pay no attention to the whale in the bedroom

so now that my 29 years of stomach sleeping has officially gone to the crapper, our nights have become a bit more wild, but not in a fun way...  sunday night was particularly turbulent, which led to a colorful and HALARIOUS "discussion" from charles.  heheheh, it still makes me laugh.  luckily for both of us, i am not like 99% of other pregnant women with serious body image issues and overly hormonal outbursts because when aspersions were cast about feelings related to attempting to sleep with a restless hump backed whale in the bed next to you, i couldnt help but laugh!  it's pretty much true.  and i certainly can't fault the guy for being frustrated by my huffy and frequent trips to the bathroom and my inability to lie still.  neither of us are sleeping well when all i do is flop around.  perhaps we should have sprung for that king sized mattress afterall! 
in the mean time, i am trying to work with some strategic placement of an extra pillow in hopes that i can manage to both sleep well AND avoid crowding him out.  he has already mentioned taking up residence on the couch for the next few months but i am vehemently opposed.  there are already enough times when we are unable to sleep next to each other, depending on the whims of good ol uncle sam, and i'm sure as hell not going to let him give up any more nights voluntarily!  but last night went well with the pillow (or maybe we were both just too tired to move/care).  so hopefully as the whale expands, things continue to remain tranquil-ish.

and just for the sake of putting pictures on a blog:

the walls in the nursery will be brown like this.  charles HATES it, but in his wisdom and grace, he has allowed it anyway.  my mom says that guys generally have problems picturing the finished product.  i think that's probably true because from the look on charles' face whenever he talks about it, you'd think i'm trying to make our child sleep in a giant colon.  but oh well...   if we are having a girl, the finished product will look similar to these photos.  per our agreement, if we are having a boy, charles will be placing the bulk of his collection of star wars toys around the room and the nursery will therefore be decorated in star wars.  yet another reason i'm really hoping for a girl...