so, as of today i'm 34 weeks pregnant. yeah, 8 1/2 months. that's right.
uh, in 2 weeks, i will be given the official "go-ahead" by my doctor to have Lexi any time. FREAKOUT!
is it too late to change my mind about this? (only kidding of course, i can't wait to have my baby girl- but the thought of childbirth completely grosses me out and the thought of having 2 children and very little sleep is also not exciting.)
*sigh*
not long, folks... not long.
6.05.2008
5.29.2008
well that's gone...
so i had 11 inches of my hair cut off today... i'm sending the ponytail off to locks of love. lincoln was really mad at me for getting my hair cut until i told him that i was giving it to a little girl who was so sick that she didn't have any hair. he told me that was a nice thing to do :)
"you used to be on my head!
"you used to be on my head!
quick one
Lexi is due 7 weeks from today.
i'm having more than 10 inches of my hair cut off today.
freakout time all over the place.
more later. i promise.
i'm having more than 10 inches of my hair cut off today.
freakout time all over the place.
more later. i promise.
5.09.2008
updates and annoyances
so, since my last blog, we found out that my placenta has moved up and all is well with Lexi. she's only in the 44th percentile, but is developing normally. looks like we might just have a petite girl.
Lincoln's almost through with school for the year. i am not prepared for this. he has only ONE more week (two school days) left. what the heck am i going to do all summer? what the heck is going to keep him busy? ...time will tell, i suppose... though i'm sure he'll be spending a lot of time at Pops and Nana's or with Sugar and Papa, especially after Lexi arrives... but until then, i've got to find fun and exciting things to keep a 3 1/2 yr old occupied all day EVERY day. haha, i've so fallen out of the FULL-TIME stay-at-home-mom mindset, quite obviously.
my last days at work are quickly approaching. i only have 18 more days left. wow. i haven't broken it down like that before just now. i've come to the conclusion that i will indeed miss it. not the job, but a few of the girls.
i've finally decided to have my hair chopped off. it is ridiculously long (though not as long as i was aiming to get it)... the fact that it's actually going to be a HOT summer (as opposed to last summer, when the high temperature for the entire season was only 97 degrees) and i'm going to have TWO children to be dealing with... so it is very much time for many many inches to come off of my head. i'm thinking like 8 or 9 inches. think Mona (Ross's girlfriend) on Friends. that's what i'm aiming for. i don't know when exactly this will happen, but i have promised my cousin Anna (who is a cosmetology student) that when i finally decided to chop off all my hair that she could have the honor of doing it. i'm in no huge rush- just want it done before Lexi arrives.
so yesterday was a fun day. i spent 3 1/2 hrs lying in a hospital bed. yeah. kickass. for the past 2 1/2 days or so, i have been having crazy contractions lik every 10 minutes. they are especially made worse when i'm up and actually trying to get things done. especially AWFUL during work- go figure...so i went in and the nurse assumed that i was probably dehydrated (which, btw, i was NOT. i had been drinking like a crazy lady all day because i had been having contractions the entire day before) but she was insitent that i just HAD to be dehydrated... so she made me drink a ton and hooked me up to a fetal monitor, blood pressure thingy, and a monitor to keep track of my contractions. sure enough, i continued to have them about every 10 minutes for the entire time i was there... though by the last hour or so, they were much weaker (because i had been lying there doing NOTHING for hours) but of course the nurse said it was because i had been dehydrated. whatev. so annoying.she ran a few tests on me and found out that i'm not dilated or effaced any so that as of now, there's nothing to worry about.
it WAS nice to get to lie down and watch tv without having to keep a 3 1/2 yr old happy for 3 1/2 hours!!!my dr. came in and discharged me and said other than the fact that i might've been dehydrated (I WAS NOT!!!!), he didn't find any reason for me to be having contractions like i was. so i got to leave and i'm supposed to go back if they get closer together than very 10 minutes, but for now- i'm getting to deal with the slightly painful fun contractions... every 10 minutes... awesome. i am at the point where i go to the dr. every 2 weeks, but i'm probably going to start having to go once a week if this keeps up.
it's really weird. i didn't have anything like this when i was pregnant with Lincoln.
btw, we CANNOT afford for Lexi to come early because i HAVE to be able to work during fireworks... and, well, Scott would be unavailable to help me during fireworks because we are already short handed and he and i are pretty much the entire operation this summer. so here's hoping that if she's going to be early, she's at least 5 weeks early so that Scott can be home to help me with a new baby for 2 wks before fireworks begins. i would probably be able to work extremely short shifts (like 2 hours- just between feedings) in that case. otherwise, she can only be a week and a half early (after fireworks is over).
Lincoln has informed me that my time on the computer is up and that i have to go play with him... i had more to blog about, but i suppose this will have to be it for now.
adios
Lincoln's almost through with school for the year. i am not prepared for this. he has only ONE more week (two school days) left. what the heck am i going to do all summer? what the heck is going to keep him busy? ...time will tell, i suppose... though i'm sure he'll be spending a lot of time at Pops and Nana's or with Sugar and Papa, especially after Lexi arrives... but until then, i've got to find fun and exciting things to keep a 3 1/2 yr old occupied all day EVERY day. haha, i've so fallen out of the FULL-TIME stay-at-home-mom mindset, quite obviously.
my last days at work are quickly approaching. i only have 18 more days left. wow. i haven't broken it down like that before just now. i've come to the conclusion that i will indeed miss it. not the job, but a few of the girls.
i've finally decided to have my hair chopped off. it is ridiculously long (though not as long as i was aiming to get it)... the fact that it's actually going to be a HOT summer (as opposed to last summer, when the high temperature for the entire season was only 97 degrees) and i'm going to have TWO children to be dealing with... so it is very much time for many many inches to come off of my head. i'm thinking like 8 or 9 inches. think Mona (Ross's girlfriend) on Friends. that's what i'm aiming for. i don't know when exactly this will happen, but i have promised my cousin Anna (who is a cosmetology student) that when i finally decided to chop off all my hair that she could have the honor of doing it. i'm in no huge rush- just want it done before Lexi arrives.
so yesterday was a fun day. i spent 3 1/2 hrs lying in a hospital bed. yeah. kickass. for the past 2 1/2 days or so, i have been having crazy contractions lik every 10 minutes. they are especially made worse when i'm up and actually trying to get things done. especially AWFUL during work- go figure...so i went in and the nurse assumed that i was probably dehydrated (which, btw, i was NOT. i had been drinking like a crazy lady all day because i had been having contractions the entire day before) but she was insitent that i just HAD to be dehydrated... so she made me drink a ton and hooked me up to a fetal monitor, blood pressure thingy, and a monitor to keep track of my contractions. sure enough, i continued to have them about every 10 minutes for the entire time i was there... though by the last hour or so, they were much weaker (because i had been lying there doing NOTHING for hours) but of course the nurse said it was because i had been dehydrated. whatev. so annoying.she ran a few tests on me and found out that i'm not dilated or effaced any so that as of now, there's nothing to worry about.
it WAS nice to get to lie down and watch tv without having to keep a 3 1/2 yr old happy for 3 1/2 hours!!!my dr. came in and discharged me and said other than the fact that i might've been dehydrated (I WAS NOT!!!!), he didn't find any reason for me to be having contractions like i was. so i got to leave and i'm supposed to go back if they get closer together than very 10 minutes, but for now- i'm getting to deal with the slightly painful fun contractions... every 10 minutes... awesome. i am at the point where i go to the dr. every 2 weeks, but i'm probably going to start having to go once a week if this keeps up.
it's really weird. i didn't have anything like this when i was pregnant with Lincoln.
btw, we CANNOT afford for Lexi to come early because i HAVE to be able to work during fireworks... and, well, Scott would be unavailable to help me during fireworks because we are already short handed and he and i are pretty much the entire operation this summer. so here's hoping that if she's going to be early, she's at least 5 weeks early so that Scott can be home to help me with a new baby for 2 wks before fireworks begins. i would probably be able to work extremely short shifts (like 2 hours- just between feedings) in that case. otherwise, she can only be a week and a half early (after fireworks is over).
Lincoln has informed me that my time on the computer is up and that i have to go play with him... i had more to blog about, but i suppose this will have to be it for now.
adios
4.27.2008
...to the rescue!
Lincoln just decided that he, Scott, and I should all be super heroes... he told me that my super hero name is "Pisster".
So what do you think my super power is?
HA.
4.08.2008
the irregular blogger
that is me, folks. the irregular blogger.
i figured since i have a few moments of peace and quiet and since i haven't blogged in a while that it would be appropriate.
let's see... so i am 26 weeks (6 1/2 months! EEK!) pregnant. as of next week, i will be in my THIRD trimester. yeah, freaky. as of today, i only have 100 days to go until my due date. i can't believe how fast this is flying by... the fact that i only have 14 more weeks to prepare to have TWO children is mind-boggling.
everything seems to be coming together nicely thus far in preparation for Miss Lexi. i know we will have a lot more to do in the coming weeks, but it is nice to know that i already have clothes and several other baby things ready for her. my boss has been amazing enough to offer to throw me a baby shower (which i was not expecting to have with my second kiddo) so that's really exciting... it will be so helpful in the grand scheme of things.
this girl is getting big and strong and crazy. she's way more active than i remember lincoln being when he was in my belly. and she's already strong enough to make my whole belly move when she's rolling around in there. sometimes i stop and think about the fact that this is the last time i'm planning on being pregnant and the last time i'll get to enjoy feeling a baby moving around inside of me. but then i remember that having more than 2 children would drive me absolutely insane and i'm ok. ha.
she is supposedly around 14 inches long and almost 2 pounds. still such a tiny thing but before i know it, she will be as tall as me.
today was a very interesting day with Lincoln... first of all, he had to sit in time out FOUR times at school today. nothing too horrible, but he WAS taking toys away from other kids all day and not sharing very well. that is so not like him. well, he takes every once in a while, but he is usually so great about waiting his turn and sharing stuff. i just can't believe he got in trouble for it so many times in one day.
i suppose he was just having one of those days because he was also pretty difficult for me after i got him from school... i had to run a few errands and was not really counting on having to deal with my 3 1/2-yr-old talking back and completely ignoring me while we were in public. soooo much fun. in hobby lobby, i kept asking him not to touch things, and he would reply, "BUT I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT!" in a snippy voice. at michael's, he was also talking back... as well as being WAYYY too loud despite being told several times to quiet down (i have such a loud boy, he seriously has little to no volume control) and running around like a madman despite being told not to. whatever, i just ignored it, because once it was over there was nothing i could really do... so we got in the car and i got a phone call.. i noticed it was almost 4 and figured link and i could catch happy hour at sonic. well, we drove into sonic and lincoln was singing VERY LOUDLY. i asked him to please be quieter since i was on the phone... his reply? "I WAS JUST SINGING, YOU POOP!" ah, yes. my son learned to call me names. fun. (btw, this is the FIRST time that had ever happened) so i reached back, swatted him, and proceeded to drive through the sonic parking lot and drive away without stopping for drinks. this made him soooo mad. he threw a fit the whole way home so i decided that he needed to take a nap or else one of us was going to end up going absolutely bonkers (ME). of course, he threw a fit about taking a nap, but is doing it because he knew it was a battle he could not win. he has now been asleep for an hour and a half and i am in no hurry for him to wake up, even though it will affect his sleep tonight. my boy never takes naps because he goes to bed so early (7:30-7:45pm) every night. it's a good trade off. well tonight he's going to be awake late anyway because of the Cardinals baseball game on tv, so he can just go ahead and nap as long and his little body will allow. i am NOT going in there to wake him up (well, at least not until dinner time)! ha.
i am sooo exhausted.
i only have 10 weeks of work left and then i will be oficially unemployed again. it will be extremely bittersweet. i will enjoy not having to get up and go to work, but i will seriously miss some of the girls at work. i've been ordered to come visit a lot with my new baby girl, so i'll still get to see them from time to time.
so back to pregnancy stuff... i'm 6 1/2 months and have only put on 17 1/2 pounds. i am so freaking excited. i have no clue exactly how much i had put on by this time when i was pregnant with lincoln, but i know it was at least 10-15 pounds more than this time. yay me.
i suppose i am through. this is longer than i had originally intended and hopefully it will be enough to get you by until the next time i decide to be an irregular blogger.au revoir for now
i figured since i have a few moments of peace and quiet and since i haven't blogged in a while that it would be appropriate.
let's see... so i am 26 weeks (6 1/2 months! EEK!) pregnant. as of next week, i will be in my THIRD trimester. yeah, freaky. as of today, i only have 100 days to go until my due date. i can't believe how fast this is flying by... the fact that i only have 14 more weeks to prepare to have TWO children is mind-boggling.
everything seems to be coming together nicely thus far in preparation for Miss Lexi. i know we will have a lot more to do in the coming weeks, but it is nice to know that i already have clothes and several other baby things ready for her. my boss has been amazing enough to offer to throw me a baby shower (which i was not expecting to have with my second kiddo) so that's really exciting... it will be so helpful in the grand scheme of things.
this girl is getting big and strong and crazy. she's way more active than i remember lincoln being when he was in my belly. and she's already strong enough to make my whole belly move when she's rolling around in there. sometimes i stop and think about the fact that this is the last time i'm planning on being pregnant and the last time i'll get to enjoy feeling a baby moving around inside of me. but then i remember that having more than 2 children would drive me absolutely insane and i'm ok. ha.
she is supposedly around 14 inches long and almost 2 pounds. still such a tiny thing but before i know it, she will be as tall as me.
today was a very interesting day with Lincoln... first of all, he had to sit in time out FOUR times at school today. nothing too horrible, but he WAS taking toys away from other kids all day and not sharing very well. that is so not like him. well, he takes every once in a while, but he is usually so great about waiting his turn and sharing stuff. i just can't believe he got in trouble for it so many times in one day.
i suppose he was just having one of those days because he was also pretty difficult for me after i got him from school... i had to run a few errands and was not really counting on having to deal with my 3 1/2-yr-old talking back and completely ignoring me while we were in public. soooo much fun. in hobby lobby, i kept asking him not to touch things, and he would reply, "BUT I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT!" in a snippy voice. at michael's, he was also talking back... as well as being WAYYY too loud despite being told several times to quiet down (i have such a loud boy, he seriously has little to no volume control) and running around like a madman despite being told not to. whatever, i just ignored it, because once it was over there was nothing i could really do... so we got in the car and i got a phone call.. i noticed it was almost 4 and figured link and i could catch happy hour at sonic. well, we drove into sonic and lincoln was singing VERY LOUDLY. i asked him to please be quieter since i was on the phone... his reply? "I WAS JUST SINGING, YOU POOP!" ah, yes. my son learned to call me names. fun. (btw, this is the FIRST time that had ever happened) so i reached back, swatted him, and proceeded to drive through the sonic parking lot and drive away without stopping for drinks. this made him soooo mad. he threw a fit the whole way home so i decided that he needed to take a nap or else one of us was going to end up going absolutely bonkers (ME). of course, he threw a fit about taking a nap, but is doing it because he knew it was a battle he could not win. he has now been asleep for an hour and a half and i am in no hurry for him to wake up, even though it will affect his sleep tonight. my boy never takes naps because he goes to bed so early (7:30-7:45pm) every night. it's a good trade off. well tonight he's going to be awake late anyway because of the Cardinals baseball game on tv, so he can just go ahead and nap as long and his little body will allow. i am NOT going in there to wake him up (well, at least not until dinner time)! ha.
i am sooo exhausted.
i only have 10 weeks of work left and then i will be oficially unemployed again. it will be extremely bittersweet. i will enjoy not having to get up and go to work, but i will seriously miss some of the girls at work. i've been ordered to come visit a lot with my new baby girl, so i'll still get to see them from time to time.
so back to pregnancy stuff... i'm 6 1/2 months and have only put on 17 1/2 pounds. i am so freaking excited. i have no clue exactly how much i had put on by this time when i was pregnant with lincoln, but i know it was at least 10-15 pounds more than this time. yay me.
i suppose i am through. this is longer than i had originally intended and hopefully it will be enough to get you by until the next time i decide to be an irregular blogger.au revoir for now
2.28.2008
baby news
so we found out this morning that we're having a GIRL! i'm really excited. i've warmed up to the idea of having a daughter in the past few weeks. it's a great birthday present! (yeah, i'm 24 today. scott has made sure to point out that i'm no longer in my early twenties, but my MID twenties. thanks scott)
we also discovered that i have a borderline/mild case of placenta previa, which is a bit freaky but the doctor didn't seem at all concerned about it. placenta previa is when the placenta has attached itself lower in the uterus than what is ideal. luckily, it is not covering my cervix (which would insure a definite c-section and probably not a full term pregnancy- YUK!) and my doctor is pretty optimistic that it will correct itself and not be a problem during delivery. i will have to go back in 8 weeks to make sure everything is looking good. if it looks to be a problem, i will have to go in periodically and have ultrasounds to see if it will be an issue during delivery. prayers on this matter, please! i really don't want to have to be cut open! or have a preterm baby!
the baby (or now, i can call her by her name!) -er- Lexi, is perfect. nothing looks abnormal, she's 12 oz (think about that next time you're drinking a canned coke) and healthy. always good news!Lincoln is SOOOOOO excited about having a sister. he made sure to tell everyone in his class about it as soon as he walked into school this morning. he will be a great big brother.
so, now i get to go to work for a few hours and then my parents are taking us to Lytle Land & Cattle for my birthday dinner. i freaking love that place but we never get to go.speaking of my parents, my mom had seen a picture of her friend's granddaughter in which the little girl (18 months i think?) is on the beach wearing a little swim suit. every since she saw that picture, she has been talking about how much she wants a granddaughter (since she already has 2 grandsons). needless to say, she was pretty much giddy when i called to give her the news.
i think scott is a little disappointed to not be getting another son. he's happy about having a daughter, but we plan on this being our last kiddo, so i think it's kind of bittersweet for him. of course, i would probably be a tiny bit disappointed if the baby would've been a boy, simply because we plan on it being our last and i really wanted a daughter. i'm going today to buy this really cute shirt i saw that said "My heart belongs to Daddy" and give it to him :)
ok i've got to go get ready for work since i would like to be there in 10 minutes (ha, not gonna happen!)
we also discovered that i have a borderline/mild case of placenta previa, which is a bit freaky but the doctor didn't seem at all concerned about it. placenta previa is when the placenta has attached itself lower in the uterus than what is ideal. luckily, it is not covering my cervix (which would insure a definite c-section and probably not a full term pregnancy- YUK!) and my doctor is pretty optimistic that it will correct itself and not be a problem during delivery. i will have to go back in 8 weeks to make sure everything is looking good. if it looks to be a problem, i will have to go in periodically and have ultrasounds to see if it will be an issue during delivery. prayers on this matter, please! i really don't want to have to be cut open! or have a preterm baby!
the baby (or now, i can call her by her name!) -er- Lexi, is perfect. nothing looks abnormal, she's 12 oz (think about that next time you're drinking a canned coke) and healthy. always good news!Lincoln is SOOOOOO excited about having a sister. he made sure to tell everyone in his class about it as soon as he walked into school this morning. he will be a great big brother.
so, now i get to go to work for a few hours and then my parents are taking us to Lytle Land & Cattle for my birthday dinner. i freaking love that place but we never get to go.speaking of my parents, my mom had seen a picture of her friend's granddaughter in which the little girl (18 months i think?) is on the beach wearing a little swim suit. every since she saw that picture, she has been talking about how much she wants a granddaughter (since she already has 2 grandsons). needless to say, she was pretty much giddy when i called to give her the news.
i think scott is a little disappointed to not be getting another son. he's happy about having a daughter, but we plan on this being our last kiddo, so i think it's kind of bittersweet for him. of course, i would probably be a tiny bit disappointed if the baby would've been a boy, simply because we plan on it being our last and i really wanted a daughter. i'm going today to buy this really cute shirt i saw that said "My heart belongs to Daddy" and give it to him :)
ok i've got to go get ready for work since i would like to be there in 10 minutes (ha, not gonna happen!)
2.09.2008
power cooking, baby stuff, etc
hello all.
so today my mom and i did what my friend candis told me is officially called "power cooking" it was awesome and i'm so glad we did it. what we did is spend the entire day cooking. now, that really doesn't sound awesome... but let me put it into perspective for you. we planned out a menu of easy-to-make foods that freeze well... we had 10 different recipes on our menu and were cooking for 3 families. basically the idea is to spend one entire day cooking with someone else and then having meals all ready to go (just pop them in the oven for half an hour or so) for a few weeks. awesome, right? correct. after buying beef, chicken, veggies, well- ALL the ingredients for 10 different recipes to last 3 families a few weeks, we spend a grand total of about $105. not bad. we ended up preparing/cooking/cleaning for about 5 hours. at the end of it all, there were 30 meals prepared. all for $105! that's less than $4 PER MEAL. each meal is for 2-3 people. that's less that $2 per person, per meal. that's really awesome. here was our menu: king ranch chicken, beef vegetable soup, chicken tortilla bake, chicken fried rice (more of a refrigerator item, actually), swiss steak, chicken enchilada soup, chili, taco meat, chicken and dumplings, and enchiladas. so we made enough of one meal for 6-8 people every half hour. really not bad at all. so now my freezer is stocked up with food i plan to last me the month. i actually ended up with 12 meals, since our family includes a child who eats real food (my brother's son is only 4 months old, and my parents just have the two of them). i plan on actually cooking about once or twice a week, eating out once a week, and then heading to my freezer the other days. i'm freaking pumped about that. we all split the price of the groceries so it only cost our family $35.anyway, i totally recommend this idea to any of you- especially if you have kids. have someone else keep the kids for a day (scott kept lincoln all day) and get together with family or friends and power cook! spend a few hours cooking and be pretty much set for a month. it will save you sooo much time in the long run. plus, my mom and i had a really good time together. it all went so smoothly because we were working on different dishes at the same time and both cleaning up as we went and we got to have some good quality time together. i never just spend time with my mom. someone's always around- usually lincoln. well, lincoln wasn't there and my dad was busy all day so it was just my mom and me all day. and we didn't even bicker ONCE. how freaking amazing is that?!
anyway, it was fun and exhausting and i'm glad we did it. it is kind of our new thing and we are going to try to get together every few weeks and do it. good stuff.
so i'm just about 4 1/2 months pregnant which is freaky because it means i'm about halfway through with this pregnancy already! i can't believe this is going by so quickly. of course, when i sit down and think about the fact that i still have to wait almost 3 weeks before we find out the sex, it seems to be crawling by. i'm sure that once we know the answer to that question, nothing else will crawl by (except maybe the last 2 weeks when i'm miserably huge and just ready to get the thing out of me!). i now feel the baby move pretty much every day. i usually have to lie down in bed on my back for a little bit and sure enough it'll start rolling around in there. it's already a tough little booger! anytime i press on my belly, it kicks back- hard. the thing sure feels tougher than something that only weighs 7.5 ounces. lolthe more i think about it, the more i think i want a girl. i mean, i know it will equal drama in the teen years, but i think it would be wonderful to have a daughter. especially after spending so much time with my mom. i would love a girl to be close with like that. plus, the clothes are freakin cute. AND, our quest for a boy name is back at square one. scott likes the most ridiculous names and i like traditional names and we just can't seem to agree at all. AT ALL. we've had a girl's name picked out since lincoln was born and geeze i don't know, i kind of just want a girl. but then again, i don't really care. i sure do love the boy i've got and it would be wonderful to have another. i really don't care. i really really don't.
tonight my cousin asked me what was new with me. i really don't think anything is new! haha, the only things i do are work, hang out with lincoln all day, watch LOST, and look more and more pregnant every day. i'm just not exciting. i will come up with something exciting just for the sake of being able to blog about it! ha, kidding. but i do need some excitement.
oh, well, birthiversary is coming up soon and i'm pretty pumped about that! if you don't know what birthiversary is, it's the weekend between our anniversary and my birthday (they are 7 days apart). we do something big as a combined celebration instead of celebrating both separately. but don't worry, i still get two presents :)
ok, that's all. more later!
so today my mom and i did what my friend candis told me is officially called "power cooking" it was awesome and i'm so glad we did it. what we did is spend the entire day cooking. now, that really doesn't sound awesome... but let me put it into perspective for you. we planned out a menu of easy-to-make foods that freeze well... we had 10 different recipes on our menu and were cooking for 3 families. basically the idea is to spend one entire day cooking with someone else and then having meals all ready to go (just pop them in the oven for half an hour or so) for a few weeks. awesome, right? correct. after buying beef, chicken, veggies, well- ALL the ingredients for 10 different recipes to last 3 families a few weeks, we spend a grand total of about $105. not bad. we ended up preparing/cooking/cleaning for about 5 hours. at the end of it all, there were 30 meals prepared. all for $105! that's less than $4 PER MEAL. each meal is for 2-3 people. that's less that $2 per person, per meal. that's really awesome. here was our menu: king ranch chicken, beef vegetable soup, chicken tortilla bake, chicken fried rice (more of a refrigerator item, actually), swiss steak, chicken enchilada soup, chili, taco meat, chicken and dumplings, and enchiladas. so we made enough of one meal for 6-8 people every half hour. really not bad at all. so now my freezer is stocked up with food i plan to last me the month. i actually ended up with 12 meals, since our family includes a child who eats real food (my brother's son is only 4 months old, and my parents just have the two of them). i plan on actually cooking about once or twice a week, eating out once a week, and then heading to my freezer the other days. i'm freaking pumped about that. we all split the price of the groceries so it only cost our family $35.anyway, i totally recommend this idea to any of you- especially if you have kids. have someone else keep the kids for a day (scott kept lincoln all day) and get together with family or friends and power cook! spend a few hours cooking and be pretty much set for a month. it will save you sooo much time in the long run. plus, my mom and i had a really good time together. it all went so smoothly because we were working on different dishes at the same time and both cleaning up as we went and we got to have some good quality time together. i never just spend time with my mom. someone's always around- usually lincoln. well, lincoln wasn't there and my dad was busy all day so it was just my mom and me all day. and we didn't even bicker ONCE. how freaking amazing is that?!
anyway, it was fun and exhausting and i'm glad we did it. it is kind of our new thing and we are going to try to get together every few weeks and do it. good stuff.
so i'm just about 4 1/2 months pregnant which is freaky because it means i'm about halfway through with this pregnancy already! i can't believe this is going by so quickly. of course, when i sit down and think about the fact that i still have to wait almost 3 weeks before we find out the sex, it seems to be crawling by. i'm sure that once we know the answer to that question, nothing else will crawl by (except maybe the last 2 weeks when i'm miserably huge and just ready to get the thing out of me!). i now feel the baby move pretty much every day. i usually have to lie down in bed on my back for a little bit and sure enough it'll start rolling around in there. it's already a tough little booger! anytime i press on my belly, it kicks back- hard. the thing sure feels tougher than something that only weighs 7.5 ounces. lolthe more i think about it, the more i think i want a girl. i mean, i know it will equal drama in the teen years, but i think it would be wonderful to have a daughter. especially after spending so much time with my mom. i would love a girl to be close with like that. plus, the clothes are freakin cute. AND, our quest for a boy name is back at square one. scott likes the most ridiculous names and i like traditional names and we just can't seem to agree at all. AT ALL. we've had a girl's name picked out since lincoln was born and geeze i don't know, i kind of just want a girl. but then again, i don't really care. i sure do love the boy i've got and it would be wonderful to have another. i really don't care. i really really don't.
tonight my cousin asked me what was new with me. i really don't think anything is new! haha, the only things i do are work, hang out with lincoln all day, watch LOST, and look more and more pregnant every day. i'm just not exciting. i will come up with something exciting just for the sake of being able to blog about it! ha, kidding. but i do need some excitement.
oh, well, birthiversary is coming up soon and i'm pretty pumped about that! if you don't know what birthiversary is, it's the weekend between our anniversary and my birthday (they are 7 days apart). we do something big as a combined celebration instead of celebrating both separately. but don't worry, i still get two presents :)
ok, that's all. more later!
1.14.2008
said i'm sorry, i had a bad day again
that's totally the main line from the song i'm currently listening to, and it happens to be very accurate for the crappy day i had. it was seriously one thing after another today.
lincoln and i were leaving the house for an eventful exciting day... i opened the back door and noticed that scott had left 4 bags of trash on the back porch for my to get (we dont' have a dumpster and have to haul trash to abilene every week, but haven't done so in about 8 bags worth- and scott could only fit 4 of them in his tiny car)... well, our neighbors dogs had discovered the bags of trash (all with at least SOME food in them) between the time that scott left the house and we were trying to leave- and had torn them into about 4 million pieces. there was trash EVERYWHERE. think about FOUR BAGS worth of trash... the bags had been torn apart, the stuff inside had been torn apart so the freaking dogs could get to the food, paper plates were half-eaten, and everything was just strewn about... awesome. i called scott and asked if the mess was there before he left, he said no, took the blame for the mess (why the hell would you leave trash bags outside when your neighbors have dogs?) and agreed to clean it up when he got home from work... a rough start to the day, but oh well- got lots of fun stuff planned!
so today was my first dr. appt for the baby. we were all so excited to get to hear the heartbeat and get to see a good picture and possibly even find out the sex (if the baby was in the right position and the picture was clear enough)... so lincoln and i got to my appt. at 9:45am, scott arrived at about 10:15. we were in the waiting room till 11:30am. i'm so not even kidding. we were all a bit grumpy by this point, but oh well. got in the exam room and found out that the dr. was not planning an ultrasound... so i asked the nurse if i could pleeeease get one and if she would sweet talk my dr- since that's the whole reason i brought lincoln and scott with me (and scott took off work for it)... so, she came back and said that my dr. had a c-section scheduled at noon and would not be able to give me an ultrasound. but if they could not find a heartbeat with the monitor, then they would do an ultrasound. of course, she found a good strong heartbeat (good news, but made me sad because i knew we would not get to see our baby) and so scott left so he could go back to work... lincoln and i stayed and they continued my appt. i had to use all of my strength to hold back the rush of tears that were ready to flow freely from my tear ducts. i've only been looking to this day forever, mainly because i wanted to be able to have a picture and to be able to show it off... lincoln was sad, because i had told him that he would get to see a picture... it's all the insurance's fault... i was supposed to be approved for all my pregnancy crap on december 6 and i had an appt for dec 12... well, i was not approved in time, had to cancel my original appt, got approved on DECEMBER 13 (how annoying is that!) and called immediately to reschedule my appt, but today was the soonest i could get in... and i'm far enough along to hear the heartbeat and not have to get an ultrasound to hear it, so yeah, it's all insurance crap.
so that started my day.
then, scott called to let me know that one of my tires was completely flat. spectacular. so i went to this place to get it fixed and noone was there. awesome. so i had to go air up my tire to get me to my hair appt in time.
got to my hair appt and almost cried telling the story about my morning... then as i was getting my hair cut, i kept hearing "oh my god!" and "wow"... apparently my hair is "awful"... not what i needed to hear after my morning. so yeah, it had been a looong time since i got it cut, but seriously, do you have to be so rude about it?
then we left there and i filled up with gas and started heading home... on the way home, i remembered that i forgot to get my effing tire fixed, so i had to turn around and head back into abilene... (somewhere in the mix i yelled "CRAP!" and of course my 3 1/2 yr old proceeded to say it multiple times- perfect.) so i got my tire fixed. hooray.
anyway, since getting home everything has been uneventful... i was so stressed and on edge already without having to worry about lincoln that i just put him in front of The Fox and the Hound and laid in bed for a few hours...now scott is home and i am planning on getting a serious back and neck massage and back scratch... then i'm going to take a shower in our great new (repaired!) shower and will probably crash early.
i am so glad this day is almost over.
lincoln and i were leaving the house for an eventful exciting day... i opened the back door and noticed that scott had left 4 bags of trash on the back porch for my to get (we dont' have a dumpster and have to haul trash to abilene every week, but haven't done so in about 8 bags worth- and scott could only fit 4 of them in his tiny car)... well, our neighbors dogs had discovered the bags of trash (all with at least SOME food in them) between the time that scott left the house and we were trying to leave- and had torn them into about 4 million pieces. there was trash EVERYWHERE. think about FOUR BAGS worth of trash... the bags had been torn apart, the stuff inside had been torn apart so the freaking dogs could get to the food, paper plates were half-eaten, and everything was just strewn about... awesome. i called scott and asked if the mess was there before he left, he said no, took the blame for the mess (why the hell would you leave trash bags outside when your neighbors have dogs?) and agreed to clean it up when he got home from work... a rough start to the day, but oh well- got lots of fun stuff planned!
so today was my first dr. appt for the baby. we were all so excited to get to hear the heartbeat and get to see a good picture and possibly even find out the sex (if the baby was in the right position and the picture was clear enough)... so lincoln and i got to my appt. at 9:45am, scott arrived at about 10:15. we were in the waiting room till 11:30am. i'm so not even kidding. we were all a bit grumpy by this point, but oh well. got in the exam room and found out that the dr. was not planning an ultrasound... so i asked the nurse if i could pleeeease get one and if she would sweet talk my dr- since that's the whole reason i brought lincoln and scott with me (and scott took off work for it)... so, she came back and said that my dr. had a c-section scheduled at noon and would not be able to give me an ultrasound. but if they could not find a heartbeat with the monitor, then they would do an ultrasound. of course, she found a good strong heartbeat (good news, but made me sad because i knew we would not get to see our baby) and so scott left so he could go back to work... lincoln and i stayed and they continued my appt. i had to use all of my strength to hold back the rush of tears that were ready to flow freely from my tear ducts. i've only been looking to this day forever, mainly because i wanted to be able to have a picture and to be able to show it off... lincoln was sad, because i had told him that he would get to see a picture... it's all the insurance's fault... i was supposed to be approved for all my pregnancy crap on december 6 and i had an appt for dec 12... well, i was not approved in time, had to cancel my original appt, got approved on DECEMBER 13 (how annoying is that!) and called immediately to reschedule my appt, but today was the soonest i could get in... and i'm far enough along to hear the heartbeat and not have to get an ultrasound to hear it, so yeah, it's all insurance crap.
so that started my day.
then, scott called to let me know that one of my tires was completely flat. spectacular. so i went to this place to get it fixed and noone was there. awesome. so i had to go air up my tire to get me to my hair appt in time.
got to my hair appt and almost cried telling the story about my morning... then as i was getting my hair cut, i kept hearing "oh my god!" and "wow"... apparently my hair is "awful"... not what i needed to hear after my morning. so yeah, it had been a looong time since i got it cut, but seriously, do you have to be so rude about it?
then we left there and i filled up with gas and started heading home... on the way home, i remembered that i forgot to get my effing tire fixed, so i had to turn around and head back into abilene... (somewhere in the mix i yelled "CRAP!" and of course my 3 1/2 yr old proceeded to say it multiple times- perfect.) so i got my tire fixed. hooray.
anyway, since getting home everything has been uneventful... i was so stressed and on edge already without having to worry about lincoln that i just put him in front of The Fox and the Hound and laid in bed for a few hours...now scott is home and i am planning on getting a serious back and neck massage and back scratch... then i'm going to take a shower in our great new (repaired!) shower and will probably crash early.
i am so glad this day is almost over.
1.09.2008
uh... title?
so let's see... i'm 13 weeks and 1 day pregnant. our baby is about the size of a fist.
i finally get to go to my first dr. appt this coming monday. i'm hoping there's some way (since i know i will be getting a sonogram- since it is my first appt) that we might be able to find out the sex of the baby. i am ready to start calling it a he or she and calling it by its name rather than calling it IT. i am ready to have my real due date... the one i'm going off now is the one i was given when i had a sonogram at 8 weeks at pregnancy resources...
i am showing way sooner than i was with lincoln. but i think that's pretty common with the second pregnancy. i have also heard that it is easier to feel the baby moving, much sooner, than with the first pregnancy. i am sooo looking forward to that. it will happen before i know it. being able to feel a baby move around inside you makes the whole miserable pregnancy thing worth it.
if we are not able to find out the sex next week, we will have to wait 6 more weeks before we are able to find out... 6 weeks sure doesn't seem like long! this pregnancy is flying by like i can't even believe. every day crept by when i was pregnant with lincoln, and this time i feel like i'm not getting enough time to appreciate the fact that there's actually a human growing inside of me. i do get reminders- like when i go to work and everyone's asking me about it- and at bedtime when we're all saying prayers. "the baby in mommy's tummy" is included in everyone's prayers. i am so ready to be able to give "the baby in mommy's tummy" an official title.
scott and i still completely disagree on a boy's name. we are supposed to sit down tonight and try to narrow it down to a couple of names that we can actually agree on. the name he likes so much, luke, i don't like. it's not a bad name, but i don't love it. i want to LOVE the name that i'm going to give to my child. i'm not just going to give it a name that's just "ok" to me. anyway, supposedly that's the ONLY name scott likes... it is the cause of lots of bickering between us. and it especially pisses me off when people are like "so how's luke doing?" i simply reply "i don't know who luke is". stop picking on me, people! i'm the one that's gotta push this kid out of my hoo-ha so shut up already!wow, what a random rant.
i can tell that i'm through with my first trimester. i feel like i've got a huge part of my life back. i am still a bit tired, but nothing like the complete exhaustion i was feeling up until about a week ago. i still feel like i need to sleep way more than i am being allowed to, but oh well. it's nice not feeling like a zombie all the time.
lincoln went back to school on tuesday for the first time in a few weeks. i thought everything would be fine and i would drop him off and it would all be like it had been... boy was i wrong! he had to sit in time out FOUR TIMES at school that day. he was in time out when i went to pick him up... needless to say, scott and i weren't very happy. he got plenty of "talking to" during the remainder of the day. his punishment was no tv or games on the internet (playhouse disney or nick jr.) all day. it equalled a long day for both of us. we were sooo ready for daddy to get home from work!
well i suppose this is enough for now. i will probably post again next week since i will be going to the dr. hopefully i will have big news about the sex of the baby to post! that would be nice....
i finally get to go to my first dr. appt this coming monday. i'm hoping there's some way (since i know i will be getting a sonogram- since it is my first appt) that we might be able to find out the sex of the baby. i am ready to start calling it a he or she and calling it by its name rather than calling it IT. i am ready to have my real due date... the one i'm going off now is the one i was given when i had a sonogram at 8 weeks at pregnancy resources...
i am showing way sooner than i was with lincoln. but i think that's pretty common with the second pregnancy. i have also heard that it is easier to feel the baby moving, much sooner, than with the first pregnancy. i am sooo looking forward to that. it will happen before i know it. being able to feel a baby move around inside you makes the whole miserable pregnancy thing worth it.
if we are not able to find out the sex next week, we will have to wait 6 more weeks before we are able to find out... 6 weeks sure doesn't seem like long! this pregnancy is flying by like i can't even believe. every day crept by when i was pregnant with lincoln, and this time i feel like i'm not getting enough time to appreciate the fact that there's actually a human growing inside of me. i do get reminders- like when i go to work and everyone's asking me about it- and at bedtime when we're all saying prayers. "the baby in mommy's tummy" is included in everyone's prayers. i am so ready to be able to give "the baby in mommy's tummy" an official title.
scott and i still completely disagree on a boy's name. we are supposed to sit down tonight and try to narrow it down to a couple of names that we can actually agree on. the name he likes so much, luke, i don't like. it's not a bad name, but i don't love it. i want to LOVE the name that i'm going to give to my child. i'm not just going to give it a name that's just "ok" to me. anyway, supposedly that's the ONLY name scott likes... it is the cause of lots of bickering between us. and it especially pisses me off when people are like "so how's luke doing?" i simply reply "i don't know who luke is". stop picking on me, people! i'm the one that's gotta push this kid out of my hoo-ha so shut up already!wow, what a random rant.
i can tell that i'm through with my first trimester. i feel like i've got a huge part of my life back. i am still a bit tired, but nothing like the complete exhaustion i was feeling up until about a week ago. i still feel like i need to sleep way more than i am being allowed to, but oh well. it's nice not feeling like a zombie all the time.
lincoln went back to school on tuesday for the first time in a few weeks. i thought everything would be fine and i would drop him off and it would all be like it had been... boy was i wrong! he had to sit in time out FOUR TIMES at school that day. he was in time out when i went to pick him up... needless to say, scott and i weren't very happy. he got plenty of "talking to" during the remainder of the day. his punishment was no tv or games on the internet (playhouse disney or nick jr.) all day. it equalled a long day for both of us. we were sooo ready for daddy to get home from work!
well i suppose this is enough for now. i will probably post again next week since i will be going to the dr. hopefully i will have big news about the sex of the baby to post! that would be nice....
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