Spud's B'day

Here are everyones guesses on the baby's birthday! Let's see who's right!

5 Oct - Olivia / Girl

7 Oct - Claire / Girl

10 Oct - Bob / Boy ... Deb / Boy

13 Oct - Zarna / Girl

15 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #3***

17 Oct - Nomes / Boy ... Chris / Boy

18 Oct - Justin / Girl

19 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #1***

20 Oct - Shona / Boy or Girl

21 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #2*** - Pete / Boy (Maximillian Power)

22 Oct - Lisa / Girl

25 Oct - Megan / Boy

To the people who put me to go over, thanks, thanks a lot!!! I'm hoping Olivia wins it

Who is Spud? You Decide!!!

***Edit***
I have some new important information that may affect how we guess! One of the suppliers from Justin's work has a tent every year at the Bathurst 1000 and they give away tickets for free, Justin's put our names down for tickets to the Saturday races (figured not as many people as Sunday so more chance of seeing more and getting autographs that sort of thing) they have a pretty cool program for the Saturday with stuff like the top 10 shoot out so it will still be pretty good. Given that we've planned this and it is so cool I think the baby will probably be born on that day (6/10)! I think that's how it normally works, they come on the day you have the most planned that you don't want to miss out on.

There's not long now until Spud arrives so I thought I'd stick a little competition to guess when we all think Spud will be here. The winner will win the satisfaction of knowing they were right. We'll do Price is Right rules, person who's closest without going over wins (I don't want people guessing over lol!)
Leave your guesses in the comments and I'll edit the post to enter them in next to the date so that noone doubles up on dates. If you want you can also guess if you think boy or girl.
Here are the dates:
15 Sept -
16 Sept -
17 Sept -
18 Sept -
19 Sept -
20 Sept -
21 Sept -
22 Sept -
23 Sept -
24 Sept -
25 Sept -
26 Sept -
27 Sept -
28 Sept -
29 Sept -
30 Sept -
31 Sept -
1 Oct -
2 Oct -
3 Oct -
4 Oct -
5 Oct - Olivia / Girl
6 Oct -
7 Oct - Claire / Girl
8 Oct -
9 Oct -
10 Oct - Bob / Boy ... Deb / Boy (Sorry my bad didn't see Deb's comment)
11 Oct -
12 Oct -
13 Oct - Zarna / Girl
14 Oct -
15 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #3*** -
16 Oct -
17 Oct - Nomes / Boy
18 Oct - Justin / Girl
19 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #1*** -
20 Oct - Anonymous (Shona?) / Boy or Girl
21 Oct ***Due Date From U/Sound #2*** - Pete / Boy (Maximillian Power)
22 Oct - Lisa / Girl
23 Oct -
24 Oct -
25 Oct - Megan / Boy
26 Oct -
27 Oct -
28 Oct -

Baby Shower and Other Stuff

Last week we had my baby shower, it was so much fun, Nomes ran some games like guessing the size of my belly (not a very good ego boost when you looked at some of the guesses!!!) and baby pictionary, our table won after starting out about 3rd - Go the Moonunit Zappers!!!

I got stacks of awesome presents, one of the funniest was Justin's parents got a potty and a little book, it didn't occur to me at first but as soon as I showed Justin the combination of present he started laughing and said "they've got something to read while they're on the can!"

Hmm what else?... I went to the dr's on Thursday - the baby has now turned the right way around (they could always turn back again but at the moment they're in the right spot), he didn't harass me about my weight for once!! I was the same weight as last time, but last time I couldn't get my shoes off so I put on whatever those shoes weigh lol.

I'm getting sick of waiting for this baby to come, but I have to wait until at least the end of Sept so i don't have to go to Orange; Dr Morris is going away for a month and he's the only surgeon Parkes has at the moment and they don't like letting first time mothers deliver without one on call in case they have to do an emergency caesar. We'll blame it all on Dr Draper deciding not to practice anymore!

I had a dream the other day that the doctor took the baby out of my tummy so I could have a cuddle and then they put it back in again, and last night I had a dream that the baby's foot came out through my belly button, it was a very cute little tiny foot, but bizarre! I think that one came from the other day when the baby was pushing their foot out against my belly button and making it pop right out really high. It was funny!

Our show got cancelled last week because of the horse flu, really sucks, I was really looking forward to it - I haven't been in about 5 years! At least it solved the dilemma for me of what you do at the show when you can't go on the rides lol! I feel sorry for the Show president, it was his first year of running the show and he's had all these big problems to deal with.

Ultrasound #3

I had another ultrasound today, the placenta has moved up where it's supposed to be now, which is still good, but we haven't really ruled out a caesarean for certain as the baby is still bum down and it should be head down by now, apparently if it doesn't turn soon it won't have any room to turn.
The baby has grown heaps and they estimated it's weight at about 4 pound 2 ounces or something which means approx an 8 pound baby at term, because of the size of the head, stomach and leg they've moved my due date forward almost a week to the 15th of Oct so I'm now 33 weeks pregnant... I was born at 33 1/2 weeks!!! I was 5 pound 4 when I was born but 4 pound is still quite a good size for this age so that's good.
Dad & Bob came along for the ultrasound, the lady was a little weird and made Justin sit in the corner and wouldn't let them in until she'd finished doing the measurements and everything then let them come in at the end, normally they've let everyone stand there and watch the whole thing and explain what they were measuring and why as they went - this room was the biggest ultrasound room I've seen so far and you could have fit about another 5 people in without feeling crowded so I don't know what her problem was. I'm definately going to request the Hospital if I have to go for any more in the future. Russell at the hospital is really good and if anything explains too much. Besides, at the hospital it's all digital and you get it on cd instead of on film so you can burn off all the videos and watch the baby any time you want. Dad & Bob really enjoyed the ultrasound though and were really impressed with seeing the face and watching them drink the amniotic fluid.
We still haven't found out what we're having, but we wouldn't have been able to if we wanted to because the baby was in a really weird position, it did that last time too turning away and hiding the body parts that Russell needed to measure! Only 7 weeks and we'll know I suppose.

What's been goin' on?

I haven't blogged in a while so I thought I'd stop being lazy and actually write something.
Yesterday Amy C, Karin & I sorted through all the Cadbury (mmmm...cadbury...) chocolate for the Watoto Fundraiser, even though we'd sorted it out so that every box would have a bit of everything in it instead of getting a whole box of Freddo's or whatever and that the $ value would be the same we ended up with an extra chocolate which Karin & I thought we had found, but then last night I thought I'd better double check a couple of boxes and found some others that were wrong (all ones I'd originally packed) so Justin and I spent last night going through and recounting all 41 of the boxes and then repacking them to find the ones with extras, and it was literally the last box we checked out of all 41 that had the mistake in it! Grrr! But man how good did all that chocolate smell? Even in it's wrappers you can smell it! Yum!!!
I've been making some handmade cards using Lisa's products for the Watoto Fundraisers as well and it's been so much fun, really addictive! We'll have to organise an afternoon where we can all sit down together and have some fun making more, (I've already made about a dozen but there's about 200 plus to make lol!) Mum's been our best customer, she's already bought 5 of them! Here are some pics of some of the cards I've made:

Speaking of my mum being my best customer, most of you already know that I've been trying to get my kids clothing business going well I finally sold some stuff over the weekend (to someone other than my mum!) it was so fun to actually have 'real' customers, I was sold out of one size within 1 day, 1 person bought 4 of the same thing!!! I also had another sale overnight last night so that's really cool! I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere!

Spud's been going well, really active, lots of kicking and somersaulting going on in there! I swear we've got a Footy, Karate or Gymnastics star growing in there! I go to the dr's tomorrow for my checkup, I'm dreading how much weight I've put on this month, last month I put on too much and I haven't been able to stop eating, I've been starving and it doesn't matter how much or how little I eat, I'm always hungry!!!

I read the dilbert blog by Scott Adams pretty regularly and he had a link to this page the other day and I thought it was hilarious and I think all you Star Wars fans will too!

Am I mean?

On Saturday we were at Big W and the woman asked me when is my 'little boy(?!?!?) due?' I was so tempted to tell her I wasn't pregnant and what was she talking about, turn on the tears and the whole 'are you implying I'm fat?', to make her feel bad. I was polite and resisted temptation but then she was really annoying and kept telling me I was having a little boy and if by some 'small chance' I had a girl I could name it after her. I told her we weren't going to find out and she was convinced to the point i think she seriously thought of it as fact that we were having a boy. She was so annoying I wish I had pretended I wasn't.
Am I mean?

Me at the moment

This song reflects how I feel at the moment:

Baby I know your eyes see right through my disguise
And no one can deny
Baby that I’m the one whose love is no surprise
And he can’t tell you no lie
But there’s a secret I’ve been hidin’ I can’t keep it no more
There’s this thing about himself he’s never told you before
Baby!

He needs to tell you something
I don’t got a bellybutton
Oh I need to tell you something
Have you figure it out
He don’t got a bellybutton
Bellybutton no, oh no no

Baby please don’t squeal, just tell me how you feel
‘Cause his love is for real
And if you went away, my heart would never heal
So to you he appeals
There’s something missing in my middle and it’s hard to ignore
There’s this thing about himself he’s never told you before
Baby!

He needs to tell you something
I don’t got a bellybutton
Oh I need to tell you something
Have you figure it out
He don’t got a bellybutton
Bellybutton no, oh no no
Bellybutton!
Uh, uh
Bellybutton!
Uh, uh
You say your bellybutton’s missing, there’s no reason for alarm
It’s a common thing for gourds, it won’t do you any harm
You’re technically a fruit and with that much being said;
Your umbilical equivocal is up there on your head!
You could opt for a prosthetic but of course you’d have to know
It’d be covered by your shirt, but not your HMO
Bellybutton!
Uh, uh
Bellybutton
Uh, uh
a stylish something absent from my midriff’s décor
There’s this thing about himself he’s never told you before
Baby!
He need to tell you something
I don’t got a belly button
Oh I need to tell you something
Have you figure it out
He don’t got a belly button
Belly button no, oh no no
No belly button!
My belly button has virtually disappeared:

that faint mark in the middle is all that is left of my belly button, my tummy isn't that round I had to lean back to get the right light on my stomach so I could take the pic without the flash (it all goes white otherwise.)

I better apologise to my mum for this post, I know how you feel about bellybuttons, sorry mum! :)

Baby Names

Meg's been talking about trying to pick out baby names and I realised I hadn't mentioned on here about that yet, I'm gonna keep you all in suspense about the names we've picked but I thought seeing as I know all these people that are having their babies before we are that I'd go on record saying we've already picked out our names in case anyone else uses our names first so they know we aren't copying.
I think picking the names was one of the first things we'd done, the Boys name was the easiest but the hardest to pick was the girls name. I love the names we've picked out and I really really want to tell everyone but I don't want to ruin the surprise. Aaargh! it's so hard! I can't keep secrets!!!
Speaking of secrets apparently someone I know is pregnant and they've already told mum but she won't tell me who coz they want to tell me themselves, so if you're pregnant tell me already!!! I don't know if I'm even supposed to know that mum knows someone is pregnant but my mum is really useless at keeping secrets. So if it's you tell me already!

Whatever!

I have no idea what to write. I haven't been up to much lately, it's been fun staying at home, I haven't been doing much of the 'house' type-stuff to being a housewife but I'm still enjoying it. If only my computer was working properly!!! It's gone completely spastic and we think the motherboard is dying. I've been having to use the laptop but it doesn't have all of my favourites on it so I keep forgetting about my blog (and everyone else's).
The little thingie at the top my blog says spud weighs a pound at the moment, that's like 1 eighth of a baby! (hopefully... I don't want to have like one of those 12 or 13 pound babies!!!)
I've been doing some scrapbooking yesterday and today, I keep finding stuff to buy for scrapbooking and then have to find a way to use it! I finished one more page from our wedding and 2 more from our honeymoon and now I'm halfway through doing some pages on Crusher, he's so cute it was really hard trying to decide what photos to use and not to do a million pages of him!
Anyway that's enough rambling for now!

Spud's TV Debut

I had another Ultrasound today, this time I went to the XRay dept at the Parkes hospital and they do cool videos & a cd with all of the images on it so I thought I'd stick the videos on here. They only go for 5 secs so you might have to play them a few times to catch everything.

This one Spud is lying with their head to the left of the screen and their bum to the right, their legs are tucked up on top (they're really tucked up under themselves but they were lying face down so they had to flip the pictures). You can see them swallow towards the end of the video.

This one's a bit harder to see but you can see them push away with their hands and feet.


In this one they are sitting there sort of just swallowing, the big bubbly looking thing near the mouth is the umbilical cord, you can see them wave their hand near their head too.

How cool is this Pic? You can see the arms and little ribcage (it's clearer in the right hand pic)

These are the little legs how cute are they? Russell the radiographer dude was nice and measured the feet just because we were curious about how big they were and he said about 2.5cm's. (about as big as the top part of my thumb from nail to knuckle)

This one's a bit gross but I think it's funny, that huge big black shape to the right is my really, really really, full bladder!

Sorry for boring everyone but I think this stuff's cool!

Better than a kick in the guts

I just felt the baby kick!!! I have been feeling stuff for a few days that I've sort of sat there and gone was that the baby, a tummy gurgle or a fart, but just then I got 3 really strong pokes in the tummy! It was bizarre, heaps stronger than I thought it would be so soon, technically you can feel the baby from about 14 weeks (2 weeks ago for me) but normally it's not til closer to 18 weeks for your first baby (sooner for really skinny people or 2nd bubs - of which this is neither). I'm just so excited!!! I had to come on and blog this straight away!!!

I HATE telstra!!!

Telstra are a bunch of losers!!! We still don't have the internet and it's driving me insane!!! I bet if we were bigpond customers they wouldn't screw us around like this! Our internet company is trying to get us connected and Telstra keep being idiots and stuffing everything up because they own the lines and stuff they can do what they want!
Ok, now I've got that out of my system I'll update you all on my fascinating, fascinating life.
Yesterday we got Spud's cot & changetable out of layby, they look so cute, I had to put sheets and stuff on the cot and it's gorgeous! They're a really nice dark wood and the sheet/quilt set we got at the moment is white with little silver stars (I'll get something funkier once the baby's born so I can get girly or boyish). Justin's mum gave us his 'teddy' from when he was little the other day and we've stuck it in the pram, it looks funny coz the teddy is bigger than about a 2 year old, I'd put photos on but... (stupid telstra!)
Anyway I'll go and check out what all of you guys have been up to before I run out of time.

More on Spud... and some other stuff

Ok, where to start?...

Spud is what we're calling the baby (Justin's idea - he thinks unborn babies look like potatos). Here is spud:

We had an ultrasound this morning - more painful than I would have thought, you have to go to the toilet an hour & a half before the ultrasound and then drink a litre of water and then not go to the toilet until after the ultrasound is over. I've labelled some body parts so you know what you're looking at because I had no clue when I saw the ultrasound (I thought Spud's bum was his/her head - hopefully I'll get that right once it's born)

We've bought a few things already (I know I know I'm shocking!!!) but we found this pram we liked and were just going to go back and get it later but it was on special so we bought it then and there, it's really cool though - it's red so it goes faster, it has a one handed fold which I can actually use, it's got 3 wheels and lots of other cool stuff, here's a pic I found online of one the same:

We bought spud's first toy like the day after we found out (which was really good timing because it was the same day Sharelle had Jacob so we bought a card for them at the same time and it just looked like we were buying the dinosaur for him because we hadn't told people yet). I really like him and Justin keeps getting cranky at me for playing with it he reckons I'll wear it out before Spud is born.

See how cool it is though!!! As if you could resist playing with that!!!

I've also got a few little (and i mean little those things are tiny) Bonds suits and singlets as well as a t-shirt that says "2 am. Party. My Room." on the front in cool red letters (I can't be bothered taking a pic and putting it on atm) and a rainbow beanie thingie.

I probably should have devoted an entire post to this but I'm too lazy so I'll let you all know as well that Justin got a new job... which means we're moving to Parkes!!! I never thought I'd be excited about that when i first left home but I really am excited, we're still trying to find a place to live but we'll be officially in Parkes Easter Weekend, coz Justin starts work on the Tuesday straight after, I'll probably have to do a few trips back and forth to let cleaners and stuff into our place to finish up here but after Easter is when our official address will be Parkes!

Justin will be working at Leading Edge Computers doing techy stuff and some sales, I'm a little worried coz I know how bad it is for me working at Myer and buying clothes and wonder if it will be the same with Justin & Computer parts.

Anyway I think that's all the life changing news I have to report on at the moment!!

PS - Megan thought my last post was a joke for almost a full day how funny is that!?!?! I was hoping someone would think that!

We're Having A Baby