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!

25 wks.

Man, I feel like I haven't blogged in FOR-EV-ER!!! Well, I had some things I wanted to blog about and then after they happened and I was ready to my danged computer went CRAZY!! Well, we thought the computer went crazy, but apparently the adapter did. Great! Another adapter. This will make number 3 in like 5 months. Ugh! It's better than having to replace the computer though AND this way I don't have wasted homework stuck on my computer.

Anywho! I'm 25 weeks:) Tomorrow I will be 100 days away from my due date!!!! Holy cow it's getting close! I used to say that sometimes I waddle.....then I saw my shadow......I waddle. The hips hurt. I'm feeling a lot of pressure and some Braxton Hicks. I went for a jog a couple of nights ago and holy Braxton Hicks! I haven't jogged in a little bit so I wasn't pushing myself, but walking causes me to have them anyway so I guess it's common sense they'd be there for jogging. Oh, and I swear my belly is HUGE after working out. This weeks picture is after working out so I do think it's a bit bigger than normal BUT I have grown a lot lately! I was doing so awesome with my weight too......and then I gained 3 lbs. this week. AWESOME! I did the same thing with Victoria though so I guess that is just how my body works. I have gained the same amount so far as I did with her but it has been spread out a little better. I started this week at a 15 lb. gain (159) but now I'm up to 18 (162) as of this morning. It better stop creeping up every morning though or I might be in some trouble. I'm chill with the whole 25-35 and with Victoria I gained 33. If I gain that again then that's fine. The baby's gotta grow right? And then of course she needs though fat stores to eat off (that sounds gross, but that's just how it is).

Here's the belly:)Sorry for the craptastic photo; we couldn't find the camera so this was taken with the video camera.

Here's the side-by-side:) I've been waiting to do this one!!! I felt like 25 wks. I just POPPED with Miss V. This is definitely a different shape going on. I'm not sure if I think it's bigger or just more spread out......just don't know what to think about the shape this go around.

I'm not even going to resize that. I know it hugemongous but whatev. I'm totally not standing the same, but can't do much about that now. I think this one is DEFINITELY lower..........any thoughts? I mean I KNOW there are people other than me reading this. I have that dandy map at the bottom that tells me so;)

Fighting Sleep

Ugh...I fight sleep. Does anyone else do this? It's not that I'm not tired; I just don't want to lay down and close my eyes. It doesn't make any sense at all to me. I am so freaking tired right now for example. I got tired of fighting Miss Priss to sleep earlier (she get's all kinds of crazy hot and sweaty if you cuddle with her, but insists on being cuddled) and so finally I told her she was just going to have to go to sleep on her own in her own bed. She's actually gotten a lot better at this lately as long as she gets in some cuddle time first. Anywho....I was crazy tired at that point so I said to myself that I was going to go lay back down and go to sleep as well........but I totally didn't. That was like 2 hrs. ago. I'm sitting here yawning and typing. I have no stinking clue as to why I don't want to go to sleep. I'm exhausted, I'll be exhausted tomorrow, there's nothing I HAVE to get done right. this. second. I just don't get it. Please, please, please tell me other people do this. There's nothing for me to do right now; I'm bored as all get out because no matter how many times a refresh FB and my email nothing is happening. I guess I could read. My point is there is nothing so exciting (or even not exciting) keeping me up. Even if I were to lay down right now I have such fight in me I wouldn't go to sleep. Maybe that is the problem. I HATE laying there FOR-EV-ER trying to sleep to no avail so I just don't bother. I was on Lunesta for a long time for this but stopped taking it because I heard it hurts your chances of getting pregnant (and we were trying for my little Victoria). I never resumed it because I was nursing, and then I was trying to get pregnant again. Yes.....that does seem a bit odd. I nursed for 20 months though and one of the only reasons I stopped was in hopes it would help me get pregnant (the other reason is it was getting a little disturbing for me since Victoria could dig it out herself and say please and thank you in regards to it).

I think I have some heartburn going on too......not positive. I'm going to go make half a pb sandwhich. Wish me luck with the sleep thing.

Confusing Trimesters......and months......and due date

This blog has definitely turned into me talking....typing.......about whatever comes to my mind. Sorry about that. Anywho......topic du jour is how confusing it is knowing dates when you are pregnant. For me it is easiest to just go by weeks. Anyone that has been pregnant or know anything about pregnancy will know that when you say you are 23 weeks along you are more than halfway. I hate trying to deal with months. Right now I am 5 months, working on 6 months. I don't go around saying I'm in my 28th year though.....I say I'm 27 (well, I say I'm 25, but that's a different story), so IMO you can't say you are 6 months until you are finished with you 6th month. It's hard to even know how your weeks break down into months considering there are 4.3 weeks in a month. Next up is trimesters....that is pretty hard too because you get tons of different info. Some website or people consider the 1st trimester to be over when you turn 12 weeks while others don't consider it over until you turn 14 weeks. I always thought it was 12 and stuck to that. Mathematically I know I'm wrong since 40/3=13.3, but not everyone is pregnant for 40 weeks. 2nd trimester is more of the same......it varies from when you turn 25 weeks to 28 weeks. I do 27. I've just been thinking about this a lot since I'm now 23 weeks and only a short 4 weeks from the final stretch. I am pretty sure it was just yesterday that we were trying, and trying, and trying to conceive.

My next appointment is Sept. 2nd and it's an ultrasound and then after that the next one is Sept. 6th.......I get to do the fabulous glucose screening test then. YAY.......not. I really wish they did ultrasounds in my doctors office because I am really over having appointments less than a week apart in the same building. Hopefully this is the last one. Then I go to appointments every 2 weeks......craziness.

ETA: I babbled so much I forgot to mention why due dates are confusing! LOL! If you go by my last cycle I'm due on Nov. 27, but according to the 1st measurement at the doctors my due date is Dec. 2. I'm sticking with 11/27. I mean going by measurement it less accurate IMO. That little cursor just has to be off a teeny tiny bit and it messes with your due date. UGH. Whatever.

BTW, I did 2 very exciting things to prepare for baby this weekend:) I ordered the crib (which was $200 off making it a whopping $99) and I bought the coming home outfit! Pictures below.

AND.....if everything goes as planned then I will be the proud owner of this fabulous bag at the end of the day:)

It's a retired print on ebay:) I'm a stay-at-home-mommy so I don't really have a ton of disposable income. It actually just went down because I'm not going to be watching one of my kiddos anymore after Friday. So...point is I don't go splurging....I look for good deals and found 3 great ones in the last 3 days (oh and my dear sweet parents are buying me the crib....they are AWESOME)!