Camera Issues

I have had a ton of issues this year keeping up with my camera. It's just not a good thing. I keep losing it, but I know eventually I will find it again. This time however, I think I may have lost it for good. I took it to the fair and I have been waiting to do a post about the fair until I could retrieve my pictures, but I do think my poor camera got lost in the parking lot. That's what I get. I kept putting it on the handle of the stroller (there was a groove between the padding and the handle I "secured" the strap in). I haven't seen it since the fair so I'm pretty positive it is gone for good this time. I guess the only good thing here is I am pretty sure my phone takes pretty comparable pictures and my camcorder also takes pictures.........albeit crappy ones. I think I am just going to forgo getting another camera for awhile. I'm just sad that a) I lost all my pictures and b) I've had that camera for about 2 years and I will miss my camera:( I guess the next camera I get I will aim for bigger and better, BUT I'm not really into the photography hobby thing (I totally don't have the eye for that). So, I'm not sure what kind of camera I'll eventually get, but I know it won't be until around this time next year before I get one. Farewell camera.

Victoria's first day of "school"

This week Victoria started Parents Day Out at a local church. I felt pretty guilty about sending her, but I know it's really what was best for her (and my sanity in the long run). We call it school and she LOVES it!!! She is such a little social butterfly. She goes for 5 hours, twice a week and when I went to pick her up on Tuesday it was all I could do to pry her away. I am a stay-at-home-mommy that watches other kiddos so I can stay at home, BUT I am also going to school full-time to become a teacher. I will start my demonstration teaching next fall and my little girls will have to go to childcare full-time. I think this 2 day a week thing will be a good transition for Victoria. I also recently just lost one of the kids I watch that is closest in age to Victoria and so now she doesn't have a playmate close to her age (my other full-time kiddo turns 1 this month) and I felt it would be good for my little copy cat to go be with kids her age and older. I can already tell life is going to be a lot less stressful. I am going to be able to get more cleaning and studying done and that is always good!

Good news!

So, I said I would hopefully have good news today, and I do!!! When I went for the anatomy scan at 19 weeks they told me that Miss Emily had some choroid plexus cysts and that it could be a marker for Trisomy 18. In case you are unsure what that is, it is a chromosomal disorder that is not usually compatible with life. Nice huh? Usually the baby passes away in utero, but if it doesn't is usually passes in right after birth or within the first year. They told us there was a 1% chance to not worry, so for the most part I actually didn't which is very unusual for me. We didn't really share with anyone (other than my besties.......what girl would I be if I didn't share that kind of stuff with them). Anyway.....they're gone!!!! Yay!!! She is also measuring 2lbs. 4 oz. right now:)

Now Miss Emily is deciding to be difficult in new ways.......she's breech, but I'm not too worried about that either since I can feel her head and I am pretty sure she is doing somersaults in there:)

I had my glucose testing done for gestational diabetes today and I haven't heard back about that yet.......which no news is good news and they will get the results today. Oh.....and I had to have that stupid RhoGAM shot......BLAH! Not fun!

Sneak peak ;-)

I can't wait to show off the finished product!!!! The hubs has started painting the design:)

Here's the pencil marks of many hours of tracing.

And here's some painted!!!

Hello Third Trimester!!!!

Wow! I have seriously been slacking with the blog. My camera has been MIA for awhile now and as soon as I figure out how to get the pictures off my old phone I will have another blog about our Splash Country adventures last weekend. Anywho.....

THIRD TRIMESTER!!!!

I really consider 27 weeks to be third as do a lot of websites and my doctor, but as I have mentioned in previous posts.....there's a lot of variance with this. The nitty gritty of it is.....there are only 83 DAYS until my due date. Holy cow.....for realz we are in the countdown of days! I can't seem to get the hubs on board with the urgency I feel.......I think he is working on the "slow and steady wins the race" train of thought. Today he FINALLY finished tracing the pattern on the wall of the nursery and will start painting it. I hoping that this will not take as long as the actual tracing because we still have to paint the beadboard and get it up, put up the trim, sand paint and redo the inside of the armoire, sand and paint the changing table, put together the crib, and then I can work on all the other finishing touches. WHEW! It's a lot! Poor guy has about a billion things on his plate right now. I have anxiety issues (as I have discussed in other treads) and I would probably be having a meltdown every day if I were him. He rocks though:)

As for me....third trimester has brought back the nausea (not that it ever left completely), extreme tiredness, moodiness (I cry ALL.THE.TIME), and tons of aches and pains. I now up to 165 (so 20 lbs. as of yesterday.....thanks family reunion) and here's the belly.

This go around I am definitely getting bigger all over the middle and butt. I'm actually starting to wonder if the baby is actually hiding in the cellulite on my ass...but hey.....whatever.....I'm about to have a baby! I get to see little Miss Emily tomorrow (via ultrasound) and so there will be another blog tomorrow about some hopefully good news I have been waiting for....fingers crossed. She has definitely moved in there and she is running out of room. I usually don't feel the big movements anymore and instead just little adjustments. Still....she does get mad at the iPad sitting on my belly sometimes and hits right off! I LOVE it!