Dance, Love, Wings and Always Dream: Week 26

This week in pregnancy world:

-I'm definitely starting to "feel it" now, before I think I was able to get away with much more but not so much now.

- It seems like my clumsiness has been increased by 10 fold. Things just fall straight through my fingers, all the time!

- I didn't believe in pregnancy brain, the notion that a woman functions slower and is more ditsy when pregnant. I am a believer now. I will think of what I need a room away, go into that room and immediately forget what I was there for. If I don't make a list for the grocery store, I forget what I am there for when I when I walk in the store. I have to wait and really have to think about my purpose in being there. Even with a list, I get home and realize I forgot something almost every time! I'm pretty sure after I have proofread this blog post there will be a number of grammatical errors.

-I had my first ridiculous cry spat this week. Poor Sean. I'm embarrassed and it was totally ridiculous. In my defense, I didn't get any sleep the night before and it was about 2 am when this went down. There was absolutely no reason for me to respond this way though, it was so dumb!

- I feel like I am always in the way. I'm pretty sure I'm always blocking someone or bumping into someone.

- Before I was pregnant I had aches and pains due to dance, my knees were pretty bad and sore with or without exercise and many times so were my hips. In my second trimester, these aches and pains all disappeared. I thought it was a pregnancy miracle or the hormones working favorably with my body, I thought I dodged a bullet. I was wrong. All of these aches and pains have now returned, and not just these particular ones, my body is aware of every injury I've ever sustained like a sprained ankle from over 2 years ago!

- Sleep has been kind of rough, so I am tired much more now than I was in my second trimester. If I can calm my mind down enough to take a nap they are the best!

- When someone asks, "How are you feeling?" I have to resist the urge to answer them honestly. Sean insists it isn't polite to say, "My butt hurts". Because it does. My right side is so stiff and the majority of time I have a pimp, swagger walk ( it mostly looks like I'm limping).

- The penguin waddle is starting to become a thing.

-There was a moment when my husband thought he was being funny this week, " Isn't it cool that in three months you will have abs again?"

-Convertible car seat? Infant car seat? Why are they so ugly? If they are not ugly, why do they not convert with any jogging strollers? What to buy? This site seems to help a little....http://baby-car-seats-review.toptenreviews.com/chicco-keyfit-30-review.html Biggest life dilemma at the moment.

On a more positive note my daughter is getting so strong! She kicks all the time, it's fun to see what she responds to. In the studio she wakes up every time we put music on for my class to practice their dances. She moves a bunch for sweets, cold stuff, Sean singing and guitar playing, and Sean and I placing our hands on my belly. She seems to respond to the actions scenes in movies as well. There are times when she moves, she moves my whole stomach in one big wave, the first time that happened I thought it was pretty insane. It's so amazing to see her kick me when I see my stomach move in little jolts. All of my complaining above is worth it when I get to have moments like this. Sean and I still look at each other in disbelief and say, "I can't believe we are having a baby!"It is still pretty surreal for us and exciting.

Sean had the day off this week. I came home from work to our nursery furniture all set up in her room. It was wonderful. It was kind of a big deal for us to get everything out of that room and move things around, and a really big project for Sean. We had to move our beloved movie room downstairs to our living room, and our guest bedroom into our old movie room. I'm still a little bummed I had to go back on never ever having a TV in the living room, but Sean made a brilliant floor plan that separates everything so nicely that I still get to have a visiting space.

It was pretty cool to walk into her nursery with everything all set up. I was on cloud nine all day. I was able to transfer all the things we have bought for her from our closet in our bedroom into her room. When it was all done I was a big nerd and sat in the middle of the space for a while with a big grin on my face imagining what it would be like with her in that space as well. Sean asked me if I wanted to set up a sleeping bag in there and sleep in there that night. I didn't but secretly probably would have if we had a decent air mattress. I can't wait to start adding more than just furniture. We have a few books for her and a few small stuffed animals. I can wait to get bedding and a few more decorative things for her.

This week we went on a picnic with some friends of ours, and Rocco. Even though it was work, it was really relaxing to go hiking afterwards. I paid for it the following morning with really sore hips, but it was so worth it! Sean took us to see an amazing view of Omaha. The hike was fairly easy, but we also didn't do it for that long either, so I would call it more along the lines of "trailing" instead of hiking, perfect for the pregnant clumsy lady. Here are some pictures from our little adventure.