The Price is Right...

Yes, I am sitting here watching the price is right thankful that I don't have any desire to go on that show! I am eating Chex Mix which is sad, because I went to the grocery store spent tons of money and just opened the fridge and couldn't find a thing to eat. I am so picky today.

I am thinking that this baby is a boy. This pregnancy just seems so different than Abby's. However, I do wish that it was July already and I was like a week away from delivering. I think that if I had the power, or if God allowed it to happen, I would choose to skip the first 5 months of the year and go right to June. Then I would have time to get things ready and finally would be within reach of having a baby. I can tell you all right now, I am not getting pregnant again for a long long time. I was thinking today, I was pregnant in the year 2007, 2008, and will be in 2009. That's too much for me!!!! I told Caleb I was excited for 2010 because for that whole year, Lord-Willing, I will not be pregnant!

We are house-sitting/dog-sitting at my parents house tonight while they are in TN seeing my sister and her fam. That should be fun. I think we are having some friends over and just going to hang out. I am excited! We are getting KFC too, that has sounded good to me since I saw a commercial for it like 2 weeks ago. AND...drumroll please....I think, I am almost done with morning sickness! I have woken up two mornings in a row not feeling a lick of nausea. Hooray! I still need lots of sleep at night to be worth anything the next day, but it's better than puking all the time!

Enough of all that, I am off to finish up a few things here at home before I go and get my mom's dog. Have a good week everyone!

Christmas was great...

Well, Christmas was super! We went to Caleb's family and mine in the same day. That made for some stressful times, but overall, looking back at the day it was great.

Now I am sitting here with the computer wondering why I feel like...hmmm what's a good word to describe how I feel...crud. I am exhausted, stomach ache, I think I have a fever, and did I mention that I can barely keep my eyes open? Yeah, I think the after effects of two very busy days are catching up to me!

I will post again later, but my dog is whining and I just want to go back to sleep, so we will see what happens! Hope everyone else had a great Christmas....New Year's is coming soon!

This is not for the weak of stomach!

So, by far the worst thing I ever have to do while I am pregnant is clean out the fridge. When smells make me want to throw up and the sight of nasty old food sends my gag reflex into high gear, it makes things kind of hard. Today, however, is the first time I have been able to clean out the fridge completely without throwing up! I mean I cleaned it out completely too, wiped off the shelves and everything! I believe from now on though, I am no longer saving leftover mashed potatoes. They never get made into potato cakes and that is the worst smelling thing when they are bad. :) Have I grossed anyone out yet? Anyway, I am not going to go into anymore detail or I am going to make myself sick!

I am just cleaning today. Doing the odd cleaning jobs that only get done every once in a while...like the fridge and sweeping the laundry room (which is actually the basement). I feel pretty good today. I should, I slept for like 10 hours. It is crazy, if I don't get all my sleep, I am just so sick in the morning, but if I sleep for 10 hours or so, I feel pretty good! Plus I think I am finally coming to the end of the morning sickness thing. Amen!!! This time was a worse go than with Abby, maybe that means we are having a boy! That would be so much fun!

Tomorrow I get to go to Michelle's for lunch, I am pretty excited about that. I am ready to get out again! That is a blessing. After 3 weeks of not wanting to leave my house, I finally want to go places...like to the grocery store for some much needed food! But, I am just taking it a little at a time. I don't want to get the cart before the horse!

I am off to do some other odd jobs! Have a great weekend!

I got to get busy...

As I sit here watching the weather, I wonder what it's going to be like this evening. It seems like every time I watch it, it changes! Sometimes it is supposed to start at 3, sometimes at 8, I just don't know. But that is why I am thankful that I don't need to go anywhere today. In fact, for the past week, I haven't had the desire to go anywhere. I would like to just sit and relax, but that can't happen! I have a house to clean up, dinner to make, and laundry to do. Busy, busy, busy. I have determined that I am exhausted all the time though!

On the flip side, I baked a ham the other day, do you know how long you can eat off a ham? I made a casserole, froze the bone for ham and beans, and have had ham sandwhiches every day for lunch. It is pretty impressive how far you can stretch something like that!

Yeah, I know I am just babbling on about nothing, but I am stalling from doing my work. :) My dog is cuddled up right next to me and I am looking at the mess in the living room...yuck! But I guess I need to ease my procrastination efforts and get busy.

One more thing before I get going. Does anyone know how to take more pictures when you just can't remember too? In my case, I will take our camera to Thanksgiving or parties or something where I would like to take pictures, but it just sits in my purse. It seems I get so caught up in everything else that I forget to take pictures. Any cures for this?

This will be short...

We had our first OB appointment for this baby yesterday. Things went well. I got to dicuss my fears/concerns and they told me what they would do to fix them. The thing I am most excited about is they said they would induce at 38 weeks as long as baby is healthy so that I don't have to worry about the same thing as last time happening again!!! I am very excited about that. They are also putting my due date somewhere in between the 12th of July and the 20th. So I am hoping early July we will have a baby!! We have an ultrasound today. Oh, the other exciting thing is that they said after 32 weeks they were going to do regular testing. You see, with the last baby they almost induced a week earlier, which obviously would have detoured all the hardships we had. I had very high blood pressure and they were concerned about preeclympsia, but they sent me home after it went down a bit. So, they are going to watch really closely. That calms me down quite a bit! I am excited now!!! Ok, I am off to get ready. Have a good week!

I am sitting here today thinking of all I have to do and I about have the motivation to get up and do it. It really won't be too bad-my wonderful husband did the dishes for me yesterday so I just have a few to do today and some laundry, clean up the bedroom and that's about it.

I am so thankful for the sunshine today!!! I think that is one of the hardest things about winter for me is that the sun can be gone for days. But, it is out today so I have opened the curtains and am taking full advantage of it! I do hope it snows for Christmas though, it is always so nice to have a White Christmas.

I had the question asked to me of whether or not we will find out what gender our baby is...that got me thinking. I want to know, but it would be kind of fun not to know! Although, we probably will find out because absolutely everything we have right now is for a baby girl (except for the stroller/car seat..it can go either way) and I would like to at least have some boy things if its a boy. Caleb is actually firmly convinced it is a boy. Which I am excited for, I love little boys, they are so much fun!!! His name would be Donovan Cotham. I am not sure whether to spell it like that or Donavan, but that is nothing major. If its a girl though-that's another story-I only had one girl name I liked and we used it a few months ago! We are about 8 weeks along. Which I am not totally sure about-I should be 10 weeks, but they say its 8. I trust them, but how do you account for those 2 extra weeks?! Oh well! I am sure they will know more when this little baby gets a little bigger. We have such a great doctor and midwife combo. After what happened with Abby, they are totally watching me like a hawk. For example, Sunday our doctor called just to see if we were doing ok and if there is anything he can do. What kind of doctor calls on a Sunday?! So, we are thankful for that too. The funny thing is that when I told him that I have been sick a lot, he just started laughing and said he hoped that I was. I guess being sick is a good thing, he says that means that the baby is getting stronger and I have a less likely chance of miscarrying.

Well, I really had better go get busy, lots to do with little time. Caleb gets off in three hours and I need to make dinner before church tonight. Have a great rest of the week everyone!

I don't know what's new...

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would update briefly. Not much has been going on-my morning sickness is in full swing. I am sick not just in the morning but all day long and it is pretty frustrating sometimes. I am so tired it is not even funny.

To make a long story short-our last laptop died, so we got a new one and I love it!!! I feel all modern again! It is so exciting and now Caleb and I don't have to worry about what to get each other for Christmas! We each got half a computer.

Now I am sitting here watching re-runs of Without a Trace and waiting for Caleb to get home with my chocolate milkshake. I was going to go to town with them since quite a few of our friends were going, but I am exhausted and I thought it would be better if I stayed home and waited for Caleb to come home.

I will spend the next hour that I am awake thinking about anything that you all would want to know about. Let me know if you have any ideas of something you want me to talk about. :)