Hodge Podge...

OK, I guess because everyone else has yet to update their blog (except a select few), it will be my turn.

Weekend was nice and relaxing. Miss J was so good this weekend, and patient as we ran a bunch of errands and did a ton of stuff around the house. Sometimes she is so good, and sometimes she is a pill who just wants to get into everything even though you have told her a million times NOT to play in the dirt of the plants!! Which, she did do this weekend, but that was the only real pill thing she did.

Saturday, I picked up a few hand me down things from friends of ours. They had a kitchen set, double stroller (yeah!!!), and a couple other small things. They needed to be washed down, so Miss J didn't get to play with the kitchen until Sunday. But I was so excited for her, I knew she would really enjoy it. And boy I was right. She loved it so much that she doesn't even want to stop to change her diaper, eat, go to bed...she screams when you tell her it it time to do one of those and you have to pry her away. I found some dishes and pots and stuff to go with it...and she just spends all her time playing and cooking and drinking and eating. It was so cute to have her and daddy playing and cooking eggs in her new kitchen...it was a sweet sight to see. And, this morning, she got up and didn't even greet me or dad...went right to the kitchen to play. Wow...we picked a good one huh!!

I got lots of shopping done this weekend. Got a shower gift(s) for my SIL in a couple of weeks (stopped at three different stores), found a swim suit (wish I could say it was on sale...but not), found some good books at a local Christian book store, and went to Toys R Us to find the plate/pan set for Miss J. It doesn't sound like a lot...but it was...my checking account will vouch for it.

Oh...I found this really cool and easy sewing idea for cute sun dresses for Miss J this summer. they look so easy and some really cute patterns. Now, I am not a huge sewing person, but this looks too easy and too cheap to pass up. So, I will try it and let you know how it goes!!

As far as Baby P2...well this weekend I pretty much forgot I was pg. It was weird. No real gas pains, no upset stomach, no crazy cravings (except for easy go out kind of food so we don't have to cook and make a mess in the kitchen). But I was still feeling kind of thick and bloated, so I weighed myself this morning. I was expecting a couple of pounds or so since I didn't work out as much as I wanted to last week and ate a lot of junky food this weekend. Nope...not a pound. I am still sitting at 5lbs gained per my scale. And I say that, because even though usually the docs scale is like 10lbs heavier (which it is), but when I went to my appt last week, they said I had only gained 1lb over the past month, and only 3lbs since my visit in January. Alrighty...weird, but OK. Chuck it up to wearing lighter clothes for the spring.

I am feeling pretty good about the healthy pregnancy weight gain...but then it is weird and a part of me says "that isn't right". Even though I know it is and it is OK and the baby is OK. Everything is just different this time around. I had some sickness for a few weeks, which I didn't have with Miss J. The gas and stomach junk has started earlier. I feel like my face is so pale with dark circles and breakouts more than with Miss J. Plus, I don't think I feel as tired as I did with Miss J. I really need to go look back in my journal. Because I would have expected to start showing by now, but I can't remember when I did before. I sure thought it was early, but I don't remember.

It is just odd, a weird feeling that I gained so much weight so fast with Miss J, and this time I am just kind of hanging out, feeling like I just put on 5lbs and just feel frumpy and a little thick. I have to keep reminding myself that no one probably notices and that I am pregnant!! It is OK to gain some weight. And it is not like I am NOT eating...I am, and not as healthy as I could be (it is so much easier to go out to eat than to make my lunch and dinner and clean it all up...ugh). I guess the working out, running, walking is making a big difference, plus I started on a good foot. I didn't with Miss J. I was a slouch, and didn't do much before my first pregnancy, then when I got pregnant I couldn't start a new routine so I just did yoga and walked. I guess weights and running make a huge difference.

Then, there is always the fact that every pregnancy and baby is different. Maybe this one is a boy and thus I am going to be all belly. I would like that. I hate gaining the weight in the thighs and butt...ugh...the hardest thing to get back off. I know, I know...I need to not worry about my weight, but it is weird when you are reading about girls that are worried about gaining 2lbs over a month and they don't want to gain more than 20lbs...and then me who gained over 50lbs (most of it the first half of the pregnancy), and then here I am. Just a weird feeling. Enough rambling.

A week from Wednesday!! Yes, vacation time. Anniversary time. Vegas time!! I am so ready for some time off to be grownups and sleep in. Isn't that funny, that is what I am most looking forward too? Sleeping in. Seriously...just time away from life will be nice. We are planning to arrive early Wed morning in Vegas (our flight leaves at like 7:30am), and check in and drop our luggage and walk around in the 80 degree weather !! We are going to ask the concierge if they have any recommendations for dinner (there are so many places I don't even know where to begin looking and we figured a Wednesday night there shouldn't be too many places "booked"). Spend the night on the town. Then Thursday we have our "presentation" we have to go to for the timeshare thing....if I forgot to tell you, that is how we are doing this vacation so cheaply. We get 3-night free at the hotel if we spend a couple hours to hear their presentation. Uh...OK...we are sold. We just have to not get "sold" into buying a timeshare. Ugh...that would stink. We will be fine though...we are going to have fun with it. Plus we got a fairly cheap airfare for DH and I used my miles to buy mine...so right now we are like at $250. So we can splurge on an Anniversary dinner...and maybe take in a show or a tour or a car/bike rental. Who knows...playing it by ear. But I am so excited.

Miss J will be staying with the grandmas...splitting the time. I know she is really going to miss us...she misses us when she stays overnight at grandmas house. But...it is much needed time away for us...and we haven't taken a real trip (just the two of us) since our honeymoon...uh...can we say three years is tooo long!! I am having a great time fantasizing about it right now!!

DH still has no direction with his job. Kind of on hold. This guy owes him some real money...and that is what I am most worried about right now. We have daycare due this week and I don't get paid until Friday. I hope he gets a little more than $300 from him today. And I keep praying that DH gets some real good quality time with his boss to talk about direction and future. So thanks for your continued prayers girls!!

OK...I am off to do some more work for the day. I have a mothers small group tonight that I have been trying to get to for the past few months (it is only once a month). So I am looking forward to that too.

Have a great week!!