two months!

So this really doesn't have anything to do with baby, except that I won't be able to talk about baby online for at least two months because Qwest doesn't have internet in our new subdivision yet! Boo! :(

I am dealing with this fairly well, except that today is the frist day I have been online in a week, and I feel So out of the loop. I think I will be regularly visiting the M for a while in order to catch up!

Now something baby relevent. I had another Dr appt on tuesday, thirteen weeks, four days. Baby's heart rate was 160, 16 lower than last time, but baby is also not working quite as hard to grow as last time. Crossing fingers for a girl still, though I see someone out there thinks I will be putting all those boy clothes to use. :) We will see. Everything else looks good. I am gaining weaight just fine, not too much, I just carry it all in the front so I look a lot more pregnant than I really am.

We are going to guatemala before my next appointment, so instead of geting in the 25th, it will be July 1st. that would make my ultrasound at around 23 weeks, so I am going to ask that they bump up the July appointment to get us back on scedule so it will only be a little over 21 weeks when we find out. I cant wait that long! It's too bad I couldnt just know now!

Did I say this already? We are moved. Everything out of the old house is moved into the new house, in a box. Or bag. Or just scattered all over the floor. (It's scary.) The house makes weird noises and doesnt have any window coverings yet. And I'm afraid of the master closet. (At night, it looks REALLY scary. I cant go to the bathroom if the closet door is open.)

Jack is getting used to the back yard too. And to getting into trouble again. He has been so good for so long, I knew it wouldnt last. His first night I got him a new toy to keep him entertained, but it only lasted two nights. For the last two nights he has been a terror. We have two trees, the garden, a row of strawberries, and six rosebushes back there that he had left alone for a long time, untill two nights ago. the Gala apple tree (which has higher branches than the Fugi) was attacked first. he ripped down one of its largest branches, along with six or seven others. We are trying to graft it back in, and save the life of the tree (which cost us seventy dollars, and we need it to pollenate the Fugi). Then last night, he ripped out two rose bushes (that are already struggling because we recieved them bare root). Jason planted the bushes again this morning, and tonight I am giving them a good dose of vitamin B1. Jack spent the rest of the morning, and day, tied up on a fairly short leash, away from everything. When I went out to feed him breakfast late this morning, I noticed that he had ripped another branch off the tree that Jason had missed earlier in the morning, stripping more bark. I have that one in water, waiting to be grafted back in this evening, and we will give the tree another dose of B1 and pray it lives.

So those are my struggles right now. I know he wants to be a good dog. He has been fetching so well this week, and listening when we tell him things. If I say rope, he brings the rope. Or tug, and he tugs with me. He finds his ball, and sits when he's supposed to sit... but he's been so destructive again! Ripping up the tree two days in a row, and pulling out those rose bushes. I dont even know how he got his mouth around them. Ouch!

I will let you know again how things are before Guatemala. I have my last immunization tomorrow morning with Jason, and my anti-malarial drugs are waiting for me to pick up at walmart. By the time I get back, I should be feeling the baby move!

sunnier color sunnier outlook

hic. hic. hic.

I have never had the hic ups this often. Ever. Until now. :)

It is beautiful outside. I spent yesterday feeling productive, mowing the lawns, watering the brand new roses, and running errands for Jason. And getting a pretty pink sunburn and some new bikini tan lines. I am feeling better this weekend. Still allergy ridden with the sneezing, runny rose, and itchy eyes, but its been three days since I last threw up. And this is the second morning that I have not felt nauseous (and its after eleven already!) So, great weather, some energy, no need to vomit in the near future, my life is looking up.

Which explains the change in colors. I wanted something that made me feel happy- and I think I found it. :)

Also, while I'm here, I should let you know I think I'm going to buy a crib. I found one, with a matching changing table at Target for 330 for the set! I've done a bit of looking around, and I think it will be worth the saved effort of sanding and repainting of the one I have. And because its an older style, I wouldn't be able to find a changing table to match. I am not set on it yet, but I am pretty sure that's what I will do. Andy mentioned she wanted to get the crib or changing table for me, so maybe I will have her look at them too and see what she thinks. :)

11:19, and I am going to take Jack to the lake. its been so nice out, and he hasn't been for a swim yet this year. Jason's taking my car to work in Boise every day, so I have the truck for him to get all wet in too! (Heather was right, I do feel like a different person, just because I feel better! Its great!)

eleven weeks four days

I am so close to feeling better I can almost taste it. In just another week I will feel like a brand new person, and have the energy to go and do things that need finished so that life can move on. Only days. Days that are dragging on mercilessly...

I'm excited about the things coming up though. May 27th is my next appointment, at thirteen weeks three days, and we will get to hear babys heart again. This time with Dr Anstine, so we will get to actually listen for a minute instead of being rushed like my ultrasound. I should be able to scedule the next ultrasound for just after my next appointment too, the one that will tell us if this baby is george or emma.

Anyway, I'm having trouble concentrating with all the jackhammering outside my back fence this morning, so I'm off. I'm finishing the first leg of a triathalon, and I'm already tired. :)

getting anxious

Waiting is not something I generally enjoy. Waiting for anything. But especially waiting when there is nothing I can do to make time go by faster. Eleven weeks on saturday, so I'm so close the finishing my first third, but so distracted by everything else going on.

The House.
I'm tired of the house. Its become like a "five" letter word to me sometimes. All I want, is for it to be over. And we need time for that to happen, and neither one of us has the time to do it! It would be frustrating were it the only thing going on, but it isnt. Baby has decided to make me sick now. And take my energy. And Jasons job is moving but they arent sure where to yet. And inching closer and closer is the trip to Guatemala that I really want to be excited about, but right now it is just one more thing on the agenda.

I just want one or two things to fall into place, so that I can feel more settled about all the rest of the shamble.

Just one or two things, then the world can explode agian.