Glucose Test

Well I am sitting here waiting to drink my sugary flat orange drink for my glucose test ... and I have to say this is just so hard for me ... I wake up every morning starving ... I need to eat something as soon as I get up and then I have oatmeal once I get to work ... my stomach is growling and I am light headed and nauseous ... and it is still going to be like 2 hours before I get to eat ...

And gulping down that concoction when I am so hungry is soooooooo hard ... ick ... I have about 5 minutes before I gotta go drink it ... yuck ...

But my fingers are crossed that I pass no problem ...

27 Weeks

Today I had a sonogram and got a couple of photos ... they are supposed to be the face but I am not sure if I am looking at the correctly ...

When at the sono I got a brand new technician ... I was kinda bummed because I really like the other two women there and look forward to seeing them but the new lady needs some practice and since I go all the time who better right ...

Well tonight I am wishing I hadn't been the new customer ...

You know when you are like 8 weeks pregnant and they push a bit hard to see everything ... well she was pushing 5 times harder and I am 27 weeks ... my belly shoots to the sky when I lay down ... there isn't a single reason to push hard ... and tonight I can hardly move I am soooooooooooo sore ... it feels like I was in a kick boxing match ... it is just crazy ...

And I know it isn't necessary because one of the techs I like came in to help and make sure she took all the measurements and the ones the new tech missed this one took and guess what ... no pushing down hard ... during the exam I told her it was the first hour I hadn't felt the baby move ... I am sure it is cause she was kicking his ass too and he was trying to stay still to avoid the huge probe crushing in on him ...

They said everything looked fine ... he was really big ... asked if I had had my glucose test yet and I told them I was having it on Thursday but that my daughter was big too ... both sides of my family just makes big babies ... ya know people kept insisting I had gestational diabetes with Skye cause she was so big ... but the people I know who had GD gave birth to small babies ... so why does everyone assume it with my big ass babies??

 

Dreams Come True

I have to start out saying this past weekend I had a dream I had a flat tire and my dad told me it was all fixed up and I went out to the car and it wasn't ... that in fact two tires were flat ...

so anyway ...

Today turned out to be crappy ... I got home in record time so I stopped at Target ... I knew they were taking their winter stuff out soon and I wanted a vest for me and some snow pants for skye ... I got them all soooooo cheap I was so excited ... less than 20 bucks ... you can't beat that ...

I went out to the car and it seemed very slanted ... I tried to pull out and that wasn't happening ... I got out of the car ... walked around the car ... and it was the flattest tire I have ever seen ... just destroyed ... I called AAA and waited an hour for them to get there ... in a car that has no working heat ... the AAA guy got there and couldn't get my spare tire off ...

So I had to call David ... who had to get Skye all bundled up and head over there ... and then try forever to get the spare tire off and he couldn't either ... it is jammed in there and the clip broke or something ... gotta get someone to check it out ...

So I got the spare off David's car while he jacked the car up ... got the donut put on and called Sears ... 30 minutes till close and if I could get there in 10 minutes they would help me out ...

Wouldn't you know the car was riding weird on the way over there ... and the back tire was 1/2 flat by the time I got there ... the other two tires looked horrible ... so instead of the 2 tires I was planning on getting (since you always buy in groups of 2) I wound up getting 4 new tires ... SO not the expense we needed right now ... I am just sick about it ...

The only saving grace was stopping at Target tonight ... otherwise this would have happened tonight and when I went out for my doctors appointment in the morning I would have had to deal with all of it then ... still it was way too much money ... damn it ...

Random Remembers

I feel like so much happened over the weekend and I randomly keep remembering stuff ...

First of all it was amazing to get to hang out with Heather ... I love her so much and any time I get to spend with her is totally precious ... Schuyler fell in love too ... she wanted to be around Heather any time she could ... playing with her dollhouse ... singing songs ... dancing for her ... going down to wake her up each morning ... and this afternoon helping her roll up her clothes up to pack them in her suitcase ... at the airport when we said good-bye she cried so so so hard and was so upset Aunt Heather was leaving ... it broke my heart ...

Heather brought Skye her first Jack-n-the-box and it is awesome ... it is a sock monkey ... Heather is now Skye's sock monkey aunt and Skye just loves it ... she loves to be surprised and she cracks up every single time ... she thinks it is awesome ...

Last night David made pot roast for us and it was beyond delicious ... I just love that David is so here for me and our company ... we had two home cooked meals that were fantastic and it was great for all of us to sit around the table and enjoy dinner together ... and as usual Skye was a little show off and performing for us all ...

Oh David and my dad found something for our kitchen that I am so excited about ... a button that installs at the sink to run the garbage disposal ... it is awesome ...

I'm so happy Heather got to spend 4 days with us ... I only wish it could have been more ... and I really wish we could make the trip out to Lawrence to see her ... I would love to show David where I went to college ... where I "grew up" ... all my favorite spots ... and just hang out in a place I love with the people I love ... that would be fantastic ...

Busy Weekend

Well Heather got here from Kansas on Thursday late afternoon and Schuyler and I went to the airport to pick her up ... it was probably my best airport pick-up ever ... we parked in the garage right by Southwest ... we came off the elevator and the monitor said her luggage would be on turnstyle 2 and that is right where we were ... we went and sat down and before my tush was on the seat we saw her walking out ... and then it was right back to the car ...

We hung out at home Thursday night ... David fixed chicken and potatos and veggies that were delicious ... and Skye was just so happy to see her ...

Friday started out a quiet morning ... I made my own cinnamon rolls from scratch without a recipe that turned out sooooooo good ... I was so happy about it ...

My dad called and wanted to go look at some stuff for the remodel ... so we packed up some snacks (not enough) and headed out ... we spent hours at home depot ... thank goodness Schuyler had Heather with her ... they looked at all sorts of stuff in the store ... got a stack of Minnie Mouse paint swatches ... had hot pretzels and ran around the store ...

While we picked out this amazing black kitchen sink ... bought a new sliding glass door, small window for the kitchen above the sink and a huge bay window for the window wall (that is going to become half the height so we can have cabinets and counters underneath it ... we also got a kitchen faucet ... and looked at tons of other stuff like toilets and tubs and all that jazz ...

Then we headed to a granite place ... it was in a warehouse and awesome ... they had tons to choose from and after much consideration we found one that we both loved ... and the guys prices were amazing ... he gave us a sample to bring home and think about and we told him we would be back Satruday ...

So this afternoon we all headed out again ... we had searched around and we weren't going to find a better price for granite countertops and all of us really liked the guy ... so we paid our deposit ... and set up the tenative schedule ...

Then we headed to a WAY high end bath, kitchen and lighting place to look around ... get some ideas for stuff we want that we can then look for online at a reasonable price ...

It kind of sucks that this is the weekend we needed to start getting stuff done since Heather is visiting ... but at the same time she made it all that much easier to get stuff done ... and Schuyler is just in love with her ... and has had so much fun hanging out with her ... and we did get so much done ... although we have these long lists of stuff we still need to do ... I just don't know that David and I were prepared with all that needed to be done ...

At least while Heather has been here we have been able to stay up late talking and hanging out ... I just love when she is here ...

Our soon to be new black sink

Heather testing out the tubs

Boo Bites

Last night Skye said she needed band-aids for her boo bites ... it is the first time she has asked for band-aids ... she has a boo bite on each cheek ... so I told her after her bath we could put them on ... well she actually wanted out of the tub sooner to put on her kitty kitty band-aids ... (and this huge pregnant woman wasn't going to argue with her ... bath time is hard enough for me now and she insists that it is me that does it ... she says "time together mommy" ... no matter how hard I struggle how could I resist that)

So out of the tub and wiggling with excitement we get out 2 small kitty kitty band-aids ... and place them over the boo bites on each cheek ... she was up on the stool so she could see them in the mirror ... and just loved them ... big smiles all around ...

For about 4.5 seconds ...

By the time we got into her room she wanted them off ... and off now ... I had to distract her while daddy brought the camera up so I started sniffing her ... telling her how wonderful she smelled after her bath ... she thought it was hysterical ... and first thing this morning was ready for me to sniff her ... but at least it distracted her long enough to take these photos ...

How Brothers are Made

Tonight during bath time Schuyler and I had the most adorable conversation ...

She likes for me to write her name and mommy and daddy on the side of the tub ... tonight she asked me to write out Lincoln too ...

I then asked her if she knew where her brother was right now ... she put her finger to her mouth and said, "hummmmm" ... so I told her he was in my tummy but would be here soon ...

She said, "It's lots of jelly!!" ... I asked her if it was jelly that made her brother ... she said, "Oh yes ... jelly and bread."

Mommy: "So your brother is made of lots of jelly and bread? What else?"
Skye: "Jelly and bread and a pickle"
Mommy: "Jelly and bread and a pickle - wow ... anything else?"
Skye: "Oh yes and juice"
Mommy: "So to make your brother I took lots of jelly and bread, a pickle and juice - anything else?"
Skye: "And a smoothie ... mommy's smoothie not Schuylers."
Mommy: "So your little brother is made out of jelly and bread and a pickle and juice and a smoothie. And it is all mixing up in my tummy and will be your little brother?"
Skye: "Taaadaaaaaaaaa"