~Shirley Conran
Hello beginning of the last quarter of the pregnancy! Yes, yes, I know that most people split the pregnancy up by trimesters...which seems kinda silly to me because I like things to be even and 40 weeks does NOT split in three evenly in my book. So...I did, however, notice how nicely 40 weeks can be split into nice, even QUARTERS...hence, my celebration of today being the first day of the last quarter. Talking about quarters makes me think of being back in school and getting report cards at the end of every quarter. If that were the case for pregnancy, Ms. Monkey would get an A+ across the board as I have had a very enjoyable pregnancy, all things considered! Stellar marks, Peyton...Mom is so proud!
Today was a glorious 66 degrees out...although I still wore short sleeves, still had the AC on in the car and the fans on at home...but it was so much more of an enjoyable day without sweating!
With the celebration of being only 10 weeks away to meet our daughter and it being a wonderful day in weather-land, I did however have a challenging day. BOTH boys VOMITED today. Poor guys. I DO have to say that for being as sick as they are, they were both happy go lucky guys, no attitude, no fussing, no grumpiness, and J even still consistently used his manners (which would've been the FIRST thing in MY book to be thrown out the window if I was under the weather!). Long story short, M threw up in the car on our way to Folsom. We had to make a detour at our house while I laundered the car seat liner and his clothes and cleaned up the mess. We got our errands run in Folsom and were at Target when J threw up ALL OVER the table of our lunch (to which he had eaten none-probably because he was feeling under the weather, eh?!?). Clean up on aisle 2, anyone? We got home to have neither boy really nap, J had an explosive diarrhea that we had to have a bath to clean up from and M vomited THREE more times while I was there. Didn't get a lot of my "extra" side jobs done today like I usually do while the boys are napping. Did a bunch of laundry and puke clean up. Just praying that I don't get whatever the boys have. I feel so bad for them. At least neither had temperatures and didn't behave like they were in any pain. I hope K's night went as smooth as possible and that for their sake, they feel better. I just felt so helpless because they only thing I could do was cuddle with them to make them feel better. On a silver lining note, the boys hadn't eaten that much today, most likely because of their upset bellies, and so on a scale of one to ten, their vomit clean up was on the "easier" side than had they actually eaten what they normally do.
I really hope I don't get sick!
Tony came home late from work so I was already in the process of making tacos for dinner (the only meat we still have is ground turkey because we desperately need to go grocery shopping). He took the garbage and recycling bins out to the street and we chatted with Nikki for awhile. Tony got to work on his online courses homework (he takes three classes this semester and four next semester) while I informed Nikki that based off of newly learned information and discussion at our pregnancy class the other night, I rethought my decision to have her and Mikee in the delivery room. After sharing with her the information, she understood and agreed it was probably best to come once I get moved up to the postpartum wing (about 1 hour after delivery). Took a shower as I wanted to wash today off of me and now will be doing Monkey's kick chart and putting away laundry. I also updated the entry in this week's belly book log, took a belly picture, and measured my belly. I know you can't tell from the pictures (and quite frankly, I find it rather hard to believe, as well), but I am supposedly the same circumference as last week. I feel about three times bigger and my underwear that are refusing to sit right no matter what I do today would agree that SOMETHING must be different. It is comforting that I am not as big as I feel, but I really am starting to question the validity of the bear measuring tape I use every week. I would assume you guys can see the difference, too and are asking yourself the same question I am...
I'm totally tired and may not go to tomorrow's scrapbook get together after work depending how the boys feel and how the day goes...I may just want to come home and rest. Am excited that the forecast shows more fall type temperatures in the next week! I better get to the chart and laundry so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour as I am going in early again tomorrow. Good night and wish me healthy thoughts, if you don't mind! I promise to share them with everyone I come in contact with, including the boys! Hope you all are enjoying your start to the weekend! I am glad tomorrow is Friday!
Monkey, Mom would like to put in a kind request to stay as healthy as you can! Think healthy thoughts! She wants you to be strong and healthy and to get as much as you can from being in her belly! You can do it, big girl!
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