Valentine's Day Week/32 Weeks Pregnant

Hi everyone!  Hope you all had a nice weekend, and for some of you, having a nice day off.  My work combines President's Day into our Winter Break, so I have to be at the office today...but Hubs has the day off and took Leif to the Science Museum.  Wish I could go with them!  Here's how Week 32 of pregnancy went in a nutshell...

Wednesday, February 10

If I have the time, I'll make a healthy protein shake before work.  I had a little helper on Wednesday.  :)

While I was making Leif dinner, Hubs played trains with him.  He's starting to make a cute "concentration" face.

 Thursday, February 11

I had back to back appointments at my hospital that morning; met a doctor they assigned me due to last minute scheduling.  He was nice, but not my favorite.  I re-booked him for my follow up just because he already knows my chart, but I'm hoping to switch OB's after that.  I really dislike when doctors point out how much weight you are supposed to gain while pregnant.  I've talked to other pregnant/previously pregnant ladies, and most of them say how much they love their docs for not pointing that out because they understand...maybe I need a girl OB.  But then again, my last OBs were all small Korean ladies, and half of them mentioned weight, half not.  So I guess it's a gamble.  I got to see a quick ultrasound of Baby #2, and again the doctor pointed out how extroverted he is about his gender (first image we saw in the ultrasound was of his little ding-dong...hello!).  But he's growing fine, and for some reason the changed due date wasn't in my previous OB's notes...ugh.  So we recalculated and it looks like he's due April 5 now-same day as my niece!

Next appointment was with the Head Labor & Delivery Nurse who walked me through the delivery day, touched up on breastfeeding, plans, and the actual Labor Ward.  Then she walked me through it.  It's nice, but of course, it's a hospital, what more can I say?  The whole talk though jogged my memory of Leif's birth and frightened me all over again (we had a long chat about the epidural process).  Since with Leif's birth the doc popped my water/hospital gave me pitocin to speed up contractions, I never went through a "normal" start to the birthing process.  I'm nervous about what's going to happen with #2-will my water break naturally?  Will I experience contractions?  Where will it happen?  AHH!

I had to stop by two more places in the hospital before leaving-one was the pharmacy; doc prescribed me codeine as my rib pain hasn't subsided and it feels like I almost break my lower ribs whenever I sneeze/cough (which sneezing is now almost daily thanks to the crazy weather/allergies).  So far it's worked wonders!  Thank you doc.

Second I had to go to the Records Department to get my leave of absence paperwork filled out...we've come along way in tech/how paperwork is handled that the doc set something up online, then someone else fills out the rest of the paperwork.  It's weird.  So I had to set my last day of work and I chose March 24-it's during spring break and I'd like to take some time to relax/get the house prepared.  And who knows, Baby #2 can come out earlier than later.

After work/Leif pick-up, we headed to the store (Von's to be precise) to grab food for Leif's Valentine's Party the next day and extra food that I can't get at Trader Joe's (where I do the majority of my grocery shopping!).

He doesn't like to smile for photos anymore...but here we are checking out. 

Friday, February 12

My co-workers are the sweetest!  Here is what I was given:

Since it was a nice day, I decided to try and take walks on all my breaks and half my lunch break.  Right around the corner we have an orange grove with a duck/turtle pond!  Definitely a nice way to relax and a great place to walk.

Weird to see so many students walking around campus and then to see no one in the Orange Grove.

Look at all the turtles sunning!

As I was heading back to my office, decided to snap the courtyard within the music building.  Those trees are so pretty but they are the culprit of my crazy allergy attacks!  Benadryl to the rescue...

 Saturday, February 13

We did some quick shopping and grabbed a couple suits and accessories for Hubs since his Awards Night is the following Saturday.  I returned a dress to Macy's and Hubs was sweet and grabbed me some new maternity clothes from Old Navy...all my warm weather pregnancy clothes was towards the first trimester with Leif...so I don't really have anything that fits now that it's climbing into the 80s!

Hubs and I decided to have a very low-key Valentine's weekend and we ended up ordering Indian food from our favorite place.  Apparently the dish we thought had no dairy in it had a little-Hubs passed out immediately after our late dinner!

Sunday, February 14

Happy (belated) Valentine's Day!

We drove around for a while to get Leif to nap in the car...he's starting to resist nap times (Saturday was a pain, but we finally got him down)...we took turns going into a few shoe stores and ended up getting lunch at one of our favorite places-Salsa & Beer!

Leif chowing down on his quesadilla

Kept trying to get Leif to look at me...at least Hubs did.

Success!  No smile, but at least a cute look.

We were kind of disappointed in this location (yes, there are two), just because the food quality can be hit and miss here.  It's not like it's terrible, but it's just not up to par with the other original location.  And we asked two people for a booster seat-they both said sure and both never retrieved one.  Sigh.


Pregnancy these days...ugh, I'm so huge.  I'm trying to get in more walks and do some light weight work, and eating a little better/less carbs, but I'm BIG.  This baby may be as big/bigger than Leif.  I don't know how baby is supposed to get any bigger, I'm just hoping I don't gain any other weight in my face/arms/legs...