TRACTOR!

Sophia did the funniest thing the other day. Brett and I were at Lowe's looking at gas grills. We're thinking about getting each other one for a mother's/father's day gift to ourselves. Sophia had an awesome nap that day, which she has been doing for that last few days - 2+ hours in the afternoon has been wonderful, and she's been in a GREAT mood for the rest of the evening and sleeping super well at night. Anyway, back to the story. We were all at Lowe's looking at gas grills, which happen to be right next to the riding lawn mowers. Brett and I spent a lot of time looking at lawn mowers about a week ago, and while Brett was looking, I would take Sophia out of the stroller/cart and let her "ride" the tractors. So we're looking at the grills, and Sophia pretty much starts to jump up and down in the cart. She starts pointing and yelling and getting all excited, and all of a sudden she screams, "TRACTOR!" Out of the blue, no prompting at all. Brett and I cracked up. It was hilarious! So we got Sophia out of the cart and let her "ride" the tractors for a while. It was priceless.

We're still unpacking boxes. Ugh. I don't think it will ever end. We did find our bedroom floor, and while Brett was home this week, we found the sunroom and the bathroom in the master bedroom. We still have a lot of work to do in the bathroom - painting being the biggest thing. Thankfully, we don't have to do anything major to that room, but I don't want to really use it (use it, meaning using the shower and steaming up the room with bare drywall). We got rid of the mouse in the house!!!! Major victory there. And although Brett found a mouse in the bathroom, I think it's gone too since I saw a box of DeCon completely eaten this morning. That's good news. We put out a bunch of ant traps, since whatever the Orkin man put down only worked for about two weeks. So the ants are slowly disappearing too.

I had another OB appointment yesterday. Everything is progressing so well. This kid is really active, similar to what Sophia was, but this one feels so much bigger. Maybe not bigger, just taller. I'm feeling limbs in far-off places that I thought this kid couldn't reach yet. And, I don't know it this is a normal thing, so mom's, please let me know. With Sophia, I had a low-lying placenta, so whenever she kicked or punched straight down, it was uncomfortable but not too bad. This kid's placenta is WAY in the back, which is great, but when he/she kicks/punches straight down, IT HURTS. Like, it takes my breath away for a few seconds. Is that normal? It's not unbearable, but it's something I've never felt before. In other pregnancy news, I gained less than 2 lbs this time around, which makes me happy, so now the grand total of gain is 21 lbs. Good to me.

Other thing that happened at this OB appointment - I passed my gestational diabetes test with flying colors. YAY!!!! I'm so happy about this. My doc said there is nothing to worry about in that area and actually acted a bit surprised when she looked at my chart and saw that I had failed my first test with Sophia and almost failed the second round test with her. Again, mom's, tell me about this one. When I was in NY and took the first gestational diabetes test, I had to drink the entire bottle of sugar liquid stuff, and the lab techs told me to stay in the waiting area for an hour and not to exert myself. When I took the test in IN, they had me drink only 1/3 of a bottle of the liquid, and the techs told me to be back in a hour for the blood test, meaning go run around as long as I was back in an hour. I totally think that the lesser amount of drink and the running around for an hour affected my results. I'm convinced and thankful for the results for #2.

Brett left for his work week this morning, and he'll be back on Saturday night. I have boxes to unpack this week and work to do for clients. Sophia and I are headed up to Lafayette this Saturday. I'm going for a pedicure (ah...a pedicure) with my sisters and mom, and then Sophia and I are going to visit with a bunch of old Purduette friends and their families. I'm SO EXCITED to get to see them again. Then on Sunday, I might be able to oogle over the Decorator's Show House in Carmel. OOOOOoooooo...so fun to see design work and get ideas for our new house, though we'll have to tone down our projects as far as budget. It's going to be a good week.