Oh my goodness!!

OK, so I've been kind of stressed out the past few days with just random stuff...Unfortunately life doesn't slow down or stop when you're tired and pregnant =)

Anyways...now that I've gotten that out I just realized a few things in the past week that have made me smile!!

Number 1 - Have you looked at the baby countdown?? As of today it says 6 weeks and 6 days...that's REALLY close!! While I am already uncomfortable (this kid has nestled himself up in front of my rib cage, so anytime he moves it puts pressure on my ribs and sometimes lungs), I can still remember the day that pregnancy test came up positive...I can't believe it's already been almost 8 months!!
A really scary way to look at it...we have only 7 more Saturdays before this little guy makes his official appearance!! That's not very long!!

Number 2 - Whoever invented the public playground should be immortalized. The past 2 weeks we have been meeting a few other moms from our new ward at the local parks and I have realized that kids this age will play on a playground for HOURS if you let them. And when you go with other moms (that you actually WANT to talk to) you not only get a much needed physical break, but you can sit and talk with other adults!! I love that Karyl is old enough to just let play while I watch her...although I have had to get used to her getting kind of dirty, all our playgrounds here have that wood mulch stuff (never understood why, it's not terribly forgiving when they fall!) and she loves digging in it. For anyone that knows me, I hate getting dirty...which means I hate seeing my kids get dirty...but I'm learning to relax and let her have some fun - although I did bring some of those big red plastic cups for her to use this last time and she did use them, most of the time, so that made it a little easier to watch!
I love our new ward...no offense to anyone in our old ward, but I was never invited on playdates or park days back in OC, but here we have already made some great friends and I have a great group of women with kids the same age that I can relate to and hang out with...and they at least pretend to like having me around...and that's good enough for me =)

Number 3 - This is kind of a random thing, but it stunned me when I realized it....at about 6 months with Karyl I had my fingers swell so bad that my wedding rings got stuck and I had to maneuver them off with soap and a few other maneuvers, after that they were packed up, I bought a $6.00 Kohl's "band" and didn't see my rings again until about 2 months after having Karyl.

I am at 8 months now, and I can still get my rings on and off with no problems!! I thought for sure I was going to have to pull out my blue light special ring, but so far, I have been able to continue to wear my favorite pieces of jewlery!! With Karyl, my feet also swelled so bad the last 2 months that I was confined to only wearing sandals and one pair of tennis shoes if I loosened the laces and barely tied them. This time, I think I have only seen my toes look like snausages once, and that was after walking around at Disneyland for a few hours. Otherwise, I can still fit into all my shoes!!

Now I know you're thinking "what's the big deal about your feet swelling, that goes away after the baby comes"...but most of you may not have realized that I have HUGE feet. Before having Karyl they were a size 10-1/2..then they got longer while I was pregnant, and never went back, so I am now a size 11. Those of you with nice size 8 feet will have no idea what a pain it is to try and find cute shoes in anything over a size 10...I guess that's why I've never been a shoe person, I can never find them in my size!! And it was making me nervous thinking that my feet were going to grow a 1/2 a shoe size with every pregnancy!!

OK, so I'm done ranting...I've been inside too long today I guess!!