School school school...

School is like, seriously getting me down right now. I have a small reprieve for a week or so but then get bombed with papers again. Graduation is in sight though, December tenth... I am at least passing my statistics class which I'm happy about, but not by much because anything below a C won't transfer and right now I have a 73%.

Luckily this past weekend was my Fall Break from school so I got to relax a bit. On Friday we test drove some cars, Saturday we went to Galena all day, and then Sunday we went to the Baby Expo at Giovanni's. We got some good information at the baby expo, and we had a lot of fun in Galena!!

We are having a little boy!!! We were still debating back and forth if we were gonna find out...we decided we would. Although he really made the decision for us though because as soon as she put the u/s wand on my belly he showed it!! There was no denying it and no missing it :) I'm admittedly a little nervous about having a boy but I am sure I will figure it out. And while I went into the pregnancy wanting a boy first so he could protect his little sister, I felt the whole time that I was having a girl... Between different "old wives tales" and dreams I was having!! But of course Dave is excited. I am too, but of course Dave is a little more so he will have a little buddy...

 So we are slowly trying to make decisions regarding everything. We have decided on nursery furniture, decided on cloth diapers, decided on a name...that is about it. Feels like there is still so much to do and decide!! We still have a long way to go, starting with do we want to buy cloth diapers and clean them ourselves or use the service...along with other things like finding a pediatrician and stuff. I think I need to concentrate on this last month and a half of school first, and then figure the rest out!!

Do you see a pattern here?

Again, it is painfully obvious to me that I really do not have enough time to do the things I want to do...let alone extra things! At this point, I am totally overwhelmed with school. This weekend I had 5 writing assignments to get done, I have a statistics test on Tuesday, and so I studied two chapters of that, I had to start reading my 60 page psych chapter so that I can do a writing assignment on it due Wednesday, and I have a 10 page paper due Friday by midnight. I have only gotten to do a limited amount of research for it. Everything seems to be due at the same time. This is by far my hardest semester!!!

Luckily I did get to have SOME fun last weekend. We got to babysit my niece, Allie, for the weekend so that my sister and brother in law got to have some fun adult time. We went to Noodles and Company, and then to Edward's Apple Orchard. Then we went to Wal Mart for some groceries, ate dinner, took a bath, and she went to bed. She did not nap on Saturday at all, so she went right to sleep and slept in until 9am! She was so funny all weekend. She kept stealing our keys and saying "beep beep". She learned the word bus, and she kept repeating almost all of our words too! One of the funniest parts of the weekend was when we were in Wal Mart and she kept sticking her finger through the button holes in Dave's shirt! She loved Dave on Saturday and then wanted nothing to do with Dave in Sunday!! Also on Sunday, Allie got her first haircut!

In other exciting news, our ultrasound is Tuesday! I feel like we have been waiting for this forever! Tuesday I will be 20 weeks along. I keep flashing back to when we first found out, how excited we were and how long ago it was! I have been able to feel flutters for about 4 or 5 weeks now, but the flutters have been pretty strong for about a week now. So I guess it won't be long til I feel "actual" kicks...we are still debating on finding out the sex of the baby or not...decisions decisions...