The Belly Shot
All right… I have had a lot of requests for a belly shot lately. I’ve been asking Matt for awhile, but he never seems to get around to it, so I just stood in the mirror and took my own picture. LOL Obviously not the best picture, but at least you can get the idea. Perhaps I can convince him later to take some better pics. So here I am at 29 weeks. I’m about 30 1/2 now so this was about a week and a half ago.
I’ve also had questions on what differences I’ve noticed in this pregnancy since it is the first girl. Here are my thoughts:
- Morning sickess had about the same intensity as with Dane (who was the worst as far as that goes), but lasted a bit longer than with the boys.
- My belly is lower (that could just be gravity and it being the 4th baby) and it seems most weight has gone to the tummy instead of all over my body - which is nice.
- I’ve gained less weight then wih the boys
- I’m not sure I have really craved anything this pregnancy, however I have really been enjoying a lot of fried zucchini… (maybe that is a craving…)
- All in all I don’t think there are too many differences that I have noticed.
So what have we been doing around here? Well, football practice has started. That runs every week night from 5:30 - 7:30. Ryan seems to be really enjoying it. They handed out a sheet of the line-up the other night that we are supposed to teach them, so I’m glad Matt came along that night, as I am completely clueless on what all that means. He and the coach chatted about it and hopefully he has some clue at this point. I don’t think I have ever seen him so sweaty before - they are definitely working them hard. Tonight was the first night with pads on. I actually didn’t go to practice the last two nights as he went to his friend’s house yesterday afternoon and he is in football too, so she took him last night, he stayed overnight at his house and then stayed all day today, she took him to practice again today and then brought him home. I’m sure he is exhausted now after only sleeping about 5 hours, swimming all morning and then football practice. Maybe he’ll actually sleep in a tad in the morning.
Dane had to go have his lead screening at the health clinic today for school. You can either take him to the public health clinic and they do a finger prick, or take him to the Dr. and they do an actual blood draw. I talked to my Dr. who is soon Dane’s Dr. about it and she said either way - it was up to us - so I went for the finger prick. I made Matt take him, and he said he did really good - he sat on his lap and watched and didn’t cry a bit. They gave him stickers and a certificate for a free ice-cream cone at McDonalds so he was a happy boy. Then he and daddy went and did a couple errands together and came home.
Yesterday we went to the new pastor’s house in Woodworth - 3 miles down the road where the kids go to school. His wife is also named Christine, and invited our moms Bible Study group over for ice-cream. It was fun to chat with everyone, but there were I think I counted 15 kids there so by the end I was ready to leave - I think I was on stimulation overload. 
Then last night we went to pick up our veggies at the farm and do our grocery shopping. Oh and I had a meeting at church in the evening.
Today was fairly relaxed. I slept in, did some laundry, worked out in the garden etc. Then Matt had a wedding rehearsal tonight for the wedding tomorrow afternoon. I wasn’t planning on going to the wedding because I was supposed to have the changing table / dresser delivered tomorrow between 2:30 - 4:30 and the wedding is at 3:00 so I figured I would have to stay home and wait for the delivery guy. Well, then they called later today (after setting up the appointment this morning) to inform us that they had damaged the item and it will be another 2 weeks to get a replacement. LOVELY. I guess at least I get to go to the wedding now! I won’t go to the reception since Ryan will have to be hauled off to football.
Saturday is my birthday and I have a fun day planned. A couple friends asked me if I wanted to go to the spa with them. They had their birthday’s the last couple weeks and were going to celebrate and didn’t realize it was my birthday too. So we are going to the spa - none of us have ever been! I am getting a 30 minute pregnancy massage and a 1 hour pedicure/foot massage. It sounds heavenly! Matt was a bit disappointed as I guess he was planning on getting me a spa gift certificate for my B-day so that was kind of spoiled when I told him my plans. Anyway, so after our treatments the hubby’s are going to meet up with us to go out to dinner. Should be fun!
Well, it is getting late, so I should be heading to bed. I’m sure I’ll have to watch my recorded episode of Big Brother before I go to slep.
C-
