Pregnancy survey

How far along? 27 weeks, 2 days
Total weight loss/gain: 28 lbs total at my last prenatal visit.  Oops.

Maternity clothes? Almost exclusively.  I have a few pjs I can still wear, some normal shirts and some of my looser sweaters.  But all normal (read: not yoga) pants are maternity
Sleep: Pretty good, surprisingly.  I'm usually really tired by bedtime.  (I've had to take Benedryl some nights for itchiness), I get up 2-4 times during the night to pee, but I fall back to sleep quickly.  The only time I have issues is when I have bad indigestion. 

Best moment this week: Nothing really stands out.  Maybe Aaron finishing his charity quilt, but nothing momentous pregnancy related.

Movement: I love feeling him move!  I feel really connected when he moves.  Aaron's felt him move a few times too.

Food cravings: Sweets.  Mexican food, Spicy food.
Food aversions: Not much.  I want to eat most everything I see.
Gender: He's still a boy!
Labor Signs: Nothing, thank goodness.  Not Braxton Hicks, either.

Belly Button in or out? Still in, but it is starting to get a little more shallow.  (I have a really deep belly button).  No linea negra yet either, maybe I won't get one, since I've pretty fair.
What I miss: Getting off the floor(bending, getting off of the couch, etc) without struggling.  Not weighing almost 190lbs!  (Eek!)

What I am looking forward to:  My shower, getting Mojo's room set up, meeting him.
Milestones: I'm past the point of viability, which makes me feel a little better, since I'm a worrier.

Bullets

• The boy scout quilt that Aaron made sold at the charity auction for $195!!!
• We're supposed to stop being in the freezing range tomorrow.  (I'm so ready!)
• I had prenatal yoga tonight.  I'm still pretty flexible, but my belly is noticeably starting to get in the way.
• I think we're going to try to make a registry for Mojo this week.  Maybe tomorrow, if Aaron doesn't have to work.  We're going to register at Target.
• I keep trying to watch Survivor, and I keep hating it.
• I've been getting pretty well caught up at work.
• We still don't have a tree set up, and Christmas is two weeks away.  :-/
• I was too tired today (and a little lightheaded) so I only took a short walk at lunch, and took a 40 minute nap.
• I only got in 6500 steps.  :-(
• 9pm, that means I need to get ready for bed.

Grumble, grumble

I woke up at my usual 5:30, and stayed snuggled in bed for a while.  I got up to turn on the heat (we set it for 60 overnight).  The thermostat said it was 56!  So I played with it a little, and nothing happened.  Aaron played with it, and managed to make cold air come out.  Aaron said he'd talk to his folks when it was a little later.  After getting dressed in the freezing cold house, I walked to the kitchen, and stepped in a huge puddle of pee, in my sock feet.  ...  I then had to change my socks, and pants (again in the freezing house).  Aaron cleaned up the pee for me, while I went off on a swearing jag.

I went to leave for work, and my windshield was completely iced over.  (It was 27 degrees out then).  I sat in the car, and waited for it to defrost enough for me to drive.  I don't have an ice scrapper anymore, I threw that away when we moved out of Utah.  (Also, I realize it's much colder in other parts of the country, but I live in California for goodness sake!)

Work was fine (and warm).

Aaron got a space heater from his folks, and put both dogs in their sweaters, an closed them in the back to let them warm up.  Apparently, the heat guy came sometime around mid day, and left to get a part (he left his ladder here).  But that was well over 4 hours ago, and it's currently 53 and dropping.  I have the little space heater going, but it's not helping.

I'm just sitting on the couch with Zelda on one side, Moss on the other, and Yoie barking her head off in the other room.  I'm still completely bundled up, but cold.  Aaron was supposed to be home around 5, but isn't.  I'm too hormonal to deal with this right now.

What I did today.

• Got up "early" (as opposed to sleeping in) at 7, to go to the flea market.  I think it was about 40 degrees when we got there.
• We wandered around for about 90 minutes.  It was emptier than usual, due to the cold weather, and that it'd rained last night.  I found a couple books for Mojo, but that was all we got.
• On the way home we got gas, and donuts.  
• We laid down for a few minutes when we got home.  Actually Aaron laid down for a few minutes, I ended up napping for 2.5 hours.  He left to go to a memorial while I was asleep.
• When I got up, I found that Fiona had made a line of poop from the kitchen into the living room.  I cleaned that up, and decided that it was about time to deep clean the kitchen.
• They finished taking out the tree while all that was going on.  The giant camphor tree is no more.  The stump got all the way ground, hopefully we'll have a driveway again soon.
• In the kitchen, I put everything away, did all the dishes, scrubbed the counters, and stove top.  I took the recycling and garbage out, and shredded all our papers.  I swept the floor. Then I got a bucket and Lysol and proceeded to scrub the floor on my hands and knees (I did the baseboards too).  Aaron came home while I was scrubbing, so he helped too.  I also ran the laundry while doing all the cleaning.
• After that we worked on Aaron's quilt.  We'll he did most of it, I assisted when necessary.  The top was sewn together.   He added the patches he wanted (it's a scouting quilt).  Then we pin basted it on the (newly cleaned) kitchen floor.  We went back and forth on whether to tie the quilt, or stitch in the ditch.  Tying is a lot easier, but doesn't look as nice.  Stitch in the ditch is a lot more difficult, but looks a lot nicer.  We ended up using the stitch in the ditch.  We needed to go to ask grandma for some advice on how to minimize pulls on the back of the quilt.  There were a few small mishaps, but it looks really great!  All that's left is the binding, and it's all done.
• While we were doing that, Julius peed in the dog bed, which was about 5 feet away from us.  I guess Aaron had gotten a little behind in cleaning the boxes, but man, that cat is a jerk.  
• I've walked 15,100 steps today.  :-D
• We watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.  Now we're watching Star Trek Into Darkness.
• I wanted to change the bed linens, and put the laundry away, but I think those things will have to wait til tomorrow.

A few pictures

Piecing his squares

Sewing rows

Julius helping

Aaron's quilt top is done!

The scouts are having a silent auction on Wednesday, so he's been working on it for a while.  Those are all the shirts and patches from this counsel's events for the year.  He did a great job!

Basting it all together.

Aaron got to play Santa at church yesterday.

All dressed!

 With a sack of candy.

A little blah blah

I had a dream about baby Mojo last night.  He was born now, but was somehow full term.  He was a beautiful little baby with a head full of light hair (now Aaron and I have both dreamed that Mojo has light hair(we, of course, both have dark hair, so it's not too likely)).  He was a good baby too, he was quiet, and a really good nurser.  And I had lots of milk!  He spat up a lot.  And I was totally inept.  I had no clue what I was doing, but he was so good, and lovable.  Exciting.

Aaron has been sick since Sunday.  He got in to see the doctor today.  I guess he has something akin to bronchitis.  So he gets some antibiotics, and is probably not contagious anymore.  (Yay!)

Because he's been sick, I've been sleeping in our room, and he's in the guest bed.  Zelda sleeps with me (in her bed, on the floor), and Yoie starts with Aaron and ends up with me.  Aaron usually takes care of Zelda in the night.  In the winter, Zelda has to be tucked in.  And when she moves around and becomes uncovered she wakes up and starts whining.  Tuesday night she woke me up four times!  Plus waking up to have to pee, it was a restless night.  Last night, I got one of the king sized comforters, and covered her and tucked it in.  She only woke up twice.  So I got a better night's sleep.

We got two packages today, both were for me.  I had to peak in one, since I'm ordering stuff from different places too.  (Sorry Mom!  But I didn't open it).

It was so cold today!  My windshield was frozen for the second day in a row.  I'm not sure we got to 50 here (which is very cold for us).  When I went on my lunch walk (at 1:15) there were frozen edges on some puddles.  Crazy.

I had a couple work meetings today.  Everything went well, so I'm feeling a little less stressed.  And we did a little more planning for my maternity leave, and return.

They started removal of our neighbour's giant camphor tree today.  I'm glad this is happening.  It's been a big annoyance.  It drops leaves all year long (which clog our gutters).  It ruined our driveway, and would eventually mess up the foundation of our house.  The big stump is still there, it's going to be worked on tomorrow.

I really hate toilet paper commercials, especially the ones with the bears.  Eww, I don't need to hear about how strong your toilet paper is!  I mean, really.  How hard are you wiping your ass?  Yuck.

Bits

• I teach Relief Society (ladies Sunday School) once a month, and I always bring a treat.  I've been bringing a gluten-free option lately, because a lot of people are doing that.  I have two packs of GF flour at home: soy and buckwheat.  Today I made a half batch of M&M cookies with the soy flour.  Ugh, they were awful!  (If you know me, you know what a sweet tooth I have, and I've never met a cookie I didn't like).  They looked bad, super flat, and limp.  And they tasted terrible.  I usually like the flavour of soy, but it was like the soy had gone bad or something.  I didn't even bake all the dough.
• I stopped by and saw Sophie after work to talk about baby shower stuff.  Poor Kaylee has terrible diaper rash.  Sophie and I ended up just talking a lot of baby and pregnancy stuff.  It was nice.
• I organized my cloth diapers yesterday, I think we're pretty well set, so that's exciting.
• I realized today that I still have room to do the Humira shot on my belly.  :cue the hallelujah chorus:
• Aaron is sick.  I think this is day three.  He has a cold of some sort, so he feels bad.  He came home from work early and had to get someone else to cover his meeting today.  That means he must feel bad.  I made up the guest bed, in the front room, for him.  (He said he'd sleep in there tonight).  Poor kid.  He bought me flowers on his way home to apologize in advance for his whiney-ness.  
• Aaron told me he had a dream about Mojo last night.  This is very rare, he usually doesn't remember his dreams.  He said Mojo had a lot of light coloured hair.  :swoon:
• Mojo has been really wiggly today, which is fun.  And according to the baby app, his testicles are descending this week.  And he's taking little practice breaths of amniotic fluid.