I Know Who The Great Pumpkin Is!!!!

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I cannot get enough pumpkin things!!  I need all the things pumpkin, maple and cinnamon! 

1. It is only fitting that Vivian is due on Halloween.  I should have know The Great Pumpkin was, in fact, my daughter!  Linus can rest assured, as I have a feeling she is real, judging by the kicks and punches coming from inside my belly and will come empty handed and expecting to be fed on arrival.

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Because of the time of year she will be born...I can already envision my Great Pumpkin's birthday parties in the years to come...

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2. Bubba is on fall break starting today thru Monday.  I will be off with him on Monday and hope to take him to Pumpkin Patch and/or Apple Orchard with my Mama and Step-Father.  We have taken him to the local pumpkin patch every year since he was born and I do not intend to stop now...even if I am a million months pregnant with elephant ankles!

 3. Over the last few months I have been re-watching the Gilmore Girls series to prepare for Year in the Life that comes out around Thanksgiving.  I have watched every episode at least 5 times each and remember watching back-to-back episodes that came on in the early afternoons on ABC family during my college years. I really wish I could have gone to one of the coffee shops that transformed into Luke's in Atlanta yesterday!!  Crossing my fingers she ends up with Logan or Jesse in the new shows!

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4. All mamas are amazing, but extra props have to be given to the mamas that work full-time.  I mean work outside of the home reporting to someone for at least 40 hours a week.  Our society is not built with full-time working mother's in mind and because of this, our normal state is being stretched beyond our limits at all times.  This video, and this mother's emotions, are everything to me.  Being a full-time, working outside of the home, mother means always feeling like a ball is dropping somewhere and it is inevitably your fault.

5. I have a sonogram and exam on Tuesday and I am so ready to see what they say about sweet Viv and if my body is beginning to prep for labor.  I was induced with Bubba, so I am hoping I get to experience what it is like to go into labor on my own this time.  I know it is not like the movies, but I would still like to experience it.  While I would really really love to have a Halloween baby...I am also becoming extremely impatient to meet her!  

The last three and a half weeks are going to creep on by.  She has gotten extremely low, thus making walking, without waddling, impossible...and the pressure down there makes you feel like the bottom could just fall out...literally...And the heartburn...oh the heartburn...I feel like a drug addict because I live off of tums...I practically jones for them...

On the plus side, I have thoroughly enjoyed being able to have another surface to place things...

Happy Friday, y'all!  I hope everyone has a great weekend and if you are lucky enough to be at home with your babies on fall break...I hope it is extra snuggly and full of naps, kisses and snacks!

Linking up with some of my favorite friday blogs!!

Karli /  Jennie / Andrea / Tif / April

This and That...

Two weeks ago my co-workers threw me the sweetest shower for Petit Bebe.  I so enjoyed getting to spend time with co-workers old and new while celebrating sweet Vivian on the way.  It is hard to believe she will be here in 4 weeks or LESS!!!  I only got a couple of photos, but I love them all.  Also, if you have not experienced PinkBlush Maternity yet, I feel sorry for you.  They are the only dresses that have kept me feeling put together and dare I say, sexy even!?

 

Vivian, and mama, received so many adorable gifts and more gift cards than one can count.  I have some amazingly generous friends and co-workers and feel so fortunate to work with some truly thoughtful and caring people.  Yesterday was my 5 year work-anniversary working for this amazing university that I work for.

I was supposed to have another baby shower the following day thanks to some sweet friends of mine, but unfortunately my cousin had passed away and it was all I could do to get through the first shower without crying...so we had to cancel my second shower.  I am a lucky girl to have this many friends, family and co-workers wanting to celebrate sweet baby girl.

Last week, Bubba received an award for earning 100% on his big sight word test.  This test included all of the sight words he had been learning for the past 9 weeks.  He was so proud of himself, as were we!  He has also been reading books to us at night!  Reading to us, not the other way around.  It is quite impressive!

 

Bubba has scored or been responsible for a run at every single baseball game so far!  He has also gotten a few people out while playing second base.  Baseball has been so much fun for the whole family this season.  He suffered through a hard season being the youngest and greenest on the team in the spring.  This season, Hubs and I have enjoyed seeing him excel and strut his stuff a little.  He deserves it!

This past weekend Bubba got to meet up with some of his bromance crew from his old school.  They had not gotten to see each other since the beginning of August, but went straight to playing and wrestling as if they saw each other yesterday.  I truly cherish their friendship, as well as the camaraderie and friendship I share with their parents.  It is a good little group and I hope we continue to keep these boys close!

The rest of our weekend was spent hanging out and eating our favorite...Bomb Pops!

Hard to believe this past Sunday was the last game to be played at the Ted (Turner Field)...So thankful we got a family shot down on the field back in June and that Bubba had a chance to run the bases.  We have made some great family memories there the last 5 years.  Looking forward to seeing the new stadium, but it will be hard to beat the Ted!  Wherever they play, we will always be Braves fans!

Random updates today is all I got!  I am loving my last few weeks as a family of three and trying to cherish every second of it!  Happy Hump Day!!

Fri-Yay: Pregnancy Edition!

Pregnancy nose, puffy eyes and burgeoning belly...Still managing to feel pretty through it all though...the symptoms may not always be pleasant...and I am a little over being huge...but I gotta tell ya...I really do love being pregnant. 

***This post was originally meant for last Friday, however my amazing cousin, Robert, passed away from a massive heart attack on Thursday afternoon, September 22nd.  He was one of the hardest workers on this planet and leaves behind a beautiful wife along with three children. It was a devastating loss for our family as he was such an amazing father, husband, son, brother, cousin, nephew and friend to so many.  He will be very sorely missed.***

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Technically, I am now 36 weeks pregnant and feeling it. Overall, I have had an easy, and healthy, pregnancy and for that I am very thankful!  Lately it seems more and more unwelcome symptoms want to pop up and I am so over it!  With Bubba, I had zero symptoms outside of some minor ankle swelling.  It was a glorious pregnancy that I breezed through.  Of course I was 24-25 years old while I was pregnant with him...this time I have been 29-30 years old while pregnant and I can definitely feel the age difference.  Also, fun fact...did you know that Carpel Tunnel is a common pregnancy symptom? Neither did I, but I so have it and it is not pleasant...

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Pregnancy Brain is a very real, very legitimate and dangerous thing.  Let me just tell you....

About two months ago, Hubs set a timer using our Amazon Echo. This timer was to remind us to go turn off the sprinkler that we were running in the front yard.  Well The Echo, who is addressed as Alexa for commands, did her duty and let us know when 15 minutes were complete.  Absentmindedly, I turned off her alarm and forgot to tell the Hubs it was time to shut off sprinkler...then I forgot about the sprinkler entirely...Hubs woke up the next morning to find the sprinkler still on and we were greeted by a water bill a couple of weeks later that was well over $100....The grass looked amazing for the next couple of weeks though...  #worsttreehuggerever

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As I was saying above...pregnancy brain is a very real illness...

About a month ago, I was cleaning up the kitchen after making pulled pork tenderloin in our 6 Qt Crock Pot Cook n' Carry.  Since I was out of slow cooker liners, the pot was going to have to soak overnight.  I pulled the faucet hose over and into the slow cooker sitting on the counter to fill it up while I wiped down the counters quickly...I am too impatient to stand there and watch it fill up, naturally. Well, after about 10 seconds I completely forgot about it and sat down at the supper table to help Bubba with a little reading homework he was looking at...I would say 5 minutes had passed when Bubba asked "Mama, is there water running somewhere?"

This was my sudden reaction...

I ran into the kitchen to find the floor covered with water as well as the counters and the cabinets...etc...I went into panic mode barely able to function...so Hubs sent my out of the kitchen while he dealt with it in his usual calm, cool and collected fashion...

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Pregnancy tends to make you fixate on certain foods and it can almost feel like a drug withdrawal until you have satisfied the craving...I had been jonesing to make this Mack and Jeezy recipe by Terry Crews for a couple of weeks and finally got to make it this weekend.  Let me tell you it did not disappoint.  It is officially my new mac n' cheese go-to recipe.  I made all sorts of comfort foods for Monday night, as I tend to cook when I grieve...and this really hit the spot. (PS- Terry is a fav of the Hubs and mine... We have talked about how bad we want to be his best friends...true story #bestfriendgoals)

   

I only wish I could have sent all of this delicious soul food to my family in KY who are grieving the loss of such a wonderful man.

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I am currently trying to iron out some ideas for my birth plan. Notice I said ideas, as I really only want to be reminded that they were ideas of mine and not hard and fast rules...I know myself all too well...Here are some examples of these ideas I have and what I think will actually come from them...

 

Her Halloween due date is feeling awfully far away right now...but I know it will be here before we know it and before we ever feel prepared!

Happy Friday, y'all!!! 

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Linking up with some of my favorite friday blogs!!

Karli /  Jennie / Andrea / Tif / April