From the bad blogger!
I will start with my excuses for not keeping you all up to date on our lives. Really it's only one excuse all tangled up into one long explanation, but the short of it is that I am utterly exhausted.....all of the time. Working the night shift has something to do with it, and I think being pregnant has another little something to do with it. I haven't been sleeping well when I have nights off. I either wake up between 3 and 4 in the morning (and stay up) or I can't fall asleep until 7 in the morning. Once I finally do get to sleep I wake up within an hour because I have to pee and then I can't fall back asleep because I can't breathe. Rhinitis of pregnancy (yes, it's a real thing, Google it.) has hit me full force. I didn't have it when I was pregnant with Rudy so I definitely didn't expect it this time around. It has made my nights quite miserable! The good news is that I am feeling much better on the morning sickness front. My nausea/vomitting hung around until I was about 17 weeks along this time, an entire month longer than with Rudy. About 2-3 weeks ago it let up considerably. I still have the occasional episode, but it's usually only if I let myself go entirely too long without eating.
So, to catch you up on things. We had a great Halloween. Rudy was Elmo, and he was the cutest thing I've ever seen.
Josh and I have Bert and Ernie t-shirts that we bought a few Halloweens ago. We wore those to match Rudy, but it was too cold to go without a jacket. We did get one picture, but it's on Josh's camera, not mine.
We hung around Oakwood for Thanksgiving. We had originally thought about heading out to PA, but neither of us could take any time off of work so we would have had to make a 2 day trip. Rudy isn't the keenest on long car rides these days, so we went over to my mom's house and had a nice low key holiday. I had over a week off of work because of the way I scheduled myself so I have been hanging around the house getting it decorated for Christmas, doing some cleaning, and even a little bit of baking.
Rudy is quite the little booger these days. He is into everything and never slows down. He is starting to show us that he has quite the attitude with little tantrums when he doesn't get his way. Luckily he is still quite distractable, and it's fairly easy to get him to change his tune right now. He is also the funniest little guy. He LOVES to dance. As soon as music comes on, whether it's from Pandora or a commercial on TV, all of his best moves come out. I have tried several times to catch it on video, but he gets pretty camera shy. He still isn't saying too many distinct words, but he babbles all of the time. The words he can say include: Daddy, Mommy, uh-oh, doggy, puppy, woof, and belly button. He is a pretty good eater and likes a wide variety of foods. We are having a hard time getting him to drink regular milk though, any suggestions from you experienced moms?? I have been trying to explain to him that there is a baby in my belly and that he is going to be a big brother soon, but he honestly doesn't understand or care in the slightest bit. He pretty much ignores me whenever I talk about it, but I think that's to be expected.
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| Disclaimer: I got this picture off of etsy, it's not mine. |
Over the past two days I've been trying to get him to say sissy with no luck. But last night I asked him where sissy was and he lifted up my shirt and pointed to my stomach, so maybe he gets it a little bit.
And if you didn't get it by now, IT'S A GIRL!!
We had our anatomy scan on Tuesday and were a little surprised to see a little girl in there! And we are thrilled. I can already tell she is going to be a sassy little thing because she would not stop moving long enough for the ultrasound tech to get good measurements (it was probably the sugar high from the donut holes I ate right befor the appt, haha). We have to go back in about 2 weeks for another one just to make sure everything looks okay.
And that's pretty much everything that has happened around here for the last 2 months. I'm going to leave you with some cute videos of Rudy, because I know you all can't get enough of him!
