Emma’s Journal

Anyway, hubby called his unit manager at work to tell her that he’ll need the 6th off next week and he also told her he would need the 7th and 8th off. Because he works 4 days on 4 days off all 12 hr shifts, 2 days to 2 nights. So he goes back on Wednesday and he requested the next 3 off. She actually thought that all he’d want off is Thursday. I’m like ok, who’s going to watch the kids during the night on Friday and Saturday, the magic fairy from la la land??? I’ll still be in the hospital for Friday night at least, depending on when I have the baby. That’s even if this works the first try. Anyway, whatever I don’t care if he is granted it without pay. There is enough casual nurses begging for work around here to be able to pick up the extra shifts.

My friend just came up and dropped off an order of hotwings. Ohhh they were soooooo good. I have been craving them for days and she got them for me. I’ve also been craving chocolate really badly. But I haven’t given into that craving yet. Well must get ready to watch ER tonight.

No more office visits for me. He said, I’ll see you in L&D next week, at 8am.

Only 8 days to go!

I am pretty excited, a little disappointed she won’t be born on hubby’s birthday, but hey, she’ll be here and we’ll be home to celebrate it. Hubby was pretty excited when I called him at work. He was all like seriously, omg, it was too cute. This will be the earliest I’ve ever had one of my children, like I posted before they were all overdue. So this one will probably be the smallest.

Yesterday I got a really big surprise. We had filed our taxes about 2 weeks ago, so we were expecting to get our checks soon, so we finally got them in the mail yesterday. I wasn’t in a hurry to open them because we already knew what our return was estimated as. So when I got home, I finally opened them up, my hubby’s first and he got exactly what he was supposed to get. When I opened mine, I got 3 times as much as I was supposed to get! Hubby was all like, it’s a mistake. blah blah. So I read the breakdown of it, apparently there was a mathematical error when filing it, due to all my tuition that wasn’t claimed. I had approximately 35,000 in tuition that wasn’t being claimed so god love revenue Canada they did it for me. LOL. So I got back pretty much all that I paid in last year. YAYYYYY~ It definitely made my day.

Other than that nothing new here. I have an OB appointment tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes, my OB is finally back. Hope he considers inducing sometime around my due date. I absolutely hate being overdue. I shall see tomorrow.

Here it is, the latest belly pic. Almost 38 weeks. I just feel big and awkward now. Having a hard time getting comfortable too. Same old complaints, different day.

Was out cleaning up our car and getting ready to try and sell it. Hubby wants (actually is obsessed) to buy a 4 wheel drive vehicle. I hope he sells the other car and can get a few bucks together to try and buy a truck/jeep. I would love to be able to surprise him with something, but right now that’s just not a possibility. Hubby’s birthday is actually only 2 weeks away too. The baby is due the day after his birthday. I would love to have her on his birthday.

I had my wonderful BH ctx last night. They were there teasing me for about 2 hours then left without a trace

We finally started buying some outfits for the baby. Hubby got her a pair of jean overalls with a little off while color shirt with flowers on it, and a jean jacket. It’s pretty cute. He picks out such cute outfits, especially the one when little E was born.

The days are numbered until the big D day. Only 17 days to go! Just wish there were some way that I could magically fast forward the next 2 weeks. Oh well such is life. Only 5 more days until my next OB appointment. This time I have to take little E with me, now you know that’ll be the appointment he’ll want to do an internal, because that’s my kind of luck. LOL.

I think I may be pregnant forever.

So after that completely uneventful waste of my time, I went shopping. As any other annoyed woman would do. AND, I actually packed my bag. I am not sure what the hell for, because I am sure I’ll be a whopping 12 days overdue. I’ll beat my record!

Is it obvious that I am bitter today? Oh well, I hope this mood passes quickly.

I went to playgroup today with my youngest daughter and I saw my friend that is having twins again today. She is almost 38 weeks. I was laughing saying how I finally measured at 36 weeks since that is how far along I was then, and she told me she measured at 49cm! I CANNOT even try and fathom what that would feel like! WOW is all I can say.

I had to post this about what my son said the other day. It is hilarious. I have no idea why the kids even mentioned “wieners” (other name for penis, as my boy would so like to refer to it). Anyway, they were having a discussion with my hubby and I saying only boys have wieners and I said yes that’s right that’s what makes them a boy and girls don’t have one. Anyway, my boy says, “Yah that’s right dad has a wiener, except his is huge!”

I figured I would post up a baby pool game, an idea I “borrowed” from another site. You can guess stats about the baby and when baby will be born.

Some information about my previous pregnancies, are
1) girl, 7lbs 13oz., 22 inches long. 10 days overdue.
2) boy, 8lbs 11 1/2 oz., 21 1/2 inches long. 2 days overdue.
3) girl, 8lbs 4 oz., 21 inches long. 11 days overdue.

So there ya have it for the last 3 turkeys. This pregnancy has been a difficult one, and I never suffered from crohn’s disease with any of the other children, (I was only diagnosed 3 yrs ago). I have no clue if this will change anything with this baby but anyway, thought I’d throw that info in for ya’s.

If you want to play along, go to http://www.expectnet.com and choose the game Emmakirst.

I finally did something productive. I actually packed the baby’s diaper bag yesterday, of course with a little help from my youngest daughter. She also picked out a little outfit for her new sister too. She was so excited to buy something for the baby, she picked some hooded towels, and some washcloths. Of course it just dawned on me yesterday that we didn’t have any of that stuff in our house so now we have a few things. My hubby picked up a bag of the smallest diapers too yesterday, partly to be ready and the other part for the girls to use on their dolls. I had been promising them since Christmas that I’d buy some diapers for their cabbage patch kids dolls. Well I had to laugh at the size, I couldn’t get over how tiny they are. They actually fit the doll. I mean, you’d swear I have never had a baby before, but I don’t remember them being that small. hehe.

On a different note, we were going to get a swing today since there is one that I liked on sale. Then about 20 minutes ago I got a call from a distant cousin that I had given my old crib too, when she had her twins (3 yrs ago). Anyway, she explained that it was far too beat up to give back so she was going to buy me a new one. I told her how I’d already bought one and don’t worry about it, because when I gave it to her I never expected it back. We had thought that E was our last child. Needless to say, she was determined to get me something because it was such a help to them at the time, so she’s ordering me a new swing for my baby along with a bouncy chair! I am so surprised, and what great timing too!

So now I think we are totally prepared for little miss to come. I just have to get my butt in gear and get my bag packed. Hubby told me he absolutely refuses to pack something together for me this time, like he had to the last few times. LOL.