Bi weekly?!

Holy Moses y'all! I have reached a monument in pregnancy. The every two week appointment. Tomorrow I'm 28 weeks, officially the third trimester. I have to do the lovely glucose test this week, fun. Hopefully I get fruit punch, and not orange.

So far I've gained more than I'd like, but am trying to control the weight gain during the third trimester. I need to cut out my love for sweets I guess! This pregnancy has been different for sure, in that I only want sweet things. A few other notable differences, complexion, and hair. I usually love my skin during pregnancy, it's clearer than normal and my hair behaves wonderfully. This time is a totally different story. Thankfully my bangs cover my forehead, but nothing covers my chin! And I've contemplated getting my haircut more during this past 28 weeks than I ever have in my life. But seriously how cite is this cut?

Babies heartrate was 153 and everything looks wonderful! I get to drink the wonderful glucola tomorrow. I know you're jealous!

Emotions

Oh boy. Julian is six and a half, or pretty darn close. He is so emotional. SO!

Today was no exception. Barry is working today, something like 7 am until 8 pm or something crazy. Anyway my little sister is here visiting, and we attempted church this morning. Ha.

Considering the fact that I had all three boys, plus me dressed and ready to go by 8:45 I consider that a smashing success. Walking to the car however, all went downhill from there.
Julian lost it because he couldn't put on his shoes. Serious. Melt.down. I got pretty frustrated with him, because instead of asking for help, he flipped out crying. He then freaked out about his carseat, Gabe, and a million other things within the span of two minutes. I made everyone get out of the car so I could talk to Julian. After talking it out, I still couldn't find the root of his tantrum. Why he flipped out to begin with. I tried to explain to him that when Barry is at the hospital I need his help, he can't act like a baby when he is the biggest. Is that wrong?

I feel like most times I expect a lot out of him, he is reasonably mature for a 6 year old, most of the time. And I think I probably forget that he is only 6. How do you talk through emotional outbursts? Help me! Any advice for a short tempered preggo? I want to be a kind mom, who doesn't react, but I'm having trouble.

Pregnancy Dreams

Last night I had a dream. A crazy, super random dream.

I was a surgeon. Hahahahaha! That is funny enough right there. Me? A surgeon! Anyway I was doing a super important surgery and in the middle had to have the baby. I went up to labor and delivery, had the baby, didn't know gender and then walked back down to finish my super important surgery. When I was finished, I walked back up to labor and delivery and asked if I can know what I had a boy or girl. The nurses looked at me like I was totally crazy! Which, really, who would blame them. Who leaves a brand spanking new baby to finish a surgery? I did find out the gender of my surgery baby, though and oh man was that baby sweet!

My question for you is this. Have you had pregnancy gender dreams? Were they accurate? Is my subconscious trying to tell me what I'm having, who is currently living in my comfy uterus? Or is there no correlation at all? Help!

Nesting...so we meet again

So. Today marks 27 weeks, maybe. It could really only be 26 weeks 2 days. But whatever. I might be 27 weeks. Which means that there's only TEN weeks left until this baby could come. I mean, really, I've never gone into labor at 37 weeks, and the likelihood of doing so this time seems slim to none, BUT the mere fact that I could have a baby in 70 days is kinda freaking me out. Yesterday I went to Hobby Lobby and got the ruffle/lace/eyelet thing I wanted for the crib skirt. Then last night I dreamed and dreamed and dreamed of this dang thing. I woke up thinking about it. Apparently it's super important for my subconscious to finish this crib skirt. I'm really excited for the vision in my head, we'll see if I'm able to produce it. I also bought a set of grey organice cotton twin sheets. Julian and Gabe have a twin bunk bed, and I needed one more fabric for a crib sheet for Four. So I'm going to take the flat sheet, which they don't really use, it just ends up either balled at the end of their bed, or on the floor, depending on the boy, and make up the third crib sheet. I really wanted this Chevron Crib Sheet, but after making my own, $19 seems kinda steep. I tried to find a chevron sheet set, ha, but had trouble. Perhaps Target would have more variety, but alas we were at Walmart. Ew. Yesterday, my little sister Connie (who's here visiting for 2 weeks, yay!) and I went through my baby clothes. We separated the nb and 0-3 month clothes and I threw them into the wash. I have a few pieces of girl clothes that I've been hoarding for about 8 years now. HA. I bought some hangers at Walmart, I know, ew, and we'll get them hung up in the baby's closet since the dresser is reserved for cloth diapers. HA. We're going to take the boys swimming at the community pool today. They're excited, and I've forgotten how nice it is to be so light in the water. It's nice to have Connie here because she helps sooo much with the big boys in the water. I'm not sure I could take the three by myself. Anyway, before I go here's a quick comparison shot from yesterday. About the same time in pregnancy, between 26-27 weeks.

AND, in case you missed the earlier post. I have an ExpectNet poll. Winner will receive a fabulous prize. I'm thinking $25 gift card to Amazon or something! Guess Coconut

ExpectNet!

Here's a chance for you to win a fabulous prize! I'm thinking something knitted after Four/Coconut makes his/her debut. http://www.expectnet.com/games/CoconutNumberFour

Holy Fast Pregnancy

So nobody told me that by the time you're having your fourth baby the pregnancy flies by in an instant. I'm already coming up on my THIRD trimester! This is freaking me out. We had our ultrasound last month, well almost TWO months ago now. And everything looked good. Baby was wiggly and jumpy, and we don't know what gender it is! However the ultrasound tech said that she knows. Sucker. She was really good though and kept the probe FAR far away from the nether regions. Here's a couple of sweet photos of the baby, whom I call Coconut due to my overwhelming and insane craving for all things coconut. Seriously, it's ridiculous.

I've been having a lot of fun sewing and crafting for this baby. We haven't really purchased much for it. Which is fine, and good. We don't need much, honestly. I have a small list of things that I'll need to get before Halloween. The boys are doing great, really. They have tons of friends in our neighborhood. There are literally 4 little boys in our cul de sac going to Kindergarten this year. Julian, who was reserved and cautious about riding the bus both to and from school, is now ridiculously excited because his little buddies will be riding with him. The boys love to go outside and seriously as soon as dinner is finished are asking to go play outside and ride bikes with their friends. On the 4th of July, Julian asked for his training wheels to come off. He hasn't mastered it yet, but he'll get it. He's kind of nervous to ride his bike now that he can fall :) And Gabe is rocking his 2 wheel (plus training wheels) bike that he got shortly after we moved here. Julian's action shot, riding his bike on the 4th

Gabe and his bike

My little boo. I seriously love this baby so much.

The happiest kid.

Two of my loves <3

We are getting ready for a surprise (for the boys) visit from one of my little sisters. They are going to be SO excited. Our plan is to just drive to the airport tomorrow and see what they say and do when she gets in the car. Should be fun!

Team Green

By posting here, I'm making myself accountable.Tomorrow, you see, is my "big ultrasound" you know, the one where they tell you boy or girl? I mean they do lots of other important things, like measure baby's head (I'm betting 90th%), stomach, femur, and make sure baby has the right number of chambers in his/her heart, and hemispheres in his/her brain. This time though, we don't want to know boy or girl. So by posting here, I'm setting it in stone. We are not finding out the gender. We are NOT finding out the gender.This is a tricky thing for me, something I've never done in my 3 pregnancies before. I've always HAD TO KNOW. And this time, there's no urgency to know. I can be patient, and will be patient until about Halloween. Then I'll lose all patience.I've seriously considered having the ultrasound technician write it on a slip of paper and either giving the slip to my midwife, or even mailing it to a friend in Saint Louis, but I decided that leaves too much room for temptation. And who needs that? I have plenty of temptation all around me, for instance a delicious coconut poke cake is sitting my refrigerator right now. That's the kind of temptation I like.So I'm sitting here, team green, until October. And hopefully, if all goes well, Barry will be the first person, besides the ultrasound tech, to know if our baby is a boy or girl!Vote on the poll though! What do you think? Is #4 ANOTHER boy :) or is #4 something altogether new? A girl?