Christmas, sprained ankle

 

 Well Christmas has come and gone.....We spent it with my mom and dad at their house. Melody and Auntie Barb also joined us. Every year my dad says "It's going to be a small Christmas this year" and every year it never is. We make it out of their like bandits. I got a pandora bracelet from Paul and a Kindle Fire from my mom and dad...completely addicted to it. My parents got Paul a grill also, which we needed. They are always wayyy too generous.
Melody, Paul and I decided to go for a nice Christmas walk. (Because we are athletes.) 2 blocks later...I must've not seen a curb, it was pretty much like slow motion I remember falling and screaming bloody murder at the same time crumbling to the ground. Melody instantly laughed, Paul ran up not knowing what was going on. I couldn't talk because I was just shocked. I tried to get up and new instantly that Paul needed to go and get a car to take me back to the house. Yes, folks.....I sprained my ankle. The pain was excrusiating!!! AWFUL!!!! I was thinking to myself, 30 weeks pregnant I am already dying because most days my groin feels like it's either ready to deliever a baby or it's going to fall off and I just sprained my flippin ankle....REALLY???! Story of my life. So after opening presents I spent the rest of my Christmas on the couch. Going to the bathroom every ehh 15 minutes because that's what pregnant people do. Paul had to help me each way unable to put any pressure on my foot. Once again Paul gets the prize of taking care of me and waiting on me hand and foot (literally.) He's so patient and I am so lucky. I nursed my ankle all day yesterday (day after Christmas). Today I am determined to get out of this house. I am feeling much better:

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Pregnancy so far has been going. :) To say the least. I am just one of those people that does not enjoy this. I am moody, fat, tired, unmotivated. I am still trying to work out but don't like it and don't want to. :( My sciatic sucks, my neck hurts, my groin hurts!!! I don't like asking for help or having people help me, I like to be able to do things on my own. I've gained 16 pounds and don't understand how anyone can carry an extra 16 pounds. It's pretty ridiculous.
On a lighter note. :) She's getting way big, and I am feeling her a lot more which is pretty great. I am ready to see her. We ended up getting a second opinion with a different fetal medicine doctor. The last one just wasn't communicating very well. I don't know how much I wrote on here about the last fetal specialist (which is different from my normal OB) The last appointment he had told me that he wanted to continue to look at this spot on her brain that "was normal" but he wanted to see me in 2 weeks just to check on it. I was very very upset.
The other doctor was great. I don't know if he was great because they gave us GREAT news or because they were really nice and I could understand them. Before the sonogram they looked at the notes from the last doctor and was confused in the first place as to why they were even worried about the false positive on the spinal bifida test. Apparently there wasn't even a 1% chance that she had spinal bifida. During the sonogram they said everything was normal and beautiful. Her head is huge. At the time I was 28 weeks, overall the baby is measuring an average of 32 weeks. Her head is the average size of a 33 week old baby. (Thank you Paul)
We got a CRIB!! One out of 10000000 things that we need has been marked off our list. We got it off of craiglist and pretty excited about it. Paul likes to say several times a day "WE HAVE A CRIB IN THIS HOUSE." It's pretty surreal to have a piece of baby furniture in the house. We touched it up with some more white paint because it had a few knicks in it.  I am working on deciding on bedding. My mom has a friend that has been willing to make it but there is just so much to choose from.

sciatic sciatic, I HATE YOU!

(pic uploader isn't working of course, I'll have to try to upload the rest later...booo!)
I feel bad I've been complaining a whole lot in these posts but it's the truth. Pregnancy sucks!! I am sick of this whole sciatic pain, I have also developed these awesome huge blue veins in my groin. They throb when I stand or walk and radiate heat!! It's awful!! I can't be on my feet or walk for any length of time before I have to sit and rest.  Once again, my poor husband. I can't thank him enough for putting up with me. I ask him to do stuff and he doesn't complain or question. Love him!
I do like when she kicks. <3. She's kicking as we speak.
I went to Dallas last weekend to see one of my best friends Ashley, we went to Canton with her sweet co-worker. I didn't do too bad. I got a cute picture frame for Myka's room and a cute outfit. The rest of the stuff I bought is for the house.
I finally got the Christmas stuff up in the house. Now for the Christmas shopping....I use to get excited about Christmas shopping, but not looking forward to the fun pain I'll have to put up with while doing it. (Speaking of, I had to sit while cooking today at the stove...) ridiculous!
I've been looking at bedding to try to get ideas. My mom has a good friend at work that has been willing to make me some. I'm very excited! I am liking the chevron pattern. But we'll see what I end up with.
I figured I'll pick out colors then go from there.
I have this week and half of next week to go before break! AND boy am I ready.
OMG!! I FOUND A LONG TERM SUB!! She subbed for my co-worker's class a few weeks ago and I snapped her up. She's taught before in Manor and just had a baby. I'm confident she will be great with my kids. It's a huge load off my back. :)