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maricar tagged me!

Here’s the game. Choose five occupations from the list below and fill in the blanks. If I tag you, you’re supposed to answer in your own weblog. If you don’t want to, let me know so I can tag someone else, but c’mon, be a sport!

If I could be a scientist. If I could be a farmer. If I could be a musician. If I could be a doctor. If I could be a painter. If I could be a gardener. If I could be a missionary. If I could be a chef. If I could be an architect. If I could be a linguist. If I could be a psychologist. If I could be a librarian. If I could be an athlete. If I could be a lawyer. If I could be an inn-keeper. If I could be a professor. If I could be a writer. If I could be a llama-rider. If I could be a bonnie pirate. If I could be an astronaut. If I could be a world famous blogger. If I could be a justice on any one court in the world. If I could be married to any current famous political figure.

here goes!

if i could be a farmer…i would be a vegetable or fruit farmer. i love animals but i don’t think i could handle the smell of them!

if i could be a musician…i would play the piano and the guitar beautifully, sing as i do now, write as i do now, and i would make my own lullaby album without any difficulties. ;)

if i could be a doctor…i would be a pediatrician. they get to see adorable kids and don’t even have to give shots to them, so most kids like them.

if i could be a athlete…i think i would like to be a runner. i have always liked the idea of running, but actually doing it is another story. ;)

if i could be a bonnie pirate…a bonnie pirate? ok…i would be capt. jack sparrow. hehe!

i tag………..everyone who visits my blog who has a son!!!!!!!!!!! :D

jeremiah had his 15 month appt yesterday. it went fine, i guess. the np who saw him said he was the most well-behaved 15 month old she’d ever seen in her life. she said this several times. she also would not STOP saying how cute, adorable, handsome, beautiful he was. i was like come on lady! stop it! lol. she finally said, “i don’t just say that = i’m really serious = he is beautiful!” or something like that. ;) it was funny.
he is 23lbs 11oz = only 40th percentile
and 31″ = only 45th percentile
i admit it’s always a little annoying when he is below the 50th %. :( i always worry. they say not to worry, because he’s developmentally perfect, advanced even, but STILL. rolls eyes.
he had to get two shots. the nurse said they are the most painful ones too. :( he was SOOOOOO upset from them, and was actually mad at me over it. i think he blamed me for holding his hands down. :( he was screaming, walking around hitting things and wouldn’t come to me!!!! finally got him with a nilla wafer. ;)
afterward yesterday, he was grumpy and clingy, and right before bedtime he started limping. :( poor baby. so i gave him tylenol before putting him to bed. i hate it when he’s in pain!!!
today he has been doing ok. you can tell when he gets up that his legs still hurt tho, he acts like he can’t walk on them until he gets them working. kind of scary.

pregnancy fun: these two photos were taken last night, when i was 23 weeks pregnant with josiah:
23 weeks23 weeks

these two photos were taken in september 2003, when i was 23 weeks pregnant with jeremiah:
23 weeks23 weeks

can you believe it? i look almost exactly the same, don’t you think?? i think josiah may be a little bigger, but not much. hard to tell really. the jeremiah pics were scanned in, so they look strange. ;)

is it me, or has this week seemed to fly by?!?

ttyl! have a great day, and God bless!!

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36 weeks…and counting!

this week:
“Your baby is working hard to accumulate all the fat he can, in preparation for delivery. His body is growing rounder every day, since about 15 percent of his total weight is now made up of fat. Once he is born, this fat layer will help him maintain his body temperature and give him a reliable energy source.

Baby now weighs around six pounds and is 20.7 inches long.

- Major organ development is already complete, such as the kidneys and liver.

- Some fine-tuning, such as the final development of the lungs, is still taking place inside the womb.

- Baby’s head is round, but by the time he makes it through the birth canal it may be temporarily a bit misshapen as the soft bones of the skull are compressed by powerful contractions. His head shape will return to normal within a few days.”
:D

i’m not feeling well, so i am going to make this short.
does everyone who comes on here hear a song playing? i ask because i have gotten a few compliments on the song playing, and there ISN’t a song playing anymore. i took it out for rebekah and other slow-connection folks. (her computer is slow, not her mind LOL.) so i wonder where you’re hearing this wonderful, relaxing song?? i know at gigowski’s garden there is a wonderful one playing. is that what you’re thinking of??
yesterday jerry and i went to see return of the king, and it was incredibly good. go see it. we also finished almost all of our shopping. he still needs to get me one more thing, he says. he actually GOT ANGRY WITH ME for saying i didn’t need anything. i said, ‘what is it that every year of our marriage i have said i wanted for a Christmas gift?’ he said, ‘a baby.’ i said, ‘yes!’ as if that was that, and he didn’t need to get me anything. he got upset, saying that yeah, sure, he could put a piece of paper with jeremiah’s name written on it under the tree, and tell everyone that’s what he got me. what does it matter what other people think anyways?! i don’t NEED anything right now. i don’t WANT any clothes right now, because HOPEFULLY i will be wearing a different size when i lose my baby fat (and yes, i know it takes several weeks, even months to do so). anyway, i ended up telling him i always love getting cds, and we also picked up a boppy pillow (using one of our baby shower gift cards). this one has a little place for him to sit in and be cradled. the other ones i’d seen didn’t have that feature. so he still says he needs to get me something else, and i just want to be surprised with something, i don’t care what it is. i guess i understand, because i LOVE giving gifts too, and i would feel cheated if i couldn’t buy him a gift…it’s just that jeremiah (after jerry) is what i’ve always wanted…
lookie what i did:
i think i did a good job. maybe if i feel up to it later, i will add a few yellow sponge-painted stars above it. and maybe write ‘Dream Sweet Dreams’.
ok that’s it i need to go…
one more thing – i remember as a child loving to put ‘icicles’ on the Christmas tree. i always thought it made the tree look so beautiful. jerry and i put some on ours last night, and it looks um, dumb. like cobwebby or something. did we just put them up wrong, or what?? as i child, i just remember throwing handfuls of it on the tree, wherever i wanted…was i really so naive to think it looked good? were my parents really so easy as to let us ruin the tree? these are the questions i’m pondering now.
if you’re wondering what happened to the quick, short post…so am i. lol.
hope everyone has a great saturday!!! :) hugs!

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Being me

i want to thank everyone for letting me be me and vent and complain about my hormonal problems. and other problems too. sometimes because i feel so blessed and thankful about this pregnancy, i feel guilty for having these hormonal feelings! which makes me feel even worse. sigh. but it’s so helpful to know it’s NORMAL. :) thanks pals! :spin:
currently:
physical: popping joints, sharp stomach pains (like muscle strains), heartburn
emotional: happy, nearly ready, anxious to meet him!!
jeremiah: hiccups 2x a day or more, moving a lot, but sleeps when i sleep (yay!), likes when i sing to him. :)
romantically: very secure and sure of my hubby’s love and devotion. :kiss:
tonight we have our breastfeeding class! jerry is going with me, because i made SURE that it was for couples, not just the mothers.
i have talked with a doula, and i really want to use her, but now i don’t know if we’ll be able to. for some reason i’m thinking i can only have two people in l&d with me. and i HAVE to have my hubby and my mama with me. i’m going to ask the dr’s office about it tomorrow. i want to let the lady know ahead of time about it if we’ll be using her or not.
oh, look at the king of the couch!
– isn’t he adorable?! :doggie:
well that’s it for today. :D
hugs!

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I think…

i think i felt the baby!!! this morning before i got up, i was just lying there, and i think i felt her moving. it felt like a kind of fluttering. the nurse had told me the baby might be settling on the right side of my tummy, so i turned to the left side, and i think i actually felt her moving over to the left side. it was soooo strange and cool feeling!! i tried to lie there longer to feel her more, but nothing. :( oh well, at least now i know what it’s like!!!
last night jerry and i went to kohl’s because they had a major sale going on. i found a girl’s outfit i couldn’t resist, and a boy’s outfit i couldn’t resist. the boy’s outfit is baby snoopy playing baseball! and i know noone knows this, but jerry LOVES baseball. so you see why i had to get that one, for our son, whenever we have him. :) anyway, here they are.
i have to admit i’m back to using zofran. :( the morning sickness is coming back. no, i haven’t vomited yet, but the nausea is really strong again, like it’s going to make me vomit. :( i hate it!! grrrr.
well that’s it for now. :)
huggles and blessings!
jenn
dear baby,
i’m SO glad i was able to feel you today! it was soooo amazing! i want to feel you more and more every day! :) i love you honey!!!
love,
mama

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