20 weeks!!!

* I SWEAR I didn't go out in public like this! The weather is sucking here in Coastal Town, GA so we didn't leave the house all weekend. Including these poor underfoot dogs who had a bit of cabin fever!

How Far Along? 20 weeks.. we're halfway baby!

Total Weight Gained/Loss? I'll find out tomorrow.. gulp.

Maternity Clothes: not yet. But I'm going to get some jeans tomorrow.. tear..

Sleep? I still wake up a lot, but seem to be sleeping a bit better. I just need a break from these crazy dreams I keep having.

Best Moment of the Week? Shim is moving enough now that you can occasionally feel it from the outside, and last night Mr. Perfect got to feel it once!

Movement- see above =) I think feeling Shim, might have made it a bit more real...

Food Craving- my appetite showed up this week. I am hungry about every 2 hours.

Food aversions- Still not a huge fan of meat, everything else is fair game.

Morning sickness?- nope.

Gender- TOMORROW!!! Take your last guesses as to what we're having tonight!

Labor Signs- none.

Belly Button- still in.

What I miss- not having a monster headache everyday.

What I'm looking forward to- tomorrow!

Weekly Wisdom- Talk to your husband. He doesn't know what to say when it seems his formerly perfectly rational wife is all of a sudden a constant basketcase. Tell him what you need.

Milestones- We find out tomorrow!!

Just as a fun little game, and to look back and see if they're right, I took two gender prediction quizzes to see what we were having. According to old wives' tales on two different sights, we're having a girl. According to the Chinese gender predictor, we're having a boy. I guess we'll see!!

kitchen disaster #25,345,896

The other day I cleaned out the fridge at work and realized I had two Tupperware containers of food in there that had been in there for months days. I decided to go ahead and take them home and get rid of them.

Now normally I would have just thrown them away, containers and all, to avoid the smell of what was surely rotten inside.

Or I would have left them on the kitchen counter for Mr. Perfect to deal with later.

Seriously, why did he marry me?!?

But this time, I decided to put my big girl pants on and take care of it myself.

I headed to the garbage disposal, handy scarf wrapped around my face, to take care of some business. I turned the water on, poured the food in the sink, and turned it on.

You would have thought I just shattered a million pieces of glass. All of sudden there's this horrendous noise, water, pieces of broccoli and cheese, and some unidentified substance are flying everywhere. All over the wall and my face. In between gags I managed to turn off the disposal.

I peered down in there, but couldn't see anything and there was NO WAY I was putting my hand in there. Y'all seen the movies, it doesn't work out well. I do not want a nub.

So I gave it another shot. Didn't go well. There is now rotten broccoli and cheese all over me and my kitchen. I was furious.

I finally found a pair of tongs (duh tongs!) and pulled out the culprit. Stupid spoon. I tossed the spoon in the dishwasher and finished my chore. Then I had to clean up the kitchen.

When the Mr. was unloading the dishwasher that night, he came upon said spoon.

"Someone had a disagreement with the disposal huh?" he asked me.

What?!? You can tell that.

So busted.

I really should just stay out of that cursed room.

KP's baby shower

So a couple weekends again, my friend KW and I hosted a shower at my place for our dearest friend, KP. KP is expecting a little girl in January and it's her first so we're all super excited for her. She never expected to have children, but now her and her hubs are expecting and it's just the happiest little surprise. We had a great time, I managed to make some edible food, and KP scored some awesome loot. Successful shower in my book!

The mama to be-


Diaper cake, somehow I got almost no pictures of the decorations and food, but trust, they were cute!! I was pretty proud of myself as this is the first shower I have EVER hosted at my house! Stressful much?!










KW, KP, & I. KW had her daughter in September. Think our trio is going 3 for 3 with the girls?!


Oh bellies...


It is honestly the coolest thing ever to be going through this pregnancy with some of my best friends. I can't wait til our children are all here and we can do family vacations and birthdays and such. It's like a baby boom going on here lately, but just think of all the built in bff's my kid will already have when it gets here! Because I'm totally choosing Shim's friends. I mean, duh.

19 weeks

How Far Along? 19 weeks

Total Weight Gained/Loss? Haven't been back to the doc. I'm not weighing myself at home. I'm an ostrich that way.

Maternity Clothes: not yet. I can still wear most of my jeans with the bella band or a rubber band instead of a button.

Sleep? right... This past week introduced me to a little darling called the Charlie Horse. Not a fan. Somehow Mr. Perfect slept right through my version of being exorcised when I thought my leg was being ripped off.

Best Moment of the Week? Shim has officially started moving!! At first I just thought I had a bad case of the bubble guts, but then realized that that butterfly sensation in my belly was Shim. Occasionally it feels like something is playing drums on my abdominal wall. Love it!

Movement- see above =) It starts any time I sit down or lay down. I'm afraid my child will never sit still..

Food Craving- chocolate. But only occasionally.

Food aversions- I still don't get along with food very well....

Morning sickness?- nope.

Gender- 1 more week. Oh give me patience...

Labor Signs- none.

Belly Button- in but more shallow and my laproscopy scar is showing up big time now.

What I miss- a good sleep!

What I'm looking forward to- next Tuesday

Weekly Wisdom- I don't have any. I'm too tired to be wise!!

Milestones- Shim's moving!!!

signs i'm growing up...

I have a bad habit of getting an item in my head that I want and not being able to think about anything else until I get it.

In college I wanted clothes, clothes, and more clothes. So I bought them.

Then I wanted shoes. I bought a new pair weekly. Every pay check yielded a new fancy to make my size 9 feet scream with joy (and sometimes pain but hey..).

It doesn't matter what it is, if I get something in my mind, I have to have it. I will find a way to get it.

Well I've got a new obsession, but this time it's not for me.


the Bumbleride Indie
Baby Shim needs this stroller. I can't stop drooling over it. Any Bumbleride fans out there? Is it as great as I believe it's going to be? How good is it for running? How portable?

Oh I lust....

the baby's (?) room.

Honestly, I can't even believe I'm about to show y'all this. This is our current office. Since I found out I was pregnant, I have not touched it. I still throw stuff in there occasionally, literally opening the door, tossing something in, and closing the door, but as for actually entering the room and cleaning it? Has not happened in months. Don't judge me! The rest of my house is immaculate. This is my *"Monica's closet".

*Friends fans you know...

I've been telling myself we're going to have to completely redo it for the nursery anyway, so I'm not worrying about it today.

Yea, apparently I'm Scarlett O'Hara.

So now I have about 4 months to make this...



into my dream nursery.

Ay yi yi.

18 weeks

How Far Along? 18 weeks

Total Weight Gained/Loss? Haven't been back to the doc. My scale at home says I'm down 1 from the docs scale. I knew that Mexican I ate before my appointment totally screwed my weight up!

Maternity Clothes: still no. But honestly if I didn't work in scrubs I think I would have had to give in by now.

Sleep? Not so great. I wake up all the time. My feet keep going numb on me. I guess I'm not doing so great at the not sleeping on my back thing or something. Mr. Perfect is going to run out of room to sleep if I keep adding in pillows to our bed!

Best Moment of the Week? ? Nothing big this week.

Movement- not yet

Food Craving- Chocolate chip cookies. There's nutrients in those right?!

Food aversions- I'm having a really hard time with food. Nothing tastes the same way it did and honestly? I don't want much of anything. I'm having to force myself to eat stuff and it's getting hard to do.

Morning sickness?- nope. But I'm super tired again.

Gender- 2 more weeks...

Labor Signs- none.

Belly Button- in.

What I miss- sleeping on my back. Oh it was nice...

What I'm looking forward to- movement. Come on little one.. your crazy mom is dying here!

Weekly Wisdom- Sleep. Whenever you can. If it's not at night, then take naps.

Milestones- We're in month 5!