36 Week Belly Picture

Four more weeks to go!

I had Brian take this picture after several "wow your getting big" comments from students and staff members. Notice I have my chin tilted up so my preggo double chin does not show and the picture cuts off mid-thigh so you can't see my chubby "cankles." Who ever said pregnancy was sexy was not talking about a woman who was 8 months pregnant!

Yup, I'm Having One of Those...

As I sat at the front of the classroom today waiting for the kids to put away books and pack up their stuff. I notice two boys in the back of the classroom had flipped their friend's hood over his head and were pulling on the strings to cover his face. I opened my mouth to tell them to knock it off when a girl in the front row rolled her eyes, looked at my stomach and said, "You realize you're about to have one of those! Good luck with that, boys are soooo immature!"

Lots 'O Doctors Appointments

Brian's work implemented a new policy-yearly physicals or your insurance premiums will double. No one is exempt so I waddled into my doctor's office last week for a physical. The nurse was filling in the info: age, blood pressure, height, weight, etc. when suddenly she stopped threw down her pen in disgust and said, "You have got to be kidding me! They are asking for the waist circumference of a pregnant woman? They should be shot!" The best part of all this? No where on this special HMO form is there any place to write in preexisting health conditions like pregnancy...so my doctor (who is pregnant herself) grabbed a red pen and wrote 33 weeks pregnant all over the form!

Had my 34 week doctor appointment yesterday. Holy cow! Six weeks until my due date! Where has the time gone? Parker is perfect and is already positioned head down facing my back...that's my boy!!! Going to the OB every two weeks has already gotten annoying especially since I have to drive 45 minutes for a 15 minute appointment. I'm super excited because in 3 weeks I start going once a week.

Things Really Do Happen for a Reason

I never thought I would ever say this but...thank goodness we are still living in the man den!!!

Tuesday: We were finally able to really get into the house and do some cleaning. Brian suggested that we take it slow and do a little bit every day after work and let the house keep airing out. So we did some deep cleaning in the kitchen/dining room and then headed back to the man den for the night. We could have moved back into the house that night, but it was a good thing we didn't.
As we were eating dinner, I mentioned to Brian that I was having trouble flushing the toilet earlier that day so he took a look, flushed it a few times and it appeared to be clogged...then I looked in the shower and saw water and TP coming out of the drain! So at 9:30 PM Brian dug up the cover to the septic tank and peeked inside and there was water up to the lid. Since neither of us has ever looked into a septic tank we assumed it was full. We called a 24 hr company and after asking Brian a few questions the guy told Brian it wasn't full and where he would probably find a clog. 15 more minutes of digging, a very long stick, Brian dry heaving, me laughing my ass off and the problem was fixed!

As we were getting ready for bed it dawned on both of us that if we hadn't been living out in the man den it would have taken much longer for us to figure out that we had a issue with the septic tank! Then I realized that we had been having flushing issues in the house for months so this problem had been building for a while and the entire man den, not just the shower could have been flooded before we even knew anything was wrong.

Did I mention how much I love living in the man den?

Side note: I'm guessing it is pretty rare for a company to help people for free when they could come out on an emergency call and make $300-400 for 30 minutes of work. So if you have septic issues call Apex they rock!

Belly Pics & More

Last week, I had three women teachers comment on my growing belly:

Comment #1: "Your belly is growing bigger every day!"

Comment #2: "Is the baby measuring larger than he should be?" (Actually I am measuring a little small) "Are you sure you're not having twins?" (Positive...are you sure you're not?)

Comment #3: "Oh, my goodness you can't be 7 months! Your so tiny! (I wanted to hug her!)

Here is the latest belly picture so you can judge for yourself!

33 weeks down...7 weeks to go!

Parker has started to move around like crazy. Dave & Vicki since you can't be here to see it in person - here is a video of your Grandson doing back flips and cartwheels!

Check out the new and improved Parkermobile!

Brian and I knew we needed to get a new car before the baby comes, so we have been looking on and off for quite a while. We finally found a car in our price range with lots of legroom and most of the features we wanted. Long story short, we traded in the Mazda for a '09 Nissan Maxima.