Sooooooo...............Sleepy..........(Zzzzzzzzzzz)

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...hmmmm.....phrump.......huuuuuuu.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...(snort) Wha? Oh sorry, a little tired today. Just (yawn) can't get going. Didn't (sniffle) sleep well last night (stretch). Left side didn't work, right side didn't work, back and left hip are aching, acid reflux and indigestion kicked in something fierce last night. Dan even left the bed for the couch with all of his pillows and blankets in tow. At least the dog didn't abandon me. He preferred to try to sleep right on top of Sophia (obviously this didn't help). I am in need of so serious sheep counting, sand man dust or drugs tonight to knock me out. 5 o'clock rolled around before I got comfortable and could doze off and then I was up an hour later to get ready for work. Maybe if I get my clothes out for tomorrow, pack my lunch, prep the house the night before I might get to bed early tonight and sleep in just a little tomorrow morning. Here's hoping!

Going To The Salon Never Felt Sooooo Good!

In preparation to make myself a whole and put together woman for the baby shower this weekend, I headed to the salon last night after work. I got a chance to box dye my hair at home on Sunday afternoon and needed the rest of the up keep and maintainance done by someone else. I walked in and they were busy. I ordered up a Mani, Pedi and Brow Wax. They took me over to the massage chairs where they do the Pedicures and drew me a foot bath. They said they were running late and would I mind soaking and relaxing for a while? Me, Little Old Me? Why sure, I would love to wait and soak and relax and get a back massage in the chair. No inconvenience at all!!!! LOL It was like a little piece of Heaven. A 20 minute foot bath/soak with the jets going, all warm and smelling of lavender bath salts and perfumed oil. A back massage that I could control by remote control and T.V. remote (which I don't get much in my household) to watch what I wanted on the T.V.. Awwwwwwww!! This is the life. Can I do this every day after work, especially Mondays? Yea Mondays would be good. So Mani with French Manicure and Pedi with French Manicure and Brow wax an hour and 15 minutes later I was beautiful, in one piece and feelin' Foxy!! LOL Better yet, I got home and Dan had made dinner for me. I am sooooo spoiled. And life is sooooooo good!

Glucose Tolerance Test #2

That's right, they made me do it again. I guess I failed the first time getting a 152 or was it a 154. This time they made me do the 3 hour Glucose Tolerance Test. What a bear!!! I stayed up late last night to eat a 4th meal so that I only had the 8 hour fast vs. going to bed normal time last time when I had a 13 hour fast. I got up, got out, went to the lab, had an appointment at 9am but they took me as soon as I got in because they knew I was fasting. They took blood at the fasting rate, made me drink the syrup again and then tested my blood every hour on the hour for 3 hours. Oi Vay! What drama. I was tired, so hungry and so cranky. I mean truly what more can you ask out of a preggers. Isn't sucking me dry enough but that I also have to drink this terrible stuff and hang around for 3 hours!!! I need a nap. Hopefully the results are favorable this time. My mother-in-law, bite her tongue, said if it doesn't work out they can always make you do it again. Uh Uh, no way, no how, no gonna, no! I feel a hormonal temper tantrum coming on. LOL

Warning: Gross But Worth The Laughs It Will Bring

Late on Saturday night of this past weekend, Bandit seemed completely un-enamored with me. Didn't want a thing to do with me or the baby bump for that matter. He avoided me like the plague, walked around me and refused to sit next to me or on me. How rude! What could I have possibly done. So of course, Dan being the smart butt he is chimed in and said, "Wow you are like one of those ugly kids that the mom has to tie a pork chop around your neck to get the dog to play with you". Ouch! So Bandit wasn't in the mood. I didn't do anything. At least I think I didn't do anything. So Dan jumps up and says, "I have an idea". He went to the pantry, got the peanut butter an rubbed some on my belly bump. Ewwwwwww! He called for Bandit and he came running, smelled the peanut butter and I was his bestest friend in the world at that point in time. I and Sophia were getting licked by the dog who had been coerced by peanut butter and my husband and my husband was on the floor peeing himself he was laughing so hard. So what's a girl to do???!!! LOL Life brings its up and downs. You learn to pick your battles. How could I have been angry with him. It was so funny that even I started laughing. Ahhhh, and I cried a little too. They say laughter is the best medicine. It can cure anything. That is in fact what I am hoping. Laughter is always welcome at my house and I look forward to the sound of baby giggles and gurgles and toddler laughter to come.

Gorilla's, Orangutan's & Monkey's Oh My!!!

I love my Mother-In-Law. She spoils me rotten and she shouldn't. Sometimes I just don't deserve it. She is always thinking of me and the baby as she it out running errands. I was sweetly surprised by a small token she left for me this weekend when I visited her house. Since our Nursery theme is animals, she had recounted to me recently that as kids, she used to call Dan, Stephen and Rachel Gorillas, Orangutan's and Monkeys as kids. She has affectionately adopted the monkey nickname and moniker for Sophia. Laura had left me a small black box titled: "For the Mommy of Sophia". Inside was a small pendant necklace in the shape of a monkey in diamonds and black marquisette. The monkey is hanging from a single arm tail uncurled. So adorably cute. I wore it today and got a ton of compliments on it. Thanks Laura for the gift! It truly is a one of a kind and I love wearing it. Just one more thing to connect me to my little monkey! LOL

And Baby Makes 4???!!!.......

Before you get your panties in a bunch this is not me that I am talking about! I got the most remarkable phone call from my sister Cindy last night. We are heading over to her house tomorrow for Faith's 1st birthday party. She wanted to sit and talk with me a bit to touch base about my baby shower next weekend and the birthday party tomorrow. More importantly she had something to tell me. Cindy is now 5 months pregnant. She didn't want to say anything because she knows I am dealing with the baby showers and this is my first baby so she didn't want to steal my thunder. She made my mom and dad swear to secrecy not to say anything till later till she had the chance to talk to me directly. She is definitely showing now and she can no longer hide it so since I was going to be seeing her tomorrow she waned to tell me to not be shocked. I can't believe it! Sophia and Cindy's #2 will be 2 months apart. They will grow up together, be in the same grade together, go through the same stages in life together and I can take belly bump pics with my sister! How freakin' cool is this. Awesomeness!!! Wow! This is just the best news and I can't believe she kept it from me so long. That little terd. LOL Congrats Cindy, Roy and Faith on your new addition to the family!!!

This One's For The Moms.......

I have lost my knees. I don't know where they have gone. They have disappeared. I have looked everywhere. I have retraced my steps and I can't seem to find my knees. Everyone tells me my feet are the next to go. Oh goodness! How many more of my body parts will go missing, will I not be able to see or find before this roller coaster is over? LOL Shaving has become a real chore. I cant reach things or bend over as far as I used to. I have to move my belly and sit partially just to reach. I am officially ready for someone else to do my waxing just so that shaving is no longer an option.

And blow drying my hair.... who would have thunk it! Leaning over to blow dry gives me a head rush an my equilibrium is now really off. I go flying across the bathroom bumping into things just trying to keep myself up. It is comical. I should have Dan record it and post it to U-Tube. You would die laughing.

And socks.....oh socks. The dreaded morning ritual. Can't reach 'em. Can't get them on. Can't hop to put one on while balancing and surely can't sit on the bed to bend over to put them on. Oh my longing for socks.....

One day, some day soon all of this will return to me. All of my faculties will be normal, by biology will be reset to what it was before and my body parts will come running back to me like a slow mo recorded run and embrace from your favorite chick flick. Oh how I long for those days. In the meantime, VIVA LA PREGNANCY!!!!