I was sitting here pondering what to post today and not wanting to give up on my week-o-posts (this is harder than it looks during the slower, hot as heck summer season!), and I realized it was Wednesday… time for a Wacky Wednesday! I figured that I’m about due since I haven’t had one since April… whoops! So, here we go… I have a feeling this one may be a little baby-centric, since, well… that’s what’s on my brain!
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Here’s a little random fact list about me and Miss A (the next segment of Wacky Wednesday isn’t about her, so if you want to skip down past the baby stuff, skip to the next division line):
- I am very proud to say that the official weight gain for this pregnancy is only 8 pounds.
That’s a “net” figure… I lost a lot of weight during the first trimester (well over 10 pounds) due to nausea / lack of appetite, so I’ve gained that all back plus 8 pounds. But if you look at my starting weight and my current weight, the official number is 8 pounds. I’m pretty proud of that and it gives me hope for getting back in shape after she comes. - Miss A is still cooking… although we weren’t sure she would be at this point. Mikel and I thought there might be a possibility they might induce today after my check up. They’ve been watching me for sporadic signs of pre-eclampsia (I even spent an afternoon in L&D 2 weeks ago being monitored for blood pressure, contractions, and the baby’s heart rate), and thought that since I will officially hit “full term” – 37 weeks – this week, they might go ahead and decide it’s time to induce just in case. Luckily, it seems that most of the symptoms I’ve been having have calmed down and they’re just watching me closely for the time being. They did mention today that there’s a chance they may move my scheduled induction up to August 3 from August 10 just because she’s measuring ahead, so that’s exciting. We may be less than 2 weeks from baby! Ack! Luckily, our bags are packed as of this morning (we were wanting to be as prepared as possible if they decided to spring an induction on us at the appointment). We’ll find out next week when the official eviction date is.
- At last check, Miss A was weighing in at 6+ pounds, according to the sonogram – take that with a grain of salt because they’re known to be off.
- I had a major cooking day on Monday to get some meals in the fridge so I wouldn’t have to cook too much after Miss A makes her appearance. I split several recipes into 2 smaller disposable pans so we’d have less leftovers and more meals ready to go. I ended up with 2 pans of Chicken Taco (my family’s version of King Ranch Chicken), 2 pans of Chicken Spaghetti/Tetrazzini (whatever you like to call it), 2 pans of lasagna, and a batch of the Pioneer Woman’s “Comfort Meatballs” – they’re in a homemade BBQ sauce instead of a marinara sauce and promise to be good as sandwich material.
- Mikel went to “Daddy Boot Camp” last night at the hospital. It seems he got a lot of good information, but it kinda cracked me up. We’ve gone to a bunch of classes at the hospital (childbirth, nursing, baby care, car seat…), and most all of them ended on time and we were out of there at a reasonable hour. It seems the men were eager to talk without their wives around last night because they went an hour and a half past the advertised end time! I didn’t mind at all (I had Cake Boss episodes on DVR that I hadn’t watched), but I just found it funny that they decided to be chatty when at every class I went to, it was the wives asking questions!
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Sunday night, Mikel and I went to the Michael Buble concert at the AAC. It was amazing! Michael’s voice is just as incredible in person as it is on recordings and he’s so charmingly personable during the show. You felt like he was your friend (your foul-mouthed friend, by the way… it wasn’t like he dropped the f-bomb every other word, but he definitely didn’t censor himself – I’d call it a show for the 12 and over crowd, if you know what I mean). What Mikel and I are were most surprised about was the opening act. We’d never heard of them before and actually weren’t concerned about showing up for the concert on time (we had dinner reservations beforehand). We figured if we get there to see them, great! If not, oh well! I am so glad we go there on time because they were simply amazing – they’re a group called Naturally 7 and they’re out of NYC. They are AMAZING – every. single. thing. about their show is a cappella voices. Absolutely zero instruments, but they sound like they have a full orchestra going on at times. Here’s one of my favorites (and how they opened the show we saw… long, but worth it!):
They were so much fun to watch and Mikel & I were both continually amazed by what they were able to do! I must remember to go hit iTunes to get a few of their songs before long…
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My favorite commercial right now:
Is it wrong that I want to find a way to work the phrase “Jack Wagon” into normal, everyday conversation these days? It probably is, but I think it might be my new favorite phrase. I love R. Lee Ermey.
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Ok, I know this hasn’t been the longest of Wacky Wednesdays, but I feel like I’ve been talking your ear off! Ha! So, I’m going to leave it on that note. That’s right. The note I want to leave you on is “Jack Wagon!” Don’t hate me. I should be back tomorrow with more riveting posts… now to dream up something to post about!
by Deena
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