A Roller Coaster Weekend

I'm tired. It felt like we dealt with a lot this past week.... some little, some big.... a lot of emotions tied to it all!

First, this was the first week of summer, which meant the girls were with us. We also were able to squeeze in a few extra days with an extra weekend so they were here for 10 days. It was awesome. However, a totally new routine for us to adjust to. Luckily they were able to spend the days up with Grandma Tino, but it still proved tricky to wake them up and get them moving in time to get us to work. It wasn't anything a little extra planning couldn't take care of, but it was definitely a new routine for us! Add to that, Kali had to go to the dentist this week. Thinking it would only be a cleaning and assessment of more dental work we knew was lurking, we asked Granny (Josh's mom) if she wouldn't mind taking her as she'd be off of work. She agreed, and we were grateful, it's been hard getting so much work off for my appointments as it is. Well, Kali ended up needing two teeth pulled right then and there. Boy did we feel like schmucks then. The next hour at work waiting to get off and go see her were torture. I felt so terrible that one of us wasn't with her and it was so hard to be stuck at work! She's a trooper and did fine though.

In addition to that, I had my now weekly doctor's appointment. This was supposed to be my first appointment to check for dialation. I laid there on the table waiting for her to come in... day dreaming about all the things she could say.. my my my loookie here, you are further along than we thought! Those kinds of wishful thinkings. Well what I didn't expect to hear was that he had turned breech, something is blocking my birth canal (sorry if that's just a tad bit TMI for you... but you can just go ahead and get over that) and I might need to start preparing myself for the idea of a c-section. In the meantime I need to go get a detailed ultrasound to find out whats up. I walked out of the appointment dizzy from the 180 my thoughts just did. I walked to the car kind of confused, but reminded myself that I heard his heart beat, saw him on the monitor.. he's healthy and fine and if it were something she was urgently worried about, she wouldn't have sent me home. My appointment for the ultra sound is tomorrow.

So.... much to my relief, the weekend came. However, step outside of my world centered around us, and a huge event was happening this weekend. My oldest sister, Katie, was getting married! Her wedding was up where she lives, in the San Jose area. It had been up in the air on whether or not I'd be able to go, given the distance and how close I am to my due date. Unfortunately last week at my doctor's appointment, she just did not feel comfortable with me traveling so I was not able to go. I had thought I had prepared myself to come to terms with this, but the day of the wedding I found myself very sad to be missing what will arguably be one of the most memorable days of her life. What ended up being pretty cool, short of being there, of course... was my other sister Amy attended the wedding and took about a million pictures with her phone, and sent me everything with play by plays of what was going on in the moment. I sat there like a blubbering fool crying over how beautiful everything looked and how pretty my sister's dress was. I am so thankful for Amy sending me all of that.

I'm guessing what happened next was a combination of a little nesting kicking in... and my compulsive need to clean and feel in control when my emotions get to the best of me. Before I knew it, I was in Jack's room sorting, organizing, finding more things that I could justify needed to be washed. I had the vacuum out and was in every corner of Jack's room getting every crumb, spec of dust you name it picked up. It wasn't until I was half way thru vacuuming the blinds - which I can say I have never ever done in my life... that I realized maybe I needed to slow down and take it easy. Ahhh.. too late. I sat down and my back immediately screamed at me. So I tried to take it easy the rest of the night.

Well, no such luck. We went to bed around 11... which as you know really means I fell asleep on the couch around 9, and Josh woke me up at 11 so I could lean on him while he helped me make my way to bed around 11. At 12:30 I woke up thinking owwww..... I'm totally about to get my period. (again, sorry for TMI but you opened the blog, not me)... then about 20 seconds later my head went wait.. that's not right. Enter false labor. For the next 10 hours or so every 10 to 30 minutes I got to experience what I'm guessing was a "way milder than the real deal" contractions felt like. Mild or not, they woke me up everytime they started up again. By the time they stopped around 10am... everything in my body ached. So we spent Sunday doing our best to be as lazy as possible and succeeded.

Anyway, thats pretty much what our weekend was about. Nothing horrific or anything like that, just a lot of emotions coming out at once.

This week is my last week of work and for THAT I am grateful! I am so tired and ready to be home! I can't believe my teddy tracker shows 30 days to go. FINALLY!

Can I have a nap now?

I have mastered...

The art of a 3 point turn around to roll over in bed.

I have a whole new appreciation for massively pregnant chicks.

My Latest Project

As you probably know, I love crafts. I've blogged before about how Pattie taught me to come to terms with the fact that it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be fun... and ever since I stopped getting upset if it looked like a 5 year old did it, I've been having fun ever since! So with my baby shower coming up, I knew I wanted to get Pattie something to say thank you for all the millions of things she's done for Jack already. It didn't take long to evolve into something I wanted to make instead. Her awesome cousin, Kristi was able to help get started in the right direction on a project idea. I procrastinated in my new found, let's blame it on the pregnancy, laziness. But last week after work, I set out to Joann's alone.. and a glorious hour later, emerged from the store with 3 bags of goodies and ideas I couldn't wait to put into motion.

As I sat on the floor (Which I later regretted when every part of me ached and the only way I could see what I was doing was to lean forward and my foot jabbed into my belly!) I realized how good it felt to have a new project again! The last oh I don't know 80 trips to Joann's in the past 3 years have been with the girls. Which - I love! But those projects are about guiding, teaching them. It's been a while since I had something to do for me, and it felt so therapeutic.

It ended up taking me a few nights to finish the project. As it came together I realized what other items I needed so I ended up back at Joann's a few times. I even enlisted help from Josh - drilling holes for me! In the end, I was so pleased with how it turned out and could not wait to give it to Pattie! So ... here it is!

It was so fun to have a project to work on again.... I'm itching to get back and start something new! Maybe with my new found free time coming up (YAY MATERNITY LEAVE STARTS SOON!) I might just have to squeeze in one more project before Jack arrives!!

My First Quilt!

Ok well I haven't made it yet, but I'm so excited! As you may remember I mentioned that for Mother's Day I made Pattie a certificate saying that I wanted to take a quilting class with her. In the past couple of years, Pattie has gone full speed ahead into the quilting world and made some adorable things!! I'll admit when she first told me she was getting into it, it didn't grab my interest because like most people I associated quilting with my grandma, and flowery old fashioned fabric. Well Pattie very quickly opened my eyes to how cool you can make things... and thats the best part - you can choose to make it look however you want. There's no wrong choice! So for a while now I've been itching to give it a try..... then top off my good fortune that Dad and Pattie gave me an awesome sewing machine for Christmas, as well as a bunch of quilter's basic tools... and I've been ready to go!



So this last Sunday, Pattie and I headed over to Cotton and Chocolate.. her favorite (and adorable, hello look at the name) quilt shop. They have a series of classes offered each quarter.. some covered in a few hours in one day.. some spanning over several. Just depends on how big of a quilt you want to make. What I really liked is that for every class offered, they have a quilt hanging in the store to show you what it looks like. So theres no question, you know exactly what you are making. We settled on a quilt called pint sized polka dots. The class is a Thursday night (now you know Pattie loves me if she's willing to take a class that goes until 9pm LOL) the first week of July. I think it will be a perfect distraction for me to work on the weeks before Jack's here and I'm off of work! Anyway, Pattie asked if I wanted to pick out my fabric now, and this is when I got excited. I had no idea this would be the best part so far! We had so much fun!! I am in shock of how much fabric we had to pick out. Now of course if I had found a honeybun (This is what a honeybun looks like) that I liked, it would have eliminated the need to pick out quite so many individual pieces, but they only had a few choices.



After what was probably an hour later, this is what we walked away with! (Sorry for the bad pic, I was lazy and used my phone, at night.. bad lighting!)




Everything is a bit brighter than the picture projects. I am so excited to go to the class and am so bummed it's a month away! But I'm sure this month will go so fast! I am so curious how they are going to teach me to turn that pile of fabric into a quilt! I will keep you posted!

Well it finally happened....

Someone asked me if I was carrying twins.

Thats right up there with hearing "wow you must be due any day now" when you've still got 2 months to go. I haven't heard that yet, but now I'm not as hopeful that I won't!

The Good Things

It's sooooooooooo easy right now to run off a list of all the things right now that make me cranky, uncomfortable or are just plain weird. But in getting caught up in that, I'm afraid I'm going to miss the awesome amazing cool things that happen too! So rather than tell you about the back aches, heartburn, and sleepless nights (I know I cheated and listed of a few) I'm gonna make you a list of the things I am so extremely grateful for. Some obvious, some funny, some selfish, but all real!

- How amazing it is to think we are bringing a life into this world
- Laying in bed at night while Josh and I watch my stomach move around and feel him kick
- Watching the girls faces the first time they felt him move and how excited they got
- Not realizing that this journey would bring Josh and I even closer together
- A free pass to eat as much ice cream as I want and not have one guilty thought about it
- How strangers are generally nicer to me than they need to be, offering to let me go first in line, or holding doors for me
- When people get excited and touch my belly - I thought this would bother me, but I actually really like it. When else in life are you going to get a reaction like that about your tummy being huge? I figure I can spend the rest of my life trying to disguise a tummy, why not let it be hugged and kissed now?
- When people tell me I'm all belly even though I know where else it's hiding ;)
- Watching Josh sneak yet another onsie into our shopping cart even though everyone under the sun has told him to stop buying clothes until after the shower
- Accepting help - it's hard to do this one... but its one point in my life where I really have toe appreciate the fact that I NEED to slow down and my family and loved ones want to help so I should accept it!
-When I drink a soda or eat candy I can literally feel it give the baby a sugar rush and it makes me laugh
-Hearing Lizzie's list of all the things she wants to teach her nephew how to do
-Picturing my Dad and Pattie as Grandpa and Nana
-Getting one summer off from stressin about being "bikini ready" and embracing the muumuus


I know there are tons more but I'll stop here for now! Thanks for sharing this amazing journey with me!