my feet

gross.

what week are we in?

went to the doctor today and here's the latest:  "technically" i'm almost 35 weeks.  however, they like to measure your belly when you go to the doctor.  the amount of centimeters you measure is supposed to correspond to how many weeks pregnant you are.  so...  this belly is measuring at 37cm.  wha???  that's right.  and the doctor said that it's all baby.  she's guessing that jack is weighing in at about 6 lbs. already.  ALREADY!  he's all done and just fattening up and getting even more adorable...  ha!  like that's even possible.  here's my prediction: the little dude is not going all the way.  i'm guessing august 20th instead of august 27th.  be prepared.

i'm sold.

okay.  so... i've been thinking about it and i think i've made up my mind.  i've decided on jack's name. " jack crash spelts".  i think it's awesome.  think about it for a bit....  wait...  oh ya.  it's awesome.  =)

adventures with jack

*** first a disclaimer:  everyone is okay.  besides a few burns from the seatbelt and airbag, we are fine.  ***

now.  we decided to start off our summer vacation with a bang.  literally.  i had just been to breakfast with my friend leona (holla!) and was on my way to see matt at the waldenbooks when a woman decided to turn and go the wrong way down a one way street...  immediately in front of my car.  everyone always says that it's like slow motion, and they are right.  i remember seeing this car appear in front of me and i yelled "oh my god!" and just hit the brakes, but there wasn't much i could've done.  next thing i know, i'm in the middle of the intersection, both airbags have deployed and the car smells something awful.  to make a long story short (too late right?) the police showed up with an ambulance and checked me out.  the lady was driving an elderly woman who had to be transported to the hospital by ambulance.  suzy came and got me, we went to pomerado to get jack checked out and they monitored his heart for about an hour (he's cool.)

so the car is totalled.  we spent an hour today waiting to get into the tow yard to clean all of my school stuff out of the car before the insurance company took the car to assess damages.  and we're getting a rental car later...  such a pain to get all of this stuff done but thank god we are fine.  here's a couple pictures i took at the tow yard.  the first is a view from the back seat (we couldn't open the front doors) and the second is an outside shot of the car.  drive safe everyone.

week 30

oh lord...  we are done with school.  the past couple days have been loooooooong and hot!  it's not so bad normally but little five year old bodies get cold easier than my hippo physique so i couldn't blast the ac as much as i would have liked to...  "meeses spelts!  i can't feel my toes!"  

so here's the baby update:  jack is roughly 16 inches long and almost 3 lbs. (about the size of a folded thick wool sweater...  wha????).  i don't really believe that comparison but...  we'll go with it for now.  he has all of his senses up and running.  he's even opening his eyes and checking out what's around him, although i feel like it would be awfully dark and hard to see in there.  he's been moving more and more and now it will be for longer periods of time so a couple people (mophie and moo...  holla!) have been able to feel him move, finally.  it's been kind of earthquake-tsunami-wave-like movement too.  all of a sudden my whole belly will shake and then these rolling movements go across it...  godzilla baby!  

the school threw me a baby shower last week and we scored a couple really great things.  the kinder team all hooked us up with our awesome bouncer/papasan chair.  i really enjoyed hearing all of the horrible labor and delivery stories that some of the women felt compelled to tell me (no i didn't...  i'm lying).  i even had a grandma of one of my student's come up to me today (last day!) to let me know that i should be careful because her daughter was due this august too but her baby came a week ago and now she's in the hospital for at least 2 months hooked up to all sorts of machines and i should know it could happen to me too....  really lady?  i'm sure it could, but last i checked, i'm a fairly normal, healthy person - not a cracked out wackadoo like you and probably your daughter.  so BACK OFF!  have a great summer!  =)

also, i'm going to the doctor again on friday (and most of you know how that went LAST time).  so wish me luck and say a little prayer that i catch her on a good day...  i'm just assuming she was having a bad day last time and that's why she was a little harsh (in my opinion).

lastly, we are going camping for a whole week next week.  soooooooo excited!  i was even more excited before i got up to use the bathroom for the second time the other night and had a horrifying thought (at 4am).  i'm going camping.  and i'm going to have to go to the bathroom in the night.  in the dark.  by myself.  with the bears.  and i tell you what....  i'm not walking myself through the woods all the way to find a bathroom in the dark.  so matt better be prepared for some late night awakenings because i'm going to need someone to watch my back for bears when i have to get up in the night.  rawr.

week 27

really?  week 27?  this is the last week of my second trimester... at times i feel like this has been going on forever and other times like it's been way too fast!  things have been going very well this past week.  jack is a mover and a shaker and if i can get matt to try we should be able to hear his heartbeat through my stomach!  weird!  this weekend we had barbecued ribs - yum! - and jack liked them too.  yesterday i had some jambalaya with a ton of kick - really.  i got about halfway through my bowl and i was getting punched and jabbed like crazy - "what are you doing lady?!  you trying to kill us both with that heat!?"  it was HOT!!  pepe even got a taste of jack's attitude when he got kicked in the butt the other day.  pepe was sitting on my lap with his buns pushed up against my belly when all of a sudden - POW!  he got kicked in the butt.  he turned around and gave my belly the stink eye so fast!  then he just kind of got up and moved to the end of the couch.  it was pretty funny.  

school is finishing up with just a couple more weeks to go.  i finished BTSA - that 2-year thorn in my side.  matt is done with everything for the credential!  all we have to do now is find jobs for next year!   oh - and a babysitter.  although i really think that pepe's maternal instinct is going to kick in and we will have free childcare from him.  =)  

week 24.

so here we are in week 24.  ears are done.  fingernails are done.  lungs are finishing up and starting to work their magic.  jack is practicing breathing in there amongst other things.  he's been giving little jabbers and pokes pretty regularly now.  maybe it's because he's getting bigger and feels all macho or something.  by the end of this week he will be about 2 lbs. and a little over 14 inches long!  crazy!  hopefully that means he'll be filling out a little too...  get some meat on them bones skeletor!  and i mean that lovingly...  =)  but really, the ultrasound pictures are a little creepy with no fat on his face.  

i've been doing pretty good too.  some heartburn and other crazy aches and pains but not too bad...  i heard it gets worse.  =)  i'm taking a "mental health" day today.  more for matt i think.  we were talking about how living with a pregnant person is like pulling out onto a blind curve with your car.  you might get out just fine, but other times you could get hit head on by a mac truck.  poor matt.  last night i was the 18 wheeler and he was a bug  stuck on my windshield, holding on for dear life.  so....  jack and i are taking a rest today to recoop and be nice people again.  =)