1/4 Pregant

Yesterday was the 10th week of my pregnancy. It's a little exciting/strange to think that I'm already one quarter done. My energy level is starting to go up a little bit, not by much though. So far I haven't gained anything (yay!). My diet has pretty much consisted of fresh fruits and veggies so my healthy eating habits has probably helped.

I haven't had to start wearing maternity pants yet, but I'm in that odd limbo in-between time when my pants are a little too tight and maternity pants are a bit too big. I bought a Bella Band at a maternity store called Marshmallow Kisses last week. It's awesome. It's like a light weight tube top that you wear over your too big or too small pants and it keeps the pants from falling down.

I'm getting more excited about our basement bathroom. We looked at sink cabinents at Lowes this weekend and tile at Star Lumber. I think we may check in to having the bathroom floor concrete stained just like we had the area around the bar stained. The floor area is only 5 foot by 5 foot, so it would be quite a bit faster to stain it instead of putting tile down.

We picked up cat food this weekend too. We buy the huge 15 or 20 pound bag of food and then put it in smaller cat food jugs that we bought when Fez was little. The food has been sitting on one of the chairs in the kitchen for about 24 hours, but apparently Fez was a little anxious to get to the food. We don't starve our cats - they have an automatic food despenser that gives them access to food at all hours of the day. I think Fez just likes really fresh food (even if he has to open the bag himself).

Fez had a rough night

Poor Fez.  He didn't have a good Monday night.  I was watching TV last night in the office when I heard the oh so wonderful sound of vomit coming from the bedroom.  The little guy was right in the middle of tossing his cookies not only on the bedspread, but also on my KU fleece throw blanket.  I'm thinking "good aim" and "great that's another 2 loads of laundry that I hadn't planned on doing tonight."  

I walk into the room and he jumps off the bed and yaks some more.  "Sorry buddy.  You're going in the bathroom so I can clean and you can puke on the nice linoleum."  I can't believe his stomach could hold so much.  We're talking a good 1/2 to 3/4 cup of kitty cookies strewn across my bed with a few more tablespoons on the floor.  Gag.  So I clean up the mess and check on my little man in the bathroom.  He looks up at me with such a pitiful look.  I sat down on the toilet and picked him to see if he's ok.  As soon as I start petting him he starts purring.

Fast forward a few hours.  I usually watch TV downstairs on our blue sectional couch while I do laundry.  It's easier to hear the buzzer.  I finish laundry and haul everything upstairs.  After everything is hung up and put away I whistle for Fez to come to bed but he doesn't come in the bedroom.  I don't think anything of it (although he usually spends 6 nights out of the week sleeping with me or Ryan).

The next morning (Tuesday) I got up and whistled for the kitties.  Amy shows up in the hallway.  Crap.  That's never a good sign.  When Amy shows up first that means that Fez got stuck somewhere.

I open the bedroom closet door.  No Fez.

I open the office closet (the uniform closet).  No Fez.

Hall closet?  No Fez.

I try shaking a bag of treats in the kitchen just in case he was downstairs.  No Fez.

That only leaves one place.

I walk downstairs and flip on the light.  "Fez?"  I hear a muffled but distinct "Meow!" from under the couch.  I open the recliner and sure enough, there's Fez hanging out under the couch.  He was even a good boy and didn't potty under the couch.

And you thought you hated Mondays.

Breakfast

Ryan has been working very hard over the past few days to finish tiling our kitchen.  His dad and step-brother Zach have both been a wonderful help.  Currently we have all the tile down in the kitchen and one half is still setting up.  This week will start the tedious task of grouting and scrubbing the floors.  Right now our stove, refrigerator, table and chairs are all camping out in the living room.  

Here's a picture of Fez begging for a bite of my banana on our beautiful tile floor.  He never lets Ryan or me alone when he knows we're eating one!

I missed October?!?

So I took a small hiatus from blogging for the month of October.  New Year's resolution to start early: more blogs.  Here's what I didn't post about that happened in October:

Halloween!

Ryan got creative this year with the spooky town village that we have.  Michaels has Lemax Spooky Town buildings, figurines and accessories that we usually buy a few buildings and people every year.  It's growing so big that I think we have to have at least 2 if not 3 of the largest tuffy totes that you can buy.  (In all fairness, we keep the original packing so nothing gets broken.)  

This year my crafty husband went all out.  He bought the fake grass turf stuff that people use for train sets and glued that to ply wood.  He drilled holes through the ply wood so the cords for the larger buildings wouldn't show.  Then he stapled brown fabric around the ply wood to make a table skirt so the cords and stuff wouldn't show.  We had so many buildings and things this year that we had to have two locations!  There was a smaller set downstairs on the air hockey table.  Ryan covered it with brown fabric to make fake ground.  The larger set with the train landscape was upstairs next to the railing on two saw horses.  The kitties appreciated this location - Amy hid under the skirt almost the entire month of October and Fex kept walking all over the spooky town.  I guess he thought he would be the giant black cat that would rule over the town.

Kidney Stones!

Poor Ryan now knows what it's like to give birth.  He was working one of his part-time jobs when he felt like someone stabbed him in the side.  He drove over to the Wesley ER and I met him over there.  They scanned him, told him it was kidney stones and gave him some morphine to help with the pain.  I took him home to rest and sleep.  He couldn't eat anything for over  24 hours.  The morphine made him sick to his stomach.  Two days later he passed the stone: 3mm x 3mm x 2mm.  We took it in to the doctor.  It's a calcium stone which means he should lay off the protein shakes.

Scrapbooking

I'm actually getting somewhere with my honeymoon scrapbook.  I dragged Ryan into Scrapbook Garden one day to get some page refills for my book.  He notices these cute little clear pouches that you can put on a page and it can hold something.  We bought a few packages and I have used them so far to hold a map of Martinique and some Euros (both paper and coin currency).

Construction

Almost all the electrical is done in the basement.  All the walls are up where they should be and there's a few pieces of sheetrock hung so it looks like I have a hallway.  Our next home improvement project is to do the tile in the kitchen and then the carpet in the upstairs.

Meow-meow

6:00 a.m.

Me: Good morning Fez, do you want me to pet you already?

Fez: Meow. (No. I need to show you something.)

6:45 a.m. - done with shower, cooking breakfast

Me: What Fez? I've already petted you. (pet, pet, pet)

Fez: Meow-meow.  (Dumb ass, I'm trying to tell you something!)

7:25 a.m. - putting on my shoes, getting ready to look walk out the door

Me: (looking to the right at the monstrous pile of kitty barf by the front window) Shit. You've got to be kidding me.

Fez: Meow, meow, meow!  (Told you so.  Idiot.)