Christmas and Birthday

This year we got to have everyone over for Christmas day dinner- 18 people in all! It was a lot of fun to have both sides of the family together and even Robyn's parents came. Jon and I then went to a wedding in New Braunfels and to Austin Saturday night for my 34th birthday! We got to have dinner with my great friend JoAnna and her husband, and we got to see the Klubniks again! (Jons brother's family).

I am now 32 weeks pregnant and feeling baby a lot as she is very active most of the day! It's hard to believe that next Christmas we will have a little baby crawling around! Good thing for older nieces and nephews! :o)

What does a kitchen, swollen feet, and symphony have in common?

So each month in my pregnancy journal it has asked "most embarrassing moment so far", and each time, I have thought... "nothing really! " Well, I finally have one that I can write down and I thought, "what the heck, why not share it with everybody!" So, if you were wondering why I would post a very ugly picture of my feet- I am going to share. (By the way, I know I need a pedicure, that is on my long list of things to do, so no comments regarding that please! :o) The picture doesn't do justice to just how large they were.)

So to start things off on a good note, we got our kitchen cabinets and walls painted this week! It looks great!! I was very happy to get that done and I wanted to save a few bucks and put the hardware on myself. So for about 4 hours on Saturday, I drilled holes and was up and down on counters and a ladder. No big deal, I love doing home projects; but what I keep forgetting to put into the equation is that I am now a few days short of 8 months pregnant and not able to do all things I am used to doing. By the end of the day, I realized my ankles and feet had grown to a very large size and it felt like I was carrying around ankle weights. This phenomenon is graciously referred to by pregnant women as getting "CANKLES" (ankles that resemble calves).

No time to rest though. Jon's parents were coming over to go to dinner and to Handel's Messiah at Jones Hall downtown. After dinner, my legs were in pain and swollen. Jon agreed to drop his mom and pregnant wife off at the front; to which I was very thankful for.
Here comes the fun part... (Imagine Jones Hall during Christmas season with everyone waiting outside, all dressed up, and ready for a great performance...) Jon pulled up to the curb and I opened the door and somehow didn't quite get my footing right. Whether it was swollen feet, big belly in front, misplaced curb, or just carelessness isn't really too important now because down I went! I went from the Tahoe straight to the cement on my face in 1 second flat! Jon was very upset and did the right thing by being very concerned (kudos to Jon) and rushing over to make sure Baby and I were OK. Besides being completely embarrassed and a few cuts, we survived.

So a kitchen, swollen feet, and a symphony equal a good day gone really bad! I guess I have learned the hard way (like everything else I learn), that I need to slow down right now and just enjoy being pregnant and not try to take on the world for the next couple of months! Humm, as I just wrote that I realized that my list of things to do this week is too long and who am I kidding?!!
Hope everyone has a wonderful next few days before Christmas!

A wonderful friend to the rescue!

Over 2 months ago, my friend Lindsay suggested that I get a certain book to help me decide on what to register for baby. So I went online and ordered a copy only to realize there was a new edition coming out, so of course I wanted to wait for it. About 3 weeks ago, I got a notice saying that it still had not come out yet but it should be in by the end of Nov. As of today, still nothing. But I went to 3 different book stores looking for it and no one had it- they had a book by a similar name, but I was waiting for a specific one...

Yesterday, Lindsay agreed (even joyously) to go to Babies R us and help me register and to bring along her old edition of the book. Well..... it turns out I had the name of the book wrong and the one she wanted me to get was in the bookstores! "What book is this?" you ask. Baby Bargains-- but I was and am waiting on the book called The BIG book of Baby Bargains!!! So I waited 2 months for the wrong book!

So, long story short; we had fun registering and I learned that I need to pay closer attention to details these days as my memory is not what it used to be!

Oh, and did I mention Lindsay has twin girls and baby #3 on the way! I needed the expert advice and knew she would be a great help! Thanks Linds!

Swelling and Kicking

so this is what happens when you become pregnant... I had heard friends say that they got swollen ankles and legs during pregnancy, but thought maybe, just maybe I could avoid that! WRONG! Let me just tell you that it is a weird feeling to carry around a bunch of water and to see you legs puff up and to know that it's normal!

That and I think baby is training for the 2012 gymnastics while she is in my belly! -I guess she figures she could join the Chinese team, so she is getting all her training now! Jon finally got to really feel her kicking last night and as he put it" Wow! Tiff, she is really strong!" Don't get me wrong, I am very thankful that I can tell she is going OK- I am just wondering if my insides are going to be OK after this!
So off to bed I go to elevate my legs and lie on my side so baby can do her flips!