Who would have thought...

Why is it when a woman goes on a diet one of the first things she looses are her boobs and when women get pregnant one of the first things to get bigger are there boobs?!

Well I must have been under great denial in this pregnancy about my boobs. I was a 34B when I got pregnant since I lost all that weight two summers ago. After battling with fall out recently my mom suggested I try a bigger size. I thought, "No way, I haven't got big enough to fit in a C". So mom and I did the bra thing and I was SHOCKED to find that I was smashing my boobs into a 34B for the last 5 months and come to find out I'm in a 34D. Talk about flabergasted! I've never been in a D in my life. They don't look like a D but according to the bras I have now, it's true.

I asked my husband if he had any idea what size bra I was wearing and right off the top he said "D" with a huge smile on face. I couldn't believe he knew. I must have been in such denial it's not funny. Thankfully I'm much more comfortable and the twins seems happier too :-)

LONG Night, Nervous Times

Yesterday was an exceptionally bad day. I don't know why but I felt like crap all day. Yes, this was baby related and it scared me a little. Even though I would never let Matt know that.

All day yesterday I was having what I thought were Braxton Hicks contractions. I mean ALL DAY!!! I really never started worrying about the until about 3 pm. It was just a normal thing to happen to every prego lady. Unfortunately, from 3 pm on there seemed to be something different with each one. They were more sharp, painful, and it felt like Blueberry was sitting right on my my pelvic bone.

I never timed them, and I'm not sure why. Maybe because I didn't want to be an over-reacting mother and call my doc and bother him on a weekend for nothing or it could have been that I didn't want to accept the "possibility" of preterm labor. I don't know, either way I was in partial denial.

When I got home I started doing some laundry and after a couple of trips up and down the stairs I got strict orders from my wonderful, supportive, but definitely over protective hubby, to go and lay down for a while and get off my feet. Of course, even after my arguing with him I was banished to my room for a while.

After about an hour of laying down (still contracting) I got up to try to walk it off. I thought maybe I was just being too lazy and some exercises/movement would do some good. Wrong....I made it as far as the kitchen and doubled over with another sharp contraction. Luckily Caleb was there for moral support and tried to massage my back...he's so sweet to me. After that moment Matt told me I needed to start monitoring my contractions.

What I found out was that my contractions were coming every 5 minutes and lasting a minute each. I was told that if contractions went on for and hour straight then labor was starting. Now I was getting a lot more nervous. We are only at 30 wks and have at least 7 - 10 wks to go. She is way to little to come now. Fortunately, this only went on for 45 min and then just completely stopped so no phone call to the doc or trip to the ER was needed. Matt couldn't believe how hard my stomach was getting. He's really not going to know what to think when we go in to have her.

Needless to say I think I'm going to listen to my body a little more now. I hope with all the contractions I had yesterday they didn't hurt little Blueberry. She seemed to stay very active all day so I'm going to pray she is still fine. She's even moving around a little this morning. I think I'll stay down the rest of the weekend besides going to church. I have a lot to pray for.

Is it just my hormones?

You know I'm very weight conscious and in all reality I'm very hard on myself prego or not. Today I had a moment where I was talking w/ my boss out in our shop about a customers concern when I hear from the side "Man your getting fat!" from an employee we just hired two weeks ago.

I think he knew by the look on my face I was less than thrilled by his comment. You know, I am pretty open minded, and yes I work in a shop full of guys and yes were all pretty close and joke around a lot. However, coming from a guy I barely know this comment made smoke roll out of my ears.

I don't know if I'm overreacting a simple comment or maybe my hormones are just taking over, but this comment has put my mood down and I'm a little bummed out.

Damn New Guy!!!

Funny Moment

Matt, Caleb, and I went shopping at the Baby Depot this weekend. It was a fun family experience w/ lots of laughs.

Caleb really enjoys shopping for new items for Blueberry so when you get he and his father started, their like kids in a candy store. It's so cute! Yesterday was no different. Caleb did the scanning as Matt and I discussed necessities, he thought he was hot stuff too. There really wasn't a whole lot more for us to register for, just the minors at this point.

After all registration was finished, we did a little shopping. My favorite part! We ended up getting everything for the decor of her room. Such as: Sugar Plum pillows for her crib, the basket for her lotions and accessories, the Sugar Plum Butterflies for the wall, the Sugar Plum night light, Sugar Plum valances, and of course her Sugar Plum hamper. We also got her letters for her name to be spelled out on her wall. So the name will not be changed from this point on.

After shopping the necessities we HAD to do a little clothes shopping too. So we found a diaper bag and a few darling outfits. When we are ready to leave we found her headbands that I've not been able to find anywhere. So as we're standing there picking out the cutest ones Caleb turns to look at me and with all sincerity ask me,

Caleb: "What if Blueberry comes out BLACK?".

Me: Caleb, there is no possible way she could.

Caleb: But mom how do you know for sure.

Me: I just do, Why are you even asking?

Caleb: Mom look over there

So I turn to see and there was a white mommy with an adorable Black baby in her cart.

Caleb: See mom it can happen.

Me: Yes Caleb, it can happen, but it's not going to happen to us. I'll let your dad explain it to you later when we leave.

So upon leaving the Baby Depot Matt explained to him how there was no possibility of us bringing home a black baby girl :-)

I think this was the highlight of my day. A memory of innocence with Caleb that was purely from the heart and unintentionally bias. Children are a miracle from God and anyone that can't see that or appreciate it have serious mental issues.

Crib and Changing Table

Last night my wonderful husband got home after having a not so good day and headed straight for Blueberry's room. He scoped it out as to where he was thinking the furniture would fit best and then headed to the attic to bring down her crib and changing table.

He had to put the crib together, of course, but with his great construction know how he had it all put together in 20 minutes or so. Thanks babe!! Now with the crib up and the changing table in place, I can start cleaning it all up today after work. Then we can start decorating her room!

Tomorrow we are heading to Baby Depot to shop for some decorations to help complete her room. I have a list of things to get but we'll have to see what we actually come home with.

I'm also hoping to get over to Old Navy and Baby Gap and Gap. I would like to look at more pretty girl clothes and also pamper my Little Man with a couple of new outfits before heading back to school Monday. His new school shoes, Nike Shox, came in the mail on Wednesday and he is just dying to be able to wear them all the time. He told me "Mom these are the coolest shoes you've ever gotten me!" It's so sweet and innocent yet sincere. He's my boy who will always melt my heart and know how to make me feel like a good mom.

Blueberry updates

Yesterday was a very busy day for us. As you know the first thing to be done was the carpet laying in the baby's room. After they were finished I could tell it was going to look very good with the decor in the room. Once Matt vacuumed it last night and got all the shreds of carpet up knew it would be perfect for her room. It's so soft and bouncy to walk on, she is going to love it as much as we do. Now all that's left is the setting up and decorating. My kind of work! I can't wait till this weekend gets here. Here is a shot of the room till Saturday.

Blueberry's Room

We also had our Pix for Kicks ultrasound yesterday at 5pm. We got in for the appointment right away and Tori was our sonographer. My mom and Caleb were able to join us for this event and enjoyed every minute of it. I don't think my mom was able to whip the smile off her face the entire appointment. It tickled her to see my stomach twitch and bulge every time Blueberry moved :-)

Blueberry was still playing hard to get. We were only able to get two really good shots of her face the rest showed her hands and legs in the way. It was a relief to find out that she is no longer Breech. Joyce mentioned last Thursday, August 13th, that she was butt first and not to worry about it baby's usually turn on their own by 35-36 wks. Well, I'm pretty sure she turn the Tuesday evening, August 18th, (just 5 days later) I was very uncomfortable all night.

No matter what we are grateful to know that she is progressing well and looking healthy as a horse. She is definitely kicking and punching a whole lot harder now. Here are a couple of our best shots. Enjoy!!!!

Blueberry at 28 wks 4 days

Finally, and most importantly, we've finally chosen her name. This will not be known to anyone besides Matt, Caleb, and I until the day she is born. We feel this is one thing we can keep to ourselves to help make us feel a little closer when speaking to and about her in our home.

It's all coming together and I'm feeling really good about everything. I feel after yesterday everything will be on the downhill stretch for us :-)

Carpet is going in the baby's room today...yay!!!!

Today is the day I've been waiting for since I knew we were prego. This morning at 7am Jason was at our house ready to lay the carpet in Blueberry's room. I've never been more excited to see someone show up at our house that early in the morning!

Now that the carpet is being done this means that come this weekend Matt, Caleb, and I will be busy bringing down our crib and changing table and setting up where I want everthing to go. Maybe I'll even be able to talk a shopping trip to Baby Depot too. There are still a few little odds and ends to pick up for her room there yet.

By my calculations we should have a whole month to just relax and prepare ourselves for little miss Blueberry's arrival. This should be plenty of time to visit the hospital, try to talk Matt into taking a labor and delivery class (wish me luck on that, he doesn't think he needs any help), signing up for Baptismal classes, and most importantly ~ PICKING OUT HER NAME!!!!!!!

Matt did spend all evening last night on Baby Center looking at every name possibility there was. I do think we have it narrowed down to three possibilities now though. So I do feel a lot less stressed about this now. However, no one will know what we've chosen until the day of her arrival. That is the one thing Matt, Caleb, and I are keeping to ourselves. So until that wonderful day we will all refer to her as "Blueberry".

A little better today.

Today seems to have started off a little better for me. I didn't feel as groggy this morning as the last few. Hopefully the bigger dosage of meds are helping. When I'm up moving around getting done what needs to be done, it seems I'm like a buzzing bee, but once I sit down I feel a little more drained. Maybe once this new dosage is settle to my system things will be much better. It sucks to have to work when you feel this blah. It's hard to be nice to customers or even have the patience to to deal with co-workers.

I pray by Wednesday I am 100% up to par again. It isn't the best feeling in the world to be grumpy all day when all you feel is overly tired no matter how much sleep you get.

Levels down again :-(

I should have know something wasn't quite right. All weekend I've just been very tired and yesterday it was up to complete exhaustion. I just chalked it up to being prego and not resting enough, my fault.

I got a phone call this afternoon from my dr. office with need to know news. My thyroid hasn't been working right since I got prego so they put me on a new med and told me that more than likely I would be on it for the rest of my life, YAY! Now my thyroid level isn't up to standard levels again and there going to up my dosage, YAY!! The only good thing out of this conversation was that hopefully I'll now have my energy lever boosted back to normal again. I'm too busy to be down on my energy. Not to mention, I'm very grumpy when I'm tired.

The nurse also told me that my iron level is still at a 10.4 and they want it at least at a 12. My iron level is always low and can be another cause of my exhaustion but really 10.4 is pretty normal for me. As long as the baby is getting what she needs I'm ok with a 10.4. I'm going to try to eat more salad, eggs, and raisins from this point on. I want to see if I can get a little higher for these last couple of months. Who knows since all these foods are "good for you" foods maybe I'll lose a couple of pounds.

Well, off to higher levels. I hope these meds work.

Caleb's Home!!!!

Yay, my Caleb's home!!!! He finally made it around 9pm last night. I missed him sooo much! I only had maybe 3 phone calls from him the entire time he was gone, and one was just to tell me he was on his way home because I gave him STRICT orders to let me know when they started out since no one else bothered to keep me in the loop all week. I had to leave the responsibility up to my 10 year old. Sad isn't it. That's a whole nother story that will put me in a bad mood so I won't tredge that water.

By Saturday I was having major Caleb withdrawals!!! Fortunately, I was at my B-I-L & S-I-L's all afternoon and evening for our nephews b-day part. I was a good time w/ lots, lots, lots, of yummy food and good conversation. So it kept my mind free from wondering off to Caleb again, and again.

Sunday was a long day. I didn't have any energy to do hardly anything. I took a 2 hour nap and was absolutely dead to the world. We were having my Grandma Millie, Dad, and Aunt Judy over for dinner and thankfully I was feeling a little better to cook. By the end of the night after everyone had left I was doing my best when my little sunshine walked in the door and said "MOMMY!!!" and gave me a Huge Hug!

It was hard to even get up and come to work today knowing that he's back. I just want to spend all my time with him this week! So from 5:30 on tonight, he's mine!

28th Week...Beginning of 3rd Trimester

Well, today marks a big day for us. We are welcoming the beginning of our third trimester. It's exciting and scary all in the same. I'm excited that she will be here in about 84 days or so. However, scared that even through all my planning something might have been missed or something will go wrong during labor. I'm sure these are all normal feelings but for me they can be a little overwhelming at times.

Yesterday we went in for our 28 week checkup and sonogram. Anytime they schedule a sono I get butterflies because it's just another opportunity to see our little Blueberry again. To ease our minds (ok, just my mind, cause I'm the worry wart) that everything is ok and she has 10 fingers and 10 toes and everything else is normal too. My M-I-L, Susan, even joined us for her 1st ever experience with a sonogram. It was a great memory to have. She just kept smiling right along side of her son the whole time. A true KODAK moment!

Unfortunately little miss Blueberry wasn't very cooperative with us. Right now Joyce (our favorite sonographer ever) told us she is breech but that it was ok for now and not to concern ourselves with it just yet. She will more than likely turn herself by the 36-37 wk. Blueberry kept playing little games and putting her hands in front of her face and blocking Joyce from getting a good picture of her. Joyce insured us that Blueberry still has plenty of room the move around but evidently she didn't want to be photographed. Joyce did tell us that she weighs about 2.7 lbs. and 14.5 in. Not bad I said. I still think she is going to be a big baby but Joyce said she didn't think so. We'll see.

The shot below is the best picture of her we were able to get. Remember it's not the best, but I still love it!


We were even able to see her sucking on her fingers. It was so precious. Even though it was so cute on the sono I really hope when she comes out she isn't a finger sucker, to me that is a hard habit to break. At least with a pacifier, you can cut the nipple off when the time comes and tell them it "broke". You can't do anything when they suck on their fingers. I'm not going to worry about it until that moment arises.

I will start going in for checkups every two weeks now and at 36 wks I'll start going every week. It's going by so fast! I feel like I just found out we were pregnant. She'll be here in no time :-)

Happy 4th Birthday Calvin!!!!

Happy 4th Birthday

to our sweet nephew

Calvin!!!

We can't wait to help you celebrate your big day this saturday!

We hope you get everything you've been wanting.

Your Uncle Matt said he wanted to be in charge of your gift this time. Who knows what he's got up his sleeve.

Enjoy your day little man!

I'm sad....

Even though we just got back from vacation with the Ordner's now Caleb felt it necessary to get back on the road with my mom, and grandmother and head up to Chicago.

He's going to be spending most of his time with his Tante', of course. I'm sure she has some fun things set up for them to do this weekend. Even if she didn't, I know they would have fun the pool at her apt complex.

My grandmother (aka: Bubba) decided to head off on this little adventure too. Not only are they going to be visiting with my sis but also my Uncle Al. Bub hasn't been up there for about a year or so and I think is really going to enjoy herself while she is there. Even though she HATES long drives, I think the well deserved family time will help her forget about that.

I gave Caleb strict orders when he left, to call me when he missed me. No matter how often it was, I wouldn't mind. Well he's been gone since noon and I haven't heard a word out of him yet. I actually had to call them to make sure they got on the road ok.

I know my week is going to be so long without him here with me. His smiles, his snuggles, his hugs are all things I need to make it through my days. I hope he has a great time but I also home this week flies by!!

New room complete!!!

Finally after over a month and a half our basement room is complete! How exciting!!! Everything is set up and ready to go.

There were many hours of hard labor put into this investment and with some help from family and friends this mission is accomplished.

The room is perfect. It's just a little different having to go downstairs to use the computer now. That will just take a little getting used to. However, it sure is peaceful. The perfect thing for an office. I'm sure Caleb will be using the heck out of it in a few more years for research paper, reports, ect.

Now we are off to do some carpet shopping for the baby's room. Then decorations and all necessities for "Blueberry". This is when it's going to get exciting for me.

So in the end we would like to send a HUGE thank you out to the following helpers: Tom, Tommy, Chris, Nate, & Jason. If it wasn't for all of your help, Matt would still be burning his candle at both ends for quite a while longer.

Honey, I've said it before but I'll say it again. You are unbelievably talented in the construction world. You never cease to amaze me with your knowledge. Your a hard worker and always put family first. Thank you for all you do for us.

Vacation came and went

Branson Trip 2009

On Wednesday, August 4th, Caleb and I headed of to start our Family Vacation to Branson, MO.

First stop was to pickup Tom, Sue, and Alicia from home. Then the 5 hour road trip began. But before we even made it to Tom and Sue's we were blessed with a nice rock chip in our windshield. Now we have one on each side to match. Thankfully our trip got better from this point though.

When we made it to Tom & Sue's I was stunned by all the stuff they had packed. I thought Caleb and I over packed until I pulled in there driveway and was stunned even more when I walked into their kitchen. Of course we weren't able to pack everything into our van and had to call for reinforcements. Luckily we were the first to leave and the others following could help us out. Thanks everyone!

Once we got to Branson it was a relief. Being almost seven months pregnant with only one stop in between really played a number on my lower back. Caleb was a trooper and took a nap and watched a few movies and never once asked the famous words "Are we there yet?" He's a good little traveler.

The Resort was very nice. They had a couple of pools, one which was indoor in case of bad weather. Plus a nice recreational room which entailed pool tables, ping pong, checkers and chess tables, a big screen t.v. with nice comfy furniture to lounge in while everyone else was playing, and finally a game room equipped with air hockey and many others. Caleb was very happy with all of this!

Matt & Tommy weren't able to join us until LATE Thursday evening because of work and heavy traffic. So on Friday we headed up to the main attractions and found a go-cart track that everyone would enjoy. I think Matt was the biggest kid of them all. Everyone had a great time there. Matt, Caleb, and Alicia all had nerve enough to try the Skycoaster. This was Caleb's first trip on something like this and Alicia wanted to tackle a fear of heights. Mission accomplished! They were raised 100 feet on their chest then dropped a whopping 70 foot free fall until the straps swung them up like a swing. All we heard were scream but all we saw were smiles and thumbs up gestures. Although Caleb seemed to be hanging on to his dad for dear life at first :-)

Afterward we went back for a few more go-cart rides and took a walk over to the Titantic Museum. It was full of lots of information and artifacts that were all very interesting but just wasn't what we all were expecting.

Then on Saturday we headed for the lake to do a little boating. Tom rented a pontoon boat for four hours of fun in the sun. I was a good time but I never got in the water so when the four hours were up I was definitely ready for dry land and A/C. Matt and Caleb and the rest of the family had a ball.

When evening fell we all got ready and headed off to the Landing te eat dinner. Everyone chose a Mexican restaurant but Caleb and I were ready for steak and potato's. Oh, well it was good and we had some leftovers because their plates were huge. After dinner there was no time for shopping and we headed back to the condo to get a good nights rest before checking out then next morning by 10am.

A great big Thank You goes out to my in-laws, Tom and Sue, for putting together this wonderful trip. We really appreciated the time with family. Hopefully we can look forward to them for years to come.

UGH....15lbs

Let's face it, the scale is most woman's enemy. So far in my pregnancy I really haven't been too upset about the weight issue. I'm definetly small than I was when carrying our son Caleb, which is a huge accomplishment for me. I have noticed that with Blueberry, my hips immediatly popped out which in turn help my butt to get wider. Matt tells me I'm silly, but lets face is ladies, we know!!!

Well this morning I was curious as to where I was at with my prego weight and stepped on the scale. UGH...talk about starting off your day on the wrong note. I've hit my 15 lb mark. I feel like I shouldn't be that heavy yet. I really don't eat to far out of line. If I do Blueberry helps to make me regret it.

What is normal weight gain for 6 1/2 months? I wish there was a chart you could follow to see if your weight was right on or if you needed to worry about. You know a monthly progression chart like they have for the developement of your baby. I know not everyone is the same but there has to be some kind of average doesn't there? Blueberry is only around 2 lbs right now so I know the rest of it's not in my boobs.....lol

Just being a worry wart as usual. I'll just have to ask next week.

Busy Weekend

This weekend went by too quickly. We were here, there, and everywhere. I wish the weekend could consist of 3 days instead of 2.

The weekend started out with me being at work at 7am til noon. That wasn't entirely terrible. I'm a morning person for the most part so getting up early isn't such a bad thing. Towards the ladder part working I started feeling not bad but definitely not good. So I was just moving a little slower than usual, but still ready to conquer tasks ahead.

After work, I headed off to the grocery store to p/u the necessities for the Branson trip this week. I am so looking forward to that! The store seems crazy now that they're remodeling and everything has been moved around. What should have taken me 15 min tops took me 30. Not a big deal it will get better soon. They have it looking very nice, much more modern looking.

Then I headed off to my Bub's house where I was picking up a pot of her homemade potato soup. Mind you I'm still feeling a little blah but it was still manageable. My Bub is the best cook ever. Something about her food just makes your mouth water(except liver, still can't hack that stuff). Love Grandma's house!!

On my way home all I could smell was that soup and of course the first thing I did after unloading groceries was eat a huge bowl of it. Talk about comfort food!! I had to call Bub and thank her for making such a scrumcious pot of soup and contributing to my absolute need for a nap! So all in all Saturday for me was shot for me, all I did the rest of the day was lay around. No cleaning for me.

Thankfully Sunday was a much better day. I woke up at 6:30 ate some oatmeal, toast and a banana then started the my day. I cleaned our entire house (except the baby's room, it's still a making in progress). What a workout! We're talking dusting, spot treating the living room carpet, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, cleaning the bathroom, oh and doing all the laundry. After all that I had to treat myself to an ice cream cone (strawberry swirl) at Homewood grill. What a reward to myself. Then I headed off to my Bub's again and dropped of all the bowls and dishes we had acquired throughout the past weeks. After visiting w/ her for a while I headed home and finally after dinner decided I had just enough energy to go on my 2 mile walk.

After all is said and done I had a productive weekend and crashed hard Sunday night when I went to bed. This is why I wish weekends could be longer.