Mina's Daddy is Sooo Funny

My husband constantly cracks me up. He's so tall and intimidating but he's just a big teddy bear inside especially when it comes to our baby. He's been an active daddy from the day we found out we were pregnant. He's gone to every appointment and even watched what I ate during my first and second trimesters. He even said from day one that he wanted to decorate the nursery. I couldn't say no to that! So as we've gotten things from our baby showers, he's been putting them together. I just sit there watching him and enjoying the show. Something always seems to happen when he's working on her room. For example, he was putting the bassinet together and neither one of us were sure if he was doing it right. It took him 5 minutes to find the little holes in it that the directions were talking about. First-time parents? That we are! He was setting up her swing today and he called me in the room to show me his accomplishment and to show me how it worked. He showed me how you can collapse it for storage and as he said, "Then you do like this to open it back up but make sure you hear the snap," the leg smacked him in the shin. I started dying from laughter and in between his laughter he managed to say, "not that snap." I can't wait until she's older so I can tell her how funny he was putting her baby things together. At least he's not one of those guys that gets frustrated and breaks the damn thing. He's surprisingly very patient with this stuff.

WORK! What is that?

Tomorrow I will have officially been on maternity leave for a week. You don't even know how nice this past week has been. Getting up whenever I feel like it (actually when she wakes me up), getting to use my toilet instead of the public ones at work, and eating whenever I feel like it. Most importantly, I get to work on the nursery and tidy up the house. I'm like a little kid when it comes to her room. I beg my husband to work on the room and when he says yes (like I know he will), I jump up and down because I'm so excited. I obviously don't really jump up and down considering I'm getting ready to pop. But it helps you to visualize my excitement. Well, back to not having to go to work. I'm surprised that I've been so active this week. I've been so uncomfortable and exhausted this past month that I thought I would be lazy my first week on leave. I guess it's because I know what I have to do. Technically, I could have my baby any day now and I want to be as ready as I can. So it looks like I'll be creating a routine for myself this upcoming week. This will consist of waking up whenever I feel like waking up, cleaning up the living room, kitchen, and bathrooms, and working on her room. I'll probably pee about 10 times from the time I wake up till I take my first break (sooo not exaggerating here). I always wonder how I can pee 5 minutes after I've already peed. I'll definitely be eating/snacking in between all of this cleaning. I'll probably take a nap somewhere in between as well. I don't usually like to clean but I want the baby to come home to a decent looking house. I don't know if anyone else has heard of this but I've been told that some women tend to clean excessively right before they go into labor. It's some weird nesting thing that happens. Could this be a sign? I do have only 3 weeks left. We'll see what happens.

Stretchy, Stretchy

Every woman fears them. Actually, I think it's safe to say that they are every woman's worst nightmare. Yes, I'm talking about those dreaded stretch marks. I personally have had stretch marks for a good majority of my life but they've been skin color for quite some time too. As I've gone through my pregnancy, I've waited and waited to see new ones. About 4 months went by and I never saw a new mark. So I was esctatic and thought that I wasn't going to get any new ones (I also thought that I was going to carry my baby low like my mom). Was I ever wrong! I remember the day that I saw my first couple of stretch marks. They looked like two little pink scratches. I even showed my Assistant Manager who was like my second mom when it came to my pregnancy. Ok, so I have two little marks. Nothing to freak out about, right? WRONG! I'm 8 months now, carrying my baby right under my boobs, and the wole area from my waist to my boobs is covered in these damn, ugly marks. I never remembered how ugly stretch marks were when they were new. It looks like my baby has scratched me all over from the inside. At first I started to become self-conscious in front of my husband (I know I'm crazy) because they're just so damn hiddeous. He just felt really bad for me. Looks like the coco butter lotion (not cream) just doesn't work. But you know what? My pregnancy is almost over and I'm to the point now where I just say "screw it." The stretch marks were pretty much inevitable and at least I have a better excuse as to why I have them. I'm pregnant not just fat! So I have excepted my new friends and my husband always tells me that my weight gain and new stretch marks are all love. So I shouldn't complain because it's all because we're having a baby!

Oh yeah, I don't recommend using coco butter lotion. It's too thin.