Friday, October 24, 2008

Picture of Baby Bean


Here is a picture of our beautiful baby, well I think so, at 7 weeks 1 day. This was taken this afternoon at my emergency ultrasound, more about that in a minute. Baby bean is measuring 3 days behind what I thought I should be, so my new due date is June 11, 2009, which also happens to be Nathan and my 4th wedding anniversary. The heart-rate is 131 bpm. As far as can be seen at this point, baby is healthy and well and I am ecstatic!

Now about my emergency ultrasound. The story basically starts on Wednesday night at about 8:00pm. We had just come in for the night after working outside on our fence. The boys were in bed and I went to the washroom, a place I frequent a lot these days. When I went to wipe there was about a teaspoon of pinkish blood on the toilet paper and I FREAKED OUT! Okay maybe not right away but it scared me. I have never bled before with pregnancy, so after a stressful evening of talking to the nurse and friends and family, I resigned myself to wait until morning and call my doctor to request said ultrasound. In the morning there was a little brown blood but that was about it so that eased my mind a bit. I got in to see my doctor at 4:15pm on Thursday afternoon and he did an internal exam to check for bleeding and to make sure my cervix was still closed. No bleeding and cervix closed.. Good sign! He said he wanted to book said ultrasound and here we are... Ultrasound.. new due date.. healthy baby.. a lot less stressed out mommy!!!

It never seems to fail though. Nathan and I seem to have atleast one problem during our pregnancies. With Joel it was a false positive on the triple screen with a high risk for down syndrome which resulted in an amniocentesis at 18 weeks. With Colin he had Choroid Plexis Cysts in his 18 week ultrasound which creates a high risk for Trisomy 18. And this time bleeding and an early ultrasound. I know I am very lucky that I have 2 beautiful healthy children and one on the way so I am not complaining. I have been very blessed, I just wish there didn't always have to be stress involved in getting to that point.

In other news, we set up the boys new room. Temporarily it is Joel's new room, while Colin learns to sleep in a bed. Then in about April Colin will move into the bottom bunk and we will set up the nursery for the new baby. Anyways, I am really happy with the way it all turned out. Here are the results.


I still have a bit more work to do. I want to find a bit more art work and some curtains but that is the main bits.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Colin Singing

Here is a video of Colin singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.. To watch it just scroll down to the bottom and pause the blog music first.

The 2 Year Old and 7 week Update



Here is My 7 week belly. Doesn't look a whole lot bigger but especially with clothes off you can see a difference. It is getting rounder. I love it! I cannot wait until people can tell that I am pregnant. I love everything about it. Well minus the morning sickness. I have been really dizzy in the mornings for the last week and need to eat asap when I first get up or else I become very nauseous. The morning sickness is reassuring to me though. I was always scared with Colin when I didn't have any. I have also been really tired lately. Last night I was in bed by 7:30 and went to sleep about 9. 

I had my first prenatal appointment yesterday. It went well, as well as a 1st prenatal appointment can go anyways. The nurse who did the initial part of my appointment was excellent. She has 3 grown boys at home so she understood what my life is like. After I finished filling out all the paperwork with her I went and had my pap and full physical with my doctor. He is an amazing doctor and it was good to chat with him for a while. He said everything looks good and he wants to see me again routinely until I get in my with my OBGYN.

Mr Colin James turned 2 yesterday. It is hard to believe that 2 years has disappeared already. We took him out for supper last night to Red Lobster. The boys both really like it there because of the live lobster tank they have in the entrance. Neither of them eat seafood though. We are having 2 birthday parties for him as well. He has one on Saturday with Nathan's family and one on Halloween with my side of the family and all his cousins.

Here is a photo montage of Colin over the last 2 years. Enjoy!
Newborn

6 months

1 year

18 months

2 years

For those of you who are wondering my sister in law is doing well. She had a DNC last Wednesday and I think she feels relieved in some ways that it is done with. They are both sad, but overall they have handled it well. Thank you for all your prayers!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

6 weeks and an Update



I was officially 6 weeks pregnant yesterday. I have been feeling more tired everyday and most nights am asleep before 10. I still haven't been sick. I am hoping that I will be lucky like I was with Colin and not experience morning sickness. Only time will tell I guess.

We had Thanksgiving dinner this weekend. Saturday we went to Nathan's brother, Brandon's place. All the non pregnant people were re-shingling their house for the better part of the day while Kerri and I (both pregnant), watched all the kids. It was a good day but exhausting. At the end of the night we had Thanksgiving dinner and then went home. Then on Sunday we went to my sister Tara's place for dinner. Another very tasty supper. I baked pumpkin pies for both occasions.

Nathan also had yesterday off which was nice. We really didn't do much. We went to Mcdonalds in the morning with my mom and Tara. Went to Walmart after that to look at cameras since mine is broken. After the boys napped, we got a movie, had supper and then watched the movie with the boys. Then it was bedtime again.. I swear, where does the time go? It flies by so fast. It really won't be long before this baby is born because time just doesn't stop.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

5 Week Belly Picture


This picture was taken on Monday night. I am going to try to take weekly belly pictures. There isn't much there yet, but since this will most likely be my last baby I want to capture as much of this pregnancy as I can.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Yesterday morning I was upstairs getting ready for the day. Both Colin and Joel were with me and we got to talking about the baby growing in mommy's tummy. 

Joel says to me "Mommy I want a sister."  

So I told him that he could pray and tell God that he was hoping for a sister. I said that wouldn't necessarily guarantee that I was going to have a baby girl, but he could definitely let God know what he was hoping for. 

So he went to his room to get dressed for the day. He comes back a couple minutes later and says to me "Mommy I am not going to get a baby sister because God doesn't hear me. I don't have the MAGIC words."  

LOL! I tried to keep back from bursting out laughing and told him that it didn't matter what words he said to God that he could hear him.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Very Blessed



There it is.. The 2 little lines that mean there is a new life growing inside. I am so excited, but I am also scared. I know it is normal to be scared about miscarriage. I want to be past the first trimester so the most vulnerable part of this pregnancy is over. I pray everyday that this baby stays within me and we get to meet it in 8 months.

Tomorrow I will be painting the boys new room. They are going to be moving into bunk beds and then the baby will have its own room. Colin is going to start out in Joel's current bed just so he gets used to sleeping in a bed for about 6 months and then he will move into the bottom bunk in the other room. I am going to be painting the room grey and possibly a red stripe at the top.. the theme is cars the movie so I am just going off the bedding we bought. I will post some pictures once it is all set up.

Jocelyn came over last night and we watched Made of Honor. It was good, but very predictable. Very average chic flick but we both enjoyed it anyways.

Guess thats about it! Thanks for reading guys!