if one of you suggest something i can do to put me in labor, and it works! Sex is out, that is not working! Ok go!

What did you do with yours? DH was way into how amazing eliot's placenta was. Fascinated that a whole organ came out as well after baby. Now this time I want to preserve that admiration. I am not to into taking it home and freezing/burying it. But one of the midwives did suggest a placenta print which I found wonderful. I guess it ends up looking like the tree of life when you do the press. Has anyone ever done this. And what did you do with yours?

37 wks and counting, I feel done now. And knowing that she now has to come out of me is scaring me to death. It is my fourth you think this would be old news. Nope not one bit. I know that it hurts and I have to push a child out of my vagina. AWWWW! scary. But I get a sweet sweet baby out of it. The belly cast was this weekend. I try to do one every baby. We do have to do this one over because I forgot to do two layers of plaster and it was a bit floppy. The other two pictures were last night. I just noticed I had a big something down my shirt. I was saving it for later! ha -- read more >>

36 wks here. I am feeling like I am carrying juniper in my knees. She is so so low. And after three other kids before her, every time I sneeze I pee my pants. I can feel her turn her head in my vagina I swear. But I am getting super excited to have in my hands little baby toes, little baby butt, and that sweet sweet sound they make. Aww. Now I just have to give birth. Not fun. It hurts. I have done it before. I want to be one of those women you see on you tube who are smiling through there contractions and looked beautifully blissed out afterward. I usually look like a truck ran over me.-- read more >>

Yipee for me! Today I am 29. Very daunting. I'd rather be 30 and get it over with. Be done 20's! I went to lunch with a client, snuggled with my husband, watched snow fall at a very rapid pace outside. And now we are going to go soak in the turkish bath and go eat some more food with family and friends! Awwww. Celebrate me today ladies! hehe

I think I caught someone's cold around here. It is a cold from hell. And do you know what happens when you sneeze a hundred times an hour while almost 9 months pregnant? You pee, and then you pee some more. Arghghg. So then I got my feverish ass up to wash my jammy pants cause I have changed clothes about four times already today. The washer is in the garage. Which means garage is freezing and water pipes to washer are all frozen. Are you serious? Now I am wearing dh jammy pants. -- read more >>

So my dear and wonderful husband has this very strong fascination with train jumping and living the hobo life of train jumping. Obsessed really. I told him please wait until we have almost all kids a little self sufficient. So I wanted to gather up cool books on it for him to read. He has read Hobo, and maybe one other. I just thought it would quench his thirst for train hopping for a little bit if I could put him on the train in a book. We also have read Water for elephants, somewhat like what he wants to do.-- read more >>

He is on bass! It is his magnet school rock band. I think he is the best. I cry everytime he plays. DH also teaches with them, he is filling in for guitar in background. hehehe
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Take these braids out. I have a teenage client who had a full weave, and then braids that wound around her head in a spiral that were also sewn in. She got her top weave out by herself. Then called me hysterical because her mom was out of town, and her dad and her were trying to unbraid these, they are not only braided one way but also coming in both directions, from her forhead and up from her base of her neck in a spiral, wrapping around her head. Wow!-- read more >>

Make this cake. I made this after dinner tonight. Super yummy. Super easy. And no butter, or eggs. So really can it be that bad? I love this blog spot by the way! http://noblepig.com/2008/11/11/the-pilgrims-would-approve.aspx

This sounds crazy. But has anyone had a numb butt cheek during later pregnancy? My whole left of my butt hurts and is numb. Weird. Going on for about 12 hours. Help my butt!

So here is my pregnant ho. 29 wks and counting. Getting bigger! Hurtburn hasn't let up all day. I equate it someone pouring battery acid down my throat. Feels great. Juniper is officially an alien pushing her way around. Other than, feeling great and round.

Because our college here in town offers free prenatal massage every tues and thurs. So if you are pregnant you can get a massage absolutly free! Woot woot. I have been going for the last three weeks and signed myself up through the fall term. All the students have to have 500 hours before they work on you, and it is quiet and relaxing and there is an instructor that you can talk to afterward if you have any concerns. Everyone should look into if their local massage school need prenatal clients.

when I blog on hipmama. But you know that is why you women are here. Really. So here it is.. My bitch out for the time. Every day for oh about 7 days straight now I have had someone comment on my size. I am seven months for shit sake. Are you serious? Everything from Oh my god Sommer you are huge, Are you about to pop? NO I am not going to f-ing pop you idiot. I am not a f-ing balloon. So today I walk into the school to pick the kids up, (dh is waiting in the car with windows down)and one of the moms goes"OH SOMMER" and starts waddling like a sumo wrestler. Really?-- read more >>

My husband outdoes me one the whole blog updating thing. Some of these you guys have seen already but the others were last weekend, and it was absolutly wonderful! I hope you enjoy!
http://totorovan.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-post-of-pumpkin-patch-play...

So I will start with I am pretty sure eliot has insomnia. Aren't almost two year olds suppose to sleep more than four hours a night. She was doing well. Until I swear I got pregnant and want maybe just maybe a full nights sleep. Then,BAM, no such luck. We have been battling ever since. Well the last couple nights have been especially torturous. And tonight my husband decided to go sleep with her so I could possibly get more than two hours of sleep just once before I give birth and then the whole cycle continues. Very sweet of him, yes, but what time is it as I type this?-- read more >>

So I know it is cliche and all. But I really love to do Halloween themed menu planning for the week or two leading up to Halloween. The kids love it and it is a cheap and easy way to stretch the halloween budget. Of course cookies and blood red cake is at the top of my list this year. Boston just showed me a recipe he found in cricket for edible blood made out of peanut butter and food coloring. I like to make little mummy dogs for dinner and dip them in blood as well. So tell me what is your favorite creepy meal.

So everyone, I was just wondering what the weirdest food craving you have had while pregnant. Becuase I have been doing so well, until three nights ago.. I have woken up on the dot at 245. Wanting a giant Hogie Sandwhich. We don't eat like that at all. And really there are absolutly no places open at 3 in the morning. Or I would have been there!

So it has been forever since I hoed it up. Just pure laziness, or busy with three kids and one in the belly. weird I know. The first two are of dh and I on our way to my cousins wedding. I don't think we dressed up that much for our wedding! The last two are at the pumpkin patch this weekend. It was so much fun! It turned out in the wrong order, but you get the point:)-- read more >>

Thank god. We only have one in the belly! You all don't have to hold me back from cliff diving. I know you would have. And And it's a little baby girl. I couldn't resist as they were hovering above my belly asking if I wanted to know. So we have little Juniper in there! Yaya! Sweet baby girls. For some reason I am just measuring way ahead. Midwife said this sometimes happens with subsequent babies. Uterus just goes poof! Pregnant. So I am 24 wks.

So I went in for my midwive appointment today, adn remember that I have been measuring two weeks ahead. Well this time I am suppose to be 23 wks. And now I am measuring at 27 wks. Everytime I go it is further and further ahead. Ahhh! So we are getting an ultrasound tomorrow to find out if it is one. Umm. What do you think? Has anyone measured this far ahead with just one? Is this normal or could I be that much further along. It is weird. Tell me tell me, NOW!

I thought I was around 21 wks now. Midwives measure two weeks ahead every time. Now I think I am further along as well. Because I can actually see baby kicking from the outside and so can family. I didn't think that could happen right at five months. Anyone experience that this early. You know alien looking belly. I have seen it at 6 or seven months but not at five. It is my fourth baby. You would think I would know:)

Dear Husband and I have a wedding to go in P-town this weekend. Actually friday night. That is strictly no kids allowed. Which I think is slightly weird, it is my cousins wedding at a fancy schmancy place but oh well. And my Aunt has gotten us a room at the Hilton for two nights. Sweet! My mother in law agreed to take the kids for the whole weekend. NO kids at all. We haven't had a break at all since Eliot has been born almost two years ago. So we were looking at things to do, and found that music fest nw is going on the same weekend. Even Sweeter!-- read more >>

This video makes me giggle everytime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM
Ow Charlie, Charlie bit me.

But for a boy I really like Atticus. We have a little girls name and it would be Juniper. We would nickname her Joon off of benny and joon. Which I love! Our other children's names our as follow if you didn't remember: Boston(11 yr old boy, Sydney (7 yr old girl), Eliot Wilde (19mths). So Atticus seemed to fit. Yeah?