She's here!

Coralyne Mae Crabtree was born on June 28, 2010 at 1:20am weight 7lbs and 20 inches long.

Bad Blogger

I really am a terrible blogger! I think about posting quite a bit, but I just can't get myself to sit down and actually write. I'm just lazy I guess!

So right now I am full term at 37 weeks!! I can't believe it. It's kind of weird, I feel like I've been pregnant forever, but at the same time feel like I just found out. I can tell you that I will sure be glad to finally have my belly to myself! I know a lot of people talk about how they love feeling the movement, unfortunately I am not one of them. I have a very ticklish stomach and it's an uncomfortable feeling to have her jab me. I do get nervous when she's not moving as much as I think she should though. It's actually starting to drive me crazy. I know that now since she is bigger she will be sleeping more and won't have as much room to move, but it still makes me nervous.

It's almost like it still feels too good to be true. We had tried so long to have this baby and it never really seemed possible. Now that it's time for her to be here I'm so scared something bad is going to happen. Hopefully I am wrong and everything runs smoothly. I just want to be able to see and hold this baby so I know she is ok!

I will be a good blogger and post when she is born and hopefully keep up on her development and of course photos!

See you in 7 months

So David has left on his deployment. He left here on the 6th though, so I haven't seen him since then. I'm going to have to get used to not talking to him everyday though. It was a little tough to say goodbye. The next time I'll talk to him will probably be when I'm in labor. Of course we still email each other. I don't know how they did it back in the day with the random letters and not knowing anything.

I'm trying to get everything ready for Cora. I can't believe tomorrow I am 34 weeks! Three more weeks until I am full term, so crazy! I can't wait to have her here, but am also kind of scared of how things are going to change. Life will never be the same, in a good way!

Room

So this weekend we made a trip down to Vegas to get some things moved. I also had my first appointment with my new OB and I like her a lot! Way more than my old office. Plus it's right down the street from my mom's and right attached to the hospital that I will be delivering at.

We got my room semi set up and it felt so good. Crib is set up and ready to go. And of course I have pictures! I was kind of worried about the paint color the room already is, but it turned out looking pretty good!

Earthquake

I'm writing this post while our tech guy at work fixes my stupid connection.

Since I'm in a pissy mood from that I'll fill you in on another thing that made me pissy. The damn earthquake we had yesterday!! I thought I got off lucky when we lived here a few years ago. Didn't feel one shake. Ever since we moved back I have felt maybe 3 or 4 little ones. Nothing scary, just a little wiggle. Well that was not the case yesterday. We had a 7.2 about 100 miles away. That thing shook my building like nobody's business.

We had been bringing in the boxes from the storage closet to get them organized and ready to be moved out. A bunch were stacked up by the sliding glass door and the blinds were pushed behind them. Well, I hear the blinds jiggling, so I go in there thinking it's the cat. By the time I get there the ground is moving and there is no cat that the window. I'm holding onto the wall and the boxes so they don't fall just waiting for it to stop. It keeps going... and going. Getting worse even. I hear car alarms going off in the parking lot across the street and then it finally stops. What does my ever so caring husband do? Runs (yes I said runs) to his computer to post it on facebook. Are you freakin kidding me??? How about go around and make sure everything is ok, maybe check on your animals to make sure they're not squished under anything? I was peeved. We had no damage, and thinking of it I'm really glad we got all the pictures and stuff packed on Saturday. I bet a lot of them would have fallen off and broke.

So now I'm just dealing with aftershocks. They aren't bad, kind of like the other ones that I have felt. But they do make me nervous being so frequent. I don't want there to be another big one. Definitely another reason why I'd rather be in a one story house when we move back. Being in the 4th story of a 5 story building is kind of scary when you think it could collapse!

Damn you Stroller Gods!

Finding the right stroller is becoming more of a challenge than it should. My first idea was to get the stroller frame and a carseat that snapped into it. I bought the stroller and took it to BRU and lo and behold it didn't fit the carseat like the ad said. It sat in there and you could buckle it with a little strap, but it was not locked into place. So I returned it and began looking again.

Then one day I was looking online and there was this travel system on sale and I had a 20% off coupon. I went ahead and bought it and hoped it looked like the picture. Well, it did NOT look like the picture. I was kind of iffy on the pattern before I bought it, but for the price I was ok with it. Well, in person it was so washed out and grandma looking. The colors were much more vibrant in the picture. So back to the store that one went!

Back to the mission I go. I found a super cute stroller and a matching carseat. I decide to go ahead and buy the stroller and just put the carseat on my registry. I found a good price from an online vendor and went ahead and ordered it. Well when it got here there were weird stains on it. It looked like the colors bled into the fabric where it was white. If the stroller was cheap I would have just rolled with it, but when I'm spending a lot of money on something I want it to be right. I contact the manufacturer and they say it's discontinued and they can't send a replacement. Well, the store I got it from still has it in stock so I thought I would just ask them for a replacement. This becomes a long drawn out thing of me trying to send pictures and them not getting them. It takes them one week to get back to me to tell me that they stroller is no longer available and to pick another one. AAHHH! I try searching online everywhere to see if I can buy it somewhere else. I can't find it anywhere except for one that has it priced for $100 more than I paid. Yeah, no.

There is another stroller with the same pattern, but is a different style. I wrote them back asking if they can discount the stroller since it was damaged. If it's a reasonable amount I guess I'll keep the stained stroller. If it's a crap discount I'll send it back and get the other stroller with the same pattern.

I just feel like I can't win!

I think the cats were more excited than me

Yes, that is my belly poking out