How far along: 31 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 14 pounds
Maternity clothes: This question will be removed next time :)
Sleep: Was sleeping pretty good but am now back to being uncomfortable. Sciatica is really bothering me this time and I get shooting pains down my right hip/leg all night. Not to mention if I stay in one position for too long, my leg goes completely numb :( So I am barely sleeping 4-5 hours a night with waking up every 30-45mins to move around. Guess I am preparing for baby boy!
Best moment this week: Going to see Santa with Owen...well talking to him from the second level of the mall :) Santa was gonig on break and Owen was scared to get too close so we went to the next level and talked to him :) He "asked" Santa for a Choo Choo Train and we had the Polar Express train set up around our tree when we got back from seeing Santa. I think he really understood that Santa brought it to him. He loves his train but is now asking Santa for a red car he can drive...ha! Luckily he is getting one from Gaga and Pop Pop. This pic sums it up :)
Worst moment this week: Sciatic Nerve pain...if you have never felt this it's impossible to describe. Baby boy must be one big little guy to put this much pressure on my nerve that my hip is constantly in pain and my right leg is numb :( Hoping he moves to left side more in the next week.
Movement: ALL DAY, kicks and rolling. I just know I am bruised inside from this baby. He does not stop moving. You can see the huge kicks and rolls and yesterday a lady in the elevator looked at me and said I looked like I had an alien in there with the way he is moving. I never had this much movement with Owen, again this must be a big baby!
Food cravings: Candy but for food, I am not hungry at all lately.
Labor Signs: Nope, feeling pretty good!
Weekly Wisdom: Not to take things for granted and embrace every day blessings.
Looking forward to next week: OFF for the next 2 weeks for the holidays!!! 3D/4D Ultrasound this weekend with the Grandma's and then heading to PA for Christmas! I cannot wait to see O's face when he sees all the presents :)
Updates for the Frederick's:
Not much new going on with Owen, he is being so sweet lately and hasn't had too many terrible two fits lately. He's VERY into using his manors right now which is to sweet...
Sneeze and he says "Bless you Mommy"
Cough and he asks "You are ok, Mommy?"
Bumps into you in the slightest, "Sorry Mommy"
A little too rough around my belly, "Sorry Mommy, Sorry Stinker, Owen be more careful for Stinker"
Constantly saying "I love Mommy, I love Daddy, I love Sadie and I love Stinker"
Always asking questions and when we answer him, "Oh ok Mommy, thank you"
He LOVES saying Thank You and tells everyone he sees that does anything him, "Thank You"
Loving my sweet little guy! And especially now since he's being such a good boy. We tell him that Santa is watching him so maybe that's why he is being so nice :)
Updates for us...the whole Frederick family has colds :( Luckily Owen is almost over his but he gave it to me and Chris and we are both feeling pretty miserable. Even Sadie was sneezing this morning.
And....
We got a new car! We needed more room for our family of 5 (including Sadie). Our Ford Edge was cramped already with just the 4 of us and the thought of adding another baby in there was stressing us out. We are NOT Minivan people, sorry hope I haven't offended anyone but neither of us could ever picture ourselves driving a minivan. So we headed out to look for a larger SUV but one that wasn't too large and in our price range.
I sent Chris to GMC at lunch one day to check out the Acadia and he came back to report that not only were they a little out of our price range for what we wanted/needed but that they came basic or fully loaded so it was pretty much out. But while Chris was there the sales guy showed him a Chevy Traverse which is very similar to the Acadia, inside is exactly the same but the outside is just a bit different. Well, they had one 2011 model left over, fully loaded even the color (diamond pearl white) that we wanted and they wanted to make us a deal on it...a great deal! But we still wanted to check out the Ford Explorer since it's comparable in size and price. Found that that the Explorer was not for us, the second row is a bench seat and well with 2 car seats, the only way to get to the third row was to climb over or to go in through the back. Yeah, not ok. So that was out.
We went back to Chevy with Chris just telling them we were in the Tyson's area and he wanted his wife to see the car. Well, long story short Owen and I left Chris there and went home for lunch and nap and he bought the car! It was perfect, second row bucket seats with a middle aisle to get to the third row, leather, perfect color, DVD player, Navigation and a few extra things that we didn't even need. Great deal since it was a left over, we couldn't pass it up. Chris did some super deal working and was able to get the payments to the same as our Edge and they even gave us more money for our Ford than we owed...big plus! I was so proud of him, usually the deal working is left to me. But he did it, I must be rubbing off on him :)
Now for the frustrating part. We bought it with Bluetooth and well, it didn't have it. Such a small feature but a very important one to Chris who does a lot of business calls from the car and just for us in general for safety for our family while driving. So Chris went to Chevy thinking they could easily install it. Picked up the car in the afternoon to find a cheap device installed with a microphone...it looked so bad on our brand new beautiful car. We found out that installing Bluetooth wasn't simple and couldn't be done. Chris was upset but finally told them just to take the other device out, it looked awful. He talked to the sales guy and decided to leave his car again and let them see what they could do. Later that day he got a call from the General Manager saying they couldn't do anything BUT that they were looking for a new 2012 just like the one we bought and would ship it in for us and they would eat the cost for the new car. We just knew this wasn't going to go as smooth as they were making it, but we were wrong. Car came in yesterday fully loaded just like the one we had before with a few more features that we didn't have before. And Chris got there and they had all the paperwork set, he just signed and drove home. Just like that! And they offered him the maintenance package for 1/3 of the price for 4 years, so we are getting it for less than $10 a month and it covers everything from oil changes to maintenance work. There is one difference with the body although I can't figure it out :) I think there is a bottom panel that is grey on the new one and the first one was all white. But again, I can't figure it out for the life of me. But we love the car and are so happy that Chris stumbled in and found it AND that they had such great customer service that they made things right when it didn't have Bluetooth and we bought it thinking it did.
Highly suggest anyone in the DC/VA area that needs a new car to go to Koon's in Tyson's :) Amazing service!! Here's a stock photo of our car and I will post a few pics this weekend. Owen loves it, he sits up high and loves the DVD player. It's a lot bigger and has a better picture than our portable one :) He always wants to ride in Daddy's car now :)
What else, I mentioned the 3D/4D scan. Owen is going with us and I hope it will make him understand more that there is a real baby in Mommy's belly. He seems to get it and talks about how he loves him and how he is going to share his toys with him when he "Comes Out Mommy's Belly Button...ha" but I think by him seeing a baby moving on the screen, it may help him understand more. And I am dying to see what he looks like. Owen's 3D scan was just like looking at his newborn picuture. Crazy how much you can see at this point.
So that's about it for us. We have just been hanging low with colds and wrapping presents and getting ready for the holidays :)
I will end the post with our holiday card for this year, we used a new company and they turned out AMAZING! And were very inexpensive :) http://www.simplytoimpress.com/ Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season!!
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