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You’ll Poke Your Eye Out

On Thursday night, I was working at the dining room table…when all of a sudden, Lennon decided to go into super stealth mode toward the stairs. Her ears perked up, and she ran with a purpose toward the steps.

So I looked over and saw a little furry body hopping down the stairs. It was Tubby, the sugar glider. This sugar glider loves to get out and test his fate.

Tubby (on the left)  
Tubby before his diet

I ran to the steps and grabbed Tubby, yelling to Peter to grab Lennon, and at this same time, Lennon jumps toward my hands, scaring Tubby…so Tubby proceeds to jump on my face. Yes, face.

And wouldn’t you know that I haven’t clipped his dagger nails in a few months, even though I keep telling myself, “I really need to clip his nails.” Just in case you don’t know what their feet look like, here is a great pic I found online; it really showcases the talons of death well.

Where do his nails land, you ask? IN MY EYE. Like actually ON MY EYEBALL. At this point, I don’t want to pull him off my face, since his nails are like little hooks, so I just have to wait until he moves off of my eye. 
We called the eye doctor at 8:30 pm, hoping he had an answering service that could tell me what I should do. Luckily, my wonderful eye doctor was on call, and he called in some eye antibiotic gel that night. So I saw in Rite Aid with one eye closed — I could’t really open it because it would just start pouring tears down my face.
My watery eye 🙁
Me moaning on the night of “the incident”
My eye doctor was able to see me first thing the next morning and gave me more antibiotic gel. So yea… for about 1.5 days, it was almost impossible to open my eye. Luckily, all is healing well, and I don’t look like a cyclops anymore. However, I do have this awesome M-shaped scratch in the middle of my cornea. Wee!
The day after…disregard my messy kitchen.
It has been cleaned since then.

My favorite part of this story is how both the lady at Rite Aid and the nurse at the eye doctor’s office both looked at my file and said, “Happy Birthday!!” Hahaha! For some reason, this makes me laugh :).

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35 weeks picture

I will definitely type more this week. I have to post about childbirth class…too many funny stories.

Here I am at 35 weeks. Starting to feel lived-in.

BONUS: Behind the Scenes Photo
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Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my birthday, and it has been a pretty nice day so far!

This morning we went to Wawa for breakfast. When I came into work, my coworkers had decorated my office, and Heather bought me delicious Starbucks drink, a Birch Box, and a balloon. My parents sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers, a gift card, socks, and snuggie. Peter got me a fabric steamer, which is really like a gift for the both of us :). Matt bought a box of fun school supplies and a gift card, and Jerry and Rachel gave us a nice giftcard for Italian food. What awesome family and friends I have!

We also all went out to company lunch today, but I could only eat a tiny bit before I was stuffed. Then dinner was a night out for Italian with the gang. Great night!

Thank you to everyone who gave me birthday wishes, gifts, and/or made this day a special one. You guys are awesome!

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Busy, busy!

Over the past few weeks, we have been super busy — not even doing baby-related things necessarily.

This week was my brother’s wedding, so there was a lot to do in preparation for the wedding day, and work has been crazy because of a deadline.

 The wedding was yesterday, so I am super exhausted. I don’t know how Peter managed to do it, but he stained the whole backyard’s fence today. What a champ! 🙂  We are also trying to get new carpets installed on our stairways before the baby comes. We’ll see if this was a bad choice or not…maybe it will force me into cleaning-mode. I haven’t really gotten there yet. I think it’s because of being out of breath a lot.

Jeanne has been bugging me for belly pictures. Here are a few for your viewing pleasure:

Almost 34 weeks – Jerry’s Wedding Rehearsal

Not great but I was tired of posing. Every picture was horrible.
33.5 weeks

Had a doctor visit this week, which went well. The baby’s heartbeat was 148. We have one more 2-week appointment, then after that, the appointments will be every week. Yikes!

Next weekend is our birthing class. I’m not actually looking forward to that. It scares me to be in a room filled with pregnant ladies. The last thing I want to hear is another breastfeeding story. HA! 🙂

In other news, Jerry and Rachel’s wedding was beautiful. The weather was perfect, and everyone had a great time. Even though my brother was a ball of nerves, I think he survived just fine :). Welcome to the family, Rachel!

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31 weeks…lots to recap!

I’ll begin with a belly pic to get this out of the way :).

31 weeks and 5 days

This week has been filled with cleaning, writing thank you notes, putting new baby items away, and building furniture — ok, maybe Peter did all the furniture building.

Pile of Gifts 
More Gifts
Dresser Assembly
Crib Assembly
What Lennon did while I folded laundry…

Also, last weekend we went to the 2012 Wine Festival. I think everyone had a great time. We brought crackers, grapes, and cheese galore. I was obviously the DD, but it was nice to get out of the house and be among so many friends! The weather was gorgeous and couldn’t have been better for a wine festival. 
The Wine Tasters

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Baby Shower

Apparently Peter was in on the surprise this past weekend…
We got a phone call on Saturday from Peter’s mom telling us that she needed someone to come jump her car at church. We hopped in the car and drove over to meet her. Peter told me to get out and go find her inside the building, and I was thinking, “Oh my goodness…I’ve complained about how my hips hurt so bad all day, and now you want me to search the building?” 
I waddled my way to the door and noticed about 10 heads bobbing around inside, and then the lights went out. This made me laugh out loud because I knew what was happening at this point. There looked to be about 20-30 people, but it was hard to see them over the mountain of gifts! What an awesome group of family and friends we have! 
I really liked that Peter was able to be there for all of the fun. I sometimes feel bad, because everyone asks me how I am feeling and how I am doing, so it was nice to have Peter be a part of the attention. He got to socialize with family and friends, eat like a horse, and open baby gifts like a pro. He even participated in the wear-a-hat-out-of-ribbons tradition. What a good sport!

When we got home, it was slightly overwhelming to see everything in our dining room. Our dogs were going crazy sniffing inside each bag. Lennon quickly found the toys and made sure to pull them out of every bag she could find. We actually had to build the playpen so we would have a place to put all of the bags for safe-keeping.
Peter was excited that he got all of the tech-savvy things he put on the registry. He immediately went to town building things and playing with the technology.

Thank you to everyone who was a part of this special day for us! We had a great time and are looking forward to getting the baby’s room in order.
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30 Weeks Picture

Not in a big writing mood today, but I figured I would post this picture from last week.

30 weeks – not a flattering pic, but you get the idea 🙂

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Baked Lemon Garlic Brussel Sprouts

Months ago, I made these Brussel sprouts that have been popping up all over Pinterest. They were pretty good, and my husband even ate them — this says a lot because he hates Brussel sprouts! 🙂

Shaved Brussel Sprouts from Trader Joe’s
I decided to cook them again but use my own recipe this time. I was going for a more garlic-y/butter-y taste. I saw this bag of shaved Brussel sprouts at Trader Joe’s at thought it would be fun to try with these. 
Pre-Bake
So here’s what I did:
10 oz. of Brussel Sprouts
2 whole, already-roasted garlic bulbs (I made these the other night)
1/4 tsp of garlic powder
2 tbsp butter or butter substitute 
1/2 lemon
salt
pepper
Pam cooking spray
Ready to eat!
1.Preheat oven to 375.
2. Spray glass dish with Pam cooking spray.
3. Empty sprouts into dish.
4. Mix in garlic cloves from the bulbs.
5. Plop on your butter, salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
6. Squeeze half a lemon on top.
7. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

By the way…if I had some Parmesan cheese in the fridge, I would totally have sprinkled that on top after baking. YUM!

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Posters and Turnips

I made a post a while ago about some posters that I was thinking of printing. I decided to go ahead and get those puppies printed. I am pretty happy with the way they came out, too! Disregard the price tag stickers on the picture frames.
It was much cheaper to go to the local camera store and have these 11X14s printed as matte pictures rather than having them printed at Kinko’s as posters — $5 each versus $38.95 each. The picture frames were $7.99 from Garden Ridge, and we spray painted them white to match with the curtains and white trim. Yahoo! Still cheaper than similar things I’ve found online like this.
Turnips Fries – (before baking)
On the eating front, we always get turnips from our local Farmer’s Market and then have no idea what to do with them. Peter is always determined to take the vegetables I don’t like and turn them into something tasty. It just wasn’t happening with turnips…until I found a recipe for turnip fries! Yes, fries. When you eat them while they are hot, they are pretty convincing as French fries. I would highly recommend them if you are curious or needing something to do with turnips.

Turnip Fries Recipe:
4-5 turnips
2 tbsp of vegetable oil or olive oil
1/3 cup of parmesan cheese (the kind in the green can)
1 tsp of onion powder
1 tsp of garlic powder
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp chives (optional)
sprinkle of ground pepper (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Wash turnips and then cut into “steak fries.”
3. In a bowl, pour oil and mix with turnips. All fries should have a light covering.
4. Add in cheese, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, chives, and pepper.
5. Toss all fries, so they are covered in the mixture from step 3.
6. Spray a sheet with cooking spray and spread fries onto sheet evenly.
7. Cook for 20 minutes.
8. Eat soon after (–I like them while they are still hot) and enjoy!

Turnips have less calories than potatoes.
Turnips have less carbohydrates than potatoes.
Turnips are higher in calcium.