Nesting

So the nesting part of this pregnancy has begun....All I want to do is organize and set up the baby's room.  It's difficult though considering that Michael and I don't even know where we'll be living a year from now.  Our neighbors at this apartment complex are unbelievably inconsiderate (drumming at midnight, discussing prison time, and playing Rockband all night).  I'm kind of excited to have a baby screaming at all hours to get even with them. 


Connor says Happy Halloween!



I just arrived back in Reno from a trip back home to Maryland.  My lovely friends and family had two baby showers for us.  Michael and I should be expecting our crib and changing table via UPS any day now and our stroller has already arrived.  I think it's getting more real with all the baby gifts.  My little man is going to be much better dressed than his mother.  Michael even swears the kid has more clothes than he does already.  It's hard to believe he'll be as small as some of these outfits, especially since Michael and I are both large.  When I was home I visited my newly born nephew Tyler (9 weeks old) and my cousin Kirbys new daughter Maya (7 weeks old).  Kirby talked about how we should paint my belly like a pumpkin.  I hadn't thought of it but thought it would be cute, definitely a good way to hide the stretch marks.  Michael's pretty creative and artistic so he got kind of fancy with it.  Connor Rhys dressed as a pumpkin.  I'm pretty pale though and am still sporting an orange stain. 

To Blog or not to blog

Yes- he has a double chin

When I found out I was pregnant I thought about starting a journal and showing it to my child (ok- "my child" still sounds weird to me) but being the procrastinator that I am I never ended up starting it.  Honestly the last couple of months has flown by and it's hard to believe I am more than halfway done with this pregnancy.  I'll have a baby in about 4 months.  I will be responsible for someone's life!  scary.  I don't know what is scarier- between worrying about money (seriously- how do people afford kids?  I am still not so sure I can and I have a decent job!) or worrying about not being able to tell what the baby needs.  It's not like they can sit up and say "Hey Ma- my diaper has a surprise for you in it".  I know it's all trial and error however I'm beginning to think I'm not as laid back as I once thought I was. 
Just recently my giant panther of a cat, Chode, was sick.  He was constipated.  I started to notice how lethargic he was and asked Michael if he'd been pooping regularly.  Not exactly something he'd been paying attention to.  Anyway- I started monitoring his input/ output starting on Thursday.  Nothing- he wasn't eating, wasn't drinking, wasn't pooping, although he was still peeing somehow.  Monday morning I made an appointment with the vet.  (and this was after trying to feed him soft food with benefiber in it and putting vasceline on his hiney to try to loosen things up).  The vet wanted to do some bloodwork, x rays (to see if he had something called megacolon- it sounds like a transformers name), he also did an enema and gave him some fluids.  Nothing.  The poor guys x-ray showed his spine on top of the biggest poop log I've seen.  Since he wasn't dehydrated the vet said to take him home and call him in the morning if there was no "movement".  When we got home he immediately went to his litterbox and had two decent size dumps.  I gave him the liquid laxative the vet had prescribed and watched him for the rest of the night.  Thankfully it was the beginning of him getting better but not only did it make me think about my child because he was sick and I had virtually no control over it but the BILL MADE ME THINK ABOUT HAVING A KID.  That freaking vet bill was over $500!!! and basically all for an enema!!!!!  and they sell them at CVS for $10.  The things you do for your kids.  :)

Gender Ultrasound- I'm Growing a Penis!

I'm hoping our baby doesn't look like this.

So we had our gender ultrasound on Monday and we found out that we're cooking a boy child.  I had a feeling it was a boy- especially since Michael and I had agreed on a girl name already.  Finding a boy name has been a battle.  I liked Austin but Michael said it sounded too white trash.  (I completely disagree by the way).  He then suggested names like Apollo and Frankenstein.  ha......ha.  He finally made a serious suggestion, Connor, which I am ok with (Yay!)  So after our gender ultrasound we decided to go to Babys r Us to do our registry.  Talk about the blind leading the blinder.  We kept looking at each other like "Do we need all this stuff???"  Neither one of us knows.  I have three nephews who I adore, however, I have no idea what kind of breast pump I might need or what type of bottles to get?  They don't teach this stuff in college.  We basically registered for a bunch of nonesense and we'll see what we end up getting :)  On another note- it seems like everything we really need is ridiculously expensive!  From a crib to a stroller, carseats, bouncers, high chair.... it's unreal.  I need to start manufacturing cute baby stuff. 

Another thing to note is that lately I've started to feel the baby kick.  I have a hard time describing what it's like except to say- it feels like gas bubbles bursting in your stomach.  He really likes to move around at night when I'm about to go to sleep.  It was funny during the ultrasound on Monday because the kid scratched himself.  Typical male- rearranging the furniture in front of everyone.  Dr. Chotiner, some MD student, Michael, and his mother.