excited!! 

a few pics...

So I finally uploaded some pictures.  This is me at 19 weeks, but as of today I'm 21 weeks :)  Still not very big...

This is my final drawing for advanced figure.  

Here is my latest sewing project that left the sewing room COVERED in little bits of terry cloth. 

By the way...I feel the need to say that Ben's hair does NOT look like that anymore.  I made him cut it.  

The Amazing Adventures of Loki and Layla

When morning comes, an abundance of kisses comes with it. It's not the sweet kisses between a husband and a wife. It's the slobbery licks of Loki, and the half-lick, half-bites of Layla.

We've realized the trick is to keep our eyes shut, even if we're awake. As soon as the dogs see our eyes are open, their tails start wagging like crazy. They know we are awake, and they are ready to play. Loki usually creeps up to my head slowly, whereas Layla pounces on my head.

Waking with Loki and Layla is never the slow, relaxing process I hope for, where I can lay in bed awake for a few minutes. It's a quick, get-out-of-bed-and-into-the-shower or a dog is going to eat your face.

Even if I have to use the bathroom, I sleepwalk to it, with my eyes closed and my arms stretched out like a zombie. We have to keep up the appearance that we are still asleep. It's the only way to keep the dogs sane.

We've had t-shirt weather here until this morning. Dixie planted about a dozen flowers in our garden, and then it snowed overnight. She attempted to save the plant's lives early this morning. Layla helped by eating all the snow off of the petals.

  

Dixie is amazing as ever. She started to show this week, and her belly grew so fast. It's a good thing because I now know the baby has space in there. She's the most beautiful pregnant woman ever still.

I bought the coolest shirt in the world this weekend. Dixie says I can only wear it around the house, so I have to change into it every day I get home from school. 

For those of you unacquainted with the X-Men, that's Gambit - the coolest of the cool. He'll be featured in the Wolverine movie coming out next week. Go see it and support your local mutants.

Well that's all till next time. We should know the sex of the baby soon.

-Ben

 

good news

I went shopping for my first maternity clothes this week. I bought two dresses and a pair of jeans.  I'm 14 weeks now and still not "showing".  Even though I don't look pregnant, none of my jeans or skirts fit over my hips anymore.  Today I wore maternity jeans for the first time.  I had to fold the big blue band over my hips and they were still falling off.  What's a girl to do?  Hopefully this awkward stage won't last for long.  

I also have to take a moment to brag about school.  I had such a high score on my humanities test that my teacher dropped my score from the curve so I wasn't the only person with an A. And last Friday my English teacher told me she wanted to publish my research paper in a journal.  This is pretty incredible considering how sick I've been and how little effort I've put into school.  Ben was amazed when I told him and said how it's unfair that all I do is come home from school and sleep and hardly ever do any homework.  It's true.  All I can say is that Heavenly Father sure has blessed me this semester.  Now that this semester is coming to a close, I look back and realize how blessed I've been to be able to make it to my classes and get my assignments done with as much ease as I have.