2 months to the day!

Today marks the 2 month mark until Baby Besmer's due date. Nothing too exciting is going on around here. The baby moves around quite a bit. I'm starting to wake up halfway through the night to go pee. But then, the baby decided to wake up and start kicking like a bandit! It was amazing how much it moved in the middle of the night! And one thing I've decided I miss the most... being able to pop my back. That is driving me nuts! I can't pretzel my back to pop it. Thankfully, I invested in some prenatal yoga DVDs which help me stretch and will hopefully help with the labor! I'll let you know in 2 months!

Short and chic!

Well, my hair was at the point where it either needed to go or grow! So, my hairdresser and I decided to chop it off! I have to look cute for the NYC trip! The color is hard to see but it's a reddish brown. Then when September rolls around, we'll let it start to grow and darken it to more of a chocolate brown color. I'm sure once the baby comes around, my fun hair days are gone! I'm enjoying it while we can afford it!

31 weeks... 9 to go!

Wow! I can't believe there's only 9 weeks left to go! So I have the mental countdown in my head. 9 weeks (2 months and 2 days) means there's only 4 paychecks to go... that's a bummer! 1 last vacation to New York City. We have to drive because it's not really recommended to fly this late in pregnancy. I'll be almost 33 weeks at that point, which means 2 weeks left until our last vacation!

But then I think of all the things we have left to buy! Oh my! I really hope Babies R Us puts out some really good coupons in the paper soon! If anyone spies any 15% off coupons for Babies R Us, send them my way! Or let me know so I can run to the store and ask for one before I buy all the expensive stuff... a car seat, the pack and play, the stroller... ahhh! Does everyone else stress at all the expenses? It's fun but boy is that a big chunk of money!

Everything is going fine still! Nothing too exciting. My belly button still has not popped out! Kinda weird, but it's just stretched and started looking like a crater! TMI I know. No stretch marks... that I can see anyways. YEAH! I haven't peed on myself in a long time when I sneeze. I did that once, like at 23 weeks. I must have really had to go pee. No real heartburn. Feels like a tingly, numbing sensation under my ribs but it doesn't feel like heartburn. I attribute it to my stomach stretching and pressing down on a nerve. I still take Tums just in case, but mainly it's more for calcium.

As the weeks tick by, I wonder more and more if Baby Besmer is a boy or a girl. And NO we are not going to find out at this point in the pregnancy. There's only 2 months left! I can wait! We won't have another ultrasound anyways. But my doc knows. It looks like everyone is pretty split in the voting. 9 weeks until we find out the sex of the baby!

I can't stop!

Okay, I have been told numerous times to stop buying things, but how can I when I get coupons that are going to expire?! Those Babies R Us coupons that let you take $5 off a $25 purchase. So my intent is to not spend a lot of money, which keeps me under control... that's a good thing. So unlike adult clothing, you can get quite a bit for $25! As you can see, I got some really cute neutral onsies, a pack of 5 onsies, and a pack of 3 sleep outfits with the footies. Makes me kind of wish I knew if I was having a girl or boy... the girl clothes are so cute!

Let the dreams begin

Well, I have had 2 baby dreams over the past week. Unfortunately I can't quite remember what they were right now. One may have been feeding the baby. I also can't recall if there was a specific sex... so no dreams predicting a boy or girl yet.

It wasn't me this time

A cute bath towel and receiving blanket
The blanket up close.

So I came home to discover presents on the doorstep today. Thanks to my Mom we have a couple more new items, a "bath bag" but looks more like a bath towel/blanket type of thing and another receiving blanket. The blanket is really soft and thin. It's it fun! So, it wasn't me buying all the stuff this time! To keep myself under control, I figured every paycheck I can chip away at the things I need. So, really I splurged a little early since payday is tomorrow. So it won't be until another 2 weeks until I make another purchase!

More shopping

The quilted comforter in the plastic still... isn't it cute?!
This is what the bumper looks like!

More fun stuff I picked up at Babies R Us. So, my purpose of the Babies R Us trip was simply to pick up the crib set my Dad bought for me... but Carter's items were still buy 1, get 1 50% off plus I had a $5 off coupon. So you know what that means... I had to use the coupon! So, I scored another crib sheet, the changing pad cover, the changing pad cushion, more receiving blankets and lap pads, and some washcloths. Everything is green and brown... hope that goes well with either a boy or girl! Although, the changing pad cover does have blue... oh no! It's so fun to make these small $30-$60 purchases. I think my eyes will pop out of their sockets when we go to Babies R Us and the bill is over $500!! Maybe I'll break that into a couple of $250 purchases. Ahh... the stress!