After two dealings with shady companies (stay away from A&M photo world and USA Photo Nation) I found a good honest deal on a used digital rebel body from B&H, a reputable, if not the best, company to buy photography equipment from.
I feel great having ordered from B&H.
-Jen
Okay, so maybe it’s not magical, but it sure does change sizes throughout the day. In the morning, when I roll out of bed, and yes, I really do roll, I have the smallest of bellies. Well, small for almost being 25 weeks along, and small compared to other almost-25-week-along bellies of other ladies. But feed me and watch the expansion begin. By the time I roll back into bed, I have added two to three inches around. Magical I tell you.
I feel huge, yet the only comments I’ve received from others are concerning my smallness. For six months along, I suppose both observations can be given merit since every woman, especially every woman with child, is different. Seeing as how I have, at 24 weeks, finally compensated for my negative weight gain and reached my original weight, I am supposed to seem small… because I am! I have put on 11 inches (on average) around the waist, believe it or not. My obgyn doesn’t seem concerned. She did say, however, that she would not be surprised if there were some weeks in my future where I put on 6 pounds a week. Let’s pray that all those don’t get added in the same 24 hour period of time!!!
So, yeah, I had an accident in the blue car last Tuesday. I didn’t say anything earlier because I wanted the family to know I (and the little Barnes) was okay and that nothing really happened afterall.
I made the mistake of calling Dave right away and uttering the words, “I had an accident. Um, a car accident.” which proceeded to send all kinds of serious thoughts through his head. All a man needs to stress him out is his wife, his pregnant wife in a car accident.
So, I was just clumsy… I turned right too tightly at an intersection under heavy construction and one of the concrete barrier blocks was sticking out about 6-8 inches farther than the one in front of it and I didn’t compensate for the sticking-out-block of concrete so it swiped the side of the saturn. At least it was just the doors and at least those doors are plastic. They are not “dented” as metal would be dented, but the plastic is scraped bare and pretty roughed up by the incident.
I know being pregnant makes me clumsy, I just didn’t know it would make me dangerous as well. -Jen
Well, I didn’t get my blood pressure, but my net weight gain is 0 and the little Barnes’s heart was beating around 150, and he/she had the hiccups. I discussed my weight gain and the doctor said I’m on the up and up… meaning at least I’m not still losing weight. She said she would not be surprised if there was a 4 week period of time in which I gain 15 pounds! ack!
The next 4 weeks is my last 4 week stretch between appointments… I’ll start going every 2 weeks after April 20th! Next appointment is also the glucose screening… where I have to fast the day of and then go in early (and take some entertainment) and drink the sweet sweet concoction of goo and have some blood drawn. The only bad thing is that due to the fasting part, all this has to take place in the morning… and due to it being in the morning, I have to go by myself. I have been warned that I may feel week and dizzy afterwards… lets pray that doesn’t happen!
I also have a few more weeks to find a pediatrician and I think I’m going to go with one of the three in a practice where they all graduated from Baylor Med school. Go Bears Go. How ’bout those Lady Bears?!
So far so good on all accounts.
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Sorry to keep adding pictures, but this is way cool… not that I couldn’t add pictures before, but that this is so much easier! I don’t have to come up with the path to the pic or do much else than type.
Meet our new coffee table and Sammie the Fox Terrier. We’re pet sitting Missy, too, but she’s a grumpy old lady and not very photogenic.
Well, I think I’ve had enough fun for today… off to catch some zzzz’s!
23 weeks, originally uploaded by davejenbarnes.I missed out on the 22 week picture. It’s good to skip a week every now and then though since the changes are still rather small at this point.
Per Marklio’s suggestion, I made a free account to test out flickr and so far, I must say that I am indeed impressed. I like the fact that these pictures won’t take up storage space in my hosting service account and with a kid on the way, that’s a good thing!
It may be awhile before I weigh the pros and cons of flickr vs. gallery, but rest assured, I am thinking about flickr more and more.
-Jen
This is a test post from 
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
