Six Month Pictures are finally here!

This pregnancy is going so fast! And i'm getting SO huge. The amount i grew in this past month is ridiculous- but I only gained another 5 pounds? Making the grand ole total to 22. Feels more like 100, but I guess I'm right on track. Shaving my bikini line is practically impossible, my robe will last, maybe another month? My hair is getting LONG (and my roots are terrible!) Its pretty crazy how my body is changing with me having no control. My boobs are offically a size bigger, got them measured and everything. But you can't tell compared to my huge budda belly. Random people are asking me when I'm due, etc. A few people will just pat my belly with out asking, and someone gave me their spot in line for the bathroom! Now that was nice.... Baby is moving constantly. And there are times when I can tell what side the baby is on, and other people can feel! Very cool. I can actually picture Baby's little legs and arms moving when I feel the kicks.

Anyways, enough rambling. Here are my 6 months pics with my budda.........

And here is me pulling a Katie Holmes. Seriously looks like I have a basketball under my shirt! (Don't worry, I don't- it really is my budda). And the next day, in a different shirt, my belly seriously did not look as big. Hmm, guess Katie Holmes really WAS pregnant............

This weekend I went with my mother-in-law to Pottery Barn Kids and she bought us Baby's crib! So cute. So excited. Though I can't set it up till after the holiday's when we no longer have to use Baby's room as a guest room. My parents bought the matching dresser- yay! Now Baby is set for furniture. Woo- hoo! My friend Courtney works there, and it was the friends and family weekend so I got 20% off everything - double woo-hoo! I bought the What to expect the first year book. And we saw the cutest stuffed Dog- so soft, and reminded us both of Steve's childhood stuffed dog Ruffy. Steve took Ruffy everywhere, and slept with him at night. And he would always carry Ruffy around by the neck. So now, Ruffy no longer has a neck. Its more like a thread.............. So anywyas, we had to buy this stuffed dog and named him Ruffy Jr. Thanks Karen, for the crib AND Ruffy Jr. =)

Picuture of Ruffy and Ruffy Jr. I'm going to assume you all can tell which is Ruffy and which is Ruffy Jr.

And here's Steve demonstarting how he used to carry around Ruffy. I'm sure he'd kill me if he knew I posted this picture, but I think its cute. I need to find a picture of him when he was little with Ruffy- how cute would that scrapbook page be????
I'm gonna take pictures of Baby and Ruffy Jr. each month. So cute!!!

Ok, so those are my six months pictures. I'm scared to think of how big I'll be next month.....

Steve felt the baby move!!!!!
Saturday night while watching the Sopranos. I think i'm more excited that he is, but it's still very exciting! For some reason on the weekends the baby is WAY more active (probably due to the fact that i am WAY LESS active). And, baby goes crazy when Steve and I watch Sopranos. Funny. So yay, he felt the baby! He says it feels like I'm flexign a muscle. Obviously I have no muscle in my abs, so it must be the baby ;) But I"m super excited. And for him its another reminder. He doesn't think about baby 24/7 like I do (the whole baby growing inside me thing helps) so this was cool for him. So excited! But don't assume that I'll let just anyone touch my belly to try and feel the baby move. Thats going to have to wait till the baby's movements get way stronger.

(my friend kara took this pic this weekend. even though i look HUGE, i think its super cute. awwwwww. oh, and no negative comments on the uggs. i do believe uggs were made for pregnant women.......)

I registered at Pottery Barn Kids this weekend. SOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun. All the little baby things are sooooooooooo cute!!!!! It's kind of the "fun" registry, the only thing that the baby needs needs is the crib (and I know, it dones't have to be Pottery Barn Kids, but i think its so cute!!!!). My friend Courtney works there so she helped me register. I'm glad I don't know the sex of baby, cause otherwise I would have gone crazy!!!!! All the cute pink stuff, and all the cute blue stuff- omg. The also have so much cute green and yellow. They have this frog everywhere, so cute!!!! Anyways, I'll quit rambling. You can check out my registry here. Its so funny to be registering again only a year after our wedding! That was one of my favorite things to do when we were engaged. It felt like shopping but you didn't have to spend any money! We are going to register at Babys R Us and Target. We need to do a little more research on strollers/carseats/highchairs, etc, before we do that.

So I forgot to ad to the "perks"- everynight I wake up with my hand completely dead asleep. Numb. Like I have to pick it up with my other arm. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying!!!! It has to do with the circulation, and Baby's cozy pad is just chillin on one of the main veins or arteries so thats just going to happen. So of course I have to wake it UP, when all I want to be doing is sleeping. Grrrrrr. But seriously, there are the few things I must complain about- but all in all its sooooooooooo worth it times a bazillion. Its so amazing to have this little person growing inside of me. And today I discovered something amusing. While the fitness/dance teacher was here at my preschool, we did the "twist." Classic dance move, right? Well, normally you don't see your belly move when you do the twist. But when its all budda-ed out, its hysterical! I would be twisting my upper body one way, and my belly was going the other way. I was cracking up. Maybe you had to be there, but hey- there's a REAL perk for ya!
Hope you all have a fabulous week, and remember that next weekend I'm taking the 6 months pics!

Pregnancy Perks
oh yes, there are some other fun perks of pregnancy- besides just being pregnant (and i'm not being sarcastic, being pregnant has been pretty easy and fab so far......)
you get to wear the most stylish belt ever if you're as lucky as me to have a huge budda belly

oh yeah. dead sexy. get to strap this bad boy on every day.
on monday i was getting cramps in my back (like period cramps), so i called the doctor and the nurse told me i was probably dehydrated (which i told her i wasnt', i drink tons of water, but she said thats what all pregnant women say. grrrrrrrrr) so to take tylenol, drink lots of water and rest. she also said it could be because of picking up all the kids so i need to get a pregnancy belh. sexy. anyway, it was nap time, so i popped some tylenol, drank a huge glass of water, and lay down w/the kids. the cramps went away, but then my stomach started to cramp REALLY bad. so i called again and she todl em the same thing, and if it didn't go away i had to go to the hospital!!!! ok- not the most reassuring thing to hear. it was almost 4, so i called steve and left a message asking him to come right home so that i could just rest. i was fine about everything till steve called back, and then i started to cry : ( my assistant told me to just go lie down cause we only had a few kids, so thats what i did. but it was scary! the stomach cramping did go away, and i was on dr's orders to rest for the rest of the evening- so i had steve make dinner (i had it alreayd planned, a pretty easy dinner) and he went and picked up this sexy belt for me. Actually, he picked up a different one, but it dind't do anything so a mom at my preschool bought me that sexy one. and it does work. but its annoying. i'm not going to wear it everyday, cause i don't want my back to get weak. so i'll just wear when i want to feel supa cute ;)

Another perk? Heart burn. Yes, and I have been hit hard with HEARTBURN. like bad. had to sleep basically sitting up last night. it SUCKED. no more tomatoe sauces for me! which is a bummer, cause i love tomatoe sauce....... And there isn't much I can do about it. My mom has told me that was her only real pregnany "complaint." So yeah, guess I've been off too easy so far with no morning sickness, so now I get to enjoy the heart burn. oh dear.

Bradley class was good this week. learned all about the nutrition you need when you're pregnant. I'm doing pretty good, but i want to get more protein. you need 80 - 100 grams per day! especially in the 8th month when the brain is developing. so i've been working on that. but they also talk about how it doens't matter how much you gain, as long as its quality food you're eating. and how every woman is different. so that was refreshing to hear, and i don't feel so bad. i just have a huge HEALTHY baby growing in my budda ;)

And I have to say a HUGE thank you to my bloggin friends Darcy and Niki who put together the CUTEST fall/baby package for me!!!!! So much cute baby stuff, and these fall candles that smell sooooooooooooooooooooo good- they even sent me some of their pretty fall leaves! (Yeah, here in southern cali it pretty much stays green or brown all year. nothing very exciting about that.....) So thanks again girls- made my week!!!!

Thats pretty much it. so glad its thursday already!!!!! can't wait for the weekend. the heart burn seriously sucks though. anyone have any suggestions????

Cutest. Jacket. EVER

Seriously, how cute is this little jacket? I about died when i saw it. Steve laughed and said i was actually "gushing." but seriously- sooooooooooooo freakin cute! and its sooooo soft. and its ok for boy OR girl. So we bought it. :) Very happy about the purchase. I know we dont' need to get that many baby clothes cause we'll get lots of clothes as gifts (thats what i've been told anyway) AND we dont' know the sex of the baby (and there is only so much green and yellow a baby can handle.......) but i had to get this coat. SO freakin cute. And i had a coupon of $10 off if we spent $40, so i had steve pick something else out. he was so lost. he had no idea where or what to look at. the sizes confused the whatever out of him, then the whole neutral thing. but it was cute. he got Baby little jammie jams. very cute. but i have a feeling i'll be doing most of Baby's wordrobe shopping (who am i kidding? like that was ever a question......)

So, like i said in my Bradley Class I was the biggest preggo belly by far. Then yesterday in my yoga class there is this woman next to me, about the same size. At the end of class she asks when I"m due- and I say "February 6." I ask her when she's due "In 3 weeks" are you freakin serious???? i'm like some freakishly huge pregnant lady. and it really is all my belly, its no where else- i swear! Starting to get scared that Baby is going to be HUGE. and i'm scared of how huge i'm gonna get............. But i have seen other women who are humongoid as well, so I know i'm not alone. My mom said she was always really big too, so I guess it runs in the family..... And I'm still being a told "at least you don't look pregnant from behind." Whatever that means. Remember, two more weeks till the next picture. And two weeks- yeah, I can grow a LOT in that short period. So brace yourselves................

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend- I had a kickback, relaxign weekend. Trying to get as many of those in before Baby arrives..............

Dr. Bradley I presume?
So Steve and I went to our first birthing class last night. We chose a Bradley Method class. Since I want to do an all natural birth (no drugs, thank you very much) this is pretty much the perfect class. Here's a little backround on Dr. Bradley: He was a obgyn back in the 40's and 50's, probably some 60's too. He was the Doctor that first realized how important it was to have the father/husband in the labor and delivery room. Did you know it used to be illegal for a man to be in the room when his wife was giving birth? Crazy. Didn't become legal till the 70's!!!!! Anyways, major brownie points for Dr. Bradley there. He also made it new practice to have the women walk in early labor (gravity helps the baby into the correct position for birth. walking = faster labor = very good). He also is the Dr. who realized that woman do not need to be knocked out to delivery baby, and in fact- the drugs could be dangerous for both baby and mother (the rate of mother's dying in delivery was very high back then, mostly because of the drugs they used and unnecessary procedures). He started the whole "natural" craze, and its just now really starting to catch on. I'm not going to ramble on why I'm choosing natural. I have nothing against the drugs, I just don't want to use them. My body is made to birth babies. I can deal with the pain. It'll probably suck during labor, but it'll be more than worth it in the end ; )

Anyways, onto the class. So there are a total of 3 couples, my due date is smack in the middle. And i'm by far the biggest chick in the class. The only obvious pregnant one. And the least obvious? She's due more than a month before me! Dude, why am I so huge? Seriously, in the past 2 weeks i've totally freakin popped. like random people are now asking when the baby is due. These two nannies i see often at the park that i take my preschoolers to noticed today, and were all excited for me. Well, at least no one has told me I look way too big for where I am. And actually, all the mom's I've talked to say this is where they suddenly looked pregnant too. And I'm just gonna get bigger.........
So yeah, so far i'm really excited about the class. 2 months, once a week. We'll be so ready for baby when we're done!!!!

And now for another gross fact about pregnancy. My boobs leak. Um, ew? It was just one, and just a little bit, but still- its pretty early for any leakage and i totally freaked out. Steve thought it was hysterical, once again. Thanks Steve. But he made up for it by getting me a prenatal massage (thats tonight). SCORE. i'm ver very very excited about that..................... have a fabulous rest of the week!!!!

last night i was asked if i was scared about the baby coming
and i'm not scared about the labor (not exactly looking forward to the pain, but not freaked out about it)
i'm not scared about my parenting abilities. i know i can take care of babies and kids. maybe a little nervous about the sleep deprivation, but i know i'll survive
no, i'm scared of the big, bad world
of all the things i can't protect baby from
the disesase. the bad people. the freak accidents.
all of the sudden i have the parental view of the world. all the what ifs that i didn't see before. i know i will be able to protect my baby for a while, but then the baby will grow up and i'll have to let go.
and thats what scares me
i know that there isn't much i can do about it. and i don't let it eat me up inside. but i do feel it. and its a new fear that i didnt 'have before i got pregnant.
i just have to love baby as much as possible and hope and pray that everything will be alright