Soooo... It's been a while. I actually wrote a nice post about Thanksgiving. There were even going to be pictures. BUT stupid blogger told me that my picassa account was full and that I had to delete pictures from it in order to put pictures on my blog. Well that or pay money. WHAT?!?! So now I need to figure out how to print out my old blog so that I can then delete the pictures and not miss out on any of my old posts. What a lame system!!
Anyway...done with my complaining.
Life around the Carpenter home has been pretty busy! The week of Thanksgiving was also my and Brant's birthdays. We did something every night that week to celebrate (more on that to come when I actually post about it in detail).
Then there's been work. I'm discovering that I'm not cut out for being pregnant and working. I think my nesting instinct is already kicking in. I would so much rather stay at home and clean/organize my house than go to work. Sadly, at this time I don't have that option. So the house gets a bit neglected at times. I'm thinking things will be easier when Brant and I have our own apartment - it'll be smaller (less area to clean up) and we won't have to find places for our stuff a midst my parents' stuff.
Speaking of...it's getting close to when we really need to get serious about finding a place to live!! As in...we are hoping to be in our own place the beginning of February. Which is only 1.5 months away! WHAT?!?!?!
In other news - my belly is growing more and more every day. I'm not kidding either! I swear I've doubled (maybe even tripled) in size in the past few weeks! And with that has come the weight. I'm not too happy about that. Brant has to keep reminding me that putting on weight right now is a good thing. I need to for the baby. But I'm having a hard time knowing why the baby needs my arms, butt, and face to be fat as well as my tummy.
In all reality, this pregnancy has been great. I can't really complain. I'm sure it'll get harder as my belly gets bigger and my little boy starts draining more and more of my energy. But, until then, I'll just keep on enjoying being pregnant!
To answer everyone's question out there - no we have not come up with a name for our boy yet. We'll be lucky to agree on any names by the time he's born. We pretty much just avoid the whole topic, because I usually end up in tears or frustrated when we talk about it. Brant and I have such different ideas of good boy names. But as long as I don't end up with a baby named Fisk, Fritz, Johann, Bjorn, or Roarshnaque (yes...those are all REAL names that Brant has suggested and LOVES), I'll feel like I've won.
We've been able to feel our baby kick lately! Well, I've been able to feel him for a while, but his kicks have been getting stronger this past week and that means Brant has been able to feel him as well. This morning was the best one yet! As we laid in bed before Brant had to head off to work, our little boy was moving around quite a bit. So I had Brant put his hand on my tummy and about 10 seconds later, I received a pretty strong kick right where Brant's palm was. Needless to say, Brant was excited to feel an actual kick instead of those tiny bubbles he'd felt earlier. I was excited too. I love feeling the little guy and so I was excited Brant could feel him too.
As you can tell...my baby is pretty much on my mind ALL the time. But we do have other things going on in our lives. This month has already been busy with Christmas parties, and it's not going to slow down until after Christmas - well maybe not until after New Years. So far this year we've decorated gingerbread houses (well...graham cracker houses), I made all my ornaments for my Christmas tree including strung popcorn and cranberries (Brant helped string the popcorn). I made a cute JOY out of wood & a big ornament (man I wish I could post pictures of these things!!!). And we decorated Christmas cookies.
In the next few weeks we have 3 white elephant parties. 1 ugly sweater party. 2 normal family Christmas parties. And 1 work party. Pretty much every weekend is taken up with Christmas parties. I'm excited though. I love Christmas and it's going to be great getting together with family and friends. If only it would snow so we could have a white Christmas.
Well, I guess I better go. I'm at work and I should probably actually do some of those items on my To Do list. Wish me luck! Hahaha!
Hopefully next week I'll be able to post pictures and can post about Thanksgiving/birthdays. And also all the Christmas fun we've been having. We'll just see how motivated I am Saturday to print out my blog...
