My kid is so picky....

I considered it a "win" that he ate sponge bob mac and cheese and 2 dinosaur chicken nuggets.

and

4 spoon fulls of ketchup

Its the final countdown....

Please enjoy some Final Countdown, from our favorite crazy TV family. The Bluths!

Five days and counting until my induction. I am so very excited to finally have both my boys here. I am already feeling that pang of agony I know my heart will feel while I'm in the hospital. I already am missing Carson. The best way to describe it is like, when Chris travels for work and I have that dread of "I'm going to be sleeping alone for x nights" I know its coming and I know it sucks.

I've never left Carson for more than a couple hours, let alone over night. I've been having nightmares that he wakes in the night and FREAKS out that I'm not at home. No one can console him and he is forever scarred. All the preparation for his brother is lost, because he instantly resents his brother for taking his mommy away for 2 nights. Then the logical bus slaps me and says "Bitch, its only 2 nights. Your kid will survive and probably won't notice your gone. Get the fuck over yourself already"

Chris will be home at night with him along with my mom, and my mom will be here during the day. When Ollie is born, Carson and my mom will be waiting at the hospital to come in and meet him.

I'm such a control freak, ha...ha....ha. I have everything planned a certain way. I want Carson to come and meet his brother with his "Best big Brother" shirt on, I want him to bring the Bunny he picked out for Ollie so Ollie can have it in the hospital.

When we come home from the hospital I want Chris to go home and get Carson and get my car with the carseats in it. I want to drive home together as a family of four. My family will be waiting at our house to meet Ollie, and we'll spend our first night home as a family of four, bonding in bed watching Carson's favorite movie (I know I'm gonna miss the damn dragon movie in the hospital. Fucking kids movies, addictive like crack)  snuggling and finally I'll lay Ollie in his bed, and Carson in his, and Chris and I will snuggle up and go to bed (for an hour or so till Ollie wakes again)

I'm ready to get our new normal set up and going. I feel like this has been a long time coming. But not really, it also feels like it snuck up on me.

When I start having anxiety over leaving Carson, my mantra is "It will all be okay, its only 72 hours max"

STATS: 38 Weeks

How Far Along?  38 Weeks 

How Big Is Baby? The size of a Watermellon 

Total Weight Gain?  Total Weight 182 this week. I obviously can not do math. I have gained 22 lbs total. 

Sleep? Awful, contractions most of the night only to be woken up by Carson early in the morning

Best Moment of the week? Taking Carson to the water park on friday and actually having people get out of the hot tub because obviously I'm gonna birth a baby RIGHT FUCKING NOW

Food Cravings? Sweets! 

Food Aversions? No real food aversions. Luckily no more heartburn

Symptoms of Labor? Off and on Contractions 7 minutes apart. When I got checked at my 37 week appointment, I was a soft 3 cm dilated and 70% effaced. 

What I'm looking forward to? Just having my baby. I am so ready to just be a family of four. All the nerves I'm feeling about bringing a new baby into our home I know will vanish once he's actually here. But I'm ready. Chris is ready. Carson is ready to have a baby in the house. 

What I miss?  Sleep. Funny enough I know for a fact I won't be sleeping when Ollie first arrives, and probably not for a while after that. But caring for a newborn is so much more rewarding than getting up 5 times a night to pee and contracting constantly all night. 

Exercise? Yoga, Squats, lunges and walking, sex....lots of sex. Ha

Baby Gear Nerd

I have 8 days till my induction! Oh lordy am I excited to meet our new little pipsqueek. I am so excited to say that I ordered my very last piece of double baby gear. Thanks to my awesome family I didn't actually have to spend a dime on my double stroller. They were all very generous, between my mom, and grandma and brother, they paid for our new double stroller. I spent months and months of this pregnancy agonizing over what kind of double stroller to get for myself and the boys. It had to be the right stroller. Between size folded (for taking in our small hatchback) and ease of use, plus I wanted it to be comfortable and have a really nice "look" 

After months of research, I finally found the Contours Options Tandem, I was very excited for it. But had some reservations, since it is not sold in any of the stores close to our home. I was unable to go look at it, test drive it, or fold it up and stick it in my car to make sure it fits. So I was having some trouble "pulling the trigger" Its an awesome priced double, with a ton of nice features but it doesn't matter if we can't actually get it in our car (like most front back tandems) 

Then, like a sign, from the stroller gods. I met a woman in Target, pushing this exact stroller. I stared across the baby  department, like a total creep. I finally walked up and asker her how she liked it. She had a 21mo old and a 2 mo old. So slightly closer together than Carson and Ollie. But still. Same age concept. Not like having a 5 yo and 2 mo old. 

I was AMAZED by how nice the stroller was, how easy it folded up (oh yeah the lady was awesome and showed me all the tricks!) and she could not have had nicer things to say about the stroller! 

I went home and ordered it that afternoon! It will be here tuesday! I got a really good deal on it because it was already on sale for 190$ on amazon + 10% off because it was on my "registry" Making it like 171$  Not bad for a double stroller if I do say so myself. 

How do you even respond to this question?

Seriously, In the last week I have had not one, not two, but FIVE strangers ask me when I am due with Ollie. When I tell them "oh just a couple more weeks" They are usually pretty nice. Then they eye Carson and ask "well when ya gonna have another?"

Um. What?

Can I please shoot this child out of my vagina first? Preferably onto your shoes?

I've decided the next person to ask me this really REALLY fucking stupid question, is going to get this answer....

"Well my husband and I enjoy frequent fornication, so probably 9 months after we get pregnant again"

You know those days?

Where everything seems to go really wrong?

Well thats today.

Last night was the full moon, I was sure Ollie would make his appearance. Nope. Just contractions every 7 minutes for about 15 hours, never got closer, never got stronger.

Woke up this morning to a raging headache, Carson was crazy this morning at 545. Chris got up with him and laid him in our bed. He was pretty good until about 615 when he decided everyone needed to be awake. The coffee hadn't even percolated yet.


Chris left for work early, he's been having a shitty couple weeks at work too.

Nose bleed (me)

Diarrhea up the back (carson)

Cleaned up in the bath

Diarrhea in the tub (Carson)

Cleaned up again

Ran into the living room, tripped on his towel and landed on a sleeping cranky Abby.

She nipped him right in the face. (no marks)

Its 9:30 AM. Can today (and this week) just be over?

37 weeks - FULL TERM!

How Far Along?  37 Weeks - FULL TERM!

How Big Is Baby? The size of a Watermellon - Well fuck

Total Weight Gain?  -1 lbs. Weight 176, + 16 total

Sleep? Meh, less peeing more contractions

Best Moment of the week? Making new mommy friends, making friends for Carson and finally getting some REALLY gorgeous weather

Food Cravings? Not much. Spicy food but that might be my desire to get this kiddo out

Food Aversions? Nothing really...

Symptoms of Labor? 

What I'm looking forward to? Labor at any point could actually  be REAL labor. 

What I miss? My couch...Honestly if I'm watching TV with Carson, I feel like I need to be on my birth ball bouncing around to keep Ollie in a good position for labor

Exercise? Yoga, Squats, lunges and walking, sex....

Full Term Belly Picture!