The case of the switching Saturns

Last week was stressful.  Tuesday was a normal day, I worked from home and noticed that we were out of dog food.  Dan was getting off at 4:30 that day so he offered to pick some up on his way home.  He called me when he left the bank.  About 20 minutes later I got another phone call.  I assumed he was calling to say he was on his way home but it went like this instead - 

Dan - "We have a little problem here." 

Jamie - thinks that the store is out of our brand of dog food. "Ok, what's going on?"

Dan - "I got in an accident."

Jamie - "You've got to be kidding me."

I'm pretty sure you can guess where the rest of this conversation went.  No, no one was hurt.  No, no one was issued a ticket. Yes, it was probably our fault but the insurance companies can battle that out.  I looked at it a little bit that night but the next morning got the full effect of what really happened.

Wednesday we dropped it off at collision center and waited.

Thursday the insurance company said they'd like to total it out.  We decided that while we weren't planning on getting a different vehicle, the Saturn (or sad-turd as referred to in our house) wasn't really going to be a safe place to put our baby, even if we had it fixed. Looked at cars that night.

Friday, Danny asked for the afternoon off so we could continue our search.  We drove (well, Danny did) countless vehicles.  Dan set his heart on a few that we fortunately decided that were not going to be appropriate for our growing family.  We ended the night thinking we had probably found our next car but wanted to sleep on it and do a little more research. Then we had a great dinner with Jim and Rie.

Saturday found us the proud owners of a new car.

Yes, it's another Saturn.  No, I have not driven it yet but Danny seems to love it.  It has plenty of room inside for a carseat and the pups.  Danny is actually impressed that he has plenty of leg room without pushing the seat all the way back.  We're looking forward to taking lots more family road trips in this car since we took our first one this weekend!  More on that later!  

Ultrasound pictures

Sorry to overwhelm with so many posts in 24 hours but, I wanted to share our ultrasound pictures before I forgot!

Kicks

I've been feeling Putty (aka Sweet Baby Girl) move around for about a week and a half now.  It started if I would try to listen to her with the doppler.  She apparently doesn't like to be poked or prodded because one night she kicked it and swam off (disclaimer: I try not to listen to her more than once a week and only for a minute or so.  My mom is uber worried about that :P).  Since that night, I can feel her every once and awhile and it's been very sporadic.

This morning however, she's been going nuts!  I think I've felt her more this morning (granted I've been awake since 5:30) than I have in an entire day before.  Danny has the day off so I keep making him feel my belly (at first he thought I was nuts).  Just a minute ago though, he felt her and got this big grin on his face. I'm glad she's finally making herself known to her daddy. :)

Putty update

How far along: 19 weeks, 6 days (they pushed me back a week!)
Total weight gain/loss: gained 1 pound this month - still down 1 overall
Maternity clothes: heck yes
Stretch marks: sadly, they're starting
Sleep: ummm...not so much
Best moment this week: Seeing our daughter at the ultrasound this morning!
Movement: Sporadically
Food cravings: More like I get stuck on a food - I ate burritos 5 days in a row this week
Food aversions: Still happens all the time.
Gender: Sweet baby girl!
Belly Button in or out: In.
What I miss: Sleeping regular hours
What I am looking forward to: Feeling her move more often.  Being able to use the gender specific pronoun when we talk about her!
Milestones: I was sent back a week because she's measuring small (but looks perfect) so I get to relive the halfway point tomorrow!

I changed my mind

I'm taking the easy way out if Putty is a girl - just found bedding from Target that I love.

Seriously obsessed. :)

Ticked off

It's been awhile since I found something my dogs love.  They're both slightly destructive and love treats. - I've been reading recommendations online for awhile about the Everlasting Treat Ball.  I was looking for something to entertain them and keep them distracted from torturing playing with my parents' dog this week so I bought two.  Minnie managed to dig the treats out of both ends in just over 1.5 hours.  Charlie gnawed for nearly 2.5 hours before he got distracted by something shiny.  Rather than let Minnie eat more treats today I decided to take it away and put it up high so Minnie couldn't steal it.  This is what happened:

She barked at it (the small blue thing you see right in front of her) for nearly 30 minutes.  Hey, at least she was occupied!

Remember how I said I'm obsessive?

Here are some better images.  Plus, I forgot to cover up on of the choices below.

 

And for a little boy....

Madras (minus the trains) for PBK

or

Kasey Striped (minus George) from PBK

I'm really liking the idea of using primary colors for the bedding - mostly because I've fallen in love with a certain line of sock monkeys and pals...

I have a problem

I have a slight obsession with baby bedding.  Actually the problem really is that I have this idea in my head about how I want the nursery to look and I can't find bedding that matches my vision.  Especially if we end up with a girl.  Enter:  overly ambitious Jamie.  I've been toying with the idea of making the bedding/textiles in baby's room.  Check out what I spent 2 + hours working on today....

Still not exactly what I have in my head but we're getting there.  This could very well be the fabrics we use if we have a girl :).  You can check them out here (ignore the browns, it's my lame version of editing a picture that originally had more than 12 different prints on it).

Boy bedding is a whole 'nother demon within itself and right now I really need to get something done. :)

P.S.  Many thanks to Kage for helping to cultivate my new obsession.