How to make a 39 1/2 week pregnant woman cry

Actually it is pretty easy to make someone who is pregnant cry, especially if they are 39 1/2 weeks, only get about 5 hours of sleep a night (not consecutive!), and are breathing fire everyday no matter what she eats! Just turn on a baby/birth story and she will be in tears. Mother's day commercials, yup they will do it too!
Today I had my doctors appointment. I was excited, thinking positively, you can only go up from zero you know. My blood pressure was great, my total weight gain has been about 28 pounds, I was in a good mood! My doctor comes in, heart beat good, measurement good, dilation effacement......ZERO. Wait, what!? I am still a zero. I sit up and my doctor starts talking about how nothing has happened, in fact baby is still really high. We at least know she is head down from a previous ultrasound. He talks about how he will only let me go one week over due (asked him that last week) and if nothing has changed next week (my due week) then he will induce the following week. He then asked if I wanted to schedule for the induction and said it would probably be a good idea, a just in case baby girl doesn't decide to grace us with her presents before then. He also told me that she could be high for many reasons, big head (great just what I want to hear), because I have not had lots of contractions she does not feel the need to move down yet (listen baby girl I love you but IT IS MOVING DAY!), my pelvis is not ready (well if she has a big head would you be ready!?).
So long story short, if baby girl does not decide to make her grand entrance into this world before the 12th of May, I will be induced. When I called and told JP this he responded by saying "I thought she would be born on the 12th. I have been telling people that." I love when he shares these insights with me. Needless to say I am less then thrilled but I was awake more then I slept last night, so that could have a lot to do with it! I am not scared about being induced, I have just hit my I AM DONE BEING PREGNANT wall and the possibility of being pregnant for 41 weeks makes me tear up. I know I have tried, and hopefully been, pretty optimistic and happy during this pregnancy but any more nights of having to listen to JP snore are going to make me go crazy. You would think that would make baby girl come, but maybe she already thinks I am crazy! My mother in law pointed out that Dillier's do usually run behind. JP and I, as many of you know, are never on time. If we are on time, people wonder what is wrong. So yes, it would be fitting for baby girl to show up late to the party too. If she came on time, she may expect that all the time and I don't think JP and I could handle that!

No more room in the womb

I am pretty sure my stomach cannot stretch anymore! I think my little girl knows this too. She tries and tries to get it to stretch more. One day she planted her feet on one side and her bum on the other and pushed for about 20 minutes. JP said she was just stretching, but I beg to differ. She is mad that the room is running out for her. She was trying to make more room. I try to explain to her that if she dropped down she would have more room but my efforts have not worked. JP has talked to her too, but with no results. Well I should not say no results because obviously something is stretching because my stretch marks are growing up my stomach. My belly button has not pocked out yet, but it is on its way! And because my little girl is so high I get heart burn from ANYTHING I eat. Yup, ANYTHING I eat. It does not matter what it is, anywhere from 5-20 minutes latter I am chowing down the TUMS (which at this point in my pregnancy ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING THINGS EVER, but they do work so I make a face and chew and swallow.)
At my doctors appointment on Thursday my doctor checked me again. No progress, still nothing. It is ok, I just want her to drop so I can enjoy my food again! If fact baby girl is so high my doctor did an ultrasound to make sure she was head down. She is, and I could have told him that because she loves to kick her feet around under my ribs! I go back on Thursday and hopefully this time something has changed! I am going to do A LOT of walking to help things along. Baby girl seems content where she is. I, on the other hand, am not so content but I want her to come out when she is ready. Sleep has gone by the wayside, so has being comfortable, and well I am down to very few maternity outfits as I have grown sick of them. Welcome to motherhood!

6 Years

JP and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary yesterday. I cannot believe it really has been 6 years since we got married. We were married on a Thursday, only it was raining and overcast the year we got married. Those who got married yesterday enjoyed the sun!
In six years we have lived in four different places. We have bought three houses, sold one house, bought one dog, too many fish to count!, inherited a turtle, bought a tortoise, bought and sold a fishing boat, bought a white van and then sold it (thankfully!!), bought a work truck, graduated from hygiene school, visited many places, bought a 4-wheeler, bought and sold many Nissan Z's, visited the ER, gone through a death of a mother, birth of many nieces and nephews and in a month or so I will give birth to our little girl! We have laughed, cried, fought and through it all we have grown stronger and closer together. We still don't have a perfect relationship and communication may lack sometimes but we are as in love, if not more, than the day we got married!
We celebrated by going to work, yeah :( That's life thought right!? I had a doctors appointment at 4:30. By the way I am dilated to a ZERO. I thought as much. JP got me some really pretty flowers. He told me he made the florist change out some of the flowers that were not so good looking. He also got me a bicycle. He then proceeded to try to convince me to go bike riding this weekend. Um, I am like eight months pregnant, I don't think I should be bike riding right now! He is funny sometimes with what he thinks! JP got a new pair of jeans, Levi's of course. He is also going to get a new pair of shoes but he has to go with me to pick them out to make sure they fit.
JP had made reservation's at La Caille for dinner. On the way to dinner we picked up our crib. JP will put it together tonight. Our nursery will be complete one day?! We had a very nice dinner. We started with the crab cakes. Then we had the spinach salad, which was really good! JP had the steak and I had the beef french I can't pronounce. It was really good. For dessert JP had a crepe with ice cream inside, smothered in chocolate. I really wanted the chocolate cake but knew JP would not and I didn't want to make myself sick. The waitress heard me say something about it and brought out a smaller version of the chocolate cake for me. It was the perfect size and it tasted SO good! We rented Monsters VS Aliens and I fell asleep about 30 minutes into it. JP laughed at me when I woke up at the end of the movie. I really did try to stay awake but it was useless!

Just a side note, if you ever go to La Caille for dinner they will let you in if you are wearing flip flops! They won't even bat an eye, especially if you are pregnant and in flip flops. Being pregnant does have its perks!

WARNING: PARANAS

A couple of months ago JP asked me about buying a new car. I said no I am very happy with my car and don't want to visit a car dealership anytime soon! Then a little bit after that I said "I could look at new cars but I don't know about buying one now." Well to JP that was a green light to start looking. I had no idea he was looking and forgot about the whole car thing. Then almost a month ago he calls me at work. I was with a patient so he left a message. He told me to call him when I got off work. It was a Wednesday so I called him when I got off around two. "Come over to the car dealership. I found the car you should buy." So very naive me drives off to the car dealership. I should mention here that I must have a lot of trust in JP. Over the six years we have been married I have done many things I would not have ordinarily done, decided to buy a new house in one night after seeing the house once (and we were not looking at moving at all!), fixing up a house that we did not technically own yet, etc. You would think I would have been smarter and not driven over to the car dealership, but no. So I show up at the dealership and JP is not there. As you may, or may not know, car dealerships are my favorite place to visit! YEA RIGHT!?

I do not get out of my car, but don't worry only three salesmen came out of the building to investigate why I was there. None of them came over to the car and I pretended I was texting and calling people on my phone. Yes, I was talking to myself but I had to look busy to keep from being bothered. Finally JP shows up. He gets out of his truck and I get out of my car. A salesman walks up to JP and says "This must be your wife?" Yes, I am. He then walks me over to a car and tells me to get in and we can take it for a test drive. This is when I should have seen red flags everywhere telling me NO DON'T DO IT but naive me gets in and off we go. As we are driving the salesman is telling me about all the features on the car. I am half listening. JP is in the back seat all excited. We get done test driving the car and we get escorted inside. "Now, lets talk about price." WHAT, I missed a step. Apparently JP was at the dealership earlier and pretty much told the salesman we are buying the car.
I am now confused and JP starts explaining to me that it is a used car with very low miles, it just came in today and it is the car we should buy. I look at him like a deer in headlights. By this time I should mention it is now almost 3:30 and I ate lunch around noon and have not eaten since, so I am getting hungry. I tell JP this and another salesman happens to hear. He comes over with some crackers. These salesmen are good! JP then starts telling me all the reasons we should buy the car. Then we get sat down in a room and the salesman tells JP a price and then we are off to the biding races. For the next two and a half hours JP and the salesman are trying to find a price. I am about to faint from lack of food! Finally they settle on a price. Then JP tells me he has to go. WHAT, YOU ARE NOT LEAVING ME HERE ALONE!!!! He asks how long it will take until we can sign papers. Not too long they say. "I AM HUNGRY. Can't I just go eat and then come back to sign papers?" The salesman won't let me leave. This is where I should have broke down crying, or done anything to get out, but I didn't.
An hour later we are in our new car off to get something to eat. We decide on Rumbi. On the drive to Rumbi I am pretty quiet. "Don't you like your new car?" JP asks. NO, I respond. JP is all confused because if I don't like it why did I buy it. Easy, I don't like anyone or anything at this point because I am tired, hungry and 7 months pregnant!!! Do you understand? We order and sit down. This is when those tears of exhaustion and frustration decide to come. "Why did you make me buy a new car? I was happy with the car I had." Can you picture a 7 month pregnant lady crying in a restaurant while her husband looks at her like a deer in headlights. That was the scene! After we eat we head home. I get ready for bed and lay down. The next day after some sleep, I like my car. (Women, so confusing sometimes we can't even figure ourselves out!)
After I get done with work JP calls me. "So, we can't return the car and walk away but we can get something else." I am confused. Apparently he went to the dealership and asked them what happens if we decide we don't want the car. I then tell him that I like the car. He is totally confused. I explain the whole being tired, hungry, pregnant and at a car dealership for WAY too long and after I had eaten and slept I was OK. JP was VERY grateful! So I am now a proud owner of a 2009 Nissan Murano. And JP has hopefully learned his lesson about making important decisions in one day! I really think this time cured him because he felt really bad and after explaining it to him he understood my point of view and agreed with me. Although he is still confused as to why I actually signed the paper work instead of walking out. I don't quite understand that either (could I blame that on the pregnancy? maybe it was the lack of food and it was too much energy to get up and leave) but at least I am happy with my purchase!

Prego pictures!

35 weeks

33 weeks

32 weeks

Here you go. The prego pictures you have been waiting for! Unfortunately I have not documented this pregnancy with lots of pictures so this is all I have taken since we got home from Hawaii the end of January. Pathetic I know and I also know I will regret not having the pictures but what do you do!? Don't worry though, I will take lots of pictures of my little girl once she is here! Do you enjoy Baileys head in many of them? He gets all excited when I stand by the front door and then he insists I pet him.

Happy 30th JP

JP turned 30 on Thursday! As we were driving to dinner he told me he will never look at a 30 speed limit sign the same again. I was confused and then he explained that is how old he is now. We went out to dinner at Applebees, his favorite restraint. For dessert I got him an ice cream cake from Baskin Robins, which he cut into before I could get a picture! It would have been a better birthday if he didn't have to work, and he could have gone to St. George to golf but other then that he had a good day! Happy Late Birthday Hunny!