chair hunting

The hunt for a chair for the nursery has been going on for quite a while. Mostly online for quite a while. We did try a few out at Babies R Us however they have some downfalls. Namely me questioning their ability to hold up, rude sales people (!!!) and if you don't want chocolate cordorory or cream then it's 10-12 weeks for delivery of a "custom" color. Trust me when I say they are not custom colors, but the colors the normal person would want. Mark also said they have no back support, which is true.
So I sent Mark off to check out some chairs today at the La-Z-Boy Gallery because I want something comfortable and to be honest I've spent much of the past month laying in the one we have - it's a really nice leather one and you can even sleep in it. Anyway I wanted something that rocked and also something that I could put my feet up with and if you buy a rocker and ottoman you are way over what you spend to get one nice chair that does it all from the Gallery. So I picked out the styles I liked online and off to the store he went. I really wanted to go because they have so many styles and I would have loved to see some of their couches - they do not recline and look very cool - I was pretty impressed with the website.
Of course they are having a sale... and we need new end tables for the living room... and his new phone takes great pictures so I can see and approve before the deal is sealed. So it appears that not only did I get a chair for the nursery in blue, but we also got 3 new tables for the living room. Maybe Mark should go shopping on his own more often?

Big Boy's Toys

Mark got a new car a few weeks back for his new job. Maybe one day it will be mine. Mine still has life in it and we don't have a payment to make on it so bonus. We got a great deal too boot. They took his picture and then sent him a really cool calendar. Since I haven't had a chance and this is a great picture I'm just going to use it here! LOL!

Back to Bedrest

The return to work experiment was a failure and I'm back on bedrest for the duration now. ight have been the fun we had Saturday? Or the stress of finding out the chair we want for the babies room would take 10-12 weeks for delivery. I mean come one. Anyway the threat of being admitted if it happens one more time is looming above my head and I will be spending lots of time in the recliner from here on out. And let me tell you this hospital is not like the last. I will say their food is much better, but that's about it.
This time I spent the WHOLE night in triage. 6 beds of craziness. I was the only person until about 2 am and then the place filled and went nuts. 2 emergency c-sections and whiney nurses arguing about who had to go be the "baby catcher" and who got sent home before it got crazy. Is it just me or is it unprofessional to bitch about how much you don't want to be at work within earshot of any patients. Seriously unprofessional. I will give that feedback on the survey AFTER I have the baby and am home free. My nurse today during the day was awesome though and even went through the buffet to get me my dinner before they discharged me. I had heard another nurse saying how great she was last night so I knew when I heard her name this morning I was in luck.
We are now home after less than 24 hours of observation - woohoo! Baby is doing great and I have two appointments this week. At least 2 more weeks until we are home free.

back to work ... sort of

The appointment today went well and I can go work in the office 4 hours a day. At this point I am planning on mornings so I can come home and take a nap in the afternoon. Like today after we got home I took a 2 hour nap. I haven't been napping while on bed rest, but now I think I might need it. After our appointment we went out to breakfast to a new diner and I ate the whole thing. 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 pieces of bacon and a sausage - oh wait had some OJ too. This was my 2nd breakfast mind you. I ate more than Mark! The baby is measuring in at 5 pounds 4 ounces and if he keeps up this growth pattern by 40 weeks he will be 9-10 pounds. They won't induce me early just because he is big, but if he keeps this up they will do a c-section. He needs to come early on his own. On the ultrasound she showed us how he was practicing his breathing and it was delaying her measurements too. Next ultrasound to check on his growth is in 4 weeks. Next appointment is next week. The one restriction they didn't lift was housework. Mark will be keeping up on that and maybe looking to have someone come in and do the big stuff every few weeks.

32 Week Bump Pictures

Perfect fall day out today so Mark took a few pictures of me and the bump.

Tomorrow is actually 32 weeks, but close enough to say this is our 32 week picture.
Of course Mark has no bump and is not on bed rest so he's been outside having fun trimming things, cutting the grass and taking care of he leaves.

Will the cats pass the test?

The cats passed the baby test the other day. I had a friend come over with her one year old to visit. Just so happens that the baby loves cats and she immediately set off to pet them. Mani of course is very curious and was patient with the patting to a certain point. Then he got bored and would run and hide from her. Cali took a poke to the eye and didn't even meow much less move. Mani was very interested in the baby cookie so he may like a baby more than we think. I will be buying a screen for the crib and pack and play. They are way to excited about the baby stuff we have now and they don't need to be napping with the baby.
The test they are not passing is me being home. They are fighting over who gets to sit with me all day and of course they sit at the end of the recliner so you can imagine what happens when I have to get up. Yep. Cat on the floor. I try to warn them that it's time to get up and I give a little nudge. Doesn't work. They are starting to find other places to sleep so maybe it is happening. The past two morning I've come downstairs and they are both sitting in my chair giving me the evil eye daring me to dump them out. So I do.
I have ended the all day whining for food by ignoring them. After a couple days they just stopped. The bad part is they start the whining as soon as Mark walks in and he is not as good as I am as ignorning them. Yesterday I fed them as he was pulling up because it is annoying to listen too. Sort of worked. That training will continue.
Off to wake them up again - napping all day needs to end so they sleep more at night!

bed rest update

so what does one do on bed rest? Well to start with sleeping in is not on the agenda because we haven't been staying up that late. So today I got up when Mark left at 5:30 and ate my first breakfast of the day. I then surfed the net looking for a few baby items. I really want to find a nice rocker - one that is upholstered with an ottoman. Some take a week or two for delivery and others take 6 to 8 weeks. Some news usually finds it way into this time spot too. Next up is a shower and real clothes. Breakfast #2 was about 9:30 this morning - a bowl of Total so I can skip the iron vitamins. They gross me out and the the cereal worked in bringing up my iron so this is a justified meal. Really no justification is needed because I have not gained anything in 4 weeks. This baby is a calorie burner big time. Even Mark thinks I am eating too much, but really not the case I guess. Lunch is about 12:30 and most days is some sort of leftovers. Fine by me. I can see this being a money saver with no lunches out. Good and bad. The afternoon is for catching up on work email and phone calls. Most likely a snack if I remember. Mark will roll in sometime right before dinner and then clean up the kitchen after he makes dinner and waits on me. (never fear he has been promised a Vegas vacation sometime next year as a reward for no whining about all this - that's what you get for earning husband of the year - right?) Reading and surfing the net fill in any down times. I'm sure by now Julie is totally jealous. She will be even more jealous when she hears my doc of the week - the last one in the practice that I have not met - did his residency at Brooks in San Antonio - it was before her time and it appears this is where he landed after getting out. Love having all the details online about the practice. Can't quite figure out why someone would want to more to NY to practice medicine? ah well.

Outsourced

Outsourced is our new favorite TV show and the other night the real life applicability of it came to haunt Mark. You see Mark got a new job (woohoo!!!) and had to turn in his cell phone (boohoo). This is his lifeline to the world and I knew I needed to be able to call him anytime if something was to come up before he got his new cell phone from his new job next week. So I sent him off to Wally's to get a track phone - in this case it was called the Net10. The thing is tiny! Anyway he comes home and waits until really late at night to activate it ( I am in bed sleeping and miss out...). He has to call to activate it. Mark does not like talking to machines so he must have asked for a "operator." Turns out he was calling India - like in the show Outsourced - and the operator could not understand him nor he her. In the end the phone was not activated and I'm going to guess there was a fair amount of cussing going on downstairs as he was still annoyed when he got up. The next morning he is telling me how his phone still doesn't work and about the lady who could not speak clearly in India. So I have him go get the directions and I take a stab at it. First off I don't mind talking to machines - you can skip all the fluff talk. Second I could understand the machine man very well and was able to activate the phone in about 10 minutes. You have to enter a ton of codes and I'm pretty sure this is where speaking English clearly causes a problem. I think this little experience makes watching Outsourced all the more entertaining - although I will admit they are easier to understand on the show. I guess they have to be or no one would watch it? You can catch the pilot online still. Not for little ears either!

home with the feet up...

Bed rest for the duration of the baking of baby S. And two cats who think I am here to entertain and feed them 24/7. I'm thinking since it's not raining today they might get to enjoy the back porch. Build up their winter coats a bit? With 68 days to go the countdown will become a daily thing for sure. Even though Baby S. is measuring at 4.4 lbs on the ultrasound I am only measuring in at 30 weeks, which is right on target so maybe the u/s is off? Sort of hoping so because a 10 pound baby is a little too big. He would not get to wear many of the cute newborn stuff and all the newborn diapers would be handed off to someone else.
It's very nice to be home after the drama of this weekend. The short stint in the hospital was interesting and I now know what happens when you show up in nothing but your pj's... you get a neato gown, fuzzy blue socks and fake undies. Not worth trying to wear your own stuff at times because of all the goop from the monitors that goes everywhere. Besides that you don't have any laundry to take home then . Another plus was the extensive food menu if they let you eat. I didn't get anything for 24 hours so the next time around I will be eating a snack in the car on the way there. My last meal was Friday night at 7:00 - after our car ran out of gas and then I forgot to eat a snack before bed. Never again. Back to the food. Found I had to get creative and build a meal type thing. Sunday night they brought my dinner 1 hour and 15 minutes after I ordered it. Cold soup and burned grilled cheese. YUCKO! The best part was about 10 minutes before it got there I called to say it had not arrived yet and they put in another order for me and told me to call back if it came. Well it came, but after the kitchen closed so no one answered. The 2nd order showed up - same slow delivery chick and I gladly took it. A little warmer this time and not burned. And I got 2 banana's out of the deal. Should have ordered cookies with that meal! Mark has all kinds of great heat and eat meals set up in the fridge at home so I am golden for this week at least. He has all sorts of night time things this week so it's working out good with those meals for me.
Will try to post some pictures from the shower I missed later.