Bragging on My Mom...Again :)

If any of you know my Mom, you know that she is an amazingly talented lady.  She makes the most beautiful, perfect quilts.  And now she is entering the world of cake decorating...kind of by force.  When my brother Phillip (Warren, Smith etc...) was engaged to Nicole, she asked my mom to make the wedding cake.  My mom asked what kind of cake and Nicole wanted a fondant cake.  So...with the wedding getting closer and my mom starting to freak out because she didn't know anything about fondant and the cake looked "horrible" I suggested YouTube.  Since she looked over YouTube for inspiration, she has just gotten to be a master of it.  She has made princess cakes (with the barbie in it).  I think that she enjoys it now...at least I hope since I asked her to make a baby shower cake.  With this one, I stretched her a little more.  I wanted a square cake.  She had never done a square cake before. But, after more YouTube, she was ready to tackle the project.  Well, here is the cake that my mom was able to create for me!  I love it!!  You would think she has been doing this for years!!

Enter a Guess

So, since I am in my 3rd trimester now I wanted to have a little guess the baby's stats pool. There is going to be a little incentive that I will send out to the winner of the pool regardless of location around the globe...so my UK and Canadian friends feel free to enter!  Of course, if you guess the gender of the baby wrong...I think I will personally go and slap you.  Everyone should get that right.  If you don't know already, she is a girl.

I thought it would be fun.  Maybe I am crazy.  The link to it is in the upper right of the blog.  Guess away!

Endrit's Thesis Defense

Without going into too much detail, all Hell has been breaking loose in the Shurdha household over the topic of Endrit's thesis defense.  Not Endrit and I fighting or anything, but one of the committee members was being an absolute......jerk...yeah that's the word I want :rolls eyes:

So anyways, after trudging through everything, he has all 5 professors willing to come together for a few hours in the same room to hear Endrit's defense.

August 19, 2011 at 1 pm.  We could use all of the prayers, thoughts, positive energy, whatever you believe in sent his way to get over this last hurdle.

This situation has made many, MANY people all across the campus/family very angry.  Even my geology professor that wouldn't hurt a fly told us to file a complaint to the dean of graduate school.  But, I am happy everything is settled for now.

27 weeks

How far along? 27 weeks
Baby is the size of a: head of cauliflower (16 inches long, 2.2 pounds)
Total weight gain/loss:  Honestly have no clue.  
Sleep:  I seem to wake up at random times.  Perhaps to pee or get my allegra early.  Tossing and turning has definitely started!
Best moment this week:  Endrit was able to watch my belly move on its own.  And he felt the big kicks too.
Movement: Kicks have reached my ribs.  Rolls and flips make me nauseated.  It will be nice when she gets locked and loaded.
Food cravings/aversions:  Cravings of PB&J sometimes.  
What I miss:  Shaving my legs while being able to breathe.
What I am looking forward to:  Completing my Hypnobabies course.  It really is nice and relaxing.
Milestones:  Today is the start of my 3rd trimester!!!!  Major milestone I think!
Symptoms:  Braxton-Hick's contractions.  Backache.  Puffiness.  

Baby Quilt

Ever since the first butterfly quilt that my mom made, I knew that I would want one for a baby girl.  It was just too adorable!!!  Well, here I am pregnant with a little girl and my parents in the middle of a move that is taking them half way across the country and I thought that it wasn't going to happen.  I just randomly said how sad I was that I most likely wasn't going to get one yesterday when my mom and I were at Hobby Lobby in Joplin (which I am stunned wasn't destroyed by the tornado when almost everything else around it was).  Well, this is what my mom and I did today...

So now, a day later, I have the start of an amazing butterfly quilt.  It needs to have the back, batting, and binding put on as well as the quilting to be done by my Mom.  It was really fun to help her out with the quilt that will be going to MY baby girl.  I am in love.

Milestones

With any pregnancy, especially a first baby pregnancy after multiple miscarriage loss, there is going to be milestones.  With me they were...
1-positive pregnancy test
2-positive blood pregnancy test
3-first ultrasound
4-hearing the heartbeat
5-double digits in weeks
6-2nd trimester
7-feeling the first baby movements
8-first week without needing zofran
9-viability of the baby

There is one that is happening today,  It isn't a cool one like movements of the baby or anything.  This one actually means practically nothing since it is solely dependent on Marsi being due on October 23.  It doesn't take into account if she is born early, late, or right on time.  BUT, it is still a pretty cool milestone to me.  Today marks the official start of the 2 digit countdown to Marsi's due date.  October 23 is 99 days from today and I think that is pretty cool considering how doctors measure pregnancy, it is 280 days gestation.  181 days down, 99 to go.

There are still several milestones to be had.  Entering the 3rd trimester.  Baby dropping.  Hitting 30 weeks. Going into labor!  But, I have been excited about this day for a long time.  It is nice to be in double instead of triple digits...even if it really means nothing.

25 weeks in Missouri

It is interesting that I have spent almost my entire 2nd trimester (well, the parts that I feel good) in Missouri.  With the 2 weeks in June and 3/4 of July that I am here, I will be gone from my house for 6 out of the last 7 weeks.  This time working on the  house started a little bit later.  We had family at the house for a week and we went to Kansas City for a little over a  day too.  

So, now I am 25 weeks along in Missouri.  I don't have the information I need to make a complete post on how things are going, so here is my attempt.

Milestones reached...Theoretically, Marsi is 2 pounds.  She also has theoretically broken the 12 inches long head to foot length.  Such a smart little girl to have grown so big!  I was able to sit and watch my belly dance on its own when Marsi was in a hyper mood.  There is absolutely no doubt about what I feel when she kicks my hand.  She plays the kick where I poke game about 1/3 the times that I want to play.  

How I feel...I am getting bigger so that comes with the common pregnancy ailments. I haven't had to take a lot of my medication.  I think I am completely off of my nausea medication!  I thought the day would never come!  

So, that really is Marsi and I in a nutshell.  The posts will be better when I get home.