Hurray! Another week down. 4 to go if I go to 40 weeks like all you people are cursing me with praying for. I thought it would be appropriate to go into labor on labor day weekend, but no one else seems to agree (except my husband). My grandma’s birthday is next Thursday, and my good friend’s birthday is next Saturday, those are all good days.
I had an appointment with my midwife today, it went well. She didn’t check me to see if I was any more dilated, even though I told her I woke up feeling like my hips were going to break because they felt so far pushed apart. It was a pretty uneventful visit, aside from finding out I’m measuring even bigger. They scheduled an Ultra Sound for next Wednesday. I’ll be 37 weeks that day. I’m very excited to get to see her in the ultra sound, lately I’ve been thinking “what if this baby isn’t really a girl? what if she was hiding something? If she comes out a boy things will be very interesting. It will be dressed in pink!” he he.
We’re pretty much ready for Caylee to come. We’ve got some things we need to get like a diaper bag, diapers and a few other small things, but other than that we’re all set. We’re kinda holding off on buying things until we know what people are getting us. That way we don’t have to worry about returning anything.
I’m not sure Lexi is ready for her little sister to come. She really has no clue. We thought she was figuring it out, because if we asked her where Caylee was she’d point to my belly, or if we asked her to kiss Caylee she’d kiss my belly. But lately we realized she doesn’t get it at all. Now if we ask her where Caylee is she lifts up her shirt and points to HER belly. She also wants to kiss daddy’s belly. Maybe she’ll get it when we bring her home from the hospital?
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Jes
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I no longer have any maternity shirts that will cover my belly when I move. I have to hold them down. a week ago they were fine.
I cannot cross my legs anymore.
Sitting down or standing up is a chore.
And please don’t ask me to touch my toes, or even look at them for that matter.
My conclusion is that Caylee has “dropped”.
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Jes
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I am very sad.
See, since I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes I’ve been put on this “special” diet. I have to eat 6 times a day, at set times, and set amounts of foods. I also have to eliminate and include foods. One of those foods I’m supposed to get some of each time I eat is protien.
I’m not an egg person, so breakfast has been hard, I’ve eaten mostly toast with peanut butter on it. And snacks? it’s either been cheese (cottage cheese or regular) or peanut butter. Lunch is normally either left overs or more peanut butter and supper are easy to get protien, because that’s when I cook meat.
So I eat peanut butter anywhere from 2-5 times a day. Good thing I like peanut butter.
But I’ve noticed a few things. One of those thingsis red itchy spots on my arm and chest and neck. I thought it was associated with the poison ivy i had, because it showed up at the same time. but the poison ivy is gone, and more and more red itchy spots are showing up. I’ve realized now that these spots are hives. The other thing is the stomach issues. Every time I eat peanut butter my stomach hurts terribly and TUMs have to come to the rescue- sometimes they work sometimes they don’t.
So I’ve decided peanut butter must be eliminated from my diet, at least for awhile, then maybe I can have it in small amounts. But now I don’t know what to have as protien. I can eat cheese, but too much of that causes issues already common in pregnancy. HELP!!! What can I have as protien? other than the obvious big juicy steak. I will say I do not like beans, so please don’t tell me to eat those.
Humph. I’ve heard of this happening, but never thought I would end up with a case of peanut butter allergy.
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Jes
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To make up for last weeks lame Meet and Greet post with only two pictures I made sure to take a bunch this week. I also uploaded some pictures from my husband’s phone that I’ve been wanting to share off my husband’s phone. Ready?
A slightly older picture, taken at the beginning of the month but who can resist such a cute picture (ignore the mess in the background)
Innocent?
Ever heard the rhyme “There was a little girl who had a little curl in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid!” That’s my daughter 
Here’s Lexi and her friend C in our double jogger (thanks to Lexi’s Aunt and Uncle from Maine who gave it to us!) Notice the hands… they did that themselves. I call this picture “Caught ya!”
Yes, they are still holding hands, They were just so cute.
this one is a little blurry, but it shows her lazy side.
She got new sneakers from her Nana and was thrilled to wear them. Doesn’t she look like such a big girl with jeans, a t-shirt and sneakers on!? in case you’re wondering her shirt says “little in size, big in attitude”
Speaking of big girl. Notice the cup. no lid. It was her first time, but she did really well. We started her off with 1/4th a cup of water, after refilling that about 3 times we put 1/4th a cup of milk in there. She didn’t spill it at all! All in all she had about a full glass of water and a full glass of milk that night and only spilled a little of the water when she first started. I can’t believe it.
Last Saturday was my husband’s company picnic, we realized we forgot the camera after we were about 20 minutes down the road. So although it would have been the perfect opportunity to take some great pictures, we only got a few on his phone. This is us in the paddle boat. She was so excited to “help steer” the boat. (Notice how my life jacket goes out at a 45 degree angle over my belly he he)
Meet the pigs that live up the road. We’ve been walking almost every day for two months now and Lexi loves to see the pigs, sometimes they are right up near the fence and we push the stroller over. This was C’s first time seeing them. He thought they were pretty cool….
except when they all came to the fence and starting oinking at once. Notice the nervousness on his face. Don’t worry, we kept telling him it was ok and he calmed down eventually. But he really didn’t like all the oinking.
Saturday my husband was weed whacking. Since it was a nice day outside Lexi and I decided to go out for a bit too. I discovered how to keep her entertained for an hour. Get a bucket, put a little bit of water in it, and give her a clean sponge. She got wet, kept cool and even cleaned the chairs a little bit.
She also tried to clean me
Did you enjoy the pictures! Good! Now leave some comment love then head on over to The Natural Mommy to check out other people’s Meet and Greet posts!
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Jes
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And she’s two! Can you believe it?
Today has been an interesting day, Lexi woke up early, putting her in a bit of a sleepy mood all day even after her nap. We had several incidents where she was disobeying, we tried time out, we tried a spanking (to which she laughed at), and we tried ignoring her behavior. Nothing seemed to work.
After supper she was asking for her bubbles, but before we let her have them, we told her we wanted her to pick up all her toys. She had made a horrible mess all over the living room and her bedroom. We simply asked her to pick up her Mrs. Potato head and pieces while we cleaned up the rest.
Eugene and I got busy picking up the blocks, puzzles, alphabet magnets, dollhouses, fake food, plates and cups, books… you name it we picked it up. EXCEPT for the MRS. Potato head pieces. 5 minutes later she was still standing there staring at the pieces. The rest of the house was clean. She started whining for the bubbles. We kept explaining to her that until she cleaned up the potato head, she wasn’t getting bubbles. She kept whining and whining and whining.
We didn’t give in. (amazingly enough).
We were sitting on the couch watching tv, she was whining. I simply said “Lexi, listen to mommy, we want you to pick up your potato head toys, then you can have the bubbles, do you understand?” She kept whining. I said “honey, pick up the lips and put them in the potato.” She finally got it and picked up the toys. We celebrated and gave her the bubbles.
So, although it took her almost 20 minutes she did what we asked!!!
Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Jes
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Well, I am 35 weeks and 2 days today. I had an appointment with my midwife today and thought I’d start sharing weekly updates, since I’ll be going to the doctor’s once a week now.
I have made it further this pregnancy than I did with Lexi, by almost a week! Before the update here’s a picture- a really bad picture because I took it myself and the flash was not cooperating, maybe tonight I’ll have hubs take a better one.
There we are!
Now on to what the midwife said. I’m measuring at 38 weeks, she said I was still in the “normal” range, if there is more of a gap next week (if I’m bigger) than they will probably do an ultra sound to see if Caylee is really big or if she’s just sitting in a way to make me measure big.
She also informed me that I’m dilated to 2 CM. Not that that means anything, many women walk around for weeks at 2 or even 3 or 4 CM. So although it would be nice to think I’m getting close, I keep reminding myself it means nothing.
Both the midwife, my husband and I are hoping Caylee comes between 36 and 37 weeks. Although that is early to most people, since Lexi was so early it is really a good time. I think if Caylee stays in there for the full 40 weeks I’ll feel like I was pregnant forever! (I am already anxious to meet her and hold her!) If she does come that is only between 1 and 2 weeks away! that is a crazy thought. If she decides to wait until 40 weeks I have 4.5 weeks left. ugh, that is a long time.
So anyway, everything is going good with the pregnancy! Caylee is doing good and I’m doing good, and we think Lexi might be realizing something is happening. She at least knows my belly is called Caylee.
Next appointment is next Friday. we’ll see what happens then!
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Jes
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A friend of mine from Tennessee sent this picture to me, It really made me smile so I thought I’d share it with you. I always see pictures like this and they warm my heart. This picture warms my heart even more because the soldier is one of our friend’s sons.
Just makes you smile doesn’t it?
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by Jes
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Lately when we go in Lexi’s room in the mornings it has been smelling like mildew. We’ve always kept her door closed while she sleeps, that way the noise we make doesn’t affect her. Since breathing in mildew isn’t exactly a good thing we thought we’d try leaving her door open while we were asleep too. We weren’t sure what was going to happen, but we tried it.
At 4:30 this morning she started crying for momma. After a few minutes she was still crying so I went in to get her and brought her to our room. I thought since it was so early she’d fall back asleep in between Eugene and I, and we’d be able to bring her back to her bed and get some sleep. I was wrong.
She wanted to snuggle with her daddy, which was fine, until she was trying to get him to play peek a book. She seemed too awake. So I asked her if she wanted to go back to her bed. She said yes, Eugene brought her back there and as soon as he put her in the crib and pulled the side up she started screaming. Not the type of screaming you ignore, especially not at the wee hours of the morning. Anyway, we tried a couple other things and at 5:30 she was still wide awake so I gave up and brought her into the livingroom. She wanted to watch Curious George, so she sat on the couch, milk in one hand, cereal in the other. She was in a complete zone.
Around 8:15 she decided it was time to go back to bed and slept until 11. So now it’s lunch time, but it feels like it’s still 9 am!! This day is just flying! I’ve even been getting stuff done like laundry, dishes, more laundry, diaper stuffing. All the usual.
On a good note, she woke up in a great mood and is happy now.
Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Jes
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You know The Natural Mommy right?
Well, please pray for her husband tomorrow between 8-12 Eastern Standard Time.
See, he’s one of those really smart people who wont stop going to school (I think he’s been in school for like 22 years or something. ) Anyway, Tomorrow morning he takes what is called a Qualifying Exam (QE) I don’t know much about it other than the fact that if he passes he gets to move on in his education, if he doesn’t pass he spends another year studying because the test is only offered once a year.
If you want to know more, read her post about it here. Whether you read it or not, Just PRAY HARD here’s her list of specific prayers for him:
- He feels at peace and not stressed before, during, and after the test.
- He is able to remember all he has studied without hesitation.
- He will work fast enough to solve the problems within the given time.
- His speed doesn’t interfere with his accuracy.
- His accuracy doesn’t interfere with his speed.
- HE WILL PASS.
Thanks guys!
Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Jes
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I haven’t taken very many pictures in the past week, I’ll try to do better for next week. Until then, here’s what we got.
Meet Mrs. Potato Lexi. She got a potato head for her birthday and it’s become one of her favorite toys. The fun doesn’t stop with playing Picasso. Lexi likes to pretend she is Mrs. Potato head. The problems arise when she tries to put the eyes on…
I told you in the last post that Lexi is getting really smart right? Did you wonder how?
She studies flash cards. She also has been very indepenent when it comes to dressing herself lately. Last night she went to church with a very interesting outfit on. I didn’t even try to explain it to anyone, I just pretended she looked fine.
I was going to insert a picture of my poison ivy here, but thought it might gross some of you out, so I decided to just stop at two pictures.
Remember to go to The Natural Mommy for the Meet and Greet post with the new camera! WOO HOO!
Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Jes
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