Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years I have trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind.
-Yoda


heheh just thought it was a cool quote. we'll be committed Jedi parentals - always in training! muahhaha.


dang...35 weeks...baby girl weighs as much as a honeydew melon now. and i can totally tell...i feel all her jabs and movements and squirms and whatever else she's doing in there. both hubby and i still stare in wonder when baby is moving like crazy in my belly and we see the curves and bumps she creates at tummy surface level. 


so i've been quite happy that i haven't gotten sick during this whole pregnancy (minus the morning sickness nausea feeling). i thought i'd get through unscathed...but wishful thinking. though not sick sick...the allergies were in full force this week. started feeling the sneezing sunday evening while we were checking out car dealerships. i didn't think much of it, my first mistake! come monday morning i was a snot, sneezing, watery eyed monster! so hard having allergies (and being sick for that matter) while preggo bc it limits the medicine i can take to get through the yuck. i was trying to not take any medications in this pregnancy but after 2 sleepless nights with a stuffed up nose and trying to breathe through my mouth..i had to sadly give in=(. 


i went to the dr. and was told regular claritin was okay...but claritin does nothing for me. before preggo status i used flonase which helped a lot- but not good in pregnancy. so dr. prescribed me some other topical type nasal spray (chromolyn sodium) which was super mild and not an antihistamine. sadly, 2 hospital pharmacies didn't carry it - it's now an otc medicine and isn't so popular anymore bc of all the other fancy schmancy medications. ha, well this preggo needed that one!!!! luckily cvs said they carry it, but had to order it..so it wasn't until wednesday that i was able to breathe decently. i was also prescribed chromolyn sodium eye drops since my eyes kept watering. ugh...i thought the hospital pharmacy gave me the generic brand so i used that one. then i got curious today and looked it up and realized that it was NOT what dr. prescribed. they prob just tried to give me something close enough? but man...it irritated me...i didn't want to take any antihistamine and plus those eye drops were category C in pregnancy!!! booooo on them. husby said since i only used it a few times and it's such a small dose it shouldn't have harmed  baby. i hope so...you know me and paranoia!


so today i'm a bit better...still a clogged up nose sometimes and just using saline rinses and the nasal spray. let's hope it's all better by tomorrow! why? it's paaaaaaaarty time=). get to hang out with friends and fam this weekend for our baby shower. so excited to see everyone and to see what seesters have in store=P.  haha i think the only thing i'm worried about is the line for the bathroom. my bladder is crazy now and i dunno if i can hold it in (yes i know i'm not supposed to!) with how much water i've been drinking! i did pretty well at tinzers shower..heheh so crossing fingers tomorrow goes just as well=). 


speaking of tinzers...yay my uci bff gave birth to a healthy, beautiful, baby girl!!!! though i was a bit scared for her since she was  a month early from her due date..everything turned out great! hehe i think chloe is looking like daddy yay right now...gonna tell them that next time i see the new parentals. it was so crazy though bc i had just seen her a few hours earlier from having some afternoon tea time with the girls. and then i get a text from yay (yes yay...hehe reminds me of gloria from modern family=P), saying "your bff's water just broke!" oh man, i think i screamed and my eyes were bulging as i read the text to husby! so so happy everything went well...can't wait to see them again.  i think the birth of their baby girl got us even more excited and antsy waiting for the arrival of our little one!


baby room is almost done...just have to put up the decals and a couple of framed items that i made when i was feeling a little crafty. i forget how evil joanns is for me....i can get lost in that store like how i get in target. only meant to buy a few items and ended up with so much more good stuff!!! muahahah! i wonder if baby girl will like the crafty and baking stuff like me? hehe we'll see huh? i've got so many projects i want to work on for baby and time is just creeping up on us now. full term in 2 weeks already? maternity leave in less than 3 weeks? eeeeeks=P!!!!