Welcome Natalie Lucia Campos

Born December 19th

5 Lbs 1 0z
17 inches

Happy Early Christmas! We got just what we wanted :)

I want to Clean...?

Okay so I woke up today and I feel like I just HAVE to clean! I am thinking that everything is so dirty and I just need to spend my day cleaning!!!! Ahh. I guess it is nesting, but guess what? I am on bed rest. Oh well for the cleaning. I am having to force myself to sit here in bed.

Things to Do
I have been doing okay with bed rest. It is really good that I am only on it for a couple more weeks at most because it has not even been two whole days and I already feel like I should be done. But I have found a few things to do. I have sewn some more diapers for Natalie and they are super cute! (I am allowed to be sitting and doing things!) And I have made some more flower clips. A lady came and bought three of them, which is great, but I still have too many! Like A LOT!  But those things have kept me pretty well entertained. Then I have my computer and spend too much time online, but oh well. I have been working via the internet and that has been pretty good. Other than that I hang out with Sama and watch TV or something. He has been getting everything for me. I feel so ridiculous asking for my computer charger or something that is only across the room. I am not supposed to be getting up and down for those kinds of things. It feels so silly and I feel like some lazy queen commanding him or something! Poor Sama.

School
School is OVER!!!!!!! Well, for the semester! Yay!

Christmas
Change of plans for Christmas. My mom is coming earlier since I am going to be induced if I don't go into labor on my own. It is so nice to know that she will be here! I am really looking forward to it. Our friends who we were going to spend Christmas with decided to go to Mexico last minute. They are in for a really, REALLY long drive, but they are excited to go so that is great. We have a few other friends that will be here and I would really like to invite them for Christmas dinner or something, but I would pretty much be obligating other people to do all the work. Sama asked if we should invite them, so maybe he doesn't mind, but I don't know. I guess we will plan on a quiet Christmas morning with my mom here. I think it will be nice. Well quiet unless Natalie comes before then. Maybe! I honestly would love that.

Natalie in 2010

I am officially on bed rest. It is definitely no fun. I went in to get my blood pressure checked this morning and it was high. Higher than usual that is. So then I had a bunch of other tests, but thankfully those were all normal and Natalie is quite healthy!

So I have to check my blood pressure four times per day and if it gets any higher, then I have to call my doctor and probably go to the hospital. I have an appointment on Monday to see how things are going. But my doctor pretty much guaranteed that Natalie will be born this month.

Sama's mom will be coming earlier than planned because she is no longer going to Canada for Christmas. So she will come a few days early, but probably not until after Christmas.

I am feeling kind of overwhelmed because I know for sure that Natalie is coming in the next two weeks. The house is a mess and I still need to pack for the hospital. To do that I need to do laundry and be able to move around and such. But I can't. Sama was so nice and cleaned up a little for me even though he needs to study. But tomorrow he will be done with school!!!!! Oh and we still need a carseat.....!!! Add to that all the things I would have liked to do for Christmas. I am getting Sama's present online, but I guess I will have to enlist someone's help to get his stocking stuff. Luckily we weren't planning on doing a lot anyway and don't have concrete plans.

So....that is really all that is on my mind right now. I hope everyone is doing well!

22 Days!

So Natalie is supposed to get here in 22 days. Of course we are hoping it is sooner. As in any time in December would be awesome! Sama's mom is coming the 30th and mine on the 7th. I am especially hoping for my mom's sake that she isn't late/too late. For Sama's mom too, but I think her schedule is slightly more flexible. I will be 37 weeks tomorrow and since that is considered full term, I am hoping for her to come really soon. Maybe that is selfish, but oh well. I want her here and as long as she is healthy I am good. I really don''t want to be induced if I can avoid it though so even if she doesn't come this month I am hoping she will get here before our moms have to leave. But I guess I really have no control. Just writing out what I am hoping for!

Flowers
I have been making those flowers that are so popular for little girls to put in their hair. I love them and didn't want to pay for someone else to do them when they seemed so simple. So I bought some of the supplies and have been having a lot of fun....maybe too much fun! Does anyone want flower clips? Haha. I have too many! I am going to sell some of them at cost on Craigslist I think. I know there is a ton of people selling them, but we will see if I can get some of what I spent back. Natalie doesn't need as many clips as I have made and I still have A LOT more supplies. Haha. I only have one friend with a little girl right now and she just made a bunch of her own too, soooo.....I am kind of stuck. But it is a fun hobby at least! I also have a ton of ribbon, so bows are next :)

little flowers. I like these best :)

I bought too many pink flowers.....

I made my own flower petals from fabric! I am pleased with myself about this. Sama got excited thinking they were potato chips though....Sorry to disappoint!

Feeling Better (for the moment)

I woke up feeling motivated to get a lot done. I kind of started being productive, but it just didn't last. Then I was feeling tired/not that great so I slept for awhile. I think I just needed to eat a regular meal instead of the mini snacks I had been because when I woke up and finally ate I felt so much better. Thanks Sama for helping me with dinner! 

Two More Days!

Just two more days of finals. I am so happy!!!!! Like really, REALLY happy that this semester will be over! Sama will be working more, but I think that is a good thing. Work is so much less stressful than school :) Then on Friday we will be getting together with our friends, who I think are quite stressed and might be happier than I am that school is almost over for awhile. So school is ending, we will get to relax and do fun holiday things, and Natalie can come at any time. Yay!

Progressive Dinner

Thanks to my new neighbor (new as in I just met her for the first time last week) for planning a fun night for us last Sunday. We got together with our neighbors and had a really good night getting to know each other and then we played games at the end. It was a nice night and I have some new friends :)

I think that is all for now. Happy Tuesday everyone!

Snoring

So Sama has been moving from our bed to the bed in the baby's room some nights because I have been snoring!  I don't normally snore, and the way he told me about it I thought it was some loud and horrible, obnoxious snoring! So I looked it up and saw that while it can be normal in pregnancy because of congestion and weight gain that it could also indicate gestational diabetes or sleep apnea and that I should tell my doctor. So I told this to my husband but apparently I only snore a tiny bit and it is just that he is such a light sleeper. Crazy. I am glad it is not the wake up the whole neighborhood kind, but I will probably still mention it to our doctor at our appointment this week. Just to be sure :)

Girl's Night
I got together with an old friend and some of her friends that I hadn't met for a girl's night on Saturday. We visited while making chocolate-covered pretzels and then took them with us to give away when we went Christmas caroling. It was so fun to see how people reacted to us. There was one elderly man who was my favorite. He lives alone and was so incredibly grateful to us. He invited us in and showed us his Christmas tree and what he used to do for work at the local university. I loved it! I honestly think I will visit him again.

Work
My job is going well and I am really enjoying it! I have continued to get to know great people and am learning a lot. I should be pretty well established by the time Natalie arrives!  I am starting to get a little bit impatient about the time I still have to wait, but I know it will go by fast and I will wonder where the time went later on.

Christmas
We are staying here and doing Christmas with friends. I have had some invitations from other friends for fun outings and activities. Often we are gone before we get to do all the local parties and the place where we go has already had all of those parties already.  Anyway, it will be a different Christmas, but I think a really good one! What are everyone's plans this year? I hope all your Christmases are wonderful!

Crying and Laughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE

You should watch this video! It is great and touching and wonderful. I actually started crying and then laughing because I felt silly for crying. I blame pregnancy :)

Hazardous to Humans and Domestic Animals

I just watched this video about what is really in traditional household cleaning products and how they affect you. Really eye-opening! www.JimExplains.info,

 http://www.saferforyourhome.com/

Updates

Pregnancy
So during my second trimester I often got nauseated after just a couple bites of food. Finally that went away....until now! It is back. Sad day. Not as bad as before at least! And I am not actually getting sick from it either. So that's good.

My hands get numb every time I sleep. Numb and tingly. I read that this is carpal tunnel and can happen during pregnancy. Weird! Anyway, it has been happening for awhile but now is worse. Sometimes I have to check to see that my fingers really are not the size of hammers. Because they feel like that! But nope, just weird numbness. Whatever! Hope it goes away after having the baby!

As always, I don't mind dealing with the discomforts because it is so worth it! I can't wait for baby Natalie to arrive. And it is getting closer and closer all the time!

Photos of me at 35 weeks. Please ignore the fact that I am as large as the Christmas tree :) Also a n ote to my sister that we have kept the stockings you gave us the first year we were married. Aren't they great?!

I had Sama take these pictures of me today because I am actually feeling pretty. Yesterday I (finally) bought another bra. Sorry if that is TMI. I really only had one that fit right and that was not enough. So while there I found this pretty dress on clearance and treated myself to it. It is so wonderfully comfortable too! Plus I walked around the mall for about an hour and counted that as my exercise for the day. Fun stuff! Besides that I also got some new make-up, well just a liquid to powder foundation, for just $5 from Melaleuca when they had their Black Friday sale. It is good stuff! I used it for the first time and it was great.

School
This is more a hooray for the fact that this semester is almost over! Sama has been so busy with school, work, and traveling for interviews. But now everything is coming to a close and he will have a much easier semester starting January! He only has 6 credits/2 classes left so that is great. We were worried that he might not get enough financial aid because of only going half time, but he is still getting a Pell Grant! I am really happy about that! I am doing Melaleuca and making a little money but not enough yet to make up the difference in paying for school. Hopefully soon that will change!

Cloth Diapers
I only went to one store on Black Friday (I bought the make-up online) and it was busy of course, but not crazy and no long lines either! Anyway, I went to Joann's and got fabric for cloth diapers. Yay! Okay, so maybe it is just exciting to me but that's okay. I am getting better at it for sure, but I have had to pace myself because I don't want to make too many and find out that the pattern/style I am doing won't work for Natalie. I think I have 10 all together now. Some are quite sad looking, but the more recent ones actually aren't too bad! I even made two all in ones. I read that blizzard fleece works for diaper covers and I got a bunch of it for very cheap. I also got a lot of flannel for the inside and to make more cloth wipes. But then I started to worry that fleece wouldn't be enough for the covers. I still am not sure (I will let you know!) but I decided to use a layer of PUL in the wet zone. I am thinking that will be plenty. I had a few scraps of PUL and was able to use those. Plus if it turns out that it works well enough then it isn't too expensive either.

Here is a picture of some of my better ones. I experimented with different patterns and sizes. We'll see if they work!

I think that is all for now. I am going to go stay with the neighbor kids for a few minutes while their mom has to pick up the other kids. Should be fun! Hope you all are having a great day!