This and That

Since it's been so long since my last post, I feel like I should offer excuses to make up for my laziness...I mean busyness. In my defense, Karl finished our upstairs room (I was fairly certain we were going to need counseling or a mediator to help us through the last month of this project :)), which is our new office, and I keep forgetting to bring the camera upstairs with me to post pictures. I figured without pictures, no one will read anymore, so I keep delaying my updates until I can triumph over the pregnancy brain and remember the stinkin' camera! To add to that, I'm just too lazy to walk back down and up the stairs once I remember I've forgotten the camera. Anyway, this post is just random stuff that's been going on lately. This might get long because I tend to get wordy!

Last Day of School-May 27th was the last day of school for the kids and the 28th was our last day. It was a bittersweet week for me. Karl and I packed up my classroom the weekend before, which felt unreal. I remember standing in that empty room 5 years ago and getting giddy over planning where everything would go and spending countless hours decorating and preparing. Then there I was that last day, looking around at the same 4 empty walls of a room that was no longer mine. It just felt weird. Actually, I did leave one thing on the wall, one thing that was too special to me to tear down. When I found out I was going to be teaching kindergarten, I wanted a coconut tree like the one from the children's book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to go in my cubby/sink area. Due to my lack of any artistic ability, my dad came to the school one afternoon that first summer, and cut one out of butcher paper for me. We hot glued it to the wall, and it's been there ever since. That tree is just another example of my dad being there and helping me. I just didn't want to know what the room looked like without it.

My Chicka tree in the background

Furniture Frustrations-We were told when we bought Cooper's furniture that it would be here within 6-8 weeks. Imagine my excitement when they called after only 3 weeks and said the crib and dresser were here! Karl picked them up and called my dad to come help unload them. I was so excited seeing Karl pull up with those 2 boxes in his truck! As we waited for my dad to get to the house, we talked about how great it felt to see our baby's furniture, to know that was the dresser we would be spending the next 2 1/2 years changing diapers on, to finally have the crib we were going to watch our baby sleep in, oh the joy! Well, that is until we got the crib unloaded piece-by-piece and realized that it was not our crib. The store had written down the wrong stock number. They told us the correct crib will be here within 6-8 weeks... I'm just hoping it'll only take 3 like the other one! As frustrated as I was by the mixup, it did work out to our advantage. Our crib was more expensive than the one they wrote down, but since that was their mistake, they're not charging us the difference in price. That made this penny-pincher very happy! :) Despite having the wrong crib, we put it together anyway as "practice" for when we get the right one.

Sadie was very involved in helping Karl. What you can't see in these pictures is her barking at each piece-the WHOLE time. She definitely thought this was a game for her!

Pregnancy Updates-Things are going very well. My cervix is starting to shorten again some, but it is still a good, safe length. Little Man is not so little and is still measuring well ahead of his due date. He is consistently measuring 8-9 days bigger than he is. His stomach is consistently measuring even bigger! In last week's ultrasound we could really see those chubby cheeks. I'm looking so forward to kissing and pinching them! :) I had my glucose test last Thursday, and I didn't pass. I was pretty embarrassed (I just don't like failing things). Then I almost passed out on the ultrasound table, which left me even more embarrassed. I get another try at the glucose test this coming Thursday. I'm not very interested in being on the gestational diabetes diet, so my fingers are crossed that I pass!

My favorite thing in the whole world-Each time I feel this baby move and kick my heart fills with a joy that I've never felt before. His active time is between 8:30-9:30 at night, and I look so forward to it each day. Little Man also gets very active any time I drink juice. I ate a donut this afternoon, and those feet starting kicking. Apparently he likes sugar! (Note to self-I might want to skip these sugar rushes until after my gestational diabetes test this week.) Sometimes I can rub where I think his feet are, and he'll kick back for me. Karl and I like to sometimes just watch my belly move in weird ways as the baby wiggles and turns and somersaults underneath. It's pretty special.

I know belly pictures were expected somewhere in this post, but I don't have any! I will try to get Karl to take one and get it posted some time this week. I still love my belly (and the boobs) and enjoy looking at it in the mirror in the mornings to see if it looks bigger!