Sweet moments..

Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a lover all things music...some of my biggest moments in my life thus far are matched with a song/artist/concert ya di ya. I only hope that Lily has a love and passion for music like I do. When I was a little girl I used to carry around a little tape recorder with a microphone and belt out Whitney tunes. I took it even farther when I put dance moves to it and made my family sit and watch me for long periods of time as I performed my concerts....there is embarrassing video of this too! I was obsessed with Whitney and Michael Jackson. I even had a full length poster on the back of my door when we lived in Florida- so that was preschool-kindergarten era. I have played music for Lily throughout the pregnancy and sing to her all the time. One song I sing often is "I'll be there" by none other MJ and the Jackson 5. The other song I sing to her is Stevie Wonder's "isn't she lovely"....and my mom actually found a cute wall plaque with some of the lyrics! So here you go- enjoy two sweet songs that I sing to my sweet Lily often....

"I'll be there"

"Isn't She Lovely" cover by Kevin McHale from Glee

"You Spin Me Right Round..."

Oh boys & girls did we have an interesting night last night!! Around 4:15 I woke up to flip to my other side (happens countless times each night to get comfortable) and I felt so dizzy. I was a little shocked but I first thought I must have just been in a deep sleep to cause this. I have gotten light headed twice- last time it was at the doctors and I stood up to quickly. BUT when I shut my eyes I started to get the spins....I woke up and tried to move to a different position and I felt like I was moving in slow motion. I decided to try and get up and walk to the restroom. As I was walking I felt like a pin ball bouncing to each wall and I barely made it to the toilet. I sat there for about 2 minutes but the room was spinning and I knew I should not try to walk back to the bed so I called to Mike. He jumped out of bed to rush to see what was going on. It took 3 attempts to stand up before we were successful. But I could barely hold myself up, each time I tried to move my head to look at mike or back to the bed I was sent into a horrible spin. We called the on call doctor and she told me to lay down and just rest and that if I still had it in the morning that they would have me come in to check my blood pressure. Well thanks to Mike's old pharma job we have a blood pressure machine that he used to give to doctors. The first time he took it it was low, so I sat up to retake it. I was fine. I just laid back down and proceeded to cry- mostly because in my head I was freaked out, tired and thought something was wrong. But after 2 hours of spinning I finally past out. I woke up 2 hours later and felt okay. I was just really weak. I can't imagine people that have to battle vertigo often- it is horrible!!! My friend Meg has been dealing with this for 10 flipping weeks since the birth of her daughter Piper. Docs told her it was due to dehydration...needless to say I will be drinking loads more water when Lily is born!

Tomorrow will mark 38 weeks....only 2 more left. Just wondering what other pregnancy woes I will encounter before birth! Anyways that is a quick update! My next appointment is this Friday and I am wondering if I will be any further along than what I measured last week!

Maternity pics

So I totally caved and we got maternity pics. I really hate any pictures of me right now- I feel like a whale with the weight gain and swollen hands/arms/face/feet...ya di ya!! My friend Eva's husband does photography and did the pics almost for free so I took the offer so Lily will have pictures of being in my belly ;) The day was full of stress that ended up in laughter...to feel pretty I went to Saks to get my makeup done at MAC. Of course it was prom and the place was packed and I think they called anyone who worked for MAC to come and help because the chick I had painted my face like a drag queen!! Seriously people I think Rupaul looked better than I did! Now I told her it was for a maternity session and I wanted light pinks, even told her the lipstick I was going to use.....homegirl painted my already black eye brows even blacker and painted them BIGGER! She went way too dark on the lid and smeared white shimmer on the upper brow! She went way over my lips to make them bigger - and used a pencil 3 shades darker than the light pink lipstick- needless to say I quickly left Saks and drove home and cried! I know it was bad when I pulled up and Mike couldn't stop starring at me, and saying "Whoa babe, that is crazy....that is really bad"...he even followed me into the bathroom as I performed damage control and kept repeating "that is bad", I think he was in such shock but all it did was make this preggo cry harder! In the end I washed my face and did it myself!!! I was able to laugh about it later!
So here are the pics!