Interview Meme

Lorie Imed me my Interview questions - so here we go!

1. What do you think your greatest achievement in life is so far? My testimony. I've worked VERY HARD to build it, nuture it, and now I can share it. I didn't always have a very strong testimony, it's something that I really had to work at. It's my greatest achievement because I know it makes all other achievements possible.

2. What are your 3 favorite things about your husband? I LOVE to see him with little babies, as our kids get older he does struggle to find his place with them, but as babies he was just extra attentive. My second favorite thing is how well he supports us...I'm sure it's very hard for him to work 60-70 weeks so I can stay home. Third, how safe I feel at night when he's home, I know I'm protected.

3. What have you not gotten to do in life so far that you always wanted to do? I haven't done alot of things, mostly because I had Jakey and got married so young, I definately want to get my Bachelor's Degree....likely I'll be getting it at good old Cal State. :)

4. Name the 5 most precious things to you. We're talking actual tangible objects/people/things? If so, scriptures, Kevin, Jacob, Justin, my newest little baby, and all of our family pictures.

5. What's your favorite: entree, vegetable, fruit, or dessert? I have to say dessert, I love pie and cheesecake!

Appt at 11w1d

My appt went GREAT! I lost weight again, I'm down 12 lbs total - my dr said I could lose and be fine, so that's great. He measured me and I measured 14 weeks and the heartbeat was right between my c/s scar and my belly button?! Crazy! He saw my Tummy Sleeve and thought it was really cool - and we were standing in the hallway talking to his wife about it, they're thinking of having a baby in a year or two and they thought it was great LOL. I did have 2 contractions while he was with me that concerned him, but he said my urine showed signs of dehydration so go drink some water and see if it knocks it off, I can call anytime I have more than 4 contractions in an hour but if I'm ok, my next appt is May 29th!

So no u/s pics from me until we can tell the baby's gender!!! :)

I miss my Fridays! I miss going to the park and chatting with my friends for several hours! My friends came and got my kids and took them but I'm here...

Soon, very soon, I'll be off strict bedrest! (I can hope anyways)

I'm so excited that I get to try going to church on Sunday and then talk to my dr about how it went (cramping, bleeding) on Monday and we can decide about getting off bedrest. I'm not going to Primary this week though, apparently the RS presidency got permission to have all of the MEN run Primary and Young Women's and ALL RS aged women are going to RS for a special Visiting Teaching Conference during RS and Gospel Doctrine. Interesting idea huh? So I'll be sitting in RS until it's time for Sacrament Meeting.

Hmmmm, what else is new? Not much really...Been reading more books, I'm halfway through the Hearts Of The Children series, I haven't decided yet if I like it as well as The Children Of The Promise series.

Ah, yes, the Dr's office called to confirm my appt for Monday - I apparently made ti or 8:15...wow that's early! LOL

Well I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

Baby #3 at 10w2d

The baby was squirming EVERYWHERE and so the u/s tech tapped my tummy and told it to knock it off so she could measure it, that scared the baby half to death and it balled up, covered it's face with it's hands, and refused to budge for measurements LOL. So the best she could do was 10w5d measurement and hearttones. So my pic isn't too wonderful, but I've got so many it's fine, and it was fun to see! :) If you can tell, the baby is head downish - with it's head up against the heart tones marks to the right and it's hands are covering it's face and the rest of it's body is just totally curled up in a ball! LOL

This is not a pay-per-post ad or anything. I just have to share what will make a woman in the "in-between" phase of pregnancy happiest. Wearing her favorite pair of pants, that no longer fits, unbuttoned and unzipped, covered by The Tummy Sleeve .... ahhhh bliss!

Well I guess my nightmare will never come true, cause I'm 10 weeks now! Yay! LOL

Man, where did spring go? It was so nice! Now it's cold, windy, rainy, cloudy! I know I'm not really getting outside but I hope when I can, the weather is nicer than this!

Soooooooooooooo, anything new? Man I'm bored still LOL! I think I'm going to get a "season" on dvd of something to watch. But I haven't made a decision yet. Maybe I'll restart 24, or see what everyone thinks is so great about Lost, any suggestions?

Well I gotta prep Jakey for state standardized testing, so I better get on that this morning. Oh, guess what, tomorrow Night At The Museum comes out!! My mom is going to pick it up on her way over here after work tomorrow so we can watch it after dinner. I loved that movie and the boys haven't seen it yet. Ok, now I'm rambling, later! I'll be sure to update after my u/s tomorrow morning.

Sudoku

So, how many books of Sudoku puzzles do you think I've done in the past 2.5 weeks? 1? 2? 3? more? If you answered "more" you'd be correct!! I now see number puzzles in my head when I close my eyes...I dream about finding the spot in the square for a 7. I've lost my mind! LOL

My other fun thing is dreams - I have a recurring nightmare right now LOL. Every week when I go in for a u/s the tech asks me "How many weeks are you now?" and I answer whatever it is. Well I've recently started dreaming that every week I always answer 9, that I never move up in weeks. The u/s tech is aging (like noticably, getting grey hair), the appt setting chick is aging, my dr is aging, I never see myself, but I am ALWAYS 9 weeks pregnant, every week I go in...LOL

So, how are the boys doing? Justin is over his ear infection! He's got some nose crud but I'm convinced it's because the weather goes from 90 to 60 every other day. Isn't spring fun? LOL He's talking SO WELL. He's always had pretty good speech but he's gaining emphasis and vocabulary every day. It's cool to see him leaving toddlerhood behind and becoming a little preschooler. My mom bought him some art stuff and puzzles this week and he is doing really well with puzzles and is getting to know his colors very well!

Jakey has STAR testing (state mandated testing to see how bad/good schools are) next week. So he'll be gone from 8:30 - 12:30 Tuesday - Thursday and going to a pizza party on Thursday afternoon. That should be fun for him. I hope he does well, testing is so hard!! We have alot of prepping to do to get him ready on Monday.

Kevin got a raise this week :) We're really excited, like things are falling into place. The raise will equal an extra $400 a month or so and that's perfect because we need to rebuy EVERYTHING for this baby. We've decided to buy our baby a crib, we've NEVER used a crib before but I just can't spend 3 years getting another kid out of my bed! I love my kids, but I DO NOT like their little feet in my back all night! It's time to start bribing Justin to get him out of my bed, I haven't figured out the proper prize for the bribery though.

Oh and finally - THANK GOODNESS SANJAYA IS GONE!!!!!! That made my week!! And really they all did better with country than I thought they would do. Did anyone catch what genre they're singing next week? I didn't hear them say it? Just that "Idol Gives Back" stuff.

If I don't laugh, I'll cry....

I hate how emotional I have become! LOL

Tonight the boys and I were playing "Simon Says" and I said, "Simon Says do jumping jacks." Both boys looked at me confused. I repeated myself. Confused again, then "what's a jumping jack?" I started crying. Kevin's like - what is wrong with you??? LOL I was sad because we're homeschooling Jakey and it's my fault that he doesn't know how to do a jumping jack cause I never taught him. And so in my hormonal state - I must be a complete failure because I don't remember when I learned to do a jumping jack, but I know I wasn't 7! So, while I cried (I am SO lame!) Kevin taught Jakey to do a jumping jack (Justin too, but his are super weak LOL) and when I came out Jakey spent the rest of the night saying, "Mommy don't cry! I know how to do a jumping jack now!" Yeah, I know, I've lost my mind!

Baby's Bigger, Bleed's Smaller!

Finally! The bleed seems to be getting smaller, the baby is getting bigger! Yay! The heartrate was 175 and baby looked good!



My next u/s is next Tuesday at 11:00, after that I see the dr on April 30th and if everything keeps looking as good as it has then I'll be on modified bedrest, with only housework and weight restrictions. But this also depends on my cervix length measurements by abdominal u/s next week and the 30th because I have thinned a bit and dialated slightly and so they're going to put in a cerclage at 14 weeks, we just have to get to 14 weeks, I shouldn't be on bedrest but a few days after the cerc is put in! (Unless I develope further problems...) Anyhow things are looking really good. I don't worry so much about the baby having problems as I do about my body failing the baby...so hopefully my body doesn't fail.

Wow, the baby in that ticker is really taking shape!

According to the due date they gave me when baby first appeared on u/s - I'm 9 weeks today...according to LMP I'm 10w3d - but we're looking at the 9 weeks as being accurate - so I'm due November 18th.

It's stake conference today - and pouring rain, so Kevin and the boys are home and hanging out here. Kevin does have a little cleaning up to do because we have a full week of help from our families and ward coming this week and the house needs to be presentable, so they're all up working on that. The boys made a terrible mess with popcorn last night!

Not much new and exciting is going on here. I am reading the 4th and final book of The Children Of The Promise, I'm going to be sad to see this series end. I have a friend loaning me the next part of the series next week. I haven't read this much in forever! I think since I was on bedrest with Justin! LOL Other than that, I have only left my house to go to the dr's office for the past nearly 2 weeks, so I've totally got cabin fever.

Well tomorrow is another u/s (and chance to escape the house for a little bit) so I'll be sure to post the pic when I get back tomorrow afternoon from the u/s! Wish us luck, smaller bleed and bigger baby! :)

Adventures to the Pharmacy!

Yesterday morning I woke up and my throat was really swollen...it was the craziest thing, I could barely talk, I was panicking because breathing wasn't even that easy. As I woke up more and drank some water and stuff the panic subsided and I realized it's just allergies. (which I normally have a few sneezes as things bloom but they generally don't bother me, however we all know everything changes when you're pregnant!)

So I get up and call the dr and they said to take Sudafed. So I send Kevin at 8:00 in the morning to find Sudafed. Walmart - nope, pharmacy isn't open til 9:00, Vons- same, Walgreens 24 hour pharmacy - store policy is they don't sell Sudafed between the hours of midnight and 9 am. Nice. So Kevin had to work and couldn't keep waiting til 9:00 for someone to sell him Sudafed.

I called a friend and told her about our Sudafed problems and she said she'd get me some. She went after 9:00 am to Walgreens, had to show ID, sign for the Sudafed, and can't buy more Sudafed for 30 days! Wow!

It helped immensely though, the swelling went down completely and I still have scratchiness from the draining of my nose, but eh, it's totally liveable now.

Good Morning All!

I haven't spotted or bled in 12 hours!! I did get up and do alot this morning though with Justin. It's COLD here and rainy and so I had to dress him and feed him myself. My friend that's watching him today though said that she would take Jakey too so I could rest even more because she heard him tell me he would not get the door because he's eating so I had to get up (stinker!)...so he's gone today too.

I'm almost half way through Children Of The Promise Vol. 2 and totally engrossed in it! It's been such an interesting series! When I finish I have a friend who is going to loan me the next part of the series. :)

I'm going to keep bumping up that ticker - it's beyond cool!

Anyhow, totally not much new to say - LOL, I am happy that I get to see the baby again on Monday, so that's something exciting to look forward to. :)

Another u/s, another cute baby pic :) She purposely did not print the pictures of the bleed, she says she wants me to focus on my sweet baby and not the bleed. But the bleed is a little bigger this week :( But it's ok, my baby is doing good :)

This week's pic:

Thumbs up:

My ward is awesome! They have totally stepped in where our families just couldn't be because of work and/or school and saved us!

The Children Of the Promise series, very good! I'm starting the second book tonight!

Desperate Housewives being new last night!

Kevin folding and putting away all the laundry yesterday!!

Thumbs down:

My butt hurts from sitting/laying whatever!

Court shows, oh my goodness, with the exception of maybe The People's Court, these are almost as bad as Jerry Springer!

Soap Operas, I've always loved them, but like 2-3 times a week or less, I feel like the storylines never go anywhere when I watch daily and I feel like, oh my goodness this is totally trashy!!

My baby had an ear infection and I couldn't take him to the dr myself :( I had to send my mom to do my mommy job!

So there you have, the short of it :) I had help here all day today so I wasn't on the computer at all, but I'm going to be the commenting queent tomorrow when the boys are gone, before I go to the dr for my ultrasound at 1:30. :)

Wow, bedrest is BORING.

I read a few chapters of the first book of The Children Of The Promise series (which is great so far!), I watched horrible court shows on tv, and I think I gained 10 lbs because everyone brought my food to me! I felt like the 500 lbs woman on Dr. Phil whose family was always bringing her food.

Tomorrow is our anniversary - 7 years. And we're doing Nada. It's ok though, the baby is worth it. Kev might rent a movie - but that'll be it for us. He's also got to do all of our laundry and fold and put it away and clean the whole house LOL. He says he doesn't mind too much (after a big fight about how he feels about my being on bedrest, he BETTER not mind!) so hopefully tomorrow he proves that it doesn't bother him.

I am so bloated at night! My mom bought me some new clothes - thank goodness cause I could zip pants in the AM and die by the PM.

Anyhow, the bleeding slows way down as long as I stay down, but if I even stand long enough for a shower - I start bleeding a moderate amount of red. Laying down it turns to brown spotting. Not as frightening at all. Our families go back to work and school on Monday and so our ward is stepping in to help with our kids. It's been really touching to see how concerned and helpful everyone is being, and how everyone's come together to help us out right now.

Well I'm off to bed - night all! Everyone, post an updated blog (Stacey, develope a blog!! I wanna click your name and see your blog too!! :) ) so I have something interesting to read tomorrow when Kevin moves my computer to a more "bedrest accessible" spot. Thanks everyone for your positive thoughts for us, I think my cute little baby is snug and safe for now! :)

Let The Games Begin!

Things were really going too smoothly weren't they?

Last night I was making dinner and I got a really painful ache in my back just long enough to notice it and then it was gone. A minute or so later I stepped to the side to grab something and "whoosh!" I stood there and thought, I just had a transvaginal u/s - it's the goop (this was the day after the t/v u/s). Finally I got the courage to go look and sure enough, bright, red, blood.

I called the advice nurse and she said that I had to go in because I'm RH Negative and needed rhogham. (This is the advice nurse for my insurance.) Anyhow, so I go in and wait for hours and hours and hours. They do a pelvic and I'm closed with no tissue, but still bleeding bright red. They give me an IV and take blood and run labs and give me the Rhogam shot, but say the u/s won't be scheduled for in the morning. I said, NO! I was going to go home and call my dr in the morning - I didn't want to stay in the hospital any longer. (They wouldn't call him and his message thingy wasn't working last night.) So they released me at 3:00 am.

I called my dr first thing in the AM and he had me come in ASAP. I got there and immediately had a u/s - baby is totally great, I have a subchoronic bleed. Baby measures 7w4d which is 2 days further than Tuesday LOL, and a heartrate of 167. The dr came in and I told him about them not calling him, and the message being messed up, and he gave me the number to call if I have an emergency and said he's so sorry, he would have been there if he had known and taken care of me himself. I'm on bedrest, he says "toilet, shower, fridge for like 20 seconds - that's it!" and I have weekly u/s' to check the bleed and the baby. My next u/s is next Tuesday. So far baby is hanging in there!

Here is a u/s pic from today - the bleed is the dark spot to the right of the baby


And here is the pic with the baby's heartrate on it - I just thought it was cool :)

Ultrasound Update!

My baby looks FANTASTIC! Nice strong heartbeat at 171! Little arms and little legs! So cute!!! Slightly on the alien side - but that's ok :) However, baby bean measures 7w2d so we're changing my due date from November 8 to November 18th - shoot! But as my dr said, my baby just wants to be born ON November 8th :) Which is fine by me, the week before that is Jakey's 8th birthday and baptism and our Primary Program (Oct 28th) and so I'm all for being pregnant instead of just having had a c/s during that week! :) Just the dreaded getting through the first trimester part I could do without! I want the next 7 weeks to speed by and then my pregnancy can slow down and I can just enjoy being pregnant.

OK I'm going to go find my camera cord, it's my mission today - must find cord so I can show you all how cute my baby is!!!

Edit: figured it out here is baby!!!!

Boring 8 week checkup

Boring is good though :)

I went to the dr today and their fax machine and computers were down. So they weren't able to get my lab results. The dr didn't want to unnecessarily stress me out by trying the doppler too soon (maternal layers and all LOL) and so he was going to have the u/s chick scan me really quick but she was TERRIBLY sick, so he sent her home. She promised to feel better and scan me tomorrow morning, so at 8:30 tomorrow I go back for a u/s to see the baby's heartbeat.

The dr said that one of the most effective treatments for severe morning sickness is B6 injections, so tomorrow I'll be getting one of those (he had to order some from the injectibles pharmacy) and he said they last about a week. Hopefully it's as fantastic as he says it is.

Anyhow so a really boring appt overall. My blood pressure was good, lost some weight...good stuff :)