Pregnancy Update

On Friday we drove home from Vegas late at night and boy was it a tough ride home. On the way to Vegas we left in the morning which seemed to make me a lot less uncomfortable because my back wasn't hurting me for the day but driving in the evening is really hard on my back. I was so grateful we didn't have any problems while in Vegas and that we made it home without giving birth (not that I'm about to pop I just worried about being away from home and delivering.) Saturday I woke up to a big change in my stomach. Baby girl decided it was time to drop already and my stomach went down a couple of sizes. It makes me a little sad not having my big belly ha! But it is much easier to bend over now and instead of lots of back, and rib pain, I'm getting hip, pelvis, and lower abdomen pain. Oh the joys of pregnancy. But I was a little worried just because she wasn't moving as much as she normally does and the occasional movements I did feel were so tiny compared to her big kicks that have been hurting me lately. I also was leaking fluid, so just to make sure I went to the hospital to have them monitor her. Everything looks fine though and I'm not going into preterm labor yet. Hopefully since she has already dropped at 31 weeks 5 days, she will come a little bit early! I wouldn't mind if she came in four weeks, that seems like a good amount of time for me to finish getting ready for her and it would make it so I wouldn't get to a  too uncomfortable stage. If I was like my mom with her first, I would be having this baby next week! That is a little too soon for me. I had so much more energy during the second trimester and was feeling really great besides my back pain, now I am back to being so tired all the time and having to pee constantly. I have dreams about her all the time and usually she has lots of dark hair and is a very beautiful baby but one time I had a dream that she had red eyebrows, dark hair, and elf ears. She wasn't so cute that night ha and my husband in my dream said she took after him since he has a red beard and brown hair. I just can't wait to see her and finally be able to hold her! I think I will miss watching my stomach do flips all over the place though. My favorite is when I place my hand on my belly and she slowly pushes either her foot or hand right into the cup of mine and just sits with it there. I can't wait to finally be able to actually hold her! Oh and she started getting hiccups around last Saturday and this whole week she has gotten them at least once a day, sometimes twice.

27 Weeks



Beginning of 31 weeks



At the end of 31 weeks after she dropped.

Boppy Pillow Cover

Who wants to spend full price on a Boppy Pillow? Not me, $40.00 is a little much for something that you don't even know will work for your baby. So instead of buying a new one I found one at my school's garage sale for $1...hey I washed it, and then I recovered it spending $10.00 on the fabric, zipper, and thread. Basically I think $11.00 is much better than 40 and it really was in good shape otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it!

I just set the pillow on some paper, traced it, added a seam allowance, and sewed on the zipper. Lot's of patterns out there have the zipper going across the pillow instead of being on the edge, and I like this way better. Except it did bubble a little but I don't mind. It's a tiny bit big but I forgot to wash my fabric before I made it so it should shrink and fit just fine after washing it.

Las Vegas Babymoon

Before this baby comes in July we decided we needed a little getaway for just Casey and I. We had originally been planning on California but soon realized it was going to be miserable for me to drive that far. My back hurts me just driving in the car from Salem to Lehi. So we booked a condo in Vegas cutting our drive by four hours. We were expecting to have lots of time to relax by the pool and be lazy because we didn't plan much but we ended up getting a lot of free tickets and kept ourselves going the whole time. We did still swim at least once everyday which was AMAZING! I love being able to move around lots without it being strenuous on my fat pregnant body. We walked the strip more than we had planned to to get to places we got free tickets too, and my calves and hips hurt so bad by the end of the day. That's what I get for walking so much 31 weeks pregnant. We had to go to a 3 hour presentation on a sales guy trying to get us to buy into a time share condo in Vegas, but we stood strong and didn't purchase any as good as they made it sound. After that they gave us free tickets to a restaurant at the Venetian hotel, a gondola ride where we were serenaded by a guy that we couldn't tell if he was faking his accent or not, free tickets to the wax museum, and 60% off of our Tournament of Kings dinner and show. We enjoyed all of the events we were able to experience since neither of us had gone to any of these things in Vegas before, and thought the 3 hour presentation had been worth it. If you want clean fun in Vegas I would recommend any of these activities, excpet don't be expecting too much from the food at the Tournament of Kings show. It wasn't very tasty and I didn't like the fact that you had to eat it with only your hands. Fun experience though!



Chillin by the pool



Enjoying the sites of the strip (the clean parts anyway)

Always have to watch the watershow

My good looking hubby

Went and saw the Great Gatsby and were basically the only ones in the theatre. Not too impressed with the movie though which was a bummer cause I was really excited for it!

The GINORMOUS burritos we ate at Chipotle



The bathrooms at the place we ate lunch for free at were awesome! You had your own individual stall with the sinks inside of it with you. Had to take a picture:)



Not the cutest picture...but we had to get one of our gondala guy serenading us

they're buds

James Bond

My baby's real daddy...



Blocked





Oh baby, Tim Mcgraw

Can't quite pull off his moves while pregnant.



Tournament of Kings. The lighting made it so you couldn't get a good picture of the arena unfortunatley



This is what we get for not paying for them to take our picture at tournament of kings. Oh well!

It was such a fun trip for just the two of us. We kept thinking how easy it was to just pack up for the two of us and head to Vegas and how much harder it will be when we have a baby! Oh well we are ready for her.

Lock Jaw

Those that witnessed my horrifying first experience back in 9th grade of getting my jaw locked open at a birthday party, can now laugh at that experience and the fact that it happened again. Luckily I hadn't had an episode in the seven years since then but had to have an emergency visit at four in the morning a month ago from its return. Never heard of lock jaw? Neither had I the first time it happened.

In 9th grade I was at a friend's birthday party that was supposed to be a sleepover. We were on her coach taking funny pictures and I decided it would be funny to hang upside down with my mouth wide open. We took the picture, and when I stood up I felt a pop and then I realized my mouth was stuck where it was. I tried grumbling, "I can't close my mouth" which when your mouth is stuck open, is pretty hard to understand. I ran to the bathroom and stared in horror thinking my mouth would never close again. My friends all took pictures and recorded videos as a neighborhood dentist came over at 9:00pm to try to push my mouth closed. He couldn't do it even after being instructed over the phone by an oral surgeon on how to accomplish it. My parents came and picked me up and drove me at 10pm to an oral surgeon 35 minutes away. After much slobbering and hours of my mouth being open, the oral surgeon put his thumbs in my mouth and with a lot of downward pressure, he pushed and rolled my jaw shut.

After this happened I had always been a bit carful of opening my mouth too wide and after 7 years I guess I got a little careless. A month ago I got up to a routine bathroom break at 4am and layed back down in bed. Instead of a cool story like last time, all I did was yawn wide, and there my mouth stayed. I sat up in bed and just said an "Oh no." which woke my husband up. I turned the light on and he stared at my mouth stuck open. He felt the place on my jaw where it was locked and kind of sticking out and when I told him to try and roll my mouth shut he began to sweat, get dizzy, and feel like he was going to throw up. All because of a jaw!! I'm a bit worried now about how he is going to react when I go into labor. I'll probably be driving myself to the hospital asking him "how are you doing honey" as he's laying in the back seat passed out. Haha let's hope that doesn't happen! We went to the emergency room, not knowing where else to go at 4 am. Casey had to answer the questions for me when checking in but he didn't know my social security number and I had to try my best to prununciate the numbers so she could understand. They pumped me with some morphine ( I absolutely hate that stuff I don't know how people can get addicted to it) and then he rolled my jaw shut again. Hopefully this isn't a reaccuring thing because if it happens more and more often, surgery is needed to correct it. Here's to hoping it never happens again! Now you can laugh at my pictures of my mouth stuck open.



Hey nobody looks good at 4am with their mouths open.



Seriously, again?

Dinosaur Taggie

At the arrival of my most beautiful baby in the world (no joke) nephew Harrison, I wanted to bring something to the hospital. I drew up a dinosaur and made it into a little taggie toy that hopefully Harrison will want to play with soon. Here it is, and it's real easy to make your own design of whatever animal you would like.



Draw a picture and just add 1/4" seam allowance

Front

Back

I don't know why the legs curved in a little, next time I try to make one I'll have to figure that one out. Also I had never handstitched a pillow or toy closed before and I definitley need someone to teach me the best way to do that instead of attempting it on my own. 

Baby Tutus

I have loved crocheting tutus lately! I think they are just adorable. The problem is, I keep giving them for baby shower gifts and so I don't really know what they look like on because none of the babies have been born yet. I'll have to get some pictures of our baby in hers when she arrives. I'd love to make some more so if anyone is interested in getting one from me let me know!

This one went to my cousin who's baby is due in June

This one to a girl I work with who's baby is also due in June, I love the colors and am making one for my own little girl.

This one I just lined a couple layers with a color instead of making the whole ruffle a different one. It won't fit our baby until she's a year old

Idea for this tutu came from this website but I altered it a bit but it's a great one to follow if you don't know how to alter it yourself!

Hopefully we will be able to afford a nice camera soon so I can take better pictures of the things I make, cross your fingers for me;)