Girl's day

Alianna is in Phoenix for the weekend for a grandparents weekend. With ArJay working this weekend, I have had a lot of free time to myself. You would think I would be skipping around
in circles and doing a million things for myself. Honestly, it has been a little weird. It kind of feels like back in college right after a play would finish. I would feel like there was a practice or something I was supposed to be at and couldn't relax until I realized it was just that I was used to having every minute of every day planned. Yesterday I was watching chick flicks and kept thinking "There must be something more productive and fun I could be doing. Who knows when I will get this much alone time again!" Crazy right?

So my friend Shanae rescued me from myself this morning and we went to get mani/pedis. I was super excited about this because I have only gotten a pedicure like twice, both times with my mother-in-law. When I asked her if she wanted to go get them and she said yes I felt like a dork and said "um so where do we go to do that? and do we make reservations or what?"
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I have NEVER had a manicure. I had the obligatory fake nails for prom and my wedding, but my regular nails are so cruddy and break and/or I bite them so they are too short. One of the perks of pregnancy is that my nails grow long and thick.

Funny side note: The names of the nail polishes cracked me up. The red was called "I'm not your waitress" and the pink on my fingers is " Aphrodite's pink nightie"

Other side note: I am truly not being racist her but has anyone else noticed that every nail place is run by cute little oriental people and the walls are always seafoam greenish and peach colored and have 80s style pictures of nails and fake flowers. Is it like a rule that these are the only people allowed to run these places and the walls MUST be these colors. Is there a union?

Baby updates and due dates

I had my 39 week appt yesterday and I am still at 1 and a half and 50 % effaced. I have been at this since 37 weeks even though I am having tons of contractions and pain and pressure. Apparently, those are just for kicks and giggles since they aren't doing a darn thing. Although when I said this, my sweet doc was like" well it is really soft it might be another quarter of a cm. " I just laughed at her and said that's like when a little kid is counting and says 9..9 1/4...9 and 1/2..9 and 5/8.. she was just trying to make me feel better.

I had her strip my membranes yesterday ,but that hasn't done a darn thing either. Just some cramping. So we discussed an induction. I am not super excited about being induced after being induced with Alianna and it taking 49 hours. But this situation is totally different for many reasons.
1. I was not dilated at all with Alianna where I am( a bit) this time. 2. At the 37 week ultrasound with this guy he weighed 6 lb 14 oz, which is basically what Alianna weighed when she was born. So my dr is worried he might start getting too big for me to deliver vaginally if we go to far past the due date. 3. And finally, when I mentioned that ArJay works on the reservation and is often and hour and a half to 2 hours away, my doctor became very concerned that we don't want him to miss anything. If you have talked to me at all during this pregnancy, you know this has been my reoccurring nightmare, that everyone is at work and can't take me to the hospital or completely misses the birth( ArJay is often hour and half to 2 hours, my mom is 5 hours away, my mother in law works in phoenix 2 hours away during the week).

So we are still hoping that I will just go into labor naturally, but if not we have set up an induction for next week. They originally wanted me to come in Monday night to take Cita..something orally so that labor will naturally start thru the night and have him sometime on Tuesday March 1st( my due date). But they called back and said it is still considered "elective" induction then since I would come in before my due date and the hospital is full. So they scheduled it for going in Wednesday the 2nd, so I would have him sometime on the 3rd. Apparently lots of people are having babies and being induced right now, because they had to bump somebody who was elective induction for me to get that one because I am past due and considered medically necessary. The 3rd is my mother-in-law's birthday so she is pretty excited about sharing her birthday.

I have prepared myself that I will probably be induced since all the contractions I'm having aren't doing anything. I do like that I won't have to have a heart attack that no one will miss it since it is scheduled and they won't be at work.Obviously, I could still go into labor naturally in the next week, but as my father-in-law says, apparently I have a comfortable uterus and my kids don't want to come out on their own!

Sewing projects

So I think it is not so good that ArJay works nights because it gives me lots of free time to get silly ideas. Most of these ideas become converted into craft projects that are not really silly, but I become obsessed with finishing it that night before going to sleep because it is vitally necessary( at least in my pregnant brain it is).

One such example would be this skirt. Do you think that waistline is going to fit my pregnant belly? NO way, not even with the elastic waistband. The truly silly part: I knew that I wouldn't be wearing this for MONTHS, it is going to be my Easter skirt. Did that stop me from staying up late to finish...not even a little bit


And of course, that same night, I had to make Alianna's Easter dress. Because, you know, once Kendall comes I will never, ever have time to sew again so if I wanted an Easter dress it had to be made that night because I could go into labor that next day and then it would never be finished. At least that's what I was telling myself at 1am...
I have made some things that were sort of justified and necessary. I was given an adorable hooter hider with Alianna. Unfortunately, it was Red and flowers and ultra girly. I decided( and ArJay told me) that that would not fly with a boy so I made a new more boyish one. Blue means boyish right?(sorry blogger turned it sideways and I'm too lazy/pregnant to try to figure out how to fix it)

There was extra material, so I HAD to make some burp rags. The back is a cut up towel from the Black Friday sale at Walmart. I think this makes the best burp rags because the towel is super absorbent and the material is cuter than just plain cloth diapers.

I also made a car seat cover/tent/ canopy thing. I don't actually have my car seat, my Mom bought me a new one( I swear I'm not that selfish, our old one was in a car accident and not usable) so I just looked on blogs and saw one that had the same kind of car seat I have and used her dimensions. Fingers crossed it'll fit and my impatience didn't screw it up.

We also NEEDED some tie onesies for this little boy. The vest one is because my sister in law gave us the cutest little cowboy boots so we had to have a western outfit to go with it.( again just turn your head to see them correctly sorry!)


And finally, the last dose of crazy came last night. I had my 39 week appt today and so last night I freaked out that I would somehow get put into labor today and need everything finished. I had seen this awesome 2-in-1 stroller/messenger bag on one of my favorite blogs Make It and Love It. I decided it was a necessity and must be made then because, duh!, I was having a baby the next day and would never sew again. Right? NO..dang
The coolest thing about the bag is the short straps snap on the stroller handle, then you pull out the long strap and attach to other side's short strap and makes a cool messenger diaper bag.


I also made two, yes two, wipes cases. I swear it's necessary. This one sort of makes sense, I swear. I put elastic on the back of my wipes cases so I can have the diaper right there and handy too. But since I will have 2 in diapers and i don't want to go rooting around for the other size diaper, I made a pink one for Alianna and a blue one( the same material as the Hooter Hider) for Kendall. So when someone needs a diaper change, I just grab the appropriate case and it will have the appropriate size diaper with it. Genuis no? I forgot to take a picture but I'm sure you've seen them around.

So that is what I do with my spare time. Maybe it will stop after this baby is born and I'm not left to crazy hormonal thoughts. Or, at least, I won't be obsessed and lose valuable sleep because I think I have to finish them for no good reason.

Alianna-isms

I was talking to a friend the other day and I said 2 year olds are by far the funniest and most trying age ( so far). Sometimes the things Alianna does and says have me laughing so hard I nearly wet myself( maybe this is just due to being 9 months preggo) and sometimes she scares the beejeezes out of me because I think "if she is doing this at 2, what is she going to do a 12?" Most of the time it's a little of both.

The other day we set up our awesome double stroller(thanks Mom and Dad Gamble!) in the living room. It is the same type of stroller as our friends that we walk with. Alianna told me it was "dalwin(Dallin) seat and baby Ryan seat". I told her it was different colors and it was ours. I showed her "This is Alianna's seat and this will be baby Kendall's seat". She looked back and forth between me and the seat for a minute, said OK. She then walked up to my belly button and "grabbed" some unseen object and placed it in Kendall's seat and said "Here ya go Kendo, here you seat". She thought she had taken him right out of my belly into his seat. If only it were that easy Alianna...

A couple days later we set up Kendall's bassinet in our room. Alianna walked into my room and saw it and asked" Kendo's bed?" I told her yes so she again came up to my belly and took Kendall "out of my belly" and in his bed saying "here go Kendo, here you bed nigh night love you here you babeh(blanket)".

Although she is adorable, she is so sneaky and smart it scares me sometimes. She didn't want to take a nap the other day when ArJay was home. She was crying and, of course, ArJay was a pushover and went to check on her. He opened the door and asked what was wrong and told her to get back in bed. She was standing there with a pitiful face and said"Owi-Anna(Alianna) sick" and gave the most pathetic fake cough you've ever heard. As I came around the corner, she staggered dramatically into ArJay, thus furthering her "sick" act and hiding from mom in one fell swoop.

Her vocabulary has exploded lately. She knows all the numbers thru 20, all the main colors(including grey and brown), basic shapes(circle square, triangle, star), and ( as we learned by accidnet when she was playing with the magnet letters) many letters. She also makes sure I know how she feels about things. If I do not understand her, she acts so inconvenienced. After and few times of me saying " I don't know what you are saying", she will sigh dramatically take me hand and say " c'mon Mama I show you".

Maybe she's is getting all the attitude out now and will be a perfectly polite teenager right? Perfectly polite teenager...I crack myself up sometimes...

Chase Field tour

ArJay's dad got invited to come on a tour of Chase field( the Diamondbacks major league baseball home field in Phoenix) and he invited us to come with him. ArJAy was only a little excited about athis since he is kinda into sports. NOT!! This is was a dream come too for my little sports fanatic. The whole tour was obviously a pitch to buy season tickets and I'm sure the tour guy saw big huge flashing targets over ArJay and his dad as they answered every trivia question he had and nearly did happy little skipping dances as we went on the same elevator as the players and walked onto the field thru the dugout the same way the players do.



Here we are standing on the field. This picture cracks me up. Candice( my sister in law) has her 2 week old baby in that wrap thing and has the cheesy "yeah I'm soo excited to be here and something I care nothing about". Alianna is looking up at who knows what up in the stands, I think it was a crane messing with the signs. I look a little like a beached whale in all my 9 month/ 37 week glory. ArJay and his dad look like they might cry, but it is out of pure joy I promise.


There is a theme with these pictures. Alianna is never looking at the camera. There were two main reasons: 1. There was way too much visual stimulation and she would not sit still. (seriously I think her goal was to sit in every seat or at least run by each one!) 2. She informed me as soon as we walked in that she was "hungy"(hungry) and got it into her mind that she couldn't stop moving until she ate. Nevertheless, here she is in the dugout.
Of course as soon as I shot her in the dugout, ArJay had to climb up there like a little kid and get his picture taken in the dugout too. Maybe it was good she wasn't looking at the camera, otherwise ArJay might have blown this up into wallpaper.

Side Note: Right after this Alianna and Candice's baby girl Lyza started having hunger meltdowns so Candice and I took the girls out to the parking lot for nursing and snack time. I think the tour guy pounced on the no women around thing and guess who came out with "half season" tickets 15 minutes later? Gotta love those boys....

What a 9month pregnant woman does in her spare time...

This is what happens when a 9 month pregnant woman gets a sewing itch. Add a husband who has been working a lot and a daughter obsessed with all things princess and girly and you get the ultra fluffy pettiskirt.

Now the problem is just getting it off of her. I tried it on her once before it was finished to check length and it was like pulling teeth to get it off. She seriously sat at the end of the sewing table and watched me sew the last seams.


Doesn't that huge fluffy bum just crack you up? ArJay came home and said I must have way too much time on my hands.

The countdown begins...

So I had a 37 week ultrasound on Monday to check our little guy out and make sure he is not getting too big or anything. It is hilarious to me how different this pregnancy has been in nearly every way. I have gained more weight at 37 weeks then I did in the whole pregnancy with Alianna, the aches and pains that were completely absent with Alianna are ever present, I have HARD contractions from 32 weeks this time where I never had anything but mild Braxton Hicks with Alianna, and now I learned I am dilated to a 1 and 50% effaced at 37 weeks. With Alianna, it literally took 30 hours to get to that point. My doctor probably thought ArJay and I were crazy because she said that and we were like "geez do we need to go check into the hospital now?" Apparently, this is not that big a deal, it is just "getting things going".

Remember when Alianna was 6lb15oz when she was born and little Kendall is already approx 6lb14oz and we still have 3 weeks left! Yikes! When she told me that my eyes bugged out a bit, then she casually mentioned that they gain about a half a pound a week. My frantic brain did the calculations and realized that, baring that ultrasound being off, we are looking at about an 8 and a half pound boy come term. My sweet doc must have seen the look of terror on my face because she said we can have an elective induction after 39 weeks. That is the week of ArJay's birthday and I saw the look of glee in his face. Now, you'd think I'd jump on that bandwagon fast like, but after being induced with Alianna and doing 49 HOURS of labor, I'm not so excited about the whole induction thing.

BUT, it would be really nice to be able to schedule since I frequently have nightmares about going into labor while ArJay is at work and 2 hours away. Plus my last doctor got me thinking my birth canal can't really birth big babies and I might have to c section if he gets too big( but this doctor doesn't seems too concerned about that). Plus, I am already dilated and i was not at ALL last time which is what made it take so long. SO maybe it would go fast?

But what if it doesn't and I am there for 2 days again? Or what if the ultrasound is off and he ends up being tiny(won' t I feel dumb!)?

Just thought I'd share my crazy pregnancy ramblings that my poor husband has had to listen to for days. If anyone has an answer, feel free to share!