[NorthEastGirl]

Hello ladies....

Cathi: Great job! I am so glad that everything is going well... I loved the picture of Megyn.

Martha: Those boys are growing prefectly! Keep on doing what you do. I don't know about the 2 lbs weight loss... As far as I know, when carrying triplets there is an extreme amount of protein you have to be consuming... I have heard that it's almost impossible to do. As hopeful said, your body is working in overdrive to so that might be the reason for the weight loss. How much weight do they want to see you gain???

Hopeful: The end is in sight! A few more days! As far as sleep is concerned, I can't really sleep that well either. I get very very tired by the end of the day and I have no energy... I put DD to bed at 7pm and after that I spend the rest of the night on the couch, usually falling asleep...

Mery: We haven't done anything with the second nursery. I am afraid of the paint smell, so your suggestion for the paint is perfect. I'll go look and pick up some so that we can paint her room. When we bought the house, her room had an astronaut theme (very very nice), so secrectly I was hoping for a boy to keep it as is. Oh well.... we are very happy with a girl as well, so no complaints! I just have to figure out what the new theme will be!!! I think I will start by finding the bedding and then work around that with colors and a theme!

afm: nothing really... pregnancy is progressing, my belly starts off in the morning at a managable size and ends up in the afternoon as a huge balloon!!!! That's the most uncomfortable feeling there is, along with swollen feet. Now that he weather cooled down a little, my feet are better, but still they swell up pretty badly. Again, all part of being pregnant! I can't wait to meet this new baby!!! Have a great day everyone...

[Hopeful12]

Hi Vicky

The astronaut theme sounds cool. There are so many themes for girls out there...I am sure you will find something great. it's soo true about the belly size...I have these pants that have the elastic with the buttons to as I grow the pants can too...I start with them on button three and by the end of the day they are on button one...The weather has helped my feeties as well. Just soooo tired..like first tri. Wow your DD goes down at 7...that's great commitment on your part. Does she sleep all night? Yes...clock is definitely almost done ticking for MIL. She does not even talk to me at all...her loss..we went food shopping last night and the difference in buying for 2 rather than 3 cost us about $50. That's $200 a month..thank you! Probably more....had to get kittie food. Painting will hopefully start on Thursday, since hubby is off...he are going with a lighter shade of that we have in our room. We have a light mocha...we are going with two shades lighter. Cannot wait for it to get started!

Have a great day!

[mery71]

martha - wow, you lost 2 pounds. the same definetely cannot be said for me..lol! did the doc say anything about you losing the 2 pounds? it sounds like you are eating up a storm, your boys are hungry!!! i am glad you are doing well, how is it being off work? do you just love it??

hopeful - only a few more days, then you will be free of that added stress...good for you! i slept OK last night, just up for the normal pee runs! it is so fun to paint and do the nursery, i am glad you are getting started!!

northeastgirl - i am sure once you find the bedding, everything will fall into place. we found our pirate bedding and so everything is kind of revolving around that. it's super cute! i hear ya on being tired..i am so exhausted at the end of the day..i just cannot wait to get into bed! OK..i am glad you said that about your tummy..that totally happens to me too...the end of the day it is enourmous!

afm - i am so glad it is friday! i am so over working right now! i too cannot wait to meet my sweet son...!!

[marthac]

Northeast- My belly does the same thing...Ok in the morning and HUGE at night! It is so hard to get comfy in bed with that big belly! It is totally understandable that you crash so early...I'm sure your DD wears you out on top of the pregnancy tiredness! There are so many cute girl themes/bedding out there...I'm sure you'll find something adorable!

Mery-I bet your pirate theme is cute! What are your colors? I am glad to be off work, but it is a little lonely some days...I'm not complaining though.

Hopeful- you will save sooo much money without MIL to buy food for! Treat yourself to something nice with the extra $$ when she leaves!

afm- my doctor was not too concerned about my weight loss, especially when DH kept telling him what a piggie I've been lately! Neither of my doctors are concerned with my weight. I have gained about 26 lbs. but I eat lots of protein and I eat constantly. I guess the boys get everything (less for my butt!LOL)

[Hopeful12]

Martha -you are toooo funny...on the butt comment!
It's great you are resting! I'm sure it's lonely, but in a few weeks you will have a house full of boys! I told hubby that you were having three boys he asked if we could try for more cause he wants a football team of his own LOL!

[mery71]

martha - you are funny! yeah...less for the butt is always better..i hear ya! i'm sure it can be lonely, but soon enough you will NEVER be lonely..lol!! our room is kind of like tropical caribbean with pirates..it's super cute! when it is done I will for post pics as I hope everyone does, because I cannot wait to see all of your little one's nurseries!

this the bedding we chose for our little sweetheart baby Gavin:

Pirates Cove

[marthac]

Hopeful- that's cute what your DH said. My DH said something similar when we found out it was 3 boys...our own hockey line-up!

Mery- such cute bedding! Perfect for a little boy!

You are both right about it being lonely/quiet... I am sure there will be MANY days when I will wish for the peace and quiet! So I am trying to savor it now

[Nascar01]

Marthac...I love the pirate theme. I was reading somewhere that little boys like things that move around compared to girls who like pictures. Our theme is Nascar...my DH and I are big race nuts.


Hopeful...When does the MIL officially move out? Now, you guys can feel somewhat normal without her. As for the paint, we are still trying to design the Nascar room. My DH is an Art teacher and loves to design.

NorthEastGirl...Nightly, I rub intensive heel repair by Earth Therapeutics which contains tea tree oil and peppermint. Even though it says for heel, I rub it all over the feet and they feel so refresh. Now, for my belly, that is a different thing. I can definitely feel it expanding. I might have to buy a truck load of oil to avoid stretch marks.

Cathi...She is beautiful. Next week, we are having a somewhat cool front...68 degrees. I know some of you ladies are laughing. But remember, we live in Florida and it is usually in the 90s.

Mery...Yes, I feel like I'm eating more and becoming clumsier by the day. It's frustrating and I hope this won't last much longer... it is somewhat embarrassing.

AFM...Next week, I think we are going to do our registry at BRU. Also, we are in the process of getting a crib. The next big thing is the name. We are still trying to pick a name.

[Hopeful12]

ugggg I do no tlike this site sometimes...I typed a whole thing and now it's gone (!

Anyway...Marhta - I think all guys think alike...three boys on a team would dominate LOL!

Nascar!! Monday is the official day...getting the complete cold shoulder and I just cannot let it worry me. We have the real estate coming today to show our place...fingers crossed...we have had some interest and the RE office thinks we need to come down 6,000 on the price...if someone wants to offer 6,000 less than yea we can negotiate....but we are now really not in rush at all...so if we sell after Zach gets here it's ok...we will have the room for him and us! I saw a few race car themed bedding sets in BRU, but I am not sure if it was Nascar....hmmm...I am going there later today...I will take a browse...I had a lot of points from the credit card (yikes I know) so I got a couple of BRU gift cards...they are going to be for hubby's diaper runs in the months to come! Names...have you gotten a name book or google some names? I know a girl that her baby went home with baby last name on birth certificate...they did not decide for almost 2 weeks. She is Hindu and they wound up consulting the priest and calender books and stuff...she thought she was having a boy and had a boy name BUT wound up having a girl!! Our crib is going to be coming late Oct early Nov...so we have a few weeks to paint and take care of the room...I have not seen/been in the room since MIL moved in in January...and she does not vaccuum it so I have no clue what it will be like when we do get in there on Monday night...I know it's crazy but I cannot wait for her to go. She is so not the person she made me believe she was...actually quite the opposite...I guess that's why they say you cannot live with certain people.

AFM - definitely have the nesting thing going on...cleaned this place like the tasmanian devil came through this morning...hubby left for work at 6:30 and I cleaned until 10. We do not have a huge place, but I got all the corners and crevaces (i Dunno how to spell that LOL) it smells so nice and clean in here! Have a great week-end all!!!!!

[Cathi025]

Nascar~~~ I sure hope you are right about or lovely Fl weather....we live in a brand new house and our A/C unit has frozen up 2 times since I have been on bedrest...the A./C guy said I am keeping my upstairs to cold...He has obviously NEVER been pregnant....I am just counting the days until we get some relief...I know usually around Halloween it gets better...We can only hope.


Hopeful~~~ Yeah for Monday....Family is always different when they actually live with you...I could not imagine living with my MIL...I like her, but I would not want to live with her...I am excited you will finaly get the relief...

AFM~~ We are almost done with the nursery...We cheated a little because it was already almost done last year, we just added girly touches.. The curtains came today...I can't wait to hang them, I wasn't sure about them online, they look a lot better in person....I will post pics when I am done, sometime this week...

[holdingmybreath]

Cathi - that was the cutest u/s pic. We used to freeze up our A/C in Texas all the time, and I wasn't even preggers there. My sister owns her own a/c firm, so she would send out techs, but they couldn't ever figure out why other than we kept it too cold upstairs. We had one unit for both up and downstairs. Had we stayed there she told us we needed to get two seperate units for upstairs and downstairs, but we didn't stay.

Mery those are cute bedding. We haven't really done a thing in the nursery yet. Last weekend my hubby moved all the boxes we had in that room out to the living room (All you could see in the living room was a sea of boxes) I was able to get through a lot of the boxes today, but there are still a few things left to go through. After we go through all this stuff then we have to figure out where everything is going to go. The frustrating thing was moving from the house in Texas to this one because this house is 1000 sq feet smaller than our house in Texas was. We will see what happens.

Hopeful - I'm sorry she's being so stubborn, but I'm glad you guys are going to be mil free after Monday. It will be nice to have the baby's room. Where will you guys live if you sell before the baby is here? How's hubbys new job going?

Nascar - I know what you mean. We are having a hard time with names too. Course I plan on picking out the perfect name once the baby comes. We do have a list we are keeping. If we have a girl though it will be hard, we only have 1 name that BOTH of us love for a girl. The rest of the girl names on the list are alright, but we don't both love them. The boy names come easier. We have about 10 boy names on the list already.

Northeast girl - I'm glad you are doing good. I know what you mean about falling asleep. I am so exhausted all the time especially during the week. It takes everything out of me just to make dinner. I thought the tiredness was suppose to get better after the first trimester.

Martha - I bet the loss was from the babies stealing all your calories. That was funny about the butt comment. My hubby gets frustrated because I keep calling myself fat, but I am fat now. I'm not upset about it. I will be six months after the baby is born if I still look this way, but I think it's funny how so many people get upset when I say I'm fat. I even had a lady at one of the maternity stores get upset because I said I was looking for fat girl clothes.

asm, I'm totally exhausted during the week. I wish it wasn't taking so much out of me just to work. I turn into a pumpkin after 4 pm everyday even the weekends. I have the glucose test on Wednesday, I hope it's not bad (I'm holding you to it hopeful). Nothing else is going on. Hope everyone is doing good.

[Hopeful12]

Hey Holding - the glucose test is not too bad...I promise! Hubby is so loving the new job! He is a little sore but he hops right out of bed in the am...I am also happy cause I get him in the evenings since he is working 7-3. If we sell, which I doubt we will, we prived a little higher cause of the baby, if someone came in with an offer we would rent for a few months til we find a home.

[mery71]

nascar - good luck on the registry...it's fun! i am sooo clumsy too and spill food on me when I eat...and drop just about everything...it is quite embarrasing! i am putting 2 kinds of lotion on my tummy as much as I can! we'll see if i last with no stretch marks on my tummy!

hopeful - tomorrow is the big moveout...let us know how it goes! i know you will be so much more happier and things will much more peaceful for you. you deserve it!! you are so funny about the nesting thing..i love it! i too have noticed some of that going on, it's funny. i am so tired tonight, but managed to scrub down the bathroom..lol!

cathi - can't wait to see the pics of the nursery!!

holding - i too am so completely exhausted most of the time. it's working that is doing it to me and it is so hard at the end of the day, let alone week end. i hear you on that. i feel fat too, but people keep saying how great i look..which is funny to me. this is the most i have ever weighed. it is motivation though to get back into shape after gavin is born..that is for sure! i am glad everything else is going well with you!

afm - my work is throwing me a baby shower on tuesday and it is still so surreal to me. i am not good with all of the attention on me and i am a bit anxious. they invited my mom and she is coming too. i guess i have waited many many years for this day and to finally have the baby shower be for me. i know i will be overwhelmed with emotion and i just dont' want to be crying alot. i know i will cry, but i am going to try and hold it together as well as possible!! my family and friends are having a shower for me on 10/17 and i know that will be just as emotional!!! the weather is finally cooling a bit here..thank goodness...supposed to be in the 70's..instead of 100's...i am so thrilled!

[Hopeful12]

Hey Mery - Hurray for the cool weather...it's getting cool here too...59 this morning but I was still arm walking from the ferry. I think I am going to be emotional too...one of my colleagues, who retired, is coming and as much as she does not want to tell me when it is...she calls and says she is so excited for me. We worked together for 20 years...she was like the mom I wish I had! I am not sure when either shower is...but I know sometime in Oct. I do not like to be the center of attention either...I always feel embarassed.

Nascar - goodluck registering...have fun!

Today is a happy happy day. She is officially on her way to PA. Hubby was up packing the car at 7am this morning. He even got our super to help...he said he the car was packed in uner 45 minutes and hit the road by 8. He should be back home by 2.

I was alittle nausaus yesterday. I think Zach found out he has a lot more room and is now residing under my ribs. He has been beating me up the past few days. He got me up at 3 this morning...I am going to crash at about 2 today...Have a great day all!

[marthac]

Hopeful- Congrats on your FREEDOM today!!!!

Mery- I bet you are excited for your shower! You have waited a long time for this, so enjoy it...you deserve it! I don't like lots of attention on me either...we bought our carseats this weekend, and just checking out we had half the store asking if they were all 3 for us, do we really have 3 babies, you don't look big enough to have 3 babies, etc. I like to blend in and do not like to be center of attention. DH and I realized those days are over. There is no way to blend in with triplets.

Nascar-sounds like things are coming together with the registry and crib... and you have plenty of time to pick a name!

Holding- I hope you get your energy back! I go through spurts, so maybe you'll perk up pretty soon!

Cathi- I can't wait to see your nursery! Girl rooms are so cute!

afm- I can't wait for our cribs to get here and for the nursery to be done. It's empty right now, and I feel a little panicked b/c I don't know how much longer I'll be able to help decorate it!