A Swift Kick in the Gut

I've certainly been feeling a lot of those lately, and in the same spot, which let me tell you is getting quite uncomfortable. I think the poor little guy has run out of room and is preparing his exit strategy. In fact, we had a bit of a scare last weekend when we really thought he was coming. Contractions were 7 minutes apart for over an hour and there we sat looking at "his room" which resembled a storage shed more than a nursery... Yikes!

No joke, it looked like this:


Nothing like a swift kick to jump start you, huh?... Don't get me wrong. I've been feeling pretty anxious for a while about the lack of progress on his room. It's just that with everything going on with me being, well, completely useless other than as a gestating machine, it's been hard for Robb to find the time to get it done. I completely understood, but that didn't keep me from freaking out none-the-less. Only now we were BOTH freaking out because the reality really set in that this baby CAN come anytime now, so no more dilly-dallying.

And so in a day, his room went from this:


to this!:

HUGE difference!... I couldn't believe how much he did in just one day! We still have stuff to do in there, but it's all relatively small decorating stuff to do, like finish the mural, put up the new blinds, put the new futon cover on (purple just wont do anymore), put the little monkey rug down, etc... Nothing that will prevent him from USING the room like not having a crib would have, ya know?... I'll be sure to post more pics of the nursury once it's completely done! :)

... And based on my last check up (yesterday) it sounds like it's a good thing we got moving!... We've already dilated to 1 CM and the doc thinks we're likely to blow in the next week or two (if that long!)... Wholly crap! We're still not due for another month!... But I'm incredibly grateful we've made it this far considering we didn't know if he'd make it al all...

Hard to believe we'll be meeting him soon. I can hardly wait!

Food Issues

I am having some serious food issues today... Being nearly 9 months pregnant now, I am ALL about the food these days. Thoughts of it probably occupy a good 75% of my waking hours and at least 40% of my non-waking hours... It's also become quite obvious that my son is all about the food too. He practically does barrel rolls every time I eat, which let me tell you, as he gets bigger is getting quite painful, so stop that, you hear?!

It also seems like, today especially, what I want to eat I don't have and what I do have, I don't want to eat.... It's getting quite frustrating, damn it. Especially living here in the midwest when I'm used to living in NY and having whatever I want delivered in 20 minutes or less just by picking up the phone. Ice cream sundae at 2am, not a problem... Waffles with scrambled eggs and bacon at 8pm, not a problem. Can't get it delivered (ha!) or don't want to wait, I could throw a rock and hit a store that probably had what I wanted.... Ugggh, I miss that!!

I just finished lunch and have to say it was quite unsatisfying... during my first trimester, when I was lucky to keep ANYTHING down, I practically lived on this microwaveable Thai Ginger soup. That was about the only thing I could eat... Then suddenly, one day the thought of it alone was enough to make me toss it... Apparently one got left in my office and I thought I'd give it a go since it's been months..... Not so much. Let's just say when you're craving scrambled eggs and cheese with bacon on a kaiser... microwavable Thai Ginger soup is not a good substitute.

We are going to get Pizza 51 for dinner tonight, which has me all giddy... I've been craving it a lot lately and it's the closest thing to NY style pizza I've been able to find out here (you hear that Da Bronx?!)... but damn it, I want bacon and I want it now.