Sickly Slackers

It is official, we are slackers! I had such a good week last week, I got the house cleaned up (OK OK, the kitchen, dining room, and living room) and I was able to maintain it's cleanliness even with baby Sean here. Then Sean got sick(er) and his parents and I took him to the hospital, then I went back to work, and Dan and I got sick (me more so). After getting sick (which was probably Monday actually) the house fell all to hell again! Not to mention that I keep meaning to buy rechargeable batteries so that we can actually take some pictures of my belly! I think that I will run over to Walgreens tonight while at work and pick some up! Anyway... now the house is in complete shambles and I am completely lacking the motivation and energy to do anything about it other than to ask Dan to do the things he has been saying for almost two weeks now that he will do (two weeks later, I doubt that he is going to do them).
We had a good Valentine's day... since we were both sick we decided to order Chinese take out and pick up dessert from the grocery store. So, we went to the grocery store, decided on a strawberry swirl cheesecake, Dan bought me some chocolate covered strawberries for Valentine's day and then we ordered our take out. We then came home and ate our food while watching the movie No Reservations (a really cute movie). Unfortunately for me, I could not taste my food at all. So, I ended up deciding that dessert would have to wait until I can taste again... I was hoping that would be today, but as of yet... no tasting happening in my mouth :(
I do not feel like I am getting any bigger these days... perhaps that has something to do with the fact that last month I gained a whooping 11 pounds and this month I think that I have gained 2. Nathaniel is getting bigger (as far as I can tell)... he is certainly getting stronger and it seems that he is running out of room in there. It is funny to see when he flips and it makes my tummy pointy... Daniel wants to get a picture of my tummy while it is pointy... perhaps one day in the next 3 months!
We are looking forward GREATLY to going to NC in a month :D I cannot say that I am looking forward to flying in an airplane or being at an airport while I am 31 weeks pregnant, but hey... seeing my family and eating BBQ is well worth it! It is kind of funny, I have mentioned to Dan several times that I miss my family dearly and he is like, "it has only been 6 months since you have seen them". I have to remind him that is the LONGEST I have ever gone without seeing Mom and Autumn (and for that matter Mimi and Daddypa)! Even when I lived in UT before, I pretty much came out to NC every 6 weeks or so. When I lived in Maryland, I still saw them every 6 weeks or so. When I was at school in VA or at Barton, I saw them at least once a month! 6 weeks, 6 months, eh, what's the difference, right!? Dan asked the other day if we were going to get to go to the beach while we were in NC, yet again, I had to remind him that it will be too cold for that! I told him that we would have to go back in August (cause we will really want to travel with a 3 month old) so that we can go to the beach! Obviously, Dan loved the beach when we were there last time... LOVED IT! Anyway, enough of my rambling... I suppose I should get ready for work since Carol is picking me up and we are going to go see Sean (who is home from the hospital now by the way) before heading to work!

Oh my randomness

Well, I have a picture of me at 21 weeks... somewhere, but Dan updated the computer then downgraded the computer and I have no idea where the pictures are. I have not taken any new pictures since 21 weeks (and now I am 25 weeks) because the batteries that we have in the camera are dead. We need to buy some rechargeable batteries (we have some, but they are no good). Jack is making this blog session difficult because he has his head laying on the laptop keyboard. He is cute, but every once in awhile he pushes a button. Not to mention he is right by the backspace key, so every time I need to use it, I push his little nose (sometimes he bites me). Now he is staring at me with his evil look and I do not know why... he will survive. Nathaniel is really active (mostly at night), which I love! He also gets active when he is hungry (well, at least when I am hungry)! Sorry that my blogs have moved from well formed paragraphs to jumping around from subject to subject (at least that is how I feel). I am convinced that since Nathaniel's brain is making all kinds of new connections and growing rapidly, that my brain is the one sacrificing connections to make his better (aka... I am losing my mind). Yesterday I set aside my food processor because it is broken and a replacement was supposed to arrive sometime this week. I continued to clean the kitchen (cause I am sick of living in a mess... ahhhh) and then I heard a knock at the door, it was the UPS man with my new food processor :D I set the new food processor on the couch until I could get to it later. Well, later arrived and I got my new food processor and set it out on the (newly cleaned) counter and went to get the old food processor to package it up to send it back to kitchenaid. Well, this is the point that I realized that I have lost my mind. The old food processor was not where I remember putting it. So, I checked everywhere, the cabinets, the pantry, the fridge, the bedroom, the office, the closets, the couches, the bathroom, and even the oven. About 15 minutes later after realizing I am NUTS, I thought of the most obvious place (I remembering putting the food processor on top of the little cabinet near the kitchen)... the darn thing was INSIDE the stand alone cabinet. I do not know why I did not check there before I checked the fridge and the oven, but I was sure that it was a great possibility that my nutty brain might have stuck the darn thing in the fridge. I was really at my last straw with the food processor when I found it... I had come to the conclusion that I was going to have to have Dan find it when he got home and for some reason, this thought terrified me... I could envision it... Dan walks in and I say, "Find the food processor" and he looks at me and says, it is right there. Kind of like losing your keys when they are in your hand. Lucky for me I found it! I also learned another valuable lesson this week. Do not ask someone who has no filter (aka Dan) if your butt is getting fat. Now granted, he did not say yes... instead, he said... DRUMROLL PLEASE... "no, it is not fat, but it looks like there is cottage cheese on it, but you already know that"! WHAT!?!?!? WHAT DID HE SAY!?!?!? Well, at least I know that he will not lie to me. I am like, "how am I supposed to know that my butt looks like cottage cheese? I cannot see it". Anyway... one more lesson in marriage learned (hopefully for both of us). I love him dearly even if he lacks tact! Jack just tried to chew the corner of the laptop (he is a strange cat). I know that was random, but hey! I will try to convince Dan to walk to Walgreens or Albertsons with me to get some rechargeable batteries so that we can get some pictures of my belly!