Schille Shower

Melissa Mom and Liesl held a lovely baby shower for me last Sunday. Here is an album you can click on to see pictures. They put a lot of thought into the shower and it showed. I had a wonderful time!

Thanks for coming everyone! Thanks to Melissa and Liesl for the wonderful pictures and memories!

Schille Shower

We are doing well. I got woken up at 4am this morning because "belly" decided to kick me in the side so hard!! It was so powerful!! Okay kid I get it, space is getting cramped for you!

It is amazing how even in the womb I feel like I am already getting to know him pretty well. We can communicate in a way that is unexplainable. I get very tired again now, not as bad as the first trimester but pretty tired. My tailbone hurts a lot by about 3pm. Sometimes I feel a bit dizzy cuz I can't breathe as easily as I used to.

Derek is beginning to get nervous, which gives me endless enjoyment. He is usually the cool one but his nerves are getting to him. I tell him we will all be fine because I know we will.

I stopped weighing myself cuz THAT is what makes me go EEEP! Every part of my body from my face to my toes can be described as puffy. I bumped into my coworker Sherrie because I misjudged my belly today. She just patted my belly and said "oh baby says hi". I also almost fell off a chair bc my center of gravity is a bit off. That just about gave Sherrie a heart attack! I just laughed at my clumsiness.

The nursery is almost complete, just a few finishing touches. I love it and it is exactly what I wanted for our little guy. I'll post those pictures next time.

Love,

mama panda

Nursery part deux (as in Hot Shots part deux)

We finally got carpet. It was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. Derek tore up and hauled away the old carpet and moved all the furniture except the mattress and two under the bed storage drawers. We figured the carpet guy could move those pieces cuz we needed to sleep on the mattress and the drawers were too hard for one person to move. I don't like to play the pregnancy card too often but we figured nobody is going to say no to a pregnant lady, right? So the carpet guy shows up, (Derek is at work) looks at me with my 8 1/2 month pregnant belly and says, "are you going to move those? Cuz I can't touch it".

Yeah.

What a dick. He had to call his boss and tell him there was a "room full of furniture to move". I ended up shelling out another $75 for him to move the stuff. Oh you read that right, $75. Common decency anyone?? I add "carpet guy" my list.

What. a. dick.

But I like the carpet. Here are some pictures of what we have assembled so far.


There is still a lot of work to be done. It has been a long road even to get to this point so I am proud we have this done so far.

I have a funny story. The other day I woke up with a leg cramp about 5am when Derek was waking up for work. I didn't say anything to him, just made some moaning in pain noises until it went away then I went back to sleep. After we had both gotten home from work that day Derek asked me if I had slept okay last night. I told him about my charlie horse that morning. He said, " oh is that what that was. For a minute I started panicking because I thought you were going into labor. " He said he started thinking about all the stuff we still have to do and how he'd have to come home and get all the stuff done before he could bring the two of us home. Tee Hee. I got a kick out of that and it was really sweet too!!

That's all. I wanted to expel my disbelief in the carpet guy's assholeness. If anyone has a connection to the Russian mob I have a few names for you.

Love,

Mama Panda

A few news items, work with me here...

Hello all,
Derek and I are celebrating our three year wedding anniversary today! Yippee!!

And we still like each other.

It is crazy because when we got married we thought "maybe we'll have kids, but in like five years" Here we are expecting our baby boy next month. Who would have guessed?? Not I.

My cousin Sheri and her husband Dan celebrated their two year wedding anniversary on October 7Th.
Aren't they precious? Here is a picture of them on a giant inflatable penis while in Vegas for their joint bachelor/bachelorette party
And one of Sheri that I love taken on the same day
Her parents (my Aunt Sandra and Uncle John) also had their anniversary on October 7Th.

I don't have a picture of them on a giant inflatable penis...

Here is a picture of a onesie Derek's friend made for the baby. It fits perfectly on my stomach.
I know everyone says I am small but see! baby is just the right size!! If only he would arrive so we can show him off...Oh and for those that don't know the symbol is 45 adapter just like the one the Derek has as a tattoo on his shoulder.

Here is an interesting story. "Belly" is usually pretty chill but he REALLY reacted the other day. I was around a sudden, loud series of noises and baby jumped and curled up into a tight little ball in my stomach! I was like, "oh my God I think he is scared!" I sat down and and rubbed my belly a bit and he relaxed again. I have never felt him move like that though!!

I started a new job today at Fairview Corporate as an Intake Coordinator for Behavioral Services. It is exactly the job I wanted and I love it so far!! They are going to start my training then give me time off for "belly". Then I will return part-time just like we had planned. This is the only good thing that has happened lately (except for our little bundle of joy) so I am trying to enjoy it!! These are difficult times but there is good in this world!

The only other piece of news is that we are FINALLY getting carpet in the nursery and our bedroom next Wednesday so we can set the nursery up then. Who new it took so long to get carpet installed?? I have a baby shower in about a week that Melissa Mom and Liesl are throwing and I am looking forward to seeing family. I'll post pictures of the nursery and the shower when I have them.

Thanks for reading my blog! Sorry it was so long. I had so much to say!!

Love,
Mama Panda