Shower Pictures

Here are the pictures from the Shower that Kathy and Dan threw us! Thanks so much everyone for coming!!


Real men come to Baby Showers, so says Dan.

The Hagen's and the Hellbusch's

We weren't ready for this one

Whitehead's and Hellbusch's

Whitehead's, Hellbusch's, and Hagen's (my side of the family)

Another of the family

Hellbusch's (Seth's side of the family)

Another Hellbusch shot

Mr. Squeaky and Mrs. Spendypants


Just kidding it's Baby Momma and Baby Daddy

Kathy, Evelynn, and I

Seth and I opening presents

Yay a playmat from Grandma!

A medical kit from Uncle Chet

One of her bed sets!

Everyone watching us open gifts

I'm really excited to open gifts

Yeah super excited

Baby Chuck's from Uncle Jesse!

Kathy (the hostess with the mostest)

Cool Uncle Jesse, Evelynn, and I

Heavy Baggage Blogger L'ara and I

The beautiful table!

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Hello blog world!
Look at me! On time at work, actually going to work a full day, and feeling good. Woot Woot!

Mrs. Spendypants
I told Seth that I needed to get Elizabeth Kostova who wrote “The Historian” new book “The Swan Thieves” (yes I Amazon linked all those for you!) since I didn’t it win it in two contests online, I mean I tried to get it for free! Anyway he asked if we could wait until it went on clearance and I was like, no, it’s a great book. And then he got all bent out of shape because he knew I really liked “the Historian” and he was eager to read it and I lent it to my Mom and it has disappeared. So he was all bent out of shape about not getting to read it, and he wasn’t about to let me read another awesome book and then give it away. So I started whining about it and he said “Listen here Mrs. Spendypants, you are going to get a budget if you aren’t careful!” and then I laughed because he called me Spendypants.

Sale! Sale!
I can’t believe it, Target is trying to kill me. All of our registry stuff (okay most of it) is randomly on sale. I emailed my Mom to tell her that if she knew anyone or if she wanted to get stuff off of it, now is the time. Weird. Hopefully it last past the shower so if I get gift cards I can use them. Mrs. Spendypants is very excited at the prospect.

Of course
When I quit American Idol, the guest judge is Neil Patrick Harris. GAH! Damn you Idol! I totally pouted about it for like three minutes this morning when I found out.

Mel
Mel at work is great, Mel is short Melanie by the way, and she is awesome. She just tied my shoe for me. And she bought Evelynn the cutest baby Gap clothes ever. Tiny hats and little jean skirts and jeans. So cute.

Shower!
I’m so excited for the shower this weekend. I can’t even tell you. I’m getting my hair cleaned up on Friday with my Mom and Seth says I can go buy the party dress, so it should be a great time. I’m excited to see everyone.

Target! *angry fist shake*
I just got an email from Target that reads thusly- “Dear Carrie and Seth, We wanted to let you know right away that some of the items on your registry are no longer available or have very limited quantities. But don't worry—we've got you covered. Chances are these items were seasonal, or they've been replaced with the latest and greatest styles you'll love even more.” And then it goes on to list 15 of my items. I like how they are like, don’t worry! We have better junk for you to buy, your taste is old. You are already behind the times, never mind you have planned your nursery around what you picked out and have already painted and bought matching recliner covers. Fuckers.

What the heck blackberry?!!?
For some reason, be it blackberry or facebook, but my facebook app has been junky for the last two days and is not working. It will alert me that I have messages on facebook but it won’t let me see them. It’s driving me effing bananas. Get it straight.

Meetings Meetings everywhere
So I’ve already have had two meetings this morning and I have two more this afternoon. Yikes. Things are shaking up out here. I knew I should have slept in!

Mrs. Spendypants out
Alright I’d better get ready for these meetings. Hope you all have a good day!

Love (for Target to quit jerking my baby registry around),
Carrie

Afternoon ramblings...

Random thoughts for the afternoon

I need to eat lunch, but I’m nauseous and I really don’t want to barf in my work trash can. Or even dry heave at that. I don’t want to be “that girl”.
All of the sudden, for some random reason, Word 2007 has changed my standard settings for when I open a new document. It is really pissing me off. I hate Word 2007. I think I’ve officially lost a skill on my resume because of it. I used to know Word inside and outside and upside down and now I can’t even fucking find where I turn off the spaces between lines. And what happened to the drop down menus? Were they so bad? No, they weren’t. What’s bad are these new tool bar buttons. Do you know it took me 45 minutes to create a Table of Contents the other day? It used to take me two minutes. I spent 35 of those minutes hunting for the button to even create a TOC.
I miss my Mom and Dad. I know they aren’t that far away, but the fact that they aren’t in their house and aren’t there if I want to drop in or if I have an emergency really freaks me out. Like when I was sick I was secretly willing someone to bring me soup and I would have called my Mom and dropped a hint but she is in Syracuse.
I was all excited because I will miss a boring all department meeting on Friday for my PT appointment but they moved the meeting to Thursday to accommodate someone’s retirement party, which was scheduled for Friday. So now instead of missing two hours of boring stuff, half which I don’t understand and trying to decide when the best time to take a bathroom break is, I will miss cake and ice cream. Damn.
My boobs are seriously bothering me. The nipples are uber sensitive and it is making me sick to my stomach every time I move and they rub on my bra. I just want to walk around with my hands over top my boobs to stop them from moving. Also there was a point when I thought they were super awesome because they were huge but now my belly sticks out farther than my boobs and wins the “huge” category of things on my body, and they just look small again. And they leak strange stuff that crusty’s on my bra’s and freaks me out. And my nipples are huge. I know this is way too much TMI for you, but seriously, all my ladies out there getting ready to make babies. You should know what you are getting into. Giant boobs that hurt your back and leak stuff and nipples that turn dark colors and imitate pepperoni. True story.
I am so mad at Target. I just realized over half the stuff on my registry is online only. No one wants to buy you presents from your registry online. They want to go the day before or the day of the shower, pick the stuff up and be done with it. They don’t want to pay extra for shipping and have to plan in advance to get you something. Trust I know, I’ve shopped off of many registries. And unless the party is in another state, I’m going to the store. Target tricked me. It gave me all these super cool options online and me, thinking they would be in the store too got it all, and now my registry is a mess and I’m either going to end up with weird gifts I can’t take back or a boatload of gift cards, which is totally okay, I’m grateful for any gift I get, but I’m really mad at Target for making me seem difficult to people.
Speaking of gift cards, Seth and I have over 175 dollars to Best Buy still. We never buy anything at Best Buy (so overpriced) and we don’t know what to do with them. I wish they would just let us sell them back to Best Buy.
I gave up on Human Target. I just couldn’t do it. It was too much bang boom and not enough listen to the really hot guy say interesting stuff, or listen to Chi McBride make great jokes. I am however totally into Life Unexpected even though they cut Kate’s hair from the pilot which I HATE and it runs into my Heroes/Big Bang Theory taping so I have to tape it on Wednesday nights when it repeats.
I’m about to give up on Heroes. Lord what is going on. I don’t even want to watch anymore. And Num3rs too. I asked Seth twice this weekend if we could just delete the three hours’ worth of Numb3rs we have on the DVR because I didn’t want to watch them.
In greater TV news-HOW ABOUT CASTLE? What a great show, if you aren’t watching it, get to it, because you are missing one of the better written shows out there and the acting is phenomenal.
Why do all the little girl bibs have at least one bib in the set that says “I love my Mommy” why aren’t there any that say “I love my Daddy” in the set? It seems wrong.
I tried to eat lunch and I feel like vomiting.
My facebook status currently reads “that new Black Eyed Peas song ‘Imma be’ confuses me because I think they are saying ‘Applebees’”
I hate all facebook apps, games, and anything that requires me reading the same crap about how you saved a fish or what social interview question you answered. Unless the question is about me, then I’ll read it.
My husband has not made it to work this week until around 9am. I envy him. If I could I would do that every day. I totally want to give him hell about it, but then I remember in 45 days neither of us will be sleeping much or making it anywhere on time.
My mom called me a couple days ago and said “after Evelynn’s born I want to have a Sip and See” except she said it really fast and I thought she was telling me she was having more surgery. I was like “What part of your body do you get a sipnsee on?” I was watching Grey’s at the time, in my defense. And they say weird things like that all the time, like whipple and humptyback and stuff like that.
For those of you wondering, a “Sip and See” is where you invite your friends over to see the baby and sip tea (or beer and wine in my family’s case). It’s a southern thing, my Mom’s friend Pam, who is the most awesome Southern Lady I know gave her the idea.
Of course she wanted to have it in April, but we are so jam packed in April its unreal. We have two weddings (Holly and Ty’s and darling jenifriend and Jeremy’s), we would like to do the baptism in April since my husband is channeling his father and thinks the baby will spontaneously combust if we don’t baptize her three seconds after she is born, and I think Easter is in April this year.
And the month of May my mom will be off traveling Europe with my Aunt and Grandma (SO JEALOUS) so May is out.
The summer will fly by, I’m sure of it.
I don’t know how to feel about maternity pants. I keep going into the bathroom and trying to unbutton my pants and then flipping out because I think I’m trapped in my pants. Then I have to pull them down like sweatpants and I feel like an old lady.
I almost bought old lady jeans the other day because they had an elastic band and it seemed like a great idea, but they only came in stonewash and true blue jean so I didn’t get them. I don’t think anyone would have let me live it down if I bought jeans with an elastic waist.
You know I was one of those girls, who always liked being put together. I liked being overdressed for things and wearing too much make up. (I never had the ability to overdo my hair) I always told myself growing up that I was never going to be one of those wives or mom’s who let themselves go. My mom surely didn’t. Then I got pregnant. Now my husband is lucky if he doesn’t see me in sweatpants and an oversized tee shirt. I quit wearing makeup 7 months ago. I pull my hair into a ponytail most of the time. I do get dressed for work in the morning, but would totally wear sweatpants if they let me. I even quit wearing anything but tennis shoes. Dude I used to blow people away with my shoes. I looked at them longingly them other day. Bright red open toed pumps, banana yellow pumps, PURPLE POINTED PUMPS. I miss them.
Speaking of feet, last night, for the first time ever, my husband complied with my request to rub lotion on my feet. My husband hates feet. But after seeing some guy do it on Baby Story for his wife it looked so good. And I have a hard time reaching my feet these days. So I asked, meekly and without demand while he was doing his homework, if he had a second , could he please come help me rub lotion on my feet, when he had a second of course. Then I went back to the bedroom and waited. He trudged in and asked me which lotion and rubbed it on there and went back to homework. I almost died of shock. Granted I was looking for more of a foot rub and he was just getting my lotion on there, but the minute it took him to do it I was in HEAVEN.
Yesterday, to celebrate the fact that I had NOT spent the day on the bathroom floor, I made Seth a lovely steak with mushrooms cooked in white wine garlic reduction. Then once the mushrooms were cooked I added “cream” (okay sour cream because I was out of cream but it’s the same damn thing). I was so proud of me. Seth walked into the house and goes “WHAT STINKS IN HERE?” Then I was instantly mad at him for the next hour. Even when he made me a grilled cheese.
I miss Conan.
When I watch Evelynn move around in my stomach it is so cool, but it also freaks me out at the same time. Sometimes she does this thing where it feels like she is having a seizure in there and then I freak out and panic for the next 90 minutes until she starts moving normally. I also will wait for her to move around and get comfy after I get up and pee one of 20 times in the middle of the night. If she doesn’t do it immediately I sit there and panic. I may never sleep again once she is born. I’m already trying to find out if it’s legal for Seth to implant a GPS chip in her.
Dude, is it time to go home yet? The first day back after more than 2 days off are the hardest.
Do you ever think back to people in your life from ages ago and wonder what they are doing? I used to work at a high end Disney store at the mall (that is now an Abercrombie and Fitch) and the owner was bat shit crazy. To this day I wonder if she finally snapped or if she is still hocking Disney statues for 400 bucks a pop.
I still love Disney Movies though, I collect them on DVD for Evie. She is going to LOVE Sword in the Stone like me, I know it. Who am I kidding, she is going to love Sleeping Beauty and all the Princesses.
One Disney movie I abhor is Lilo and Stich, I will never show that to my daughter, unless I want to show her how to be a horrible insufferable brat.
I hate when my husband asks me if he can call me back, when I call him at work. I want to be like, no you can’t. Mostly because I know he will forget and I will call him back an hour later and he will be like, oh yeah and by then I will have forgotten what I called him for.
Rubbing my pregnant belly feels really good, unless I hit my belly button, then I feel sick.
Okay I’ve killed enough time, off to internet stalk random things.
Love (that you all are here to listen to the crazy lady),
Carrie

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Hi blog world!
I made it off my bathroom floor. Did you miss me? The whiny pregnant lady? Well I missed you. I thought of all sorts of things to tell you, but unfortunately, Bagheera, my nursemaid, just stared at me blankly when I asked him to get me the laptop so I could write you. He’s such a hard ass nurse.

The past weekend
We had such a busy weekend, I think that was half the reason I was so rundown. Friday I had my physical therapy appointment which was HEAVEN. Ladies, if you are pregnant and your back is killing you, I highly recommend asking your doctor about seeing a Physical Therapist. I only wish I had started seeing her sooner and not been in misery so long. Pregnancy really changes your spine, you have no idea, plus it releases this hormone that makes things all loosey goosey (so your pelvic muscles part like the red sea) and things get so out of whack. Most insurance will cover these visits since it will help prevent you from having back problems later in life and help with an easier delivery. Also someone will massage you for at least thirty minutes and you don’t have to pay them 65 bucks. Anyway, Seth got home super late and I cleaned the heck out of the house. Then we had to go to Walmart where we spent an hour trying to decide if we wanted curtains or not, we decided to hold out for Target (only later to discover the ones we bought don’t fit lengthwise) and then we ate Pepperjax and went to bed.
Saturday was my Grandpa’s 82nd birthday party. I was starting to feel nauseous a lot and tired. We rode to the party with Jesse and Kathy which was fun. And the party itself was really nice, much to our ridicule on the way down about having a party at the Sleep Inn. It was nice to see my Dad’s side of the family who I don’t see that often. My cousin Angie has a one year old with fire red hair and I kept telling Seth that was what Evie would look like. It made me excited. Angie’s little girl was so cute and was wearing the cutest little outfit.
We left the party first (of course) because I started feeling like dump. We went home and I literally took a three hour nap. I woke up just in time to pull on some pants and head over to my parents to pick up my Dad for the car show. Seth, Dad, and I went. It was a lot smaller this year, more vendors than cars it seemed like. But they had the batmobile and the bumblebee camero both which were fun to see. My dad and I have been going to the car show every year since we lived in Omaha, which I like 10 years or something. Wow. After that we grabbed dinner at China Road (which I had been craving FOREVER) and headed home. Seth and I watched a couple DVR shows and went to bed.
Sunday we woke up and headed over to my parents where I took a spa bath in my mom’s spa bathroom and Seth and my Dad worked on projects for Evie. My Dad made her these for me to paint and put above her crib:

How freaking cute are they? I cried a little when I saw them because they are so perfect and beautiful. I have them laid out on my table with the paint next to them. I am afraid I’m going to jack them up, I really have zero creativity skills. I should call my friend Jason over and have him paint them for her, since he is the only artist I really know. Seth worked on the armoire and I have my fingers crossed that he might actually get it done! He is taking Friday off to go work on it and has plans with my Dad to finish it up Sunday. If they get it done, when Seth goes to visit his parents in February he can have them put the stain on it and then it will be done!
The church brought over lunch for my mom (she is still in recovery) so we had that and I cleaned up and straightened things up for her. I know how it makes me crazy and I’m sure it makes her crazy too to have your house a mess and you can’t do a thing about it. After that Seth and I went home. I really started to feel like dump then. I ended the night on the bathroom floor vomiting. And that’s basically how I’ve been for the last two days. I came back to work because if you are gone three days, they make you bring a doctor’s note and I didn’t want to bother my doctor since all the baby books say this happens sometimes. They already think I’m crazy and a pregnant hypochondriac. I was going to call Tuesday if I still couldn’t keep anything down (like Monday) but ate some small meals and was able to keep them down pretty well. Tuesday I only vomited to make myself feel better after I ate a too heavy lunch. I’ve been trying to be really careful about not eating too much or too heavy. I’m not hungry at all, so that helps. Anyway on top of that Monday I had the worst throbbing headache. It felt like my pulse was racing and my heart was racing and my temples were going to bust out of my head. Seth thinks I was dehydrated. Then Tuesday morning I had an allergy attack and thank goodness that was the day I started keeping stuff down, because if I hadn’t been able to take my allergy meds, who knows what would have happened. So yeah, as usual, worse pregnant lady ever.

My sweet kitties
Like they always do, Bagheera and Willow took turns nursing me. Bagheera spent all day on the bathroom floor with me Monday. At one point I went downstairs to get a fresh towel and he followed me down the stairs and stood on the bottom set and screeched at me. I like to think he was saying, “LAY BACK DOWN, YOU ARE SICK!” Willow was pretty indifferent Monday, coming into the bathroom every now and then to check on Bags and me, hanging out in the bathtub and making noise. Then Tuesday when I was located more in the bed, Willow came and cuddled up with me and slept with me most of the day. So that was sweet. They really all the best Bengals ever. You should be jealous. Here are some pictures I took of them being cute Saturday night:


New clothes!
So I have the greatest parents ever, as if you didn’t know that already and weren’t uber jealous. Sunday when we went over to their house they took me into their bedroom and surprised me with three new maternity outfits. As you know I have been anti maternity wear just because it’s so freaking expensive I could hardly afford it. They bought me two outfits I would consider work outfits (black and brown corduroy pants and a red and a cream sweater) and a shower outfit (fancy grey dress pants and a cute grey and white shirt) and two maternity tanks. I was so moved and excited. I’m wearing the black pants and red sweater today! I love my parents so much. My mom even hemmed the tan pants for me because they were a little too long. They are going to make the best grandparents ever. Seriously.

This weekend
I’m sad to report that my maternity session with darling friend jenifriend got put on hold because her “day job” sent her to Dallas for two weeks. At first I was sad, but then I realized this was a huge blessing in disguise because I haven’t seen Jeni in 12 years and this weekend would have been so hectic and we wouldn’t have gotten the time together that we deserve, that our friendship deserves. We counted it a blessing from God and have decided to reschedule in February. But even if we don’t make the maternity photos happen, I am SUPER excited about newborn photos, those are the ones I want the most. And I think it’s such a blessing to have a friend who is a photographer whose style I love. I can’t wait to see her again!
I’m also VERY excited for my first baby shower on Saturday at Kathy’s (at one o’clock for the family and friends reading). She has been working super hard on the whole thing, and I am really grateful to her for that. She is going to make a wonderful Aunt and Godmother. Her life has been pretty stressful of late with work and family stuff, but she is still managing to make this shower happen and I know it will be classy and great, like everything she does. I’m also excited to see friends and family!

Baby Evelynn
Things have been going great in her world. She makes being nauseous even less fun because she kicks around and hates the squeezing when I have to heave. And she doesn’t like laying on tile floor one bit. I know I’m going to go back to the Physical Therapist and she’s going to be like, WHAT DID YOU DO?? Other than that, she has been super active. Yesterday a dead baby Grey’s Anatomy came on and I had to turn it off, but I am happy to report, that I successfully can watch Baby Story now all the way thru, even the birth part and not freak out.
Better get truckin’
Alright friends, if I think of some of the fantastic things my stomach and Baggy kept me from telling you yesterday I will write again this afternoon!
Love (to not be on the bathroom floor today),
Carrie

Still alive! Still hugely pregnant!

Hi Friends,
I finally made it off the bathroom floor to tell you all I've had a wicked stomach bug the past couple days. I hope to be back at work tomorrow!
I'll recount all the fun for you then!
Love (to not throw up),
Carrie

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Yay Friday! Hooray!

Am I the only one?
Am I the only person who, when stuck behind a garbage truck in my neighborhood looks in the truck to see what my neighbors are throwing away? The problem with my neighborhood is that while we are technically an Omaha address, we are actually in Sarpy County, we are what’s called a SID (I have no idea what that means). Anyway that means we are not covered by Omaha city services like snowplowing (thank God) and trash pickup (which these days, thank God too.) But that also means we have to pay for our trash service, and there are like six you can pick from in the Omaha area. So on various days of the week, there will be trash pick up, usually every day but Sunday and Saturday. So I see the back end of a lot of garbage trucks.
This morning someone threw away a bunch of Walmart brand popsicles. Also what looked to be some kind of plastic thing, and canned air. I like to imagine what kind of lives these people lead. Do they huff the canned air, eat a bunch of Walmart popsicles and break all the plastic tray’s in their house? It’s a fun game for the morning drive. Don’t judge me.

Last night’s TV
Last night I watched Ugly Betty, which was really sad because once again, TV is out to get me and Hilda’s baby doesn’t have a heartbeat. I totally remember that moment. I cried like it was yesterday for me.
Then I watched Human Target, I think that show has one more strike and then it’s out. Even though I just figured out the guy who plays the weird tekkie connections guy is the same guy from Watchmen, Rorschach. The cast is good, the writing is just terrible. And I’m one of those people who if I’m watching some kind of “action” by myself, I fast forward thru the karate chopping and the punching to get to the end faster.
After that I watched Bones which was actually a really good episode. Felt like the old Bones from Season 2 or 3, before things started to get all weird. I liked what Hodgins said to Angela, and I liked that they were working on JFK.
I didn’t watch Grey’s because my husband has class Thursday nights, and even though he proclaims to hate most things about Grey’s (Meredith for one), he still gets bent out of shape if I watch it without him. So I don’t. At least I try not to. It’s not my fault if that is what the channel is on and I watch until the commercial break.

This weekend
Man our weekend is busy, but hopefully it will be relaxing as well. Tonite we need to swing by Walmart and get a couple things. Then we need to go to Dollar General to get my Grandpa some sweatpants for his birthday (I have NO idea why they have to be Dollar General sweatpants, but he’s lived a long life and if that is what he wants, then I’ll get it). I have to make Summer Pasta Salad for his birthday party on Saturday. We also have to watch Grey’s and eat dinner somewhere in there.
Saturday we have my Grandpa’s 82nd birthday party in Syracuse. Kathy and Jesse are riding with us. Then we are coming back home.
Sunday my Mom will be back in town so we are going to do lunch over there and drop off the snowblower and Evie’s armoire. At some point we need to go to Target and get the refill on my test strips.

Next weekend
I am so excited for next weekend I can’t even tell you. Darling Friend jenifriend is coming to take my maternity pictures and family pictures. I haven’t seen her in like 12 years! Since we were in 10th grade! Kathy’s shower is on Saturday and I’m super jazzed for that. She has been working really hard on it and I know it’s going to be a great time.

Alright friends!
I’d better get to work, I have a PT appointment today at 2, so I’d better get some stuff done!
Hope you all have an amazing love filled weekend!

Love (randomly checking my registry now that invites are out),
Carrie

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Hi All!
So I don’t have anything uber interesting today.

Evelynn’s blog
Evelynn’s doctor’s appointment went well. When we asked the doctor what position she was in (she has been head down since week 30) and Dr. Karen started feeling around, and it was taking entirely too long and the doctor was making a strange face, so I started panicking and I asked what was going on and she said that she was having trouble telling her head from her “lumpy little butt”. So then I posted on facebook that the Dr. told us our daughter had a “lumpy little butt” and she must have gotten it from her Dad, because no one has ever described my butt as little. Ha.
A friend informed me they recalled some Graco strollers, the same brand as our travel system, but I checked and as far as I can tell, our stroller isn’t in the recall. Phew!

TV
Last night we watched Big Bang Theory, which was hilarious. The Nebraska references always crack me up. And then we watched Castle, which was GREAT, even though this episode wasn’t all jokey and was serious, they still managed to get in a few giggles and you didn’t feel guilty. Then we watched Heroes, which was meh. I kind of wish they would either kill that show or get some new writers because it’s getting old and hard to watch. Claire’s a college lesbian now? I mean come on.
Then I watched American Idol and I was so excited because Kristin Chenowith was the guest judge!! But then I was sad because they only had her for one of the two days in Orlando. They should have her always. And let her sing, a lot.

My pregnancy in review
Okay so here is a survey someone sent to me that I thought I would do for fun since I have nothing of substance for you today. I’ll answer what I can:
Your name? Carrie
Father’s name? Seth
Are you still with him? Yes, I can’t believe he stuck around thru this crazy
Were you trying to get pregnant? Yes, but we were told by modern science that it wasn’t possible without help
When are you due? March 13th, 2010
When did you find out? July 6th, 2009
Where did you find out? At home, at six in the morning before I went to work
How far along were you? About 4 weeks
What was your reaction? Shocked, speechless, Seth wouldn’t believe it until we took a blood test at our fertility clinic
Who was the first person you told? Seth, and then I called my parents
How did you tell the father? He was standing right there with me.
What was his reaction? Let’s not get too excited, let’s wait until we take a blood test at the doctor’s office
Did you have any morning sickness? Hell yeah. I threw up constantly, usually because of my favorite foods. Most of the time I just threw up to make my stomach feel better. Not because I absolutely had to.
Cravings? Not so much, they got worse as I progressed in the pregnancy, but they have seemed to multiple since most of the foods that I can’t eat (because of the diabetes) I want now more than ever.
Food Aversions? Um…in the beginning pickles made me vomit on cue.
Worst pregnancy symptoms? The heartburn, the ab separation, the back pain, leg numbness, the fatigue.
Funniest pregnancy moment? Probably just the random comments I get from people, and the inappropriate questions.
Favorite pregnancy moment? When Seth felt her move for the first time, his face was just heart melting
Worst pregnancy moment? Probably when we went in at 7 weeks to hear the heartbeat and they couldn’t find it and tried to get us to do a D&C.
Awkward stranger moment? The lady who told me she would adopt my baby and raise it in a Christian home.
How has the father been through this? Amazing, patient, caring, and super excited.
Does baby like music? She LOVES One Republic, and anything with a good beat. Like her Momma.
Stretch marks? None yet, but I’m sure they are coming, my mom had them. I’ve been buttering up my skin every second I can. Which is really awkward at work by the way.
Hardest part of pregnancy? Actually being pregnant. I thought it would be a cakewalk and it so isn’t.
What are your fears? That she’s going to come out messed up or just be someone I can’t handle or love.
What are you most happy about? A baby! And the first baby in both our families so you know she is going to be spoiled.
Did you want a boy or girl? I wanted a boy, but I’ve very much warmed to the idea of a little girl.
What did the father want boy or girl? He just wanted a healthy baby.
Do you have a name picked out? Evelynn Ann. I told Seth we need to get a boy name just in case but we can’t come to agreement at all.
How much weight have you gained? 23 pounds
Have you felt the baby move? That’s all she does, in fact I get worried when she doesn’t move!
Are you keeping the baby? Um…yeah. Weird question.
Do you plan on a natural or medicated birth? DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS. In fact if they can just put me to sleep and wake me up when it’s over, I’m down with that
Are you scared about labor? The fact that I have to push this child out of my vagina.
What do you think will be the worst part of labor? The pain, and the afterwards part now with the tearing and the giant pads and the squirt bottles
Have you taken any classes? Have you been reading this blog?
Who will be in the delivery room? Seth and my parents
Are you having the birth videotaped? Absolutely not, why would anyone want my lady bits on video?
Do you think you will cry when you see the baby for the first time? Yes, probably because I won’t believe I actually did it.
What do you think the fathers reaction to the baby will be? I’m not sure, I think he will probably cry, but I don’t know. I didn’t think he would cry at our wedding and he did.
How do you think family and friends will feel? They are so excited, sometimes I think they are more excited than me, but they don’t have to worry about pushing her out, so…Ha.

OH MY GOSH
So Seth finished painting my bathroom cabinets last night. My guest bathroom is like 75% fully remodeled. This weekend (he’s already started painting) he’s going to put the trim back on and then the only thing that bathroom needs is a new sink basin and light fixture. I can’t believe it.
Here are some pictures:

The medicine cabinet

The big cabinet

Both cabinets

Cabinet and vanity

Better shot of the big cabinet

PS the Seagrass baskets I have for magazines and random bathroom junk are from walmart in the bathroom fixtures section. I KNOW, who knew?

Alright off to work
I’d better keep my trainee out of the cookie jar today. I leave you with this adorable picture of Bagheera sleeping on Willow last night. Awww…Bengals Cats.


Love (for it to be the end of February already),
Carrie

Ice, Ice Baby

Hi All,
They had more ice up north where I work than down here, Seth thought it would be a good idea if I stayed home, me too.
But then he went to work so I pouted.
Then the cats, who normally would not leave my side if I was home, abandoned me to start practicing their Ultimate Fighting moves.
Now it is time for our doctor's appointment, which we will be late for because my husband is picking me up and he is perpetually late.
And now the cats are mad at me because they both keep trying to get in my lap for love and as soon as they try to lay down and rub their heads on my legs they fall off. And they are all claws all the way down. The doctor is going to look at my belly covered in fresh cat scratches and freak out.
Oh husband is here! Must run!
Tell you more later!
Love (when stay at home days include everyone in this family),
Carrie

This is why I love Anderson Cooper

Check out the story here-
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/18/anderson-in-the-midst-of-looting-chaos/
Careful though, it's pretty graphic. Anderson saves a young boy from a looting riot.

Amazing.

Love (Anderson Cooper),
Carrie

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Hi all! Sorry I’m late today. You must forgive me. The weather around these parts is pretty craptacular and I hate driving so I was waiting for the fog to wear off, and as if a sign from God, I got a headache (I haven’t had one of those morning headaches since the second trimester!) and Seth slid thru two intersections on his way to work, so I was right to wait. At least in my head.
I probably won’t be in tomorrow since they are predicting ice all day and I have a doctor’s appointment in the afternoon when it is at its worse. So heads up there. Maybe I’ll take some pictures for you…or maybe I will finish my book!

TV
Last night we watched Chuck and I started watching Human Target. Chuck was really good, that show just gets better and better. The guest star though (the villain is usually the guest star) was Angie Harmon who I know and like from her Law and Order days. Although I have a problem with Angie from her makeup commercials that completely ruins her for me. One of her eyes is bigger than the other. The left one. It drives me nuts. I can hardly look at her face without screaming in my head, ONE GIANT EYE!!! I never would have noticed it if she hadn’t done those Neutrogena commercials or whatever they were. Oh and if Angie happens to google herself and stumbles across this post, I think you are a great actress-your giant eyeball just freaks me out. Sorry.
Human Target had Chi McBride in it, who I LOVE from Pushing Daises. (sniff, sniff, I miss that show) so I was all jazzed up about it. It also had some really hot guy whose name I don’t know. I watched about the first half hour and wasn’t impressed. Chi was the best part. So I don’t know if I’ll even finish it.

New TV
Yesterday on Google News there was an article by a woman who likened the new CW show “Life Unexpected” to “Gilmore Girls” (WHY ARE ALL THE GOOD SHOWS CANCELLED?!?!?) so I DVR’d that last night too. I haven’t watched it yet but I will let you know what I think. The lady said the pilot isn’t great but to give it a chance beyond the pilot. I have to get some new shows in my arsenal so I stop watching crap like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom and Tabitha’s Salon Makeover. As much as I love watching them (and they are always on repeat) I feel like my brain is rotting.

Top Blogger?
So I got an email today that a website named me a top blogger! Thanks to you all! Thank you so much for visiting and reading! Here is the site: http://www.feedjit.com/news/US/bertha-9/
I’m not sure what it means but it made me feel all warm and squishy-thanks so much!!

Blogstalking
I spent some time blogstalking yesterday around new Mommy blogs and I stumbled across one where a lady said that she wasn’t going to turn her TV on until her new baby was two. Holy Moley that woman has will power, good luck to her. I wonder if she is still paying for cable? I can’t even fathom not having cable, Seth threatens it all the time but I’m pretty sure cable being on is in our prenup. (No I don’t really have a prenup, but I’m pretty sure I made him promise before we got married)

My Momma
Thanks to everyone for your well wishes, prayers, and good thoughts sent to my mom. She is doing really good. She moved to my Grandma’s house on Sunday and sounds like she is really enjoying it. Last night I had to drop off a spare DVD player for her at the Bowling Alley where my Dad was for league night. She is being a trooper as long as she stays on her pain meds-you hear that Momma?? STAY ON THE MEDS!

Evie’s room
I’ve been trying (as you may have read) to get Evelynn’s room ready for pictures. It’s really hard because I am not the kind of person who likes to wait until the last minute to be ready for something big and life changing. I had most of my wedding planning stuff done two months ahead of time. If I know something big is coming, I like to take care of it and be ready for it as best I can. So it drives me NUTS that I don’t have all her stuff ready to go by now. And I’m super grateful for all the lovely people in my life who might buy me gifts for the shower, but dang it, I want it now! How awful is that? All because of my control freak nature. Luckily I have a husband who squeaks when he walks and won’t let me go buy everything. The whole Target putting my entire registry on clearance didn’t help either. Jerks.
So anyway yesterday I finally got around to picking, printing, and giving the block letters we are putting on the wall (of her name) above her crib, to my dad. Hopefully he can get those done by this weekend and I can get them painted and put up. Then at least I know that one wall is photogenic.

Speaking of maternity pictures…
I’m so excited for mine, I’ve been looking at other people’s on photographers websites. But okay, so here’s my qualm with that, why do people have to make their maternity pictures all sexy? Like why do you have to be naked holding your boobs, or not holding your boobs? Why would you take naked pictures of yourself pregnant and pose provocatively? I don’t get it. I don’t feel sexy AT ALL. Nor do I really want to. I’m about to be a Mom. I want fun pictures with laughing and love and I want them to convey the anticipation we have about her. I want to be able to show them to her and other people. I don’t want to be like, look everyone, look how sexy I was when I was a whale. It really weird’s me out and totally confuses me. Also the ones where the Mom and Dad are holding each other and pretend to be sleeping. Um, is that so you can look back and remember the times you got to sleep? I mean I know I’ve done a lot of sleeping during this pregnancy, but I don’t think it needs to be commemorated in my maternity pictures. You know what does need to be though? My hot pink sweatpants. Those need an awards ceremony and a national holiday. So yeah, all of the maternity pictures I’ve seen googling around the internet have really put me off. That’s why I know I have the best photographer because she totally gets what I want. Just look at her work. There is no naked pregnant lady sexy posing. At least, not that she’s put up anyway. And trust, I’m no prude, but if you are going to take naked pictures of me, take them when I actually look super sexy and thin and at my ideal best. This *points to giant stomach* is not my idea best. And definitely not sexy. You should hear some of the sounds that come out of me because of it.

Ice, Ice Baby
So tomorrow is more ice. That stinks. I was really making an effort to come to work every day this week. However, people are already saying at Seth’s work that they aren’t coming in, so maybe my hubby will be working from home and will be able to keep me company. Probably not, but a girl can dream right? They will probably also cancel my dr.’s appointment which I HATE. But what can you do, I do want my doctor to live until delivery and not die in an ice accident.

Okay better get trucking
I just caught my trainee stealing cookies out of a classroom I sent him into to retrieve some carts for updating. Lord help me. Dude is like 100 years old, he should know better. Seriously.

Love (getting things ready for Evelynn),
Carrie