This is where you will find the latest baby news! The calendar will grow as I do! :) Just click on the month's below to read what happened that month.
| SEPTEMBER Found out we're pregnant! |
OCTOBER The 1st Ultrasound! |
NOVEMBER Entering the Second Trimester! |
DECEMBER Second Ultrasound - It's a boy!! |
JANUARY Steffan gets kicked!! |
FEBRUARY We've moved! |
March House Drama, Ultrasound and BIG baby!! |
April Only ONE month to go! |
| May This is it!! |
June First Father's Day |
July Moved back home. |
August Ben is so cute! |
| February | |
| Feb. 2 | This is our last weekend for packing up the house before we move next weekend. I'm feeling a tad bit stressed!! |
| Feb. 4 | We went to look at a dog kennel that we thought about leaving Daisy in while we're staying at mom's (while waiting for our house to be built). Oh my gosh. I can't leave my baby in a kennel!!! I can't stand the thought of her being all alone there. And the lady kept apologizing for the way the kennel looked because she had been gone for awhile and the people who take care of the place when she's on these dog show trips, don't take care of the place the way she does. I'm like... that's not a very good thing to tell potential clients, but thanks for the warning! ugh. I just don't know what we're going to do. |
| Feb. 5 | I worked at the voting polls today. This is definitely going to be my last time to do this for awhile. It's not hard work at all, and it's actually a lot of fun to do... but it's a reallllly long day when you're pregnant! Had to be at the polls at 5:30am and we don't leave until around 8pm. I'm EXHAUSTED!! |
| Feb. 6 | I'm 26 weeks pregnant!! And Danny had a BRILLIANT idea. We asked my grama to watch Daisy for us while we're gone. But we are rigging up something to where she doesn't have to actually take her out on a walk (because Daisy is WAY too much/strong for her). And we offered to have her house cleaned each week. Grama agreed!!!! I feel such a relief now!! I'm so thankful to grama for doing that for me. I know she doesn't really want to but she's doing it cuz she loves me. And boy oh boy... do I ever appreciate it!! |
| Feb. 7 | Went for my regular check up and to get my glucose testing done. Danny went with me (of course). I hope this test comes out normal because I do NOT want to do that 3-hour test I had to do with Steffan. With Steffan, my levels were high the first time, but the second time was ok. This time, I hope it's ok on the first go round! :) Oh... I've only gained 11 lbs!! And let me tell you, my stomach is HUGE. |
| Feb. 8 | Darnit!! Got a call from the doctor's office... my blood sugar is 10 points too high! UGH! Which means I have to go in and do the 3 hour test. For those who don't know... you drink a thick sugar soda thingy (not so yummy) and then they draw your blood every 3 hours. Yeah! And more great news... my iron levels are low, so they are putting me on an iron supplement. No wonder I've been so tired and out of breath lately! Hopefully these pills will give me more energy! :) I think my stress level has reached an all time high today. I can't stop crying. And it's gotten to an embarrassing point. I went to the hardware store to get packing tape and saw somebody from church there. She asked if I was all ready to move and I just broke down and cried. How stupid is that? |
| Feb. 9 | Moving Day!! And guess what.. I feel terrrrrrible! I don't know if it's the iron pills or I'm coming down with something but.. I feel really bad. So bad in fact that my family made me leave the move to go lay down. Said I didn't look so good. And speaking of the move... we were SO blessed!! We weren't really sure how many people were going to come help us. We knew our family would be there, but also asked our church for help. We had about 20 people there helping!!! We started at 9am and were done by noon! |
| Feb. 11 | Still feeling really horrible. I feel like I can hardly move I'm so tired and nauseous among other things. I feel like death. ha! And even worse.. I look like death! I was feeling so great before these iron pills. So I called the doctor and they called in a different prescription for me. But it's not covered under my insurance since it's a vitamin. (dummies!) And it's $40. I don't think I want to spend that to be sick! :) The pharmacy suggested asking for a sample from the doc first. Of course, the doc's office is closed now. :( And I was looking at my stomach... y'all... I'M HUGE!! ha! Seriously!! The size I am now at 6 mos is about the same size I was with Steffan at 9mos. I've just got this big round stomach... and hard as a rock! :) I know, I know.. you want pictures. I'll take some I promise. Just been so busy lately. But I will... cuz you gotta see this!! ha! |
| Feb. 12 | Last night I took only a 1/2 of the iron pill and I feel SO MUCH better today! And I got ahold of the nurse and they will give me a sample. Whew! And I haven't had a chance to go to Springfield to get my glucose test done because we've had ANOTHER ice storm. Can you even believe it? We don't get much snow anymore... just ice? What's that all about? It's very pretty but... C'mon! But anywayzzzz... as soon as I can get to Springfield, I'll get that iron pill sample too. On our move news... these real estate agents are annoying us. It's too long to explain, but our buyer's agent is constantly out of the office and evidently hard for our agent to get ahold of. Our realtor says we are probably not going to close on Thurs. as planned. The buyer's mortgage person got sick and has been dragging her feet on getting the appraisal on our house ordered and it still hasn't been done (2 days before closing) so we will have to file an extension. Probably looking at next week. Glad we rushed to get out of there on Feb. 9. But.. I'm sure God had a reason for getting us out of there when he did. He always does! :) |
| Feb. 14 | Happy Valentine's Day!! I'm 27 weeks pregnant! This is a special day for Danny & I because this is the day we were engaged 3 years ago. It seems like it was a lot longer than that... in a good way!! :) I feel like he's been my best friend for life. At least I know that he'll be my best friend for the rest of my life at least! Today I had my 3 hour glucose test. That was fun! ha! NOT! ha! They checked my sugar level when I arrived and it was 95, which was good. I had to drink that drink and got poked 3 more times. I should know how I did tomorrow. And we didn't close on our house today. And we both kinda blew up at our realtor. He's the owner of the Remax here and he and the buyer's agent (who also works for him) have dragged their feet and didn't stay on top of things and never communicated anything with us. I talked with him on Monday and he said we probably wouldn't close and was going to relay other information to me when he rec'd it. Here it is the day of our closing and he STILL didn't call us to tell us anything. We had to contact him as usual and which is totally unacceptable. Anywayzzzz... the buyer still wants the house, that isn't the issue. But they are just now getting the appraisal done tomorrow. A day after our closing was supposed to happen. Pretty sad. We could have stayed another week in our house with our baby (Daisy), but we were keeping up our end of the contract. But the realtors and the mortgage brokers didn't do anything to assist in keeping the buyer in line with his obligations. Oh well.. we'll close when we close, right? God has a reason for this and we'll know what that reason is sometime, right? :) |
| Feb. 18 | I got my test results from the doctor and my glucose levels are fine! I do NOT have gestational diabetes. YEAH!!! |
| Feb. 19 | I had a doctor's appointment today and all was great! She said I have a very active baby and I was like... uh.. YEAH! ha! Anyway... I asked her if I was measuring alright and normally because I feel like I'm HUUUUGE! She said I was measuring perfectly for 28 weeks! Whew! So maybe this baby will not be so huge! :) AND... other great news. I've only gained 13 lbs. She was quite pleased with me but wanted to make sure I was eating. I assured her YES! ha! Although when I was on those other iron pills not so much! ha! These new ones are fab! And she gave me even more samples! Samples ROCK! lol! Oh... are you ready for some weird news? As you know, we didn't close on our house last week and our realtor has an extension contract for us to sign stating that we will close on or BEFORE Feb. 29. ugh. We could have been in our house for a couple more weeks. ANYWAYZZZZ... We got a call this morning from another real estate agency asking us if our house was still on the market because they had an interested buyer. Now... she knew of when our house was on the market back last summer, not about us having it for sale now! Isn't that weird? Our house wasn't even on the market and we have 2 people wanting it? Wow! We told her what was going on and that if our house doesn't close we will turn things over to her because we are NOT happy with Remax at all. But... that's pretty cool isn't it? God gave us a back up plan! :) |
| Feb. 25 | People... what the heck was I thinking doing a move and building a house while pregnant? I'm trying to remain calm. And I think I'm doing a pretty good job... I think? ha! But today, we got news from our realtor that the buyer's mortgage company doesn't think we'll even be closing on Feb. 29 because the buyer hasn't gotten a piece of info to her. Info that he thought she told him he didn't have until the day of closing. I don't know who is the one dropping the ball but we are not too happy right now. We can't start on our new house until this one closes. So we're kind of in limbo. One kind of neat thing is... I closed on that house the first of March 4 years ago. So it will be weird if we close on the same day as I purchased that home! But I was reallllly wanting it to be on Friday. We're all pretty bummed about that. |
| Feb. 27 | I'm 29 Weeks! |
| Feb. 29 | Guess what... we still haven't closed on the house! I told our realtor that we are only signing ONE more extension. If it doesn't go thru this time, that's it. We're out! No word on when our next scheduled closing will be. |
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