Our first doctor’s appointment is this morning - I don’t think anything very exciting will happen but I’ll let you know what does …
UPDATE:
Doctor’s appointment went fine - we didn’t get to try and hear the heart beat but we did schedule an ultra sound for next week! So hopefully we’ll have some fun photos to put up here after that. Other than that, nothing too exciting. I just got a bag full of literature to go over (or throw away as the case may be) …
Upon waking up this morning Jessica comes into our bedroom and sits next to me on the bed. She sweet talks me a little, asks me some questions about the clothing I’m wearing and then gently tells me to “Get up and grow up.” Which is Jessica speech means, please sit up and wake up.
Can do.
She says little things like this often - switching meanings of one phrase to her liking so she gets her point across. When we asked her if she was a Pistol this morning she vehemently stated that No, she was no pistol - she was a Jessica. Only her saying Jessica is a lot like “Guessica.”
Then we waddle into the kitchen to say good bye to Aaron for the day and get some breakfast and she opens the fridge to loudly exclaim : “It smells so wonderful!” (I bought groceries yesterday).
And like the cherry on top - when I’m not feeling well she always asks me if the baby brother in my belly is making my tummy hurt. Like, Mom, I get it, I know whats going on and it’s OK.
I’m going to go ahead and say it. I totally forgot what the first part of pregnancy is really all about and if I had remembered more clearly I think I would have been a bit more leery about volunteering for this.
Blah blah blah - we’re excited. Leave that out of it. But me not feeling well 18 out of the 24 hours in a day? I could do with out. I was busy when I was pregnant with Jessica, my mind was on something other than the baby playing poker with my emotions and immune system - you know like counting change for the bank customers or reading an enormous amount of inter company memo’s. This time around? I’m busy, sure - putting puzzles together for the 4th time this morning, listening to Elmo talk about “wee wee” and “woo woo” and playing interference when child throws a fit because no, it’s not ok to eat cookies for breakfast.
It’s not that I’m unhappy by most means. I’m just, so bored. My brain feels like mush half the time and all Jessica wants to do is play. Yay! Can we please? Oh but wait, mommy has to dry heave into the toilet again … can you pretend to make me some juice?
We didn’t actually get done with the tiling this weekend. Aaron had to work on Sunday and Jessica just keeps getting sicker. It started with a running nose after the Grandparent extravaganza weekend, which we expected because her diet usually changes a bit when we’re gone - and then it turned into a cough, then a deeper chest cough and now we’re dealing with a severe cough and congestion and a bit of throwing up.
The medicine is taking effect so I think we’re on the upswing but all our plans for the weekend quickly went south with our little running faucet.
Having a sick kid is a lot like being grounded. You really should stay home even though you feel like crying the next time you see the same 4 walls for the 173rd time in one hour.
We told Jessica last week that this week we’d be POTTY TRAINING! and Aren’t you so excited about it??!! She was and is very vamped up about Potty Training and has been asking anyone who comes over if they’re potty trained because She Gets To Potty Train Soon, Too! You’d think her current lifestyle would not be conducive to such instruction but she’s all excited about it despite the fact that her breathing sounds like Darth Vader.
So hopefully by Friday we’ll be the happy new owners of a Brand New Bike! that Jessica got to pick out all by herself and hopefully we’ll also all be healthy by then.
Today was a very busy one here - I took my sweet time waking up so as to not feel like hurling … then we started off running errands to buy a printer (finally), get the necessary items for tiling the mud room/entry way, ritual stop at JP’s Coffee …
I lay down for a few minutes before Tracy come over to help me tile to mud room and thats all we’ve been up to since! It was a lot of fun, less minute then I thought it was going to be, which was a huge bonus.
We have a bit left to do - Aaron and I will hopefully finish tomorrow during nap time and then possibly seal it. It’s not required but that room always gets A TON of wear and tear so it might be wise.
I had glue in my hair, under my nails - my knees are raw and my back isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. But my hands are sore and my thumbs are throbbing (kinda weird, I think).
We cleaned up and then had dinner with Tracy and Dave which was a great way to end the night and I am SO excited to be [almost] done with that room. The only thing left to do is build a wall with cubby holes or lockers. Maybe in the next 6 months. We’ll see.
But on the baby side of things - at dinner tonight I felt a little flutter. It’s too early to actually feel the baby moving yet but it was nice to think … this pregnancy is so back burner to Jessica I haven’t really day dreamed or thought much about it yet. Which I think is typical and it’ll probably change when I’m noticeably showing and am more aware of the baby but it was nice all the same.