Better Late than Never, Adventures Involving Fisticuffs and Hair Ties in the Face.

Okay so I have a horrible cold and I am almost 6 months pregnant so I didn't really get this one all down. It is a few days late and I was in the middle of a really good book when it happened soooo... yeah... but it's here now!

So the other night as I was reading...

Russell had been asleep for nearly and hour. My back was to him and I hear him jerk up in the bed and he says "Put up your dukes!" Well I turn around and he is doing this.

Yup! He was ready to fight me right there in bed! I jerked back not sure if he was having a playful dream or what. He had bitten me in his sleep in my first pregnancy so I am a little wary of his sleeping shenanigans while pregnant now.

 I yelled at him, I do that in the hopes I will scare him awake and it will be over fast, "Stop that! Lay down and go back to sleep!"

He looked at me so sadly as if I had just crushed his hopes and dreams and said "But I was preparing to engage in fisticuffs."

"No, you are sleeping now lay down!" I replied and that was that, thank goodness! 

...Until about an hour later.

I have my back to him again still reading my book and all of a sudden he reaches across me and puts a hair tie in my face, so close I go cross eyed trying to see what the hell it is and he says almost accusingly "What is this!?" 

I was kind of angry at this point. I was trying to read and this was the second time he interrupted me! 

"I don't know!" I yell, "Go back to sleep!"

"What is it?" he asks again.

"Shut up and lay back down! Go to sleep!"

"I was asleep! Why did you wake me up!?" he yells back at me angrily

I was like what in the world!? "I didn't wake you up! You woke up and were sticking crap in my face and asking me what is was!?"

"No! You woke me up!" He yells again.

"Whatever Russell, I'm trying to read I did not wake you up! Shut up and go back to sleep!"

And he did. And I gave up trying to read and went to sleep myself.

Pregnancy in One Dress (20+1 weeks)

Failure again! There was soooo much going on last week that we never got around to my 20 week post and it is so important! For those of you who are mathtarded like I am, 20 weeks is the halfway mark! I am half way through this pregnancy! 

(Since this post is a week late, baby (at 21 weeks) weighs around 11oz, and is about the size of a large banana)

So much happened at 20 weeks too! It became undeniable that I was pregnant. No more of the is she fat bloated or pregnant business. I am totally pregnant!
I felt baby hiccups for the  first time. So did Lumps. He was laying in the bed with me his little hand on my belly feeling baby move and I said "I think baby has the hiccups!" He looked concerned and then said to me in a very serious voice "baby needs to drink water" he then grabbed my water bottle, handed it to me and said "here you drink this". I swear, this is the sweetest smartest 3 year old ever. Not only did he want to help baby get rid of the hiccups but he knows water will fix that and that baby eats what I eat (I think he got that one from the movie Ponyo) it only makes sense that I be the one to drink the water!

I had my 20wk ultrasound July 31st. I don't have my next appointment until the 13th so I don't know exactly how that went but the ultrasound tech didn't say or do anything to make me worried. Do you want to see!? This is my baby!

We had the tech write down the sex of the baby on a piece of paper and sent it to one of my best friends all the way back in NC where I'm from! So WE don't even know what we are having!!! 

She is a pretty awesome seamstress when it comes to baby clothes and best of all cloth diapers! She didn't want everything to end up gender neutral but still wanted to get it all to me before baby was here so once she is done, some things will be put in a special "do not open until 12/17" bag and I will get to ooh and aah over the rest of the cute baby things! I am super excited!

So what do you think!? Is it a boy or a girl!?

Pregnancy in One Dress (18 weeks)

I totally missed out on 16 weeks! There was quite a bit of crazy happening like Buttons becoming an auntie! And since Buttons is my photographer and owner of the chalkboard, we just had to skip it! Which kinda stinks because 16 weeks is when I first felt this baby move! And let me just say this kid is strong! Even my Darling Husband was able to feel it! I had my 18 week check up yesterday and my midwife looked skeptical of my tales of this strong baby. I think she just has a negative outlook on things anyways though. Did I mention that she told me not to even hope for a girl since I already have 2 boys!? I swear if this kid has a vagina I hope she is the one who delivers so I can do an in-yo-face dance. 

18 weeks!!! I can't believe it is going this fast! Okay! Truth moment... I should stop using so many exclamation marks because for some reason, I'm really not that excited... which is probably why things seem to be flying for me. I am feeling kind of apathetic about it all right now. I have no interest in thinking of baby names. I don't care if it's a boy or a girl. I don't get super excited when baby moves. I don't think you could tell I feel this way without me actually telling you because I talk about my pregnancy a lot and I try to get friends and family to feel the baby move (since it seems to only perform for me and Russell), I take lots of pictures and look at baby stuff online but I do all that to try to make myself excited about it, I take pictures because I am worried I will regret it if I don't. Maybe it's because we aren't finding out the sex, or maybe I am just overwhelmed with the kids I have. I am certain when this baby is in my arms I will fall completely in love. But for now, that's it the honest truth... No lovely lies, no exclamation marks.

On the up side!!! My baby is the size of a pickle and I DO like pickles.... since being pregnant that is.. to tell you the truth I didn't really like them before unless it was with something but never before have I enjoyed eating lone pickles. Is it wrong that I was eating a pickle during this week's photoshoot?

(18 weeks baby's bones are hardening so I can feel lots of kicks!)

But I Don't Have a Go-kart....

Russell hasn't been talking nonsense in his sleep too often. Lately it's just been the annoying "hey, whatcha doin'", "I'm just snuggle buggin'", "give me a kiss" business where he is actually talking to me it's just annoying because I'm usually reading and just want him to shut up... that goes something like this:
 "Shut up Russell"
"I just want a hug!"
"No you don't you're sleeping, go back to sleep"
"Why are you so being so mean?"
"Because I'm trying to read and you wont stop talking to me"
"But I want to talk to you!"
"No you don't! You are asleep and wont even remember this so shut up!"

Well tonight was a little different! Not to mention I hadn't started reading yet because my fetus made me take a late night (11pm) trip to the grocery store in search for marinated mozzarella and tomatoes... and yet I came home with peaches instead... anyways! So I hadn't started reading  yet and Sleeping Russell Says:

"Do yoooou....."
I was about to tell him to shut up and go back to bed but normally he doesn't ask actual questions or anything. Usually it starts with a "hey" or something but he was propped up on his elbows not looking at me or anything in particular so I decided I should see how it played out
"Do yoooou...run your motor dry?"
 I was like yay! Fun sleeping Russell is back! The only problem is I didn't know how to respond! I was hoping it was a work dream and he was on the phone with a customer and I just couldn't hear their end of the conversation.
"Do you run it dry often?...............Hey! Lady... "
Clearly I needed to respond because the lady on the phone was not!
 "What?" I ask.
 "On your go-kart do you ever run your motor dry?"
 "I don't know..." I say hesitantly... I have no idea what it means to run a motor dry! I was hoping maybe since I was "hey lady" he would just assume his phone conversation was with a lady who doesn't know cars.. but then again.. he was talking about a go-kart! Does the Nissan dealership deal with go-karts? Does Nissan even make go-karts!?

Well I guess that wasn't a good enough answer to keep the conversation going because sadly that was all. I am hoping this is the start of more conversations with sleeping Russell though!
 

Announcment of the Prude

So! For the next 6 months we shall be adding a new photo and journal segment! Maybe I'm not so much of a prude because this Hot Toddy is knocked up!

It has actually been a long time coming. It took about 6 months of trying before we got it right and it was pretty frustrating since It happened on the first try with Lumps! Finally in April I got a little feeling it might have finally happened and sure enough 2 pink lines! I couldn't keep it in!!!! I think I was able to stay quiet for about a week before I announced it on Facebook! Then I joined a group of other pregnant ladies and started to freak out. Every day we would lose a member and I was freaking out. I decided then I would not post on the blog about it until the second trimester. Well I made it! I am was 14 weeks on Monday. I am in the second trimester and semi in the clear. The risk of miscarriage drops drastically. I am excited to share this with you all!

14 weeks first week in the second trimester. 

 PS:  This first post is actually starting a week late. Today actually marks 15wks

Sleeping Russell's Grenade Launcher

Tonight's incident started out making sense as I was lying in bed reading.. then it took an unexpected turn...


Sleeping Russell says: "How far along in that book are you?"

To which I reply: "I don't know. Why?"

Sleeping Russell says: "I'm trying to figure out if I should get out my grenade launcher or not.
Hahaha just kidding, I don't really have a grenade launcher... it would be cool if I did though right?"

Makes explosion noise

"Run mother fuckeeeerrrrsss!!!!!"

Bugs in the Bed (revisited)

Sadly sleeping Russell has been silent as of late other than the regular "Hey!" or "I'm just snuggle buggin'" or "huh? huh? What?" and then of course the random action of sticking his finger down the back of my pants while I sit at the computer... Yes he does that while sleeping and has no recollection of it the next morning.

I figured I would take this time of silence and fill it with some of my previous encounters with Sleeping Russell. You may have noticed my first encounter with Sleeping Russell is in my introduction. The second time Sleeping Russell struck it was very dramatic. I even had to calm him down and reassure him. It goes like this:

To set the scene,

I was laying in bed drawing as I sometimes do to try to relax before bed. Russell was sleeping next to me and then all of a sudden he sat up, looked right at me and said in a frantic manner

"Don't put bugs in the bed!"

"What?" I respond in utter confusion, since his eyes are wide open staring directly at me.

"Don't put bugs in the bed!" He repeats a bit more frantically, glancing around at what I can only assume were the bugs I had apparently put in the bed...

"I'm not.... there are no bugs in the bed"

Slightly uncertain this time with a slight shake of his head "don't put bugs in the bed...?"

"Okay Russell, I wont put bugs in the bed, now go back to sleep"

He seemed to relax a bit and then lay down and I went back to my drawing.