Category: Diary

We got the new house!! I went to Tenn with mom to visit grandma for moms bday the first week of Aug. The closing date was set for Aug 5, but we still didn’t have bank approval and it looked like a 3rd set closing date would pass us by. This would be esp bad b/c we would lose our lower APR. Then the evening before closing we got the bank to sign off on everything. So as of Fri the 5th, we own our first house! (we ran into a couple of snags thurs night and fri morning, but it ended up all coming together).

We got the utilities set for Mon, movers set for Thurs, And started packing like crazy. Btwn paul’s work shedule and me getting sick, we barely got the rest of the house packed in time. I was still packing up until about ten mins b4 he movers arrived thurs morning. Luckily mom was around to help a ton of we wouldnt have made it.

Last night was our first night in our new home. Lucas cried for a bit but did better than expected sleeping in a strange place. It prob helped him going to TN last week and being in a strange bed there. I however slept *horribly*. At 2am I woke up in major pain all over. Massive muscle soreness in my lower back and legs from moving boxes around so much, and the worst part is that being pregnant, I can’t take ibuprofen. I took a hot bath from 3-4am to relax the muscles a little and downstairs for a bit. Paul thinks my right thigh muscle I’d strained b/c it is a LOT worse than the rest. Like severe pain all the time. I’ve been lying in bed folding laundry with a heating pad and cat stacked on my legs.

Kristie came over today to help unpack. We got nearly all the kitchen done and one box of clothes hung before I had to go to bed b/c I kept getting sick on top of everything else. The kitchen was the most urgent and most daunting, so at least we got that done.

I’m so excited to be in the new house. I’m actually having to keep turning the AC units *up* b/c the house is so well insulated I keep getting COLD. And Lauren Jake and Ryan came over last night to bring us pizza after the move. So awesome having them nearby.

“How your baby’s growing: Fingerprints have formed on your baby’s tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. Your baby is almost 3 inches long and weighs nearly an ounce.”

Got a lot sicker this past week. Not as bad as with Lucas, but I’ve been throwing up and been nauseated like alllll the time, even when I take the zofran. Makes it really hard to do any packing or anything, because i get half a box to one box done and then hafta sit down b/c it makes me sick. Set up an appt for Sep 3rd (16 weeks) to go to the elective ultrasound with everyone and find out the gender!

im going to attach my keys to a leash attached to a belt loop. today i COULD NOT FIND the darn car keys. i had been carrying them around, grabbed a bunch of other stuff to put in the car, and could not figure out where i left them. so i finally gave up and used the spare. 3 hours later i found them in my pocket.

“How your baby’s growing: The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.”

Not much new to report other than that I’m losing my mind.

Sometimes coke is simply glorious.

I love chinese. I suppose 2x counts as cravings.

Pregnancy brain: I checked the key hook for the car keys, yep the ones I needed were there, got in the car, hmm where did I set the keys? Wait, I never actually picked them up. I just looked at them on the hook and walked off.

10 weeks: This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver are in place and starting to function….tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin. Your baby’s limbs can bend now.

11 weeks: Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long, is now almost fully formed. She’s already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet.

It also says I’m supposed to be feeling more energetic and that the nausea should be starting to wane, but I think that is all lies. I have been taking less naps tho (0-1/day rather than 1-2/day). But as for the nausea, I threw up Fri night even tho I’d already taken the promethazine pill. So far just that one instance, tho. At my doc appt today, Dr Webb gave me a prescription for zofran instead since it is stronger and doesn’t make you so sleepy, but my insurance is refusing to fill it *sigh*.

Also at the doctor today, he couldn’t hear the heart beat on the doppler machine, which isn’t totally abnormal at 11 weeks, but he offered me a free ultrasound to make sure! yay for ultrasounds!

In Lucas news, on Friday (21st) he said his name (wucas), for the first time. altho if you ask him what his name is, he says “Name.”
Today he started crawling out of the crib, so we had to empty the nursery of its entire contents and paul converted the crib to a toddler bed. That way even tho he can crawl out, he can’t get into anything and he can’t get out of the room. So he can run circles in the empty room, jump on the bed, i don’t care what, but he will stay in his room from 2-4pm regardless of if he sleeps or not. he is definitely at the age these past few weeks where he repeats everything he hears, so we really hafta start watching what we say around him.

ugh i hate craigslist. “free to good home”. ugh. i feel like the eharmony girl. i just want to take them all home. i went to the pets page to see if that was where i should list my aquarium for sale or if that page was only for actual animals, and next thing i know im looking at pictures of fluffy calico kittens right here in acworth and i can have it for FREE all i hafta do is go get her and she would be mine and have a safe and happy home and i love cats and i want them all on a rainbow!!!

i went to bed last night sometime around when lucas did, so i got about 11 hours of sleep and im STILL TIRED. driving home from dropping lucas off at my moms, it was still early enough that it was nice outside, maroon 5 was playing on the radio, and i could almost feel my old spirit trying to break out and be me again. then i got home and realized, nevermind, im just too tired to do anything.

so i went to McDs to get a milkshake on the way to moms house to settle my stomach. i don’t much like McDs but it is the first fast food place i pass for nearly the entire drive so i went there. they’ve changed their milkshakes somehow to be these McCafe things and they are just not yum. i tried a chocolate one last time and it just tasted like they poured hersheys syrup into it (and didnt even really blend it or something) so this time i just got vanilla. also not yum. plus it had a faint hint of strawberry taste as if they didnt clean the mixer from the another shake or something. but the real annoying thing was that someone had parked a large truck with a trailer attachment in the parking lot area but not in a space. it was in the part that if you are driving around mcdonalds but not in the drivethru line, in that drive around lane. just parked there. so anyone actually trying to drive around was stuck. so i was nice and didnt pull forward so that the red truck stuck behind the trailer could use the drivethru lane to go around it. well then the car behind me honked at me for not pulling forward (not that it mattered because we were still far enough back in the line that i couldnt pull up to order yet anyhow, so it’s not like i was actually even holding anything up). so a few minutes later ive gotten my shakes and i pull up away from the window but not away from McDs so that i can put the straws in. im stopped at the part like when your food isnt ready and they ask you to go ahead and pull forward so they can serve others? so im sitting there a sec getting lucas’s milkshake together for him, and the same bitch that is done getting her food behind me honks at me again! WTH go around me, ive pulled up out of the way. so she makes this big exasperated show of having to pull around me to leave.

annabelles face grosses me out. i wish she would hurry up and heal. paul replaced alllll the litter in the boxes with the old type, and i think that did the trick, but she still looks nasty.

i didnt do a ten week pregnancy post this week because there was nothing new to report.

1. we have no air conditioner on the bottom two levels of the house. in the summer. in georgia.
2. we have no working toilets on the bottom two levels of the house. good thing im not having to do any mad dashes this pregnancy.
3. when it rains, the ceiling leaks on us
4. we already cancelled our bug service thinking we were moving, so we have been over run with bugs. first ants, then the one roach incident (ugh), and lately ive killed three skitter spiders in as many days
5. despite only having one A/C working, our power bill is $300/month. altho it is a nice break from the typical $600/month
6. propane gas tank – don’t know how much is left in it – hopefully enough to get thru the summer because we arent paying $700-900 to fill it
7. well water – while it tastes good – it calcifies everything it touches
8. the power goes out pretty much every time it storms. i assume this is because there are sooooo many trees near all the power lines
9. our massive lawn – we hafta pay $200/month to keep the lawn mowed
10. we have no dishwasher (unless you count paul)
11. dont ya just love the smell of horse poop in the morning?
12. trees falling on the house
13. the house is literally falling down (albeit slowly), left garage door can’t even be opened since the upper levels sank on that side of the house
14. the CCKL!!!!

so how come McDonalds doesnt have ice cream (shakes) at night? i mean if you are still open for business, why turn off your shake machine? does it have to defrost or something? and can’t it do that overnight. i dunno it is majorly annoying when youre driving home at midnight and you totally need a shake to feel better.

i have a food aversion to my prenatal vitamins. i hafta force them down every day.

i cant wait to move so that i can stop finding flattened frogs in my driveway all the time. it’s depressing. altho the massive snake living under our front porch is pretty cool.

How your baby’s growing: Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She’s starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they’ll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby’s heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic “tail” is completely gone. Your baby’s organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby’s basic physiology is in place, she’s poised for rapid weight gain.

no new symptoms, nothing new to report. just sleeping a lot and frequently nauseous but that’s mostly been it.