Man, I am good!

So I got a lot done this week for the baby! All of the gender neutral clothes are washed and put away. I washed the crib bedding and cloth diapers. We blew up the birth pool to see how big it is and make sure it didn't have any holes. And I started working on a quilt for the baby. It is going to be really cute! I will post pictures as soon as it is done!

I made a wet bag for Trey's diapers! I loved this fabric! So cute! And super easy. I followed a tutorial here.

http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/05/wet-bag-tutorial.html

Trey had the hiccups last night for the first time! I love that, it is so cute. They were so small and fast. We had a midwife appt. yesterday and all looks good! Baby's heart rate was in the upper 140's. I am feeling a lot more kicks now, which is so exciting. When I lay down at night I sometimes feel like Trey is using my uterus as a hamster wheel, just running and running on the bottom. Emma is really enjoying feeling all the baby movements and it is easy to pick out little limbs too. I think I will do some of those wives tales that determine gender and see if they are right. I will blog all about it. First I have to look them up. We begin seeing the midwife every two weeks now. That is when it really starts to fly by. I have a lot I want to get done before baby arrives. Now to find the motivation.

I am amazed at how fast this pregnancy is going. Especially considering I found out so early that I was pregnant. We only have 11-15 weeks until we meet baby Trey. Which also means we only have about 8 weeks of summer vacation left. Hopefully Trey decides to come somewhere in the middle around 13 weeks. That is where I feel like they will arrive. We shall see. I am enjoying the hot weather so far, of course talk to me in August. I am hot but not unusually so, and it is unusually hot here for so early in June! I have sunburned my belly twice in a week. I guess I burn more easily than normal when I am pregnant. The first time I thought, oh we will get a little sun on all this white skin. I was only out there about 10 min or so. The second time I went swimming and put on sunblock. I guess I need to reapply more often!

On Saturday Emma felt baby Trey kick and she got all excited and her face lit up. She said "that is the first time I felt it, I lied to you those other times." Nice Em, I guess she got tired of being patient and waiting for baby to kick so she just lied. Now she is all excited to feel baby. Sammi always wants to feel baby Trey, she asks "Is baby Trey awake?" then she yells at my belly, "wake up baby Trey!". Those girls are so silly! They are both really excited to be big sisters. Last night I had my first weird birth dream, and it was a good one. I am sure it was inspired by my reading birth stories before bedtime. In my dream I had the baby by myself because Dave was in the shower and I didn't know I was in labor so I didn't call the midwife or anyone. After baby was born I dressed him (yep, it was a boy in my dream) in a pink sleeper because I was too lazy to find another one. Since I was really early we still didn't have a name picked out. I was walking around with the cord still attached waiting for the bathroom to open up so I could deliver the placenta. Apparently in my dream after baby was born I put on pants? Weird I know. Then my mom came to see baby who by now I had laying in a round laundry basket, and got mad that we hadn't named him yet. And of course everyone assumed it was a girl since I had him dressed in pink! Gotta love those pregnancy dreams!

A short rant!

OK, I am going to go off on a little rant here. I hate maternity clothes. Not just a little, not just "oh I don't care for them" I hate them! First of all, why are all of the "affordable" ones so ugly? I am gaining a ton of weight, I need my clothes to help me feel cute. And people always tell me oh, go to motherhood maternity or this other place or wherever. OK, first, their stuff isn't any cuter, second it is not affordable for me to buy a shirt for $40 that will fit me for maybe 3 mos. I am sorry, call me cheap but that is just silly to me. I have found stuff I like, but it costs upwards of $80! Are they serious? OK, so it is overpriced and ugly but that is not the worst of it! Does it ever fit anyone? No, really, does it? It either cuts into me somewhere or never stays up, or both. And I am uncomfortable enough without my butt hanging out of my pants all day! And the shirts are always too short and wide. So we have ugly shirts and poorly fitted pants. They seriously stress me out to wear. That is why I mostly refuse to wear them. I have invested in a lot of stretchy tops and summer dresses and stretchy leggings and short leggings. And if my stomach hangs out a bit, well so be it. It is the only time it will be acceptable for a grown mother of almost 3 to bear her midriff!