Baby Quilt and I Won

I made this baby quilt for our little guy. Its pretty spectacular. Its nothing super exciting or elegant by any means but I just really like it because its a quilt that I specifically made for him. My first born. I hope he likes it.

The apartment complex we live in had a "showcase" where you had to go guess how much they spent on each show case. Thank you Price is Right for helping me out on this one. I think I guessed like 52 bucks or something. Well I won the bathroom show case.
2 towels

1 hand towel

2 wash clothes

rug

candle

bubble bath

foot scrub

loofa

wickless candle thing

basket

vase and flowers

I was pretty proud of myself actually. It made me happy.

August 20, 2009

So I have exactly one month until my expected due date. We'll see when he comes tho. I'm getting really excited. Cody says he'll come early by about 3 weeks. I think he'll camp out for an extra week.

My Nights

Cody has to wake up at 4:00 every morning so he usually goes to bed fairly early, resulting in no one making me go to bed so I stay up late usually reading about pregnancy or the Ensign. So about 11:30 I go to sleep and toss and turn until I find that perfect comfy place which happens to be border line middle of the bed. Poor Cody always wakes up on the edge but I just say its the pregnancy.

• About the time I start drifting off, the sumo wrestlers above us starting walking around and shake our house and with my super sonic hearing I hear every single noise.
• Somehow I finally fall asleep and as soon as the REM sleep is over, I'm up peeing.
• Then it takes another hour to fall asleep because the baby thinks its time to play and kick me as hard as he can
• Finally fall asleep, Cody's alarm goes off and the sumo wrestlers are having a match
• Pee again
• Play time once again
• Realize how much my shoulders, hips and collar bones kill
• Sun coming up by now and I pray one more time to fall back asleep
• Want to roll onto my back and just tell myself only 4+ weeks
• Back asleep until about 8:30 and then I just give up
• Eat breakfast and drink my fiber water
• Ready for a nap
• Pathetic

I would rather just stay up all night and scrapbook or quilt or........or........or........anything but oh yeah those things are only expensive.

Once again....only 4+ weeks.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just voicing my frustrations and writing it down for the kids sake.

My Trip to Walgreens

Ok here's a long story made even longer...

Tonight I went over to my friend Monica's house to chill while Cody and his friend Travis played video games (not my cup of tea). She needed to go to Walgreens to fill up her water bottles and I told her I would go with her. We decided to walk seeing as how it would take longer to walk the length of a football field. As we were on our merry way some "bleepity bleeps" decided to throw eggs at us while they were driving approximately 50 miles an hour. I'm not good at math or anything but I do know those eggs had quite the amount of speed behind them before one hit me in the hip and the other hit me right in the arm. Monica got lucky and only got some measly splatters on her. (Its because she's not a huge target). I was IRATE! Really? Who freakin does that? Thats all I could really say. I then looked at my arm and realized, "oh well ain't that something, I'm freakin bleeding because it hit me so hard." I still can't believe it. I said many choice words but mostly to keep my kid from coming out a sailor I just mostly said, "who does that?" Just thinking about it again makes me so mad. I was covered in egg and it even got in my hair. Many of you may be laughing at how comical this is and every once in a while I'll laugh about it but to be honest, its just not that funny. Freakin immature jerks. Like what if it would've hit my stomach instead? (It probably wouldn't have done anything serious but still the thought of). It has been about 3 hours since it happened and the welt on my arm is still there and I have a massive bruise on my hip. If I get salmonella (sp?) from egg getting into broken skin, I'm going to be even more mad! Who knew walking to Walgreens UNARMED could be so dangerous! Oh and just so you know, we didn't turn around and go home, we continued to walk to walgreens covered in egg and get the water. Smelly, sticky and all.

And I know a lot of you think "oh how big could the welt really be?" I don't suggest finding out for yourself but if you do, don't use a pregnant girl as the target but I swear to you, my arm hurts SO bad. I mean come on, the eggshells broke the skin! This is probably my most dead on post I have ever done. No exaggerating here. Cody can attest to that.

Hmm...Maybe some news?

So there really hasn't been anything exciting happen in the Claridge home for quite some time. The heat and lack of cash keep us indoors or at a random store just walking around...dreaming what it'll be like to be able to go to a store one day and not have to look at the price tag. Cody asked me, "wouldn't it just be nice?" And I said, "I would have the cricut machine bought in a heartbeat and not even feel bad." (I've been wanting one for what seems like years but obviously I can live without it, I just haven't scrapbooked in about a year and a half.)

We joke we'll win the lottery one day (even though we don't play) but we would still live a pretty simple life. But on the other hand, we've never had millions so its hard to say what we would buy if we did. Like I said I would keep the corolla and I would still shop the clearance aisle. But would I? Millions is just hard to imagine. Now give me $1000 bucks and its all clothes, accessories and whatever craft stuff I want. I just can't picture me with extra money unfortunately.

The 34 week appointment went well. His heart beat is very strong and he moves around so much. I'm afraid he's gotten himself onto a screwy schedule that will keep me up all night so hopefully I can break him of that. Sleeping has become more of a chore than anything at night time but during the day I COULD take a nap every hour but MOST of the time I don't.

We started our birthing classes last nite and watched a birth and then the birthing of the placenta. It was absolutely disgusting. Seeing the baby come out was really cool but not the placenta. Just thinking about it makes my jaw tense up like I'm going to puke. The instructor went around the room and asked what we were going to take from that class and I said, "a stomach ache." (I wasn't kidding.)

It rained all night last night and well into this morning. Hopefully it cools things down a bit.

I'm thinking I want my hair a little shorter. I think its already grown a lot and looking kinda rough, then again, I'm just not good at styling it like a real hair stylist would do. Whatev.

I guess thats it folks. Until this kid gets here, we're just kinda boring.

33 Weeks!

Can anyone else believe this? I sure can't. I have been pregnant all of 2009! I told Cody tonight, "I don't even remember what its like not to be pregnant." I don't think I huffed and puffed as much as I do now but maybe.
And I'm also happy to report that I am pleased with this picture. I actually look cute and not homely.