The Saturday Post {45}
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1. The Saturday Post {43}
2. Week 28
4. Where would you be if you weren’t with me?
Month: April 2014
Dunkin’ Donuts and TV Commercials
So don’t be fooled by the power of suggestion on the TV still. When hubby and I are at home, a lot of time we try to avoid commercials if at all possible, but when you’re traveling that’s not really an option as in this case. Saturday night I saw a commercial for Dunkin’ Donuts. Now we really don’t have Dunkin’ Donuts around home so I asked if we could go and try it out. See what all the hype was about and hubby said sure. Especially since we saw one just down the road from the hotel so it wasn’t like we had to drive all over Memphis to find one. Score!
What was my big lure you might ask?? The Inspired by Baskin Robbins Iced Coffee… for sure.
Week 28
How far along? 28 weeks 6 days… Did you know 28 weeks starts the 3rd trimester? I didn’t! Learn something new every day!!
Total weight gain/loss: Oddly enough I’ve been ignoring our scales. They upset me 🙂
How big is baby? Your baby is the size of an eggplant. Hmmmm so I have an eggplant in there… lol. Sorry just popped into my head and had to share :). Baby is putting on layers of fat, your baby now weighs in around 1.5 to 2.5 lbs and measures 13.6 to 14.8 inches long.
- Baby’s starting to develop more fat, so her wrinkly skin will start to get smoother
- Her lungs are mature enough that she’d probably survive if she was born now. WOW!
Maternity Clothes? Wonder why I still have this as a question….
Stretch Marks? Oh these are sad! I’m predominately seeing them where she kicks me the most… my lower ab.
Best moment this week? I still keep getting sweet little kicks. I think she must be running out of room in there, ya think?
Movement? Yup! The bump.com says I should be counting the kicks. Um…. why?
Food Cravings/Aversions? Oh…. nothing new but lemon brownies have sounded good for a couple weeks. Not a craving I don’t think, they just sound really good. I’ve been to lazy to make them though.
What I miss: Not waking up all achy.
What I’m looking forward to: being able to suck my belly back in and look skinny 🙂
Nausea/Vomiting? I have had a couple moments this last week I’ve been iffy but I seriously think it’s my nasal drainage causing this problem.
Labor signs? Well I don’t think so. I’ve not really had these pains before so I really don’t have any comparison.
Gender? We have had them verify it’s a girl 3 different times. Think it’s a girl?!?!
Belly Button in or out? This is a sore subject, literally. Very upsetting. My belly button hurts, I think when she lays against it it really sticks out and other days it’s just flat. It’s really dry and hurts to touch it too. I hate belly buttons.
Wedding rings on or off? Sad subject here but I really think that when we do our maternity photos, if I can get my rings on, I want them on in the pictures. I just don’t want to have to cut them off. I’d really cry then!
Sleep? Um…. yeah so far. I wake up exhausted in the mornings but other wise I wake up to roll over at night because rolling over is difficult.
Weekly Wisdom: Don’t sit to long. That’s where I’ve been having my difficult moments because my feet swell. Otherwise sitting is good, but it’s good to get up and move around some. Also I wore flip flops earlier this weekend just cause I didn’t want to wear shoes and that made my ankles/feet swell really bad. Must not have been enough support? Really they say that flip flops are bad for your feet anyway because there is no support so….
Due Date: Thursday June 26, 2014 was what we originally thought. Then I was told June 30, then July 4th, then June 26, then June 27 and after the 3-D ultra sound June 28. I guess she’ll come when she’s ready, right?
Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken – Mendenhall – Memphis, TN
Sometimes it seems like I get on a roll for a certain type of blog post and this week happens to be focused around food it feels like :). That is except for Monday’s post which was all about my sweet, darling, husband!!
So as I mentioned yesterday hubby and I found ourselves in Memphis over the weekend. Now if there is one thing about us, when we travel we prefer to try and find restaurants that aren’t “chain” restaurants that we can get around home. Now that’s not to say we won’t eat at a chain restaurant, we just avoid the ones we have readily accessible at home.
When we checked into our hotel on Saturday evening hubby asked at the front desk a good place to eat in Memphis. They asked what we were looking for and hubby said something indigenous to the area. Then he explained we’re not from around here and we like to try new places. One of the gals spoke up and said her favorite place to eat was Gus’s Fried Chicken. She asked if we liked fried chicken and hubby was like, who doesn’t :). We got to the hotel around 4:30 or 5 so we took our stuff in and killed some time before we went on the hunt for Gus’s Fried Chicken on Mendenhall. By the way, it was a hop, skip and a jump away from our hotel, score!
When we walked in the hostess seated us. We placed our order and then started playing with the camera obviously 🙂
BB King’s Blues Club – Beale St – Memphis, TN
just a random thought… ewwww did you realize that today is Tax day?
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Sometimes my husband and I just might surprise you. This weekend happened to be one of those times, I think we almost surprised ourselves actually…. Um…. we went to Memphis, TN. Wait, what, are you scratching your head too? Don’t worry cause I think so are we. The closest I’d ever been to Memphis was the airport catching a connecting flight and he might have driven through but that was it. Well that is until this weekend. I do think we might need our head examined but whatever.
Hubby said he wanted to eat at BB King’s so that’s where we went for lunch on Saturday. I had no complaints because I’m not even sure what Memphis has to offer :).
When we got there, we were afraid there was a wait to get in, but it was just a big party that was standing in the doorway. Once they were seated it was our turn. We even got seated just to the side of the band. The only bad thing is it made it loud, but the band was good so it was all good :).
Where would you be if you weren’t with me?
So the hubbs and I were driving down the road yesterday and we were listening to the Crook & Chase Country Countdown. One year ago today Lee Brice’s “A Woman Like You” was the number one song of the countdown.
I was the one driving and I’d just sit there and giggle at some of the lyrics just because, well I’m not really sure why but the lyrics were just cracking me up. Then when it got to the point in the song where he sang, “She just smiled and rolled her eyes,” I actually smiled and rolled my eyes.
So jump forward a couple of hours and hubby was now driving and I was sitting in the passenger seat and I looked at him and said, “So Where would you be if it weren’t for me?”
His response was, “Looking for a girl like you.” I giggled and rolled my eyes. Then I made the comment that just after we started dating he actually got an offer to go back to The Stan (Afghanistan) for 2 years but he chose to stay in the states because of me. I said, “You’d probably have gone back.” He said, “Yeah, probably so, but at least in Afghanistan I’d have had Facebook so you could have found me and we could have had the conversation about when I was coming back for leave and you could have asked me to go on a date with you and then you could have kicked me in the crotch and I could have fallen in love with you and we’d be right where we are now.”
Hyatt Place – Leawood, KS (Kansas City)
So last month when hubby and I decided to get away for a few days, he made reservations at the Hyatt Place in Leawood, KS. We were close enough to downtown Kansas City that it didn’t take any time at all to get there, but at the same time, we learned that Leawood was a great little suburb all of its own.
We were on the second floor. Our room had a King sized bed, a living room area that included a hide-a-bed couch, a small kitchen table, and a refrigerator.
When we booked our room we went with a King size bed. I can sure tell you that we’re going to start spoiling ourselves with these King sized beds! The mattress was definitely something that you could get used to as well. If I could have folded it up and put it in my suit case to take home I might have… lol :).
And of course your bathroom area.
Now for all you techy people, this place was cool because it had this connector panel so you could connect your laptop up to the tv. So if you had movies on an external hard drive or your laptop, you could feed them through the tv and enjoy.
This was definitely a nice room to stay in, especially the Monday when we were in there ALL. DAY. LONG.
Red Robin – YUM!
Did anyone else have to say the Yum after the Red Robin? Boy those Advertising agents did their job in getting that slogan out!
I remember back in like 2008 or 2009 when I started hearing them refer to Red Robin commercials I didn’t have a clue what Red Robin was. One of the guys I worked with was walking by one day and somehow we got to talking about it. He told me he was originally from Washington and it was a Western burger type thing but it was definitely something I needed to try.
Since then I’ve eaten at one a few times, and yes I would have to agree with him. He knew what he was talking about!
Here recently hubby and I were able to eat at the Red Robin in Springfield as we were passing through and now I need to fess up that ever stinking time I pass through there and eat and take photos I forget to take a dang picture of the building. I laugh every time too. Oh well!
When hubby and I got there, we were both thirsty! As usual, they ask for your drink orders first, score!
The last time we were there I tried to order the Very Berry Raspberry Limeade and the waiter brought me a Strawberry Lemonade so this time I made sure to get my Very Berry Raspberry Limeade. Hello YUM!
Week 27
How far along? 27 weeks 6 days
Total weight gain/loss: So by the drs scales yesterday it looked normal, whatever normal is 🙂 So far they haven’t yelled at me anyway!
How big is baby? Baby is the size of a Rutabaga. What is a Rutabaga? Anyway at 13.6 to 14.8 inches and 1.5 to 2.5 lbs. she’s not just getting bigger, she’s getting smarter.
- She’s practicing inhaling and exhailing with her rapidly developing lungs.
- It’s official: Baby’s showing brain activity! And her brain will keep getting more complex.
Maternity Clothes? Should this even be a question at this point? Have you seen the pictures above?
Stretch Marks? Oh they’re soooooo scary!
Best moment this week?Hearing the babies heart beat again! We came in at around 135 beats per minute.
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Movement? She’s been moving like a CRAZY woman! The drs gave me a belt to help keep her off my hip because that’s where she’s been hanging out, I’m fairly certain that ticked her off royally!
Food Cravings/Aversions? Nothing new here…
What I miss: Being able to tie my shoes. I had to retie my shoe in the drs office yesterday, holy cow that’s difficult!
What I’m looking forward to: I’m actually looking forward to meeting this little girl. Earl got her a pair of shoes I”m not supposed to know about yet but anyway I do and HOLY COW are they friggggggggiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn cute! In fact I saw them and was ready to buy them but hubby conned me out of it. Then Early got them for her without me knowing and actually before she knew I wanted to get them and I screamed and screeched because they’re sooooooo awesome.
Nausea/Vomiting? We’ve been good here so far…. knock on wood!
Labor signs? Well I don’t think so….
Gender? We have had them verify it’s a girl 3 different times. Think it’s a girl?!?!
Belly Button in or out? Oh this is such a sore (literally) subject!
Wedding rings on or off? This is another sore subject. Sadly they’re off. As I stated, hubby got me some replacer rings until I can get mine back on. So yesterday I forgot them and felt so weird walking around a pregnant woman without wedding rings on. It was awful!
Sleep? This week has been a come and go week. Early in the week baby girl was hurting me so bad I really didn’t get but a couple hours of sleep a night. Then we got her off my hip and it has been easier, knock on wood!
Weekly Wisdom: So something I learned this week is that if the baby is laying on something (hip, kidney, bladder, etc) and is hurting you, if you take a really cold bottle of water or a piece of ice and place it on your stomach where the baby is hurting you they’ll scamper off of that and give you some relief. It doesn’t hurt you and it doesn’t hurt the baby. Then the nurse at the drs office told me to alternate heat and cold to get the pain away. So there you go, if you have issues, hopefully this can help!!
Due Date: Thursday June 26, 2014 was what we originally thought. Then I was told June 30, then July 4th, then June 26, then June 27 and after the 3-D ultra sound June 28. I guess she’ll come when she’s ready, right?