... When No One Else is Watching

baby got back

This is what happens when your mommy doesn't have any Little Swimmers and decides to put a diaper on you to play in your kiddie pool. The smarter idea? Mommy isn't such a nutjob and just allows you to play in your swimsuit, sans diaper, because when you don't have any friends playing in the pool with you, who cares if you pee in the pool!?

A day in the life

Watering Grandma's plants!

Removing all the dirt from mommy's old herb pot to get it ready for refill.

Helping Daddy hang wall art! Steadying the ladder is an important job!

Playing in her kiddie pool. She stayed there for three hours! A toddler staying in one spot and not requiring constant mommy entertainment?! Bliss!

Doing her best "I'm cool" impression.

But she has her sweet moments too

And after being in constant motion for most of the day, she sometimes take a few moments to relax.

He knows me better than I know myself

Rob - You always run to turn off The Brady Bunch when it comes on after Curious George.

Jen - I can't stand The Brady Bunch, I don't know why it was so popular.

R - Um, Jen, you ARE the Brady Bunch!

J - NO I'M NOT! I'm a badass.

R - You're not a badass Jen, you're a goodie-goodie, accept it.

J - But I want to be a badass, does that count for anything?

R - No.

So it goes

It's been a rough few weeks for me. The head cold that started on April 22nd decided to turn into a raging case of sinusitus. I struggled with the cough and congestion for a good two weeks until finally, I felt like I had been in a horrible girl fight and I was the loser. It got to the point where if I touched my cheekbones or even chewed too hard my face felt like it was going to explode. My mother was the first person to tell me she thought I might have sinusitus but I didn't go get it diagnosed until I was talking to Rob one day and I started crying uncontrollably because I felt so horrible. At that point he pretty much ordered me to the doctor and I was so pleased to go and not have to take care of our daughter that it felt like I was going out on some fun adventure! Sad. By the end of the day I was sent home with prescriptions for every drug that was safe for a pregnant woman to take and within three days was feeling like a totally different woman. I am very thankful for the prescription drug sector and I'm sure they are thankful for me since I kept them in business for a couple of weeks.

I know what you're thinking... That's it? She had a cold and sinus infection and that's why she's so put upon? Well, no, that's not all. Once the sinusitus cleared up I was lucky enough to have a flair up of my morning sickness even though I have been on zofran my entire pregnancy. I've been fairly lucky with the fact that the medication is at least letting me eat and keep down what I eat, that is until the last couple of weeks. No matter how much medication I take it seems my body wants to purge anything that goes into my stomach. It sucks. And now it's a bit worse because I got a letter from our prescription drug program a couple of weeks ago telling me I had been a bad girl by refilling my zofran through the loal pharmacy and if I wanted to continue refilling my zofran prescription I would have to do it through mail order. You know, for the cost-savings benefits and all that other hullabaloo they tell you. So, I sent my prescription in and since it was a new prescription I had to mail it in and when I took my last pill yesterday I freaked out because like I said,,, it was the last pill and guess what folks? The mail order of zofran hasn't come yet! I called our prescription program and asked when I could expect my order to arrive and they said they just got the order but if I would like to have it rush delivered they could do it for an additional charge of $15. YES PLEASE! I think the woman on the other end felt my pain because I actually told her that I would start crying on her if I couldn't get the pills here pronto. She laughed and said she understood and I promised to name my unborn child after her, I figure it's a fair trade. Once the phone call was finished I'm sure she told everyone she just spoke to a zofran addict... and that's okay.

So all this sickness is why I haven't updated my blog lately. But don't feel neglected, I have become somewhat anti-social in my day to day life as well. It seems when I am sick and nauseous I have no desire to be social, which is really not normal for me, but it's hard to want to be around people when you are constantly having to excuse yourself to go worship the porcelain. I'm hoping we're nearing the end of this period because I'm ready to start functioning like a normal person again!

I have had some time to still take Avery to the park and play outside with her. Here are some recent photos of the 'The Girl' in her favorite setting - The Great Outdoors!

And a couple of her in 'The Great Indoors!' She still won't leave the toilet paper alone!

Quack, Quack

The stage I hate most in pregnancy has begun.

I've started waddling... There is nothing attractive about waddling, people.