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Just got back from my trip to Michigan, and you ladies are right! It was hot and humid this weekend! Lucky for me, the Bed & Breakfast had a pool!

@redsmarties: gorgeous cake!

@Mrs D: great loot! I have the same little high chair and I have the dress you're wearing too congrats to your sis! It'll be awesome having two babies so close together in your family!

@JamieLee: glad your shower went well. Can't wait for pictures!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I had a great time scrap booking all weekend. Glad to be home sleeping in my own bed tonight though.

Thanks everyone, I feel so fortunate that my friends and family were very practical with their gifts for our little girl. I only got like 7 or 8 pieces of clothes!

@JamieLee: That dessert table looks amazing!!! and you had such a good turnout of practical gifts too it looks like!!!

@delight: The dress was SO comfy but also absolutely not flattering at all....

This weekend was exhausting. The shower was amazing but it literally consumed all of Saturday (up at 6am baking - got back to my house at 8pm). Sunday my dad came over to help us with some last minute house work we need to wrap up pre-baby. I must have gone up and down our two flights of stairs 25 times turning the circuit breaker on and off - I am paying for it today...so sore!

I told DH starting this week we need to take nightly walks around the neighborhood. I am starting to feel LARGE so its time to eat better and get moving more. Hoping after the holiday week next week to move to a low sodium diet to keep the water weight down in the last two months.

Post shower it looks like DH and I will need to buy the mattress and the travel system. We got a few giftcards (with a few more expected in the mail) to help off set. We'll wait until after the holiday to pick those up. We also have a handful of little things to pick up (pacifiers, some small toys, changing table mattresses, some receiving blankets - can you believe I only got the set on my registry). I had lots of diaper talk at the shower - the opinion was unanimous - Pampers Swaddlers at first then Target brand (all 4 of my girlfriends said target were the best and cheaper than Kirklands brands - FWIW). So I think I'll get 100 or so swaddlers in NB size and size 1, and also target brand in size 1.

Ok - enough gabbing...I should probably actually start doing some work! Happy last week of June ladies...this is the home stretch for some of you!

@JamieLee: Oh yum! I want to eat everything on that table.

@Mrs D: That's not bad! Nice to get so much of the practical stuff.

@Alivoo01: Mine does that as well. This may be a sign that I'm going to be a terrible mother... but it's boiling hot in my house,so I usually have some sort of ice pack/magic bag that I'm sitting with. One of the times that it stuck a foot in a particularly uncomfortable spot, I tried putting the ice pack there, and it chased it away pretty efficiently. Glad that your husband is so supportive!

@StrawberryBee: I have the exact same aches. It feels like I pulled every muscle I have down there and it is really painful at times. I asked my OB about it at my appt this morning and she said it is a normal unfortunate side effect of pregnancy and it is the tendons stretching. The only thing that will really help is a maternity belt.

@StrawberryBee: I also feel pain and stretching in that area. It's like a lot of pressure when I'm standing or walking, and sometimes it feels like I have to pee SOOO bad but I actually don't. I also am having all sorts of other weird pains. Like the other day I sat up funny and must have tried to use an muscles that don't work right anymore because it hurt so bad. I find I'm most comfortable laying down...lol. Works for me when I'm at home. The couch is like my new best friend!

@StrawberryBee: I wear a maternity belt on the weekends because I'm on my feet a lot. I find it very supportive by lifting my belly and supporting my back so I have less back pains. I still get back pains since I don't wear the belt during the weekdays since I sit mostly. But I can definitely feel the difference!

@JamieLee: YES on having the urge to pee so bad you feel like you're about to pee yourself, but when you go, it's barely a trickle. Sigh.

Yay to everyone whose had their showers! Love looking at the pics!

@JamieLee: I'm drooling over those chocolate covered strawberries!

@StrawberryBee: That stinks that you feel you have too many outfits, but on the bright side maybe you'll never have to do laundry.

@JamieLee: love the dessert bar! Looks delicious!! Looks like you got some awesome gifts! So practical as well which is awesome.

I'll second ( third.. fourth...) the pee issue. So annoying! I walk everyday, and everyday I pee the second before I walk out the door and then literally 5 minutes into the walk I'm starting to scout out bushes to hide behind haha. Usually I can make it until I get home.. On a regular basis, I get up 6 (!!) times to pee during the night. Last night was only 3 so that was a major treat.

I've not been too bad with the aching. When I sleep, my right knee hurts really bad. Maybe from all the relaxin floating through, and I've always had bad knees so maybe it's just a little out of place.
Yesterday my husband and I went and did a hike with out dog. I had tons of pressure down in my pelvis on the walk up, but coming down it was fine. I think that babe is laying with her head in my hip so I've been trying to do lots to get her head right in the pelvis. With the pressure I had yesterday and combined with feeling hiccups right down in my crotch, I think she's starting to shift into proper position which is nice.

Here's her closet. Crazy ! Oh, and my mom ran into someone at work whose lo is named...Ella Margaret!

Edit: I tried to post pictures but I realized they were .TIFF. and I am sure I will need to convert them. Now to figure out how to use Windows 8... I hate this OS.

@StrawberryBee: haha that looks exactly like my closet!

@Mrs Hedgehog: aww that's awesome! So exciting, the features must be so clear in 3D at this stage!

@Grace: we quickly talked about breast feeding tonight, we have our actual breast feeding class next week. But she did say she's not going to go over formula feeding, just breast. Don't feel guilty about having formula "just in case" better to be prepared!

@StrawberryBee: @Alivoo01: @delight: I (fifth...?) the 'pee' issue! But I've only been waking up 3-4 times a night to head to the bathroom. Which is so difficult without ab muscles to help me sit up properly. I always end up kind of rolling off the bed and onto the floor -- grunting to stand up and wobbling to the bathroom. DH always kind of wakes up afraid that I've hurt myself, I am trying to convince him that the noises I make are just the effort of standing.

I'm with you ladies too on the weird pains! My OB said they too were tendon pains. We had a birth class all day Saturday, and there were several times when DS would move or shift positions and it was painful! It feels almost like I've pulled a muscle in my belly. Woof.

It's crazy to think that our little ones are really moving into position now. I definitely feel hiccups down in my pelvis and sometimes I think I can feel his head turning left and right. CRAZY!

@redsmarties: What a gorgeous cake! Congratulations!

All you ladies who have recently had showers, looks beautiful!!! (I'll post some pics of our first one soon!)

@greenebee: You can feel like his head moving?! That's awesome and crazy at the same time. LOL!

In order to get out of bed, I kind of roll off. I roll over to my side then drop my legs off the side of the bed then sit up or just slide off the bed. It's quite interesting... If I try to sit straight up, it's uber difficult or my belly makes a pointy triangle in the middle and it freaks me out because I feel like I'm squishing the baby.

@Mrs D: hope our up north weather is good for you guys! June was chilly but it's been toasty the last couple days. Who knows what will happen for the holiday!

AFM, I got all our goodies from the shower sorted into totes based on purpose, like feeding, bathing, toys, etc. now I need to go through the clothes and sort by size and see what I need to still get and/or take back. I still have one more shower so I'm not planning on buying anything until after that shower but I have a pile of repeats to take back. Based on my registry stalking, the only big things I think we will need to buy are the stroller, monitor, and high chair. We got lots of feeding stuff at this shower - bottles, drying rack, breast pump accessories, plates, sippies, etc. - toys, Rock and Play, Pack and Play, bouncy seat, play gym, and bath stuff. I'm feeling a lot less anxious about the stuff we need now! My friend also went garage saleing and brought me a big bag of clothes that are almost brand new! And she washed them for me. She's been such a great support for me this whole pregnancy, especially since I don't have my mom.

I'm also having trouble sitting up/getting up from bed or the couch! The rolling seems to be the best method! Makes me feel kind of like a beached whale though...lol!

@Mrs Hedgehog: aww! Look at that face! What a beauty!

@JamieLee: & @Mrs D: Hooray for MI showers!! That's where mine was last weekend too, my DH is from the Detroit area. Thankfully we at least had nice weather, but my MIL lives on a lake and it was SUPER windy. We had to use clothes pins to keep the tablecloths on the tables and the centerpieces which were potted plants kept toppling over. It was absolutely gorgeous though and a great turnout. They did such a great job with the decor and they hired caterers so there was very little work for us to do the day of.

We didn't get anything from our registry other than our car seat (thanks BIL!!!), but it was fine. I didn't realize that since the invitation said "Please bring a signed book instead of a card" People would only buy us a book and leave it at that. From now on if I'm throwing a shower for someone I won't write anything like that on the invitation, but it was still a sweet idea from my SMIL. Now we have a ton of books which will definitely come in handy. Plus the non-book gifts we did get weren't from either store where we were registered anyway so it's not like people would have gone to the registry instead. It's funny how different the cultures are in our families, but regardless it was really special to be celebrated like that - we are super lucky.

@Mrs Hedgehog: Wow, those are amazing pics!! What a cute baby!

@StrawberryBee: wow that's quite the wardrobe! I have literally a 5 pack of white onesies and 2 sleep gowns in 0-3 month size. You've pretty much convinced me that I NEED to go shopping on the way home from work today.

@Mrs Hedgehog: so cool! I can imagine it was pretty detailed a this point. I had a regular u/s last week and even that really looked like a baby!

@Grace: I agree. We did a one day course and it was very pro breastfeeding as well. Handed out a list of ingredients in formula for everybody to boo and hiss about (not literally, but that seemed to be the jist).

@Modern Daisy: That's so weird people misunderstood the book comment! I had that on my invitation as well!

@skipper2010: Look at you all prepared! I just started drafting a list only because @Mrs D: provided an awesome starter list - LOL!! As for exercise, um, I never did the entire pregnancy minus the random evening walks I took with the hubby... =\

@Alivoo01: I don't think they misunderstood, I think they just only wanted to spend around $20 so buying the book kind of became our gift instead of being an add-on which is what my SMIL intended it to be.