Dreams of fashion

I have fought this my whole life but I'm finally thinking maybe it's a gift. I often wake up first thing in the morning with an image or vision of some awesome fashion find, then I usually search for it in stores and the internet and like 3-5 years later I finally find it in stores. I think it's time I make my creations!!! I want to share them on here right now but like said I can't find them, well I can find a similar skirt but that's the best I can do, so to remind myself, I need to make my light blue skirt, my cream top, and my turquoise purse.

Won't Sleep

I know you are all so excited to hear more about pregnancy. I thought I should share some of my most common dreams.
#1 So now that I'm 9 months pregnant I'm pretty sure TJ and I should get married, wait a minute if we are not married then where did the baby come from:-o . . . .
#2 Baby girls, I'm so excited for a boy, but he has only been a he in one of my dreams, maybe he is dreaming about baby girls and I get to share his dreams???
#3 What is trying to escape from my insides a bee, a monkey???
I'm much too embarrassed to share any more, needless to say I have some wild nights!
On another note TJ and I went to a rugby game and ran into some old LDSBC people, something in my brain clicked and I discovered I knew this guys face from somewhere other than TJ ......
I'll give you a hint if his father hadn't served a mission I wouldn't have
1. got Christmas cards with his face in them every year
2. had him come stay at my house as a kid
3. and most important have an eternal family and know about the gospel of Jesus Christ
yep that is Dave Mason son of Don Mason the missionary that found my family and baptized my parents!!! Thank you Don I owe you more than I know and am more grateful than I can ever hope to express! I would be a wild greek girl running around Chicago with out you! I would have never really known Christ the way I do know, or have served a mission, or have met my husband and married him, or have this wee Connolly on the way!

SI've

As you can see I'm still pondering baby bedding and decor. I really wanted to do green but nothing is panning out so I'm thinking of going neutral brown and throwing green or maybe turquoise accents, I was thinking lime green but with the last bedding which I'm leaning towards I'm thinking it's not such a good idea. After years of loving brown I really want more color in my home though such a dilemma. I would have to say the white and turquoise or the golden nursery (while a little more on the girl side) above are my absolute dreams.

Spring Ball

So I was going to call this my Easter Ball, but I started it Easter eve and ran out of petals after all the craft stores closed so now here is my Spring Ball. I think it would be better with a little more ivory colored petals although these were supposed to be ivory, I just might have to make a bigger one because I love it!

31 weeks

Before I forget we had our ultrasound today, Hudson's head is still measuring in the 98% yikes he looks about 2 weeks ahead of schedule but they said that really means nothing due date wise. He weighed in at 4.5 pounds and seems to have TJ's forehead and chin and my nose and lips, we shall see though. I am in the upper normal range for fluids for him so that with his noggin is making me measure about 3 weeks ahead still although the ultrasound tech asked if I came in because I was measuring small after I told her I was 31 weeks sheez people. It also makes me feel good that every time I go in the nurses assume I still weigh under 150 and every time I have to say keep going with the scale. It was neat to pay attention to where his body parts are his head is in my lower abs, his spine is along my right side, his privates are up towards my rib cage, and his legs were down my left side. Makes sense why I feel what I do and where. Like his little feet when I lay on my left side and his back I thought was his bum for the longest time. Also on Easter he was sticking his legs out on my left side they felt so big. My bp was 104/60 and weight was up 2 pounds making for a total gain of I'm thinking 33 because my Dr's scale always says I weigh 5lbs more than I do on my scale which I used for my starting weight. Today my cravings switched from lemon to lime as I had to stop and buy some Simply Limeade. True confession the tech took a photo of his head which turned out quite blurry both TJ and I are a little worried he has a beak now even though I saw a clearer image after, the one with the beak looking nose scarred us both thank you very much ultrasound Tech! I promise to love you no matter what baby!

30 weeks

Picture is from 29 1/2 weeks, this was an ugly old coffee table that we have had all my life as can be seen, my brother wrote his name Michael, then I copied him and wrote elizabeth A. and my sister copied us both. I loved laying under that table as a kid and am sad to get rid of it but as my brother put it, who has room for a tacky coffee table?
30 week update
The Bump:
I think he's getting crowded because most times I feel him I can actually feel a limb or something. However he has some weird habits. For example I didn't feel him move much for 2 days. I started to worry when I woke up one morning at about 5, than he started to move non stop till 5am the next morning, no I am not kidding and then after that he went back to his sporadic movements. I hope this isn't indicative of his future sleeping habits. Now he is kicking the laptop resting on my side, he's still possessive of his space and or likes to make contact with the outside world. My next appointment is Thursday where I get to see him again wohoo!
Food:
Cravings- anything lemon and watermelon, I went to Costco for a couple things and forgot a cart and was surprised/excited to see that watermelon was out, I contemplated carrying the watermelon to the front but I knew that it would cause others around me even greater discomfort than it would for me carrying it. I spotted an abandonded cart but then noticed some men nearby I watched and waited and they indeed carted their watermelon away in it. So finally I decided to go for the mini seedless 2 pack of watermelons. I think I might need a watermelon break right now!
Aversions- still staying away from Asian food!
Fashion:
My flowered motherhood maternity shirt maybe I will pose in that, my orange T also from motherhood and a white Old Navy T that I bought before I knew I was pregnant I was probably like 1 week or something, anyway I was thinking I hope to be pregnant this summer and trying it on and thinking my tummy will never fill that out but oh it does! Pants I like lounging in stretchy gauchos and actually put on some skinny jeans that I just bought up a couple sizes when I couldn't fit in mine in month 4 they still fit and they fit my legs better then my maternity skinny's but I usually unbutton and resort to the rubber band after a couple hours. Two weeks ago I picked out my easter outfit for church I have this yellow skirt that is huge it fit 2 weeks ago, this Sunday I went to put it on and no such luck zipping so I am now down to one brown stretchy dress and some stretchy skirts.
Best Moment:
While subbing in the nursery for an hour on Sunday 2 kids started screaming and crying when I left, one was a little girl who entered crying jumped from her dad's arms to mine and than followed me around the rest of nursery, the other one of my friends son's who always gives me the biggest smiles and made sure I was watching him the whole time by popping his head in front of mine every few seconds saying Hi! It made me feel like hey kids like me!
Sleep:
I am sleeping pretty well, I usually don't even get up to pee, bladder of steel I know! However the day Hudson was moving from 5am till 5am I had to get up and eat oatmeal at 5am both mornings. Oh yes and we are calling him Hudson for now. I also keep waking up on my back and feeling oh so good and oh so guilty!
What I miss:
Being able to get up quickly, sit comfortably, lay on my stomach, the Wasatch Back (I made the mistake of reading Runners World on Friday), knowing what size clothing I can expect to fit in for special occasions.
Looking forward to:
Meeting our son! Assembling the nursery, I still haven't assembled the nursery, but I have been fabric shopping!
Symptoms:
legs feeling heavy while running, usually only on Monday mornings, today I finally experienced a tiny heartburn, and I got some creepy rash on my shoulder and arm yep all today, hoping it's just something I touched, not measles or shingles or something worse!

2.5 weeks!

That's how far ahead the bump is measuring! I didn't gain a single once from my last visit but our boy is now measuring 2.5 weeks ahead of schedule! My gestational diabetes test came back negative actually pretty low 64 they don't consider it diabetes til it hits around 100. My blood pressure measured 110/70, my hematocrit levels dropped 4 pts from a 40 to a 36 but I'm still above anemic! What does this mean??? Well we have another ultrasound scheduled to find out. Granted he has been measuring 2 weeks ahead the whole time but they will not change my due date and this is a Connolly after all they run pretty tall!
My current speculations are:

• he is indeed a big boy like his dad
• I really am 2 weeks ahead not everyone ovulates when the scientific calender says they do
• he was laying stretched out as I could feel a head or bottom sticking out of my side during the appointment and he really does "stretch out" after I run and I had run just before the appointment
• I'm such a healthy eater that he is metabolizing everything into solid muscle mass (probably not but I can speculate whatever I want right)
• twins!! haha

Online answers include

• diabetes- ruled out
• maternal weight gain- I have gained 30 pounds already, I probably shouldn't share that but I still can gain 5 more and be considered normal so ehhh
  
• too much fluid- rare
• genetics- I'm going with this one!

Regardless I can't wait to see my chunky monkey again!