So I've been super neglectful of this thing. Impending labour and then baby things happened and pretty much I feel like I'm the busiest person in existence even when I'm "technically" not that busy.

I had a beautiful little (hah, tell that to my stitches, and the friction burn he had on his head) boy on September 10th, at 9:20 in the AM, 8 pounds 7 ounces, and 21 1/4 inches long. I named him Elliott David and he is a little package of joy. Today he is 24 days old, and already very wakeful (if you speak to me on a somewhat regular basis, you probably have heard me speak of his lack of naps). Last Tuesday he was back up to an ounce over his birth weight, and already one inch longer. He is the most precious, tiny thing in existence, and is already starting to try to vocalize (aside from yelling/crying). He's also starting to get tiny little frown lines already from concentrating so hard on everything, and is very expressionate for being so little. On the 10th he'll be one month old and I can't believe it's so close already. He's absolutely perfect, eye goop included (he has blocked tear ducts, poor little honey pot :( ), and I am very very proud. I have decided that he is also a mini raptor, with the air stomping, and vicious head lunges for food (WOE!), and tiny, sharp little claws that tear everything up. I'm sure if/when you meet him, you'll agree entirely!
I'd talk about the labour, but I would like to keep this short and sweet for now.I may or may not do a "Magical Journey on Too much Nitrous" later. Basically he's out, and all mixed up into my life (or am I all mixed up into his?), and my stomach has compacted and it is strange.

And thusly MASS AMOUNTS OF PHOTOS!


In Which I look incredibly frightening after 18 hours of labour

Prreeettttyyy much, I had my 39 week 2day appointment todayyyy....
I was 50% effaced and 1cm dilated, sooo I gave my doctor the go ahead to sweep my membranes and oh that was a WHOLE lot of fun *snrk*.
So also pretty much, I am cramping a lot, and have a bit of a headache. Annnnd I think after this weekend there's going to be a BABY.
Stacey is on her way tonight, and I'm waiting to hear back from the doula organization.
Unfortunately my doula came down with tonsilitis :( which is no fault of her own! And I'm not upset or let down at all, because she's a sweetheart, and it's completely not something she can help! But they do not let people into the rooms when they are sick, especially because it's highly contagious and new baby's and contagens don't mix so well. I -was- contacted by the doula organization with a possible doula so I'm hoping possibly that she's still available and that that works out all good and everything.
I'm sure everything will work out fine anyhow and I'm not worried :) 
But yeah, pretty much, baby is kinda happening!

Also, my sister made delicious flatbread pannini pizza's for lunch for me, with garlic, and spinach, and fajita chicken, and parmesan, and parsley and oregano and they were delicious, and then, watermelon happened, and watermelon is also effin' delicious.

Maybe all that vacuuming, and scrubbing the bathroom, and moving furniture around, and doing the stairs 30 times, and organizing all baby things and clothing wasn't such a good idea yesterday.

Getting out of bed this morning -hurt-.

Feels like I've been hit by a truck.

So uh, This was me 16 weeks ago at the end of May.



Annnnd, this is me now O.o



Holy MASSIVE much!

Sooo haven't been in the mood for writing out things lately. Not sure why.

Had my 38 week checkup on Friday. Lost a couple pounds O.o surprisingly. Baby's head is as low as it can go, but I'm not dilated or effaced yet. currently sitting at 38 weeks and 5 days. Super close. Everything's all healthy and stuff. Supposed to do squats -.-' But yeah, so, I should have a baby in under 2 weeks hey. And it's still been all quiet on the western front :)
Josh is going to try to get out here next week to visit before I pop, and Stacey is flying in from Alberta next week too!! *dances*
I've been feeling more sleepy lately. I could just... stay in bed for hours. Makes it hard for me to get my list cleared off aha. BUT BUT I finished the blanket I was knitting, and did all the baby laundry, and am doing laundry of my own right now, so that I can get my hospital bag ready.
My sister dropped off the stroller and carseat for me, and jeez those things terrify me. I'm so bad with them. It took me like ten minutes to get it to unfold, and then another ten to get the handle on the carseat upright. I feel so challenged when it comes to those things!
There were two separate songs by The Mountain Goats in an episode of Weeds from Season 1 and that made me extremely happy when I was watching it. So cute.
I don't know, I've been out and about and doing things, but, having difficulty actually vocalizing it :o
Saw my pretty Doula lady on Monday, and met her cute little nephew and her roommate at Chuck-E-Cheese and it was pretty swell :) except for a douchebag who made a very very uncalled for comment when we were in line at the prize counter. Oh well, karma!
Also, went out to White Pine Beach for Wayne's birthday last weekend, and it was pretty awesome too! Swimming = win. And the sand was sooo nice and, yeah.
On Thursday I had the misfortunate happening of having my flip flops break on the way out :( So I had to run home and wear crappy toe covering shoes and after Best Babies I ran off and got bubble tea and then found a super cute pair of new flip flops for cheap at VV Boutique because bargain shopping is my most favorite.
Also I saw District 9 and it was FUCKING SWEET. And Popcorn makes me happy. Mmmm popcorn. I could go for some of that right now.
Also, this writing feels super stagnant to me and I apologize.
I finished my book, and have started on the one my sister gave to me to read, and oh the deliciousness... I could just eat that book. Yum.

I feel so huge. I don't actually mind it so much, but I have SO MUCH BABY IN ME. I'm actually curious as to how much is really baby, because... it feels like quite alot. I'm actually going to be sad I won't be all PREGNANT BELLY anymore in a couple weeks. I was enjoying it. It's cute. Although sleeping will probably be a bit easier, position wise, if not being allowed to sleep wise ahaha.
Ahhhhhhh end.

Feeling super mellow and sleepy today. Pretty things make the world a better place.

Had my finally full-term 37 week checkup yesterday. Everything is stable and awesome. Gained 4 more pounds in the last month, so that puts my total pregnancy weight gain at 18 lbs. Which, isn't too bad, I don't think? My fundal height was 40 cm, and I got my paperwork that I have to carry around with me at all times now in case I go into labour. My Group B Strep test came back positive so I have to be given antibiotics when I'm in labour and what not. No biggie. My PSD seems to have eased up a bit in the past two days as compared to the beginning of the week, which I'm very greatful for, although it still catches me off guard occasionally.  I need to finish doing my baby laundry, finish up the last 5 rows on the blanket I was knitting (and had been neglecting for a bit) and pack my hospital bag, so I'm all prepared and what not.
Things this week otherwise have been very low key. Spent the first half of the week in a pregnancy haze which I'm glad to be out of, and able to think properly again. I'm excited for hang-outs on Monday and baby things.
Yesterday after the doctor's I went and hung out with my sis who I hadn't seen for a week. We played Little Big Planet, had tea, and enjoyed eachothers company. I got to stay for dinner which was delicious bbq chicken burgers, that her Hubby cooked on the bbq without our help (YAY! He did it!), and we shuffled off to go rent "I Love You, Man". They also stopped off at Best Buy to get a memory chip for their camera. Little did I know, that when we got back to her house, she gave me her old (but in perfect condition) digital camera, to help document the baby's coming and life, because they had actually gotten a new camera!! Sneaky sneaky sister <3 I almost cried because it was so sweet of her. We also had Mango Peach Sorbet & Frozen Yogurt with fresh peach slices and it was delicious.
Paul Rudd did orgasm eyes near the very beginning of the movie, and I may have swooned a little. So, SO cute.
There was one part that was so horribly funny we all burst out laughing VERY loudly simultaneously and it scared poor little Daniel. He made such a terrified face and then started crying SO hard. Poor little boy, 4 month old in 12 month old clothing! HE'S SO TALL!
It was a really good/funny/ridiculous movie though, and I think we all enjoyed it thoroughly.
I also now have new reading material! My sister picked up the latest book in Steven Erikson's Tales of the Malazan Books of the Fallen Series, "Toll The Hounds", and it is so fat and juicy I can't wait to finish my current book and start reading. I've been looking forward to this book for what seems like aeons. She asked me to break in the spine of it for her.
Oh I'm going to crack that spine like the most professional of chiropractors!

Taha for now! ^.^

Pee Ess: Also, Excited for the new season of Dexter coming out soon, and have been watching "Weeds" lately, which is actually pretty funny.

I will NOT miss my re-scheduled appointment tomorrow morning. I will NOT somehow magically forget it exists. I will NOT sleep through my alarm. And dear god, I hope I will NOT hear news tomorrow about being dilated, or anything progressive like that. *snrk*
Also, I will NOT let anyone strip my membranes, DO YOU HEAR ME?! LEAVE THEM ALONE!!

On a brighter note, lavender coloured eyes are pretty.

I completely managed to forget altogether that I had a doctor's appointment yesterday. WTF.
Been forgetting random things more and more as of late, and not sleeping all too well.
Good job Kat, real good job.

BITCH, I LOVE YOU!

Ahhh so bad at updating regularily. Of course being away for 8 days doesn't help, but y'know.

Galiano was really really nice, although I have a feeling I'm not built for longer running vacations. I get way too introspective all of a sudden and that's not good for me. The beach was super nice though, swimming so much. Got a bit more of a tan, but, my legs didn't get nearly as dark as I hoped sigh, although I can personally see they're a shade darker in comparison to say, my stomach, they're still pretty pale. I also climbed up this fairly steep sheer rock thing to get up to the path to the bro-in-law's mother's trailer site, and scared myself, because, I probably shouldn't have been attempting that as pregnant as I am. I mean, not pregnant it would still scare me, but if I'd slipped... yeah, that could've ended badly.
Reading books like a mad woman, not probably the material I should be focussing on at this stage of my pregnancy, but I find books on pregnancy to be abominally... boring. I have trouble not getting distracted when reading them. It's easier for me to just research particular things I want/need to know via the interwebs, not nearly as painful for me then.
But painful, oh boy, we want to talk about painful. I'll be full-term next Wednesday, sitting at 36.5 weeks now, and I could really, just pop anytime. I started experiencing lovely Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction about 4 days ago, and the first time I felt it, it happened twice, and then was done with, but it's been happening increasing amounts since then. My sister says I probably dropped the day we were leaving the island, which would mean the baby's head is trying to engage itself in places, while meant to have the child come out of, that are tooooooo small. Every time I stand up, or try to walk around, it's insta-grindy-pain now, and trying to lift things, even within my weight restrictions, aggravates this. If it weren't for the awesomeness of my friend Mike I would not have gone grocery shopping because, I could not have carried that stuff walking back home, nup nup. I've been trying to do specific positions and pelvic tilts my sister suggested, to no avail. I have a feeling that this is just the way it's gon' be now, and I'll have to live with it. I could see how someone with a lower pain threshold could actually end up crying from this, because it causes me to wince and yelp sometimes when it catches me off guard. It's this great reminder that, the fun is finally beginning, joy! Otherwise though everything's good, everything's normal, and I have another appointment with my Dr. next week, as well as an appointment at the hospital with someone in the maternity ward. I've had so many appointments due to this baby coming about, I never realized how many things I would have to go through. Still no word back on the Doula yet, but, I'm hopeful. I'll be calling tomorrow to get an update, because, it's getting really close, and I have a strange feeling I might pop sooner rather than later.
Also, saw the Half-Blood Prince tonight, and, it was pretty good. Mike and I decided to check it out because DnD was cancelled and we were moping about it. Better to do something than nothing eh? But it wasn't bad at all, and I'm glad I got to go see it. Also, MOVIE THEATRE POPCORN! I've been wanting that for over a month, and FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY I got it. So good.
I will be so happy when all of my mosquito bites finally go away. Ones I didn't manage to maul in my sleep turned into large discoloured bruises and are not very manies of teh sex. Not that, y'know, being sexy is really top priority for me right now, but I still am, naturally :P
Apple Cinnamon cheerios and Lemonade are delicious.
CHUP CHUP CHUP!

I'm outs!

I'm all for breasfeeding, but DEAR BOB NO!


http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/doll-you-can-breast-feed/

Thank you Danielle Corsetto, for opening up my eyes, to the most conflicting thing I've ever seen.
I can't tell if this is cute, terrifying, gross, or just... just... watch.



annnd to make matters worse........




I can't stop thinking about Neverending Story.
Side note: He seems to be enjoying himself a crazy amount, but she doesn't look too impressed.

Did you know when I was 17 I was a rapper?

As the ground starts to quake,
your feet start to slip, you're caught in the grip
and you trip as you shake with the fear of the raking of nails 'cross your back
as you track what you missed
and you list all the crissed off women you crossed off your list.
It's not enough that you're powerful,
tough, you can rough it up,
now you're stuck with the luck of the fucked and you sucked up,
so you lucked out and you won free.
Does the range of this change rearrange how estranged you can be from me,
can you escape responsibilty of the things you see?
Now you're denied,
it must be frustrating,
debating the proliferation of my self confidence.
Does it make any sense
or are you just that dense.
Should've given me that chance,
before you pranced off and talked tough
and tested my ability to let you see that I was good enough.


Chorus:
You won't break through,
break in,
break out,
I'm more than just a hard house,
I'm your lost treasure of pleasure and happiness at leisure,
all ties you sever will never be levered to heights you can reach,
you gave up this prize
because you surmised
that our ties were too tight to be right
so you fled
and led me
to be fed at the trough
of promises to be read
to those too stupid to realise the lies
behind the lines of signs too faded to read.
Don't bother to give my hopes
such water filled with salt like brine ,
I won't buy it this time. : Repeat x1

Pretty much this is probably the first time in my life I've ever LIKED my stomach.
I'm going to miss this when it's not here anymore. Even if it's making bending in the middle somewhat impossible.
Le Sigh.



34.5 weeks along.

I think further study of Saturniidae is necessary for artistic purposes.
Definately beautiful.

For the past couple days, I've been playing hide and go seek with one of THESE little fella's.



And by hide and go seek, I mean, suddenly come out of nowhere and fly at my head and scare the CRAP out of me randomly throughout the day.
I've nicknamed the little beastie Mothra, because, well... yeah.
I have no clue how he got in the house, I'm guessing it was when I had the sliding door open whilst barbecuing, unless he's been in here since before Thursday night.
Right now, I don't know where he is... he's just lurking somewhere in this too big house, with no one else in it right now, waiting for an opportune moment to make me scream.
I have no idea how these things get so damned big.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cirrusimage.com/Moths/Polyphemus_moth_big.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.cirrusimage.com/polyphemus_moth.htm&usg=__ifYiIXsAtaoTp2zNhzRVxmvlVb0=&h=653&w=1024&sz=200&hl=en&start=4&sig2=ZHIYMXumIMjEuuekuMoBYA&um=1&tbnid=zsdbd0k58wAuiM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbig%2Bmoth%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1&ei=7MFkStHKDoOksgP4hoVo

Finally got the dresser done, it's all dry and in my roomz now.
The colour combo I decided to use turned out better than I hoped. I think it looks, kinda, chic? Kinda? Okay I could be fooling myself.
Yay for low fume paint and masks so I could do this while pregnant!



This dresser is as old as I am, at least, and when my family first got them (there's another one in my family somewhere) they were originally a much different colour and have many many layers of paint. The one I just covered up was a ghastly green and white which was the colour it had been until I sanded it and primed it and painted it. It was dingy and chipped and just, ew. So, now, YAY!

Soooo far this morning I've managed to...

-Do the first layer of paint on my dresser and it's drawers

-Do all my laundry, and bedding

-Do all the dishes

-Finish my book

What I'd still like to get done...

-Clean the bathroom

-Second layer of paint on the dresser (if the first dries with enough time for me to)

-Organize all my clothes (this is the scary part)

-Skip, Trip, over to the grocery store

-Vacuum my Rumpous Room


Now, if only I could tear my ass out of my ever so comfy armchair.
I should never have made the mistake of sitting down.
Fail.

New addition to list of things done today:

-Remove all arm hair by almost blowing self up with barbecue

Busy Busy Busy.
Been at my sister's for a bit. We had some mass preparations to do for my Brother-in-Law's cake, and other things, and OMG MEDICAL EMERGENCIES EVERYWHERE.
Not for me though, although I did have a Dr.'s Appointment yesterday, and I've gained 5 pounds bleeeehhh... I know, being pregnant, weight gain is inevitable, but, I gained 5 pounds in two weeks. Mind you I hadn't gained any weight for over a month, but just having it go up that much in that short a period of time. Sucks. My doctor was like, doing a bit of indulging eh? And I was like, uh, no, EH, I've been eating the same way I have been my entire pregnancy. Not looking forward to my next visit, for then, it is an internal exam of terror. Oh dear GOD I hate internal exams. There's nothing more painful. Nothing. NOTHING.
In more amusing news, Mango has been dancing like a maniac. It's really odd to be able to watch your stomach shifting sides. But, I am 33 weeks now, so, that's to be expected. It's ooonnnnly going to get more noticable.
I get to go to Galiano two weeks from now, and I'm looking forward to it, while chanting the mantra "Please don't pop, Please don't pop" because my doctor is a little worried I might be further along than we think I am.
Waiting on finding out when my sister's toe is getting biopsied. Is that a word? I think it's a word, maybe the spelling is just wrong... She has a skin thing, that isn't normal, so they want to make sure she doesn't have the toe cancer.
Yesterday also during the intense prep for my broham in law's birthday I went to change my nephew's diaper and went, "Uhh, Erica, would you come have a look at this?" Because there was a strange lump on his sack. HOORAY. So my sister had to take him to the doctor and it turned out it was his ball. Yup. Just pokin' on out there. Apparently it's normal, but it didn't LOOK normal. He's good though. Scared the crap out of us, but he's good.
Then she got back and we made the cake... The cake... Well. It was an attempt. My sister told me using gum paste to mould characters out of was similar to using sculpting clay. So of course, I go, I CAN USE SCULPTING CLAY! LET ME DO IT! I AM ZEE TALENTED ARTISTE! What it actually turned out being like was NOT sculpting clay, and not easy to work with, and yeah. That dragon really wasn't as impressive as I intended him to be. SORRY SHENRON, YOU FAILZ.
At least it was effin' delicious. Seriously. OMG so good.
I've been putting off repainting my dresser, and I think I need to do that tomorrow morning. I sanded it and primed it weeks ago now, but, totally procrastinated on anything else. So yeah.
ALSO! Dungeons and Dragons should totally be happening this weekend. I am excited to work on my "Sembian" accent some more and pretty much be a moral-less rogue daughter of a merchant. Excitement! Also excited to see baby Betty and all of 'em.
I really wish boys would stop asking me out on dates. I'm getting real tired of having to say No 1092984877426596209883778497829 times. And they STILL don't get the point. Here's the point, I DON'T THINK YOU'D BE A GOOD FATHER FIGURE FOR THE BABY I'M GOING TO BE HAVING IN A MONTH - MONTH AND A HALF.
Got it?
Good. Now, fack off. There are plenty of other women out there who WANT dates. I'm just most certainly not one of them. Go give them what they want and stop harassing me.

Know what I'm not excited for? Wearing jeans to my meeting with my worker in an hour.
Oi.

GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAR says:
part 2, pregnant girl gets fucked by guy with tattoos

*falls over laughing* right, right.