New Week New Worries ;)

I'm not that great at this updating thing. It's like keeping a diary, I get all excited to document everything in my life, write in it for a day and completely forget or lose interest.. I then turn around and kick myself 6mo later for being lazy. So here I am trying to remind myself to update this blog regularly ;) This way when I'm 8months pregnant and just dying to have this child OUT of me in the 110 degree sweltering Eastern Washington heat I can look back and remember how badly I wanted to be 8mo pregnant swollen and FAT :)

I had my first OB appointment Friday the 14th. We did all the routine stuff and got that out of the way. Pap -Check Pelvic -Check Breast Exam -Check (with dense breast tissue TMI?) 10 gallons of blood sucked out of my non-cooperative veins -Check and YES I did get my Ultra Sound also -CHECK. As for the pap, I am really hoping for that puppy to come back NORMAL. I am so sick of my paps being abnormal for 2 or 3 times in a row, we do the colposcopy, turn around and then get a normal pap... Go in 6mo later ... Normal.... 6mo later and this is THE ONE, meaning if it comes back NORMAL I get to be a "normal" person again and only go in once a year instead of these 6mo trips to the Gyno.... BAM Abnormal again... Sheesh. So pap taken Friday and hoping that I can get another normal to jump start this pregnancy.

Now onto the Ultra Sound update. Not much to tell. I am not 100% sure of my LMP therefore I am not 100% sure how far along I am in this pregnancy. The nurse decides to guesstimate it at Dec 7th as I know I was on my period Dec 9th... This puts me 5w3d pregnant on Friday at the ultra sound. We go into the room, I get into that oh so comfy chair naked from the waist down and am told to relax and the instruments, hands etc begin to probe inside of me. UGH Gotta love that part. Then he unrolls the condom, slides it onto the wand and lubes it up. I wait in anticipation staring at that screen as I'm told to relax. We don't see a "baby" exactly. We see a black blop on the screen planted nicely in my uterus. He looks for awhile checking things out, shows me what might be a small sliver of baby and informs me that the ultra sound measures me at 4w5d. He said since my original EDD was a guestimate that this is not a bad thing. Of course after my previous miscarriages anything seems "bad" to me if it's not screaming HI I AM A HEALTHY MONSTEROUS BABY IN YOUR BELLY Like Kaeden did ;) Doc assured me that for how early I am in this pregnancy things look as normal as possible. To ease my racing mind he went ahead and had blood drawn for HCG quantitive and told me to come back next Friday to see what the little Bean's up to in there. Still waiting to hear the results of that quantitive and wondering if I'll get another draw for comparison? Not sure how the heck I'm going to pull that off this week with all the kids I'm babysitting... But we will figure something out :)

Why do I always have to find out I'm pg when I'm only like 2 weeks along? Ok maybe 3 weeks but oh how I dream of having a pregnancy when I find out at like 10-12 weeks.... That's gotta be the best thing!!!! The good news is I gagged this morning ;) I know, seems silly but gagging and feeling like I have a permanent slight hangover all day makes me very happy! Who would have thought I'd jump for joy to feel completely yucky? The downside is I seem to have a symptom I do not remember with Kaeden's pg. I feel hungry a LOT. And I mean starving hungry. I eat and eat and eat... Feel overfull (oops) and 2 hrs later feel starved again!! If this continues I'm screwed and am guaranteed to gain 100lbs with this pregnancy!! I'm hoping the hangover feeling will turn into full blown morning sickness for awhile so I'll stop eating like a starved animal slurping everything in sight.

So Kaeden and I went to Dollar Tree today. I've decided to work on this potty training thing again. He is excited about it when HE wants to be. We went and picked out his very own "potty stickers" (ninja turtles and then I picked out the affordable bulk generic pack too) and a sticker book to hang up on the wall and place a sticker on for each successful potty trip. Of course the minute we got home he HAD to go potty and was extremely excited about it. We peed, got re-dressed, put his sticker (ok for the first time I let him put 3 on to make sure he realizes how FUN this could be LOL) on the chart and stressed how big of a boy he is!!!!! As soon as the sticker book was hung on the wall he wanted to go potty again, he wanted another sticker... UGH This stuff always backfires for me. He just wants to sit on the pot and get stickers instead of actually GOING because he needs to go... What's a mom to do? I am seriously considering sending him to Grandma's for the weekend so she can potty train him. I swear she's the potty training queen! She had my cousin trained in a weekend and I know my brother and I were trained pretty early also. My goal is to get this boy trained before Baby Bean pops out in 8mo or so. I guess if I try to work on this PT on my own maybe the pregnancy will fly by as my months for a fully potty trained 3 yr old slip past me ;) So maybe there will be a positive to doing this training thing all on my own instead of letting grandma step in. Besides how will I be able to assist MY children in potty training if I've never done it? LOL I've got a few months to decide ... easy way out and depend on mommy? (preferred method) Or tough it out like MOST mothers have to do and teach my boy to pee on the pot? (responsible way to go...)

Well I have typed up a novel tonight, tteach me to wait so long to update my blog. I actually had time to MYSELF this evening as daddy watches TV and Kaeden runs around playing power rangers and yelling YAAAAA as he jump kicks the air annoying daddy instead of me!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEE.