WW: Baby Sprinkles!

 

As promised here are some pictures from both my sprinkles!

 

Baby Sprinkle #1 (Apr. 27)

 

We were suppose to ignore the fact my mom misspelled Emily's name. haha!

Lot's of gifts!

And diapers thank goodness!

 

Baby Sprinkle #2 (May 3rd)

 

Busy making play-doh babies!

Break the water game- whoever could break the water and get the baby out first won.

Kaley decided to break the baby out fastest by using her teeth! Ha!

As you can see, I love baby clothes!!!!

Diaper cake and diaper raffles!

All the babies before judging!

 

PS: The baby in the center in the crib won!

10 Things on Tuesday!

 

1. It's the first Tuesday in May! May already seems to be shaping up better then April which is a good sign! I'm starting to get really excited and looking forward to different things! Whoop Whoop!

 

2. We have moved mountains when it comes to getting our house organized. Now don't get me wrong, we are not yet done and still have a lot to do, but we seriously have come a long way!!!! The basement is finally set up and ready for use! I couldn't be happier with it! It's a really nice space we have now! Also the baby has a room with furniture. I just need to go through the boxes of baby things and put them away and then I can start bringing in all the new stuff. I am super happy with my house at this point! Now if I can just finish Hailey's room and tackle my room!

3. I had a doctors appointment today and things are looking good. We are going to have to wait on guidance from the cardiologist and the perinatology as we get closer. She said that we most likely will induce at 39 weeks and she recommends an early epidural to keep my calm and to better regulate my heart, but she said we will start planning all of that in the next couple weeks. It's getting very close!

4. On Thursday at my perinatology visit, baby girl was 5lbs 1 oz! She also has hair! It's so funny because you can kind of see it waving when she moved around. We switched it over to 3D/4D and real time and I got to see her sucking on her little hands. Girlfriend always has her hands at her face or in her mouth! I actually picked Hailey up early to go to my appointment since it was later in the day. She liked seeing the baby. Because of the heart issues I am having, we now have moved from every 4 weeks to weekly scans on the baby and non stress tests on the baby. He said it's always good to be precautionary.

5. We had to have a talk with Hailey because she's made some comments lately that were not just sassy, but could be hurtful to others, even if she didn't mean them to be. We went over the whole "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all". She made a few comments this past weekend around others that I felt were pretty rude, so we talked about them. I know she's only 6, but she acts like she's a teenager. I want to nip some of this sarcasm in the butt!

6. We went to AC Moore tonight to get a yellow shirt for Hailey's class' field day. While we were in there I picked up wooden letters to paint and hang in Emily's room like Hailey has. I am crossing my fingers they turn out okay when I get around to doing them!

7. My job has no maternity leave and though I have been saving forever, I still won't have enough to get me through the time period I am going to be out. I  have been very thankful that I have been allowed to telework for most of my appointments and believe me they are really adding up as we are getting closer. Well after I sent a request to telework for today, my boss came and asked how many more times will I need to telework. She said that someone has placed a complaint that I am allowed to telework as often as I do and so she would approve this request, but it's up in the air for the rest until she can talk with my other boss and come to a decision. Well thanks asshole who complained, I hope you enjoy doing my work since if I have to use leave, then I am not going to be able to do it all myself! I would love to know who it was who said something. I telework because I send a request and ask to telework. I have the work to do and the equipment and ability to work from home and clearly produce results that I am productive during my time teleworking. Not my fault if others don't ask or have trouble turning on a laptop!

8. Okay, wooosaaaa! Besides for the little bump in the road, I have been in a really good mood lately and have had a pretty positive attitude. It also helps that our grass is green, my flowers are growing, and the weather has been pretty awesome lately!

9. Hailey got a little upset when she asked me when Mother's day is. I wish Kenny would just take her out and let her pick something out. He doesn't get how important that is to kids and especially Hailey. I mean it doesn't have to be anything expensive, but you know something small that she has made or picked out special to give to me.

10. I guess I will add that my Birthday is this week and I am getting pretty excited. I have no plans or anything like that, but I still can't help but get really excited for birthdays, especially my own!

Hope everyone had a happy Tuesday!!!!!

 

Weekend Recap: Baby Sprinkles!

So if you have been following my blog, you will know what drama came along in the beginning with my baby shower between my family and friends.

Well the past two weekends I had my "sprinkles" which were more like full blown showers! Emily got so much stuff!!!! She is a very loved little girl already and we are super lucky to have the people in our lives who cared and showed in so many ways!

The first shower was a surprise one last Sunday thrown by my Mom. It was small and perfect! There were fresh flowers on the tables in mason jars, and cookies and punch! Plus a pretty awesome cake my Mom made! It included my family on my side and some of my Mom's close friends. I think there was 12 people in all and I got a ton of diapers and essentials! I'm glad my mom got to do her own thing and I am pretty sure she was happy with the outcome.

My second shower was this past weekend and I was completely wowed by it all! Kenny volunteered for it to be at our house so we power cleaned for the past two weeks and nonstop on Friday and Saturday morning to get the house ready and presentable! This shower included all of his family and all of my close friends, work buddies, and van pool pals. It was stressful up until the time they started setting up and I was pushed to my room and told to shower and get ready. My best friends pulled this off. Meagan and her sister in law Jennifer took care of invites, decorations, and the games and my besties, also known as my #bffls, Heather, Kaley, and Michele took care of all the food and the beautiful cake! Everything came out amazing! The house was decorated with the cutest decor and the food was plentiful and so good. I have heard nothing but awesome feedback about everything and how nice a job all of them did.

So many people showed up and made the long drive to my house (or Egypt as some would say!). I know it wasn't convenient for everyone, but they all showed up to share the day with me! The gifts were amazing and besides for some tiny things here and there, we are completely set for baby girl to make her arrival! I sat yesterday and sorted all the gifts and really couldn't believe everything we got! Amazing!

I honestly couldn't of been happier with the outcome. Not only how hard everyone worked to make my day awesome, but also all the people who were right by my side. I can't wait to upload my pictures from both showers, but of course my camera is dead, so that will be added to my "to do" list for tonight!

I do have a few pictures that people took for me to share as a little sneak peek!



I have never had a "professional" cake ever in my life! This thing was so cute and was delicious. I may have had a slice after bed time so I wouldn't have to share......



And this is everyone that made it possible (from left to right: Michele, Kaley, Meagan, and Heather)! Funny thing about this picture is that Michele (all the way on the left) couldn't make it to the shower so Heather (all the way on the right) made sure to include her by adding her in! Haha! It was even better when Kenny asked me when Michele ended up getting there since he saw her in the picture, so I am curious if everyone else wondered the same thing! Pretty impressive!

Thank you so much for everyone who helped out and who was able to make it! It really did mean a lot to me! And there will be more pictures to come, I promise!

Oh April!

It's the end of April and you may have noticed I haven't blogged much lately! Believe me April had some really trying times and I am hoping that May will go a lot smoother.

The baby is doing good and getting big. She's stubborn and hates being monitored. As soon as they find her heart beat she pushed it away. She doesn't stay still in sonogram sessions which take almost an hour since they are trying to measure her. When we last looked she was 3.2lbs and was looking great growth wise! 8 weeks ago she was breached, 4 weeks ago she was head down, and a couple days ago she was breached again. I go tomorrow to see her and do another scan on her so I am interested to see where she is! I have a feeling based on the amount of pain and pressure I had yesterday that she turned herself back around or is laying sideways. Girl friend better get head down because she is losing room to be able to turn! It amazes me that she will be here in less then 7 weeks! Where has the time gone?!? I asked my OB if I could just keep her in there for another year when I was more ready, had more leave saved up, and could have everything figured out for her. The answer was that she didn't think it was a good idea because she would end up crawling out and be talking by that time! Ha! At least she humored me!

This past Thursday I had a good OB visit. Everything looked good and my BP was looking great. I was told to come back in 2 weeks and make my appointment up front like normal. There was already someone standing there making an appointment so we had to wait just a second. That's when it hit me, I got extremely dizzy and fuzzy feeling. I told Kenny that I was dizzy and he was like "oh" just kind of brushed it off and the next thing I remember is sitting on the floor with him in my face, a nurse at my side, and them shoving water at me asking if I was okay. He said my eyes stayed open the entire time and my chin slumped down and then I started leaning sideways when he grabbed me and got me to the floor. When that happens everything goes black and all I can hear is stuff in a very far distance. It takes me a minute for my vision to come back and then my hearing comes back and is very staticed like. This was the same thing that happened to me back in February. I knew I wasn't dehydrated because it was only 10am and I had already drank 40 ounces of water. I had eaten and didn't have any blood work or anything. I could hear them on the phone giving my information over to the hospital and I was handed copies of my charts and sent on my way to labor and delivery.

The first thing they did was check out the baby and put her on the monitors. She was happy and healthy and apparently sleeping because she had stayed pretty still. After about an hour I was sent down to the ER to be checked out. I knew I was having pretty bad palpitations, which is something pretty common for me, but my heart was racing and my chest was tight. I was hooked up to the monitors and an IV right away. They also said my oxygen was very low so I was put on oxygen. I stayed there for about 3 hours with people coming in and checking on me and running little tests and taking blood. They decided to discharge me back to L&D to watch the baby for a little longer. While I was signing the papers I could see the nurse watching my heart rhythms and emergency tech stepped in and said there was a problem. My heart seems to palpitate every 5-7 beats which is irritating, but I am kind of used to it, but then at completely random times I go into "Bi-Gemini" which is skipping every other beat. So my heart can't keep up and it's effecting the blood flow and oxygen which causing your body to basically shut down and that's when I pass out. I was told I could not go home anymore and I was being admitted.

I wasn't moved to a room until 10:30pm. We hadn't eaten all day. We were exhausted and irritated from just sitting in triage all day. When they moved me, Kenny went out and got us our phone chargers and some food. He also let the dog out and grabbed stuff from the house. As frustrated as he was at the situation, he was pretty awesome! That night was the worse sleep ever! I had people checking on my vitals all night. I had a NST on the baby at 4am and then blood work right after. Breakfast came at 5:30am and the newspaper guy was there at 6am. Then I had an echo on my heart done at 7am which took forever. Not to mention vitals every other hour and the doctors who came in and out all throughout the night! Ahhhhh! Believe me I was grumpy! I also knew how much we had to do that weekend with a wedding and my baby shower at my house this weekend. I spent all day there waiting to be released so we could go to Kohls and get clothes for the wedding. 2pm came and went, then 4pm, then 6pm, and then there was a sono on the baby and another NST. Then 8pm and FINALLY AT 9PM they decided that I could go home and be treated out patient with a heart monitor. So at 10:30 on Friday night I was finally set free! And just in time to make it to Kohls before they closed at 11!

I was originally supposed to have a monitor on for 5 days, but after reviewing my records she wants it on for 10 days. It's a pain in my butt, but maybe they will figure out what's wrong and how to treat it. They have to be careful with medicines to control it with me being pregnant so that's why they really want to look into where the skipped beats are coming from. Luckily everything is okay for the most part with me and pretty perfect with Emily! And really that is all that matters! So that's just a sneak peak of my April! I have a lot more to share, so stay tuned!

WW: My Baby is Growing Up!

So back in October I posted this:

 

Well yesterday the spring pictures came home from the begining of April.......

 

 

 

I feel she looks so much older in just those 6 months!

 

 

Here are the rest of the little backgrounds the online image lets you play with. I got to pick 6 in the photo package we had!

 

 

 

WW: The Time We Went to the Circus!

For the past maybe 8 years, I have gone to the circus with my cousins. This was even before we had kids! It was something we just enjoyed doing together every March. Last year I declared that it would be our last time going since the ticket prices have gotten so high over the years and it was hard on us buying 3 full priced tickets. So this year my cousin messaged me asking what we were doing on March 22nd, and asked if we would be interested in joining them to the circus, her treat! I accepted and we had a really nice time! The girls loved it and we all had a blast! It was just an overall good experience. I know Hailey was a little disappointed that we couldn't get food, snacks, and or souvenirs there, but everything is always so expensive there so we didn't even look this time. I told her it was about the show and not about buying stuff. I also made sure we ate at home before we left the house to avoid being hungry while we were there. And afterwards we all went out to dinner together! She did get lucky and was given a hat off some cotton candy that one of my cousins had bought. So both the girls got cute clown hats! It was just a really great day with family!

 

I did get a chance to snap some pictures on my cell phone! So here they are!

 

 

 

 

 



10 Things on Tuesday!

1. I am highly bugged by multiple people. I assume it's my attitude and emotions and not them because there is a whole list of things that are bugging me at the moment. Ha!

2. Kenny leaves Friday for the weekend to head out of state to a truck show. I asked when he was planning to leave and he said he will be leaving at 3am on Friday morning........so who was he planning to get Hailey on the bus since I leave for work at 5am?

3. I have an appointment on Thursday with my OB and then the dog has a way over due groomers appointment (thank goodness for half price deals!) that afternoon. So I guess I will be teleworking one day and will have to have off the next? #2 is not helping my leave situation come June!

4. I had a really rough day Saturday mentally, not to mention my stomach wasn't agreeing with me the entire day! I started cleaning in the foyer and got that done and then went to the basement and the only thing I could manage to do is sit and cry. Like for real ugly cry for a couple hours! I have so much that needs to be done and so much going on in my head. It's was all just too much at the moment and I became very overwhelmed.

5. I am hoping this Saturday will be productive and I can actually do more then just cry in the basement. Ha! I have a feeling Hailey will be doing most the crying when I send her to start working on cleaning her room. She HATES cleaning!

6. I am broke as a joke this month! Not sure what's going on. Maybe because the electric bills have been so high with winter? Also it didn't help I had to scrape together that money to pay on Hailey's dental bill that was due at the end of March. As much as I am trying to budget and spend  no extras, little things keep popping up! For example, the check I had to write for the year book last week, and class pictures last night. The $30 bill that came Saturday to pay the administrative fees that came with transferring Hailey's doctor records and the $82 bill towards my insurance deductible at the Perinatologist that came last night. When will I catch a break?! Hopefully before June because my $400 personal property taxes will be due in the beginning of the month! I am already starting to get nervous about that.

7. I took Hailey to a Sibling Class on Sunday. At first she was nervous, but she seemed to have a really good time. It was a one hour session that the hospital offers for free. It's part of the whole labor and delivery classes. There was 5 little girls in there all different ages, but they all did so well! They learned how to hold the baby and  to do things like change a diaper and wrap the baby in a blanket. When we left she asked when we were coming back! I told her that it was only one class. She seemed disappointed by my answer. She must have really liked it! She spent the evening properly carrying her baby doll around in a wrapped blanket. She's so silly.

8. Today was picture day. I tried to pick out a cute shirt and some jeans for Hailey. I also attempted to do her hair in a partial ponytail before bed time. Kenny does not do hair so I hope it looked alright this morning. I stressed the importance of making sure she looked nice and helping her with her hair. Hopefully her pictures turn out good. Those bad boys are NOT cheap!

9. Tonight is Art Night at school from 4pm until 6. I am kind of upset about the time frame of the event. I have to hope the traffic is good since the earliest I ever get to school is between 5:30, usually it's closer to 6 or after. Luckily I pick her up from the school so we might just have enough time to run and see her picture. The whole school is supposed to be lined with all the children's artwork. I wish it would have gone to 7pm because I would really like to take her to look around.

10. I think I need a day of sunshine and warm weather because I just realized that most of my list contains negative thinking. I typically try to look at the bright side of things, but at this moment it's just not working. I have been really down lately and having a hard time seeing the positives. I really hope this can change here soon. I'm just having a really rough time lately and have so much on my mind.

Hope you are having a good Tuesday! What ten things would you like to share?!