WAS THAT A TAN LINE!!

Let's play pretend, let's say you are lounging on the couch, the fatness hanging everywhere..... Let's keep going with the make believin' to say that you are ohhhhhh 31 weeks pregnant, things just aren't sitting right... kinda like feeling your most bloated on any given PMS day.. just not feeling "pretty"... that is a good way to put it. (Excuse me while I shove another spoonful of cheddar noodle hamburger helper down my throat, I am on my lunch break as I am typing this :)) We all know what it is like to look in the mirror and feel like we have accomplished something in our getting ready efforts, or to feel like we have completely wasted our time and we should hop back in bed immediately and wake up tomorrow when we might not horrify the public with how ugly we feel :). OK maybe that is me and I just needed to vent, thank you for still listening :). Anyways, so you get what I am saying and where I was in the make believe couch position... On to the point of this lol..

Brad and I are lovin' Wed./Thursday night TV! On Wed. we watched Modern Family (we are giving this one another shot this week as they mainly focused on getting the characters introduced which was well.... boring) and then Cougar Town... OK NOW THIS SHOW WAS HILARIOUS! You really forget just how funny Courtney Cox was in friends until you watch her in this.... She had me literally wanting to hide under a pillow with some of the things she says, so witty, but embarrasing! This show takes me to the point of this blog...

There was a part in which Courtney is wearing a lot less then a moo-moo... and a little more then a micro-kini. So my fatness was watching this of course in the back of my mind thinking man when Brady gets here I am so going back to the gym and how this fat suit is comin' off LET'S GO, PUMPIN' MYSELF UP, when someone interrupted my thoughts. "WAS THAT A TAN LINE?" I looked over at my husband and knowing that he had just had word vomit come out of his mouth asked "WHAT DEAR?" He then felt the need to put more detail into the question, and this was my fault for asking what, when I knew EXACTLY what he said. Instead of reading the SHE DEVIL IS WAITING TO JUMP YOU look on my face, he repeated himself and added details as to just where this tan line was that he was so inquisitive about. "YOU KNOW RIGHT THERE AT HER BOTTOMS LOOKED LIKE A TAN LINE".... It gets better... so I say, well I don't know Boo I was watching HER FACE SINCE SHE WAS TALKING!! So still not seeing the "I probably should take my wonder to my grave and drop this", he REWINDS it so "I can see" what he is talking about. Although something of that importance, I think was more for his viewing pleasure as I don't know many husbands that would be so naive to do that with a wife looking at him like ummmmmmmm ARE YOU AN ALIEN? Anyways, so he proceeds to rewind it and it is a creme colored lace and he is like ohhhhhhhh I thought that was tan lines. I think at that point he got the point FINALLY and sat back and let the show go on...

WHO DOES THAT when you have chunk-o uncomfortable as can be wondering when the fat suit will come off sitting there. My husband, whom I consider to be very respectful, sure is passive when he doesn't need to be sometimes :).

I thought I would share that story as the second showing comes on tonight and I am oh so thrilled to see what word vomit I have to look forward to :).

PAIN MEDS PLEASE!

So I am not sure if you know but I am in no way, no how, not even almost contemplating trying to get this big boy into the world on my own. To my fellow ladies that have, God Bless You! Me, not so much.... I had a doctor appt. on Friday and after seeing the doctor an hour and 45 minutes after my appt. (my FABULOUS IDEA of scheduling my doctors appts. for the entirety of the pregnancy (I have 5 appts. left! Hooooooly Mooooooooly!) at 4:30 in the afternoon on Fridays so I can sneak out of work early REALLY backfired on me as we all know that the later the appt., the later the doctor is to see you once every person ahead of you takes up the day with their appts.! Plus she literally almost passed me coming in the door as she was running out to go do a delivery really quick.) my doctor asked, have we talked about pain meds... In which I replied, YES PLEASE, ALL OF EM :). It just makes me shudder when I think of pain, I am a big ol weiner and have noooooo problem saying so myself! If I could get a "pre-epidural" to take the second I feel pain at home, I would do that as well :). Besides that and the fact that good ol' doc was plum worn out by the time I saw her, everything is going great. She said I am measuring perfectly, and his heartbeat (136) sounds "gorgeous" :). I was told I carry pregnancy well, in which I winked at them and said "you know we love to hear some of that good stuff sittin' here chubbin' it up ;)".

I can't believe that the showers have started and man they started out with a bang with Brad's family! Such good goodies!! I can't wait to see everyone! I can't believe that we have 2 months exactly from today! Although fingers are crossed for a 39 week induction or C section :). It's just amazing how fast time is flying by! Hopefully it keeps on flying because I am starting to get a little uncomfortable at night sleeping, can't really get comfy. And the BEND OVER IN PAIN having to pee trips that have a milisecond warning, are getting very abundant! It's getting very exciting though and the anxiety of getting him here is KILLING ME!

I better go for now, have a great week!

What age did we start to read?

I need to go back...

Make that April 30th for Jeff and Lisa's new beeeeebeeeee! Or May 10th because I know she would really love to hold on 11 more days and have HER on my birthday :)!

ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT'S ME MELODY!

Dear my most beloved lord of my whole entire being-

May we talk for just one moment?? I know that in my life I used to be a firm believer in learning my lessons of life with EXTREME CHALLENGES for you and myself both to conquer. These moments are forever in my prayers with thankfulness of forgiveness :). I know you will never give me a mountain to high to climb, but the presence of this giganto baby really has me scared. As we both know, I have somewhat of a big boy brewin' in the gut o' love. After seeing this news link- http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93042?fp=1 I have decided that I am ok with 85th percentile as the baby in the picture must be in the 200th percentile right? Or does my baby have 15 percent to go to be of this guy's size? If we put it into the "climbing a mountain" perspective, I am not quite sure I have the hiking boots required to get to the top of a mountain that big. I don't think that I want the boots if they become available to me. Can we just make it like a mountain cut in half, like those sweet plateaus you see in West Texas :)? Thank you lord for this sweet baby boy in my gut, but please please can we consider allowing him to not come out crying like a grown man ;). I love you with all my heart, please be with this lady as she feeds this baby every waking minute he is awake, and let his naps be plenitful!

Amen

Y'all better not make fun of Brady if he competes with this kid in the near future!

MORE GOOD NEWS!! The BABIES KEEP ON COMIN!

CONGRATS TO JEFF AND LISA! They are bringing yet ANOTHER beautiful Connell into the world, due on April 20th!! BRING ON THE PINK!!

Depends don't leak do they??

Well generally from 7:30-4:30 if you are looking for me I will either be in my humble cubicle, or my humble porcelain recliner (yeah right). In the near future you will just find me on the good ol porcelain recliner because I swear I am fixing to take my laptop in with me and work from the potty room. I can't drink enough water which much to my dismay means, I CAN'T PEE ENOUGH. It seems to me as though Brady is quite comfortable with whatever action he is doing that seriously has me almost to the point of pain when you just can't hold it anymore and running to the potty.. Surprisingly too, it is never just a little bit... so weird... But it makes sense of the always thirsty. It just stinks because it's not like I have an option, or should I say I always have the option but it's just not feasible right now, of not drinking anything. Yeah right...The tailgating festivities for us are going to begin this weekend with UT vs. Tech and I wonder if I will possibly be the dumbest one out there. On my last trip to "the place of release" I was sitting there and started thinking... EXACTLY HOW DO YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO PULL OFF TAILGATING IN THE HEAT...DRINKING SO MUCH WATER... AND HAVING ACCESS TO VERY MINIMAL RR'S!! I will really have to "plan" my hang out areas to ensure there is a "place of relief" at the drop of a dime. Lord knows it isn't an option to be like nah I don't feel like going right now I will hold it... Ever seen an adult pee their pants? ;) Please don't laugh when I sit my butt in some depends.

As I am sitting here feeling Brady's movements in circles as if he was a hamster in a play wheel... I wonder just what else I am going to experience in the next 9.5 weeks. In this pregnancy I have had it pretty good I must say, after the 2nd week of the second trimester, I was good to go nausea wise. I think the relief of the nausea caused cellulite because I just shake my head and wonder if I will ever be able to find the little leprechaun throwing stones at my legs when I am not looking :O). I do have to say that me claiming this super fitness persona was going to be me WHILE I was pregnant... That is ridiculous of me to have even fathomed that I would be there... All my girls that do it throughout the pregnancy, DID YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOU'RE MY HEEEEEROOOOOOOOO! Maybe next time I will (hee hee hee)..

I am not sure if all can relate to myself when I say that by the end of the day my posture might as well be that of a "U". I have always been like that, horrible I know.. Well I have to say that my child is helping to remind me of that horrible act by kicking me.. I think the weight of my boobs (yes they sit on the top of my belly if I am crouched over HUSH IT! :)) bugs him or something lol.. It's hilarious.... But hey it makes me sit up! Such a good team already! He is very active and I just love feeling him at this point in the pregnancy... If he does stay positioned as he is now I could be in for it because little karate kid is VERY active with these legs, and he will have those suckers right near my ribs (prego's worst nightmare) so I will just keep hopin' and prayin' that he doesn't make the last month or so miserable.

Moods... I am soooooooo over the moods. Infact if you have been around me alot... Brad... Mom.... Dad... sorry, and I love you is about all I can say for the evil "Melanie" that can have some kind of attitude! I can't wait until these hormones are settled and I can try to be my normal self lol.. it is just really for the birds. Sad thing is you know when you are feeling a mood... The other day I was behind one of the MANY Austinites (I am going to have to call us Austinites out for this by the way) that MUST RUSH to the left lane on a three lane road because lord knows what traffic is up ahead! (this is with noone in the right or middle lane that is going to cause them any troubles) It was one of those annoying you are trying to get over to get around them and they keep getting over in front of you (Oh my gosh I don't know why that makes me literally insane)?? Yeah well I was just about to give them a little bumper lovin' and I looked down and was going about 5 miles over and wasn't in a rush to go anywhere.. I literally had to talk to myself and be like, WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU? Do you really need to be going 10 miles over the speed limit, CALM THE HELL DOWN! And I was better after that self scolding... Brad has gotten out of many a butt gnawin's by me having an "inner self" intervention. Sometimes though, sorry.. I am too tired to fight off Melanie and I let her go. I swear before this is over with I will have a me, myself, and irene moment and pull a Jim Carey fighting myself all over a room lol!

Honestly, I really don't have anything important to say, this just seemed like a much better idea then doing anything else!

Oh I signed Brad and I up for baby classes.. They do them as a whole there with your breathing, what happens during pregnancy, and the care of the infant after they are here- all compiled into one. I am not at all interested in the lamaze classes as I have been there, done that, even taken the class with one of my friends little sisters and I will breathe however the heck it comes out is all I have to say! But I am interested in the after he is here class.... I am so scared that he is going to be ill and I am not going to know or what not... scary. I know that your instincts kick in but it will just make me feel better :)... hearing something that I will most likely forget! :) We couldn't get in until 11/14 so let's hope we don't deliver early and be wingin' it :).

Hope everyone's week goes well! Peace!

Cloth diapers aren't only for babies...

They are also for SUMO WRESTLERS...and I think that that is what I have brewing in this oh so growing belly of mine. We (Brady and I :) )got to meet our new doctor today, Dr. Pagette. She is GREAT, very personable (what I have been looking for, and was dissapointed about leaving my SA doctor for because I had found it in him) and sweet... I was not thinking that there would be any sonogram or anything done but much to my surprise we got to do an ultrasound and see Mr. Brady for the second time in a week :). NOT TO MY SURPRISE.... it was commented ohhh he has a little bit bigger head but nothing to worry about. Big Head and nothing to worry about should not be in the same sentence... sorry lol. Since I am scared to death of pushing out a head the size of the guy on Beetlejuice that shrank, or a head the size of Baby Stewie on the Family Guy, not being worried is just not going to happen. As beautiful as people try to make this whole "bringing a life into the world" thing look, yeah I have been there and seen it with quite a few girlfriends and knowing that I have a larger head to push out then they did, GOOD NIGHT NURSE. SOOOOO here is where we are at right now... Get this- 85th percentile, which I had clarified to me (I have always done the head nod like I know what people are talking about when saying that percentile business) means that only 15 percent of all babies born will be bigger then him! THAT WAS AMUSING... He already weighs 3.6 pounds! We still have 11 weeks to go!

Of course when the words BIG HEAD came out and my figuring I was destined to push a cantaloupe out of a grape was confirmed, the first words out of my mouth was- How does the whole deciding on a C-section thing work :). She seems very open to doing what makes the momma comfortable but we'll open that whole can of worms when it gets closer. I am VERY tossed up as I don't want to have a long recovery period when I am on maternity leave, but good god if I am going to have a kid with a cone head for months and have to push that "cone" out, then please let's do a C-section. Yes I know it is major surgery and the reasonings of me wanting it, or MAYBE wanting it are those quite selfish, it's still what comes to mind. SO that being said we will see how he continues to grow... maybe he will take a small break. Orrrr maybe momma should stop suckin' on those McDonalds's french fries and grab the apples til he gets here :). Apparently he is suckin' up the fat like his momma does :).

She did say that if I am interested in INDUCING- I'M SORRY DID YOU JUST SAY "IF" I AM INTERESTED AFTER TELLING ME THAT MY KID IS GOING TO BE THE SIZE OF A SMALL MAN IF I GO FULL TERM- that she will induce on week 39. I know it is only a week but that is one week less of him getting even bigger :). They show by his measurements (and I assume mine as well) that I am actually a week ahead of what my due date is, so instead of being 29 weeks tomorrow, they show I am 30 but she said that they aren't going to change the due date. I have been about 4 days off with my measurements from the beginning so it is very possible that inducing me at 39 weeks due to the "menstrual calendar" will really be 40 weeks and full term for him by our measurements.

SOOOOO what that means is that we are going to have a baby here before Turkey Day for sure :). What that also means is that this weekend marks a TEN WEEK COUNTDOWN!! Wow how that doesn't seem like long with all that I have to do! It also means 10 weeks of cutting back the lard that I am stuffing in my mouth as it of course tastes oh so delicious at anytime! No more fried, and cutting out the bad sugars... although I haven't decided what day to start.... maybe Monday.. I love the start on Mondays! OHHHHH you thought I meant THIS Monday... nooooo silly next Monday, on through til week 10 when I could wrestle a man and win :). This sweet boy has some fabulous little lips though, as my doctor had an obsession with finding his willy (which, poor thing, how many times must we peek!) and look at his top lip to verify no cleftlip.... He looks just perfect as can be... Right now he is still head down, from my right and lefts his head is on my left and his little bootie is on the top of my belly almost but more to the left of my belly button, and then his little feet are on the right side of my belly... makes perfect sense because i feel alot of movement on the top right of my gut, and then in the very lower lower of my belly which are his arms when he is stretching :). Of course anything can happen and he can change at any time.. but so far I hope he stays in this position which he hasn't changed in a week now so that is good news!! Right now he is not in an uncomfortable position for me as far as jabbing my ribs or anything... He seems pretty comfy because I feel the movement in the same spots alot, so it seems as if he is content. She said that my placenta is at the top which she said is good and that you don't want it on the bottom near the cervix. That will be something that I will take her word on because there are oh soooo many things that I don't get about pregnancy. Anyways so he is just perfect as can be (oh and fat lol) and I am verrrrrry excited! We will be getting a new sonogram in 4 weeks! It's crazy to see him, his little heart is growing as it should as well as all those other body parts :).

We are going to get his bed this weekend which I am sooooo very excited about! I will take pics as the nursery develops! I better run, Hope everyone has a great weekend!

SQUISHY...

Here are some more pics that wouldn't fit in my other blog...

I'VE BEEN LOVESTRUCK!

Well Brad better learn to share because my heart is once again being split into a THIRD part :) (My dad is my first love, then my fabulous husband, and now this beautiful baby boy, OHHHH YEAH AND MY DOG, SO REALLY QUARTERS LOL). We had such a great relaxing weekend that began with our 3D sonogram! There is not much that shocks me these days, but good night nurse, that sonogram was intense to me!! Before having this done, you think of how the babies look (which is not comforting with their oh so alien like appearances in books :))in the books that you are reading, and then after seeing this sonogram you get an overwhelming shock of HOLY COW, THAT IS A REAL BABY! After playing around with him for a while, we did have her mess with him to try to get a front shot of the CHIN... so far, there is no love dimple, or daddy's butt chin :). I think I am already struck with the MY BABY IS SO CUTE syndrome! :) So far she said it doesn't look like he has much hair, although I don't think that will be the case as I have had some heartburn like nobody's business! The Elvis looking hair do and beautiful sweeping bang is a shadow as you know he is gonna get momma's big ol forehead :). It could go either way though, I was a fat little monkey baby, Brad was the opposite, except the fat part :). I am not getting away from that, and by the looks of those cheeks in these pictures, I think it is proof that we are in for a toddler of a baby :). Seeing the movements on the screen while feeling them was something pretty awesome as well! I can't believe that per the update I get weekly about how big he is that he is approx. 17 inches and almost 3 pounds!

We get to meet our new doctor this week! I am really excited about this! Hopefully we will feel as comfortable with her as we did with our San Antonio doctor!

These 12 weeks that I thought were not far away at all with the timewarp we are in, seem like an eternity away! I want to see him and hold him and smooch those fat little cheeks! There are so many things coming up that I know time will fly but sheesh when I do the reference of THREE MONTHS it makes me want to cry! I know it will be here very soon though! I am over the being a lard part too, I am going to try to eliminate sugar and fried foods and walk in the evenings during this last tri-mester that I have entered. It said that I will most likely gain another 11 pounds before I am done with this little fella! I was like ohhhhh for the love of god, the challenge I have infront of me of my wave pool legs and strainer cellulite is going to be quite the challenge! OHHHHH and the moods are coming back so please have Brad in your prayers as I try to keep my lips shut (litearlly fighting with myself to not pick such a minimal argument) but so often I am not strong enough to. I am very ready to shed the fat suit and the emotions that have come with this!

WHERE IS MY BUTTON!

Hello loves! Well I just received wonderful news after being very scared of what the news had the possibility of being. I had my blood test to make sure my blood sugar was ok and that I was not anemic, on Friday. Well from my little experience with a non-planned nap (fainting) I just knew that I was going to be doomed for the next 3 months on a gestational diabetes diet trail. MY NUMBERS CAME BACK PERFECT! How in the world does that happen? It almost makes me wonder since last Friday was my last appt. with my San Antonio doctor, if they aren't havin' their toes stepped on by me, my gut, and my wallet moving on up the highway to Austin mid pregnancy. Meanwhile telling me OHHHHH SUUUUUURE EVERYTHING IS FINE :)... Kind of hard for someone who is hypoglycemic to believe :). I did wonder though because when I had to do a 3 hour test before they narrowed my symptoms down to being hypoglycemic, they took my blood for my normal blood count, then I had to drink the devil sugar drink (it's ilke a flat Orange Sunkist soda with 5 times the sugar for those that have never been blessed with having to drink it :) ) and they took my blood again right then to see how it shot up, then 30 minutes after they took it again which is where they determined that my body used up sugar much quicker then the normal person. Therefore, it was determined that I was hypoglycemic... Fun story huh lol... onwards we go... Well last Friday they didn't take my blood before I drank the drink to even have anything to compare it to.. then I had to come back an hour later so they could take my blood... It was weird.... But I guess once again I guess I have to trust that they know what they are doing and infact, be very excited that I could be getting a handle on my sugars as it is a daily effort that sometimes I work harder at then others. They also tested my hemoglobins (I think that is what she said lol... don't get me being a fat liar with medical terms) to see if I was anemic and my numbers passed with flying colors with that as well. So it looks like I will be using my face like a bulldozer in the bowl of Rainbow Sherbert I have in the freezer for special sweet tooth nights, TONIGHT! :)

On another hand..

Where in the heck is my sweet little belly button going??? I am not far AT ALL from having NO BELLY BUTTON! Like if you run your finger from one side of my belly button to the other straight across you can almost feel it being smooth!!

Let's see what else has changed... Oh, my "saucers" are RIDICULOUS! I really feel as if I am representing the Nat. Geo. channel on an African Indian Woman documentary. it is insane what has happened to my "feeders" over this whole preganancy!

As I am even typing this, little Brady is kickin' away... He moves SO MUCH! Twice this week I have felt him from one side of my belly to the other and from the top of my belly to the bottom.. at the same time like he is stretching! I think that those little grasshoppa legs have definitely stayed just as long as the first glimpse where we saw the daddy long legs and he is now growing into them. Nothing is painful yet, but definitely noticeable. You do not have to worry about me missing a meal because not only do I have to battle the growling, I have him movin' around like CRAZY when I am hungry. I have started playing music for him :)... It's crazy how they really do get to be like clock work on their timing of movement! So far he has been pretty easy on me, only waking me up a couple of times (I am a super light sleeper) out of my sleep by his partying :). It's neat feeling him, and makes me want to meet him so bad!

Speaking of meeting.. we will be going to see our 3d sonogram this weekend! I can't explain my feelings on all of this, it is such a high anxiety, excited, nervous feeling! It's almost like if you are on a blind date or meeting someone after much anticipation for the first time. I mean with those sonograms you get to see ALOT, although not exactly what he will look like, a good image of what is to come. I think everyone wonders what their children will look like all of thier lives and to have a little glimpse (I will be eyeballin' for the butt chin ;) ) of what is to come, it is just very very insanely exciting! I also pray that we don't see anything concerning from the fluid, or lighting that could cause us to have concern about anything that there isn't anything to worry about. Not physical defects or anything, I will love my little Brady no matter how God gives him to me, but like I had a girlfriend who her little boy had his cord wrapped around his neck... nothing tight or anything to cause him harm but the slightest tug on that cord when he was playing could have been really scary! Stuff like that is what I am talking about when saying that I don't want to see something that could cause concern. That concern has almost made me cancel and just wait until we meet him! But then I am soooo very excited because we haven't seen him in sooooo long, and to see this REAL BABY FACE of what is making all these awesome moves (I am sure with my moves that he will be a great dancer, especially with Brad's and his dancing chicken move, Brady is bound for stardom). I could go on alllllll day with all these jitters :)... It will also be the last time we see him, God willing everything goes as it needs to be going not causing any alarm to have a sonogram done! Anyways, I am ramblin' man over here! I will post the pictures Saturday when we get home!! Thanks for readin' and "listenin"! Love you all! Only 12 more weeks!!! Can you believe it!!

Until next time..