Keeping up to date...

A friend of mine told me today my blog was out of date, so I guess I should at least post something...

For the most part life is "business as usual." Noah continues to get into things as he grows and explores and drives me crazy! His most recent antics include a wide variety of things to keep my blood pressure up such as climbing on chairs and stacks of boxes to get to light switches. He has also decided he likes coloring on the walls, doors, boxes, etc. with whatever coloring implements he can find and then consuming those coloring implements. I guess he thinks he can hide the evidence - hard to do with purple ink running down your chin. He has destroyed half a dozen or so more books that are currently awaiting repair as well. Throw into the mix the crankiness that comes with teething and it's just a hoot and a holler at our house, often quite literally. Gotta love those two-year-old molars. He's only 19 mo, but one has already broken through on the edge. I can see white of another just under the gums. It's only a matter of time. I can't wait. I wonder if the drooling will stop after that since he seems to have very productive salivary glands even between teething times...

30 weeks, 2/17/2011

Despite Noah's activities like setting off his dad's car alarm multiple times and figuring out how to open the dishwasher (oh no, knives!) the comment about the blood pressure is thankfully not true, which is good with the pregnancy and all. So far so good in that department. I'll be 31 weeks tomorrow and everything looks good. I do get comments about how I don't look like I'm that far along (it really isn't fair when you compare me to someone who is further along and carrying completely differently). Sometimes the comments are a bit annoying, sometimes they are complementary - depends on my mood, really. It's just a bit frustrating, because it's not like I'm dieting or anything. I'm just not gaining a ton of weight and letting myself go simply because I'm pregnant. That's ok, after the baby is born I can just brag about how easy it was to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Maybe... if I'm lucky. Anyhoo... the baby is growing fine according to the doc and he's super active too. No other issues or complications so, yay! Unless you count heartburn. I really don't. I just have to up my dose of Pepcid - joy. I had to get shot (correction, injected) for Rh factor since I have negative blood - I don't remember it stinging that much - owie, but that's just part of the deal (Free bruise with every injection!). I'll have to get another injection if the baby turns out positive. We'll see when he gets here. I have noticed that I'm kinda chill about the whole thing. I know what I want for labor and I don't feel the urge to get all prepared. There are a few things we'll need to do like pull down Noah's infant clothes and car seat, install the baby car seat, set-up the co-sleeper, and what not; but, I'm not really stressed and I have no urgency to do those things right now! I did receive the additional diapers to supplement our stash, they were delivered about a week or so ago (Thank you to Taran's mom). I have to prewash all of them, but again, no rush. I'm mostly focusing on keeping track of the trouble maker. My doc advises me to pick him up less - riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight... like that's a feasible option. I guess I shouldn't have mentioned that sometimes I've been experiencing some lower back/hip/upper thigh discomfort. I need to learn to keep my big mouth shut.

I've been trying to work on my baby boutique stuff and pet nutrition consulting "business," but both have been slow going. Probably because I do it in my free time - wait, what's that? Oh, that's the problem! Most of my efforts in those departments have been brainstorming. It goes a little like this: "I need to increase business. What can I do to increase interest? Think, think, think." It's very Pooh-like. To be fair, I have developed two new products and a new style of diaper cake for my baby boutique all in the past couple of months so that's not nothing, but I feel like it could be better. Oh, and blogging for both the pet nutrition consulting and baby boutique. I've tried to keep that up too, so I guess that means this one is suffering.

Ok, well, once again it's time for diaper duty (heh, doody - sorry, mom humor - or just my 12 year-old sense of humor - you pick). I hope this something is sufficient for updating my blog. Let me know, Laura!