Well, we're 4 months in already. This month has definitely been the best so far. I'm hoping the next couple will be just as good, if not better. And from what I hear, the second trimester is the best of all three so I'm glad that I've gotten to this point! I've been told to do all of my traveling during these next few months since it will start to get uncomfortable in the last trimester...so that's what we're planning to do!
As far as some of the planning stuff goes, we're just getting into nursery stuff right now. We're working on getting our current office moved into our bedroom so we can convert it into the baby's room. You don't realize how much stuff you accumulate living in a house until you're forced to basically eliminate everything in one of the rooms! It's kind of a pain trying to find a new place for everything! We decided on our 'gender neutral' theme for the room so now we can start to have fun picking out paint and going to town in there. I actually like that we're not finding out what we're having, because it's made it easier to pick out colors and bedding. Our choices were easily narrowed down from the overly-boy/girl options and there are some really cute modern looking designs that aren't over-the-top baby.
Other planning stuff we've been getting into...daycares. Ugh! I'm just having some issues with needing, not wanting, to send my kid to daycare at 8 weeks old. Why can't I just quit working so I don't have to worry about this??? If it were only that easy. I've been trying to find a place that is convenient for both Chris and me so that it's easy for him to drop off and just as easy for me to pick up. That pretty much leaves us with the daycares that are right here in our little town of Troutman. Now, we get made fun of for living in our little town from everyone around here...everyone seems to think that we're in Podunkville USA here. We're not, by any means, but it's just on the far north side of Charlotte, and all of the over-populating hasn't reached us just yet. It's coming, but we're just not there yet. That said, some of our options for daycare are, um, questionable. I had a starting list of 6 to look at. Yeah, that list is narrowed down to 2 very quickly. 3 of the 6 are 'at home' daycares. I thought that might work well for us, so I decided to do a couple drive-by's just to see what the houses looked like before I even made an appointment to meet with them. One is in a decent older neighborhood with overgrown landscaping and two completely run-down trucks in the driveway...not to mention there was ZERO play equipment anywhere to be found on the property. So I'm turned off right away. I go by the next house. I should have turned away when I entered the neighborhood and noticed the homes were all, what we call around here, 'manufactured homes' a.k.a double-wides. I decided to just drive by the house and see a sweet double-wide with 4 dog kennels in the backyard surrounded by a chain-link fence...and those 4 dogs I SWEAR looked similar to pit-bulls. Oh yeah, no play equipment again. I'll tell you what..my kid won't be attending either of these 'daycares'. Wow. The two others that were eliminated were a questionable small steel building owned by a church, and a really cute, huge-yarded, tons of play equipment, at-home daycare...with a two-year waiting list. THAT was the one I want apparently...two year waiting list?? My God! So now we're down to two church daycares. One was decent, but of course I really liked the one that is the most expensive and highest rated of all 6 that will be in a brand new beautiful building by time I'll need to use them....and they only offer full-time care. I'm hoping to cut back to three days a week at work so now it's really a budgeting thing to use this daycare. Like I said...ugh!
Now that I'm done complaining about daycares...here are the updates on the pregger body of mine.
How I look: I've put on a few more pounds and am just starting to pop out a little bit. It's amazing what even one week can do. Within a couple of days, I went from just being thick all around to having a little bubble protruding out. Now some of my shirts are starting to ride up enough to make me have to keep pulling them down to cover all of my skin. I think some longer shirt shopping will be in the works in the next week here!
How I feel: Great for the most part. No more sickness, no more nausea...thank God! I'm back to being able to go to bed at my normal time without passing out at 8:30, except I toss and turn all night long...not to mention there's always at least one time to get up in the middle of the night because I swear the bladder has shrunk to half its size! I have much more energy during the day and I don't feel like a truck has hit me every day when I wake up. So I can't complain about how I feel these days:)
We go back to the doctor in a week and a half and we will hopefully get confirmation that there is just one little Krugie growing in there, though we just feel there really is only one. But I guess we can never be sure until we see the new picture!
As far as some of the planning stuff goes, we're just getting into nursery stuff right now. We're working on getting our current office moved into our bedroom so we can convert it into the baby's room. You don't realize how much stuff you accumulate living in a house until you're forced to basically eliminate everything in one of the rooms! It's kind of a pain trying to find a new place for everything! We decided on our 'gender neutral' theme for the room so now we can start to have fun picking out paint and going to town in there. I actually like that we're not finding out what we're having, because it's made it easier to pick out colors and bedding. Our choices were easily narrowed down from the overly-boy/girl options and there are some really cute modern looking designs that aren't over-the-top baby.
Other planning stuff we've been getting into...daycares. Ugh! I'm just having some issues with needing, not wanting, to send my kid to daycare at 8 weeks old. Why can't I just quit working so I don't have to worry about this??? If it were only that easy. I've been trying to find a place that is convenient for both Chris and me so that it's easy for him to drop off and just as easy for me to pick up. That pretty much leaves us with the daycares that are right here in our little town of Troutman. Now, we get made fun of for living in our little town from everyone around here...everyone seems to think that we're in Podunkville USA here. We're not, by any means, but it's just on the far north side of Charlotte, and all of the over-populating hasn't reached us just yet. It's coming, but we're just not there yet. That said, some of our options for daycare are, um, questionable. I had a starting list of 6 to look at. Yeah, that list is narrowed down to 2 very quickly. 3 of the 6 are 'at home' daycares. I thought that might work well for us, so I decided to do a couple drive-by's just to see what the houses looked like before I even made an appointment to meet with them. One is in a decent older neighborhood with overgrown landscaping and two completely run-down trucks in the driveway...not to mention there was ZERO play equipment anywhere to be found on the property. So I'm turned off right away. I go by the next house. I should have turned away when I entered the neighborhood and noticed the homes were all, what we call around here, 'manufactured homes' a.k.a double-wides. I decided to just drive by the house and see a sweet double-wide with 4 dog kennels in the backyard surrounded by a chain-link fence...and those 4 dogs I SWEAR looked similar to pit-bulls. Oh yeah, no play equipment again. I'll tell you what..my kid won't be attending either of these 'daycares'. Wow. The two others that were eliminated were a questionable small steel building owned by a church, and a really cute, huge-yarded, tons of play equipment, at-home daycare...with a two-year waiting list. THAT was the one I want apparently...two year waiting list?? My God! So now we're down to two church daycares. One was decent, but of course I really liked the one that is the most expensive and highest rated of all 6 that will be in a brand new beautiful building by time I'll need to use them....and they only offer full-time care. I'm hoping to cut back to three days a week at work so now it's really a budgeting thing to use this daycare. Like I said...ugh!
Now that I'm done complaining about daycares...here are the updates on the pregger body of mine.
How I look: I've put on a few more pounds and am just starting to pop out a little bit. It's amazing what even one week can do. Within a couple of days, I went from just being thick all around to having a little bubble protruding out. Now some of my shirts are starting to ride up enough to make me have to keep pulling them down to cover all of my skin. I think some longer shirt shopping will be in the works in the next week here!
How I feel: Great for the most part. No more sickness, no more nausea...thank God! I'm back to being able to go to bed at my normal time without passing out at 8:30, except I toss and turn all night long...not to mention there's always at least one time to get up in the middle of the night because I swear the bladder has shrunk to half its size! I have much more energy during the day and I don't feel like a truck has hit me every day when I wake up. So I can't complain about how I feel these days:)
We go back to the doctor in a week and a half and we will hopefully get confirmation that there is just one little Krugie growing in there, though we just feel there really is only one. But I guess we can never be sure until we see the new picture!
