Baby Appointment

So we had a baby appointment today, the appointment went well it was the same as usual. They get the heartbeat and measure my belly. I was really nauseous this morning so my doctor gave me a prescription for something that will help with the nausea that's been plaguing me the past couple weeks.  Its usually just in the morning, but it being combined with light headed-ness, getting overheated too easy, and my little man's squirming around in there, it can be a little overwhelming. Seems that my first trimester goodies are back for their final round, only this time my little man doesn't sit still and makes things a million times worse when mommy doesn't feel so good. LOL But I'll love him anyways :P

Can't help myself I know he's going to be a cutie. This is getting off topic a bit, and I'll go back to the rest of our baby appointment in a sec, but I had a dream with a sweet little strawberry blonde haired baby boy in it. He was so little and adorable, and it has me really excited to meet my little guy :)

Anywho, so after our initial appointment we went and did our pre-admissions paperwork for the hospital. So that way they wouldn't try getting me to stop and fill out paperwork whilst being in labor lol. After that we went up to the birthing center and we got to see the birthing room. They didn't have any recovery rooms to show us as they were all full, but the lady said they are very similar just without the monitors and such. The rooms are so cozy, it doesn't really feel like a hospital, which is nice. It's got what looks like wood floors, and lower lighting, so you don't have that sterile feeling. The babies get to room in with you, since their isn't a nursery, which is perfectly fine with me. I'll need to have him close by to give him a booby when he's hungry anyways.

It's really starting to come close, we've got less than 2 months now. It's so crazy to think that in less than 2 months my baby is finally going to be here, and I'll get to hold him. I am really done with being pregnant, I'm just ready to be a mommy. Being pregnant is exhausting, and I sure am glad we don't have to carry babies for longer than 9 months. Any longer and I might lose it. Being uncomfortable all the time is just not awesome. I would much rather be fine myself (tired is okay, I can handle tired), and have a crying infant, than be incredibly uncomfortable no matter what I do.

Don't get me wrong, pregnancy is magical like they say, but it's really only magical in the 2nd trimester when you're full of energy and you're not huge yet. The first trimester sucked because of morning sickness and being constantly exhausted. And the third trimester sucks because there's morning sickness, exhaustion, and on top of that you're huge.

It makes me giggle though, all the squirming my baby does. In the morning he does lots of stretching, and he'll pull my belly in all sorts of directions. It's like him saying "come on mom, get up I'm hungry". Then in the afternoon he does lots of kicking and rolling around, he especially loves to get hiccups which make me giggle.  Then in the evening he usually settles down a bit, might take a nap what ever. And then right before I get into bed he's back to stretching and rolling around, kind of like a cat will kneed and turn in circles till they get they're little bed perfect for laying down. I feel like that's what he does, he tosses and turns and kicks and stretches until he finds that perfect spot, and then he settles down to sleep.

I already know he's going to be wonderful, he probably will be just like his dad though when it comes to being unable to sit still very long. The way he moves constantly in my womb already hints at that. But it's going to be a wonderful adventure and I am super ready for this next chapter in my life. :)

Kittens!

So I thought I should officially introduce my current loves and babies :)

This is Zero, he is incredibly fluffy and fat. He likes water, bath and shower time are his favorite times of day. He has depth perception issues and frequently runs into things or thinks the carpet is alive and terrifying. He is very stupid, and it's really hard to chew him out for being bad because he is so oblivious to everything. He loves to cuddle and he is a purr machine. Usually his idea of cuddling is laying nearly on top of your face and purring in your ear whilst tickling your face with his whiskers. But there is just something about him, you have to love him :P

This cute guy would be Kobe. He's massive, and if this full size cat post that is dwarfed by his size isn't enough to prove it I don't know what is. He is a part bangle mix we think, because he doesn't act like a normal house cat. Unlike his brother, he is incredibly smart. He yowls when he wants food, he yowls when his litter box is dirty, he yowls when their water bowl is empty or needs cleaning, and he yowls when he's just plain upset. He loves to play catch with himself using tiny toy mice, he still sees himself as a kitten because he tries to climb inside boxes that are way too small for him, and he beats up Zero all the time. Sometimes Zero asks for it, by antagonizing Kobe, but other times Zero just gets beat up because Kobe is irritated.

Whoever said cats don't have personalities was crazy, I have two very interesting cats with two very different personalities. Zero is like dealing with a mentally handicapped child, while Kobe is like dealing with a toddler going through the terrible twos. I couldn't be more ready for parenthood after dealing with these two. LOL

Gotta love them :)

Project James's Room!

I am just too excited to put of posting about this! James's room is finally coming together, going from the vision in my head to the reality in the next room.

Step one was getting the walls painted to perfection, and I had tons of help from Josh's mom Tami, thank god for that woman!

Now there you have the finished walls, and the lovely curtains Tami made to go with the room.

Step two was new carpet, thank god for that too! The old carpet smelled absolutely terrible, thanks to the dog Josh had when I met him. She was a great dog, but she ruined that room when she was being potty trained.

This is shortly after the carpet finally got installed, and I put together his little shelf for his toys.

Step three is putting things on the walls!!! This is only partly started. But yesterday I painted two pictures that  will go on his wall.

This was right after I finished painting them. I can't take full credit for them, I traced the them before I painted them. Painted was all mine though :P

And this is those same pictures after I bought frames for them and hung them up!

Thats all there is for now, but I will be posting more pictures as more things get added to his room :)

Catch Up

Now that I have more free time on my hands, I have decided to once again take up blogging. Hopefully I can keep up with it :P

A lot has happened over the past year that has changed my life immensely. I wouldn't take any of it back for the world. On June 9th, 2010 I met an amazing man by the name of Joshua Friedman. Little did I know at the time that he would later become my husband and the father of our soon-to-be-born child. I remember so clearly as I was driving down to San Antonio after graduation, to spend a few days with my big brother Matt, and his family; my brother telling me to be a bitch to his friends so that way they wouldn't hit on me. I laughed and said, ok whatever. I honestly did try to be a little bitchy is the funny part. I tried especially hard to be bitchy to Josh, most likely because from day one I was crushing on him ;) I made him carry things for me, I gave him lots of shit, I wiped my sweat on him. Okay, now writing all of that out, I wasn't being bitchy at all I was flirting. LOL

But I was Matt's little sister, there was no way this man would see me as someone to date... Little did I know...

This was at a point in my life where I was just tired of dating, I was tired of looking for a boyfriend, or just going through all those motions. I had decided it was off to school and to just put a relationship on the back burner until later. It's truly amazing what you stumble into when you're not looking.

The last night I was at Matt's house was when I finally pulled my face out of my butt and realized that Josh was flirting with me. There was no denying the chemistry that was flowing between us, and after our first kiss there was no denying that something was happening.

I went home the next morning, very reluctant to leave, but with butterflies in my stomach. I had no idea where this was going to lead, or if it would go anywhere at all. After I arrived back home, Josh and I started texting and talking on the phone daily. We really got to know each other, and it was amazing to me that we were on same level with so many things regardless of our age gap.

At this point I was serious about moving out of my mom's house. I had no privacy, no respect, and there was no way I'd get any homework done if I went to college while living there. So I made a wild decision, and I got the hell out. I honestly can say that moving out was the best decision I have ever made. I moved down to San Antonio to live with Matt and Ashley in their knew rental home, I was going to get a job and start looking into school.

Before I had moved though, my relationship with Josh had blossomed, after he had come up to visit for a week and we started officially dating, things just got better from there. I knew there was something super special about this guy, and I wasn't going to let him slip away. I will admit that he was part of my decision to move to San Antonio. I didn't have to move to San Antonio to get away from home, I could have gone to Idaho to live with my sister. But something in my gut told me that San Antonio was where I needed to be. I went with that gut feeling...and now here I am.

After a month or so of living with Matt and Ashley, Josh asked me to move in with him (since I spent most of my time at his house anyways), and so I once again packed up my stuff and moved it over to Josh's house. Thank god it wasn't any farther than up the road :P

Now things really get fun :) We'd been living together for several months, and it was only a couple days before Christmas when we got some really shocking news. Even though we'd been careful, fate had taken its hand in our lives; I was pregnant. Josh and I have a very open and communicative relationship, so for the past month or so before we knew we were pregnant we had been talking about the possibility of marriage. We definitely wanted to get married, but we figured there really wasn't any rush. After discovering that we were expecting though, our attitudes towards marriage became more serious. And on Christmas Day right after the Cardinals beat the Dallas Cowboys, Josh jumped off the couch, got down on his knees, and asked me to marry him. There was just no way I could tell him no ;) not when his team had just won, he was rocking his Guiness pajama pants, and I was so helplessly in love with him.

I knew then and there that I was going to marry him, and he was going to be an amazing father to our baby. We got married on February 5th, thanks to the wonderful planning and help from his family. It was the most beautiful wedding, it was better than what I could have hoped for.

Now, here it is June, and I am in my 7th month of pregnancy, we're getting our little baby James's room together, because in a little over 2 months our little man is going to be here. We've decided to name him James Robert Friedman, he'll have the same initials as his daddy :)

I am the happiest I have ever been! Josh and I have almost been together for a year now, and a lot has happened in that year. But I can honestly say it was the best year ever, and I know that with him I have lots more amazing years to come. I am truly Blessed.