Week 8 & Weekend

The Phillies World Series Parade was pretty cool. I have never seen anything like it- there were over a million people, it was a sea of red, all for the parade. The parade itself kind of stunk (no marching band, music, dancers) - It was just a couple of busses and flatbeds carrying the players. I really think they could have done so much more. But to be here for it was an experience.



Besides the parade it was a quiet weekend. That was Friday- it started around noon and we didn't get home until 8 oclock- it was a big drinking, celebratory day. I was highly entertained. I pretend drank (holding a beer, only filling it half way, etc). the worse part was at the parade, with a beer in my hand- running into my students (yes- in the million + people, I ran into 3 students). So imagine, I am supposed to be in school, they are supposed to be in school, and it is 12:30pm and I am on the streets with a Miller Lite. Oh well- I am of age and I told my principal why I wasn't coming in so nothing can come of that.
Saturday morning Eric left for Seattle. I ran around- went to Smith & Hawken, PBKids, Costco, and bought lots of thanksgiving decorations so that when we host our house looks nice. I must say my mantle looks gorgeous and like it should be in a store- i will post a picture. I watched "Definitely, Maybe" last night- it was cute, I cried, I wouldn't watch it again... Today I cleaned the basement to get ready for Thanksgiving as well. I hope to hoard the terrors, I mean nephews, down there since we are having 17 people in a townhouse- I am worried about space and figure if we have the foosball, PS3, maybe a movie down there... then we should at least be able to keep them occupied.
So it was a quiet, yet very productive weekend :)

PREGNANCY WISE!


Our baby is the size of a raspberry- keep on growing little one!

Well we made it to 8 weeks pregnant yesterday. Stick baby stick! I am freaking myself out because today I woke up with pretty bad cramps and when I coughed I had shooting pain. I pray that this is just normal uterine stretching- but my cramps were kind of bad so of course I am going crazy. Google is very much NOT my friend right now. But I am going to try to stop freaking out because as the day went on I felt better.
Dr's appt on Tuesday! I figure I must be doing ok because it has been 2 weeks since they took blood and 1 week since I turned in my jug of pee. I assume I would have heard something if any of my #s were out of normal range. I am going to talk to my doctor about constipation issues (I was on the brink of tears and TMI but had drops of blood the other day) and about maybe getting another u/s - or some sort of heartrate check- doesn't have to be anything major, since I have the heavy cramping and the heart rate was slow and basically I am freaking myself out. (which she knows b/c of my elevated bp).
But I am doing well- happy that time is passing, wish it would pass a little quicker- but I am learning that no matter where I am in this- I am going to worry- it is not like once we hit 13 weeks I am magically going to no longer worry about things. :)