Monday, August 30, 2010

Parent/Baby Compatability

BabyCenter had this great article I found.



Scorpio (Little Man)



About the Scorpio Child

Private and Mysterious


The saying "Still waters run deep" perfectly describes your Scorpio daughter or son. Calm as she may seem, there's a lot going on beneath the surface. As her parent, you may never learn all about what makes your little Scorpio tick because these children rarely reveal everything.

Scorpio children are strong-willed, passionate, and intense, and the need to feel secure drives them to control themselves and others. A strong, durable emotional connection is one of their primary needs, but, perversely, they may test the durability of that connection, often without realizing they are doing so.

Your Scorpio child may seem by turns affectionate, aloof, devoted, obsessive, loving, and manipulative. Scorpios have such range and depth of feeling that you may sense that your child is expressing only the top layer of her true feelings -- and that you could understand her a lot better if only she'd let you in on the secret.

Scorpio children thrive on the mysteries of life and have a knack for understanding others' motivations. They might love reading suspense stories or watching horror flicks from an early age, and they'll be drawn to complex friendships that really stretch them.

It's all too easy for Scorpio children to be drawn into obsessive, vindictive, and controlling behavior, so be sure to teach your child about the importance of forgiveness as well as forging balanced relationships with other people. If you guide her carefully, you can help your Scorpio child develop interests that will benefit the world at large, as she brings her focus, willpower, and determination to bear.



Pisces (me)




About the Pisces Parent

Through the Eyes of a Child


As a Pisces parent, you're incredibly nurturing, compassionate, and tuned in to your children's needs. From the time they're infants, you feel their pain acutely, and you experience joy at every discovery they make in this bright new world they inhabit.

In some ways, your own experience of life is like that of a child. You're less bound than some to the demands of "real life," and you're imaginative and creative in the extreme. You'll happily spend hours playing make-believe with your kids, and you'll be as wide-eyed and fascinated as they are with the wonders of the world.

You'll teach your children the importance of dreams -- of letting their minds wander, of tapping into their intuition, of trusting their perception of energies and forces that exist beyond the tangible world. You'll pass along your own sensitivity toward life's subtleties, and instill in your children a reverence for life itself. But children are sharp, and they'll pick up on your tendency to avoid reality in favor of your pretty imaginings.

Be sure to ground your dreamy energy with a resolute grip on reality. After all, someone needs to keep at least one foot on the ground! And you'll need to teach your children how to handle life's mundane responsibilities, such as adhering to a regular homework schedule, doing chores on time, and sharing wholesome meals together. In truth, it will be a positive exercise for you to perform these grounding tasks, and the whole family will be better off.



Aquarius (J)



About the Aquarius Parent

The Importance of Being Unique


As an Aquarius parent, you encourage your children's freedom and independence. You might have a zany or unconventional home life. At the very least, your family home is likely to be filled with your children's original works of art, projects-in-progress, and other objects of interest.

Since you're into pushing the boundaries of what's considered normal, you won't mind when your kids dye their hair green or try out an interesting new clothing style. To you, these forms of exploration and unique self-expression are what being young is all about! But you also have enough loyalty and stability to provide a strong foundation for your family.

You simply aren't bound by traditional familial or gender roles, and you're happy with your freedom. You've always cultivated a wide variety of friends and acquaintances, and you'll teach your children to be open-minded and curious about people from all walks of life. You'll also foster their ability to think progressively and come up with creative solutions to their problems. You'll serve as a model for looking toward the future rather than getting stuck in the present or the past.

Your main trial as a parent may be learning to open up to your children emotionally. You tend to be more comfortable with intellectual thought than with feelings, so you'll have to work on being tender and nurturing with your kids and resisting the urge to withdraw from them when they're needy or upset.


So in review Little man will be OCD, I will have my head in the clouds and J will be the rock of the family. Well that's great

Thursday, August 26, 2010

30 Weeks

How Far along: 30 Weeks

Total weight gain: 25lbs I am not happy about this

Maternity clothes: Oh Yeah

Sleep: I am appreciating the good ones

Best Moment this week: Spending time with J working on the little man's room

Movement: His kicks have turned more into rolls and hickups

Gender: Boy! All Boy!

Labor signs: Better not see any of this for at least 10 weeks. More excited than nervous!

Belly button: A tad poking out. Just a tad

Cravings: Sweets and sweets

What I miss: Being able to pick things off the floor and cut my own toenails

Stretch Marks: Nope

What I am looking forward to this week:Dr appointment tomorrow


I love my husband and all he does for the 5 of us. He is my rock and I don't know what I would do without him!

Monday, August 23, 2010

This is my whiney, complaining post

I am so tired of the hot weather. I would seriously go to Alaska if I could get away from this. This is just too hot. I totally see where the phrasing a bun in the oven came from.
I am ready for my husband to be home and home for more than 2 days. I know he's doing this so he can be home in Oct and Nov but my god I want him home. For a week. That's all I ask. I am done with my alone time. I am maxed out on it.
I am ready to have my body back. Don't get me wrong I love feeling the little man move and all the fun stuff. But I can NOT get comfortable at all, sleep sucks and I am not a big person however this baby is a big baby. PROBLEM!
I want a drink. I could deal with the hot if I could have a nice cosmo or frozen margarita to counteract the hotness.

OK I am done. See venting works and makes me feel better!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

29 Weeks

How Far along: 29 Weeks

Total weight gain: 25lbs I am not happy about this

Maternity clothes: Oh Yeah

Sleep: I had 2 great nights of sleep. Followed by 1 horrible night. I've learned to appreciate the good ones!

Best Moment this week: Any moment the little man is moving is a good one

Movement: His kicks have turned more into rolls and hickups

Gender: Boy! All Boy!

Labor signs: Better not see any of this for at least 11 weeks. More excited than nervous!

Belly button: Flat.

Cravings: Sweets and sweets

What I miss: I miss my body and having it to myself and not worrying what I was doing to it or putting in it. But I wouldn't change a thing

Stretch Marks: Nope

What I am looking forward to this week:Being that much closer.


RhoGAM sucked ass. The nurse didn't appreciate the lack of compassion my husband had for me and gave him a hard time. This made me feel so much better. However my butt hurt for a few days. Not only is that needle big you can feel that medicine go in you and it's NOT a good feeling. After a little research I found out the shot is actually bone marrow and blood for RH+ people. Interesting. It's actually considered a blood transfusion.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

What a Difference a Few Months Makes

So I had this post in my mind for a few days. I got past the first paragraph great and then the second came and I just started to bawl like a baby. I had to stop 3 times to wipe the tears and collect myself. This in itself just proves to me that this isn't a phase this truly is what is meant for me. Or it's just the pregnancy hormones kicking in but I strongly doubt it.


Wow! What a difference a few months make. Anyone who knows me and knows me well would tell you I was going to be that girl that moved to Manhattan, living in a crummy apartment working my way up in a design firm in NY and having a blast doing it. I am a city girl. I was meant for that city and everything it had to offer and every good kick in the ass it had to hand out. I was ready to take it all. I would meet a handsome guy that was fabulously smart and ahead of the game and we would eat our Chinese on our little couch in our studio apartment and on the weekends would go out for cocktails with friends and enjoy the city like no one would ever do again. We would have a dog or two but would never really have children. That my friends, was my world and plan at the ripe age of 21 in the beginning of the summer of 2004. How 2 little months changed my life forever. I did meet a handsome guy that was fabulously smart and ahead of the game. However if you know the oilfield you know there really isn’t oil on the island of Manhattan. So I gave up that dream on one condition, that my husband, take me there at least once. As good of a guy he is he fulfilled that promise. As we went along on our journey I found myself wanting kids. So we hopped on that train a little over a year after we got married. Knowing that I wanted kids I also knew I wanted to work. I didn’t want to be that mom that stayed home and knew nothing outside of her little world of kids, laundry, dinner and household duties. I went to college for goodness sake. I didn’t waste those 4 years killing myself to walk away from it all just because of some little slobbery cuteness of goo. I was going to hold on as tight as I could to my dream of that working girl that was just as strong and smart as any man and could kick his ass if needed.

After 3 years of trying to get pregnant and one miscarriage I found myself pregnant in February this past year and was determined more than ever to make this mommy and work thing work for us. This was my mind set until about a month or so ago. I literally woke up one day and it just clicked. All I want to do is see this little guy grow up. I don’t want to miss a minute. I want to be that mom that is at school being the room mom in kindergarten in the middle of everything. I want to be the mom that sits down with my son for hours and cuts and paste because he wants to make all the ornaments on the Christmas tree this year. I want to be that mom that is the head of the booster club for the football or baseball team and organizes everything. I want to be at every game, awards ceremony, doctor’s visit, and teachers visit. I want to be that mom that all the kids know because I am always there and helping. I want this more than anything, more than high heels, board meetings, and industry lunches. I want to be so involved that I just don’t stop and am exhausted at the end of the day. Now I know it sounded like I looked down on these kinds of women before. The women that stayed home, but I didn’t. I never looked down on them. I have always understood what they did was hard work. I grew up with a mother and a step mother that never had the chance to stay at home so I always assumed that to be as strong as them I had to be this power business women. Now knowing what I know and how I feel now I feel sorry for my mother and step mother. It must have killed them to not be able to be there all the time and see my siblings and I do everything. I now have respect for both sides and appreciate and respect what each do and can’t do. I never intended this to be a post about SAHM vs. working moms. I am just amazed about how much this little guy has changed me so much already and he is not even here yet. I love my husband and I love my life and looking back now I can’t imagine it any other way. This is exactly where I was meant to be and where I belong! I am meant to be a wife and a mom! Now I know I didn’t give up my dream of where I lived or what I was going to do, it has just changed and I love it!

Friday, August 13, 2010

28 Weeks

How Far along: 28 Weeks

Total weight gain: I find out this afternoon at my appointment

Maternity clothes: Oh Yeah

Sleep: Oh it sucks. If I could find a way to not have my hips hurt I would pay mucho!

Best Moment this week: Watching the little man dance in my belly

Movement: He has been slowing down a bit. I think he's running out of room

Gender: Boy! All Boy!

Labor signs: Better not see any of this for at least 12 weeks. More excited than nervous!

Belly button: Flat.

Cravings:Sweets and sweets

What I miss: A good nights sleep but I know I won't be getting that back for at least another 18 years.

Stretch Marks: Nope

What I am looking forward to this week:Being that much closer.


I get my RhoGAM shot today. Boooooooooooo!

Friday, August 6, 2010

I just had THAT experience!

You know when you watch a show and you just have to turn away because it makes you feel uncomfortable? Or you when you are yelling at the character to just stop, stop trying to make it better and just walk away? I just had that moment.
I completely embarrassed myself at Subway. After accidently tipping over ALL the lids for drinks, I proceeded to hit my cup on the counter and make my drink fly out all over the place. I filled my drink grabbed a lid off the floor and walked out in tears. I pretty sure the 3 people behind the counter in the store laughed their butts off at me after I left. I’m having center of gravity/balance issues.

Picture day!

Putting Crib Together

A few outfits we just had to buy!
Furniture all together!
Our Stroller (It even has built in speakers for your iPod)
Pups trying to help!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

27 Weeks! 3rd Trimester!

How Far along: 27 Weeks

Total weight gain: I just pray I am under a total of 20 lbs next Friday at my appointment.

Maternity clothes: Oh Yeah

Sleep: Not really restful anymore. I can only lay on my side for about and hour before I have to turn over. As J says we sleep in the land of pillows.

Best Moment this week: Getting the furniture put together. Things are finally starting to come together.

Movement: The past 2 days have been crazy. Today however he is quite. J felt him kicking all evening while we watched a movie last night. It was rather funny.

Gender: Boy! All Boy!

Labor signs: Better not see any of this for at least 13 weeks. More excited than nervous!

Belly button: Flat.

Cravings:Sweets

What I miss: A lot but I am so happy to do it all.

Stretch Marks: Nope

What I am looking forward to this week:Just making it to another week!

Monday, August 2, 2010

It's Official

I am permanently uncomfortable. And I am pretty sure I am starting to feel Braxton Hick's. Sleeping sucks and my body is in survival mode. This si what I get for walking 2 hours yesterday. Damned if I do damned if I don't.