Wednesday, June 29, 2011

26w0d

How Far Along: 26w0d

Weight Gain: 13lb’s

Stretch Marks: Just the old white ones from Elijah

Maternity Clothes: Totally

Symptoms: Easily winded, stuffy nose, very very tired, peeing often

Sleep: I am the wildest sleeper now! My sciatic pain hasn't bothered me in a while, but my elbow and shoulder joints do, so I often roll over and entangle myself in the blankets. It's a good thing Matthew has taken to sleeping on the floor, because there is just no room for him on the bed with how I've been sleeping! It's strange too, because I'm normally a very compact sleeper.

Best Moment of the Week: Probably my midwives appointment yesterday. It felt good to talk about everything, hear Little Girl's heartbeat, find out how she's positioned, etc.

Movement: Yep, it's getting higher too, which makes me think, "Oh, maybe she's head-down now!" and then I feel some thumps just above my pubic bone, and I'm completely baffled. I didn't feel many punches with Elijah (I think he was facing my back a lot) so it's weird to feel both punches and kicks with this little one.

Food cravings: I've been having a lot of food dreams lately, and they usually determine my cravings. It's hard to get the food out of my mind until I have some, and then the craving goes away. I don't usually want more than a few bites of it either! For instance, 2 nights ago I dreamt about chocolate ice-cream with caramel sauce and nuts, and now I want it. Last night I dreamt about french fries with gravy and half a hamburger with pickles, and then I wanted fries when I got up! I made Elijah and I some hashbrowns for lunch though, so now I'm feeling better. They're kind of like fries.

Gender: A girl! I'm feeling more sure of it, and can't wait for my 3d ultrasound (which I still have to book...) but today at lunch, I could so clearly picture a little boy, and a little girl not at all. Maybe it's because I've never had one before?

What I Miss: Okay, I'm not going to lie. I miss being able to hold it at night. I was grateful for the reason of getting up in the middle of the night while at camp, but it still kind of sucked needing to get up in the rain and mud and hike to the bathroom in the dark on my own, as Matthew had to stay behind with Elijah. And you can bet I was only willing to do it once, and no more!

What I’m Looking Forward To:  The holiday weekend this weekend! First Matthew's birthday tomorrow, then Canada Day, then my birthday! Last week I was excited to get to 28 weeks, and for every-other week appointments, but since I decided to put off the e-o-w appointments until 30 weeks, now I'm just excited to hit the 30's. Although, 28 weeks is still cool, because 28 weeks = 3rd trimester!

Milestones: My rings coming off permanently (or, at least until Lil Girl gets here and the swelling goes down.) It's around the same time it happened with Elijah, and I knew it was coming, being pregnant over summer and all.

Emotions: Hmm...happy? Excited? Impatient? I've been feeling like this pregnancy has been flying by, but over the last week I've started to feel like it's dragging. I think that's why I don't want to have another appointment in 2 weeks, and would rather wait 4. I just want to zip ahead to the main event. I'm starting to get impatient to move downstairs and start setting up for baby girl too.

I'll put up the 26-week photo later, but I don't feel very motivated to take it, as I'm pretty sure I'm the same, if not smaller than last week. At first my belly popped out super-fast, and I looked like how I did 6 weeks further along with Elijah, but now I feel like the difference has lessened, and I look like how I did at 26 weeks with Eli. Oh well, at any rate, I have a good idea of how I'll look at full-term! And with Elijah, I stopped taking bi-weekly photos at 28 weeks. It went 28 weeks, 35 weeks, and 40 weeks. I'm going to keep doing it this time because I ended up being really sad that I wasn't more diligent about the belly photos, and I wish I had have been. So even if it's a pain, and I feel smaller, I'll snap a photo. Just, later.

In other news, we're getting a van! I'm not sure when, but I talked to my brother about it yesterday, and I'm pretty darn excited. He got my sister and her husband a great deal on a nice van, so that they spent $4000 total, and could turn around and sell it for $7000 if they wanted to. The perks of having a brother who works at a busy dealership with lots of trade-ins. He keeps his eyes peeled, and snags the vehicle before they auction it off to smaller, private dealers.

I know it probably sounds funny to be excited about a van, but I really am. I won't have to bend down to buckle Elijah in. Hopefully I'll have power-locks. We'll be able to fit our stroller in the back without mangling the thing. It'll be great.

Right now we have an Olds Alero, and it's been a good car, but I'm not too happy about the $1300 we put into it over the weekend, when we were planning on selling it by August anyway. Also, we can only ever fit one car-seat in it because Matt is so tall that he can't pull his seat forwards, so a carseat doesn't fit behind him. We knew for that reason alone we would need to upgrade, and then there's the stroller situation. We have a Graco stroller, and it's a mammoth. A great, sturdy, smooth-ride, yes, but a mammoth, and that single stroller does not even fit into our trunk right now. Okay, that's not true. If the trunk is empty, and you put the swivel-wheel end in last, and swing it around just so, then yeah, it fits, after it takes a chunk out of the handle grip and eye-glass holder. But a double stroller? Forget it.

We could have looked for a bigger car or an SUV (both being infinitely cooler than a minivan) but we plan on having more children someday and don't want to have to buy another vehicle before we're ready to.

Sooooo yeah! We don't know when it'll be, it just depends on when my brother finds one that we feel good about, but we're excited. Well, me probably more than Matt. Because what guy gets excited about a minivan?

And on a completely unrelated note, I had a realization today. I was reading a church article about temporal self-reliance, and how we should learn skills so that we can take care of our family's essential needs, and I had this thought:

"I would be completely useless in a zombie uprising."

And it's true! What do I like to do with my time? Read? Cross-stitch? Blog? And for that matter, my university degree is in Applied Linguistics. Who the heck is going to worry about their child's speech impediment when there are ZOMBIES on the loose?! Let them stutter! Let them lisp! Just run, for Pete's sake!

Although, I guess I did take a lot of TESL courses too, which means I would know more about teaching others English, which could be useful. That is, if the English language is the one that wins out. I guess it depends on how hard-hit first-world countries are.

This is all hypothetical of course.

And now, I should really be done! I have to talk to some more people about Matt's birthday tomorrow.

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