Here She Is!

I forgot to take the 34 week shots on Sunday. Oops. However, with her due dates being switched left, right and centre, who really knows how far along she is anyway?
So here she is today at somewhere around 34 weeks :)




I also have a B&W of this one (which Jody likes better), but I like the color!


Until next time!

~K~

I'm a Bad Blogger

I have become obsessed with pregnancy as of late, and because of this affliction I find it hard to post here unless it's something that relates to such things.
Today I will break away from the constraints of said affliction, and post something that is completely unrelated to anything...and, for that matter, not even my own thoughts! I do suppose it is cheating a bit, yes?
Too bad.
Anywhooo...I read a blog. It is called Kazooisms. I enjoy it. Caroline is a cheeky, cheeky monkey. She's also 3, so I think that comes with the territory. For your reading pleasure, I present a recent post from Caroline's mother:

what goes around comes around

Yesterday was a Bad Day®. Like the kind of Bad Day® where everyone in the house is just impossible and miserable and under-rested. Caroline was feeling a bit under the weather and I was feeling like loading up baby sister and getting us all ready might send me to the loony bin, so she stayed home from preschool. And by "stayed home from preschool," I mean "drove her mother absolutely insane to the point of actually considering walking out and never coming home."

I'd fished an intact roll of toilet paper out of the toilet, argued with her for two hours on why she needed to nap and how naps are not naps if you take them standing up with your eyes open, had a conversation about where it's ok and not ok to pee (note: she says it's not ok to pee on the roof or in the sky), etc. So when she was still being difficult about something I can't remember, well, I pulled the pointless and useless "I am the mom so I am the boss" card.

She countered with, "Well I am a big girl, so I can make some rules."

I told her, "I am a bigger girl and I'm the mom and I'm in charge."

She grimaced and groaned and bent over and gave me the evilest look she could conjure up and said, "Mother, you are STRETCHING ME OUT!"

She has many other hysterical, yet maddening quips posted on the blog. You should check it out. And no, I have no idea who these people are, or how I even came upon this blog in the first place.

~K~

30 Weeks!

Here are the shots from my mini photo sesh with Jody (and Nigel's hands!) on Sunday. Only 10 weeks to go, people!! Woot! I'm hoping to do one more shoot with them once belly is bigger, but until then I will continue with the update photos at about 4 week increments.




~K~

Again?

Jody's doc has decided to change her due date again. I guess he misunderstood her when she told him her LMP. Now the date is closer to the original one and is set for November 30th, but you know what? I think I call balderdash on due dates anyway...baby will come when he's ready!! Yes, I said "he"...that's my official guess. My other guess is that he's gonna come along sometime between November 28th and December 4th :) ha ha!! That encompasses all the due dates (yes, 3 of them), so it gives much opportunity! All I ask is that baby arrives before I go home after Christmas!! That shouldn't be too hard to accomplish.
She's 30 weeks on Sunday and I plan on taking her to the park for a quick photo sesh!

~K~

6 Months (??)

Hey all! As promised, I'm keeping up another month on Jody's pregnancy process...well, a month and a bit, I guess. Jody and the rest of the immediate family were on holidays when she hit her 6 month mark, and I was here...not on holidays, but working. That's alright though.

These photos were taken after church the day she turned 25 weeks. Yesterday, however, at Jody's first visit to the new doc she was told that A) he believes her due date to be Dec. 4 (which adds one more week and would mean she's only 24 weeks now), and B) that our Snugabye is a fairly large one! The little one in her belly is measuring around the 28 or 29 week size (!!!), head is down, and baby is up along the right side of her tummy. I guess the movement she has been feeling down low must be punches, not kicks!

Soon she and Nigel both go in for bloodwork to determine blood types and to see whether they are RH positive or negative. I can't remember what that means, but I do know that if she's positive (correct me if I'm wrong) it means she likely has to get a rather nasty shot! I know for a fact that will not be a happy day for her. Let's hope it isn't necessary. I wonder how she's going to handle taking Snugabye for shots after he/she is born...

I think that's all the update I have at this point...here are the newest pictures.




~K~

Halfway

Today Jody hit the 20 week mark in her pregnancy! I took 2 more pictures of her belly progress, and I'll have to also take pictures on the 29th as that is (if you're going month by month) 5 months. Her due date, in case you aren't aware, is on the 29th of November. I can't wait to meet our Snugabye!



~K~

Dad Demolishes!

During the days of nice weather, dad got to demolishing the front flower bed. He's been wanting to take it down since I got home, but we just weren't sure how to go about it or what he wanted the finished product to look like.

It's mostly done now...but there will need to be a few things done to make it look finished. Dad did all the breaking and tearing down while I stood and watched (and took pictures), and then I carried all the bits and pieces of brick to the other yard and transported the big stones to the other garden.

Here are a few pictures of the process. I haven't taken any of the (somewhat) finished product as the weather is slightly blech right now.

And, of course, KC joined us outside in the sun while she was over for a visit. Jody and Nigel's place wasn't exactly conducive to kitty cat living at that point.

*UPDATE*

Here are two pictures I took this morning of the current state of the front planter. Mom and dad are out right now to buy plants and standing planters.

This is the shoddy "wall" to hold in the rest of the planter that we're keeping up. Until dad becomes a bricklayer or a mason, I'm not sure what's going to happen with that. I have no skills to that end...anyone have any ideas? I can't let it stay like that forever...yikes!


~K~

Jody and Nigel Moved!

Jody and Nigel are now out of their 1 bedroom apartment (where Nigel has lived for 5 years) and are in a cute little 2 bedroom basement suite that happens to be owned by Jody's boss...(and that was the longest run-on sentence in the history of my blog). They're closer to us now on this side of town, and she's been doing well taking walks to visit us. She's practicing for when she's going to have to push a stroller all the way here :)

I've, so far, only taken pictures of the practically empty suite, so I'll have to remedy that when they've fully unpacked. They've got a LOT of stuff to go through before that's done! There's much less room in this place, and much less storage...even though it is a 2 bedroom as opposed to a one bedroom. Nigel is going to work on building an outdoor storage area for their extra things that can be stored outside...so we'll see when that comes about. This weather is going to have to start cooperating first, methinks!

Here are the few shots I took on moving day.

Taken from the front door...living room and kitchen. Bedroom straight ahead is theirs and the bathroom is just behind the kitchen wall.
The bedroom on the right is baby's (they're going to have a boy...that's just my inkling..and then they won't have to paint!), and theirs is on the left.Bathroom and linen closet...obviously.

Baby's blue room and current storage roomJody and Nigel's room

And Ducky's new home...poor boy didn't know what was going on and took to hiding in his hutch during the process.

That's all for now!

~K~

Healer

~K~

YUMMO!!

Oh my heavens...the smell of lilacs around here is so wonderful it's almost nauseating! I can't get enough!


(This would be mom demonstrating the proper way to smell a lilac...stick your face in it!)

~K~