Foxy? Noooooo!!!...!!!!!

When I woke up at 3:25 am and hear hacking sounds coming from the foot of the bed this was my first thought...As I reach down to try to get her onto the easily washable part of my bed. I grab her and sling her toward me but not soon enough. I am hoping I got her there in time but when I turn on the light and see for myself that I did not. She has puked on my almost brand new beautiful, nearly impossible to clean king sized comforter. Foxy does not usually sleep with us anymore because of this reason..( she has a very sensitive stomach) when she slept with us I had to wash my bedding all the time and I was sick of it!!! But I thought, Daddy is gone and what the heck, she looked so cute looking up at me when I got into the bed. What's one night going to hurt? So up she went, siting peacefully at the foot of the bed resting on the folded back comforter.... After I got her locked in the bathroom I surveyed the damage.. CRAP it is all over and has leaked through from the undereath side which she was laying on to the front side which is normally in view when the bed is made. How in the hell am I going to clean this.. I do the stupid thing that I know won't work and dab at it with a wet rag.. yeah..ummm. like that is going to get this huge stain.. When I mean huge, I mean like you couldn't believe a 3lb dog had that much material in their stomach plus what ended up where I wanted it on the washable blanket. So after a few minutes of cussing and wiping realizing I am not getting anywhere I look at the care tag. "Maching wash cold, gentle cycle". Yeah right like this huge thing is going to fit in the washing maching. So what do I do.. I fill up the washing machine and start putting the affected area in there and spraying some shout and trying to scrub it out... This is never going to work.. how am I going to get it to agitate because the lid is not going to close because I only have half of the comforter in threre.. TaDa.. I look in the cabinte and see a throw-away type paint brush that I can stick the handle in the little hole thing that gets pushed down while the lid is down and I can get it to stay on its own.. Wonderful... so I wash and rinse the thing the best I could, but it won't spin, so I can'g get much water out. I try to wring it out the best I can and then lay some sheets on the floor and lay the comforter on them then get a flannel sheet and lay it on top and start walking around on it trying to get as much moisture out as I can. I now have it strung in the living room with the dry part of it draped over the coffee table and the wet part leaning over the kitchen chairs so that it can dry out..We shall see..

As for Foxy she is fine...now! She has gotten a bath and has been blow dried. I fed her ONE tiny piece of pork around dinner time that Darrin was cooking to put in their beans on his trip. I even ironically said outloud to Darrin, "I hope I don't regret this later." Well, I do regret it. I also regret letting her on the bed because if I hadn't, I would have been able to clean the carpet with my wonderful Bissell ProHeat 2X and the problem would have been easily solved. That machine is wonderful and I am sure it will come in handy once my child arrives in this world. It is a must if you have pets and carpet. Or maybe it is just my pets or the ones I pet sit that seem to get sick!

As for me.. I am a little queasy myself after having that smell (sorry if this makes you sick) engraned in my nostrils for the last hour but also getting sleepy and wanting to go back to be.

Maddie has been a good girl through out this event and has not even barked to get out of her kennell eventhough I have gone in her room to get towels, turned on the lights and walked around. That is good to know for those middle of the night feedings that I have up ahead of me that she will not need to get out of her kennel every time.

Sorry if this is not very well written but it is now 4:43 am and I am tired. I just figured I should blog instead of calling people to vent.

Take this job and shove it!

I made the big announcement that I was quitting my job at the end of the year to my boss on Monday. I was really nervous about telling him.. I don't know why, but I was dreading it! I was planning on telling him on Nov. 1st (I even had it marked in "code" on my desk calendar) but then something on Monday told me just to get it over with. I am really glad that I did. It is all out in the open now and I am not hiding anything from anyone. I am looking forward to my time off before the baby comes, but I am also a little sad that I won't be going to work. It will be nice not having to go in to work on days that I don't feel that great or days that I have alot I want or need to do at home, but there is something about going to work that gives you a sense of purpose as well as social interaction with the public and co-workers. Oh listen to me.. you will probably talk to me in January and I won't have ever been happier.. sleeping in until 8:00, getting around and maybe going to the gym and walking on the treadmill, coming home and getting ready and making Darrin's lunch, watching Jerry Springer at 12:00 or the myriad of judge shows or I might even get addicted to the good ole standby soap Young and the Restless, then I might need to go get some groceries or take a nap or work on Darrin's homeowrk for him (don't tell his professors) or organize stuff up for the baby room, read on my books that I never get around to reading when I was working, clean house, play with the dogs, shop some more, do laundry, cook dinner meals that require more than 30 minutes to prepare, blog, maybe.. just maybe... Uhhh... I can't believe I am even saying this.... some of you will be shocked to hear that I might..... Start a Facebook Page.. Ok.. I am just going to stop there before I come up with any more crazy ideas!

It's a Boy!!!

Our handsome side profile.



Our "It's a Boy" Proof
---He's kicking me right now for showing you all this embarssing picture... He literally is..haha. :)

I had my appointment and ultrasound today and we found out that we are having a little boy! We are so excited and I am so glad to know so I can start more planning! Right now the baby weighs 9 oz and is doing great! Everying looked good when they did the anatomy scan and looked at everything. It was really cool to see how much he (it seems so crazy using "he" after so long of saying "it") has grown. He is in a breech position right now but my Doctor said that's ok just as long as he moves his head down by about 35-37 weeks. We are still on track with my original due date of March 4th. I can't believe that we are at the halfway point. I have a feeling that these next few months are going to go by pretty fast with the Holiday's coming up. Darrin is getting excited thinking about having a little "Darrin Jr." running around the house and all the stuff they can do together. I am getting excited thinking about sending him off to do stuff with his dad while I have the house to myself.. but then there will probably be another one by that time and there goes that free time! :)

First Flutterings

On week 19 day 2 I felt the first kicks from baby Olson. I was sitting on the couth Saturday night after going out to dinner and I thought I felt something like small pops in my lower abdomen. I felt it again then again right away. I thought I had felt the baby move before but I really hadn't. This was the real deal! Later in the evening I kept feeling it some but not as hard as I had the first time. I can now feel it swoosing around and bumping up against me now and then. It is a pretty cool feeling and I was glad Darrin was sitting there right by me the first time!

18 wks

Hey everyone.. I can't believei it has been 5 weeks since my last picture. So I want to update you all with my preggo glory. haha I am still feeling good most of the time. No sickness or extremem fatigue or anything like that. I don't think I quite have the stamina I did, but I can still shop just as good as I could before, which by the way is what I am up to today. I have been shopping on Craigslist trying to find some nice, used baby stuff to save us some money from having to buy brand new. I actually found something yesterday, so I went to this lady's house and met her to look at her swing. Since Darrin is out of town, (doesn't that seem like another reoccuring theme in my blog) and I am pretty much unaccounted for, I called him before I went and called him after I "made it out" alive. Haha. No, it was nothing like that. She was very nice and had a very nice house.. made me a little jealous of her decorating skills. Her baby's room was so cute and she told me how she made everything pretty much from spraypaint and things from Hobby Lobby. So I ended up with a nice, barely used swing for nearly half price and some really cute, cheap, easy decorating ideas for the nursery!

Back on to baby.. I am not feeling any movements yet. If I lay really still, I think that I can sometimes feel something, but I think it is just in my mind (or tummy rumblings). We will find out in about 1 and a half weeks whether we are having a boy or girl, so be ready for that!



The baby's swing and my lovely baby model, Foxy.