SCARY pictures, right in time for Halloween!

I knew my legs and feet are swollen. I just didn't know HOW swollen they have gotten.

With the recent cold front, I needed some clothes that would keep me warm. I have not been sick yet and I don't want to take unnecessary chances, ya know?

SO yesterday I wore a warm yet uncomfortable and really ugly outfit. Today we had many guests at work and I dresses it up a bit.

Seems like it was a bit too much. I had on one of the two skirts that fit, a cute top and my boots. (I love these boots and have been waiting for a chance to wear them.) It was cute... but the boots have 2.5 or 3 inch heels and my feet got SO SORE! I am sure I made some pretty priceless faces as I was walking down the hallway.

The first pictures are my cute outfit. You'll have to imagine how much cuter it was with my boots ON.


Scott picked me up and I peeled off the boots to reveal this:

Ugh! those are the folds and dimples that the fabric of the boot makes as it bunches a bit around my ankle. Only, notice, there are no boots on! That is the edema of my legs contouring to the folds of my boots and packed tight with lymph and water... EWW!!
So I learned my lesson. No more boots or heels until after the baby comes. Sigh. Good bye cute shoes.

Grateful for my Dr.

He does a pretty good job. And he sees me at every visit... which is evidently more than can be said for some Dr.'s.

I have been more happy and outgoing lately, which is awesome. The only other thing that has changed is that Jaedyn has been moving again. Coincidence? I'm think not. It's nice to know your baby is alive and moving. (Even if her head is stuck in my ribcage and therefore not growing at the right rate, which is my sci-fi-based reason for her head being small.)

We've been playing her classical music before I go to sleep and she reallly gets into it. We're seeing big tub-thumps and wiggles which is really fun. There are some songs on the Baby Einstein CD that she really likes, and others that she sits still through.

Also in the mornings now my lung capacity is obviously restricted. I can't get a full deep breath. BUT after I go pee, things seem to normalize. Also this morning as I was coming to full consciousness, I realized that I was so uncomfortable because I had to be on a side... laying mostly on my back, which is usually my favorite way to lay, was acutely uncomfortable. Sigh, I had heard that would happen, but it's a sad day to hear that it's finally here.

I've also started to feel just the littlest bit nauseous. Yuck. It's never something that restricts my activities, rather it's more like having eaten too much of some food that you were not in the mood for. You feel kinda "bleh". It's probably more stress-nauseous, so all I have to do is get un-stressed! Ha! Easier said than done. On the flip side, I've been able to hang out with girl friends lately and that has been fun. Everyone talks about babies, and that has been a HUGE stress to me. I'm totally, totally in that "what if I'm not good enough" phase. Even going to church last week and listening to mothers in the hall talk about raising their kids was enough to put me over the top. I wanted to sit down and cry. I'm sure I can do it... but what I'm not sure about is doing it as a working person. I REALLY don't want to be a career woman with a kid on the side. I have good skills that are useful in an office, but I feel I have so much more to offer to the position of mommy. Scott is doing what he can so I don't have to work when the baby comes and that is a huge help, but the nagging fear is still there. Lurking.

Scott is cutting back on his evening teaching classes too, and that will be a super great relief. I'm hoping that today we will work on some baby projects and get them out of the way. Oh and the dishes in the kitchen would be nice too. A clean kitchen is such a beautiful thing... Oh and while I'm thinking about it, I want more pots and pans and some silicon bake ware.

My boss asked me into his office today to see how I was doing... I didn't get it for a while, So I told hime about what projects I'm working on and stuff... we just met yesterday to discuss these kinds of things so I was a little confused. But... he was asking about my pregnancy. OH! "I'm doing great." (normal responce, but it's true..)So he asked probing questions like, how far along are you?

Dude, I really need to find my brain again, so I can just tell people what they want to know.

So I told him I was almost 27 weeks... He seemed surprised that I was that far along. I think I'm still pretty small-around for how far along I am. His little sister is 30 something weeks so we talked about being pregnant for a bit. When I got home I saw that according to my pregnancy ticker, I'm 28 weeks today. Oops! Time flies when you don't look at the Pregnancy Ticker...

Enough about me. Oh wait, not quite... we had a Dr. appointment and things are going great. Jaedyn's head is a little small, but he said it was nothing to worry about... yet.. :P
Next month we'll look at it again and see if she is still behind. (Evidently now is when her brain is supposed to be growing at great speeds). She is breech or standing with her head in my ribs and her feet on my bladder. I didn't need a sonogram to tell that... she was actually sitting on my bladder when were were taking pictures last time, so we couldn't check and make sure she is still a she. Very modest. I have not heard back about diabetes, so I probably don't have gestational diabetes. Cool. I can continue to eat cake and cookies and candy!! My belly feels pretty durn small for how far along I am (it probably goes with the small head). But I am down to ONE pare of work pants that fit. I can get away with two skirts but one of them is pretty tight. And it's getting to be winter, so I'm gonna need to get some long pants and stuff to wear.

Maybe I should give my boss a link to the blog, so he gets some real answers...

Three months left...

My due date is exactly three months from today...

I WON'T get up!

Not because I don't want to ... but because I can't get up in the mornings. It is SO hard!
I've tried and tried getting up earlier. Last year I had aworking out buddy that would come and get me out of bed... but now I have to get me out of bed all by myself. Most mornings Scott does not wake up with me and that might be part of the problem. Today he got up with me and it was so much easier, I mean SO much easier to physically roll off the bed.

The progression of ultrasounds... it's astounding!

I mean, honestly, the clarity... the picture quality here... it's amazing!! One is of me and one is of my baby.

Baking and sewing and building... you can just call us Molly and Peter...

We got a bread machine when James and Jen left and after I learned HOW to use it, thanks Cash Case, I have been baking!

And we've been building things. Chests and other chests and bedside tables and rocking chairs...

AND I've also got someone's old wedding dress and I'm using the fabric to re-upholster the rocking chair... when I figure out how to make a sewing machine work...