Losing Track of Time

Well I really need to do a better job of keeping up with this thing! I can't believe how time is flying by; we only have 9 more weeks of school left!! Things with the pregnancy are going great; I haven't been sick (unless my hubby can't decide on what to eat until 9:30 at night) and I think I have felt the baby move?! I keep trying to tell myself that but everyone says that it is so similar to a "gassy" feeling that it's really hard to distinguish. But what I do know is that it only happens when I am laying flat and usually quiet so hopefully those have been the fluttering feet of the "wee one" and not just gas. Last night was the first night that I have really been uncomfortable while trying to sleep. Since week 16 I have been trying to not sleep on my back because of the delayed amount of blood flow to the baby. So I have really been trying to sleep on my sides and on my stomach (which thankfully I still can), but last night the "wee one" was having nothing of it. Everytime I would turn to one side "it" would jab into that side and then when I'd turn it would do the same to the other side. "It" would never just lay right in the middle even when I was laying on my stomach!! GUH!! I figure that is just a sign that either a) "it's" going to be a boxer or b) it will be stubborn like its dad!! (I am going with option B!) So on top of me not being able to sleep well because of the "wee one," we also have a visitor at the house who happens to weigh about 150 lbs. and lives outside. Well this visitor and our other dogs do not get along so well and luckily we have a partitioned part of the yardthat we can put him in, but all night it would worry me when our dogs started barking that "THIS IS OUR YARD" bark because only a fence seperates the three. And well I think we can all imagine what a 150 lb. dog can do to a wooden fence if it got pissed off enough! So hopefully by the time I get home today they will all have settled down and gotten used to each other's scents and I won't have to worry about them getting together and the visitor killing the actual owners of the backyard! So in spite of everything, it is a typical Monday but the weekend looks bright because we are going to NASCAR in Dallas! I know that I won't enjoy the whole NASCAR experience as much as usual because of me being pregnant, but we did just buy a new camcorder so I can at least capture the stupidity of all of the friends around me!! AND, we don't have to come back until Monday since none of us are working so we will get to at least have a good night's rest instead of arriving home at 3 AM and then getting back into the grind on only 4 hours of sleep! (I did it in November and I refuse to do it again now that I am pregnant!) But anyway that is about the extent of how much fun we are having around our house! Although hubby is pretty excited that I have started cooking again and not just moping around thinking I am going to die! We are also excited because you can SOMEWHAT tell that I am beginning to pooch but not really so we are hoping that that will take effect sometime soon! I will keep all posted! Diana