ok. this is serious.

if you know me well, you know that i *HATE* bananas. have always wanted to like them (a conveniently pre-wrapped snack!) but have tried and failed numerous times.

now. the current situation.

i've just completed foot/toe cramp #2 so far in this pregnancy (which means foot cramp #2 total in life so far for me) and i dont know that i can go through another! i've heard that eating bananas helps with leg cramps, so i'm willing to do my best to eat as many as i can if it will relieve me.

here's where you come in...if you have ANY suggestions/tips/remedies for foot cramps and prevention (and also what the heck to do with my foot when it's happening, since stepping on it or walking on it doesn't seem to be possible) PLEASE COMMENT!!!!!

thanks in advance :)

ps, sorry for screaming in your ear, meghan!!!! :(

Quiz time!

so...can you tell in this picture who took the waiter seriously when he said 'everyone say "eat at joe's?!"??' :) only kidding (zane came up with the caption...). we headed down to belmont yesterday to celebrate my dad's birthday and my parent's 43rd wedding anniversary! we went out to eat at "not your average joe's", had excellent service and a wonderful meal.

and now for my favorite part of the night....

luckily, i had lots of help finishing off this dessert with peanut butter and chocolate chunks in ice cream, rolled in oreo crumblies and drizzled (more like drenched) in hot fudge and caramel sauce. all in all, a great celebratory night and a nice break from new hampshire! happy anniversary you two lovebirds!!!

piggy must not have appreciated my love of so much food last night, and i was (along with the dogs) up a while with a tummy ache and at one point hoping i didn't have some sort of food poisoning, and just indigestion...it took all day, but i started feeling better tonight after we got back up to nh and i ate some plain rice. the dogs seem to be in the same boat. king started last night with an upset stomach and marley followed suit earlier this morning. they also had a dinner of mostly rice with some chicken broth and are now passed out on the couch and floor. hopefully we all get a bit more rest tonight (and zane stays problem free!)!

now we're back to enjoy our 3 remaining vacation days. the cleaning project has been underway all week and i think we've finally made some progress...we're planning on taking pictures tomorrow of various things (included will be front room, changing table and our pumpkins :)) and will post more then.

-the bothered bellies....

ps, umm...12 weeks remain...

umm...87 days!?

i remember when we started the floating baby thing it showed about 140 days left. and now only 87?! how does it happen!?

it's 3am. i just finished a bowl of cocoa pebbles. (i know, not the healthiest of cravings while we were food shopping the other day) now i'm onto a bowl of chocolate ice cream (with sprinkles). i figure if i'm losing sleep just to eat, i might as well enjoy it.

lukily, zane had to go to the bathroom and just joined me in my snacking! yay, it's fun to have a buddy...and now the dogs and the cat are all here in the kitchen too. :) less like 3am, more like 7pm. that's our family for you....

now i'm sure i'll go back to bed, the sugar will wake up piglet and i'll be up for another hour or so...this is what i have to get used to, right?? :)

piggy likes daddy's voice better :)

sorry it's been awhile...nothing new really going on. zane starts his last school vacation week tomorrow , so for a week we'll both be around and catching up on sleep, finishing harry potter, talking to the pig (the highlight now is that piggy is pretty quiet for most of the day when s/he's just with me and as soon as zane comes home and starts talking, it wakes up and puts on a show :)), watching our new directv (now zane can watch the kc chiefs in the comfort of home and a baby sleeping on his chest...yippee) and doing any last minute things that we're not going to have the time/energy to do in the fall before the little one arrives :) then its back to work for him and back to work for me for as long as i can stand it...

just a few pictures...

we had fun putting this sweater on the dogs after they pulled it out of somewhere and tried chewing it up :) i dont think they'll be fighting over who gets to wear it in the winter...

meghan and i went down to suzanne and jims to watch henry for the night while they went out to celebrate jim's birthday! :) we had a blast, henry was a.DOR.able and enjoyed his time with the stickers we bought. here he is pointing at where "ally's baby" is...this was before he lifted up my shirt in confusion when we told him it was in my belly...

ps, today/tomorrow i'm 27 weeks...which, in some books means the start of the 3rd trimester (others say 28 weeks). either way, HOLY COW!

pps, i dont have gestational diabetes! phew!

:) enjoy

quick midwife update...

had another dr's appointment today. i had to drink a sugary drink at home before i went in to have my blood drawn...i had seriously worked myself up about this stupid drink, turns out it tastes just like an orange sunkist soda to me and i partially enjoyed it (except for the part where i couldn't eat an hour before hand and then had to down it in 5 minutes...blegh).

had my blood drawn by some 89 year old woman who i was sure was going to either miss my arm completely or do the wrong test. it just so happened i never even felt the needle go in my arm and it was done faster than i could have imagined.

so then i go upstairs and am told that my doctor has been called to the hospital to deliver someone else's baby and i'd see some midwife that i'd never even heard of. she was the sweetest woman ever and told me that "boy or girl, you've got one big, strong baby in there!" while she was trying to get the heartbeat through doppler and Piggy had just woken up and was in rare kicking form :)

so...all is going well and even though i gained another 6 pounds in 4 weeks (yikes), they didnt say anything negative and i'm going to be happy with today :) starting after my next appt at the end of august, i start going every 2 weeks...i can't believe we're at that point already!

love, the pig and the rest of the family

the dog days of summer....

despite our attempt at cooling the house with a couple air conditioners, marley found the best spot in the house with her head under our bed.
see?? she's alive :) maybe a little miserable, but still alive.
and the fun news!!! we got our crib today! while we started to put part of it together, the real babies of the house decided to get in on the fun.

picture heavy update. cause i'm lazy :)

zane's first experience on dan's back hoe! dan said zane picked it up really well and by the next day, they were digging up holes for the telephone poll bat houses! (more pictures to follow)
behind zane you can see the work we did on the space for nancy's rose memorial :) the roses will be trained up the trellis' and hopefully the ivy will fill in and make it look perrrrtty.
one of the zuccini's from our garden that i picked on monday...i thought that was big....
when zane got home from work we went back out and picked this one...not sure how i missed it!

we made it home safe and sound on sunday night after a long, stalled day of travel. monday had zane back at work and me suddenly feeling like the house had to be put into order. the dogs came home and were wiped out and the cat surprisingly didnt eat her weight in dry food while we were gone!

first picture i think at 5 weeks. second at 24 1/2. sheesh :)

tonight we're heading down to boston so zane can go see a concert with phil and head back up tomorrow for dinner with james and then a do-nothing sort of weekend. (although, i just checked and our crib was scanned out for delivery this morning at 5am, so i'm pretty sure it'll be arriving today. that might be a to-do this weekend :))

there are more pictures to post and probably more info to relay, but i haven't been eating enough and that makes me crabby, so i'm off....

ally