I went in for my weekly appointment this morning... I'll be 38 weeks on Friday.
First she measured my belly like normal, but he measured a week behind where he was last week (last time he measured at 36 wks and this time only 35). The doc said she was going to schedule a 3rd ultrasound just to make sure his weight was good and he was still growing ok. Yeah, so at this point I'm trying to remain calm when my doc just told me that my baby isn't quite the right size. Then she checks his heart beat and it's at 130, which is fine. So then she asks if I want her to check for dilation, and I was like sure, let's see if anything's happening... Well, she checks and gets this weird look on her face and says, "you haven't been having contractions??" well, no, nothing serious, just one or two every now and then and nothing even remotely painful. Apparently I'm dilated to a 3 and the reason he measured smaller this week is because he's dropped so low that she joked he may fall out! No ultrasound needed now and she isn't sure i'll make it another week before this little guy makes his debut!
I'm so excited! Let's get this party started!!!!!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Kids on Love
I found these and they made me laugh, maybe they'll help your day too. :-)
Kids on Love
Love & Marriage:
"If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." -- Glenn, age 7
"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." -- Tom, age 5
"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." -- Dave, age 8
Kissing:
"When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down, and they don't get up for at least an hour." -- Wendy, age 8
"The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." -- Curt, age 7
Deciding Who To Marry:
"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." -- Kirsten, age 10
Strategies For Making People Fall In Love With You:
"Shake your hips and hope for the best." -- Camille, age 9
"Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." -- Del, age 6
Good Advice About Love:
"Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck!" -- Ricky, age 7
"Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love." -- Erin, age 8
"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8
What to Do When a First Date Turns Sour:
"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." -- Craig, age 9
Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:
"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8
"They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." -- John, age 9
Kids on Love
Love & Marriage:
"If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." -- Glenn, age 7
"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." -- Tom, age 5
"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." -- Dave, age 8
Kissing:
"When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down, and they don't get up for at least an hour." -- Wendy, age 8
"The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." -- Curt, age 7
Deciding Who To Marry:
"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." -- Kirsten, age 10
Strategies For Making People Fall In Love With You:
"Shake your hips and hope for the best." -- Camille, age 9
"Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." -- Del, age 6
Good Advice About Love:
"Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck!" -- Ricky, age 7
"Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love." -- Erin, age 8
"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take out the trash." -- Erin, age 8
What to Do When a First Date Turns Sour:
"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." -- Craig, age 9
Why People In Love Often Hold Hands:
"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." -- Gavin, age 8
"They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." -- John, age 9
Sunday, October 24, 2010
WHAT???!!!
Sometimes I really think my husband's boss doesn't think more than 2 seconds past the end of his nose (yes, i do know that may not make sense)...
Remember, I'm almost 38 weeks pregnant and what does he do??? Sends my husband out of town. He's 3 hours away until tomorrow night or Tuesday morning... Yes, that's right... I could go into labor at any time and my husband is 3 hours away...
The last time my husband had to work farther away than the normal 70 miles, I wound up in the ER, then surgery, having my appendix out!
Needless to say I'm hoping that nothing crazy like that happens this time!
Last night I went on a 3-hour cleaning spree in my house. I just started throwing things away. Perfectly good stuff that I was just sick of having and didn't want to hold onto until the church's garage sale in June... yeah, a whole trashbag of just stuff... gone. Beats me, I usually hold onto everything (just a bit of a packrat, lol). That freaked my husband out becuz normally I HATE cleaning... with a passion... and he knows "nesting" is a sign that labor is nearing... and now he's out of town. Kept telling me "PLEASE don't go into labor while I'm gone". Well dear, rest assured that I'm trying... not that it really makes a difference. :-)
Hope you have fun and come home soon, I miss you!!!
Remember, I'm almost 38 weeks pregnant and what does he do??? Sends my husband out of town. He's 3 hours away until tomorrow night or Tuesday morning... Yes, that's right... I could go into labor at any time and my husband is 3 hours away...
The last time my husband had to work farther away than the normal 70 miles, I wound up in the ER, then surgery, having my appendix out!
Needless to say I'm hoping that nothing crazy like that happens this time!
Last night I went on a 3-hour cleaning spree in my house. I just started throwing things away. Perfectly good stuff that I was just sick of having and didn't want to hold onto until the church's garage sale in June... yeah, a whole trashbag of just stuff... gone. Beats me, I usually hold onto everything (just a bit of a packrat, lol). That freaked my husband out becuz normally I HATE cleaning... with a passion... and he knows "nesting" is a sign that labor is nearing... and now he's out of town. Kept telling me "PLEASE don't go into labor while I'm gone". Well dear, rest assured that I'm trying... not that it really makes a difference. :-)
Hope you have fun and come home soon, I miss you!!!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Homecoming Fun Part 1 - WalkAround & My Awesome Mechanic
Whoever let me go to WalkAround last night at 37 weeks pregnant wasn't very smart... oh wait, I insisted that I'd be okay to go...
I had an absolute blast walking around looking at all the house decks and seeing the hard work all the freshman pledges had to put in to get these things ready... they are MASSIVE!!! If you've never been, here's an example of a house deck from a few years ago...
Impressive huh? Chicken wire and crepe paper... These kids are definitely talented to pull off these giant works of art year after year after year.
We saw many friends and family while we were there and only a few times had to keep Princess (below) from trying to eat the other pooches.
The trouble started after we got home and my poor muscles decided to revolt! I was in so much pain!!! Good thing I didn't wind up in L&D... I don't think I coulda made it!!!
Oh, and my wonderful husband is the best mechanic in the world (at least that's what he keeps saying after my car trouble yesterday)... When it came time to leave my parents house last night to go home, I drove his work truck and he drove my car so he could see if he could figure out what the hissing/scraping sound was coming from... Well when we got home he got out of the car with a big frown on his face... "sounds like something with your brakes or suspension... either way not good." So he spent the next 20 minutes under my car on cardboard on the wet ground (remember it had rained all day) with a flashlight trying to figure out what was the problem with my car... AND.... he comes walking in the house carrying a stick... yes, a stick... that was the culprit... it'd gotten lodged up by the brakes and was dragging against them while I was driving... you couldn't see it just from looking under the car (which I'd done earlier) cuz it was wedged WAAAY up in there.... I felt like a genius but am SO glad it was only a stick and not some expensive car part that we really don't have the money for right now!
Thank you honey!!!!
Here's your tidbit for this time:
"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had an absolute blast walking around looking at all the house decks and seeing the hard work all the freshman pledges had to put in to get these things ready... they are MASSIVE!!! If you've never been, here's an example of a house deck from a few years ago...
Impressive huh? Chicken wire and crepe paper... These kids are definitely talented to pull off these giant works of art year after year after year.
We saw many friends and family while we were there and only a few times had to keep Princess (below) from trying to eat the other pooches.
Oh, and my wonderful husband is the best mechanic in the world (at least that's what he keeps saying after my car trouble yesterday)... When it came time to leave my parents house last night to go home, I drove his work truck and he drove my car so he could see if he could figure out what the hissing/scraping sound was coming from... Well when we got home he got out of the car with a big frown on his face... "sounds like something with your brakes or suspension... either way not good." So he spent the next 20 minutes under my car on cardboard on the wet ground (remember it had rained all day) with a flashlight trying to figure out what was the problem with my car... AND.... he comes walking in the house carrying a stick... yes, a stick... that was the culprit... it'd gotten lodged up by the brakes and was dragging against them while I was driving... you couldn't see it just from looking under the car (which I'd done earlier) cuz it was wedged WAAAY up in there.... I felt like a genius but am SO glad it was only a stick and not some expensive car part that we really don't have the money for right now!
Thank you honey!!!!
Here's your tidbit for this time:
"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friday, October 22, 2010
Cookies for the Rain
It's been raining all day here, so I thought I'd share my mom's recipe for snickerdoodle cookies. Rainy days and warm Snickerdoodles... sounds about right to me!
Snickerdoodles:
2 3/4 cup flour
1 T. baking powder
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
Mix together and refrigerate for one hour. Roll into balls the size of quarters. Drop in mixture of 1 T. cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
ENJOY!!!
Snickerdoodles:
2 3/4 cup flour
1 T. baking powder
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
Mix together and refrigerate for one hour. Roll into balls the size of quarters. Drop in mixture of 1 T. cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
ENJOY!!!
Contractions, Rain, and Car Trouble... What a Friday!
I'd love a full night's sleep... I know that in just a few short weeks they'll be a thing of the past, but I'd love one... just one, before the baby gets here... but of course that probably isn't going to happen.
Woke up at 2:30 this morning with contractions... yay, right??? well, I was getting all excited and then, they just went away.... GRRR!!!! seriously???!!! ugh. Anyway, finally fell asleep when Patrick left for work at 5:30. Got up at 9 to get ready to be at work at 10. Decided that I would go by Mom & Dad's on the way to work to make myself a sandwich for lunch... and as i was pulling in... "POP!!!" (followed by a loud hisssss)..... GREATTT!!!! So something's obviously wrong with my car and I have no idea what it is. Not apparently the tires cuz they're all still inflated and when I checked my fluids yesterday they were all fine... AND Dad and Patrick are out of town till this evening so I obviously never made it to work. I am so thankful I have the best boss ever who is totally understanding about me not making it to work... which is happening increasingly often these days.
And now it's raining... Which I really don't mind, but this weekend is Oklahoma State's homecoming weekend... the greatest homecoming celebration in the nation and Friday night is the WalkAround. I'd looove to go, but once again, it's raining so I don't know if they'll even have it.
Wow, so that was quite a rant! But, I feel better now so I'll leave you with this lil nugget:
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
Woke up at 2:30 this morning with contractions... yay, right??? well, I was getting all excited and then, they just went away.... GRRR!!!! seriously???!!! ugh. Anyway, finally fell asleep when Patrick left for work at 5:30. Got up at 9 to get ready to be at work at 10. Decided that I would go by Mom & Dad's on the way to work to make myself a sandwich for lunch... and as i was pulling in... "POP!!!" (followed by a loud hisssss)..... GREATTT!!!! So something's obviously wrong with my car and I have no idea what it is. Not apparently the tires cuz they're all still inflated and when I checked my fluids yesterday they were all fine... AND Dad and Patrick are out of town till this evening so I obviously never made it to work. I am so thankful I have the best boss ever who is totally understanding about me not making it to work... which is happening increasingly often these days.
And now it's raining... Which I really don't mind, but this weekend is Oklahoma State's homecoming weekend... the greatest homecoming celebration in the nation and Friday night is the WalkAround. I'd looove to go, but once again, it's raining so I don't know if they'll even have it.
Wow, so that was quite a rant! But, I feel better now so I'll leave you with this lil nugget:
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Getting Ready For Our New Boss
We are getting so excited to greet the newest member of our family any day now. Only 22 days until his due date, and let me tell ya, I'm SO READY! Don't get me wrong, I love having this little dude all to myself for the moment, but I can't wait to get to finally meet him and hold him in my arms instead of my belly.
We've (well, I've) been working to get his stuff ready, and it just makes me more excited! His crib is ready and his clothes are all washed and hung up in his closet.
Yesterday, we registered at the hospital.... and so now, we wait...
I try to be patient, but that wasn't something I was ever very good at!
22 days and counting....
We've (well, I've) been working to get his stuff ready, and it just makes me more excited! His crib is ready and his clothes are all washed and hung up in his closet.
Yesterday, we registered at the hospital.... and so now, we wait...
I try to be patient, but that wasn't something I was ever very good at!
22 days and counting....
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