My friend, Lissa, held a baby shower for us on Saturday. It was so special and amazing. Having something like that done for you just makes you really appreciate how much people love you. I got so many amazing gifts. I had this list made up of things that I would need immediately for baby and the sheer magnitude of it was stressing me out. Well, I got pretty much everything on that list and then some. Thank you all so much. I feel so grateful and so happy that so many people care so much already about Gage. I’m off to do my thank you notes now because I really have alot to be thankful for.

I will get to the details of the whole shower in the next post but you have to see my diaper bag.  My friend, Heather, does this for a living and her work is just amazing.  If you can think it up, she can do it.  Even if you can’t think it up, she can help you and it will be the most awesome customized bag you have ever seen in your whole life.  She is the girl that is also making my baby bedding.   If the bag turned out this awesome, I can only imagine what the bedding will be like!  I linked to her website up above.  Just click her name or the button on my sidebar is her as well.

Why is it so hard to get any sleep when I need it so badly? It is literally painful for me to sleep. It doesn’t matter where I put pillows or what side I lay on, I wake up every hour with my hip burning and I have to pee. I get out of bed no less than 11 times per night. And for what? Three drips of pee that felt like I had a full bladder. I can’t wait to have this baby for this very annoying reason alone.

Dear Gage, I promise to:

1. Try really fucking hard to quit using fucking profanity quite so God Damned much. Really. I fucking do.

2. Always be honest with you. I will tell you that I have three tattoos and that I once had three piercings in my face. It’s your body and at the age of 18, you are free to make your own decisions. Just remember that piercings leave scars and that you generally cannot turn a ho into a housewife.

3. Let you make up your own mind about your sprituality. I will not tell you that you are one religion or another. You may or may not decide on any of the ones in the wide spectrum of choices. That’s okay with me as long as you live your life as a good person. One that other people can respect.

4. Teach you how to cook and clean and not have it seem faggy. I want you to be self sufficient. Trust me. When you do live on your own in college, you will so impress a girl with matching clean sheets and a clean toilet for her to puke in.

5. Teach you how to respect women. No woman deserves to be treated like trash, even if she is. You made the decision to be with this person so make things right without ever humiliating her.

6. I will know when you are lying. I’ve been there and done that. I know most of the tricks so save them and just tell me the truth. We can get through it, no matter what it is. I just need to know what I am dealing with.

7. I will always take your side but it might not always look that way.

8. I will try not to tell stories about you that embarrass you, but you have to let me know I’m doing it. Deal?

9. I will try to remember not to say no unless it matters.

10. I will listen to your pleas for fairness when I tell you that you cannot have a myspace profile until you are 18. I will tell you no again but I will listen to you.

11. I will sing really loudly in the car to all of the songs I love. You will think I’m a dork but these songs will shape your memories and when you are in college you will search out the oldies that “my mom used to sing in the car”. I promise it will happen.

12. We will laugh alot. Sometimes there will be reasons, but hopefully we will laugh our heads off for just no reason at all.

All of a sudden this week, my legs feel like they aren’t connected to my body very well.  When I walk I feel like I could just fall down.  I guess my pelvis is trying to get me ready to have a baby.

I’ve gone back to the crappy sleep phase.  I was doing so well too.  Now I feel like I’ve laid there taking a nap for 10 hours.  I think I got up too pee 11 times last night.  No exaggeration.

I went to the doctor this week and I’ve actually lost two pounds.  That puts me at 14 pounds total weight gain for the whole pregnancy.  Not too bad.

Gage is moving alot at times but then nothing for long periods of time.  I read somewhere that he sleeps for 90-95% of the day right now.  Wouldn’t that be nice if it stayed that way?

I don’t think I’ve grown much.  I took a pic the other day and I didn’t look like I had grown at all.

I have so much I need to do and get done and yet, I sit here all day at this computer doing pretty much nothing.  I sleep pretty much all day as well.  That can be partly accredited to the Cedar allergy season here in Austin.  It’s miserable.  Sleeping keeps me from spending money too.  I’m so effing bored with being pregnant it’s not even funny.  This pain in my rib cage has become, well… a pain.  I could get so much more done if I could just sit upright without being in agony.

Time is flying by though.  I can’t believe that in 9 weeks, we will be parents.  The phrase “holy mother fucking shit hell fuck” has gone through my head a million and six times.

I have nothing to wear to my baby shower either.  Even if I could buy anything I wanted in life, there isn’t even anything that I truly want.  I still have two and a half weeks.  I’m sure I’ll come up with something.  I hope.

The seat I registered for was on the list of no-no seats. Apparently, Consumer Reports only recommends two of the dang things. I’m pretty sure they will be sold out at Babys R Us for the next couple weeks. If you are expecting soon, you might want to go check. It wouldn’t hurt. One of the ones that I originally wanted the most (a Britax) is on the bottom of the list. Crazy, this baby thing.

UPDATE:  Fidget brought up a good point that I was apparently confused about.   I did some research.  The test that Consumer Reports did was just on the LATCH system and not using regular car seat belts.  The LATCH system seems like a fairly new thing and so I think most of the car seats out there would be safe if you used the cars regular seat belt system with your carseat.  However, I did call Babyrus just to check the availability of the 2 seats named in the report as being “okay” and they are sold out.  You have to order them.