In no particular order:
Dinner at Caracas with Maribeth & Scott. I forgot how much I love that place. * Infant CPR (Mike has asked me to practice a few times since - I think we have it down) * Farmer's Market Wanderings at Rockefeller Center * Peeled opened on 78th & 3rd & it's delicious. Real fruit! * Our painting now has homes in two rooms in our apartment (Baby Boy's room + our room). We like it that much, & Ashley was nice to throw in two extra 5x7 copies of the original. * New bedding + a good pillow find on Etsy. Mike even likes it, & his Expectant Father book has reaffirmed the importance of nesting. Yippee!!
I was fighting a bout of apartment fever yesterday & finally decided that I must get out & do things, even though I felt icky yesterday & didn't want to move. I stopped by the dry cleaner first, & probably won't be going back there any time soon. The woman there (who asked me a few weeks ago if the baby was coming Soon?! & remarked about how large my belly was) said, Looks like it's getting very heavy!! Thank you. And then the nice woman at JCrew told me that I was so small (bless her). And the security man at Crate & Barrel? He held the handicapped entrance open for me, lest I try to fit through the revolving door (although I suppose maybe he was just being nice - I tend to assume the worst). A bit of time in my happy place did help a bit though. I came away with a pillow, a necklace & a picture frame - the only things that fit from there right now.
Sigh.
I made my Food Network debut last night. Very exciting to have my .7 seconds of fame (it's re-airing on the 28th). It was Throwdown with Bobby Flay, from a taping that I participated in back in May thanks to Kelsey. I was 22 weeks pregnant. I felt as big as a house in my stripes + leggings.
I think I'd kill to be 22 weeks pregnant again.
So, when Suzi emailed a photo over that she took of Maribeth & me on camera, Mike said Oh!! You look so cute!! Naturally, this made me burst into tears. Because I did, & now I feel huge & pregnant & uncomfortable & I can't breathe any more. And then I told Mike that I was sorry, & that I was obviously just extremely pregnant & hormonal. But really? This baby needs to drop. He really does, because the upper regions of my rib cage have had enough, & I'm fairly certain that a pregnant woman somewhere has died of suffocation by baby at some point in history, even though my mother claims otherwise.
I should probably say something right now about being so grateful to be pregnant (I am), & how I just walk around glowing & emitting life & positive energy from my womb all day long, but really? I'm getting uncomfortable. And feeling huge. And getting very, very ready for Baby Boy to make his hopefully-pain-free-&-uneventful+conveniently-timed exit. It's great that my expectations are appropriately set, right?
Right.
8 comments:
Congrats on your soon-to-be baby :) Wishing you the best
was it the banana cream pie episode? if yes, I'm dying because I started watching it and then turned it off to read book #2 of The Hunger Games. It would have been so fun to see you..
do yourself a favor and go to my archives and then look at how BIG I was at 35 weeks. and then you'll feel like you look teeny tiny even though no pregnant woman ever FEELS little. it can be so uncomfortable (that swelling I got in my lower parts! I could have died.)
your bedding looks great. and your painting looks perfect. what color are little boy's walls?
I just set both episodes of Throwdown to record that day, so I don't miss it. Did you get to meet Bobby Flay? I am a FoodNetwork fanatic.
I think you look great! I've always wondered why though there is so much praise for those who have smaller pregnant tummies vs. larger. It's genetics. We all arry differently. It's beautiful in any form way.
hm, too many mistakes on my previous comment to even begin!
Hi, I'm a random stranger. I just wanted to say that my ribs freaking killed when I was at the end of my pregnancy (which was 31 weeks) and no one had ever heard of that. It was so weird, I would push my ribs in because they felt like they were poking straight out of my body. It was so uncomfortable. And again, no one had ever seemed to go through that. Weird.
*When I get random comments I always think it's funny that people need to explain themselves for being a stranger, but I just did it too!
Kelli, it was! I ate two entire pieces of AMAZING banana cream pie ALL. BY. MYSELF. And then my friends & I went & ate hot dogs for lunch. Gross. But delicious.
And Baby Boy's nursery walls - they're white.
Heidi - we did meet him! He was really great. Very nice, & used to play basketball at the junior high across the street from my 76th Street apartment. It was a very small group at the taping, so lots of fun. :)
Oh, those last weeks......there seems to be absolutely no more room in the inn, I remember being hormonal, overly sensitive, just ready to move on. Totally done. Finished. Every minute felt like an eternity. Keeping busy, as much as is comfortable is a big help, I think. You're doing a great job..you do look beautiful...and thankfully you're almost to the finish line!
hahaha, I had forgotten that we ate so much that day. My mom+sisters all asked, "So which one did you like better?" or "Did you talk to Bobby Flay?" all I could tell them was how crazy hot and sweaty I was the entire time.
and....we should do monthly caracas/butterlane visits. That is all.
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