Hiccups...and more dreams

Yesterday at work I was sitting at the desk and I kept noticing that she was doing something but I couldn't place what it was, it felt like a steady something but I knew it wasn't a kick.  It felt much lighter than movement and would happen about every 2 seconds and lasted for a couple of minutes, so I think she had the hiccups!  I say I think because I have no idea!  It's not like she can yell at me and say "hey mom, I've got the darn hiccups again!"  I'm just assuming that's what it was because it was so steady, didn't feel like movement, and I've never felt it before.  But I'll guess we'll see as the weeks crawl by if that's what it really was :)

I'm starting to have the "not prepared" dreams.  I remember getting these when we were planning our wedding, that awful nightmare where all your guests have arrived and are waiting for you but you overslept and now your hair and makeup won't get done (I know it sounds so petty now, but it really used to freak me out!).  Well now I'm having these same dreams all over again but now it's everything baby.  The funniest one I had so far was I delivered in real time in my dream, so I was only 25 weeks along.  And I remember thinking right away that I need to go post it on the blog that she came early so everyone knows!  I also have those that NOTHING at home is ready for her.  I'll bring her home and I can't feed her because she doesn't have any bottles yet, I can't lay her in her crib because her sheets aren't washed, she is naked because she has no clothes...and on and on.  So last night Colton and I went to Walmart and got the paint for her room, so hopefully we'll be able to paint this weekend and start getting more things ready for our little bundle of joy.

The weekend

This past weekend was just what I needed.  It was very low-key and relaxed and I got to spend it with some amazing friends.  We didn't do just a whole lot (pregnant women get extremely tired throughout the day!), but what we did do was fun.  We went to go see Inception (awesome movie, want to definitely see it again) and ate dinner, then went home and went to bed!  Saturday we, actually more Dena and Yvonne :) made a super yummy breakfast then we went to the outlet malls and got nothing but baby clothes, I can't wait until Yvonne finds out what she's going to have so we can go shopping again!!!  Then we treated ourselves to some ice cream and got a fabulous pedicure together, went "looking" at a little boutique...a little too pricey for us, then went home and Dena made a delicious dinner all on the grill.  Yvonne made us dessert, which by the way I have already come home and made for Colton and myself because I LOVE it.  She put butter, brown sugar and vanilla in a pan and then added bananas then poured it over vanilla ice cream...YUM!  I guess looking back I didn't make a single thing for us to eat, sorry girls.

 I would have had a much more relaxing weekend but as always when I'm off at work I'm never off, it really is a demanding job.  We had some stuff happen Friday that continued through Monday that was really wearing on me.  I kept wanting to give up and just go find another job, but my mother-in-laws words kept me going (thanks Loranne!), she said just remember this job is keeping you close to your baby.  Which I have to constantly tell myself that this is a job that really balances itself out.  I get to make my own schedule, I will be able to bring my baby with me, and it's a pretty fun job.  But on the flipside it is SO STRESSFUL!  Yesterday was one of the worst days I've had by far in my entire life and if I wasn't pregnant I would have been bawling at the end of the day.  I say "if I wasn't pregnant" because now that I am, I'm noticing a change in my hormones...for the better!  I've always been very emotional and would cry at almost anything, but now that I'm pregnant my hormones have seemed to level themselves out and I hardly cry at anything anymore.  It's very weird and opposite from what I've heard and read, but of course I'm sure after I deliver I'll be a sobbing mess again!

Making my belly move

It feels like forever since I've posted anything, but all has been pretty quiet around here.  Tonight we were watching TV in the living room and I was laying on the couch and of course she was kicking like crazy and I decided to watch my belly to see if I could see it move when she kicked, and sure enough wherever she kicked my belly moved right along with her!  It was very weird, but also really cool to know that she's big enough in there to actually make it move.  I'm going to have to see if I can catch it on video and then hopefully I'll post it pretty soon. 

I have been looking forward to this coming weekend for a very long time.  Dena, Yvonne (my two long-time friends) and myself are going to be spending a girl's weekend at Yvonne's house in Katy.  It has been so long since I've hung out with them and even longer since we've all been together.  We used to literally be joined at the hip and did EVERYTHING together, but of course as we get older and busier it gets harder and harder to find time for all of us to get together.  So needless to say I am so excited for this weekend, and really we don't have anything super huge planned, but just doing simple stuff together again will be so much fun!  And unfortunately we won't be able to go out and have a few drinks because we've got two pregos now :)  But hey, we get to discuss baby showers...oh my how our lives have changed!

Update

So as of right now her name is Korbyn Ruth Coates, I say right now because I think Colton and I are both waiting to see if another name catches our attention (I don't know why, we both love this name!).  It seems like my belly has doubled in size in just a week or so and she is kicking more than ever!  It's really funny because the main times during the day that it feels like she is doing karate in there is when I get hungry and when I lay down or even just sit still after being up on my feet for a long time, she already is letting me know when she's hungry...little brat :)  Just starting last week I started getting strangers asking me when I was due, I guess I just looked like a fat cow up until then!  This week has probably been the most exciting (so far) in my pregnancy, just because I have an obvious baby bump now, I feel her move ALL the time and Colton can too, and I'm not uncomfortable...yet.  I'm definitely not looking forward to those last couple of months though because as most of you know I have one of the smallest bladders known to man.  When I wasn't pregnant I would have to go at least every hour, now it seems like that's where I spend the majority of my day and I'm only in my sixth month!  Can you imagine how often I will be in there when I'm 8-9 months?!  And I now understand why pregnant women waddle, well at least I know why I already do...because I always have to pee!  And when I have to go really bad it seems like she knows exactly where my bladder is and she'll give it a nice little kick...thanks sweetie :)

At work we are having our annual garage sale (so if anybody wants to come out and shop it will be Friday 11-6 and Saturday 8-12!) and it has been a major chore.  Thankfully we are able to use the church's fellowship hall so we won't have to sweat.  I don't know if any of you are familiar with the hall, but it's a pretty good size and it is now FULL of stuff for our sale.  I'm very excited because this is my first garage sale ever!  So I've had a few employees ask me if they can buy some stuff already and I tell them of course, if they see something they like just let me know and I'll give them a price and they pay me.  So I told myself that I can't get anything to bring home just because I already have a pile in our kitchen that is for our own garage sale.  I've been trying to stay after work this week to go through stuff, but 7-6 is a long day for me and I really just want to go home!  Yesterday I told Colton that I was going to stay for a couple of hours so he stopped by after he got off work and I was hoping that he was going to help me...oh no.  He went throught EVERY single box and started making himself a little pile.  So about 8 o'clock we finally get out of there and have to make like 3 trips to his truck worth of stuff!!!  I can't say much though because today one of the moms brought in a bunch of stuff from her little girl and I went through everything that she had brought.  I ended up walking out of there with two bags full of clothes and a diaper bag full of clothes and other stuff.  But everything she had was so new!  Some of the stuff had never been opened or had the tags on them!  And her daughter isn't even 2 yet so everything was still super cute and in style and for $.25/piece you can't complain.  But I think I'm going to have to write the dayschool like a $100 check from all the stuff we took, and half of it will probably end up in our garage sale anyway!

Dreams

I've always heard that you can have some pretty wild dreams while you are pregnant...wow.  I didn't really think I would have any because honestly, I have some pretty "out there" dreams already.  Well last night I had these two really bizarre dreams.  The first dream was almost like a nightmare.  I was pregnant and Angelina Jolie was trying to take my baby!!!  It was scary though because she was like stalking me and killing anybody that got in her way, and she was planning on just cutting the baby right out of me!  It was horrifying while I was dreaming but then when I woke up I had to laugh about it because it's not like she needs another kid anyway!  Then the second dream was just kind of out there, I was pregnant (it wasn't Colton's baby but that's because I didn't know him in my dream yet) and I was running away from the baby's father's family, who never was realized in the dream.  Then on my "journey" of running away Colton came along and helped me and we ended up falling in love, weird I know.  I don't know why pregnant women have such crazy dreams, but they're pretty funny to laugh at...once you wake up :)

Crib

We set her crib up in her room already, I know I know it's really early but we were just so excited to get it all together!  I didn't even wash the stuff yet we just wanted to see what it was going to look like.  The crib and the bedding are mainly Colton's tastes.  I wanted to do white furniture with a more louder print with oranges and yellows, but he of course wanted to go all out girly.  No we are not leaving the red curtains up and the walls a dark blue, that was our guest (now mainly junk) room and we can't paint or do anything else to it until we get the bed out of there. 

I think this baby is making me lose my mind.  I have never felt so stupid before in my entire life!  And it's not just one big thing that has happened, it's all the little things that I keep doing.  Like the other night we had a board meeting and I was trying so hard to focus and pay attention but it was impossible!  And I wasn't even really thinking of anything else it was just like my brain was mush and I was just sitting there!  Then this morning I let the dogs out and I usually just open the door, they do their business and then they are waiting on the porch to come back inside.  So I let them both back in and locked the door again (it was 3:30 a.m., Colton had a VERY early job and I was going back to sleep!) and went in the kitchen to talk to Colton before he left and like 5 minutes later I was like "oh my gosh Rocky!"  So I went back to the door, opened it and was calling Rocky to come inside, I was starting to get mad because he wasn't coming when i was calling (when they do that i just shut the door and leave them out for a while!) so I close the door and turn around and Rocky is laying on the living room floor just looking at me like "what the hell are you doing?"  I couldn't believe I did that!!!  Maybe it was because it was just so early, but things like that happen to me all day long!  It's like she's sucking all my brain cells out of me and making me a moron!

Pickiest husband in the world!

So ever since we found out we were having a girl we have been trying to think of names, it has been fun, difficult and frustrating.  I say frustrating because EVERY name I throw at Colton is a "no."  I'm not kidding, I don't even get a "well...maybe" from any of the names that I've picked.  When we knew we wanted to get married and have a family of our own someday we already started talking about baby names (don't act like you didn't do it either!) and Korbyn was our little girl name that we both agreed on from the very beginning.  Some other names that I've like have come and gone, but that one has always stuck somehow.  So we were sitting in church yesterday and I don't know what it was but all of a sudden it hit me, I was like "of course I want our daughter to be named Korbyn, I can't think of a better name for her."  So of course I was so excited to get out and tell Colton that I want to name her Korbyn.  Let me remind you that everytime I would throw out a new name to him he would always respond with "nah...how about Korbyn?" and just smile, he has wanted this name forever.  So on the way home I tell him that I decided I really do like the name and I think we should name her that, I figured I would get a very excited answer from him...oh no.  He kind of smirked and shrugged his shoulders and said "I don't know."   ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!?  I think he is just torchering me at this point.  I don't know what we're naming this poor child.

Doctor

Yesterday I had a dr's appointment that was the beginning of the "boring" appointments.  Where all they do from now is weigh me, check my blood pressure, measure my uterus and listen to her heartbeat.  My appointment was at 4:20, so I got to College Station at about 2 and did some light shopping.  It was about 4 when I went into the dr's office and checked in and I told Colton on the phone right before I went in that I should be out of there around 4:45 and be on my way home.  Well 4:45 rolls around and I'm still in the waiting room!!!  I know this isn't too long of a time to wait for the dr (especially if you go in Giddings), but I usually have time to go to the bathroom and then they call my name, I usually don't even grab a magazine!  So I was getting VERY uncomfortable having to sit there for that long and having only an old Forbes magazine to read.  I was texting Colton and I told him that they shouldn't make pregnant ladies wait this long, somebody could get hurt!  So finally about 5:15 they call me back and I get to see my dr.  She said my weight gain and blood pressure look great and then she measured my uterus and we listened to her heartbeat.  I measured right at 22 cm (I'm 22 weeks, so right on target!) and her heartbeat was at 150/minute.  She said that at my next appointment we are going to order my diabetes test (so does that mean that I'll drink that stuff there at my next appointment?  If anyone knows fill me in).  She also told me that I should be sleeping on my left side now since I'm getting bigger so not to chance cutting off good circulation to the baby.  I told her that I've been trying really hard since the beginning to "train" myself to sleep on my left side but it's so hard for me because I've always been a back sleeper and I'm ALWAYS ending up on my back.  She laughed and said there's really nothing you can do about it just try to position some pillows and if you do wake up on your back to just roll back over.  I then asked her about me taking antacids (I pop those things like crazy!) because I get indigestion EVERY day.  She said they're all safe to take and it probably is just going to get worse if I already have it pretty bad now...great :)  So when I get home and open the door Colton has this pissed off look on his face and is surrounded by pieces of the crib that we ordered lol!!!  He said "why can't they make the directions simpler on these things, I've been at this for an hour already!"  So I helped him put it together (only took like 30 minutes!).  He got off a little early and he said he wanted to have it ready when I got home and he was going to have it in her room and surprise me but the poor thing couldn't figure it out, I told him it was very sweet of him to try though :)  So yay!  Now we have her crib up and ready, the bedding is in it just needs to all be washed and now we just have to move the queen bed out of there and paint!!!  I told him about my appointment (about sleeping on my side) and last night he woke me up and said "babe, you're on your right side...roll over" I laughed and said "thanks" and rolled to my left side.  This pregnancy thing isn't too hard, I'm just nervous about when she finally gets here...but at least I know I'll have a great partner helping me :)