Birth Class, Belly, and Baby Shower

After my last post, I am glad to be out of my funk! Being off of work makes me weird. It's not like I wake up every day thrilled to go to work. I want to sleep in and lay around just like everyone else. I have noticed though, that whenever I am not working I am so icky. I think I am just really lazy, and then I beat myself up about being lazy. But all is well now!



Lots of exciting news happening! Roman moves like crazy. You can see my stomach move on the outside and it totally looks like I have an alien in my belly. My fascination with this wears off when he does it every night right when I am trying to fall asleep! That's about all there is to report, but as always, no news is good news! I keep getting bigger and bigger and can now only wear maternity clothes. I have been wearing maternity pants for quite some time, but I could still wear a lot of my shirts. I made it 31 weeks before my wardrobe went extinct, so I don't think that's too bad.


This past weekend I had my second baby shower. It was with Warren's family in Murray. It was so nice! Everyone got the cutest gifts and we are especially grateful for the car seat everyone chipped in for! Joy got us our entire set of cloth diapers and we also got a cute embroidered blankie and a beautiful handmade quilt from Warren's aunt. My adorable niece Bella aided in the opening of the gifts, which of course I loved because then it helps with the "everyone staring at you" discomfort!!! We don't get to see Warren's extended family much, so most of all it was just really nice to visit with everyone. They are so sweet and generous and I wish we saw them more. What is really crazy, is the next time we do, it will be with a baby in tow! Hopefully I can get some pictures up from the shower, but my camera was dead, so this will mean relying on my horrible at photo sharing mother in law ;)

When we came home from Murray on Sunday, we went to our first birthing class. I love the teacher, Nicole, who is the doula not taking March clients I previously wrote about. I think the class is going to be fun and helpful. However, I did notice that Warren and I seem to be the only ones with a sense of humor, as we leaned over making puns and smart aleck remarks to one another. Everyone is is very, very serious. We don't do serious too well! So it only seems fitting that when each couple was assigned an exercise to explain and demonstrate to the class, Warren and I draw our card, turn it over, and see KEGELS. Bawhahahaha!!! So hilarity ensued as Warren and I tried to figure out how to explain kegels, while maintaining our composure. When we finally get it together (and I am finished hissing at Warren not to be weird!) its our turn and the teacher does most of the talking for us. Pretty painless, and it makes a great memory!

8 weeks from today!!!

Baby Blues

Ugh I am so icky this week. I have been so depressed all week! I think part of it is not sleeping well. I have also been fighting tiredness as I try to get some baby stuff taken care of, as well as get some Christmas cooking going. I am just so unmotivated. Then I found out this morning that the doula that I decided I wanted as the last minute is not taking clients in March. Even though I just decided on having a doula, I was SO counting on this particular one. Ahhhhh! I think I am just stressing, but I am too tired to stress, so I just have the blues. I have cried nearly every day this week. The funny thing is, I am having a fabulous Christmas! I am excited about my gift giving, my new stockings, the food, my plans, etc.! Stupid third trimester.

On another note, I found the CUTEST consignment shop yesterday!!! Well to be completely truthful, the place is kind of a mess, but they have cute stuff. I got an Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper for $90.

Thank goodness. Called Christie. She's coming over to help me keep my sanity. She also cheered me up when I was down in the dumps Tuesday. Wonderful, wonderful friend :)

First Baby Shower!!!!

I had my first baby shower on December 4th. It was AMAZINGLY adorable. My wonderful friends did such an awesome job planning the shower. The best part was recieving books in leiu of cards. What a great start to Roman's library!!!

Ashley practicing

My baby and Christie's food baby (as if she has one!!!)

Our cheesy photo that actually turned out quite cute!


Aunt Jenna and Grandma

Double Grandma

Adorable banner from Etsy!!

Mmmmm!!!

Cake from Stellar Sweets

Lovely Besties

So I have been bad about my belly photos. Eh, oh well. Month 6 got bypassed, but I managed to get Month 7 in on my snow day today!!!

December 16, 2010
Month 7

That is about all the news I have. I guess no news is good news though!

Oooooh a video...

After my earlier post I decided to clean off my point and shoot camera. On there was this video of us announcing my pregnancy to Warren's parents. I gave them the photo frame that is photographed in an earlier post. So here for your viewing pleasure....

Every time I watch this, it still puts a smile on my face.

Well Hey There Little Fella

The past two weeks I have been completely freaked out because I have not been feeling the baby move all that much. However, the past two days that little sucker is acting like he just signed up for a kickboxing class. Then, last night, we were laying on the couch watching tv and....Warren felt his first kick!!!! Which he of course was so thrilled about! I was excited to tell people this, however, Roman is hanging out really low, so I am not really welcoming others to start feeling him kick if you know what I mean :)

Today I am going to a cloth diapering class. I am pretty sure I am cloth diapering, but ugh, every time I even try to read anything about it, they use all this terminology that I have no idea what it means. So I am going to go check it out.

Also, I think it is high time for some photos. I know I am due for a belly photo, and I also think I should share some very cute gifts I have gotten! I will see what I can do!

My Darling Husband

Lately I have been thinking about how wonderful my husband is. Warren gets an A+ for his job supporting his pregnant wife. Not that he sucked before or anything, but prior to upcoming parenthood Warren definitely was the guy who had to be asked to do something, then did it after about the third time something was said about it. Warren is really easygoing, and I have a type A personality, so I usually took care of stuff. And not to be mean, but if something was important I typically did not trust him to take care of it. However, in recent months things have changed. Warren takes care of everything.
EVERYTHING.
Warren has turned into this organized, proactive, agreeable, helpful, wonderful person. He is completely on top of things in a way that I have never seen before. Then on top of all of life's worries and stresses being more evenly distributed, I also am being pampered with foot rubs and back rubs.
Warren and I have always been crazy about each other. I mean duh, we fell obsessively in love when we were 20 and 22. And though we have "grown up" by getting married, getting through school, starting careers, buying a house, etc., this is the first time I have really taken notice of Warren truly becoming a man. In the old fashioned, take care of your family, provider sort of way. And it's pretty sexy too :)

When Roman Thomas peels an onion, he doesn't cry. The onion does.

Whew, this week has been a whirlwind! I have become absolutely obsessed with my baby registry. I am so crazy because I am just not satisfied with big box store stuff so I have been scouting items on etsy and through other smaller companies' websites. And I would like to say that the greatest children's store on earth is The Land of Nod. It is the Crate and Barrel children's store and it is phenomenal. They have their Christmas stuff out right now and I must say I know where I am going to be shopping for toys for the next several years!

I also wanted to back up and talk a little more about finding out that we are having a little boy. It was so crazy that night and I didn't go into any detail. When we got to the doctor's office, Warren knew right away. Like the second they turned the machine on. I can't tell your head from your butt on an ultrasound, so needless to say, I could not tell. The nurse did not confirm Warren's statement though. So she goes through checking organs and bones FOREVER! I mean it was like torture. Then, she says "Well, you all haven't said anything about wanting to know....". I almost punched her. Like, listen lady, I am trying to sit here and be nice and let you do your job, but you need to tell me right this second. Instead of punching her or going off, (sorry I'm hormonal), I just said, politely, yes we would like to know. THEN, she said "Well, you couldn't tell? He could!" AGHHH! NO I CAN"T TELL!!! But I wasn't actually upset because I knew then that it was a boy. She gave us like 10 ultrasound photos (coming soon) and told us that Roman has big feet! He yawned during all this too and it was the cutest thing ever! I told Ashley this weekend that mom's always tell you that becoming a mother is the most wonderful thing in the world. It wasn't like I didn't believe these people, it was just I had no concept of that. When he yawned and it was like the entire world stopped I started to realize just the beginning of what the other moms were trying to tell me. That incredible feeling got topped off by a dream Thursday night where all I was interested in was laying around with my baby. I was just so mesmerized. (Baby dream #3 by the way!) Anyways, back to Tuesday, my mom was there and when her and Warren were waiting for me, Warren said she started to tear up. My dad wanted to be told in person, and when we told him he jumped up and punched the sky. Followed by a lovely dinner at North End. Then, all night turned Chuck Norris jokes into Roman Thomas jokes (hence the title of this post). Which you have to admit, Roman Thomas is a pretty tough sounding name. I loved getting to tell all of our family and friends and am so grateful to have so many supportive, caring people in my life.

In other news, the quilt for the baby's room came in Saturday and it is so awesome. I LOVE it!!! And Christie got Roman the most adorable baby shoes. They are black Chucks with a little skull and crossbones on them. Swoon! Speaking of Christie, her and Kerry have been so hard at work on my shower and it is going to be the cutest thing ever. I can not wait, both to attend and to post pictures!!