Dentist

Today I took Bo for his very first dentist appointment.  I was a little concerned on how he would do, considering that at home we practically need a crowbar to get into his mouth.  This has been going on for about a month.  He used to be so good about it, but for some reason has decided he hates it!  Anyway, after asking other moms who they recommend everyone said that Johns Creek Dental is the place to go!  It’s a little far for us, but I knew the dentist there was great and just as important they really cater to the kids.  You can click here for an office tour, this place is adorable!

Each exam room is a different they have a toy store, a library, we were in Porter’s Pet Shop which was perfect for Bo because they had a big fish tank (he’s really into fish, wants one so bad, but that’s another discussion), they had these huge lizards, a turtle, a gecko…it was just too cute!  He loved laying there looking at all the animals.  They also have a tv screen in the ceiling so the kids can watch a movie while getting their teeth cleaned.  He chose to watch Cars, shocker I know!  However, honestly he was talking mostly with the girl cleaning his teeth.  He picked out “cookie dough” flavored toothpaste, which the thought of that totally made me want to gag, but whatever he wants!  So after each tooth she cleaned he would smack his lips around and say “Mmmm, cookie”!  He even got his teeth flossed, which a funny story about that...when she was showing him the dental floss he said “Pop”, and the girl just looked at me with a strange look then it dawned on me that apparently he has seen my dad floss his teeth and remembers it!  She said that we should now start flossing his back teeth, I tried to keep from laughing and just smiled politely and said okay, when in my head I’m thinking…sure thing lady, noooooo problem…I’m doing good to get a tooth brush in there twice a day and you expect me to get him to open big enough and long enough to floss??  Well it’s a good goal to have and I’m sure one day we’ll get there, just not today!  Once she was done with his cleaning the dentist came in to check everything out.  He said that Bo’s teeth looked great!!  I was so pleased with everyone at the office, they really took care of my little man and made it fun.  He left with a toothbrush, bouncy ball, sticker, and a sucker!  We’ll be going back in 6 months, hope it goes as well as this visit did!

 

   

learning about dental floss!

May 27th

Just wanted to let everyone know, that as of right now we will be meeting our little peanut on Friday, May 27th!   This is also a special date because it’s my parent’s anniversary!

Went in for my checkup today, we are 8 weeks away.  Everything looks good!  I am two weeks away from where I was when I was diagnosed with preeclampsia with Bo and admitted to the hospital for a nice, month long stay!  I’m feeling pretty good about things, considering that so far my blood pressure has stayed low…today it was 118/60- something.  We haven’t seen it start to creep up yet so that is a relief.  If all goes well and there aren’t any blood pressure complications or as long as peanut doesn’t decide to arrive early on its own then we are targeting May 27th.  It’s exciting and scary all at the same time.  8 weeks more of pregnancy seems like forever, but 8 weeks away from bringing home another newborn and trying to balance that with wild man Bo scares me to death!! 

Things about pregnancy…

There are a few things that I wish people (including my wonderful husband) could just understand about pregnancy!  For instance…

• I have this little creature inside of me who is using my bladder as a trampoline so YES I have to pee every 30 minutes, please don’t ask “didn’t you just go 5 minutes ago?” this also requires I know where the bathrooms are in every public location so if you can help me scope them out that would be great!
• I do not need your opinion on having another c-section…I had one before, I know what I’m in for and I would prefer not to risk having my uterus rupture! 
• When people ask what we’re having and I say I don’t know that means, I really don’t know…not trying to keep a secret, not trying to be sneaky we just don’t know!! 
• If you think the fact we didn’t find out is a bad idea, tough!!!  You had your babies your way, now let us have ours, our way!
• Bending over is getting harder and harder…why must everything land on the floor? 
• When I say my back hurts the proper response is NOT “well look at all the extra weight you’re carrying”
• When I’m having a “moment” just please ignore me. I don’t need to hear how hormonal I am, I am very much aware of that!
• I AM hormonal which means…I reserve the right to… yell, scream, cry, laugh, be indecisive, be mad, be frustrated and any other emotion I forgot.  And chances are these emotions can and probably will all hit at the exact same time so be prepared!!
• I’ve entered the nesting phase and if I feel the need to repaint a bedroom because I didn’t like the color it was just painted, then just let me do it!!
• If I decide to start a project at 10:00 at night because I want it done “right now” just go with it especially if I’m not asking for your help.  If you don’t know me well I’m a “right now” kind of person pregnant or not.
• I’m TIRED!!!  All the time, I am tired!!!  It’s only going to get worse.  So if running errands, cleaning the house, and chasing a 3 yr old all day makes me want to go to bed early or take a nap, so be it!
• My belly does not contain a magnet!  If we are friends then fine, but if we aren’t that close or I don’t know you I would prefer you keep your hands to yourself.
• I don’t need your thoughts on breastfeeding vs bottle feeding…I got enough of this with my first pregnancy!  I do hope to breastfeed, but if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work I’m not going to stress over it.  And just because you breastfed your child til they were 5 does NOT mean your child will be the next Rhodes scholar…I’m just sayin’
• I cannot walk fast…try strapping on 25 extra pounds to include a 4 lb bag of sugar onto your stomach and see how quickly you move!  So…to my husband please slow down, you are 6’5 and I am 5’5 I couldn’t keep up with you to begin with.  To strangers…GO AROUND me, oh and if you are going to be kind and let me cross the street then be patient it’s going to be a while.  I don’t need you to keep inching your way up.  Oh and please don’t wait on me to unload my groceries, load my child in the car, return the grocery cart to it’s stand and then drive away, you’re going to be there til tomorrow it will be much easier for you to park two spaces over!
• When I say I’m hungry and need food, that typically means immediately.  Not 5, 10, or 15 minutes later…RIGHT NOW!!
• I’m hot all the time so if it’s too cold in the house to you go put on a jacket!
• I don’t sleep which makes me even more tired…if I’m not getting up to pee, it’s heartburn, or the fact I have a Mexican jumping bean in my stomach who parties all night long.  So if I wake up and don’t look quite chipper don’t ask “did you not sleep?”
• To the doctors…I will never understand why you must take our blood pressure after you weigh us…who isn’t going to have high blood pressure after that???
• And lastly to my 3 year old…mommy is not a jungle gym or punching bag so please, please, please watch the kicks and punches…I’m getting enough of that from the inside! 

Bo’s room

If you read my post from last week you know I had a little bit of a challenge with painting Bo’s room.  Well I got it done and this weekend we were able to get things up on the wall.  The only thing we are missing at this point is a bookshelf I still have to order.  I’m hoping it will fit between his two windows, if not he has a little nook that I’m planning on turning into a “reading nook” that we can put it in instead.  It’s going to be so cute, I can’t wait for it to be complete.  Now baby’s room…well it’s painted haha!  You can already tell it’s the second child.  At this point with Bo his room was completely done for the most part.  Oh well, my theory is baby probably won’t even go in there for the first 3 months anyway so we have time!  Once we get Bo’s room completed I’ll post more pics but here’s a glimpse!

        “Helping dad”  Anything that dad does, Bo has to do. 

So while dad was hanging curtain rods, Bo ran downstairs to get his hammer.  Any time dad would use the drill, Bo would start hammering on the drill case.  It was so cute!

Not a good picture, but the space between the windows is where a ladder bookshelf is going to go.  We have a ton of “firetruck” things to put on it.

Bo’s growth chart a friend of mine made.  Now I just have to get out his baby book and chart his height from the past 3 years!

I wish I had gotten a close up of these.  I found them on ebay. 

They are vintage firetruck ads from a firetruck magazine.  I believe they were all from the mid 1950’s.

All I could find were boring brown frames, because they are a little odd shaped so I just spray painted these red.

No more strawberry cake for a while!

Well I had my first experience with food poisoning Monday night.  Leave it to me to get it at almost 30 weeks pregnant.  Let me tell you..it’s uncomfortable to begin with much less with a huge belly and baby kicking at the same time.  Friday afternoon I made a strawberry cake that I had been dying to make.  The whole time I was questioning on if it needed to be refrigerated because it had fresh strawberries in both the cake and the icing.  Note to self…if ever in doubt go the cautious route!!  Jarrod and I both had a piece after dinner Monday night.  I woke up around 1:00am feeling extremely nauseous so I got up and the longer I was up the more I could tell it was coming, so I basically just paced in the bathroom.  I started getting sick around 2:00 and stopped around 6:00.  I kept thinking it was such a weird stomach virus, it wasn’t like any I had ever had before.  So yesterday morning Jarrod came in and said he thought I had food poisoning because apparently he woke up and between 4 and 6 he was feeling sick too, although he never got sick.  He never does, it makes me crazy!  Not that I want him to get sick, but I’m always on my death bed with these things and he’s the guy who says “I don’t feel well” and an hour later he’s totally fine!!!  Anyway, the only thing we could think of that we ate that Bo didn’t eat was the cake.  Last night I emailed my friend who I had gotten the recipe from and asked if she had kept hers in the fridge and she said yes because she felt the strawberries and cream cheese should stay cool.  CREAM CHEESE…DING, DING, DING!!!!!  Yep, I had totally forgotten cream cheese was in the icing!!!!!  Thank you pregnancy brain!  I felt like such an idiot. I talked to the doctor today (I know a day late) but they said as long as I was feeling better and staying hydrated I should be fine and that no baby can’t get it!

Here is one thing I did learn.  While I was “waiting” for it to hit, I was a little bit panicked.  I have been having a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions lately, especially by the end of the day and Monday night was no different.  I also have many friends who as they are going into labor have become nauseous and gotten sick.  So with the contractions, nausea, and lower back pain that was coming and going I had a moment of panic thinking…could I be going into labor?  Even if it wasn’t labor, what if it got really bad and we had to go to the hospital?  I instantly started thinking what would we do with Bo?  It’s one thing if I needed to go to the hospital during the day, but what in the world would we do at 3:00am!  My aunts and uncles are about 30-45 minutes away.  So after talking to my dear friend Janice, who has 4 kids already, one being a 2 month old, she very matter of factly said “you’d call me”.  As if she doesn’t have anything else going on.  Anyway, it made me feel better that in an emergency, even in the middle of the night she’s ready to take our little man!  So…I will be packing him a little overnight bag just in case!  Hopefully we won’t ever need it, but I’d rather have something ready to go with a set of pjs, clothes, sippy cup, etc…  Not knowing where he may land I’d rather be prepared!

I’m much better today and was able to eat a little at dinner last night.  A HUGE THANK YOU to my dear, sweet husband.  He didn’t hesitate to take the day off and spend it with Bo.  They had a lot of fun spending the day together…played outside, played trains, cars, had a little bit of quiet time, went to the gym together.  He totally jumped in as dad and let me rest.  He even had a conference call at 3:00pm and had asked me if I could watch Bo, I said sure.  Apparently I fell asleep and instead of waking me up, Jarrod let me sleep and had his call with a wild 3 year old in the background.  I can’t thank him enough!  I love you honey!

A glimpse…

So Bo is still at Pop and Bebe’s house in MS.  On Sunday we met them in Tuscaloosa, it’s about half way for both of us.  We always meet, eat lunch, and “do the exchange” there!  Bo had no problem going, he hopped up in his car seat and was like “bye mom”!!!  I on the other hand didn’t do so well.  I was fighting back tears the entire time I was buckling him into his car seat, it didn’t help that he kept saying “I love you mom”.  I was fine once we drove away and was looking forward to a week all my own. 

I have been very busy this week.  One thing that wasn’t on my list of things to do, but ended up making it’s way into the picture was painting Bo’s room.  Last week we had professional painters come and paint baby’s room, our master, and Bo’s room.  Well at the end of the day I just wasn’t happy with the color of Bo’s room.  So I decided okay well he’s gone all week I can knock it out in a day no big deal.  Well it wasn’t a big deal until I went to touch up a few places and when it dried it had not blended into the rest of the wall. So yesterday I had to go get more paint and repaint two complete walls.  I wasn’t happy about it, but now it’s done and I can move on. 

I’ve also been able to run a bunch of errands in PEACE!!!  That’s been great!  It’s also been great that I can run these errands whenever I want to.  If it’s 4:30pm and I need to run out then I just go!!  Let me explain that by 4:30pm Bo is usually done.  There is no taking him to run a quick errand.  Since he’s not napping anymore if he gets in the car that late he will fall asleep and as crazy as this sounds, even if he sleeps for 10 minutes that will throw his entire night off, it’s not worth it.  Today I’m planning on staying close to home and relaxing.  I need to clean the house or at least start on it, do laundry, make my grocery list, coupons, etc…

So what has Bo been up to?  Well he’s having the time of his life.  I think they have spent a lot of time outside, which he loves!  They’ve been to the park a few times, Chick Fil A for lunch, baked cookies, watched movies, and the rest of the time been in the backyard playing with the new soccer ball that Pop and Bebe bought him.  Yesterday was a real treat though.  They went to visit his Uncle Bubba at work.  Bo loves to go to the fire station, but this time was even more fun.  While Bo and my mom were sitting in the fire truck my brother started it up, turned on the lights, and pulled it out into the driveway so Bo had his first official ride in a fire truck.  Not sure too many kids can say that at the age of 3!  Here are a few pictures my dad sent.  We miss him so much, but we know he’s having so much fun!!!

   

    

28 weeks

Well we’re getting there… 

   

How far along: 28 weeks

Size of baby: About 2.5-3 pounds and about 14 to 15 inches long…this came off of a website not my doctor

Weight Gain:  Not going to happen!  I will say I can still see my feet, well I have to lean over a tad but they’re there!!!

Gender:  ?????

Movement: Yep, especially around 11:00pm…guess we need to get prepared for this to be our awake time!  Some of the kicks and punches have actually been painful which makes me realize just how big our peanut is getting

Sleep: Ahhhh, yes I sort of remember what this is like.  I still think this is God’s way of getting us ready for what’s to come with a newborn.  Still up about every 2-3 hours to go to the bathroom.  Heartburn is still giving me fits, have to sleep sitting up at times…I did get a prescription for Nexium today so I’m really hoping this helps.  Then what’s really weird is I’ll get up for something and then just can’t go back to sleep, I’m wide awake. OR…I can go back to sleep but baby won’t stop moving!!  Either way…I’m not getting much sleep these days!

What I miss:  my energy

Cravings: Still milk, I love it.  I’m constantly asking Jarrod to pick up milk on the way home from work.  He always responds with “I just bought milk”!  And of course anything sweet…it’s ridiculous.  I have never in my life wanted these many sweets.  Still love fruit and veggies though so I’d like to think that offsets all the sweets I’ve been eating.

Dr. updates: All looks good.  BP today was 114/60 something so doctor was very pleased!  This is the time when my bp started to rise with Bo.  I think one reason it didn’t raise a red flag then was because technically it wasn’t that high, however I am someone who typically has lower blood pressure so for me it was high.  I’m now having my dr appointments every two weeks so that makes me feel a little better.  And again…I know the signs and we have a bp monitor at home so when I do start feeling bad I always go check it. 

Bo:  STILL not interested!  It’s going to be interesting that’s all I can say!

Energy Level: UGH!!!  Well I’m in the third trimester which everyone knows is the longest, most uncomfortable and the time of the least amount of energy.  It’s frustrating because not long ago I was able to run all over the place and get things done.  Now I have slowed down tremendously.  Bo is at my parents this week so I’m really hoping to get rest and knock out a lot of projects I have on my to do list! 

Hormonal:  So my last update a month ago I was able to say I hadn’t been that hormonal.  Well guess what…that’s changed!!!!!!!!!!!  It’s not so much a mean hormonal, okay maybe sometimes it is…it’s more of a crying hormonal.  Like I said Bo is at my parents this week…God love them for taking him because I was in much need of a break!!  But I had the hardest time letting him go.  We met them in Tuscaloosa yesterday to do the “drop off”.  Saturday night after putting him to bed I cried and cried.  Then yesterday as we were leaving I just sobbed.  I know in my head it’s all hormonal so I am able to laugh a little, but it's crazy!!  There have been a few times Jarrod has kindly asked me to please hang a green flag outside if his wife is home or a red flag if it’s dragon lady…he says it’s just much easier to prepare when he has a heads up!!  Oh and I definitely think I’ve hit the “nesting” stage…I have the longest lists of projects and things to get done which I want them all done by the first of May since I’ll be 36 weeks then and NOT in the mood to be doing things at the house.  My poor husband..he just smiles and goes along with it.  Thank you God for giving me a kind, patient husband!!!

All in all things are moving along great.  We only have about 10-11 weeks before we get to meet our precious baby!

Catching up

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted what’s been going on in our world!  Partly because between chasing Bo, being pregnant, laundry, cleaning, cooking, etc…I’m wiped out at the end of the day.  It also doesn’t help that Bo is no longer taking naps!  Yep, you read that correctly no more naps for Bo which means NO alone time for mom.  It makes for a very long day!!  We have “quiet time” which if you know Bo then you know how well that goes.  Lately I’ve needed to rest too so I put him in our bed with me and usually put on a movie.  I hate it because he is now watching way too much tv, but I also feel like I’m at the point of just doing what works.  I do have time while he’s at school a few hours Mon, Wed, and Fri, but I’m noticing that I don’t have the energy to do what I usually do.  Used to I’d go to the gym, run errands, clean house, do laundry all while he was gone.  Now I have the energy to maybe do half of what I used to do.  I’ve also gotten to experience the return of morning sickness, ugh!!!  Personally I think the first 15 weeks were sufficient, but apparently my body thinks otherwise.  It’s not every day, but when it hits I feel awful.  I did not have this with Bo so I’m a little surprised by it.

One thing I’ve been doing, which I think I will be so glad I did is freezer cooking.  I’ve been cooking like crazy and stocking our freezer so towards the end of pregnancy when I’m even more tired than I am now we have dinner.  I still have a family to feed and take care of.  I’ve made a ton of homemade spaghetti sauce, a few casseroles, taco meat, stuffing for stuffed peppers, muffins, chili, soup, homemade sloppy joe meat, and a few other things.  I’m hoping to keep this up even just doing a few things each week.  I’d love to have stuff to carry over for when baby comes.  This is when I really wish I had a food saver…I’ve been hinting for a few years now that I want one but no one has seemed to pick up on that…hint, hint to my sweet husband!!  When Bo was born, while my mom was visiting she completely stocked our freezer which was fabulous, but this time we’re going to need more help especially with Bo!

I’m very excited that next week Bo will be spending it in MS with my parents.  Mom is off for spring break and instead of them coming here we thought it would be more helpful for him to go stay with them.  There are tons of things I need to get done here at the house and I just can’t do it when he’s here.  I’m going to take advantage of this time and try to knock out errands I need to run, cooking some more, and hopefully pulling out some baby things like going through Bo’s newborn clothes to see what we may can use again regardless of if it’s a boy or girl.  Things that I know in another month or so I’m not going to want to do.  A BIG thank you to my parents, you guys are the best!! Bo has been talking about going to see Pop and Bebe and my mom has all sorts of things planned for them to do.  He’ll get the attention he deserves, they get to spend time with their grandson, and I get to rest a win-win for everyone!!  I will miss him soooo much though!

            When we first started quiet time, sometimes he’d fall asleep, but this quickly went away!

He loves to help “clean”.  I was cooking dinner one night and looked up to see he had unrolled an entire roll of toilet paper to go get a bug!!

One day last week Bo took a spill at the preschool.  This is actually carpet burn, but if you know preschool carpet it’s more like a brillo pad!!

For some reason he’s really gotten interested in golf!  I bought him the Gator golf toy at a consignment sale and he loves it!

This was a new one…last night I walked in and he was lining up his cars and “crashing” them into his dinosaur!  Such a boy!!!

Poor dinosaur notice all the cars!  Guess dino won!