Once again long time no post. I'm horrible at this! I'll just do a quick update as I don't have much time right now..
Dec 13th 2005 at 2:01pm my nephew Quintin Reice was born to my brother and Tammy weighing 6lb11oz 20 1/2in long. He had to be taken via c-section due to Tammy tearing so badly with her first sons birth and was admitted to the NICU for 5 days for low blood sugar but is out and doing wonderful now! He's just the cutest little thing you ever saw and when you sit Kailer by him he makes my little man look like a moose!
Kaeden, Kailer and I went to Hermiston last week on Dec 19th to stay with Tammy while Jared had to go back to work and help her out. It was wonderful spending so much time with my family and sure makes me miss them when I had to come home! Steven surprised us by showing up Thurs night instead of Fri night and we all had a great Christmas on Sunday. Christmas Eve Tammy Steven and I (and Santa) were up VERY late putting the finishing touches on gifts and wrapping and setting up trains etc and didn't go to bed until 4:30am YIKES. Jared got off work and home at 6:15 and Grandma Vicki and Grandpa Mel showed up around 7am. We all opened stockings and gifts and then back to bed for a nap for all of us ! LOL Then at 4pm we headed over to Grandma V and Grandpa M's house to have Christmas dinner which was delicious and home cooked by Grandma and to do our White Elephant Gift Swap. That was fun and Grandpa Mel decided to do a little swapping with Steven ;) Next year we hope to do the same thing but plan a little bit in advance so we can have longer to shop for it!!! I can't wait. All in all (other then Santa forgetting to put Kai's gift under the tree!!! That's what happens when Santa is so sleep deprived) it was a wonderful Christmas, and we all enjoyed spending time with family. The little ones made out like bandits and Kaeden had a blast opening presents for Kailer and himself.
Kai is growing so quickly. Last time I weighed him he was 12lb even but I'm sure he's over that now. He eats like a horse and is exclusively breastfed still which I am very proud about! He's smiling up a storm and following me around with his eyes everytime he's not in my arms. He's definitely momma's little boy for now and I love it! The night before we went to Hermiston (Dec 18th) he started "talking" in bed and hasn't stopped since. He still isn't vocal all the time and sometimes seems confused as to where those sounds are coming from but it's SO CUTE to listen to him make those noises and experiment with his voice. He's wearing mostly 3-6mo clothing now and Aunt Tammy let us borrow a few of Quintin's new clothes until he's big enough to wear them, he just looks adorable in anything I dress him in! Also during the week in Hermiston he started concentrating on grabbing things. Mostly grabbing at strings hanging off of Grandma and my hoodies. He succeeded a few times but doesn't seem to have any desire to grab at toys yet. I tried putting him under his little turtle gym today and after about 5min he was DONE. No desire to kick and grab at those dangling toys yet. I swear this morning he rolled over in my bed but it must have been an accident as I also tried to get him to do it on the floor this afternoon and he just smiled and gurgled at me but made no attempt to roll towards me. He's a drooling fool and I think he might be starting to teethe. If he's not teething he's just a drool king! He will attack yiour knuckle and gnaw away at it like Kaeden used to do, but I have no idea why he's doing it if he's not teething. Guess we'll have to wait and see when those little teeth start popping through! I'm not ready for them yet as I remember the little bites Kaeden gave my nipples and I do NOT want Kai biting me like that! He must be going through a growth spurt right now as he is on my boob 24/7 the past few days and seems to be tired or grumpy all of the time. I hope it ends soon as my poor nips can't handle it!!!
I am going to be working at H&R block this season once again while Jannett watches the boys for me so I've been trying to stock up on my freezer supply of milk. I am trying to get my hands on a double electric pump to make things easier and hope by the end of next week to have one whether I buy it or WIC lets me borrow it. I tried Tammy's out and loved it!!!!
Well Kai has awoken and is screaming at me to come love on him for awhile so time to wrap this up~! will try to upate shortly after the new year!!!
Friday, December 30, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Can little boys breastfeed?
Time for another update :) yes Grandma I know you want pictures but I can't post them until I upgrade and pay for picturetrail again :p The ones that already were posted will probably disappear shortly also FYI.
We had the girls this weekend and things went pretty smoothly. I had a little talk with Steven and told him that when they get here on Friday night we need to be the big bad meanies and buckle down on them Fri night instead of waiting until we're totally frustrated with them Sun afternoon and are screaming nonstop after screaming all weekend. Well it seemed to work. Fri night when Triniti decided to watch TV and ignore the fact she was supposed to be helping kaeden and Tatum clean the bedroom I calmly took her to our bedroom and put her in Kaeden's car bed for a time out in the dark room. She did not like that one bit but guess what? When she got out after a whole 2min she went in and those kids cleaned the room like they were supposed to! They also managed to play together nicely almost all weekend until Sun afternoon when they all started getting tired and testy. MUCH nicer then having them testy all weekend long! This is a trend that I plan to continue!!!! And the kids don't even hate me for it! I am always afraid as the "stepmother" that they'll think I'm mean etc as I am usually the disciplinary for alllll the kids (steven is just one of the kids most the time LOL) But even after the time out episode and me being gone most of the day Sat with Kailer at a craft show and shopping the girls ran up to me gave me giant hugs and told me they missed me. Sure made me feel good! We rented movies for the first time in a very long time. We rented "A lot like Love" and "The Interpretur". First one was awesome, second one sucked and we both fell asleep during it! Rented "robots" and "because of winn dixie" for the kiddos. They seemed to like them fine. I watched Winn Dixie last night and thought it was cute but kinda boring for little kids.
Kailer is doing great. His face is looking much better. Still bumpy here and there but as soon as the bumps start to show up I just slather on the aquaphor and he seems to clear up and get smooth again. not baby butt smooth but smoother then the alligator skin he had before!! He's starting to shed his hair once again but he's still not bald like his big brother was at this age. We had his 2mo appt last Thurs when he was 8weeks1day. I found out that yes he does have excema confirmed by his regular doc, he probably does not have a milk allergy like I questioned as babies usually lose weight and have diarrhea if it's a true allergy and my little guy was up to 11lb4oz~!! he was 22in long and 15 1/2in head. I also questioned my babies butt crack. Sounds weird I know but Kailer has 2 cracks!! It starts as one but at the very top it splits off into a Y shape. Yup his buttcrack looks like this -----> Y LOL Doc said it's probably just the way his skin folds and all is normal down there. He also pointed out that Kailer has a mongolian spot. what a horrible mom that I never noticed the giant bruise looking thing on my babies butt!!!! Sheesh... Luckily it's not very dark and will hopefully go away by 2-5yrs. Could have it for life but not usually. I've taken some pics of it in case it doesn't go away and the dr should have note of it so that no one can say Im beating my child! I did scare the crap out of Steven though, I got home from the dr and asked him how in the hell my baby got a giant bruise on his butt/back?!?! As I showed it to him he was looking so very confused.. I just laughed and told him to relax and explained what it was. His first thought was what did Kaeden do to Kailer!!! Kailer is also smiling up a storm when he feels like it now and starting to coo a bit. It's so cute. He's not looking like a newborn as much anymore, starting to grow into that gerber baby look. It's so sad how quickly they grow up!!!! He's also really started chewing/sucking on his fists and realizing how to get them into his mouth this weekend. It's so cute but then he drools all over his clothes. So one way or another his clothing is soaked either in baby drool or baby puke. Yup he's still spitting up after every meal and sometimes it's a lot. I keep asking the dr's about it and he said that babies especially boy babies tend to spit up and as long as it's not projectile that it should be fine. It really worries me when he spits up and chokes on it though. I hope the doc is right and he doesn't have reflux or anything like that but sometimes I wonder if they're not passing it off too easily. He doesn't seem like it bothers him too badly which is why I am not pushing the issue at this time, he almost seems to LIKE spitting up as I think he tends to overeat a bit (he LOVES to suck and use me as a pacifier) so it relieves his overfull tummy.
Saturday afternoon after going to the craft show I took kai to Baby Naturally to check out prices of gripe water, slings, and baby booties. My little BIG FOOT can't fit into the newborn booties anymore. Kaeden wore size 0 until he was 4mo old or so but Kailer has outgrown them... Amazing how different my two boys are yet how alike they are! I was able to try kailer out in a Maya wrap sling and I LOVE IT! I can't wait to get one!! Christy off my Aug 02 boards said she would send one that she makes to Kailer as a gift and I'm just dying to receive it!!! he LOVES to be worn and I do wear him in the pouch but I can't adjust it which kinda sucks when he gets wiggly. I also loved that the lady that ran the store gave me a few lessons with the baby so I learned some new positions to hold him in the sling and the pouch. Kailer loves being upright against my chest in the pouch, now if only I could tighten it we'd be onto something LOL I also can't wait to get the sling as then I can use the tail to cover up when he wants to eat! While at the store we checked out siome nursing clothes and almost fell over with shock. I found a hoodie that would be totally my style WAY cute and it's got the nursing slits but get this... the price.... $64!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I couldnt' believe it. They did have it on 50% off but I still can't afford that right now :( guess I'll keep pulling my t-shirts up and exposing my whole body. This is one reason it's so hard for me to bf in public is I hate exposing all my flab and it's difficult to cover up with a blanket. I want nursing clothing and a sling and then we can walk around nursing discreetly!!! Maybe I can talk my mom into helping me make a few nursing tops.
Onto Kaeden..... This boy will give me grey hair I just know it. Guess what he managed to do Fri night? He made his very first Ebay purchase~!! I had My Ebay opened up and he managed to click on a toy and the buy it now option and purchased it... I was watching this toy because I wanted to see how much it would actually sell for. If it sold for the asking price I wanted to go out and buy some from Walmart and resell them to make some $$$ For christmas. The toy I can get for 39.99 at Walmart here my son purchased for $48 plus shipping coming to a grand total of $66!!! I was so pissed!!! Thank GOD the seller was super nice and worked with me. I reimbursed him Ebay's final value fee and listing fees coming to a total of $3.5o and we both gave eachother positive feedback... PHEW. That was stressing me out so badly!!! That was his naughty deed of the weekend, now onto the nice/funny one.... Last night Kaeden was holding Kailer while I tried to scarf down dinner and he started fussing. Kaeden has been running around topless all day long BTW. Yes this matters in the story. Steven came into the room to take Kailer and started laughing. I looked over and Kaeden had laid kailer sideways and LATCHED HIM ONTO HIS BOOB LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kailer was sucking away and Kaeden was looking at him like a nursing mommy would.. I wish I was quick enough to get the camera before daddy took him!!!! Kaeden was just trying to make Kailer happy the way that he sees mommy do it all day long!! The strange thing was Kailer seemed content LOL Sooo we had to explain that Kaeden's boobies don't have milk in them like Mommy's do. I didn't want him to feel stupid but couldn't help dying with laughter at the same time. I think he was proud to make us laugh so hard ;) Kaeden loves telling people when kailer starts crying that his "baby brother eats mommies boobies".
Then this morning while I was on the phone with Aunt Lindsay kailer started fussing so Kaeden picked him up off the couch and took him to his bedroom to play. Kailer quiets right down when Kaeden picks him up, I think he likes his big brother. He was laying on Kaedens' bedroom floor perfectly content while Kaeden talked to him and watched "Go Diego Go". Then Kailer started fussing again so Kaeden picked him up and got onto the futon with him while bouncing him and "shhhhhh"ing in his ear to quiet him down. When that didn't work I asked him if he wanted Mommy to take him. He said "no mommy, go get me his pacifier". So I got the pacifier and Kaeden tried to quiet Kailer that way. Unfortunately it didnt' work as well as he wanted, so, he asked me to hold kailer while he put the pacifier in his mouth and then told me "See mom, he's not crying anymore. I want to hold him now" LOL He just loves being mommies little helper and Kailers awesome big brother. I think these two are going to be close :)
Well kailer is fussing in the swing, time to go feed him some of my boobies as kaeden would say ;) TTYL!
We had the girls this weekend and things went pretty smoothly. I had a little talk with Steven and told him that when they get here on Friday night we need to be the big bad meanies and buckle down on them Fri night instead of waiting until we're totally frustrated with them Sun afternoon and are screaming nonstop after screaming all weekend. Well it seemed to work. Fri night when Triniti decided to watch TV and ignore the fact she was supposed to be helping kaeden and Tatum clean the bedroom I calmly took her to our bedroom and put her in Kaeden's car bed for a time out in the dark room. She did not like that one bit but guess what? When she got out after a whole 2min she went in and those kids cleaned the room like they were supposed to! They also managed to play together nicely almost all weekend until Sun afternoon when they all started getting tired and testy. MUCH nicer then having them testy all weekend long! This is a trend that I plan to continue!!!! And the kids don't even hate me for it! I am always afraid as the "stepmother" that they'll think I'm mean etc as I am usually the disciplinary for alllll the kids (steven is just one of the kids most the time LOL) But even after the time out episode and me being gone most of the day Sat with Kailer at a craft show and shopping the girls ran up to me gave me giant hugs and told me they missed me. Sure made me feel good! We rented movies for the first time in a very long time. We rented "A lot like Love" and "The Interpretur". First one was awesome, second one sucked and we both fell asleep during it! Rented "robots" and "because of winn dixie" for the kiddos. They seemed to like them fine. I watched Winn Dixie last night and thought it was cute but kinda boring for little kids.
Kailer is doing great. His face is looking much better. Still bumpy here and there but as soon as the bumps start to show up I just slather on the aquaphor and he seems to clear up and get smooth again. not baby butt smooth but smoother then the alligator skin he had before!! He's starting to shed his hair once again but he's still not bald like his big brother was at this age. We had his 2mo appt last Thurs when he was 8weeks1day. I found out that yes he does have excema confirmed by his regular doc, he probably does not have a milk allergy like I questioned as babies usually lose weight and have diarrhea if it's a true allergy and my little guy was up to 11lb4oz~!! he was 22in long and 15 1/2in head. I also questioned my babies butt crack. Sounds weird I know but Kailer has 2 cracks!! It starts as one but at the very top it splits off into a Y shape. Yup his buttcrack looks like this -----> Y LOL Doc said it's probably just the way his skin folds and all is normal down there. He also pointed out that Kailer has a mongolian spot. what a horrible mom that I never noticed the giant bruise looking thing on my babies butt!!!! Sheesh... Luckily it's not very dark and will hopefully go away by 2-5yrs. Could have it for life but not usually. I've taken some pics of it in case it doesn't go away and the dr should have note of it so that no one can say Im beating my child! I did scare the crap out of Steven though, I got home from the dr and asked him how in the hell my baby got a giant bruise on his butt/back?!?! As I showed it to him he was looking so very confused.. I just laughed and told him to relax and explained what it was. His first thought was what did Kaeden do to Kailer!!! Kailer is also smiling up a storm when he feels like it now and starting to coo a bit. It's so cute. He's not looking like a newborn as much anymore, starting to grow into that gerber baby look. It's so sad how quickly they grow up!!!! He's also really started chewing/sucking on his fists and realizing how to get them into his mouth this weekend. It's so cute but then he drools all over his clothes. So one way or another his clothing is soaked either in baby drool or baby puke. Yup he's still spitting up after every meal and sometimes it's a lot. I keep asking the dr's about it and he said that babies especially boy babies tend to spit up and as long as it's not projectile that it should be fine. It really worries me when he spits up and chokes on it though. I hope the doc is right and he doesn't have reflux or anything like that but sometimes I wonder if they're not passing it off too easily. He doesn't seem like it bothers him too badly which is why I am not pushing the issue at this time, he almost seems to LIKE spitting up as I think he tends to overeat a bit (he LOVES to suck and use me as a pacifier) so it relieves his overfull tummy.
Saturday afternoon after going to the craft show I took kai to Baby Naturally to check out prices of gripe water, slings, and baby booties. My little BIG FOOT can't fit into the newborn booties anymore. Kaeden wore size 0 until he was 4mo old or so but Kailer has outgrown them... Amazing how different my two boys are yet how alike they are! I was able to try kailer out in a Maya wrap sling and I LOVE IT! I can't wait to get one!! Christy off my Aug 02 boards said she would send one that she makes to Kailer as a gift and I'm just dying to receive it!!! he LOVES to be worn and I do wear him in the pouch but I can't adjust it which kinda sucks when he gets wiggly. I also loved that the lady that ran the store gave me a few lessons with the baby so I learned some new positions to hold him in the sling and the pouch. Kailer loves being upright against my chest in the pouch, now if only I could tighten it we'd be onto something LOL I also can't wait to get the sling as then I can use the tail to cover up when he wants to eat! While at the store we checked out siome nursing clothes and almost fell over with shock. I found a hoodie that would be totally my style WAY cute and it's got the nursing slits but get this... the price.... $64!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I couldnt' believe it. They did have it on 50% off but I still can't afford that right now :( guess I'll keep pulling my t-shirts up and exposing my whole body. This is one reason it's so hard for me to bf in public is I hate exposing all my flab and it's difficult to cover up with a blanket. I want nursing clothing and a sling and then we can walk around nursing discreetly!!! Maybe I can talk my mom into helping me make a few nursing tops.
Onto Kaeden..... This boy will give me grey hair I just know it. Guess what he managed to do Fri night? He made his very first Ebay purchase~!! I had My Ebay opened up and he managed to click on a toy and the buy it now option and purchased it... I was watching this toy because I wanted to see how much it would actually sell for. If it sold for the asking price I wanted to go out and buy some from Walmart and resell them to make some $$$ For christmas. The toy I can get for 39.99 at Walmart here my son purchased for $48 plus shipping coming to a grand total of $66!!! I was so pissed!!! Thank GOD the seller was super nice and worked with me. I reimbursed him Ebay's final value fee and listing fees coming to a total of $3.5o and we both gave eachother positive feedback... PHEW. That was stressing me out so badly!!! That was his naughty deed of the weekend, now onto the nice/funny one.... Last night Kaeden was holding Kailer while I tried to scarf down dinner and he started fussing. Kaeden has been running around topless all day long BTW. Yes this matters in the story. Steven came into the room to take Kailer and started laughing. I looked over and Kaeden had laid kailer sideways and LATCHED HIM ONTO HIS BOOB LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kailer was sucking away and Kaeden was looking at him like a nursing mommy would.. I wish I was quick enough to get the camera before daddy took him!!!! Kaeden was just trying to make Kailer happy the way that he sees mommy do it all day long!! The strange thing was Kailer seemed content LOL Sooo we had to explain that Kaeden's boobies don't have milk in them like Mommy's do. I didn't want him to feel stupid but couldn't help dying with laughter at the same time. I think he was proud to make us laugh so hard ;) Kaeden loves telling people when kailer starts crying that his "baby brother eats mommies boobies".
Then this morning while I was on the phone with Aunt Lindsay kailer started fussing so Kaeden picked him up off the couch and took him to his bedroom to play. Kailer quiets right down when Kaeden picks him up, I think he likes his big brother. He was laying on Kaedens' bedroom floor perfectly content while Kaeden talked to him and watched "Go Diego Go". Then Kailer started fussing again so Kaeden picked him up and got onto the futon with him while bouncing him and "shhhhhh"ing in his ear to quiet him down. When that didn't work I asked him if he wanted Mommy to take him. He said "no mommy, go get me his pacifier". So I got the pacifier and Kaeden tried to quiet Kailer that way. Unfortunately it didnt' work as well as he wanted, so, he asked me to hold kailer while he put the pacifier in his mouth and then told me "See mom, he's not crying anymore. I want to hold him now" LOL He just loves being mommies little helper and Kailers awesome big brother. I think these two are going to be close :)
Well kailer is fussing in the swing, time to go feed him some of my boobies as kaeden would say ;) TTYL!
Monday, October 31, 2005
How the weeks fly by now!!!
Well my little man is now 7 1/2 weeks old. He'll be 8 weeks on Thurs and I cannot believe how quickly it's flying by once again. Kaeden is in love with his little brother and is the best big brother I know. He is always helping me with Kailer and loves playing with him. If I turn my head for a moment he's usually picked Kailer up to take him where he wants him to "play" LOL this morning it was to his bedroom while mommy went potty. When I took kailer to feed him he asked if he could bring him back to his room when he was done eating. I love that there does not seem to be any jealousy of the new baby, although he is acting out a bit more then usual. Not sure if that's because of new baby or because he's 3 and knows everything ;) Lately he tells me that it's too hard to clean his room up because his arms are not big enough. When I was putting his toys away (in a bag to go to the garage since he wouldn't clean them) he told me "Fine mom, i'll just play with baby toys". When I told him he was going to get a spanking he told me in the snottiest teenage voice i've ever heard out of a 3yr old "It's not going to make me cry". UGH I'm pulling my hair out with him right now. he's reverted back to throwing temper tantrums (this happened before Kailer was born) and i'm sick of them! I'm not sure how we're going to nip this in the butt but we're working on it. I've been trying real hard to get steven on the same discipline page as me. I know we let him get away with too much which is a big part of his attitude problem. Unfortunately for Kaeden we're going to buckle down on him and he's probably going to hate us for awhile *sigh* the joys of parenting!!
On a good note he is officially in his OWN bed! After 3yrs of co-sleeping Kaeden is sleeping in his own big boy bed. We kicked him out of our bed a few days after Kailer came home because he sleeps like a maniac!!! LOL everytime we turned around we had a foot in our face, belly, etc and because Kailer seems to be following his brothers horrible sleep patterns and is in our bed I just couldn't risk Kaeden laying on him. He started out on the floor on his elmo couch but last weekend I found a bed for FREE on the internet and he is now the proud owner of a snoozin coupe bed and he just loves it. It is in our bedroom which is fine with me, as long as he's in his own bed! !!
Kailer is growing so quickly, I'd say he "officially" started smiling this weekend when he is happy. He doesn't do it often yet but if you talk to him and coo with him enough he'll give some smiles. This morning he was laying on the floor while I went to the bathroom and was smiling away at me. Those little smiles are so cute and precious I just love them!! Unfortunately for my little guy he's also been diagnosed with Excema :( His face is so crusty dry and bumpy it makes me want to cry. I am in the process of rewashing everything we have for him in baby All detergent as the docs think he might be reacting to our detergents/fabric softeners. I've been slathering him in aquafor and Emu Oil and it seems to be helping some. I've also been using hydrocortizone cream and that seems to help him sleep at night instead of scream all night. I thought he was just hving a colicky night but now I'm thinking he had a miserable itching night!! Hopefully he'll be a lucky one and as he grows will not have these problems full time like Lindsay who only gets them with season changes. That's about all I can hope for at this point since there is no cure for it :( I hate seeing him uncomfortable~!~! On a good note at his dr appt he was up to 11lbs so mommy milk is working excellent~!! He's growing great and I feel proud to say that he's exclusively breastfed!!
I would type more but at this moment my 3yr old / 13yr old LOL Is throwing a tantrum and testing me knowing that i'm at the computer so I need to go take care of him. I'll try to post more regularly and keep update my boys newest life experiences! We're going trick or treating tonight and i just hope the weather holds up and doesn't make it too awfully miserable! Kaeden will be Dash Incredible and Kailer will be a little monster. Gotta Run!!!
On a good note he is officially in his OWN bed! After 3yrs of co-sleeping Kaeden is sleeping in his own big boy bed. We kicked him out of our bed a few days after Kailer came home because he sleeps like a maniac!!! LOL everytime we turned around we had a foot in our face, belly, etc and because Kailer seems to be following his brothers horrible sleep patterns and is in our bed I just couldn't risk Kaeden laying on him. He started out on the floor on his elmo couch but last weekend I found a bed for FREE on the internet and he is now the proud owner of a snoozin coupe bed and he just loves it. It is in our bedroom which is fine with me, as long as he's in his own bed! !!
Kailer is growing so quickly, I'd say he "officially" started smiling this weekend when he is happy. He doesn't do it often yet but if you talk to him and coo with him enough he'll give some smiles. This morning he was laying on the floor while I went to the bathroom and was smiling away at me. Those little smiles are so cute and precious I just love them!! Unfortunately for my little guy he's also been diagnosed with Excema :( His face is so crusty dry and bumpy it makes me want to cry. I am in the process of rewashing everything we have for him in baby All detergent as the docs think he might be reacting to our detergents/fabric softeners. I've been slathering him in aquafor and Emu Oil and it seems to be helping some. I've also been using hydrocortizone cream and that seems to help him sleep at night instead of scream all night. I thought he was just hving a colicky night but now I'm thinking he had a miserable itching night!! Hopefully he'll be a lucky one and as he grows will not have these problems full time like Lindsay who only gets them with season changes. That's about all I can hope for at this point since there is no cure for it :( I hate seeing him uncomfortable~!~! On a good note at his dr appt he was up to 11lbs so mommy milk is working excellent~!! He's growing great and I feel proud to say that he's exclusively breastfed!!
I would type more but at this moment my 3yr old / 13yr old LOL Is throwing a tantrum and testing me knowing that i'm at the computer so I need to go take care of him. I'll try to post more regularly and keep update my boys newest life experiences! We're going trick or treating tonight and i just hope the weather holds up and doesn't make it too awfully miserable! Kaeden will be Dash Incredible and Kailer will be a little monster. Gotta Run!!!
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Introducing Kailer Steven Olivas 9-8-2005 2:36pm 8lb1oz 18 1/2"
Yes he's here! Took me almost a month to write his birth story but here it is.
I was to call and see if there was room for me at the hospital to be induced on Wednesday the 7th at 4pm. When I called they told me to call back in 30min to see if there was room as they were busy at the moment. I was very worried they wouldn't be able to get me in and I had all of my family here to help!! Tammy and Jared were here to watch Kaeden, mom was waiting for me in Moses Lake and Grandma Marcelle was on her way to be here also. Thank goodness when I called back they told me to be there at 5:30. Jared and Tammy went to Mcdonalds for some food and we all ate a bit and then headed to Moses Lake. We got all registered and into my room and then we waited as they were still busy. That room was quite full with Jared Tammy Aaron Kaeden Gma Marcelle and my mom. Then Steven showed up and they still hadn't done anything to start the induction. About 6:30 they came in and put the cervadil in. They said I was having small contractions and asked if I could feel them which I could but I'd been having contractions like that for a week or two so I wasn't too excited about them. Jared and Tammy decided they were going to head home for awhile and would check in with us later. Kaeden did great and was excited to go home with them. I was concerned he wouldn't want to leave Mommy and Daddy but apparently Uncle Jared and Aunt Tammy are pretty cool people and he would rather hang with them LOL About 2hrs after they put the cervadil in I started feeling contractions and got excited that maybe this would go quickly considering I was at a tight 3cm and 60% effaced when we started the induction. Steven's mom stopped by for a few hours and went and grabbed some food and I was allowed a milkshake... unfortunately all night long I had fairly regular contractions that hurt just enough to make it difficult to sleep through but not so painful that I couldnt handle them. Kaeden called us once to tell us he missed us and that just about broke my heart :( Although I hear that afterwards he did just fine ;) The room we were in did not have a couch or anything for anyone to sleep on so about 1-2am grandma marcelle decided to go sleep in her van. Steven tried sleeping in the chairs, and with me in the bed and even on the floor but nothing was working so he headed out to our van. mom catnapped a whole 10-20min or so in those uncomfortable chairs and I slept off and on until about 4:30am when Steven came back in because it was just too cold in the van for him. We decided to try walking just to relieve my poor butt/tailbone from sitting in that uncomfortable bed. It was great to get out of the bed and walk and I could feel the contractions but unfortunately my foot hurt so bad from whatever I did to it a few days prior that our walks were not very long. Finally around 7:30am the doctor came in and removed the cervadil and got ready to break my water. After those contractions all night long with that cervadil I was still only at a loose 3cm and 65% effaced. I felt like this induction was going to take days and days...... The dr broke my water and wow it was so different then when we tried breaking my water with Kaeden. I actually had water this time around and it was like niagra falls down there!! I kept thinking I was wetting myself but realized it was just more and more water coming out. It kinda grossed me out LOL Everytime I'd get a harder contraction the water would flow out more. The nurse said this would happen for the rest of the labor. Although it was strange as later when the contractions got harder and were hurting pretty bad that little flow of water that would come out was almost soothing. Steven asked if I'd like to take a shower not long after the water was broken since I was feeling so gross sitting in all this fluid. I thought that would be nice so into the shower we went. WOW that shower head was like having little needles all over your body!!!! It could have been used as a weapon it's stream was so hard. Steven ended up taking the shower head off so the water was just coming out like a faucet and that was much better!! While in the shower I had a few more hard contractions but nothing that was untolerable. I was hoping I would be like Lindsay and once that water broke baby would pop out in 30min but of course not... LOL I figured we were in for a LOOOOONG day of pain. They decided to start pitocin at 9:30 so I figured we had 12hrs of labor left if my 2nd son was going to be anything like my first. Around 11 I started having some painful contractions and by 11:30 I was hurting but still had 3-4min between contractions. The nurse came in to check on me and gave me some great advice. She told me that tensing up any part of my body would make labor longer and harder and that if I just relaxed it would help the baby to move down as I wasn't fighting through contractions. I caught myself starting to fight a contraction and starting to feel panicky like I did when labor got real tough with Kaeden so I just sat back and relaxed every muscle in my body. It hurt like hell but I felt much more in control then I did with kaeden's birth so I continued to do this. Around 12:30-1ish my Mom and grandma decided to go get some lunch. I was starving but my doc said no food for me :( The nurse started getting the baby's bed/clean up area ready and said that I could decide to just take off and have a baby any time and I just laughed at her and told her we had PLENTY of time. She said she liked to be prepared just in case rather then running around getting it all together at the end. So they took off and I asked if I could go to the bathroom. I remembered how much better I felt when I was in labor with Kaeden to sit on the toilet so I wanted to try that again as I was definitely having painful contractions. As I was trying to get out of the bed to go to the toilet I had 3-4 contractions right on to of eachother and all I could think was HERE WE GO let the pain begin. When I was done going to the bathroom (went ahead and pushed out a poo in hopes that I could keep all poo off the table LOL) the nurse asked if I needed help back to the bed. I told her I'd rather sit on the toilet awhile and Steven asked if they could hook me up to monitors while on the toilet. I was amazed when she said yes!!! Unfortunately after only 2 or 3 contractions on the toilet the nurse said we'd have to move back to the bed as the baby didn't like that position and the last contraction had put too much pressure on him. I wasn't too happy about it but she did tell me that if I wanted the epidural I could get it now and I said bring him in!!!! I got situated back in the bed and mom and grandma returned. The contractions were now starting to get to me but I continued to just lay back into the bed, lay my head back, close my eyes and breathe and RELAX. While I laid there with my eyes clothes I would try to visualize Kaeden and cute or funny things he says or would be saying to me. It helped to keep my mind off the pain and made me think of happy things. I remember I kept looking at the monitor they had above my bed that showed all the other ladies contractions that were in labor also. There was a girl across the hall whose ctrx were crazy scary looking and then I'd look at mine and they were so dang mild looking all I could think was there was no way that I'd ever get through more painful ctrx then then ones i was having at that time. about 1:30 or so Jared Tammy Aaron and Kaeden showed up. go figure they show up when I'm in terrible pain and anxiously awaiting my epidural!! I was trying my hardest to keep my pain to myself as my son and Aaron (he's 9) were in the room and I didn't want to freak anyone out. This was the point of labor I was worried about Kaeden seeing so I needed to continue to keep it together. It's pretty funny how visualizing about things Kaeden said or did would help me through my contractions but having him in the room wasn't quite the same effect LOL About 10min before the epi man showed up I started to really panic that I was going to start crying and lose it in front of my son. I continued to relax and breathe through the contractions and tried to have conversation with my roomfull of people LOL not an easy thing to do. When that epi man walked through my doors I wanted to sing and kiss him LOL He kicked everyone out of the room except for Steven and the nurse checked me and I was only at a 4. I was so glad that I was getting the epidural now as i couldn't imagine another 6cm of this pain. It took me 3hrs to get 3cm with Kaeden so I figured I had about 6hrs to go before I could start pushing the baby out. The epi guy wanted me to scoot to the end of the bed and sit facing Steven. That was pretty difficult and painful to do as my contractions were pretty intense and when he had me lean over and curve my back I thought the pain was going to rip me apart. I still tried to just remember to relax my body. I was a bit concerned about how badly this poke was going to hurt in my back as i was in a lot more pain and was dry heaving when I got the epi with Kaeden and didn't feel a thing. This time he started putting the epidural in while i was not having a contraction so I felt the poke. I just told myself one poke and then this pain will go away until it's time to push the baby out and i can get some rest and relax and enjoy everyone who is in the room. After the epidural was in they scooted me up back in my bed and my legs were starting to feel numb but i still felt the pain from the contractions. The nurse wanted to check me real quick before she let everyone back in the room. I was still feeling pain from contractions when she checked me and as she was checking she had a strange look on her face. She said you're at an 8. I almost laughed out loud and told her she was kidding, which she must have seen it on my face because she said no I am Not kidding! She then told me baby was still face up and I needed to get on my side and start rocking my pelvis to hit the baby in the nose and make him turn around. Earlier in the labor (about the time I went to the bathroom) she told me I was having some back labor and the baby was face up and suggested I try this position to speed things up and turn him around and I said no way it's too painful. About the time I got on my side the epidural had finally kicked in and I wasn't feeling pain. The epi man left and my mom and grandma came back into the room. She decided to check again and I was at a 9, she told me we'd have a baby any time now. I was in shock that within 5-10min I had gone from a 4 to an 8 and then a 9!! They called the Dr and he showed up and checked me again, I was at a 10 and my cervix was gone, time to push. He informed me he does not break beds down and left my bed how it had been. Things were happening so quickly and all I could think was in another hour I'll have my baby in my arms .. After all it took an hour to push Kaeden out and this baby was probably bigger and going to be more difficult. The nurse had told me at the beginning and again towards the end that "You never give birth to your first baby twice" meaning this labor could go so differently and i did not believe her. Afterall I couldn't get into a regular labor pattern on my own even when I was having contractions and once again we had to induce with pitocin so I felt like it was going to be Kaeden's birth all over again. I was feeling some big pressure down there but no pain, and my epidural had been turned off since I wouldn't be needing it much longer. They had me push and with one push dr said I better get dressed and everyone was telling me they could see the head! I was in shock. No way was he coming out of me already!!! I pushed 6 times within 5min and that last push was without a contraction and out little Kailer flew onto the table at 2:26pm. Thank god this dr doesn't break tables down LOL I had a healthy 8lb1oz 18 1/2" long little boy laying there. Steven had asked earlier if my grandma wanted to cut the cord so she was the one to do that and then he was handed to me. He looked so much like another little Kaeden but so different. They took him to get him cleaned up over on the baby warming bed and Steven went and got Kaeden to come in and meet his little brother while I delivered the placenta and got a few stitches. I barely tore this time and everything went so smoothly. Once I was sewed up Jared Tammy and Aaron came in and everyone got to meet Kailer. He latched on immediately and nursing is going well so far. He has a few issues with not opening his mouth wide enough to get a good latch and tends to make me a bit sore but he's getting better. The nurse told me that sitting up to get the epidural and bending over seemed to open me up and is probably why I dialted so quickly. I dunno but I have to say this birth was just perfect and my new little man is just as perfect.
I was to call and see if there was room for me at the hospital to be induced on Wednesday the 7th at 4pm. When I called they told me to call back in 30min to see if there was room as they were busy at the moment. I was very worried they wouldn't be able to get me in and I had all of my family here to help!! Tammy and Jared were here to watch Kaeden, mom was waiting for me in Moses Lake and Grandma Marcelle was on her way to be here also. Thank goodness when I called back they told me to be there at 5:30. Jared and Tammy went to Mcdonalds for some food and we all ate a bit and then headed to Moses Lake. We got all registered and into my room and then we waited as they were still busy. That room was quite full with Jared Tammy Aaron Kaeden Gma Marcelle and my mom. Then Steven showed up and they still hadn't done anything to start the induction. About 6:30 they came in and put the cervadil in. They said I was having small contractions and asked if I could feel them which I could but I'd been having contractions like that for a week or two so I wasn't too excited about them. Jared and Tammy decided they were going to head home for awhile and would check in with us later. Kaeden did great and was excited to go home with them. I was concerned he wouldn't want to leave Mommy and Daddy but apparently Uncle Jared and Aunt Tammy are pretty cool people and he would rather hang with them LOL About 2hrs after they put the cervadil in I started feeling contractions and got excited that maybe this would go quickly considering I was at a tight 3cm and 60% effaced when we started the induction. Steven's mom stopped by for a few hours and went and grabbed some food and I was allowed a milkshake... unfortunately all night long I had fairly regular contractions that hurt just enough to make it difficult to sleep through but not so painful that I couldnt handle them. Kaeden called us once to tell us he missed us and that just about broke my heart :( Although I hear that afterwards he did just fine ;) The room we were in did not have a couch or anything for anyone to sleep on so about 1-2am grandma marcelle decided to go sleep in her van. Steven tried sleeping in the chairs, and with me in the bed and even on the floor but nothing was working so he headed out to our van. mom catnapped a whole 10-20min or so in those uncomfortable chairs and I slept off and on until about 4:30am when Steven came back in because it was just too cold in the van for him. We decided to try walking just to relieve my poor butt/tailbone from sitting in that uncomfortable bed. It was great to get out of the bed and walk and I could feel the contractions but unfortunately my foot hurt so bad from whatever I did to it a few days prior that our walks were not very long. Finally around 7:30am the doctor came in and removed the cervadil and got ready to break my water. After those contractions all night long with that cervadil I was still only at a loose 3cm and 65% effaced. I felt like this induction was going to take days and days...... The dr broke my water and wow it was so different then when we tried breaking my water with Kaeden. I actually had water this time around and it was like niagra falls down there!! I kept thinking I was wetting myself but realized it was just more and more water coming out. It kinda grossed me out LOL Everytime I'd get a harder contraction the water would flow out more. The nurse said this would happen for the rest of the labor. Although it was strange as later when the contractions got harder and were hurting pretty bad that little flow of water that would come out was almost soothing. Steven asked if I'd like to take a shower not long after the water was broken since I was feeling so gross sitting in all this fluid. I thought that would be nice so into the shower we went. WOW that shower head was like having little needles all over your body!!!! It could have been used as a weapon it's stream was so hard. Steven ended up taking the shower head off so the water was just coming out like a faucet and that was much better!! While in the shower I had a few more hard contractions but nothing that was untolerable. I was hoping I would be like Lindsay and once that water broke baby would pop out in 30min but of course not... LOL I figured we were in for a LOOOOONG day of pain. They decided to start pitocin at 9:30 so I figured we had 12hrs of labor left if my 2nd son was going to be anything like my first. Around 11 I started having some painful contractions and by 11:30 I was hurting but still had 3-4min between contractions. The nurse came in to check on me and gave me some great advice. She told me that tensing up any part of my body would make labor longer and harder and that if I just relaxed it would help the baby to move down as I wasn't fighting through contractions. I caught myself starting to fight a contraction and starting to feel panicky like I did when labor got real tough with Kaeden so I just sat back and relaxed every muscle in my body. It hurt like hell but I felt much more in control then I did with kaeden's birth so I continued to do this. Around 12:30-1ish my Mom and grandma decided to go get some lunch. I was starving but my doc said no food for me :( The nurse started getting the baby's bed/clean up area ready and said that I could decide to just take off and have a baby any time and I just laughed at her and told her we had PLENTY of time. She said she liked to be prepared just in case rather then running around getting it all together at the end. So they took off and I asked if I could go to the bathroom. I remembered how much better I felt when I was in labor with Kaeden to sit on the toilet so I wanted to try that again as I was definitely having painful contractions. As I was trying to get out of the bed to go to the toilet I had 3-4 contractions right on to of eachother and all I could think was HERE WE GO let the pain begin. When I was done going to the bathroom (went ahead and pushed out a poo in hopes that I could keep all poo off the table LOL) the nurse asked if I needed help back to the bed. I told her I'd rather sit on the toilet awhile and Steven asked if they could hook me up to monitors while on the toilet. I was amazed when she said yes!!! Unfortunately after only 2 or 3 contractions on the toilet the nurse said we'd have to move back to the bed as the baby didn't like that position and the last contraction had put too much pressure on him. I wasn't too happy about it but she did tell me that if I wanted the epidural I could get it now and I said bring him in!!!! I got situated back in the bed and mom and grandma returned. The contractions were now starting to get to me but I continued to just lay back into the bed, lay my head back, close my eyes and breathe and RELAX. While I laid there with my eyes clothes I would try to visualize Kaeden and cute or funny things he says or would be saying to me. It helped to keep my mind off the pain and made me think of happy things. I remember I kept looking at the monitor they had above my bed that showed all the other ladies contractions that were in labor also. There was a girl across the hall whose ctrx were crazy scary looking and then I'd look at mine and they were so dang mild looking all I could think was there was no way that I'd ever get through more painful ctrx then then ones i was having at that time. about 1:30 or so Jared Tammy Aaron and Kaeden showed up. go figure they show up when I'm in terrible pain and anxiously awaiting my epidural!! I was trying my hardest to keep my pain to myself as my son and Aaron (he's 9) were in the room and I didn't want to freak anyone out. This was the point of labor I was worried about Kaeden seeing so I needed to continue to keep it together. It's pretty funny how visualizing about things Kaeden said or did would help me through my contractions but having him in the room wasn't quite the same effect LOL About 10min before the epi man showed up I started to really panic that I was going to start crying and lose it in front of my son. I continued to relax and breathe through the contractions and tried to have conversation with my roomfull of people LOL not an easy thing to do. When that epi man walked through my doors I wanted to sing and kiss him LOL He kicked everyone out of the room except for Steven and the nurse checked me and I was only at a 4. I was so glad that I was getting the epidural now as i couldn't imagine another 6cm of this pain. It took me 3hrs to get 3cm with Kaeden so I figured I had about 6hrs to go before I could start pushing the baby out. The epi guy wanted me to scoot to the end of the bed and sit facing Steven. That was pretty difficult and painful to do as my contractions were pretty intense and when he had me lean over and curve my back I thought the pain was going to rip me apart. I still tried to just remember to relax my body. I was a bit concerned about how badly this poke was going to hurt in my back as i was in a lot more pain and was dry heaving when I got the epi with Kaeden and didn't feel a thing. This time he started putting the epidural in while i was not having a contraction so I felt the poke. I just told myself one poke and then this pain will go away until it's time to push the baby out and i can get some rest and relax and enjoy everyone who is in the room. After the epidural was in they scooted me up back in my bed and my legs were starting to feel numb but i still felt the pain from the contractions. The nurse wanted to check me real quick before she let everyone back in the room. I was still feeling pain from contractions when she checked me and as she was checking she had a strange look on her face. She said you're at an 8. I almost laughed out loud and told her she was kidding, which she must have seen it on my face because she said no I am Not kidding! She then told me baby was still face up and I needed to get on my side and start rocking my pelvis to hit the baby in the nose and make him turn around. Earlier in the labor (about the time I went to the bathroom) she told me I was having some back labor and the baby was face up and suggested I try this position to speed things up and turn him around and I said no way it's too painful. About the time I got on my side the epidural had finally kicked in and I wasn't feeling pain. The epi man left and my mom and grandma came back into the room. She decided to check again and I was at a 9, she told me we'd have a baby any time now. I was in shock that within 5-10min I had gone from a 4 to an 8 and then a 9!! They called the Dr and he showed up and checked me again, I was at a 10 and my cervix was gone, time to push. He informed me he does not break beds down and left my bed how it had been. Things were happening so quickly and all I could think was in another hour I'll have my baby in my arms .. After all it took an hour to push Kaeden out and this baby was probably bigger and going to be more difficult. The nurse had told me at the beginning and again towards the end that "You never give birth to your first baby twice" meaning this labor could go so differently and i did not believe her. Afterall I couldn't get into a regular labor pattern on my own even when I was having contractions and once again we had to induce with pitocin so I felt like it was going to be Kaeden's birth all over again. I was feeling some big pressure down there but no pain, and my epidural had been turned off since I wouldn't be needing it much longer. They had me push and with one push dr said I better get dressed and everyone was telling me they could see the head! I was in shock. No way was he coming out of me already!!! I pushed 6 times within 5min and that last push was without a contraction and out little Kailer flew onto the table at 2:26pm. Thank god this dr doesn't break tables down LOL I had a healthy 8lb1oz 18 1/2" long little boy laying there. Steven had asked earlier if my grandma wanted to cut the cord so she was the one to do that and then he was handed to me. He looked so much like another little Kaeden but so different. They took him to get him cleaned up over on the baby warming bed and Steven went and got Kaeden to come in and meet his little brother while I delivered the placenta and got a few stitches. I barely tore this time and everything went so smoothly. Once I was sewed up Jared Tammy and Aaron came in and everyone got to meet Kailer. He latched on immediately and nursing is going well so far. He has a few issues with not opening his mouth wide enough to get a good latch and tends to make me a bit sore but he's getting better. The nurse told me that sitting up to get the epidural and bending over seemed to open me up and is probably why I dialted so quickly. I dunno but I have to say this birth was just perfect and my new little man is just as perfect.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Why do my babies have to be SO STICKY?
Ok I know that if you go back into archives to the beginning of my pg I have posted how badly I wanted to be/stay pg and how I posted that so that when I got to this point I could go back and remind myself I am the one who couldn't wait to be 8mo fat and pg... BUT I am ready to be DONE! not because it's 100 degrees and I'm completely fat and miserable but because I am so ready to meet this nameless baby, give him a name, hold him, introduce him to his big brother and the list goes on and on and on. I've been having braxton hicks contractions for awhile now but they are getting more and more regular so I've been doing all I can to get things moving the past few days and NOTHING is working. It's like I'm carrying Kaeden all over again *sigh* I have tried sex, walking (just ask the blisters on my heel), nipple stimulation, and even the dreaded castor oil which I SWORE I would never ever ever ever do to myself again, and guess what? I have now taken it twice in the last 24hrs and my butthole is on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nipple stimulation seems to work as long as I am constantly touching myself which I just can't walk around doing all dang day, not to mention they're getting sore! I can get contractions that feel like minor menstrual cramps ever 2-5 min with an average of every 3min while stimulating but they just fizzle out when I stop so I think I am giving up on that idea. I'm completely done trying castor oil cause I can't handle to poo anymore!!! I have cleaned my house top to bottom all week last week, I hand scrubbed floors and cupboards and my washer and dryer etc etc etc and nothing is helping me. I even broke down and tried 10 jumping jacks which I know can be a bit on the dangerous side, but not for my sticky man. NOTHING is jolting him loose yet :( I was and still am really hoping to go into labor this weekend but I do not see it happening at this point. A few days ago I really thought I had a chance, but after all I have put my body through the past couple days with no results I'm thinking this is not our weekend :( I did manage to get 3 nice contractions while sleeping last night after pooing for awhile that actually woke me up in pain but after that 3rd one I had nothing. I am currently having those stinking braxton hicks contractions which I am not even paying attention to anymore. I was getting very excited about them since I never had them with Kaeden but apparently my body or my baby is just teasing me with them.
I have a Dr appt Tuesday morning and think i'm going to discuss inducing with him. I'll be 39 weeks then and am terrified this little one is going to be not so little and I'll end up not getting him out on my own. I do NOT want a c-section as I do not want to heal from one. A weekend induction or a Fri induction is what I'm going to shoot for so that Steven doesn't have to take much time off of work. This is also the reason I wanted to have him this weekend so badly, Steven has a 3 day weekend so it would have been PERFECT!
I wanted to go overdue to separate Kaeden and baby's birthdays as much as possible but I have since changed my mind ;) I figured once I got to the end of my pg that my mind would change and I was right. I'm just happy that this baby didn't make an appearance on Sunday which was Kaeden's 3rd birthday party nor on Monday which was Kaeden's 3rd birthday. My little man is officially THREE YEARS OLD. I cannot believe that much time has passed since he came into this world. He's grown up so much and is going to be the best big brother ever. He even tried to help mommy get his brother out by pushing on my tummy saying push push push LOL Too bad it doesn't work that way~!!! His party theme was The Incredibles or Mr Incredible as he calls them :) We had a great time with friends and Grandma celebrating although it was a bit on the hot side!!! Had to fill up the pool and let the kids splash around in there to cool off while the adults spent most of the afternoon in the Living Room in Air conditioning!! Giant thanks go out to Grandma Vicki for helping us to make his birthday a great day and for the coolest pinata ;) Grandma and Grandpa found a motorcycle pinata and Kaeden loved it, although I think Steven loved it a little more! He didn't want to hit it at all.. As a matter of fact it's still hanging in our tree and I think Steven has intentions of gluing the thing back together and displaying it in the garage. Silly Steven. Anyway as I was saying about this baby making it's appearance.... We've passed Kaeden's birthday party, his actual birthday and made it out of the month August so I say BRING ON BABY! LOL Birthstones will be different and it'll be Steven's first Sept baby ;) So we are ready. If only I could find some new home induction methods.... I've exhausted all the other ones and am about ready to just give up, relax and wait to discuss things with the Doc on Tues.
Dr Lyons is not even going to be here next week so if I am induced it will be his partner who I am seeing Tues and will make the decision with me on whether or not to induce. One one hand it kinda sucks that my dr won't deliver if that happens, on the other hand.... I don't really think I care LOL It's not like the Dr's do much for delivery other then catch the baby anyway! It's all hospital staff other then a few checks for dialation and catching baby on the way out.
Well I am going to get off of here now. Just had to get this update in here in case I dont' update again before baby is born. I've got baby stuff all ready to go, even started a bag for me in hopes that I'd actually need it this weekend. I think I jinxed myself by being so dang ready for this baby... Then again I wasn't fully ready for Kaeden and still had to be induced. I'll try to keep updated around here, but no promises for an update until after I havce something fun to report like the fact that my son has been born!!!
I have a Dr appt Tuesday morning and think i'm going to discuss inducing with him. I'll be 39 weeks then and am terrified this little one is going to be not so little and I'll end up not getting him out on my own. I do NOT want a c-section as I do not want to heal from one. A weekend induction or a Fri induction is what I'm going to shoot for so that Steven doesn't have to take much time off of work. This is also the reason I wanted to have him this weekend so badly, Steven has a 3 day weekend so it would have been PERFECT!
I wanted to go overdue to separate Kaeden and baby's birthdays as much as possible but I have since changed my mind ;) I figured once I got to the end of my pg that my mind would change and I was right. I'm just happy that this baby didn't make an appearance on Sunday which was Kaeden's 3rd birthday party nor on Monday which was Kaeden's 3rd birthday. My little man is officially THREE YEARS OLD. I cannot believe that much time has passed since he came into this world. He's grown up so much and is going to be the best big brother ever. He even tried to help mommy get his brother out by pushing on my tummy saying push push push LOL Too bad it doesn't work that way~!!! His party theme was The Incredibles or Mr Incredible as he calls them :) We had a great time with friends and Grandma celebrating although it was a bit on the hot side!!! Had to fill up the pool and let the kids splash around in there to cool off while the adults spent most of the afternoon in the Living Room in Air conditioning!! Giant thanks go out to Grandma Vicki for helping us to make his birthday a great day and for the coolest pinata ;) Grandma and Grandpa found a motorcycle pinata and Kaeden loved it, although I think Steven loved it a little more! He didn't want to hit it at all.. As a matter of fact it's still hanging in our tree and I think Steven has intentions of gluing the thing back together and displaying it in the garage. Silly Steven. Anyway as I was saying about this baby making it's appearance.... We've passed Kaeden's birthday party, his actual birthday and made it out of the month August so I say BRING ON BABY! LOL Birthstones will be different and it'll be Steven's first Sept baby ;) So we are ready. If only I could find some new home induction methods.... I've exhausted all the other ones and am about ready to just give up, relax and wait to discuss things with the Doc on Tues.
Dr Lyons is not even going to be here next week so if I am induced it will be his partner who I am seeing Tues and will make the decision with me on whether or not to induce. One one hand it kinda sucks that my dr won't deliver if that happens, on the other hand.... I don't really think I care LOL It's not like the Dr's do much for delivery other then catch the baby anyway! It's all hospital staff other then a few checks for dialation and catching baby on the way out.
Well I am going to get off of here now. Just had to get this update in here in case I dont' update again before baby is born. I've got baby stuff all ready to go, even started a bag for me in hopes that I'd actually need it this weekend. I think I jinxed myself by being so dang ready for this baby... Then again I wasn't fully ready for Kaeden and still had to be induced. I'll try to keep updated around here, but no promises for an update until after I havce something fun to report like the fact that my son has been born!!!
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Almost "full term" now
Wow how the time has flown. Lots of changes going on in my life. I found out almost 2 weeks ago I am losing my job :( Lindsay and Mike are going to be moving to the Seattle area as he found a job there that he cannot pass up. I do not blame them for leaving, but I also hate the tough spot it puts my family in :( My last day is Aug 24th. I might have a little boy lined up to start watching after baby "K" is born so we're crossing our fingers! He's 4yrs old and is named Riley. The pay would be a bit less then I'm making now and I'd be working more hours then I do now, but I'd still be home with my little men and I will keep my eye out for one more child. If I could find one more to watch here in my home we'd be set :) I did go ahead and get the courses for H&R block so that if babysitting does not work out then come January there is a good chance that I'd be able to get hired on there. If the babysitting works out then I guess I"ll have the courses under my belt just for fun ;) LOL I wouldn't mind working at H&R again but this tax stuff really makes me nervous and the new manager makes me even more nervous! I met him when I got my books last week and I also talked to Don about him and was told he can be quite the stickler. I LOVED my manager Patti when I was there the first year so that kinda sucks that she, or someone like her, is not around anymore :( George is still there but she's in the Quincy office and that's a bit of a drive for not a whole lot of $$$$. Especially considering working at H&R means that I've gotta pay daycare for TWO munchkins. Wow that sounds weird, I"m going to be the mother of TWO ... And it's not very far away either! So there is my small update on our financial situation and what I've been stressing about daily since I found out. I have some $$$ in Savings but I HATE touching that money, even though I need to realize that's what it's there for, in case of emergency. Steven's paychecks cover our bills and that is it. My money is what we have for food, gas, medicine, clothes, diapers, etc etc etc so I have to have something coming in. I've racked my brain trying to figure out how to condense our bills down a bit to and we're not liking the options :p LOL
On a lighter note, Kaeden is about to turn the big 3!!!!!! Thank god for Grandma helping get stuff for his party! We'll probably do the part Sunday Aug 28th as long as Baby "K" Doesn't come along and mess those plans up ;) I sure hope he's not born THAT close to Kaeden's birthday, I wouldn't like that very much at all. He's having The Incredibles theme for his party and is stuck on the idea that he is getting a power ranger toy for his birthday gift ... The things kids come up with. Taylor planted the power ranger idea in his head and it's now STUCK. 3yr old minds are so impressionable when they want to be, why can't they be impressionable and listen to the things mommy and daddy tell them like they listen to their peers? Oh wait, that's just children/kids/teens in general isn't it? I just didn't realize it started so young!!!! LOL
Onto pregnancy news.. At my appointment on Aug 5th I weighed in at a whopping 188 YIKES. My highest with Kaeden was 179 so I'm terrified how high that number is going to go. I guess considering I started out approx 35-40lbs heavier this time around then when I got pg with Kaeden I haven't gained near what I gained with Kaeden's pg, but I still hate knowing I am inching closer and closer to that 200lb mark. I have pretty consistently gained 1lb a week this pg and am feeling like a blowfish. Doc said things looked good although he is concerned that because I failed my 1hr GTT that baby could be on the bigger side even though I passed the 3hr. I told him this worries me also as Kaeden was 7lb13oz and I had problems getting him out. He was stuck behind my pubic bone. We also discussed watching my fluid level. I had next to no fluid left when they tried to break my water with kaeden and his head ended up all scratched up from them attempting numerous times to break my nonexistent water ... We don't want that to happen again. Doctor said that we'd watch things and if he wasn't close to coming on his own that we might help him out a few days early. Sounds like a great plan to me! Other then those 2 things everything looks and is wonderful though! Baby is moving up a storm and rolling kicking punching wiggling around in there. He's fun to watch. Every once in awhile Kaeden gets to feel him, although I"m not sure he really understands what he's feeling. Yesterday the neighbor came over to show me her owie on her thigh from falling and she instantly said WOW Jen you've DROPPED!!!!! I didnt' really notice but now Kris, Steven and Melissa are all saying I am definitely lower then I was before. GOOD!!!! I hope I have!!! LOL Any progress I'll take at this point. I'll be 36 weeks on Tuesday so am only one week away from FULL TERM. I'm trying not to get too excited about this though as Kaeden didn't seem to know what Full Term meant and planned on staying in there forever cooking away! LOL
Well I should go now, we have the girls this weekend and I am trying to motivate myself to get some cleaning done. It's a neverending battle around here ;) I had it nice and clean Thurs/Fri and today you wouldn't even know it!
On a lighter note, Kaeden is about to turn the big 3!!!!!! Thank god for Grandma helping get stuff for his party! We'll probably do the part Sunday Aug 28th as long as Baby "K" Doesn't come along and mess those plans up ;) I sure hope he's not born THAT close to Kaeden's birthday, I wouldn't like that very much at all. He's having The Incredibles theme for his party and is stuck on the idea that he is getting a power ranger toy for his birthday gift ... The things kids come up with. Taylor planted the power ranger idea in his head and it's now STUCK. 3yr old minds are so impressionable when they want to be, why can't they be impressionable and listen to the things mommy and daddy tell them like they listen to their peers? Oh wait, that's just children/kids/teens in general isn't it? I just didn't realize it started so young!!!! LOL
Onto pregnancy news.. At my appointment on Aug 5th I weighed in at a whopping 188 YIKES. My highest with Kaeden was 179 so I'm terrified how high that number is going to go. I guess considering I started out approx 35-40lbs heavier this time around then when I got pg with Kaeden I haven't gained near what I gained with Kaeden's pg, but I still hate knowing I am inching closer and closer to that 200lb mark. I have pretty consistently gained 1lb a week this pg and am feeling like a blowfish. Doc said things looked good although he is concerned that because I failed my 1hr GTT that baby could be on the bigger side even though I passed the 3hr. I told him this worries me also as Kaeden was 7lb13oz and I had problems getting him out. He was stuck behind my pubic bone. We also discussed watching my fluid level. I had next to no fluid left when they tried to break my water with kaeden and his head ended up all scratched up from them attempting numerous times to break my nonexistent water ... We don't want that to happen again. Doctor said that we'd watch things and if he wasn't close to coming on his own that we might help him out a few days early. Sounds like a great plan to me! Other then those 2 things everything looks and is wonderful though! Baby is moving up a storm and rolling kicking punching wiggling around in there. He's fun to watch. Every once in awhile Kaeden gets to feel him, although I"m not sure he really understands what he's feeling. Yesterday the neighbor came over to show me her owie on her thigh from falling and she instantly said WOW Jen you've DROPPED!!!!! I didnt' really notice but now Kris, Steven and Melissa are all saying I am definitely lower then I was before. GOOD!!!! I hope I have!!! LOL Any progress I'll take at this point. I'll be 36 weeks on Tuesday so am only one week away from FULL TERM. I'm trying not to get too excited about this though as Kaeden didn't seem to know what Full Term meant and planned on staying in there forever cooking away! LOL
Well I should go now, we have the girls this weekend and I am trying to motivate myself to get some cleaning done. It's a neverending battle around here ;) I had it nice and clean Thurs/Fri and today you wouldn't even know it!
Monday, July 25, 2005
How Could I Forget?!?!
I totally forgot to add one of the biggest accomplishments with Kaeden since giving birth to him LOL HE IS COMPLETELY POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO YIPPEEEEEEEEE~!! He has been completely Diaper Free since June 11th and we haven't looked back. In the past 2-3 weeks we have also completely poopy trained. I am so proud of him! I was seriously considering taking my mommy up on her offer to take Kaeden for the weekend and train him for me, but this is something that I really wanted to do by myself instead of taking the easy way out and we did it! I can't take all the credit as Kaeden pretty much did this on his own. I'm not sure what clicked in his head but he decided he was ready and it was time and it's gone wonderful. He is now the proud owner of 2 fish and a 2.5 gallon aquarium. We originally bought him a Beta Fish named Wally but Wally only lasted 4 days. Now he has a Tiger Barb named Tiger and a swordtail named Spike. So far we've kept them alive and he looks forward to feeding them at nighttime before bed. That is our incentive to KEEP him pooping and peeing on the potty ;) As long as he doesn't have accidents he gets to feed his fish before bedtime and he just loves it. He is still in pull ups at night as he is in our bed and I'm not prepared for4 him to wet MY bed LOL He rarely wakes up wet but I'd rather be safe then sorry at this point ;) Just wanted to make sure and type this up as I forgot to add it to my original blog entry! Gotta run, He's bouncing off the walls!!!!!!
How the months are flying!!
WOW how the past month has flown by!! I originally planned on updating often but it's not happening LOL It doesn't help that my computer has had serious issues lately and makes it difficult to post anywhere!
The weekend of June 24-25 Steven, Kaeden, Grandma and I went to Seattle for the weekend. We took Kaeden to Point Defiance Zoo and he just loved it. We then stayed in a motel and drove up to the Seattle Science Center on Sunday. We had a great weekend away from home just doing some fun stuff with family. Kaeden's favorite thing was the Polar Bear who was pounding his head on this drum like thing and he still is talking about it LOL
Fourth of July weekend was great. On Friday evening we had a small party at the house here and I made a cake to celebrate Tate's birthday as we had originally planned on going camping with Christina and Tim and would miss out on Tate's birthday on Sunday the 3rd. It was a nice get together and the kids had fun running around out back. Cake didn't turn out to badly either if I do say so myself ;) I was also very relieved to find out that after failing my 1hr gtt that I passed my 3hr gtt and was allowed to eat cake YIPPEEE I was so worried about having Gestational Diabetes, but I found out I was in the clear just in time!! Saturday the 2nd we went boating with Christina, Kaity, Tim and Tim's dad and sisters. It was a blast. Kaeden LOVES being on the water and in the water and around the water so he just was in heaven. I took Kaeden on his first jet ski ride and we ended up playing on it for 45min or so. He LOVED it and had absolutely no fear. He kept telling me to GO FASTER MOM even after I hit a couple waves that made his face smack onto the handlebars of the jet ski. My little tough guy that's for sure! We then bbq'd at Tim's parents house that evening before coming home. It was really relaxing. Sunday the 3rd we met up with Steven's family in Moses Lake at Chico's Pizza as Tony and Jeanne were driving through and wanted us to all get together. Both brothers were there, Steven's mom and his neice Sydney were there. Kaeden loves playing with his cousins and had a blast playing video games with daddy. We also went over that evening to Lindsay's house to set off fireworks with them as Lindsay didn't plan on doing fireworks on the 4th because she didn't want to get to bed to late. On the 4th we had Christina, Tim and Kaity over for a bbq and fireworks. Tim brought some great ones that went up in the air. Apparently you can buy those in Moses Lake! If I'd known that I would have driven down there for fireworks ;) After bbq'ing and letting off some small fireworks we headed out to Mike and Deb's to see them set off the Canon. WOW that thing has some boom behind it!!! They were all partying and getting quite intoxicated and shooting off some BEAUTIFUL fireworks that were bought in the Seattle area. After hanging out there for an hour or so we came back home to let off our fireworks. Kaeden was enjoyign himself but starting to get tired and grumpy and wanted to go in and go to bed. I think he was getting upset as the neighbor was letting off ground bloomers and throwing them up in the air, making them explode when they hit the street so I made him stop that and Kaeden seemed to do better. Had the cops show up as someone called them saying we were blocking the street, but didn't get in trouble and told us to go ahead and finish up our fireworks even though it was 1/2 hour past time we were "supposed" to be done letting them off. I had no idea there was a fireworks curfew on the 4th LOL Guess ya learn something new everyday huh!?! All in all it was a great weekend and I didn't want it to end!
The weekend of July 9th Steven, Kaeden, Tatum, Triniti and I all loaded up in the van and headed to White Salmon, WA to my Grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party. It was great to get together with all of the family and to have our whole family with us. We ended up with a couple of booboo's on the kids (especially Triniti) which we expected but all of us had tons of fun and a great time visiting. This was the girls first trip to my grandparents house so it was a totally new adventure for them. Triniti met up with their basement steps by taking a tumble down them and got a nice black eye poor thing. I suspected with all the kids being there that one of them would fall down... Sure enough I was right! I'm shocked Kaeden hasn't made that tumble yet! His day will come I'm sure. We also took all the kids down to the Jewett Creek to play in the water. Wow there was almost no water in the creek this time! I've never seen it so low before! The kids had a blast wading around in the shallow water, throwing rocks in and making splashes and just being kids. Uncle Jared found a few crawdads for us and we brought one home in some litter that was in the creek. Someone left a peanut container with a lid floating in the creek so we did our good deed, picked it up and put it to good use ;) Unfortunately ( or fortunately if you ask me!!) crawdad did not survive the drive home. The kids did surprisingly well on the long drive which makes me a little less nervous about doing it again sometime :) They're all growing up so much!
Those were our exciting weekends of the month so far :) Chris and Tim had to leave a bit early but we did get to celebrate Kaity's 1st birthday a little early with them. Tim is leaving today for Iraq and we are all very nervous and worried about him. Please say a prayer that he makes it home safe and sound in 6-8months..... I can't imagine being Christina at this time.. I'd be a basketcase!
This little guy is my mover and shaker inside me... I know Kaeden moved around a lot, but usually only if I pushed on him and pissed him off or if he got the hiccups. Baby "K" is MUCH more active. Unfortunately he HAS discovered my ribs, something Kaeden never had any interest in and is making me very uncomfortable especially at night. I just look at my belly and think to myself "how will I make it another 7 weeks?" I am 33 weeks tomorrow.... 7 weeks to my EDD 4 weeks to "full term" I used to want him to come out late to push his birthday further from Kaeden's but at this point I'm ready for them to share a birthday if it means he'll be here sooner LOL Don't get me wrong, I am loving being pg, but this time around have gotten much bigger, am less active and therefore am more miserable. Teach me to be lazy!! I am cherishing every movement, every kick, every roll as I know this will most likely be my last baby. Kaeden is getting so excited for his brother to be born too. The other day I was going to the bathroom (#2) and Kaeden comes in and says "mom are you pushing the baby out?" LOL I said no... He says "are you going poop?" yes dear... *blush* We watch lots of Discovery Health Channel ;) Then the other night I was asking Kaeden if he was ready for his baby brother to be born and to come out of mommy's belly? He said "yup, PUSH mom, PUSH the baby out now!" He's too funny. He also informed me that he is not cute, he is a big boy and BABIES are cute.... Why do they have to grow up so quickly?!?!?! I just know once this baby is born I am going to miss my one on one time with Kaeden and I am really going to miss him coming up to me, wrapping his arms around my huge belly and telling me "I love my baby and I love you mommy" or just coming up to kiss his baby or hug his baby etc. It's something that only I get to experience with "my boys" and as selfish as it sounds I am not quite ready to give it up yet, even though I am ready to have the baby soon.
Well there's my update for now. I will try to update a little quicker next time ;) My Baby Shower is Aug 6th and my next OB appt is Aug 5th so if I haven't updated before that I will try to do so soon after :)
The weekend of June 24-25 Steven, Kaeden, Grandma and I went to Seattle for the weekend. We took Kaeden to Point Defiance Zoo and he just loved it. We then stayed in a motel and drove up to the Seattle Science Center on Sunday. We had a great weekend away from home just doing some fun stuff with family. Kaeden's favorite thing was the Polar Bear who was pounding his head on this drum like thing and he still is talking about it LOL
Fourth of July weekend was great. On Friday evening we had a small party at the house here and I made a cake to celebrate Tate's birthday as we had originally planned on going camping with Christina and Tim and would miss out on Tate's birthday on Sunday the 3rd. It was a nice get together and the kids had fun running around out back. Cake didn't turn out to badly either if I do say so myself ;) I was also very relieved to find out that after failing my 1hr gtt that I passed my 3hr gtt and was allowed to eat cake YIPPEEE I was so worried about having Gestational Diabetes, but I found out I was in the clear just in time!! Saturday the 2nd we went boating with Christina, Kaity, Tim and Tim's dad and sisters. It was a blast. Kaeden LOVES being on the water and in the water and around the water so he just was in heaven. I took Kaeden on his first jet ski ride and we ended up playing on it for 45min or so. He LOVED it and had absolutely no fear. He kept telling me to GO FASTER MOM even after I hit a couple waves that made his face smack onto the handlebars of the jet ski. My little tough guy that's for sure! We then bbq'd at Tim's parents house that evening before coming home. It was really relaxing. Sunday the 3rd we met up with Steven's family in Moses Lake at Chico's Pizza as Tony and Jeanne were driving through and wanted us to all get together. Both brothers were there, Steven's mom and his neice Sydney were there. Kaeden loves playing with his cousins and had a blast playing video games with daddy. We also went over that evening to Lindsay's house to set off fireworks with them as Lindsay didn't plan on doing fireworks on the 4th because she didn't want to get to bed to late. On the 4th we had Christina, Tim and Kaity over for a bbq and fireworks. Tim brought some great ones that went up in the air. Apparently you can buy those in Moses Lake! If I'd known that I would have driven down there for fireworks ;) After bbq'ing and letting off some small fireworks we headed out to Mike and Deb's to see them set off the Canon. WOW that thing has some boom behind it!!! They were all partying and getting quite intoxicated and shooting off some BEAUTIFUL fireworks that were bought in the Seattle area. After hanging out there for an hour or so we came back home to let off our fireworks. Kaeden was enjoyign himself but starting to get tired and grumpy and wanted to go in and go to bed. I think he was getting upset as the neighbor was letting off ground bloomers and throwing them up in the air, making them explode when they hit the street so I made him stop that and Kaeden seemed to do better. Had the cops show up as someone called them saying we were blocking the street, but didn't get in trouble and told us to go ahead and finish up our fireworks even though it was 1/2 hour past time we were "supposed" to be done letting them off. I had no idea there was a fireworks curfew on the 4th LOL Guess ya learn something new everyday huh!?! All in all it was a great weekend and I didn't want it to end!
The weekend of July 9th Steven, Kaeden, Tatum, Triniti and I all loaded up in the van and headed to White Salmon, WA to my Grandparents 50th wedding anniversary party. It was great to get together with all of the family and to have our whole family with us. We ended up with a couple of booboo's on the kids (especially Triniti) which we expected but all of us had tons of fun and a great time visiting. This was the girls first trip to my grandparents house so it was a totally new adventure for them. Triniti met up with their basement steps by taking a tumble down them and got a nice black eye poor thing. I suspected with all the kids being there that one of them would fall down... Sure enough I was right! I'm shocked Kaeden hasn't made that tumble yet! His day will come I'm sure. We also took all the kids down to the Jewett Creek to play in the water. Wow there was almost no water in the creek this time! I've never seen it so low before! The kids had a blast wading around in the shallow water, throwing rocks in and making splashes and just being kids. Uncle Jared found a few crawdads for us and we brought one home in some litter that was in the creek. Someone left a peanut container with a lid floating in the creek so we did our good deed, picked it up and put it to good use ;) Unfortunately ( or fortunately if you ask me!!) crawdad did not survive the drive home. The kids did surprisingly well on the long drive which makes me a little less nervous about doing it again sometime :) They're all growing up so much!
Those were our exciting weekends of the month so far :) Chris and Tim had to leave a bit early but we did get to celebrate Kaity's 1st birthday a little early with them. Tim is leaving today for Iraq and we are all very nervous and worried about him. Please say a prayer that he makes it home safe and sound in 6-8months..... I can't imagine being Christina at this time.. I'd be a basketcase!
This little guy is my mover and shaker inside me... I know Kaeden moved around a lot, but usually only if I pushed on him and pissed him off or if he got the hiccups. Baby "K" is MUCH more active. Unfortunately he HAS discovered my ribs, something Kaeden never had any interest in and is making me very uncomfortable especially at night. I just look at my belly and think to myself "how will I make it another 7 weeks?" I am 33 weeks tomorrow.... 7 weeks to my EDD 4 weeks to "full term" I used to want him to come out late to push his birthday further from Kaeden's but at this point I'm ready for them to share a birthday if it means he'll be here sooner LOL Don't get me wrong, I am loving being pg, but this time around have gotten much bigger, am less active and therefore am more miserable. Teach me to be lazy!! I am cherishing every movement, every kick, every roll as I know this will most likely be my last baby. Kaeden is getting so excited for his brother to be born too. The other day I was going to the bathroom (#2) and Kaeden comes in and says "mom are you pushing the baby out?" LOL I said no... He says "are you going poop?" yes dear... *blush* We watch lots of Discovery Health Channel ;) Then the other night I was asking Kaeden if he was ready for his baby brother to be born and to come out of mommy's belly? He said "yup, PUSH mom, PUSH the baby out now!" He's too funny. He also informed me that he is not cute, he is a big boy and BABIES are cute.... Why do they have to grow up so quickly?!?!?! I just know once this baby is born I am going to miss my one on one time with Kaeden and I am really going to miss him coming up to me, wrapping his arms around my huge belly and telling me "I love my baby and I love you mommy" or just coming up to kiss his baby or hug his baby etc. It's something that only I get to experience with "my boys" and as selfish as it sounds I am not quite ready to give it up yet, even though I am ready to have the baby soon.
Well there's my update for now. I will try to update a little quicker next time ;) My Baby Shower is Aug 6th and my next OB appt is Aug 5th so if I haven't updated before that I will try to do so soon after :)
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Welcome to the THIRD TRIMESTER!!!!
I have tried to come update this blog 5 times this morning and the window won't stay open, so here's hoping that I get through this update without it closing or I may never update again!!!
I know I"ve slacked big time, and from reading my last entry my little man has definitely changed! I am no longer "starting" to feel movements, this little guy is moving left right up down circle here thump there. He goes from bumping up so high he could kick me in the boobs to clawing with little fingers or toes on my hip bone. I love feeling him tumble around in my belly. I am getting worried though as he seems to be MORE active then Kaeden was... therefore I'm afraid he might be MORE difficult then Kaeden was!!! I'm hoping I'm wrong on that one! LOL Although it is nice that he isn't permanently embedded on my bladder like Kaeden was. Last night I watched him kicking the remote control around on my belly, it was great.
Kaeden is almost 1 1/2 weeks potty trained! YIPPEEEEE We've gone with no diapers since June 11th and not ONE peepee accident! Although we're still working on the pooping in the potty and not his big boy undies we are way further along in this potty training thing then I expected us to be right now! He's doing wonderfully and making it so easy on me~!! I never have to ask him if he needs to go, he just goes into the bathroom, pulls down his undies, lifts the seat, pees, flushes and then comes and tells me he went! It's WONDERFUL! Looks like I will NOT have 2 in diapers ;) ;) ;) YAHOOOOO I'll get 3mo diaper free ;) As soon as he gets a little better with the pooping in the potty he'll be the proud new owner of a fish! And Grandma will be bringing him up a new bike from Grandpa this weekend as a potty training gift. My little man is turning into quite the grown up big man *sniff sniff*
Since my last update Ross and Marie had their baby boy. He was born June 10th at 7lb4oz 20in long. Lucas Jeremiah. Kaeden was just in love with him and warmed my heart with how badly he wanted to hold him. I think he's going to be a wonderful big brother and I get more excited everyday for him to meet the new baby! I think I'm more excited for Kaeden to meet his brother then I am to meet my new son! LOL Weird mommy I am I guess.
The weather this weekend for Fathers day was really nice and we had the girls. We filled up the pool and bbq'd in the backyard and had a relaxing Sunday. Yesterday it hit 91 and was hot so I let Kaeden and Taylor play out back in the pool. They had a blast. I even took Sydney out for about 20min before it was quiet time. Although keeping her IN the pool was no easy task LOL Today it's supposed to hit 95, it's up to 86 as I type at 11am and the kids are begging for the pool again. I'm thinking I'll let them run through the sprinkler for awhile. Kaeden seems to get bored really quickly if I'm not out there watching him play and I don't feel like sitting in the 90 degree heat outside watching them right now LOL I'm enjoying sitting INSIDE in the a/c ;)
Well I think Sydney has woken from her nap and it's time to get Kaeden out of time out. Crossing my fingers that this actually posts and does not disappear before I get it posted!!!!!!
I know I"ve slacked big time, and from reading my last entry my little man has definitely changed! I am no longer "starting" to feel movements, this little guy is moving left right up down circle here thump there. He goes from bumping up so high he could kick me in the boobs to clawing with little fingers or toes on my hip bone. I love feeling him tumble around in my belly. I am getting worried though as he seems to be MORE active then Kaeden was... therefore I'm afraid he might be MORE difficult then Kaeden was!!! I'm hoping I'm wrong on that one! LOL Although it is nice that he isn't permanently embedded on my bladder like Kaeden was. Last night I watched him kicking the remote control around on my belly, it was great.
Kaeden is almost 1 1/2 weeks potty trained! YIPPEEEEE We've gone with no diapers since June 11th and not ONE peepee accident! Although we're still working on the pooping in the potty and not his big boy undies we are way further along in this potty training thing then I expected us to be right now! He's doing wonderfully and making it so easy on me~!! I never have to ask him if he needs to go, he just goes into the bathroom, pulls down his undies, lifts the seat, pees, flushes and then comes and tells me he went! It's WONDERFUL! Looks like I will NOT have 2 in diapers ;) ;) ;) YAHOOOOO I'll get 3mo diaper free ;) As soon as he gets a little better with the pooping in the potty he'll be the proud new owner of a fish! And Grandma will be bringing him up a new bike from Grandpa this weekend as a potty training gift. My little man is turning into quite the grown up big man *sniff sniff*
Since my last update Ross and Marie had their baby boy. He was born June 10th at 7lb4oz 20in long. Lucas Jeremiah. Kaeden was just in love with him and warmed my heart with how badly he wanted to hold him. I think he's going to be a wonderful big brother and I get more excited everyday for him to meet the new baby! I think I'm more excited for Kaeden to meet his brother then I am to meet my new son! LOL Weird mommy I am I guess.
The weather this weekend for Fathers day was really nice and we had the girls. We filled up the pool and bbq'd in the backyard and had a relaxing Sunday. Yesterday it hit 91 and was hot so I let Kaeden and Taylor play out back in the pool. They had a blast. I even took Sydney out for about 20min before it was quiet time. Although keeping her IN the pool was no easy task LOL Today it's supposed to hit 95, it's up to 86 as I type at 11am and the kids are begging for the pool again. I'm thinking I'll let them run through the sprinkler for awhile. Kaeden seems to get bored really quickly if I'm not out there watching him play and I don't feel like sitting in the 90 degree heat outside watching them right now LOL I'm enjoying sitting INSIDE in the a/c ;)
Well I think Sydney has woken from her nap and it's time to get Kaeden out of time out. Crossing my fingers that this actually posts and does not disappear before I get it posted!!!!!!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
22 weeks down!!
Wow how the time is flying this pregnancy! Bean is starting to wiggle around a little more this week and I'm loving it. I can't wait for him to be bigger so I can poke at his little baby parts like I did Kaeden LOL Still debating on a name for him, although we're now focusing on same initials as Kaeden.. So we're looking for a K S O name for bean also. I'm liking Kyler Shea or Konner Shea... Now to convince daddy..... LOL I'm finally feeling some movement up above my belly button, although the majority is still WAY low in my stomach. It's nice to feel him up higher because it helps me to realize that I"m not just getting fat, there is a baby in there that's around 10inches or so long! LOL I still just feel Fat and blubbery all the time, not feeling very "pregnant" yet...
Had a great Mothers Day on Sunday. Steven, Kaeden and I went to breakfast Sun morning and then we went to his moms house Sunday afternoon. It was fun. Joel, Kari and the boys were there so Kaeden got to play with his cousins while we had a bbq. When we got home Steven went over to help Mike load stuff for the yard sale over to our garage. The rest of this week will be full of me and Lindsay trying to organize and get set up for the yard sale on Fri and Sat. I hope to make some big money! LOL
Spent a lot of time online yesterday researching motel prices for the last weekend in June. We're going to take Kaeden to the zoo and Pacific Science Center up in Tacoma and Seattle. Lindsay, Mike, Sydney and Taylor are going also. Not sure if they're going to want to do the things that we're doing, haven't talked to her about it yet. Will do that today and then I'm going to reserve our room today so I make sure and get the room i want and a POOL! Gotta have a pool so when we're done walking around staring at animals all day we can relax and lounge in the pool or hot tub ;) Plus Kaeden needs a pool just cause I want it for him so bad LOL Kaeden isn't spoiled because he asks for things, Kaeden is spoiled because I can't help but give him anything/everything that I think would be fun for him or that I knew as a kid I Wanted so very badly!! LOL Melissa might be meeting up with us at the zoo with the girls which would be totally awesome!! Kaeden would get to experience the zoo with his sisters which would be too cool! Hope it all works out that way!
Ok just had to do a quick update before the month passed as I know I"ll be pretty busy the rest of this week and weekend. Oh yes and I rescheduled my Dr appt from this Friday to next Friday at 9am so it doesn't mess with my yard sale LOL TTYL!!!!
Had a great Mothers Day on Sunday. Steven, Kaeden and I went to breakfast Sun morning and then we went to his moms house Sunday afternoon. It was fun. Joel, Kari and the boys were there so Kaeden got to play with his cousins while we had a bbq. When we got home Steven went over to help Mike load stuff for the yard sale over to our garage. The rest of this week will be full of me and Lindsay trying to organize and get set up for the yard sale on Fri and Sat. I hope to make some big money! LOL
Spent a lot of time online yesterday researching motel prices for the last weekend in June. We're going to take Kaeden to the zoo and Pacific Science Center up in Tacoma and Seattle. Lindsay, Mike, Sydney and Taylor are going also. Not sure if they're going to want to do the things that we're doing, haven't talked to her about it yet. Will do that today and then I'm going to reserve our room today so I make sure and get the room i want and a POOL! Gotta have a pool so when we're done walking around staring at animals all day we can relax and lounge in the pool or hot tub ;) Plus Kaeden needs a pool just cause I want it for him so bad LOL Kaeden isn't spoiled because he asks for things, Kaeden is spoiled because I can't help but give him anything/everything that I think would be fun for him or that I knew as a kid I Wanted so very badly!! LOL Melissa might be meeting up with us at the zoo with the girls which would be totally awesome!! Kaeden would get to experience the zoo with his sisters which would be too cool! Hope it all works out that way!
Ok just had to do a quick update before the month passed as I know I"ll be pretty busy the rest of this week and weekend. Oh yes and I rescheduled my Dr appt from this Friday to next Friday at 9am so it doesn't mess with my yard sale LOL TTYL!!!!
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Daddy's Turn!!
Yesterday went much better then I expected. I had 2 sicko kids but the day went pretty smoothly. Kaeden didn't throw up anymore nor did Sydney yesterday, although Kaeden ran a fever of 103 all day long and napped quite a lot. By last night his fever was at 100.2 and this morning he seems to have none at all. I didn't give him any motrin as I was hoping the fever would kill whatever's been bugging him the past week. Seems fine today!
Last night we were laying in bed and Bean was moving around a bit. Steven stuck his hand on my belly and got to feel his FIRST KICK WOOHOOO!!!!!!!! We were pretty excited about that :) I've been feeling him move around for a couple weeks but nothing like Kaeden was, although this week he seems to be moving a bit more and kicking at night before bedtime. After I drank a bunch of Kool-Aid yesterday he did a little dance for me too ;) It was pretty cute.
This morning I checked the mail and Kaeden had a care package from Grandma. He sure LOVED getting mail sent to him!!! He thought that was pretty cool. Those little big boy undies Grandma bought him are SO DANG CUTE! they look like mini steven undies! Now if only he'd learn to use them and not pee in them LOL He's excited to wear his new PJ's from Grandma also and I had to convince him to hold off until tonight to put them on. Thx Grandma for the care package ;) Made him feel pretty special. Taylor gets mail a lot from her Grandma so he kept telling me he had mail like Taylor!!!
Ok just a small update this time :) Had to brag on my lil man feeling better, him enjoying his mail and my littler man kicking his daddy last night ;)
Last night we were laying in bed and Bean was moving around a bit. Steven stuck his hand on my belly and got to feel his FIRST KICK WOOHOOO!!!!!!!! We were pretty excited about that :) I've been feeling him move around for a couple weeks but nothing like Kaeden was, although this week he seems to be moving a bit more and kicking at night before bedtime. After I drank a bunch of Kool-Aid yesterday he did a little dance for me too ;) It was pretty cute.
This morning I checked the mail and Kaeden had a care package from Grandma. He sure LOVED getting mail sent to him!!! He thought that was pretty cool. Those little big boy undies Grandma bought him are SO DANG CUTE! they look like mini steven undies! Now if only he'd learn to use them and not pee in them LOL He's excited to wear his new PJ's from Grandma also and I had to convince him to hold off until tonight to put them on. Thx Grandma for the care package ;) Made him feel pretty special. Taylor gets mail a lot from her Grandma so he kept telling me he had mail like Taylor!!!
Ok just a small update this time :) Had to brag on my lil man feeling better, him enjoying his mail and my littler man kicking his daddy last night ;)
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Sickies GO AWAY!
I hate when my little guy gets sick! We went to my moms house this weekend to visit and had such a wonderful time! Drove down Fri evening and surprised her and Grandma Marcelle at their Scrapathon thing they were at. Kaeden sure loves visiting Gma! Sat morning we got up and drove to Walla Walla to visit Grandma Frieda since we were so close with nothing better to do. Jared and Tammy went up also so she got quite the houseful. Kaeden fell asleep about 20min before we got there so he was a tad on the grumpy side. Although he did run and give Gma Frieda a big hug :) She tried to lift him but she's so weak it was not happening! She's not doing very well so I am so glad that we took Kaeden to see her. She thinks he hung the moon! She also got the news that Jared and Tammy are expecting so she's got 2 more great grandbabies on the way. I hope that it gives her something to look forward to as I'd for her to be able to meet both of the new bundles. After visiting with her we all went shopping looking for maternity for me and some t-shirts for Kaeden as he's outgrown all his short sleeved shirts and they look like belly shirts on him LOL As usual I found nothing that fit me correctly :p But did get Kaeden some cute shirts for great prices! My mom also bought Bean a few outfits :) I love seeing those itty bitty baby outfits. It hasn't even hit me yet that in 4mo I'll have another baby! It's going so quickly!!!!!!! When we got back to mom and dad's house Sat night Grandma and Grandpa Goodwin came over as did Jared and Tammy and we all had pizza. After eating pizza Steven Kaeden and I went over to visit MIcheal and Dana Hampton and meet their new little girl Riley Marie. She was born March 22nd and weighed 8lb12oz. She's so big for a newborn!!! Looks just like her Grandpa Gene if you ask me!!!
Saturday night we stayed with jared and Tammy and then Sunday we all had a lazy day as Kaeden woke up at 7am throwing up! Poor little guy threw up off and on all day Sunday until he fell asleep for his nap around 1ish. We all napped a bit and then I started packing things up while Kaeden and Steven slept. We left Hermiston at 4 to head to Tri Cities to see BLUE'S CLUES LIVE!!!!! Too bad Kaeden was sick. He really enjoyed the show although he sat through the first half in total AWE at what he was seeing LOL After the intermission he did clap and join in a bit more and seemed to have some fun! It's all he's talked about now since Sunday LOL So I know he enjoyed himself. We got home around 9-10ish Sun night.
Monday Kaeden seemed fine most the day although he did throw up once, then Mon night he woke up at 3am throwing up every 5min. Poor lil trooper. He refused to throw up in a bowl and INSISTED that he throw up in the toilet! I think he's seen mommy have morning sickness a few too many times as he was a pro at puking! How sad is that? he went straight to the toilet everytime he had to "spit" as we call it around here and did his thing in there. It made me wanna cry to see him feeling so yucky but he handled it like quite the little man. Never got upset about it, just matter of factly told us "I need to spit" and then we'd put him on the floor out of bed and he'd run to the bathroom.
Yesterday he seemed fine so I figured he was all better and was in a great mood all day long... Then last night right before bed he felt really warm and was acting a little lethargic/delirious so I took his temp and it was almost 104.... *sigh* we got some Little Tummy's medicine in him and some Ibuprofin and he slept great all night long. Unfortunately this morning he's still got 103 fever. I hate to take him to the Dr when I know there is nothing they can do for him. Sydney also woke up last night and had thrown up everywhere so it's obviously a bug of some type. I'm just hoping I don't catch it. Not looking forward to the day full of sickie kiddos today....
Last night I got to hold the neighbors new baby :) She just turned 2mo old and is so sweet. She was actually really grumpy and crying and Jay the daddy passed her off to me LOL Of course I didn't want to turn down the opportunity to hold a baby, but on the other hand I hate having baby crying their little heads off when I'm holding it and mommy and daddy are right there LOL Although took me about 5min and I had her asleep ;) Good practice for me in case Bean is anything like Kaeden was!
I'm having a VERy difficult time with my weight right now. I'm feeling like such a cow. I want to diet so badly and I know that I can't. I could eat healthier, but it's gonna take some serious dedication to lose this weight and I can't do it while I'm pregnant. I haven't even gained that much weight, I just started out so much heavier this time around then I did with my pregnancy with Kaeden that I look fatter now then I did at 9+mo with Kaeden..... Oh well, enough whining for now.. guess Bean, kaeden and I will have to go on lots of walks while the weather permits it after He's born! ;) Ok clingy Kaeden is making it difficult to type so enough rambling for now...
Saturday night we stayed with jared and Tammy and then Sunday we all had a lazy day as Kaeden woke up at 7am throwing up! Poor little guy threw up off and on all day Sunday until he fell asleep for his nap around 1ish. We all napped a bit and then I started packing things up while Kaeden and Steven slept. We left Hermiston at 4 to head to Tri Cities to see BLUE'S CLUES LIVE!!!!! Too bad Kaeden was sick. He really enjoyed the show although he sat through the first half in total AWE at what he was seeing LOL After the intermission he did clap and join in a bit more and seemed to have some fun! It's all he's talked about now since Sunday LOL So I know he enjoyed himself. We got home around 9-10ish Sun night.
Monday Kaeden seemed fine most the day although he did throw up once, then Mon night he woke up at 3am throwing up every 5min. Poor lil trooper. He refused to throw up in a bowl and INSISTED that he throw up in the toilet! I think he's seen mommy have morning sickness a few too many times as he was a pro at puking! How sad is that? he went straight to the toilet everytime he had to "spit" as we call it around here and did his thing in there. It made me wanna cry to see him feeling so yucky but he handled it like quite the little man. Never got upset about it, just matter of factly told us "I need to spit" and then we'd put him on the floor out of bed and he'd run to the bathroom.
Yesterday he seemed fine so I figured he was all better and was in a great mood all day long... Then last night right before bed he felt really warm and was acting a little lethargic/delirious so I took his temp and it was almost 104.... *sigh* we got some Little Tummy's medicine in him and some Ibuprofin and he slept great all night long. Unfortunately this morning he's still got 103 fever. I hate to take him to the Dr when I know there is nothing they can do for him. Sydney also woke up last night and had thrown up everywhere so it's obviously a bug of some type. I'm just hoping I don't catch it. Not looking forward to the day full of sickie kiddos today....
Last night I got to hold the neighbors new baby :) She just turned 2mo old and is so sweet. She was actually really grumpy and crying and Jay the daddy passed her off to me LOL Of course I didn't want to turn down the opportunity to hold a baby, but on the other hand I hate having baby crying their little heads off when I'm holding it and mommy and daddy are right there LOL Although took me about 5min and I had her asleep ;) Good practice for me in case Bean is anything like Kaeden was!
I'm having a VERy difficult time with my weight right now. I'm feeling like such a cow. I want to diet so badly and I know that I can't. I could eat healthier, but it's gonna take some serious dedication to lose this weight and I can't do it while I'm pregnant. I haven't even gained that much weight, I just started out so much heavier this time around then I did with my pregnancy with Kaeden that I look fatter now then I did at 9+mo with Kaeden..... Oh well, enough whining for now.. guess Bean, kaeden and I will have to go on lots of walks while the weather permits it after He's born! ;) Ok clingy Kaeden is making it difficult to type so enough rambling for now...
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Blue for Boy :) Thx Grandma 20 week update
Well I read the comment from my mom and decided I should change my blog color from pink to blue now that we're sure Bean is a baby boy.
This week Kaeden and I have the week to ourselves as Lindsay and her family are in Kansas visiting relatives. It's so nice to spend some alone time with my boy. We get along so much better when I'm only dealing with him LOL If only I could find a way to make 600-800mo without babysitting and still being able to be home with my children, I'd do it in a heartbeat!
Yesterday it was warm enough here that Kaeden and I went outside to enjoy the sunshine. Kaeden played in the sprinkler and had a great time. I relaxed and just read my book and tried to soak up some sun. Unfortunately I'm still white as a ghost LOL Last night Kaeden Steven and I got out of the house and went and watched the High School Varsity Soccer game. That was a first for me. Felt kinda strange to be at a sporting even rooting on Ephrata when all my life any sporting events I'd gone to I rooted for Hermiston! But it was lots of fun. Kaeden had a blast and we sat with our neighbors and their grandbaby. She is one week older then Sydney but SO DIFFERENT! She is crawling but not walking yet. She sat for the 1 1/2 hours we were there in one spot munching on some crackers and baby snacks and was perfectly content. I was jealous LOL If that had been Sydney we would have had to get a leash to keep her in one spot! She's so much like Kaeden was/is as a 12mo old... Oh wait, yesterday Sydney turned 13mo old!! Wow how the time passes. When Bean is born Sydney will be the same age as Kaeden was when she was born! That just blows me away. My little guy is growing up so quickly right before my eyes....
This morning we took Daddy to work and Kaeden was NOT happy that we did not get to stay there. SO after blogging I am going to clean up the house and if it's warm enough by 11-12ish Kaeden and I will play outside again in the water for something fun to do. Then if Kaeden has been a good little boy we will go have lunch with his daddy at work. I was thinking about taking my car to the carwash and De-Smoking it but not sure I've got enough quarters, and I don't think they've got a carpet shampooer there. Trying to figure out how I'm gonna get the smoke smell out of the car without shampooing. Man our van has a stinky smell in it too and I have no idea where that smell is coming from. It smells like something wet and rotten or like rotten milk and is just GROSS! We never smoked in there but I am 90% sure it was smokedi n before we bought it as I've seen evidence on the cig lighter and a burn or two on the van. Guess I'll have to fabreeze the vents LOL
Well I haven't got much more to update here so I'll sign off.
This week Kaeden and I have the week to ourselves as Lindsay and her family are in Kansas visiting relatives. It's so nice to spend some alone time with my boy. We get along so much better when I'm only dealing with him LOL If only I could find a way to make 600-800mo without babysitting and still being able to be home with my children, I'd do it in a heartbeat!
Yesterday it was warm enough here that Kaeden and I went outside to enjoy the sunshine. Kaeden played in the sprinkler and had a great time. I relaxed and just read my book and tried to soak up some sun. Unfortunately I'm still white as a ghost LOL Last night Kaeden Steven and I got out of the house and went and watched the High School Varsity Soccer game. That was a first for me. Felt kinda strange to be at a sporting even rooting on Ephrata when all my life any sporting events I'd gone to I rooted for Hermiston! But it was lots of fun. Kaeden had a blast and we sat with our neighbors and their grandbaby. She is one week older then Sydney but SO DIFFERENT! She is crawling but not walking yet. She sat for the 1 1/2 hours we were there in one spot munching on some crackers and baby snacks and was perfectly content. I was jealous LOL If that had been Sydney we would have had to get a leash to keep her in one spot! She's so much like Kaeden was/is as a 12mo old... Oh wait, yesterday Sydney turned 13mo old!! Wow how the time passes. When Bean is born Sydney will be the same age as Kaeden was when she was born! That just blows me away. My little guy is growing up so quickly right before my eyes....
This morning we took Daddy to work and Kaeden was NOT happy that we did not get to stay there. SO after blogging I am going to clean up the house and if it's warm enough by 11-12ish Kaeden and I will play outside again in the water for something fun to do. Then if Kaeden has been a good little boy we will go have lunch with his daddy at work. I was thinking about taking my car to the carwash and De-Smoking it but not sure I've got enough quarters, and I don't think they've got a carpet shampooer there. Trying to figure out how I'm gonna get the smoke smell out of the car without shampooing. Man our van has a stinky smell in it too and I have no idea where that smell is coming from. It smells like something wet and rotten or like rotten milk and is just GROSS! We never smoked in there but I am 90% sure it was smokedi n before we bought it as I've seen evidence on the cig lighter and a burn or two on the van. Guess I'll have to fabreeze the vents LOL
Well I haven't got much more to update here so I'll sign off.
Friday, April 22, 2005
And Kaeden Is Having A Little..................
BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had my 18 week appt Friday April 15th and that was also my big ultrasound. Kaeden and my mom went with me and we got to see Bean in there kicking and wiggling around. That little man was in every position he could possibly wiggle into during the u/s LOL I enjoyed seeing him so much as did Kaeden and my Mom, although Kaeden began to get bored after not too long. On the drive down to the u/s appt Kaeden informed me that he wanted a little Sister.. He did not want a little boy he wanted it to be a girl. Luckily when we informed him that it was indeed a boy he seemed pretty ok with that. Now we've got to get him used to saying BROTHER as he usually just says Sisters in reference to Tate and Trin. All in all the appt went well and everything seemed to look great, I go back in 4 weeks on May 13th.. Yup Friday the 13th LOL But that's ok, I'm thinking with this pg 13 might just be a lucky number!. At the end of the blog I'll share a few photos of Bean :)
After the appt Kaeden and I were taken to lunch and treated by Grandma. What a great Grandma she is! Kaeden just adores her, and I worry about some jealousy issues come Sept and Dec when 2 new grandchildren move on in and upset his happy little life being the only grandchild LOL Yes I did say Dec also, as I found out right before my appt that my brother Jared and his girlfriend Tammy are expecting!!!!! WOOHOO~!!! I am so happy for them. My brother is the greatest guy in the world and will absolutely make the best dad. Heck he's such a great guy that we used his middle name Scott for Kaeden's middle name too in honor of him. Originally Tammy's EDD was Dec 13th but I talked to Jared last night and after an appt they've changed it to Dec 4th. I'm not believing anything until their appt next week on the 27th when they are HOPING to get an u/s to see how things are going in there. I'm saying a little prayer for them as Tammy has experienced 4 m/c's and this is always a scary time in pregnancy. Heck I'm almost 1/2 done cooking bean and I still worry every day that something horrid has happened to him.... I guess it's just being a concerned parent, and unfortunately once that lil one is born and you're holding him/her in your arms the worry does NOT go away!! Heck I think it gets worse!!! LOL To be a parent is to have neverending worry... *sigh* So I'll try to keep this blog updated with Tammy updates also ;)
I got a bit sidetracked earlier LOL After lunch with Gma we all came back to Ephrata and Gma babysat Kaeden and Sydney while Lindsay, Jared, Tammy, Steven and I went out for the night. it was So great. I haven't gone out and STAYED out that late in who knows how long. We were at the bar til 12:30 or so and then we drove to Moses Lake to get Denny's at all hours of the morning with a drunko Lindsay and Steven LOL It was a blast but I was DEFINITEY ready to fall into bed when we got back into town around 2:30-3AM. Lindsay was concerned that Tammy and I would be bored since we were the preggo's and couldn't drink but she was wrong LOL It's pretty entertaining to be the sober one enjoying the drunken show !!!!
Sat morning my mom ended up leaving around 1ish and Steven and Jared were gone golfing. So Tammy and I had the house to ourselves.. Oh yea and Kaeden LOL We just sat around chatting til our tummy's couldn't handle the wait anymore and made some sandwiches to hold us over til the guys got home from golfing and we ordered pizza. Sun morning we had waffles for breakfast and then Jared and Tammy left around 1-2ish. Steven and I were pretty much lazy the rest of the weekend...
This past week our neighbors inherited the cutest puppy ever! We've all named him Chico. They needed some help in order to keep him so Steven and I bought him a bag of puppy chow and a food dish... Kinda nice, all the joys of a puppy with very minial poo in our yard LOL He's come over to play a few times and made a poopy mess that we cleaned up but I just DO NOT want to do that on a day to day basis! Not to mention as much as Kaeden loves playing with the puppy, he gets very upset and frustrated cause Chico tends to use him for a chew toy LOL So I'm very happy that WE are not the proud new owners of Chico, but rather his new "family" with the title of Aunt and Uncles ;)
Today Kaeden and I got our hair cut... WOW It is difficult to try to force a 2yr old who does NOT WANT his hair cut to get it done.. I tried every bribe and punishment in the book I could think of LOL He finally gave in cause he didn't want to have to go home and get a nap.. Unfortunately after he was done with his haircut I had to make good on all my promises to him... Go pick out a movie, go to Mcdonalds, go see daddy...... LOL He did scream through most of the cutting process and now looks a bit nerdy to me as it's MUCH shorter then I wanted it, but he didn't climb out of the chair which he'd tried to do the first time we tried for the haircut this morning so I still had to reward him as promised. I can't wait for it to grow out about a weeks worth or so.. Then I think it'll look cute ;) It still looks cute, I just hate it when his bangs get cut so stinking short, makes his forhead look WAY too big.
Well enough updating for now, We've got the girls for the weekend and between 3 kids running through the house, and Steven wanting me to be involved and help him out a little I'm having a really hard time concentrating on this blog entry anyway... I'll try to post before another 3-4 weeks pass LOL Would sure make for some shorter easier entries.. Heck who am I kidding? I'd just talk more in detail about a few days instead of a few weeks LOL
I had my 18 week appt Friday April 15th and that was also my big ultrasound. Kaeden and my mom went with me and we got to see Bean in there kicking and wiggling around. That little man was in every position he could possibly wiggle into during the u/s LOL I enjoyed seeing him so much as did Kaeden and my Mom, although Kaeden began to get bored after not too long. On the drive down to the u/s appt Kaeden informed me that he wanted a little Sister.. He did not want a little boy he wanted it to be a girl. Luckily when we informed him that it was indeed a boy he seemed pretty ok with that. Now we've got to get him used to saying BROTHER as he usually just says Sisters in reference to Tate and Trin. All in all the appt went well and everything seemed to look great, I go back in 4 weeks on May 13th.. Yup Friday the 13th LOL But that's ok, I'm thinking with this pg 13 might just be a lucky number!. At the end of the blog I'll share a few photos of Bean :)
After the appt Kaeden and I were taken to lunch and treated by Grandma. What a great Grandma she is! Kaeden just adores her, and I worry about some jealousy issues come Sept and Dec when 2 new grandchildren move on in and upset his happy little life being the only grandchild LOL Yes I did say Dec also, as I found out right before my appt that my brother Jared and his girlfriend Tammy are expecting!!!!! WOOHOO~!!! I am so happy for them. My brother is the greatest guy in the world and will absolutely make the best dad. Heck he's such a great guy that we used his middle name Scott for Kaeden's middle name too in honor of him. Originally Tammy's EDD was Dec 13th but I talked to Jared last night and after an appt they've changed it to Dec 4th. I'm not believing anything until their appt next week on the 27th when they are HOPING to get an u/s to see how things are going in there. I'm saying a little prayer for them as Tammy has experienced 4 m/c's and this is always a scary time in pregnancy. Heck I'm almost 1/2 done cooking bean and I still worry every day that something horrid has happened to him.... I guess it's just being a concerned parent, and unfortunately once that lil one is born and you're holding him/her in your arms the worry does NOT go away!! Heck I think it gets worse!!! LOL To be a parent is to have neverending worry... *sigh* So I'll try to keep this blog updated with Tammy updates also ;)
I got a bit sidetracked earlier LOL After lunch with Gma we all came back to Ephrata and Gma babysat Kaeden and Sydney while Lindsay, Jared, Tammy, Steven and I went out for the night. it was So great. I haven't gone out and STAYED out that late in who knows how long. We were at the bar til 12:30 or so and then we drove to Moses Lake to get Denny's at all hours of the morning with a drunko Lindsay and Steven LOL It was a blast but I was DEFINITEY ready to fall into bed when we got back into town around 2:30-3AM. Lindsay was concerned that Tammy and I would be bored since we were the preggo's and couldn't drink but she was wrong LOL It's pretty entertaining to be the sober one enjoying the drunken show !!!!
Sat morning my mom ended up leaving around 1ish and Steven and Jared were gone golfing. So Tammy and I had the house to ourselves.. Oh yea and Kaeden LOL We just sat around chatting til our tummy's couldn't handle the wait anymore and made some sandwiches to hold us over til the guys got home from golfing and we ordered pizza. Sun morning we had waffles for breakfast and then Jared and Tammy left around 1-2ish. Steven and I were pretty much lazy the rest of the weekend...
This past week our neighbors inherited the cutest puppy ever! We've all named him Chico. They needed some help in order to keep him so Steven and I bought him a bag of puppy chow and a food dish... Kinda nice, all the joys of a puppy with very minial poo in our yard LOL He's come over to play a few times and made a poopy mess that we cleaned up but I just DO NOT want to do that on a day to day basis! Not to mention as much as Kaeden loves playing with the puppy, he gets very upset and frustrated cause Chico tends to use him for a chew toy LOL So I'm very happy that WE are not the proud new owners of Chico, but rather his new "family" with the title of Aunt and Uncles ;)
Today Kaeden and I got our hair cut... WOW It is difficult to try to force a 2yr old who does NOT WANT his hair cut to get it done.. I tried every bribe and punishment in the book I could think of LOL He finally gave in cause he didn't want to have to go home and get a nap.. Unfortunately after he was done with his haircut I had to make good on all my promises to him... Go pick out a movie, go to Mcdonalds, go see daddy...... LOL He did scream through most of the cutting process and now looks a bit nerdy to me as it's MUCH shorter then I wanted it, but he didn't climb out of the chair which he'd tried to do the first time we tried for the haircut this morning so I still had to reward him as promised. I can't wait for it to grow out about a weeks worth or so.. Then I think it'll look cute ;) It still looks cute, I just hate it when his bangs get cut so stinking short, makes his forhead look WAY too big.
Well enough updating for now, We've got the girls for the weekend and between 3 kids running through the house, and Steven wanting me to be involved and help him out a little I'm having a really hard time concentrating on this blog entry anyway... I'll try to post before another 3-4 weeks pass LOL Would sure make for some shorter easier entries.. Heck who am I kidding? I'd just talk more in detail about a few days instead of a few weeks LOL
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Week 16
How time flies. I had planned on writing daily/weekly and it's just not happening, so I guess this will be another long update as long as the kids stay quiet and permit me to type.
I am now officially in my 17th week of pregnancy!!! I am 16weeks2days complete! I had my Dr appt on March 18th and was lucky enough to get another ultra sound. I waS 14 weeks pregnant and we tried to see the sex of the baby. Doc thought for a second he glimpsed a peepee as did Steven and I, but said that it was so quick and baby was so small he wouldn't say it was a boy or a girl at that point. Everything else looked wonderful and it felt so great to get to look at my lil bean. He/She is really looking like a baby now! I've got a face shot to show off here and will post it for all to see. Bean looks a bit like skeletor. I'm usually referring to Bean as HE as I have a gut feeling along with that u/s saying it's another little boy. In the pic Bean has his hand on his mouth, possibley sucking on fingers so he looks very skeletal!!! My next appointment is scheduled for April 15th to get measurements and HOPING that bean will show off proudly what he has or doesn't have between the legs! What a wonderful birthday present for me! :) I can't wait. Only 2 weeks to go.......
There is bean for you guys :)
Last weekend we went to my Grandma and Grandpa's in White Salmon for Easter weekend. It was a great weekend minus all the stinkin rain. W e really need it but it kind of sucked it had to happen that weekend. They cancelled the Easter Egg Hunt for the first time that I can ever recall, so the kids just got to see the Easter Bunny and get a handful of candies and an egg with a 50cent piece in it.
The Easter Bunny spoiled Kaeden and Lexus as usual and they had a wonderful time tearign into the baskets Sunday morning. Unfortunately shortly after Lexus got pretty sick and slept most of Sunday away with a little fever.
The weekend was a blast all in all. Uncle Scott took us all out to pizza Fri night where Kaeden really enjoyed playing with Lexus and cousin Aimee. Wow Aimee is looking and doing great. She's been battling anorexia for a year or two now but wasn't "diagnosed" until last fall or so. She was down to 72 lbs at her lowest and is now up to 86lbs and looking great. Her attitude is wonderful also. I've never seen her so happy as i saw her playing with Lex and Kaeden this weekend. Almost brought tears to my eyes. Kaeden fell in love with Aimee and probably would have gone home with her if I'd let her. It sucks that they live all the way in Canada now. They moved there a year before he was born so we don't get to see them all that often. Used to see them daily when they lived in Hermiston, so that was an adjustment.
Saturday night we all went bowling and had a blast once again. We were quite the group there in that bowling alley!!! Kaeden loves bowling and did pretty good but was starting to get tired and grumpy as we made it there a little on the late side. And while we were there I remembered "OH NO!!!!!!!!!" We forgot to color Easter Eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we colored them really late when we got home ;)
The Easter Bunny's Goodies for all the grandkids and great grandkids
Sunday morning opening Easter Baskets
Kaeden got an invitation to Blue's Clues LIVE in May, he's just going to love it!!
We finally left about 6pm Sunday night to make the drive home and got home around 10. All in all it was a great weekend. We also stopped on the drive down to look at the animals(similar to a zoo but it's free) and Kaeden got to see zebras, Santas reindeer and a camel came right up to the fence. He wasn't too sure about that camel being so close and wanted daddy to back up LOL Last year he got to see donkey's and feed one through the fence. I just love taking him there on our drive to Gma and Gpa Goodwin's. It's like our own little tradition.
This week I've been feeling pretty good. Until yesterday I'd been 4 days puke free... but yesterday morning and this morning that ended *ugh* oh well, once a day isn't so bad ;) I think I'm starting to feel bean bumping around a bit, but nothing definite yet. I feel little wiggles and bubbly feelings but when I try to concentrate on them they stop. I also try moving him around and poking at him like I did with Kaeden to get him to wiggle some more cause I want to feel it so badly, but he must be more calm then kaeden was cause he's not playing the game with me LOL This could be a blessing once he's born though!!!! I'm hoping in the next 2 weeks that I'll be able to feel him more often. I still listen to him daily and he's definitely in there be-bopping around! I love hearing that heartbeat as does Kaeden. Every night we listen to the baby. Kaeden turns the doppler on and then when we're done he turns it off. He also insists on wiping the gel off my tummy. Then we turn lights off and lay down to go to bed and Kaeden lifts my shirt up to "lay with the baby" which means he' s using me as a pillow LOL He also insists on kissing the baby a few time before he can fall asleep. I LOVE that he's starting to understand there is a baby in my tummy. I love that he wants to lay with the baby and kiss the baby now, as I'm hoping that there will be little to none jealousy once bean is born. My big fear now is that he'll insist on laying with and snuggling bean all the time and I don't want bean smothered! LOL Kaeden is still my puke buddy also and if I"m over the toilet, he's got an arm around my shoulders and usually spits once or twice in the toilet with me LOL He always flushes the toilet when I'm done and asks if I'm ok. Every once in awhile he'll plant a kiss on my cheek and run off.. It's just the sweetest thing, he's like my preggo partner ;) I'm really glad that he was older when I got pg again because I feel like he's "involved" with this pregnancy.
We were watching Life in the ER on Discovery channel 2 nights ago and the doctors had to do an ultra sound on this girls stomach to check for internal bleeding, Kaeden looks up and says "HEY!, that's MOMMA's baby" "Baby is on the computer" He totally remembered going to the ultrasound with me in March and seeing the baby on the compter screen, it floored me and made me want to cry it was so sweet. He knows baby is in my tummy, but he also realized that you can SEE the baby on that screen when the doc is doing an u/s. I didn't know if he really "understood" the u/s when he went with us in March, but I guess I underestimate my little man! He's growing up so fast.... *sigh*
Well I've done very well keeping up with the housework around here this week and don't want to start slacking today. SO if I want to nap with the kids this afternoon I'd better get off here and go clean my house and fold my clean laundry :)
I am now officially in my 17th week of pregnancy!!! I am 16weeks2days complete! I had my Dr appt on March 18th and was lucky enough to get another ultra sound. I waS 14 weeks pregnant and we tried to see the sex of the baby. Doc thought for a second he glimpsed a peepee as did Steven and I, but said that it was so quick and baby was so small he wouldn't say it was a boy or a girl at that point. Everything else looked wonderful and it felt so great to get to look at my lil bean. He/She is really looking like a baby now! I've got a face shot to show off here and will post it for all to see. Bean looks a bit like skeletor. I'm usually referring to Bean as HE as I have a gut feeling along with that u/s saying it's another little boy. In the pic Bean has his hand on his mouth, possibley sucking on fingers so he looks very skeletal!!! My next appointment is scheduled for April 15th to get measurements and HOPING that bean will show off proudly what he has or doesn't have between the legs! What a wonderful birthday present for me! :) I can't wait. Only 2 weeks to go.......
There is bean for you guys :)
Last weekend we went to my Grandma and Grandpa's in White Salmon for Easter weekend. It was a great weekend minus all the stinkin rain. W e really need it but it kind of sucked it had to happen that weekend. They cancelled the Easter Egg Hunt for the first time that I can ever recall, so the kids just got to see the Easter Bunny and get a handful of candies and an egg with a 50cent piece in it.
The Easter Bunny spoiled Kaeden and Lexus as usual and they had a wonderful time tearign into the baskets Sunday morning. Unfortunately shortly after Lexus got pretty sick and slept most of Sunday away with a little fever.
The weekend was a blast all in all. Uncle Scott took us all out to pizza Fri night where Kaeden really enjoyed playing with Lexus and cousin Aimee. Wow Aimee is looking and doing great. She's been battling anorexia for a year or two now but wasn't "diagnosed" until last fall or so. She was down to 72 lbs at her lowest and is now up to 86lbs and looking great. Her attitude is wonderful also. I've never seen her so happy as i saw her playing with Lex and Kaeden this weekend. Almost brought tears to my eyes. Kaeden fell in love with Aimee and probably would have gone home with her if I'd let her. It sucks that they live all the way in Canada now. They moved there a year before he was born so we don't get to see them all that often. Used to see them daily when they lived in Hermiston, so that was an adjustment.
Saturday night we all went bowling and had a blast once again. We were quite the group there in that bowling alley!!! Kaeden loves bowling and did pretty good but was starting to get tired and grumpy as we made it there a little on the late side. And while we were there I remembered "OH NO!!!!!!!!!" We forgot to color Easter Eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we colored them really late when we got home ;)
The Easter Bunny's Goodies for all the grandkids and great grandkids
Sunday morning opening Easter Baskets
Kaeden got an invitation to Blue's Clues LIVE in May, he's just going to love it!!
We finally left about 6pm Sunday night to make the drive home and got home around 10. All in all it was a great weekend. We also stopped on the drive down to look at the animals(similar to a zoo but it's free) and Kaeden got to see zebras, Santas reindeer and a camel came right up to the fence. He wasn't too sure about that camel being so close and wanted daddy to back up LOL Last year he got to see donkey's and feed one through the fence. I just love taking him there on our drive to Gma and Gpa Goodwin's. It's like our own little tradition.
This week I've been feeling pretty good. Until yesterday I'd been 4 days puke free... but yesterday morning and this morning that ended *ugh* oh well, once a day isn't so bad ;) I think I'm starting to feel bean bumping around a bit, but nothing definite yet. I feel little wiggles and bubbly feelings but when I try to concentrate on them they stop. I also try moving him around and poking at him like I did with Kaeden to get him to wiggle some more cause I want to feel it so badly, but he must be more calm then kaeden was cause he's not playing the game with me LOL This could be a blessing once he's born though!!!! I'm hoping in the next 2 weeks that I'll be able to feel him more often. I still listen to him daily and he's definitely in there be-bopping around! I love hearing that heartbeat as does Kaeden. Every night we listen to the baby. Kaeden turns the doppler on and then when we're done he turns it off. He also insists on wiping the gel off my tummy. Then we turn lights off and lay down to go to bed and Kaeden lifts my shirt up to "lay with the baby" which means he' s using me as a pillow LOL He also insists on kissing the baby a few time before he can fall asleep. I LOVE that he's starting to understand there is a baby in my tummy. I love that he wants to lay with the baby and kiss the baby now, as I'm hoping that there will be little to none jealousy once bean is born. My big fear now is that he'll insist on laying with and snuggling bean all the time and I don't want bean smothered! LOL Kaeden is still my puke buddy also and if I"m over the toilet, he's got an arm around my shoulders and usually spits once or twice in the toilet with me LOL He always flushes the toilet when I'm done and asks if I'm ok. Every once in awhile he'll plant a kiss on my cheek and run off.. It's just the sweetest thing, he's like my preggo partner ;) I'm really glad that he was older when I got pg again because I feel like he's "involved" with this pregnancy.
We were watching Life in the ER on Discovery channel 2 nights ago and the doctors had to do an ultra sound on this girls stomach to check for internal bleeding, Kaeden looks up and says "HEY!, that's MOMMA's baby" "Baby is on the computer" He totally remembered going to the ultrasound with me in March and seeing the baby on the compter screen, it floored me and made me want to cry it was so sweet. He knows baby is in my tummy, but he also realized that you can SEE the baby on that screen when the doc is doing an u/s. I didn't know if he really "understood" the u/s when he went with us in March, but I guess I underestimate my little man! He's growing up so fast.... *sigh*
Well I've done very well keeping up with the housework around here this week and don't want to start slacking today. SO if I want to nap with the kids this afternoon I'd better get off here and go clean my house and fold my clean laundry :)
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Lucky 13?
Well maybe 13 will become my lucky number. I'm due on 9-13 and I've completed 13 weeks of pregnancy. Today I am 13 weeks 2 days... Wow, I can't believe i made it into that elusive 2nd trimester with no complications! With Kaeden I spotted at 7 weeks and was sure I was losing him, this time around I've had nothing but morning sickness, sore boobies, etc. so it seems to be progressing very normally. The reason I say lucky 13? is because my all day nausea is almost gone! I still puke usually once or twice a day, but I'm not feeling so yucky anymore, AND I've managed to clean up the house two days in a row!!!! That sure wasn't happening a couple weeks ago LOL I have gotten to the point where I'm having problems brushing my teeth as I did in Kaeden's pg, only this time around it hit much later. I'm trying to figure out a "system" so I can get them as clean as possible LOL Like I brush the back teeth first so I can get all the puking done and over with, then start over and go for the front and a quick run over the back teeth with the toothbrush. Gross I know, but it's a fact of my daily life now.
Lil bean must be growing and getting bigger, we were listening to him/her on the doppler last night and the heartbeat was nice and loud. I love hearing that sound, especially when I can find it super easily. I think the baby wanted to play hide and seek though as each time I'd pinpoint that nice strong h/b the baby would move away LOL It was cute though. Kaeden insists on turning the doppler on and off for me while we listen to the baby. I can't wait for him to really realize there is a baby in my tummy. I can't wait for him to be able to put his hands or head on my belly and be bumped around by the bean :)
I had my cardiologist appt on the 4th and as suspected they found nothing wrong with it. Doc isnt' sure my heart even races like I told him it did. He said if it was going 240 I'd pass out. I tried to tell him it's done this since I was 6 yrs old and YES it does go 240+ when it has it's little episodes... Sheesh... So next time it happens I am to go to the ER and insist on an EKG while it's doing it before they do anything else. I am going to get my dr records from 1991 to current, but most of my activity with the docs was prior to then so I'm not sure how much good it's going to do. Guess we'll wait and see. I also had an echocardiogram done on Monday the 7th and they said everything looked boring and normal, although my heartrate was definitely on the quick side. Do you have any idea how badly it sucks to have an u/s of your heart when you're DYING to see the bean in your belly?!?!!?!?!??! LOL
This afternoon I am going to do something brave or dumb. Tuesday March 8th Steven lost his drivers liscense due to the DUI he got on New Years Eve. Even though the courts dropped it from a DUI to a NEG1 our Department of Liscensing suspended his liscense for 90 days. OH what great fun this is going to be. For the first 2 days Steven walked to work and got rides home. This morning he got a ride cause his back hurt so badly. But now whenever I want anything in town I've gotta get off my A** and go drive and get it myself. How fair is that? LOL So the reason I'm doing something brave or dumb is, Steven has an alcohal/drug evaluation he is required to go take in Moses Lake at 3pm today. I am going to load up all the kids and take him and then try to entertain them for an hour or two.. YIKES! I figure we'll go to the park, which wouldn't be too bad, but Sydney is a bit tough to entertain that long at the park. I just hope that he passes the evaluation so we don't have to pay for MORE classes that we can't afford right now.
Well Kids are getting out of control and I think it's time to step in.............. Gotta love the 2 yr and 5yr old's age gap and attitudes as they fight ALL DANG DAY LONG...........
Lil bean must be growing and getting bigger, we were listening to him/her on the doppler last night and the heartbeat was nice and loud. I love hearing that sound, especially when I can find it super easily. I think the baby wanted to play hide and seek though as each time I'd pinpoint that nice strong h/b the baby would move away LOL It was cute though. Kaeden insists on turning the doppler on and off for me while we listen to the baby. I can't wait for him to really realize there is a baby in my tummy. I can't wait for him to be able to put his hands or head on my belly and be bumped around by the bean :)
I had my cardiologist appt on the 4th and as suspected they found nothing wrong with it. Doc isnt' sure my heart even races like I told him it did. He said if it was going 240 I'd pass out. I tried to tell him it's done this since I was 6 yrs old and YES it does go 240+ when it has it's little episodes... Sheesh... So next time it happens I am to go to the ER and insist on an EKG while it's doing it before they do anything else. I am going to get my dr records from 1991 to current, but most of my activity with the docs was prior to then so I'm not sure how much good it's going to do. Guess we'll wait and see. I also had an echocardiogram done on Monday the 7th and they said everything looked boring and normal, although my heartrate was definitely on the quick side. Do you have any idea how badly it sucks to have an u/s of your heart when you're DYING to see the bean in your belly?!?!!?!?!??! LOL
This afternoon I am going to do something brave or dumb. Tuesday March 8th Steven lost his drivers liscense due to the DUI he got on New Years Eve. Even though the courts dropped it from a DUI to a NEG1 our Department of Liscensing suspended his liscense for 90 days. OH what great fun this is going to be. For the first 2 days Steven walked to work and got rides home. This morning he got a ride cause his back hurt so badly. But now whenever I want anything in town I've gotta get off my A** and go drive and get it myself. How fair is that? LOL So the reason I'm doing something brave or dumb is, Steven has an alcohal/drug evaluation he is required to go take in Moses Lake at 3pm today. I am going to load up all the kids and take him and then try to entertain them for an hour or two.. YIKES! I figure we'll go to the park, which wouldn't be too bad, but Sydney is a bit tough to entertain that long at the park. I just hope that he passes the evaluation so we don't have to pay for MORE classes that we can't afford right now.
Well Kids are getting out of control and I think it's time to step in.............. Gotta love the 2 yr and 5yr old's age gap and attitudes as they fight ALL DANG DAY LONG...........
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Slacking
Slacking is what I've been doing when it comes to this blog! I've been horrible about updating it, although the good news is since my last update I've made it to 12 weeks pregnant problem free!!!!
So what's new in my life? I went to my appointment a couple weeks ago and the Dr found the heartbeat right away just as I knew he would. I was hoping that he wouldn't find it cause I wanted another ultrasound. I told him let's skip the doppler and go for the ultrasound ;) He went ahead and searched with the doppler, found the hearbeat and told me if I wanted we could jump back for a quick ultra sound anyway if I wanted to. I of course said HECK YES!!! So we went back to the ultra sound room and took a glance at bean. Unfortunately I'd just emptied my bladder and he did an abdominal u/s so it was really hard to see anything. We saw basically a blob with a beating heart LOL I was 10 weeks for that ultra sound. When we were done with the u/s he asked if I had any other questions/concerns. I told him my heart seemed to pound harder and faster and was a bit worried about it. He immediately got me set up with a cardiologist appointment. I went in on a Wed and they hooked me up to a Holter Monitor. It was great fun having wires attatched all over my body for 24 hours to monitor my heart. Go figure I didn't really notice any "funky" things with my heart during that 24 hrs. I went and had it removed on Thursday and have my actual appointment with the cardiologist this Friday the 4th bright and early in the morning.
As for my preggo symptoms. I'm confused. Isn't 12 weeks when they start to subside? Guess not for me! I no longer am nauseous 24/7 but now I usually throw up 1-2 times a day or more. It's great fun. Although I've got the best little boy in the world when it comes to being sick. Whenever I make a run for the bathroom he chases me down and stands right next to me with his arm around my shoulder while I yack in the toilet. He asks me if I'm done yet? When I'm finally done and give him the yes answer he's looking for he will tell me "feel better momma" And flush the toilet for me. It's just too sweet. Now I've gotta teach him to hold my hair back and we'd be set LOL LOL LOL I'm starting to "show" finally also. I think it's about time to start taking belly shots. I know it's not a bunch of baby showing, but that baby is doing SOMETHING to me that is making me poke out quite a lot. Although some of that is bloating (horrible gas bloated feeling all the time) I started wearing maternity shirts this weekend cause it was so nice and warm out and my other regular shirts just don't look right anymore. When it's chilly I still can get away with my big hoodies and zip up jackets to cover most of the pudge ;) I'm still not feeling bean move around yet, although there have been a couple times I've wondered if the things I felt were bean bumping around in there. I think it's still gas though, as much as I'd like it to be bean...
With my doppler I've listened to bean almost daily. Not quite daily like I did with Kaeden as I am pretty sure with all my puking etc beans still safe and snug in there. I can tell that he/she is growing though. I used to have to search for 20-30minutes to find the h/b and now it usually takes less then 5min. Although there have been a few times where it's taken me longer and I could barely hear it. Just get up, walk around, have something to eat, lay down and try again and he/she has usually moved around enough that it's super easy to find and nice and loud! Love hearing that sound, but still want another u/s LOL I was looking at 12 week u/s pics on the net and my lil bean is really starting to look like a baby!!! I want to see that for myself!!!!!!!
Well I have gotta get going but will try to update a bit sooner next time ;)
So what's new in my life? I went to my appointment a couple weeks ago and the Dr found the heartbeat right away just as I knew he would. I was hoping that he wouldn't find it cause I wanted another ultrasound. I told him let's skip the doppler and go for the ultrasound ;) He went ahead and searched with the doppler, found the hearbeat and told me if I wanted we could jump back for a quick ultra sound anyway if I wanted to. I of course said HECK YES!!! So we went back to the ultra sound room and took a glance at bean. Unfortunately I'd just emptied my bladder and he did an abdominal u/s so it was really hard to see anything. We saw basically a blob with a beating heart LOL I was 10 weeks for that ultra sound. When we were done with the u/s he asked if I had any other questions/concerns. I told him my heart seemed to pound harder and faster and was a bit worried about it. He immediately got me set up with a cardiologist appointment. I went in on a Wed and they hooked me up to a Holter Monitor. It was great fun having wires attatched all over my body for 24 hours to monitor my heart. Go figure I didn't really notice any "funky" things with my heart during that 24 hrs. I went and had it removed on Thursday and have my actual appointment with the cardiologist this Friday the 4th bright and early in the morning.
As for my preggo symptoms. I'm confused. Isn't 12 weeks when they start to subside? Guess not for me! I no longer am nauseous 24/7 but now I usually throw up 1-2 times a day or more. It's great fun. Although I've got the best little boy in the world when it comes to being sick. Whenever I make a run for the bathroom he chases me down and stands right next to me with his arm around my shoulder while I yack in the toilet. He asks me if I'm done yet? When I'm finally done and give him the yes answer he's looking for he will tell me "feel better momma" And flush the toilet for me. It's just too sweet. Now I've gotta teach him to hold my hair back and we'd be set LOL LOL LOL I'm starting to "show" finally also. I think it's about time to start taking belly shots. I know it's not a bunch of baby showing, but that baby is doing SOMETHING to me that is making me poke out quite a lot. Although some of that is bloating (horrible gas bloated feeling all the time) I started wearing maternity shirts this weekend cause it was so nice and warm out and my other regular shirts just don't look right anymore. When it's chilly I still can get away with my big hoodies and zip up jackets to cover most of the pudge ;) I'm still not feeling bean move around yet, although there have been a couple times I've wondered if the things I felt were bean bumping around in there. I think it's still gas though, as much as I'd like it to be bean...
With my doppler I've listened to bean almost daily. Not quite daily like I did with Kaeden as I am pretty sure with all my puking etc beans still safe and snug in there. I can tell that he/she is growing though. I used to have to search for 20-30minutes to find the h/b and now it usually takes less then 5min. Although there have been a few times where it's taken me longer and I could barely hear it. Just get up, walk around, have something to eat, lay down and try again and he/she has usually moved around enough that it's super easy to find and nice and loud! Love hearing that sound, but still want another u/s LOL I was looking at 12 week u/s pics on the net and my lil bean is really starting to look like a baby!!! I want to see that for myself!!!!!!!
Well I have gotta get going but will try to update a bit sooner next time ;)
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Long Time No Post
Well I"ve been slacking in the blogging department. Lots of sickies been going around this household and it's been miserable!! I think we're all starting to do better now though.
This past weekend Steven and I decided at 10pm Fri night to go visit my parents LOL So we got there at about 12:45am Kaeden was pretty excited to be visiting Grandma. We had a nice visit with Lance Bobbi and Lexus. Wow she's still tiny as ever! She weighs the same as Sydney does 23lbs LOL 2 1/2 yrs compared to 11mo... Little tiny thing but she's SO cute. Sat night we went to the local bar that I never got to go visit when I lived there cause I wasn't 21 ;) Now I got to visit but had to be the designated driver since I"m the preggo LOL But it was a blast anyway, wonderful to catch up with my cousin and brother. Steven seemed to have a good time and it was really relaxing. Kaeden stayed with my mom and she says he was an angel (think she's lying?) Then Sunday before leaving Lance Bobbi Lexus, Jared Tami Aaron and Steven Kaeden and I all headed up to Tri Cities to do some shopping and eat at the Mongolian. I've never ate there and was quite surprised to like it. Kaeden thought it was pretty cool to watch them cook his food on that giant circle thing, and he also thought it was pretty cool to have yelling contests with Uncle Jared. I swear when God was handing out babies he accidentially gave me the one that was meant to go to my brother cause they both act EXACTLY the same LOL I was trying to explain to my TWENTY TWO year old brother that it is not ok to have yelling contests in public, ESPECIALLY eating places LOL But Kaeden loved every minute of it. Went shopping a bit more and got my moms birthday present already! YIPPEE I'm getting good at this buying in advance thing ;) LOL We ended up getting home at about 7 so it was a great trip for the weekend.
Monday had a normal day, Tuesday morning I got woke up at 6am with my son puking hot dogs up all over me. Fun fun fun.. He's lucky I didn't puke back at him! Poor little guy had the throw ups (or spitting as he calls it thx to mommy always spitting in the toilet due to being pg) til about 12-1ish then crashed at 2. I didn't have Taylor or Sydney as Mike stayed home with them instead of exposing them to the nasties at my house so I napped with Kaeden as he was leached onto me like an extra limb. he woke up at 6 and seemed much better. By the end of the night he was pretty much normal. Thank goodness it was only the 24hr flu bug... I just wish I knew where the hell he picked that bug up at!! I did everything in my power to keep him away from the nasties everyone had (the reason we were able to go to my parents for thew eekend was Tatum had the throw ups and I didn't want it at my house) But I guess he managed to pick it up anyway :( poor lil guy.
I ordered up my doppler on Monday and it arrived yesterday... I've heard the lil beans heartbeat YIPPEE!!!! I was kinda worried as I found it last night, the lil bugger squirmed away and I couldn't find it again til 1pm this afternoon! My symptoms have lightened up a lot. still gagging pretty easily, and wow tired as ever but the all day nausea has really let up on me thank goodness... The bbs are starting to feel much more normal also.. They still have some tenderness to them but nothing like they were 2 weeks ago. Therefore I am so happy that this doppler can find the bean so I know he/she is in there happy and healthy. I'm 9w2d today and starting to feel pretty excited about closing in on that elusive second trimester! I've got my next Dr appt on the 18th so I'm relieved to know that there's a heartbeat in there for the doc to find for me ;) Although I was kinda hoping he couldn't find it so I could get another u/s. I miss the lil bean and want to see it again!!!! Seeing and hearing your baby while you're pg is the best feeling in the whole world.
Well update is now over, pretty boring but thought I best get it done before a month or two passed with no entries!
This past weekend Steven and I decided at 10pm Fri night to go visit my parents LOL So we got there at about 12:45am Kaeden was pretty excited to be visiting Grandma. We had a nice visit with Lance Bobbi and Lexus. Wow she's still tiny as ever! She weighs the same as Sydney does 23lbs LOL 2 1/2 yrs compared to 11mo... Little tiny thing but she's SO cute. Sat night we went to the local bar that I never got to go visit when I lived there cause I wasn't 21 ;) Now I got to visit but had to be the designated driver since I"m the preggo LOL But it was a blast anyway, wonderful to catch up with my cousin and brother. Steven seemed to have a good time and it was really relaxing. Kaeden stayed with my mom and she says he was an angel (think she's lying?) Then Sunday before leaving Lance Bobbi Lexus, Jared Tami Aaron and Steven Kaeden and I all headed up to Tri Cities to do some shopping and eat at the Mongolian. I've never ate there and was quite surprised to like it. Kaeden thought it was pretty cool to watch them cook his food on that giant circle thing, and he also thought it was pretty cool to have yelling contests with Uncle Jared. I swear when God was handing out babies he accidentially gave me the one that was meant to go to my brother cause they both act EXACTLY the same LOL I was trying to explain to my TWENTY TWO year old brother that it is not ok to have yelling contests in public, ESPECIALLY eating places LOL But Kaeden loved every minute of it. Went shopping a bit more and got my moms birthday present already! YIPPEE I'm getting good at this buying in advance thing ;) LOL We ended up getting home at about 7 so it was a great trip for the weekend.
Monday had a normal day, Tuesday morning I got woke up at 6am with my son puking hot dogs up all over me. Fun fun fun.. He's lucky I didn't puke back at him! Poor little guy had the throw ups (or spitting as he calls it thx to mommy always spitting in the toilet due to being pg) til about 12-1ish then crashed at 2. I didn't have Taylor or Sydney as Mike stayed home with them instead of exposing them to the nasties at my house so I napped with Kaeden as he was leached onto me like an extra limb. he woke up at 6 and seemed much better. By the end of the night he was pretty much normal. Thank goodness it was only the 24hr flu bug... I just wish I knew where the hell he picked that bug up at!! I did everything in my power to keep him away from the nasties everyone had (the reason we were able to go to my parents for thew eekend was Tatum had the throw ups and I didn't want it at my house) But I guess he managed to pick it up anyway :( poor lil guy.
I ordered up my doppler on Monday and it arrived yesterday... I've heard the lil beans heartbeat YIPPEE!!!! I was kinda worried as I found it last night, the lil bugger squirmed away and I couldn't find it again til 1pm this afternoon! My symptoms have lightened up a lot. still gagging pretty easily, and wow tired as ever but the all day nausea has really let up on me thank goodness... The bbs are starting to feel much more normal also.. They still have some tenderness to them but nothing like they were 2 weeks ago. Therefore I am so happy that this doppler can find the bean so I know he/she is in there happy and healthy. I'm 9w2d today and starting to feel pretty excited about closing in on that elusive second trimester! I've got my next Dr appt on the 18th so I'm relieved to know that there's a heartbeat in there for the doc to find for me ;) Although I was kinda hoping he couldn't find it so I could get another u/s. I miss the lil bean and want to see it again!!!! Seeing and hearing your baby while you're pg is the best feeling in the whole world.
Well update is now over, pretty boring but thought I best get it done before a month or two passed with no entries!
Sunday, January 30, 2005
The Pressure is unbearable!
Wow... I remember when I was pg with Kaeden some tenderness in my bbs, but this is CRAZY!!! When I am trying to sleep it feels like I have two giant bruises on my chest...And you know what I've realized? Kaeden touches/pushes/pokes my boobs more times in an evening then I ever noticed until now! I feel so horrible for him, he tries to lay on me and I have to tell him no, he tries to snuggle I tell him no, the pain is just horrid!!! I'm so sad that they must be GROWING as they were plenty large before ;) As a matter of fact they had just finally shrank down to a size that was almost "normal" again and now they're becoming giant bouy's on my chest again. I guess this summer between the boobs and the belly I won't need a lifejacket to stay afloat LOL
Morning Sickness is still plaguing my body. Thursday I was SO sick with the stomach flu and it was plain miserable. I've never had both m/s and the flu and I pray to never have that again! It sure makes my m/s nausea seem much easier though LOL Poor Kaeden had to run the house for momma while she lay on the couch like a dying growth. It was pitiful. I couldn't even open up the vienna sausages he wanted for lunch because of the smell. Thank god he knows how to open the fridge and there were apples in there. I told him to go get an apple and he did :) My lil big man. He spent most of the day playing in his bedroom, when he got hungry he'd go find a snack in the kitchen, and whe he got thirsty he'd grab a cup from the kid cup drawer and go stand on the toilet in the bathroom to get a drink of water. I asked Steven if he could come home early from work, but he was too busy that day (go figure, the ONE busy day of the week I'm barfing my brains up) But he called Melissa for me and she brought Kaeden some McDonalds for lunch and some 7-Up for my upset tummy. I was so thankful that someone was there to feed my son some real lunch!!! She didn't stick around long for fear of inhaling my deadly germs and Kaeden was sad. He didn't want her to leave. Sure made me feel like one POS momma!!! He was lonely I think. Although he did feel like quite the big boy changing his movies in the DVD player and pushing play all by himself since mommy couldn't come yell at him for playing with the DVD player and since she couldnt' start the movies for him!
Thank god when I woke up Friday morning I felt human again! Regular ole m/s was back but that was tolerable ;) I'm definitely having aversions to food and many things are NOT sounding good to me. Toast is almost always a safe food... I'm shocked but apple juice seems to go down nicely also (usually it upsets my tummy when I'm not pg LOL) Anything hot or really strong in smell seems to make my stomach churn. Last night Steven had leftover spaghetti for dinner but I just couldn't eat that anymore (I had it for dinner Wed night before my horrible Thurs experience) I finally just had cream cheese and ham rolled up on a tortilla. I seem to be loving cream cheese though ;) Also super into ice creams and bowls of cereal ;) So dairy seems to be good for my belly right now.
So I will be officially 8 weeks pregnant on tuesday. I've got a good feeling so far with this pregnancy as I'm full of preggo symptoms. My next appt is not until the 18th of Feb so I've got a ways to go. I just hope all is going well inside there. I am debating when to order up my babybeat ;) I don't want to get it so early that I drive myself crazy listening for something that is just not possible to hear yet, but on the other hand I want it SO BADLY LOL Just to know everything is ok in there! My pants did seem a little tight yesterday and slightly uncomfortable yet I haven't really gained any weight, so maybe I am growing down there. Hard to tell underneath all the leftover Kaeden flab ;)
Well I am going to go and clean my kitchen! I'm feeling pretty good this morning. I slept in until 10:30 and had some toast for my tummy and am ready to do something productive ;) Adios
PS Here is the photo of Baby Bean!! It's between the two crosses. The big blob you see is the yolk sac :)
Morning Sickness is still plaguing my body. Thursday I was SO sick with the stomach flu and it was plain miserable. I've never had both m/s and the flu and I pray to never have that again! It sure makes my m/s nausea seem much easier though LOL Poor Kaeden had to run the house for momma while she lay on the couch like a dying growth. It was pitiful. I couldn't even open up the vienna sausages he wanted for lunch because of the smell. Thank god he knows how to open the fridge and there were apples in there. I told him to go get an apple and he did :) My lil big man. He spent most of the day playing in his bedroom, when he got hungry he'd go find a snack in the kitchen, and whe he got thirsty he'd grab a cup from the kid cup drawer and go stand on the toilet in the bathroom to get a drink of water. I asked Steven if he could come home early from work, but he was too busy that day (go figure, the ONE busy day of the week I'm barfing my brains up) But he called Melissa for me and she brought Kaeden some McDonalds for lunch and some 7-Up for my upset tummy. I was so thankful that someone was there to feed my son some real lunch!!! She didn't stick around long for fear of inhaling my deadly germs and Kaeden was sad. He didn't want her to leave. Sure made me feel like one POS momma!!! He was lonely I think. Although he did feel like quite the big boy changing his movies in the DVD player and pushing play all by himself since mommy couldn't come yell at him for playing with the DVD player and since she couldnt' start the movies for him!
Thank god when I woke up Friday morning I felt human again! Regular ole m/s was back but that was tolerable ;) I'm definitely having aversions to food and many things are NOT sounding good to me. Toast is almost always a safe food... I'm shocked but apple juice seems to go down nicely also (usually it upsets my tummy when I'm not pg LOL) Anything hot or really strong in smell seems to make my stomach churn. Last night Steven had leftover spaghetti for dinner but I just couldn't eat that anymore (I had it for dinner Wed night before my horrible Thurs experience) I finally just had cream cheese and ham rolled up on a tortilla. I seem to be loving cream cheese though ;) Also super into ice creams and bowls of cereal ;) So dairy seems to be good for my belly right now.
So I will be officially 8 weeks pregnant on tuesday. I've got a good feeling so far with this pregnancy as I'm full of preggo symptoms. My next appt is not until the 18th of Feb so I've got a ways to go. I just hope all is going well inside there. I am debating when to order up my babybeat ;) I don't want to get it so early that I drive myself crazy listening for something that is just not possible to hear yet, but on the other hand I want it SO BADLY LOL Just to know everything is ok in there! My pants did seem a little tight yesterday and slightly uncomfortable yet I haven't really gained any weight, so maybe I am growing down there. Hard to tell underneath all the leftover Kaeden flab ;)
Well I am going to go and clean my kitchen! I'm feeling pretty good this morning. I slept in until 10:30 and had some toast for my tummy and am ready to do something productive ;) Adios
PS Here is the photo of Baby Bean!! It's between the two crosses. The big blob you see is the yolk sac :)
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