Belly, Cat, Crib and Dog

So I thought I'd make a quick post while Patrick runs off to the store to get me some chocolate cake because I suddenly decided that is exactly what I want. It's probably not even a real craving, at least not compared to what I've always imagined pregnancy cravings being like... Patrick gives in to my wishes too easily, haha.

So I'll start with a 34 weeks and 4 day photo, because the 34 week photo is pretty awful and I look fat and awkward instead of pregnant (I mean, I am fat... but I just looked fat there and now I'm both fat and pregnant).

I'm making the most stupid face I can here because we had discussed at Patrick's birthday dinner with friends how we make stupid overly-happy faces in photos, to which I commented that I'd stopped doing that and now I just look angry in most photos of me (including the belly pics).

There's a girl I'm friends with on facebook who isn't as far along as I am pregnancy wise and keeps posting pics of her almost completed nursery and I feel super bad because we have yet to start. We were given a crib, but it's sitting slightly dirty (the truck we moved it in had sand in the bottom) in our living room... as is the glider Patrick's mom bought us (which we still need to recover with a cuter, more baby appropriate fabric (but we got one today, it was about $30... but the glider was only $40 and Patrick's mom bought it for us so.... at least it's not the $180 like the one I was looking at, and I'd really been wanting a glider since I first found out I was pregnant. Yet again, though... we can't actually start on the nursery 'til August 1, so it's not just for lack of desire or laziness... it's because I can't 'til I have a room to put the stuff in.

Here are some pictures of Abel in the crib, because I put him in it as soon as we got it in the house... because I love testing out baby things by sticking Abel or Lupe in them. I may be a bit weird (well, a lot weird).

I'm trying not to worry a lot about money, but this is going to be our first time paying full rent without a roommate and I'm really nervous because it's about $270 extra a month. Hopefully we'll cut costs in other ways... but to add that on along with suddenly having a baby to buy clothes and things for (hopefully I can breast feed no problem and not have to buy food for him, though I'll need it... and if I'm any hungrier than I am now that won't be good, haha). We were doing good, then Patrick had spring break from one of his jobs and that cut our income down $400+ in one month... but we'll get through it, it was just an inopportune time, right when our rent is going to suddenly jump. We will adjust, I hope to go back to work in a few months (unless Patrick magically gets rich)... we will make it through.

And just for laughs, here is a photo of our dog looking creepy. We got a photo of her with the homemade dog treats a friend gave us so we could send one to her and Lupe just hid the treat from us 'til I held her up... but now she just looks creepy. And I so wanted an apricot poodle (or poodle-mix), someday that'll happen...