Blame it on Pregnancy

I made a mistake today. A big one. Big. But, it's not my fault. It's because I'm pregnant.

(I left about $9000 in a drawer at work.. unlocked.. and then went home. I'll be written up tomorrow.)

I burnt 3 of my fingers on a flat iron last week. It's because I'm pregnant.

I tell my mother the same things over and over again. It's because I'm pregnant.

I let Marshall go for weeks without any, and some days with more than enough. It's definitely because I'm pregnant.

I've bought so many clothes in the past 2 weeks. It's because I can't fit in any of my old clothes.. and I'm pregnant.

Enough with the excuses. But really.. being pregnant is a great excuse.

We've decided on how we want to decorate the nursery for the most part. Her bedding is the Crayon Collection from Bananafish, which we've already bought. Walls will be Yukon Gold. Marshall is highly considering cork flooring. His research justifies his decision and he'll be installing them. Whatever you want, Husband. And we'll also put up a beadboard wainscotting.

We're getting furniture from a family friend. Crib, dresser/changing table, chair and ottoman - all for only $250. And Momma's buying it. :) The sad news, we won't get everything until December or January. That means unfinished nursery until then. :(

And I will eventually get around to posting Hartley's most recent ultrasound pictures as soon as Marshall gets them out of his truck. I'm not procrastinating this time, it's Marshall.

Oh- before I forget. I started working with Maddie and Sassy months ago, preparing them for the baby. We would look and sniff baby clothes and toys a few times a week and I would say "baby" or "this is the baby's" over and over. Maddie lost interest. Sassy, however.. wow. She's a lot smarter than we thought. We've got a bag that has all of Hartley's things in it and when I ask Sassy "where's the baby?" she gets really excited, goes to the bag and looks in it. She amazes me.

the lab puppy thing.

Our dear friends the Downies went out of the town last weekend and had planned to board their puppy Callie. Why I spoke up and offered to keep her for a week, I have no idea.

I'm just a generous person, I guess.

We thought sweet Lola was a crazy black lab (mix), watch out. Callie is almost 9 months with bigger paws than Maddie. I'm not sure how much she weighs, but I would say at least 70 pounds. That's just a guess, I really don't know.

She's extremely powerful.. and so is her tail. Her manners aren't quite there yet, so jumping is an issue. So is yapping like a rat terrier. And scratching up our backdoor as she pleads (yelps) to come inside. Callie hasn't learned how to properly drink water either. She thrusts her head into a water bowl, with her mouth open, comes up and does not gulp. Thus causing water everywhere in the vicinity of the bowl. By day 4, she could only drink outside.

What was ruined? Grill cover, sprinkler, backdoor. This is all that we know of right now.

The Cold Hard Facts

1. I think my body grew between the hours of 8am and 4pm today. Especially the parts between my armpits and my hips.

2. Hartley enjoys sitting on my bladder.. a lot.

3. We can feel Hartley's body. She's knotty. It's strange.

4. I'm starving.

5. I'm excited about Hartley's (and our future children's) bedding that will be arriving any day now.

6. We're 20 weeks today. I can't believe we're halfway there.

7. Strangers notice I'm pregnant now. And can't believe I'm halfway there either.

8. I will never own or dogsit a purebred lab puppy again in my life.

9. I'd like to know where my husband is right now.

10. Because he has my dinner. And I won't repeat Number 4.

Slacker.

I've always been a procrastinator. I enjoy completing projects, don't get me wrong, but I take forever with starting and finishing them. And I neglect little things, like my poor blog. And my husband.

I should work on this before I have this child. I have new pictures of our little one, our little girl. But I haven't gotten around to getting them on the computer. Maybe tomorrow.. or the next week.

Exciting news for the Moore household...

We had our anatomy ultrasound last Thursday. Both of our mothers came and we had a good time watching the baby.. and mainly listening to the tech go on and on about how perfect, funny, cute, etc. the baby is. I love our ultrasound tech.. she always brightens my day.

Our first view of the baby.. the butt. It was clear. Girl! Momma and.. Mama.. had no idea what they were looking at and still have a hard time.. but the proud parents knew. Marshall even called it, I think in June.

So now, we can call her her. And we can also call her Hartley Caroline. Marshall called her Ms. Hartley the other day. That made me smile. I've even been pronouncing her name with a Southern drawl, like with Scarlett O'Hara. This is so much fun!


I've been slacking with taking pictures, imagine that. But my cameraman isn't the best, no offense Marshall. Anyway, Hartley Mo is a healthy 9oz with freakishly long legs. Those are from my side.. Marshall has surprisingly short legs. She didn't move around as much as I wanted her to. In the most recent ultrasound (July) she was doing gymnastics, but she didn't do anything this time. I was really wanting our mothers to see her being active. :(

Last Tuesday we started feeling her kick. Marshall came home from work and I was still napping away on the couch. Eventually I woke up and all of a sudden there was a huge thump in my stomach. Is that what I think it is? And then it happened two more times. I informed Marshall on what was going on and he put his hand on me.. she kicked for him, too! And that night before bed she kicked a few more times for us. Friday night she put on a real show. She started kicking on the right side, moved to the middle, over to the left and back to the right. Feels like a little fish swimming around in there. (Marshall wants her to be swimmer, too.)

Now I'm feeling little movements that only I can feel. And this morning she had a whole body spasm because it felt like my insides jumped.

I just think it's weird how suddenly I could feel her kicks. I started feeling little tickles in August and then out of the blue I felt a solid kick. We felt a knot the other night and Marshall decided to press on it really hard. I'm hoping it wasn't her face..

I'll try to get ultrasound pictures uploaded. I have a video, but it's at least 35 minutes long.. I don't think anyone wants to watch that.

No one ever told me..

There are many things I've learned the past few months about pregnancy.. that no one ever told me about.

Something I learned this week: my boobies now touch my stomach. I never thought this was possible. But then I found a sweat pocket in my upper rib cage.. why is this happening? Oh, my boobies are becoming even larger and I have this expanding stomach.. and they touch!

Do you know why God created constipation? So that women could practice pushing for labor. Really. At least that's what I'm thinking.

Nobody ever told me about pregnesia. No one told me that I would forget how to spell words, lose grocery lists, forget how to pronounce words, completely forget peoples' names.

I was never informed that my stomach would be hard as a rock when I woke up in the morning. Thank you, full bladder.

These are only a few, and I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a lot more. But what's new, right?