The BABY GAME...

In a few days we will be hitting our third trimester of this pregnancy! Can you believe how fast this has gone by? It really is amazing to me.

Well, as you know, James and I have set up a fun game for our friends and family to play in anticipation of our awesome baby that will be making his or her appearance sometime this June. We posted the rules on facebook, so I thought I would post some more on here in case anyone else wanted to play. Just leave a comment with your guesses! It's that simple!

Here is how it works:

Makes guesses about the following items:

Gender: BOY or GIRL
Baby's weight: (example 7 pounds 3 ounces)
Baby's height: (example 19 inches)
Baby's Birth Day: (example: Due date is June 24th) and Birth Time: (example: 6:30 PM)

Point system:
(You are trying to have the LEAST amount of points. Whoever makes the best guesses on these items WINS... and trust me, you WANT to win because you just MAY win a fun PRIZE)

Wrong Gender: 400 points (you basically lose... sorry. But you have a 50/50 chance at least!)
Birth weight: 5 points/ounce you are off
Birth length: 10 points/inch you are off
Baby's birth Day: 5 points/hour you are off (For example if you guessed June 24th at 5:00 PM and baby was actually born June 23rd at 4:00 PM then you would be off by 25 hours-and receive 125 points)

Again, remember to make guesses on the following:

Baby's gender
baby's weight
Baby's length
Birth date (day) and time of birth (hour)

And since people were asking concrete information, here you go:

We're full term (meaning we can go into labor and it would be considered normal) on May 31st, due June 21st according to our doctor, June 24 according to her LMP, and can't go past July 2nd before we have to get induced. So there's your time frame.

And also since people wanted to know: Jack was born 3 days after his due date, he was 8 pounds 1 ounce, 19 inches long.

SO if you haven't already done so PLAY THE GAME! It's fun for us as parents! It will be interesting to see who gets closest and who wins!

Create!

I thought this was a cute video that was put together... Enjoy.

You know its bad when...

You start bawling over movies like The Incredibles, where there's really nothing depressing in it at all.

Gotta love pregnancy hormones. :)

We officially only have three months left in this pregnancy... Scary. Next week we're in the third trimester... the long haul. I think they say that is when it feels like the longest part of the pregnancy... That may be a good thing for me. This pregnancy seems to have flown by. I guess having a toddler here to keep me busy must be more distracting and entertaining than work was because I feel like it has gone by so much quicker than last time. I really can't believe that we are in the double digits now with our countdown until we meet our new baby.

Some things I love about the pregnancy right now:

*The fact that I have very few complaints. I love being able to tell people that the pregnancy is going great when people ask - and actually mean it.

*I love being able to feel the baby move. It's a fun feeling, and is reassuring to me that everything is going fine.

*I love the preperation and planning. Strange, you may think - since a lot of people still wonder how you can plan for a baby you don't know the gender of. But it's been so much fun for us!

*I love that this pregnancy feels so much different than our first one. Both physically and emotionally. I had been a little worried that it wouldn't be as special as it was with Jack because it wasn't our first, but it's been just as exciting and fun- just in different ways. I like the variations in things.

*I love that James has continued to be very involved with this pregnancy. He is such a good dad to Jack, and still is very excited about the new baby.

*I love that my craving for sweets has subsided somewhat, as has my craving for pizza.

*I love my childbirth classes we are taking this time. They've helped out so much with the pregnancy and keeping me relaxed and upbeat. We still have three classes left. I'm excited to see how those go.

*I love that I can fit into maternity clothes and am no longer in the twilight zone of pregnancy where you are too big for your normal clothes but too small for maternity clothes... You other mothers out there know what I am talking about.

*I do love having an excuse to be pampered by James... He pampers me anyways, but I think he likes knowing that he's helping me feel better when he gives me massages or makes me eatible meals when he knows I'm sore and don't feel like cooking.

The not so fun aspects of pregnancy right now:

*Heartburn... Not a fan

*Getting kicked repeatedly in the stomach by Jack when I change his diaper. We'll have to figure something new out.

*Lack of sleep - and I know it will only get worse... Especially when baby gets here. Yikes.

Courtesy Please

Last month we were lucky enough to find a couple to rent our apartment from us! They needed a short term arrangement, and everything seemed to work fine. The guy told us he would call us the week before they were supposed to move in (aka-tomorrow)so we could fill out the paperwork, have him sign a contract, get set up with renters insurance, etc. etc. We didn't hear from him, so finally James called him this morning to set up a time when they were going to move in so we knew when we would need to have all our stuff out.

I think you know what's coming. The guy told James that he actually already found other arrangements. James said "Oh. Alright. Well thanks." and hung up the phone.

Perhaps it is good that I wasn't the one on the phone. What an inconvenience for us, and how rude of them not to let us know. I know I would have been disappointed with the news, but at least have the common courtesy to let us know we shouldn't continue to make plans and arrangements for you to move in to our apartment.

I feel this entire housing situation has been frustrating. I've been aggitated at our managers, at the cleanliness of the apartments we've moved into, at our incredibly loud neighbors, at the three people who have told us to save the apartment for them only to have ALL of them not show up for their times they were supposed to come to the apartment to sign the paperwork for it and NONE of them giving us a heads up they weren't interested anymore.

But I suppose that is also the thing I have learned the most. No matter how frustrating the situation is - that is where life has taken us. Learn from it. I know that I will make sure before we move out next year that I won't leave gross stains everywhere, rotten food in drawers, built up mold on fans, broken rods, goo leaking down walls, etc. It will be clean and I will feel good knowing that the people moving in to the apartment won't have to go through such a hassle of deep cleaning EVERY room on top of having to move all their things in. I know that if we ever do change our mind on something we were intending to buy or rent that we will let the people know and not lead them on. And most of all, their is a silver lining to everything. We still have another month to do our laundry for free. :) That's worth $600 right.