29 weeks

Everywhere I look I see pregnant women and most of them look further along then me. Every time I see these women I get scared because they are SO much bigger than me, which means I have SO much more to grow! I haven't started to worry about labor or what happens next; my only fear right now is having so much more to grow in such a short amount of time! At this point you can push a bowling ball out my hoohah all day  as long as I don't have to walk around with a workout ball-sized belly begging to explode from my ever shrinking clothes! Am I crazy? I never thought I'd be more worried about being HUGE vs giving birth. 

Speaking of huge, this week offered many opportunities for me to feel, look, and fear HUGE! Started off the week with the first dreaded stretch mark showing it's ugly face on my expanding belly. It's more of a stretch dot and not a line...YET. I knew I was destined for greatness tummy destruction via stretch marks; I guess it's payback for all those lovely lines I left on my Mom. I've heard they show up towards the end, but for some reason I thought I was going to be one of those lucky beeotches because I hadn't seen any yet. I'm really hoping that I don't get a ton and if I do that they aren't very dark and will lighten after Emerson is here and my body goes back to bikini ready. I guess in order to say "back to" it means it was once there so let me rephrase-and my body gets bikini ready!

After I got over my first stretch mark, I had to start focusing on the hubby's birthday! He turned 26 this week - now it sounds like I'm not that much of a cougar. He is the pickiest person I've ever met and it's always a challenge trying to pick out the perfect gifts for him. I really pride myself in picking out gifts that mean something and really fit the person, but this year I was stumped. I finally had to ask him what he wanted for his bday and he told me a Mountain Bike or an iPad. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were made of money-could you ask for anything MORE expensive. Neither of those ideas really helped at all since I was only looking to spend A hundred and not hundreds of dollars. BUT after careful thought and working the corner for some extra cash, I broke down and bought him an iPad. I figured it would be a long-term investment that would benefit the entire family and by entire family, I really mean me! We both have always talked about getting one, but it was always the last thing on our wish list. I don't he thought I'd really buy him either of those gifts so he was very surprised and happy to open his iPad. I've been a good girl and have let him play with his iPad and have held off on adding all my apps. The one app I did insist on adding was Skype so that I could chit chat with the bestie! 

We went out for Sushi on his actual birthday with my family and his Mom. Of course I drooled over all the yummy sushi AJ was eating, while I enjoyed my everything cooked roll - BOO! I can't wait to have me some spicy tuna rolls once this baby is outty 5000! On Saturday more of his family and our friends went out to Buffalo Bills, a very yummy brewery in Hayward. They didn't take reservations so we anticipated waiting for a bit and were happy to hear it was only going to be a 30-45 min wait. Luckily for me, they had empty bar stools so I didn't have to stand all that time. While everyone else enjoyed their delicious beers and ciders, I sat there sipping my water, waiting. An hour later we still hadn't been seated so AJ asked the hostess what the deal was. She told us that they only have one table where they can seat 10 people and that party had finished their dinner, but three ladies were still sitting around the table talking. We waited around another 20 mins and asked the hostess for another update. She apologized 1000x and told us that she couldn't say anything to the ladies, but we could ask them to leave. WTF?! Who does that?? If someone approached me and asked me to leave so that they could sit down I'd probably say eff off and sit there longer. By this point we were all very frustrated and I was SO uncomfortable and starving! AJ (who was a little tipsy at this point) decided to approach the ladies and nicely ask if they would move to another table for us. We all thought he was crazy, but we were so desperate to eat. He comes back with a scared smile on his face and tells us that the ladies were actually hard-core biker bitches and they were coming our way. HELP! The Sergeant at Arms approached us and AJ said "see, I told you my wife was pregnant." After a brief pause she laughed and said it wasn't a problem. She chit chatted with us for a bit and said the minute AJ pulled the pregnancy card she was happy to move. Like me, she said she was about to tell AJ to eff off and continue to drink her beer, but she had a heart and would move for me. THANK GOODNESS! We finally sat down an hour and half later and enjoyed our dinner. After dinner we took some pictures in front of the restaurant and this is that moment where I LOOKED huge.

It was a busy weekend for AJ, me, and baby! After a great Saturday night we had an even better Sunday day! My step-dad works for AT&T and was given 5 tickets to the Giants vs Dodgers game. He just assumed he was getting normal seats, but turns out it was 5 tickets to the AT&T Presidential Suite! Now AJ and I are sooooo NOT Giants fans, but who can say no to a Presidential Suite?! The suite was absolutely amazing! It happened to be the final game of the series and a potential sweep for the Giants so needless to say the fans were excited. I tried my hardest to get into the game, but my heart just doesn't beat for the Giants. We had a blast and loved the royal treatment, but just wished it could have been associated with the A's.  

Sister time

To finish week 29 we took our first class! I signed up for a breastfeeding class and it was optional for husbands so I left it up to AJ and he was all about it. I'm so happy he came because we learned so much information! He was one of two hubbys that stuck it out with their preggers. There were only a handful of pregnant women there and one of them looked like she was going to POP! I just kept staring at her stomach and thinking that I have so much growing left to do. I don't know why I can't get this fear out of my head! 

Week 29 flew by so quickly that I again forgot to take a belly picture. I'm just going to keep blaming these missed photos on my pregnancy brain!

Only 11 more weeks!


How Far Along: 29 Weeks

Weight gain: 33 lbs, but seeing the Dr next week 
Maternity clothes? Just bought some more maxis!
Stretch marks? Yes, so sad. Just one little dot for now.
Sleep: Not really happening because this little guy only sleeps on my bladder and I can't get comfortable in any position. 
Best Moment of the Week: Celebrating my husband's birthday with him!
Miss Anything? NOT peeing every 10 minutes.
Movement?: All day! 

Food cravings: Fruit and yogurt covered raisins

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope
Gender: Baby Boy
Labor Signs: None yet

Symptoms: Peeing ALL the time, heartburn, scatter-brained, no balance, and continued pain in my hoohah.
Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? Off
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking Forward To: Our 3D Ultrasound on Friday!!!!!