Prego Brain?

I've been writing thank you notes this week.  I feel as if my sentences are completely disjointed and I cannot connect thoughts.  This blog post may be the same way.  I can't even think right now to make my words flow smoothly and not seem like you're driving down a dirt washboard road.  So, I guess I'll give up and just throw my disjointedness out there.

Me:
   Very Pregnant!  The countdown is on to April 12th.  Dr. did not sound like this baby is very anxious to enter the world.  I've been having to slowly come to the realization that April 12th is not a magic number that will send me into labor.  Please, Lil' Web, have mercy on your mom and don't come later than that!

Dogs:
   Jazz- very interested in baby stuff.  Anytime I go into the nursery she is right there with me.  She's claimed the rug in there as her own and has to re-sniff everything at least once a day.

We got the car-seat installed in the van and the dogs were ready to go. Test Drive Teddy was quite helpful.  

  Bo- determined to get to China.  He won't stop digging in our yard!  It's the same 3 spots too, we even tried putting doggie-doo in the holes to deter him.... guess we didn't use enough.  Good thing we've got an abundant supply.

Hubby:
  Fantasy baseball draft is past and loving March Madness.  Actually, I haven't minded watching it this year.  Could be because I filled out a bracket and now have some idea of what's going on.  Also, very excited for opening day.  I impressed Hubby by knowing that Opening Day was March 31st.... sadly, I didn't know that the Cubs open April 1st at home against Pittsburgh.  Yes, he quizzed me.  Yes, I failed.

Bo is helping Aaron set up his Fantasy Baseball Draft

Garden:
   Yikes!  How am I going to get this garden going if our temperatures keep dipping into the 30's?  Still haven't cleared out the mess from last year, still need to till, still need to get some more dirt and compost. Oh yeah, still need to finalize what I'm planting.  The plan so far: tomatoes, green beans, onions, zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers.  I'm also thinking of planting some strawberries this year.  We'll see.

New Hobbies:
   I have opened an Etsy shop!  I'm still working on my inventory but it's up and running.  I'm going to open an additional shop, I think, for some crochet and sewing projects I'm going to get into.  We'll see.  It is the era of crafty Tressa.  Hopefully that works with a newborn.  I'll let you know when that gets off the ground.

More Snow Love

As I sit here on this SNOW DAY(!!!!!) I am taking in the wonderful world of white that surrounds me.  It is absolutely gorgeous.  Everything is clean and fresh and peaceful.  Then I let the dogs out, not so peaceful but still wonderful.

I went back to the nursery this morning and the sunrise was beautiful, casting a golden glow on the snow and the ice on the window.  

So I can't help but think what a great God we serve.  He blesses us with beautiful weather and then even makes it something we can have fun with!  Enjoy your blessings today!

I LOVE SNOW

I mean it.  I looooove snow!  It makes any day better, even if you don't get a snow day.  It's beautiful and fluffy and fun!  It makes hot cocoa taste better, it makes slippers snugglier, it's just good.  We've got some giant flakes coming down today, the best snow I've seen since living here and quite possibly since I moved away from Connecticut (17 years ago).  It's incredibly light and fluffy!  Not great for snowballs, but man if we had hills in Kansas this would be great to ski on!

And then you have Jazz and Bo who also love snow 

They run and play and dig and root and get so crazy energized from the fun of it all that they end up wrestling.

Then we come inside and they look like this:

Life this week

I had unexpected minor surgery Friday.  I went to the podiatrist to see what he would do for my ingrown toe-nails and he decided to take care of them that day.  So I was a big girl and let him cut out my toenails.  (Not the whole toenail, just the sides).  The worst part were the numbing injections.  OUCH!!!  Seriously!  I kept thinking, "Man, I've got to toughen up!  I'm supposed to push out a baby in 10 weeks!"  That epidural is sounding better and better.  It was worth it though, because I didn't feel anything during the procedure. Anyhow, I was given the option of what color to wrap my poor toesies in afterward.

It was between this and green with smilies on it.  I went with the TU loyalties.  I should've asked for one to be yellow.  Ah well.  I give the procedure 2 toes up.

During the whole procedure they have a barrier up so that you can't see what they're doing.  Which I appreciated very much, but it made me that more trepidatious about removing the bandages.  I had no idea what kind of gore to expect.  Really, I was being a big chicken about it, but my husband was sweet and didn't mention that.  My instructions were to soak off the bandages so that I wouldn't pull loose any scabs.

I had an audience.  This gave me another preview of the issues we may have once Lil' Web comes.  I'm afraid Jazz is expecting to help in the bathing process.  There were about 4 layers of purple stuff which gave me a little time to build the courage to take off the gauze that was underneath.  However, I didn't look when I did.  I made Aaron look at it first.  (I'm really not usually this big of a chicken, I promise)!  I'm not sure you want to see the final product so I'll keep that little picture to myself, but it really wasn't as bad as I was expecting.  They actually look worse now just from bruising and stuff.  The good news is that I survived (shocker, right?).  Now i have to soak my toes once a day and then my sweet husband re-bandages them for me.  I've been well taken care of.  I wouldn't mind doing it if I wasn't pregnant... I just can't really reach my feet that well.


In other news...

In a previous post I mentioned something about Bo trumpeting.  I thought I'd include a little clip of the funny noises he makes.  Cracks me up, hope it makes you smile too!

Well, I'm off.  Gotta enjoy my last snow day!  Hope the crazy weather hasn't beaten you up too much!

First Trial

Since I have a sinus infection my doctor prescribed a homemade sinus rinse administered with a bulb syringe. My first thought, "If you told me this 2 months from now, I'd actually have one of those." So I went out and bought a bulb syringe knowing that within 2 months I will probably have another one or two.

Once home, I got the syringe out and found that a certain canine was incredibly interested.

She sat there as long as I was in the bathroom, looking at me, looking at the syringe and back and forth. This morning she sat outside the bathroom looking in.

We might be in more trouble than I thought with baby items...

Shakespeare

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever. One foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never. Then sigh not so but let them go and be you blithe and bonny, converting all your sounds of woe into hey nonny nonny. " -Much Ado About Nothing-

I just finished watching the movie of one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies, and now I doth feel that I must speak in such verse. Just kidding, I'll spare you. I do absolutely love the language though! I could read and listen to Shakespeare all night long. The words are so elegant and full of meaning, they just flow off your tongue with grace. In high school I was blessed to participate in 2 Shakespearean plays: Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest. Some of the best fun I've had! So rent it or Netflix it but you must watch Much Ado About Nothing (it has Denzel Washington in it so that definitely helps!!!). You may want to put the subtitles on if you have a hard time audibly following the language, it is dense at points.

On that same (kind of) note, I have a medieval trumpeter that resides in my home. His name is Bo. I know when Aaron is home because I hear Bo's weird trumpet-like howl reverberate through the house. I wish I could record it for your enjoyment but you'll have to do your best to imagine (which I realize is nearly impossible, sorry).

Flu Shots and Canine Naughtiness

Flu Shots

I have refused to ever get a flu shot. I figure that if doctors just guess which strain to use then I'm better off not messing with it. Until now. Lil' Web has changed things already. To keep the sweet baby from getting pneumonia someday I compromised my pointless rebellion and got a flu shot yesterday. I realized, as the nurse rubbed my arm with the alcohol wipe, that it has been a long time since I've gotten a shot. I tried to remember what it felt like, with little success until she stuck the needle in me. Then it all came back. Ah, yes, the prick, the burn. Good times. One thing I forgot though, or maybe didn't know, was the lingering pain. I got the shot at 3:45 or so... and my arm still hurts. I couldn't sleep on my left side last night, I can't lean on the sofa arm, I think I'd cry if someone poked me. No, this I don't remember. So Lil' Web better not get pneumonia. Ever.

Canine Naughtiness

The dogs have been very naughty. My mom has been kind enough to let me drop the dogs at her house in the mornings so she can walk them and then they hang out there and can play instead of Bo being in a cage at my house. Well, Bo has decided that mom's landscape beds (that haven't been planted yet) are the perfect location for digging to China. Mom disagrees, quite vehemently. Today he decided that he was too short, so he decided to use the counter to help him see the food he was smelling. He quickly found out that I wasn't a big fan of that. Jazz has decided that she should kill anyone who approaches mom and dad's front door. Big problem for the Boy Scouts, high school boys, United Way volunteers... Needless to say, I see obedience school in their futures.

Exhaustion

That would be the word of the afternoon yesterday. At about 3:30 yesterday I crashed. I couldn't do anything but lie down on the couch and sleep... for an hour! Then it took me forever to snap out of a confused fog. I hate it when that happens. That ruins napping for me.

Yesterday went really well regarding my list. Dogs got bathed finally! I love how soft they are and how good they smell after a bath. They behaved so great with our friends last night! Well, after they greeted the first guests. They went a little crazy with them, but then we put on their Halti's and everything was golden.

We played a new game last night called "The game of Things." It was fun! Of course games like that are always more fun once you resort to elementary school thoughts. It was great to have people over at our house again. Sometimes I get stuck in this homebody rut and forget how fun it is to entertain. It was a much enjoyed night of laughter! Even my cucumber salsa (thanks Nicole) went over well!

Bo the Hunter

Today as I was fiddling around with my blog, my dog Bo kept whining and crying. That usually means there is a toy he wants under an object he cannot move. So I looked under the chair, no toy. I assumed that he was merely bored and trying to get me to play with him. So, I ignored him. He kept whining....... and kept whining. Probably for a straight 10 minutes before I figured things out. Bo was hunting.

There has been a fly trapped in our house since at least yesterday. Bo doesn't like flies in our house so he hunts them. Well, the smart little dog he is, he figured out that the fly had settled on the windowsill in the office. So he was crying and whining because he couldn't reach the fly.

He cried and whined for a good half hour at least. He is a determined little dog! Even now (about 2 hours later) he keeps checking in to see if the fly has left... I'm not sure how he knows because he can't see the fly but he checks.