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Cheli On Saturday, January 12, 2008

32 week picture... 3 days late but whatever... LOL

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Cheli On Monday, January 7, 2008
Here is the picture post as promised :)

31 weeks pregnant.


River playing with one of Makaylee's toys


River and Makaylee playing together


River trying to steal a kiss ;)


Daddy and River on Christmas Eve


River and his cousin Sarah. She came to visit while she was in town visiting her father.


A better picture of Makaylee


A Picture of River from a few days ago.. sporting a cloth diaper that doesn't fit him right.. oh well.
Cheli On

Has it really been a month since I updated?? I'm horrible. I've been reading my subscriptions daily but I just haven't had the energy to sit here and type out an entry and blah blah blah.. yeah I'm lazy.

Let's see.. I'm 32 weeks pregnant tomorrow.. can you believe it? 8 weeks until my due date and only 35 days until little one is allowed to come out. Crazy. I had a midwife appointment last week, it was the first one in a month because my scatterbrain mixed up dates for the previous one and we were out of town when I was supposed to go. Anyway.. as of 31 weeks I have gained officially 2 lbs this pregnancy. LMAO I was hoping to gain about as much as I gained with River (20 lbs) but it looks like I'll be gaining less than that.. which is totally fine with me. Baby sounds great.. heartbeat is in the 130s. He still hasn't gone head down though which is worrisome a little bit I'm not going to stress over it.. yet. I go back on the 16th for my next appointment and then again on the 30th and then I'll start the weekly appointments.. WOW. It's amazing to me how fast this pregnancy has gone.

Also pregnancy related.. I spent New Years Eve in L&D getting monitored. It appears I caught a stomach bug from my son (thank you son) and spent all day on the 31st puking. (I threw up about a total of 15 times.. I HATE throwing up). I ended up needing 2000ml of fluids and they told me I was having contractions every 2 minutes lasting a minute a piece so I was given 2 shots of terbutiline to stop the contractions and then was given a shot of phenergran and a shot of Zofran to stop the nausea/puking.. Oh the fun. The good news is I got an ultrasound out of the whole mess.. baby is measuring a week ahead and there is a possibility that he is actually a SHE but we won't know for sure until baby arrives in 2 months. LOL This kiddo is very quiet in utero compared to River.. if it wasn't for the 5-7 cases of hiccups a day I wouldn't know this kid was still around. Kinda freaky but it will be nice if he is this laid back when he's here.

Let's see... non pregnancy related. We went to TN for Christmas vacation. Doug was off school from the 21st through the 2nd so we decided to go spend it with friends. We stayed with R and K while we were there and had a wonderful time. Unfortunately K ended up needing emergency surgery Christmas morning :( so we had to cut our trip a bit short but it was wonderful to see them (and everyone else) nonetheless. We got to go to Temple on the 22nd and had a WONDERFUL time. Got to see most of our friends and enjoy the atmosphere and then we go to go to an unexpected private party Christmas Eve Night that was most enjoyable as well. It made us miss TN all the more and we can't wait to be back up there where we belong. We also got to visit River's girlfriend while we were there which was great. They are 5 weeks apart and are finally old enough to be able to interact with each other. It was great fun watching them. We got a few pics of the two of them together and if I can stop being lazy I'll post them with the rest of the pictures I need to post.

Hmmm what next.. OH I celebrated my 24th birthday last Thursday.. WOO HOOO. Go me :) Celebrated by staying home and spending the whole day just Doug and I. It was peaceful and relaxing and very enjoyable. Doug and I received a giftcard to Outback for Christmas from my mother so we used that for my birthday dinner and had a wonderful meal.

River is doing wonderful. We are still trying to get his allergies under control. He's got a nose that never stops running and a cough that never really goes away so we were back in the doctor's office on Friday getting him checked out. He is now taking liquid Claritin in the morning and powdered Singulair at night so we'll see if that helps. He will be 23 months old on Friday.. one more month and my baby will be turning 2. Where has the time gone? While we were at the doctors they weighed him and we measured him he is 37 inches and 31 lbs. He's HUGE!!! I knew he was tall but WOW.. He amazes us every day.. he's talking more and more and has turned into this little person all the sudden. It's amazing. He is able to communicate his wants and needs much more effectively but still has the oh so wonderful toddler tantrums. He has started to talk in 2 or 3 word sentences. He knows his colors (if you ask him to find you a blue block he can find you one). He's just an amazing little person!

Doug is doing well also. We are trying to get back into the swing of things being back down here and the holidays being behind us now. He got his massage table before the break and has really enjoyed it so far. He will graduate the first half of April some time and that's right around the corner. I'm so proud of him.

Hmmm I think that might be everything....

Stay tuned for a picture post... hopefully..

Cheli On Monday, December 10, 2007
Some new pictures of the boy :)
You can get an idea of how long is hair is now :)













Cheli On Sunday, December 9, 2007

OK so it's been about 10 days since I updated really other than the picture back on the 4th. So let's see...

I'm just shy of 28 weeks and feeling wonderful for the most part. I have lower back pain and hip pain but other than that I feel great for being 7 months pregnant. The I can totally deal with the normal aches and pains associated with pregnancy. :) And I can't believe that I only have about 12 weeks left until this little one will be here and I won't be pregnant anymore. I am enjoying this pregnancy immensely.. enjoying the feeling of the baby moving around and kicking and being active. Enjoying dreaming of who he is and what he'll look like when he arrives. As we get closer to D day I'm getting nervous/anxious. For those who don't know I'm using a midwife this time and a birthing center. The birthing center is free standing (which means it's not attached to a hospital) and I will be doing the birth completely natural. I'm hoping for a water birth this time around and I'm just nervous about going about it completely med free as I had every intervention possible with River pretty much. Any words of wisdom from those who have done it before? :)

We put River back in daycare last Monday. The daycare called us a couple weeks ago and offered us a scholarship for River to come back. Basically we pay a very small fee for his daycare weekly and the daycare pays the rest. He loves being back in daycare. I've come to realize that he is just one of those social babies who needs the interaction and socialization that the daycare gives him. The daycare has started him the Two Year Old class room :) Basically because they didn't have any room in the Ones and he is so close to turning two. She also thinks that being with the older kids will be more beneficial to him than being with the babies and I agree. The two major things they work on in the twos are drinking from an open cup and potty training. He's doing well with the drinking from an open cup as long as there isn't alot in there (he doesn't seem to realize he has to stop or it's going to keep coming) but the potty training.. ROFL... He'll be 22 months old on Tuesday.. 2 more months and he'll turn 2. OMG where the hell has the time gone *sniff*

Doug will be done with his 5th mod in about a week and half (Thursday the 20th) and we'll be leaving that night for Tennessee :) WOOO HOOOO We'll be up visiting for about 5 days or so and would love to see everyone. Please let Doug or I know if you'd like to get together and we'll try and make sure to see everyone. We'll be making an appearence at Temple on the 22nd as well :) But of course little man won't be with us there ;) And I'll be hugely pregnant ROFL. I have slowed down on work (only working about 2 or 3 days a week as opposed to 4 or 5). An 8 hour shift takes alot more out of you when you are pregnant LOL. So we'll have no problems with coming up there.

Cheli On Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Today is the first day of the 3rd trimester!!! WOOO HOOOOOO!!!!
It's been a while since I shared belly pics so here ya go :) Don't mind the outfit I'm dressed for work LOL