You can go ahead and call it. I’ve officially reached the “happy in moo-moos” phase. Well, I’m happy wearing anything that I am comfortable in. I’m pretty much happy anytime I am comfortable (which is pretty much never- but the moo-moo helps). Yes, I'm dead serious...I bought a moo-moo. Another really awesome thing I recently came across was spanx. I have a slip dress that is made by spanx and it offers the most wonderful support- it holds the belly up without squeezing it too much...amazing! Crazy that two articles of clothing with opposing purposes can make me so happy...but they do. Call me crazy...or maybe irrational...speaking of irrational...
I came home last night and JCH wanted to talk to me about how long he should request for “paternity leave” (good conversation to have). I started voicing my opinion and as I heard the words come out of my mouth I STOPPED and said “how about we talk about this another day, I’m pretty grouchy right now”. I literally did not have a rational thought in my head.
I hate to complain (no really I do) but I haven’t slept in weeks. Well I’ve slept just not real well. My belly is so big that there is no possible way to lie comfortably (not to mention I upchuck in my mouth every time I lay down). My lower back spasms almost every time I walk and work is stressing me out so bad that my shoulders and neck are so tense. Okay, I’m done complaining…I just couldn’t get through a post without answering the “how are you feeling?” question that I often get.
We have finally chosen a NAME. Henry . It’s the FIRST name that came to my mind when we found out we were having a boy and it’s the name that stuck throughout all of the lists that we made. I was apprehensive for a while because another pregnant friend mentioned they were considering it, but I just “feel” attached to the name and can’t get over the feeling that it’s what he is supposed to be named. We are still contemplating his middle name, but there is a good chance it will be his daddy’s name. I love having settled on Henry . Now when I talk to him I get to call him by name and not just “baby”. (p.s. the name is not public knowledge so if you follow my blog you have insider knowledge)
We got our crib in yesterday (yes I know we are slightly behind). JCH was cutting through the cardboard so excitedly that he cut the wood of the brand new crib. I could have killed him, but he was so mad at himself I had to redirect my energy to “talk him off the ledge”. I usually don’t stay mad about those kinds of things anyway…what’s done is done. We are currently having a slight paint dilemma. We have already gone through two different grays that we decided would make the room look too small…so now we are trying out two different (lighter shades of) gray. Hopefully we like one of these…because we can’t put the furniture together and in the nursery until JCH has finished painting. We’ll get there…slowly but surely.
Last night I told JCH…”only 9 more weeks” and there was no comment back. When I asked him if he heard me, he said “yes and it scares the shit out of me”. I’m not quite sure what scares him…but it brought on a whole opposing conversation. I told JCH that I had a conversation with my sister a few days ago about how we have never seen him around babies. He immediately got defensive and said “I’ve practically raised my nieces and nephews…I’ve been around tons of babies”. This went back and forth for a while, as I laughed to myself- first he tells me he’s scared and then he tells me he is a pro. Too funny.
Our house is filling up with baby stuff, and our countdown is getting closer. We have come so far and it’s truly unbelievable that we will have a baby boy very soon. Every time that I puke, or lie in bed and cant sleep I think about how lucky we are to have financially been able to do a cycle of IVF, for the doctors to have found sperm and created 5 embryos that were OURS, for us to get pregnant (and sustain the pregnancy) on the first attempt, and to have a healthy baby boy growing inside of me. I am grateful…I just really would like this last trimester to go by a little quicker.
I dont have any pictures to share today, but we have set up a "maternity shoot" for June 3rd...so we'll have some fun pictures to share very soon! Happy Friday!
