The story of the strudel trap & the stupid man...

So earlier this week I'm running late to work (as usual) trying to make it out of the house in the morning... I've got my purse & lunch box on my shoulder, a plate of strawberry Toaster Strudels in one hand and a Yoo Hoo in the other (yes, this pregnancy has brought on an unusual craving for Yoo Hoos!!)... anyhoo... I'm in the garage, making my way to the passanger side of my car to load my stuff in, when low and behold the HUGE golfing net my Sweet Wormie has propped against the garage wall FALLS ON TOP OF ME & BABY ANNISTON- trapping us against my car!!!! (no this was not the 1st time this has happened to me-sadly!) ... I was like a cagged rhino... I couldn't get out of there- and I was NOT letting go of the strudels or the Yoo Hoo to make it out!!! For a split second, I had a vision of me giving up the fight and just sitting down on the garage floor to have our breakfast, but eventually, while wrestling with the net, I droppped one of my toaster strudels on the garage floor!! {grrr!}>=[ I WAS SO FURIOUS!!! (not at me for being clumsy and bumping into the net-but angry at my husband for putting it there- of course!)... anyhoo, after the strudel dropped on the floor, I just stared at it contemplating my next move... (pre-pregnancy, I would have thrown them away and gone without breakfast for the morning, but we had to think about Little Baby Anniston! She can't live on Yoo Hoos alone!) By this time, I had past the "10-second rule" and ended up picking it up anyway and putting it back on the plate after I dusted the bottom off... THANK GOD it landed icing-side up! The other strudel was fine. There was a little icing that got stuck on the net, but it was still edible without question!

I finally made it out of there alive and was on my way to work, but after eating the 1st strudel, the guilt started to set in and I couldn't bring myself to make Sweet Anniston eat the one that fell on the floor! ... boy did I sure think about it though!

Here's a picture of the death trap in the garage so everyone can have a nice mental image of me & baby trapped inside against the car...

Later on in the week this stupid man at work really kinda hurt my feelings! The conversation went something like this...

Stupid man: "So Jayne, when is your last day?"

Me: "Do you mean, when am I due?"

Stupid man: "Yeah, that's what I meant. When is your baby due?"

Me: " I'm due August 31st"

Stupid man: "WOW! So you mean to tell me you have another 3 months to go!?... WOW, ARE YOU HAVING TRIPLETS?!"

Me: ?????? {WTF?!} nervous/annoyed laughter was all that could come out of my mouth!

Luckily, there was another guy I work with that heard the whole thing go down (his wife just had a baby and we talk a lot about baby stuff) ... so he helped smooth things over... He told the Stupid man that he just stuck his foot in his mouth and gave him a really hard time about it... so that made me feel better! :) ... but the more I kept thinking about it, I have been really self-conscious about my baby weight since :( ...

I'm sorry, but you just don't say stuff like that to a pregnant lady!!!!! :( Just tell us how beautiful we are and that our baby weight is all belly- no matter how swollen our ankles are or how much weight we've gained every where else!!!!

Nursery update:

We finally got our paint colors picked out and Sweet Wormie started painting this week. He is such a trooper!... Me and Baby Anniston couldn't really help paint because of the fumes, so he painted the nursery all by himself... he did it all on Tuesday and Thursday night after work!

Now the next step is to paint the chair rail and install that... Hopefully we (er, Sweet Wormie) will do that this weekend :)

Anyhoo... we gotta go to bed... We are babysitting our 18 month old nephew, Owen, tomorrow through Sunday while Chris and Melissa go to KY lake. This will be the first time Jeremy and I have done an overnight with a little one on our own so this should be good practice! :)

Test results...

So I just got a call back from the nurse with my test results... I don't have gestational diabetes! YAY! :)... but the test did show my iron levels are low :( ... she said it wasn't anything to be too concerned about, but I do need to start taking an iron supplement every other day... I'll just add that to the medicine cabinet of a purse I carry around now...
One side effect to the iron supplement though is constipation <:[ ... {Geez!}... As if I wasn't already cranky enough... not looking forward to that!

Bye, bye ankles...

So this weekend, I saw the most horrifying sight...
First let me paint the setting... I had just gotten home from a nice lunch at Cheesecake Factory with my friend Rhiannon (who is also preggers-due July 13th) followed by an AWESOME 1 hour pre-natal massage at Adagio Spa... so needless to say I was quite relaxed when I came home to my sweet husband who was working on the nursery.
He pulled me a chair from the office so I could sit down and a stool for me to prop my feet up with (yes, he is the SWEETEST- I know!)... then I proceeded to pick out paint colors while he called Babies R Us about the furniture we needed to pick up... Jeremy was in and out of the nursery while he was on the phone...
In between paint swatches, I looked over at my feet and saw it... the MOST gut-wrenching thing I have seen so far (and by the way- something tells me its only going to get worse)... Anyhoo... I looked down at my feet and could NO LONGER SEE ANY SIGN OF AN ANKLE BONE!!!... I screamed bloody murder for Jeremy to come back into the room (you would have thought I had seen a snake in the house or something by the way I screamed his name to come help!)... of course he comes running in to see what's wrong and all I could say was "JEREMY! LOOK!-- I DON'T HAVE ANY ANKLES!!" I almost cried as the words came out of my mouth!!
And no people- I am not exaggerating here!... I was all calf & foot... :(
Jeremy of course just laughed and rolled his eyes. He couldn't really comment cause he was talking to the Babies R Us guy, but when he came back and saw what I saw, boy did he just have one "cankle" joke after the next... (he first told me I was being silly and it looked fine, but that's what husbands are supposed to do...) but for the rest of the weekend (especially the rest of that night) I couldn't take my eyes off them! It was like a bad car wreck! I had to keep poking them to make sure it wasn't just a dream...
And to top it all off my foot was incredibly swollen too! My feet looked like two blown-up rubber gloves! :(

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, but I just didn't expect for it to happen so soon! Plus, its hard to see your body changing this way so fast!

Anyway... I'm planning to post some pictures of me soon through out my pregnancy so you all can see my BIG belly! :)... there will, however; be no "cankle" pictures posted...sorry!

{Drumroll please}...

So a lot of you have been asking us about baby names...and if we have picked one out yet... so here it is... {drumroll please} ...

Our sweet little baby girl will be named "Anniston Jane Weber"!!

Jeremy and I have had a short list of names that we have been throwing around for a while now, but for the last month or so whenever we talk about her or talk to her, we refer to her as "Little baby Anniston" :) ... we just hadn't officially said "ok, this is her name" until we were driving home from church on Sunday and were talking about it... of course everyone at church asked us about names so on the drive home we said to her "ok baby, kick once if you want to be named Anniston" ... and SHE KICKED!! ... so it was settled :) We loved it & she did too!


We don't like the nicknames "Ann" or "Annie" though... so none of you are allowed to call her that! :) ... and when she gets older and her friends call the house asking for someone named "Annie", I'll just have to tell them no one lives here by that name! So there... >=[


The middle name is after my mom... Her middle name is "Jane" spelled without the "y" so that's where we got that.


A few others that were on our list are...

Alexis

Madelyn

Addison


We just really didn't want a name that a lot of people are using, so we ruled out Addison & Madelyn... and Alexis is another favorite of ours, but when my friend Elicia told us about the name it has just really grown on us everyday since and now we love it!...

Yesterday...

So the doctor's appointment went well yesterday... I won't get the results back from the test for a week or two, but the "drink" wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It tasted like a flat orange soda. The only bad part about it was that you had to drink the whole thing in 5 minutes... For a lot of people, that might not have been so hard, but for little ole' me that was tough!... I am a VERY slow eater and drinker, so having to slam that drink so fast made me kinda sick. It also started to burn after the first few sips, so by the end of it I felt like I could throw up!... Then after you drink it you have to wait for an hour before they can draw your blood and not eat or drink anything else.
The needle prick wasn't as bad either. The lady that did it was awesome! I don't even have a bruise today! YAY :)
And after we were all done at the doctor, Sweet Wormie took me & baby to Whole Foods for pizza and Fat Straw for a bubble tea smoothie :)... it was a great "treat"!! :)

We did go to Pottery Barn Kids after that for a little bit to start a registry, but didn't stay for the decorating class. By that time, we were all really tired and just wanted to go home... plus I was really bummed that everything I had planned to register for there was only online! :( We only scanned two things and the rest I will have to add tonight...

Anyhoo... I'll be sure to let you all know when I get the results back from the test!

This afternoon...

So I have a doctor's appt this afternoon to get my glucose levels checked and I am really nervous about it!! I couldn't sleep last night cause I was worried sick about it!
For all you non-moms out there, the glucose test checks your sugar levels for gestational diabetes (which is pregnancy-related and usually goes away after birth, but if tested positive it can cause a greater risk in delivery or needing a c-section cause the baby is too big. It also raises the baby's odds for low blood sugar when born)...
What I'm really dreading is the drink you have to gulp down beforehand and them drawing my blood to do the test! :( Every time I've drank any of those "medical test drinks" I usually throw it right back up! :( Also, I'm a big wuss when it comes to getting my blood drawn... I don't mind shots as much, but drawing blood usually really hurts and leaves me with a big bruise on my arm for a week!
Since my appt isn't until this afternoon, I've had to really watch what I eat and not eat anything with a lot of sugar... but Sweet Wormie (that's Jeremy- for you folks that don't know his embarrassing nickname I use) has promised me a treat after my appt so me & baby are just trying to be positive and focus on that! :) ...

Then after the appt, Jeremy and I are supposed to go to a nursery decorating class at Pottery Barn Kids... we will probably put a few small things on a registry while we're there...so we have a busy afternoon/evening...

I'll let you all know how the dr's appt goes... Please say a little prayer for us!

Preparing the nursery...

Wow! We've been busy!... It takes A LOT to get ready for a baby, and we're not even close to being done yet!

So this is what's been going on since my last post...

For the last month or so, Jeremy and I have been getting the house ready for our newest little family member. (Really my sweet Jeremy has been doing a lot of the work and we {as in me & baby} have been doing the little we can to help and sitting in a chair with our feet propped up giving direction! :). We've decided that her nursery is going to be in the room where the office was and our newly re-done guest bedroom will be the new office. The room that will be the nursery is a little bigger and has the better closet (cause you know she'll need it :)... and Jeremy needs to have an office so the guest room had to go. The crappy part is, besides the fact that we just painted and bought new curtains and furniture for the guest room, we don't have anywhere to put the extra furniture and we don't want to sell it. Right now we have the bed disassembled and crammed against the wall with the mattress and nightstands... we'll probably end up getting a small storage space so we can have room in there to put an air mattress up when guests stay... so we'll see...

We also cleaned out the closets in both rooms, packed up all the winter clothes, and stored all the summer clothes I won't be able to fit into this year... We ended up taking 6 bags of stuff to Goodwill!! Plus, we've got a few things we need to sell on Craigslist too...

The next step for us (hopefully to do by this weekend) is pick out the paint colors for the nursery and get started on that... The nursery colors are light pink, chocolate brown, & taupe. We've already bought our bedding (*see picture below) and we are planning on doing the walls like the picture with light pink on top and taupe on the bottom... so on top of painting, Jeremy is going to install a chair rail too :)

Another project we've got going is a built-in bookshelf/changing table system that Jeremy and his brother Chris (a.k.a. Bob Villa) are going to build. We are very blessed that Jeremy and Chris are very "do-it-yourself" guys and they are amazingly good at it! So I'm really excited about this project!... Below is a picture of the model we are trying to replicate... This piece is at Pottery Barn Kids, but the boys can hopefully get it built for 1/3 of the retail cost! Gotta love that!!

I'll keep y'all posted on the progress of these projects and hopefully we'll have before and after pics soon.