My Dogs Are Barkin'

My feet are killing me! My heels especially, but my feet in general hurt.

I read online that 18% of pregnant women have heel pain. Count me in! It took me a while to figure out that this could possibly be a pregnancy related issue. Who would think that your heels could hurt when you're pregnant? I hope this is temporary.

For your daily dose of cuteness :

We spent some time reading on the front porch on Sunday Molly really enjoyed it obviously, and then George spent some time in our new hand-me-down-bassinet.

Learning curve

As I mentioned in a previous post, Kim and Brett have been kind enough to give us many many useful baby/child related items. I'd list them for you, but I really have no clue what most of them are or do. But we totally appreciate every single one of them!

Kim dropped off a car-load (seriously) of things last weekend. So I thought I should begin to familiarize with these items so I don't find myself overwhelmed with a newborn and the related apparatus.

I started off with the bottle warmer. Took it out of the box, read the directions, seemed simple enough. A once cold bottle of liquid is then made warm. Got it. Makes total sense.

Then, feeling confident, I moved on to the sterilizer. Confidence immediately dashed. First off it has more parts than the aforementioned warmer. It's okay, I can handle this. Once again I unfold the instructions which by the way are much longer than the warmer. I'm getting nervous. I put the parts together as instructed. That's it. End of instructions. Well, how does this sterilize anything?? Where is the 'on' button? Where is the plug? I kid you not, I looked this thing over for five minutes, flipped it up-side-down, poked buttons that didn't exist, turned and re-turned the lid and could not, for the life of me figure out how to turn it on. (My fantastic husband was playing on his xBox during all of this, and although I was tempted to fetch him and get him to figure it out, I thought NO I can do this!) So then, after many (many) minutes of pulling out my hair trying to turn this damn thing on, I decide to check the box. Well sure enough, right there in black and white "MICROWAVE STERILIZER". Microwave... riiiiiiiight.

This kid is fucked.

Busted!

So I'm 25 weeks and 3 days as of today. Until yesterday no stranger or acquaintance has ever said anything to me about being pregnant. I was starting to be somewhat offended because to me, I am huge. It should be obvious to everyone just by looking at me as far as I'm concerned. Apparently not.

Wait, let me back-track, at work about two weeks ago, one of the nurses who I don't know very well did say something, but for the rest of the day, not one of the other 20 nurses and medical professionals in the room, many of whom I know much better than that woman, said anything to me. From that, I determined this woman was just bring a complete moron. She was taking a wild guess and had a 50% chance of being wrong and seriously offending a not-so-skinny-but-not-pregnant girl. Next time she wont be so lucky.

Anyway, back to yesterday. Yesterday I was at a meeting in Ancaster. On the way back to the meeting after my 5th trip to the washroom, I ran into another nurse in the hallway. This nurse I know quite well and really like. She is nice, and normal, unlike most nurses, but that's another post all together. We haven't seen each other in a while so she asked me what was new. I don't usually mention it, but I said "well, I'm having a baby!" And she said "Yah I can see that!" Wait..... wha? Me: "You can?" Her "Of course!" Yeh! I look pregnant and not just fat! What a great day!

Yep that's the whole story.

I belong to a family of early risers

And I can't say I'm overly happy about it. I am trying to sleep train the baby in utero by sleeping in as often as I can. It is my theory that maybe she will be trained by the time she gets here just from hanging out with mommy for the last 10 months, but if the rest of the family keeps getting up so early I fear my plan will not work!

It's Saturday. We've been up since 6 .m. Although I tired to resist by staying in bed until 7 a.m. but it was a futile effort.

Now it's 11 a.m. and so far I've:

• showered - you're welcome
• vacuumed
• cleaned the bathroom
• enjoyed a breakfast of delicious blueberry pancakes and coffee - no I didn't make it, but I enjoyed it.
• gotten groceries with my lovely husband
• put groceries away also with my lovely husband
• Draino'ed the bathroom sink - success!
• and baked a Strawberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake. Behold!

• Please note: yes I am being prematurely cocky since I haven't tried it yet, but it certainly looks better than my last attempt at baking.

Now I am sitting down and trying to relax a bit before my next job starts. For those of you wondering what exciting things I have planned for the rest of the day, hold on to your hats because Zellers is having a sale on many items that I want to buy like laundry detergent, Scope mouthwash and diapers. See I told you it would make your toes curl.

Could it be?

I seem to have a serious spurt of energy lately. I can't stop cleaning. When I look around all I see is dog hair. I love them so much, but holy fuck they are dirty pigs!

I just keep cleaning and cleaning and cleaning and I can't stop!!

Is this the 2nd tri energy spurt they talk about?

Could this be the one thing in pregnancy that actually happens for me the way people say?

Bring on the energy!

Okay before anyone gets too excited, this is not to say that I no longer get tired or want to take naps, but when I am awake, I seem to be very productive. That's all I'm saying.

I make no promises how long this oddity of nature will last.

Odds & Ends

• Tomorrow marks the six month mark in the journey. Yeh! Only three to go! 2/3rds done!
• I went to a shower for my friend Vesta yesterday. Her little girl is set to arrive sometime the next four weeks. Vesta looks fantastic. She has always been small and beautiful and that's what she still is. Just this cute little bump in the front. Perfect hair, perfect skin, looking totally fashionable and comfortable in her skin. He only issue - she has swollen feet. Somehow that made me feel better.
• While I was gone my fantastic husband cleaned and organized the kitchen so we'd have a spot to put baby supplies - bottles, plates, cups, other....stuff...
• Went out for dinner with my friend Laura Friday night. Her little girl is set to arrive and the end of the month. She looks great too, but definitely ready to go. She too has swollen feet except hers are very swollen. Very, vey swollen.
• We've been very productive today. Went to Costco where I ordered some new glasses and developed some photos that we're planning to use in the baby's room. Check that off the list. Also went to Home Depot and ordered an area rug for the nursery, got a book shelf and Norm got some supplies to build a photo shelf to mount the frames we bought. Check, check and checkedy-check!
• Thinking of going to a movie tonight if we can stay awake.