Coming Together

I finally feel as if things are starting to come together. Hallelujah!!! The bedroom for the nursery has been cleaned out, and Britt started painting on Wednesday. He finished the first coat last night. I must say that it looks pretty good! We are hoping to get the nursery furniture moved sometime this weekend. I cannot wait to see the finished product! I'll try to post some pictures along the way. I should have posted a before picture, but I didn't want y'all to think that we lived like pigs. The room before we made it into the nursery was an extra bedroom/Britt's closet/junk room/storage room. It was MESSY!!!

The pregnancy is moving right along. I'm getting bigger by the minute! =) I was looking at a maternity portrait that Moriah had taken when I was pregnant with Ashlyn. I was about 6 months pregnant in the picture and I hardly even had a belly. I look at myself in the mirror now and I'm at least double, if not triple the size that I was then. LOL! I truly believe that he's going to be one big baby! He moves constantly. Ashlyn was my calm baby, so I'm thinking that this one is going to be my wild child. I think that he sees my bladder and thinks it is either a kickball or a punching bag. It literally takes my breath away when he kicks/punches me right in the bladder. He's a strong little guy!

My body is going through all sorts of changes. Pregnancy isn't so easy on your body the second go round. I've got vericose/spider vains on my butt and thighs that I'm just PRAYING will go away after he's born. It looks awful! I told Britt that if they didn't go away I was having that procedure done where they put some sort of solution in your veins to make them disappear. Gas is TERRIBLE! You can definitely tell that there's a boy inside of me that's for sure! =) Acid reflux is an occurence after every meal. That's on my list of things to ask the doctor about when I go next week. My belly is getting so large that after I eat I have shortness of breath and get really light headed. I was really concerned the first time that it happened, but considering that it happens after EVERY meal, I think that my stomach must be pushing against my diaphram or something like that causing me to feel like I can't catch my breath. I'm also back to the EXHAUSTED stage again! As soon as I come home from work all I want to do is go to bed. By the way, I'm NOT complaining! Things could be MUCH WORSE!!! All in all this has been a piece of cake pregnancy.......so far! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that things stay in the normal range. During your third trimester is usually when your blood pressure can sky rocket, so fingers crossed that mine stays low! So far so good!

Ashlyn is doing well. We had a freaky situation last weekend with her. She woke up Saturday night running a fever of 103. I gave her some Tylenol and put her in the bed with us. Not even 2 minutes after turning the lights this happened:

Ashlyn - Mommy what's her name?
Me - Who?
Ashlyn - That little girl.
Me - What little girl?
Ashlyn - (pointing up to the ceiling) That little girl right there with the blood on her face.
Me - (silence)
Ashlyn - Mommy what's her name?
Me - (still silence.....I don't want to talk about a little girll with blood on her face!)
Ashlyn - (again) MOMMY........WHAT'S HER NAME???

Britt was sound asleep and heard no part of this conversation. I woke him up with a quickness and was FREAKING OUT! Was she really seeing a ghost, was she hallucinating from the fever, or was she just dreaming? Britt told me that I was crazy for getting so worked up over a 3 year old's vision, but HELLO............would that not scare the pee out of you?
I slept with Ashlyn until about 5. I didn't get a wink of sleep. She was tossing and turning all night long. The Tylenol didn't do a bit of good. Britt slept with her until about 11 the next morning. It was weird because by Sunday afternoon her fever had gone away. She must have just had a nasty 24 hour virus.

On the bully situation, she's going to a different classroom in the early morning, so that's been a huge help! He hasn't bothered her since. Tuesday I picked her up and another kid had pushed her down. I'm not upset though because these sorts of things are going to happen to any child and any daycare. I just don't like the same kid bullying my kid day in and day out. Wednesday Ashlyn tells me, "Mommy, I had to go to time out today because I pushed Kalen down." WHAT?!?!? Ok, so now how do you tell your child that it's ok to push if the other kid pushes you first, but it's not ok to push someone down for no reason at all. UGGGHHHH!!! I'm glad that she's at least showing some aggression, but I wish that it was towards the bully and not one of her friends! Oh the joys of parenthood! LOL!

Tomorrow Mom and I are taking Ashlyn to the circus. I haven't been to the circus since I was a kid. I'm sure that we'll have a great time! I'll try to get some pictures posted sometime this weekend.