Wow, am I tired today.

I had my older sister and her 2 little ones, Kai aged 1 and Zeke aged 3, come around at 9:00am this morning.  It was fun spending the day with them, and I even took the 2 boys down to the park while their mum worked on the computer back at my place.  I felt quite the mother walking with my pregnant belly, 1 year old in stroller and 3 year old by my side.  Quite funny.  The boys are both blondies and I have dark hair, so people could probably tell they weren't mine...

Anyway, now I am tired. 

Phew, and I haven't even started dinner and it is nearly 5pm. 

Yikes. 

I am hoping that hubby won't be too tired and we can make it together.  Pasta with a tomato based sauce with chilli and ham and onion.  Yum.  I am hungry.  But unfortunately feeling to lazy to get up and make it!  HA!  Chilli has been my number 1 craving this pregnancy.  And fortunately friends gave me a blossoming chilli plant, so I am never left wanting for chillis when a chilli urge comes on! Chilli, chilli, chilli.

In other news, slightly more interesting perhaps, I am having my baby shower this SAT.  It feels kinda early, but with the move happening in 3 weeks, I think it is a good idea to get it out of the way sooner rather than later.  I am very excited about all the baby gifts!  Is that a bad thing to say..???  I am of course very thankful for them all as well!!!  They will be such a HUGE blessing.  I am really looking forward to seeing what we receive.. and then I can plan what is left that we need to buy.

Mum and I are also going to order the cot tomorrow night.. so it is all happening.  I have decided I will get white... as the baby's room is very dark and I want to brighten it up a bit.  I bought a white breadspread with all these kooky, little animals on it - all in different vibrant colours..and I got a matching lampshade...so the baby's room is starting to take form, in my mind at least. 

Without going into boring and gory details I am a little bit sad because my mother in-law is apparently not going to come to my baby shower.  It is such a long story... and it goes way back...and I guess I shouldn't be surprised.. but I am a little sad.

It probably would have been akward having her there anyway, as she is a VERY in your face personality and would have likely said many embarrassing things, but just the fact that she doesn't care enough to be there for her son's first baby's shower shows me the true nature of our relationship and leaves me a little sad. She didn't come to my Bridal Shower either, so I shouldn't be surprised.    :(

... it's probably for the best.

I guess I am not alone with the 'ole crazy in-laws scenario... so I shouldn't dwell on it, it's just the way it goes.

So.... in other, less depressing news... I will be 31 weeks on FRI!  31 WEEKS!

Today Caleb asked when the baby would be born, jokingly of course, and I said...

"June 11"   (Just plucking a date out of my hat).

He said, "really?" (Seeming genuinely surprised.  Baby is due June 1, see).

I said, "I dunno.. When do you think they will be born?"

And He said, "I think they will come early".

YIKES!  I hadn't seriously entertained that thought!  Freak me out... I need these 10 weeks... can't imagine only having 8 or even 9.... I haven't even considered packing my bag... I don't even have a bag to pack!  Perhaps I can jam it all into plastic bags.. kidding.  I'll figure something out.

So here's to waiting and seeing.....

On Saturday we finally received the keys to the BIG 'OLE WHITE HOUSE!  My husband wrote a blog entry about it all, I have cut and pasted it below so you can read his side of the story.

We got the keys!

On another note we ordered the baby's pram yesterday!  Wow - can't believe we finally made a decision.  And this pram has EVERY feature we wanted.. and more.  It should arrive sometime this week.  I never thought I would be excited about a pram, but gee, I am.

Gee, well I have had a lazy day today.

Some days are just like that...  Though I spent a good part of yesterday afternoon writing up 2 schedules, I have done little today to actually adhere to those schedules.. isn't that always the way?  No, you say, it's just me... I'm lazy?

I was talking to my good friend online earlier, mentioning how I was having a lazy day, and she said, 'you're not lazy, you're pregnant'.  Funny, this is a line my husband often says when I have been moaning about my lack of motivation.  I am not convinced though. 

Well I have big plans for this afternoon: cleaning and packing and stretching - all the good things that leave you feeling productive rather than lazy!

I have been getting and needing more sleep lately, I must admit.  In the last week and a half I have found myself getting DOG TIRED around 8 -9pm... a similar feeling to that experienced in the first trimester... so after a week or so of being unable to talk and function after 9pm because of the tiredness I decided to ... get more sleep.  So this week I have been allowing myself to sleep in longer and I am feeling better at nights.. not so DOG TIRED.

I guess baby is using alot of energy with all the growing that is going on.  I have started waking around 3 -4am again with hunger pains this last week also and have resorted to big glasses of cold milk to fill the gap.  So, I guess they are fattening up and my body is working hard to keep up with the demands.

The movement in my stomach is now so strong it hurts!  Yikes - talk about stretching the uterus.  This little baby is giving my uterus a good 'ole work out. 

Ok - off to do something productive...

The countdown has really begun - this Friday there will be 10 weeks to go.

In that time we have ALOT of stuff to do, what with the move to the new house and all.  I am planning to sit down and map out a couple of different schedules.

1. All the days remaining til we move and the subsequent order we will pack up and move our stuff across to the BIG 'OLE WHITE HOUSE.

2. All the days in the BIG 'OLE WHITE HOUSE before the baby arrives with the order of set up chores.

3. The total number of days until baby arrives in which I have to do all those baby tasks like:

a. get the second hand car seat checked out

b. fit the car seat

c. make calls about breastfeeding classes

etc, etc

So we have a busy 10 weeks on our hands but I am very excited about everything that is about to unfold!!

I had another dream about the baby and it was a girl, again!  She was about 3 months old and had pale skin with dark eyes and hair and she was dressed in an old fashioned, pink, cotton dress.... just like the ones my little sister used to wear when she was a baby.

I have also just finised reading a great book called Secrets of the Baby Whisperer... I highly recommend it.  It is extremely common sense but has ideas about baby 'raising' that I haven't really seen in practice around me and I going to endeavour to employ them and see if they work when bub arrives!

I also found a great website that has really lovely natural birth stories on it... www.naturalbirthandbabycare.com/

I am going to concentrate on filling my head with positive birth stories.