VOTE on our SEX POLL!!!

Before your mind starts thinking about sex, I'm talking about the baby sex poll! It's on the right of the page ------------------------------------->

We'll find out Wednesday and see if the majority of you are correct :)

18 weeks - sweet potato

This has been by far the best week of pregnancy. I feel good, I still don't look "big", I'm comfortable, the baby is more active, I'm not sick (even though my bagel projected out of my mouth and all over the toilet this morning), my energy level is back up, and things are just falling into place.

Hopefully this feeling continues into the next few weeks. I'm starting to get nervous about our ultrasound on Wednesday, even though everything feels like it's going well. The baby has been so active in the last 24 hours. I like to just sit still and feel it tickle the inside of my belly. I LOVE knowing that it's alive in there and that it's active and moves around. I definitely talk to the baby sometimes. Its ears are developed now, so why not?!

This is posted a little late, but here is the 17 week photo:

I love Target, but seriously?

So Target shipping BLOWS. That beautiful furniture I wanted to buy for the nursery wasn't very expensive, but when you add the shipping fee it was almost double the entire purchase.

Luckily, JCPenny was having a sale this week and we bought this instead:

Can I hibernate until April 15th?

Because that's when we find out the sex of our baby! I completely blame my mother and grandmother for the lack of patience I have for big surprises :) I just want to treat it like my Christmas presents as a kid... see it first, and act surprised later!

Gone Country

You know you live in the country when the INSIDE of your house gets skunked. I've told this story a million times now, but here are some updates:


Sunday 11pm - Dog gets sprayed on front porch. Front door was open = inside of house gets sprayed. Dog gets bath, we sleep at in-laws for the night.


Monday - scrub house. Floors, walls, clothes, wood trim, everything. Tried vinegar solution, Nature's Miracle spray, febreeze, soap, pledge, etc.


Tuesday - Got home from work, opened windows and doors. Sprayed all carpets with Nature's Miracle (again). Notice funny smell in bedroom...


Wednesday - Same as Tuesday but also vacuumed upstairs carpets again. Phil gave our dog Blaze another bath because the smell has come back - stronger than before. Discover smell in bedroom is from the mattress. MY FAVORITE PIECE OF FURNITURE. Yes, the skunk smell has permeated into our mattress. Too late to spray the bed down, must sleep on it.


Thursday - (today) Woke up way too early for being my day off. Smell of mattress makes me gag. Game plan for today is spray Nature's Miracle all over mattress and turn on the fan. Hope it dries (and gets rid of smell) before 11pm. DH is having company over tonight, so I plan on baking cinnamon in the oven to try to deoderize the air (or at least temporarily make the house smell better). Will probably smell test every inch of the house to see if I can narrow down where the stench still lingers.

***Also exciting event today: Doctors appointment at 3pm. Will schedule the big U/S today!!***