I had my first physical therapy appointment this morning. Because it was walk-in only for the first visit, I had to show up at 7a and then I had the first real appointment of the day at 8.30a. Luckily the hospital has wireless so I grabbed their world-famous pancakes and then worked from the cafeteria for an hour.
Of course my back has been feeling much better and when the appointment started, I felt like an idiot when I told the therapist that my pain today was a one on a scale of 1-10. But she did some pushing around …
Category: Pregnancy
24 week photos
Oy. Holy huge. Here is my 24w photo:
And here is the progression to date:
Post title TBD
Well, so far this week the only exciting things that happened are that we got a DVR in our bedroom (I’m thinking forward to when I’ll be in bed a lot with the new baby next spring, resting, while Rick takes care of Mallory!) and a new DVR in our living room (the old one conked out…I lost about 10 episodes of Little People, Big World…dammit Jim). But the most exciting thing is that I got to out to dinner with some friends last night – without my family! Not that I didn’t miss them terribly during the inhalation of …
Mama, come cuddle me
Just as I sat down to the computer tonight to do some (apparently) long overdue blogging, I was thinking I would go with the boring “Weekend Review” title that I seem to use after somewhat uneventful weekends. But then Rick called me to the side door to show me something, and Mallory – who should be asleep but was at least quiet in her room – heard us and came to her door and said four little words that shattered my usual “shut up and go to sleep go night-night” resolve.
“Mama, come cuddle me.”
I mean SERIOUSLY. How do I …
Funny Mallory-isms
Again, another quick post. I am disappointed that these aren’t more journaly but oh well. Here goes:
Coming home from school today, Mallory saw a house lit up with Christmas lights. From the back seat of the car she yelled, “LOOK – IT’S PRETTY!!!!”
Also on our way home from school – I asked Mallory what she thought Cooper was doing right then. Her response? “Eating my gocks (socks)”.
Cooper has a bad habit of running past us to get down the stairs and I’m afraid that one of these days he is going to knock Mallory over. He almost did …
Pregnancy Update (23w3d)
Baby Arlo is advanced already! This is the info from my 23w email I got: ”…now that she’s more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound, and you may be able to see her squirm underneath your clothes…” (note – the use of “she” here is babycenter (dot) com’s doing, not mine…do not read anything into it…next week it will refer to the baby as a “he”).
Anyway – the email says that at 23 weeks we MAY be able to see the baby squirm under my clothes. But seeing as how I saw the baby squirm …
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving
Yes, a boring post title and I swear that more than half of the blogs in my Google Reader have had that same post title (well, without the belated part) and I swore I was going to be way more creative than that but then here I am, using the boring post title. My whole family is still sleeping right now so I need to quick post while I have peace and quiet.
To make up for the boring post title, I will show you a video of a sweet little girl wishing you a happy holiday:
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We had a …
Weekend Review
Mallory had swim class Friday night and with Rick out of town, I enlisted grandpa to come get in the water with Mallory so I didn’t have to. The class is unbelievably unstructured and un-instructured (you KNOW I’ll be calling again on Monday) so it was basically 30 minutes of playtime for Mallory & my dad – not that either of them minded. Mallory had the hugest smile on her face the entire class so even if she didn’t learn the butterfly stroke I guess it wasn’t a total loss. We had dinner at Miss Cheri & Scary Larry’s house …
22-week-Eve
Here we are on the eve of 22 weeks. My lower back has been having some issues (like sharp stabbing pain) and my right ankle continues to blow up like crazy by the end of the day, so those are both fun. At least my heartburn is under control, thanks to the Zan.tac.
The baby is moving like CRAZY; it’s seems as though once I could feel it move all bets are off! I think s/he had hiccups today because I was feeling spaced out movements that would be consistent with hiccups.
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Mallory went down FABULOUSLY for bedtime …
Arlo Update
Had a doctor’s appointment today with the Great Dr B. Everything looks great – the only thing I was scolded about was not exercising. She made me promise to do my Prenatal Yoga DVD every Saturday and try to increase from there (I am guessing she wasn’t impressed when I said the only exercise I got was carrying Mallory up the stairs…). She had a hard time finding Arlo’s heartbeat with the doppler – but I wasn’t worried since I was feeling the baby move all morning. The doctor had to slide that thingy across my stomach for about 30 …