Third Trimester and SUMMER!!!!

I feel like I should win a gold medal for actually making it to summer with (some of) my insanity intact. It has been so hard to focus on school lately when all I want to do is focus on these sweet little kicks coming from inside my belly. Now I can sit and think about (and freak out about) becoming a mommy without feeling guilty that I'm not thinking about decimal points and fractions. :) We had our first baby shower on Tuesday. My work friends threw me a diaper shower and I was completely blessed by the amazing staff at LLE! We have diapers of all sizes and more wipes than I can ever imagine using...although everyone tells me that I will use every.single.one. My wonderful team blessed me with the diaper bag I have been OBSESSING over. Vera Bradley, Totally Turq. Its the cutest thing ever! I love it. I wanted so so badly to come home that day and fill it with baby stuff. Haha...like I said, obsessive. I can't wait until it's filled with all the tings my sweet son needs.

So the last day of school felt surreal. I walked out thinking, "the next time I'm here, I'll have a sweet baby boy living in my house." It still doesn't feel real! I just can't imagine the feeling of seeing his face for the first time and kissing his little cheeks and holding him skin to skin. How do you anticipate something you can't imagine?

As I was told by so many, the third trimester has brought. I mean, as if someone said "ACTION" the third trimester has rolled on cue and brought with it as many naps as I can fit into one day! I am thankful to report a normal blood sugar test! I was really worried about having to prick my finger every day and worry about all the things that come along with gestational diabetes. Praise God for his abundance of blessings.

So, I kicked off summer with a celebratory lunch at IHOP with Megan and Michelle and then a nice LONNNNGG nap and then Sex and the City with my girlfriends. Jesse is out of town playing in Bay St. Louis in Mississippi. I miss him like crazy. I think I go a little off my rocker whenever he's not here. I just don't feel like myself when I'm here by myself. He's my stability.

I'm ready for the R&R that comes with summer and ready to get this place ready for a perfect homecoming for Reid. Not that he's going to go around checking baseboards when we bring him home from the hospital, but I want everything to be ideal for him. Nothing has ever seemed so important creating the PERFECT environment for my sweet little angel.

Weird Weather and Weird Hair

The weather today has been total madness. Even as I watch the news for the millionth hour in a row I STILL can't believe the massive amounts of water that have overtaken the Nashville area. As if I needed one more thing to freak me out, now I've already told Jesse that once Reid gets here we will NEVER drive in the rain just in case it is like this again and we get flooded on the interstate and have to wade out of our car to the side of the road, baby in tow. He laughed, of course. My worries and scatterbrained thoughts are nothing of consequence to him lately, which is good. ONE of us has to be sane around here!

So we had a wonderful, lazy Saturday morning. Lounging around with the dogs, no t.v. on, reading and basking in the quiet. We had planned to go register today and so around noon we decided to get ready to head out. I took a shower and afterward felt very tired and told Jes I wanted to take a nap first (LAZY)...AND woke up 2 hours later! whew! When we went downstairs we both had a dozen missed calls. Apparently the weather had gotten bad? lol. Thirty minutes later we were putting couch cushions in our downstairs bathroom and rounding up the dogs. Everything turned out fine of course, but not for everyone. We are still amazed that I-24 is flooded and cars are completely submerged and a trailer floated down the interstate and was destroyed and cars were FLOATING down the itnerstate upside down? What in the world? Where's the Ark??? We are praying for everyone affected by this horrible storm and especially the families of those that lost their lives. Weird weather.

On another note...sooooo we all know I have STRAIGHT hair. The straightest. There in no curl in there. Well, so today I took my shower and decided that I wanted to take a nap. I've done this before. Just woke up, blow-dried my hair, straightened and went along. NOT TODAY. When I woke from my nap and looked in the mirror, my hair was straight up CURLY!! Where did these curls come from? When did my hair decide it wanted to be wavy?? It was so weird. It was everywhere and I had no idea what to do with it. I don't know how to have curly hair. Ha! Anyway, I've heard pregnancy can make your hair change, but it just really weirded me out. Pregnancy totally takes over your whole body. Weird Hair.

Weird Day.