I guess I like to torture myself

Here are my 39 week pictures. My appointment was a little on the depressing side since I haven't progressed at. all. and when I went for the non stress test, Ella's head wasn't even near my pelvis. Head down little girl! Head down! My doctor will let me go to 42 weeks if I'm not having any issues (obviously) but that's kind of a depressing thought, especially if I didn't progess that whole time and still ended up with a c-section. =P BUT I'm waiting it out and we'll see what happens since I haven't even hit my due date yet! :)

Waiting.....patiently

Still here, and still pregnant.
Really, I feel pretty good......it's all relative at this point, but I felt much more uncomfortable about 3 weeks ago.
The worst part is getting up in the morning, getting out of bed, and then trying to find clothes that still fit.

At this point I'd just like to not gain too much weight with the little time I have left, but I guess that might require me to quit eating ice cream. Not gonna happen. And as if I didn't feel unattractive enough, someone gave me a cold and that combined with the lovely pregnancy hormones has given me a gigantic cold sore on my nose that goes almost all the way to my lip. Awesome.
Thankfully these pictures were taken before the cold sore was showing. ;)

So far Ella is showing signs of taking her sweet time in coming so I don't really have anything to add to that.

Looooong...

Well, I've been a slacker. I'll start out with my 36 week picture. Yay.
I could write a whole post about how "comfortable" and "awesome" I feel, but I'll save that for some other day.

We're out at E-Dale this week visiting family and "helping" with all the preparation for Shavuot that is going on this weekend. Except that really we're more work than we are help.........

Aidan is having the time of his life though with so much dirt to play in.

Speaking of Shavuot, we're expecting around 200 people this weekend and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done and some work that won't be getting done. :)

Here is the potato cellar

John hauling some of the bigger logs away

and how it looked today

As I mentioned in a previous post, the center is getting a facelift. Here are Mike and Aaron working hard and doing an awesome job. Notice the dirt piles.....yesterday one of the main water pipes broke and ruined most of Gerry's hard work where he laid all that brick.

Now he's got to do it all over again...

Karma planting flowers

The Simple Things

I've been a slacker with the pictures lately...and pretty much everything else in my life. Sharon, Janille, and Megan came and stayed with us on Thursday night and we had fun hanging out with them and eating at Olive Garden. :)
Aunt Sharon bought Aidan a bath time drum set since Aidan is in a drum phase.

As you can see, he loves it and we don't restrict it for just bathtime either.

Poor Aidan's head. This week he's whacked himself in the head so many times I'm going to start worrying that the kid is going to have brain damage. The lastest episodes were that he was running in the living room, tripped and smacked into the end table corner right above his eyebrow. He had a nice looking goose egg that I managed to not take a picture of.

Then today, I was getting something out of the top shelf in a closet and didn't know that Aidan had come in behind me... my (small) tool box fell off the shelf and hit Aidan on the head. :( I think that time scared him more than hurt. Life is rough when you're a toddler.

I think I gained 10 pounds overnight. Nick called us up yesterday to see if we wanted to meet up with him, Jesse, and Tiffany at the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Jesse's b-day. We didn't end up going there because there was a 2.5 hr wait, so we went to Olive Garden again because they only had an hour wait. (I'm not complaining about eating there two times in a week!!!) Abby came with us and we had a good time and were there until 9:00 last night. Nick stopped by the Cheesecake Factory afterwards and bought a Lemon Raspberry cheesecake that they brought to our place and so we were eating that at around 10:30.....so yeah. I think I didn't need to do that, but it was SO GOOD!

Just So You Know

Well, Aidan and I abandoned Cary yesterday. Sharon and Kenneth made a nice 4 hour detour to come pick us up and we're staying with my family for the week. Cary will join us on Friday when we get together with everyone to celebrate the Passover Seder and Passover weekend activities. This means that there will probably be no posts over on my cooking blog for quite sometime as I'm hoping that other people will be cooking for me. ::wink, wink::
I'll leave you with these lovely pictures though.

Where oh where did Spring go?

Well, I'm sitting here while Aidan is napping watching the rain and snow fall out my window. It's rather depressing since last week was such nice warm weather.

I took a couple of pictures of some of the flowers we saw coming out while on a walk

They didn't know what was coming.

I had a doctors appointment yesterday and all continues to be well. We had an ultrasound that I didn't get to enjoy since laying on my back made me feel like I was going to pass out the whole time. Bummer.

Feeling faint and lightheaded in the morning have been a problem lately and hopefully we'll find out why I'm feeling that way in the next little while.

Ugh.

I've got a cold and it's making me miserable and whiny.
And then there is this picture, it kind of tells the story of my day. (fat, miserable, etc....)

Aidan didn't want to miss out on the picture taking action.

Fig bars are his favorite snack this week

Unfortunately he knows where they are and he can reach them, and my cupboard space is limited so I can't do a dang thing about it. :-)

He's refusing to look at the camera now

There we go.

I don't know about this

Sure looks fun though.

Not.

I'd really like to complain...

about how sleeping at night is already extremely uncomfortable, but I won't. ;-)
It's just that one of these days I'm going to wake up and I'm going to be paralyzed from my lower back and I won't be able to get out of bed.

Shucky darn, I don't know what will happen then, but it feels like it's coming soon.

That's all I've got.

It snowed ALL day today. Aidan STILL wants to be outside ALL the time so he'll stand by the door and cry. The End.

Whoa!

Since I'm subjecting myself to the weekly torture I figure I might as well as inflict the pain on someone else while I'm at it.

Trust me when I say that leaving my head in the picture didn't add anything positive. Some things are better left unsaid....err... not shown.

I want to blame it on the angle that the picture was taken from, I like that excuse.

I guess I'll let it work for me this week.

This week's pictures.

I can't believe I'm already halfway through this pregnancy.


Definitely goes by much faster with the second pregnancy.

Makes me wonder if the people that have a lot of kids feel like the 3+ pregnancy felt like you woke up pregnant and then a couple days later you're having another baby. :-)