So going back to last week ~

Will cut this so you don’t have to read the whole thing unless you want to! (more…)

This is a thumbnailed image to the new nursery paint progress. If you click on it, it’ll take you to the album with more pics the nursery and pics of the rest of the painting / decorating we’ve done in the house.

We still have lots of work to do both in the nursery and down the line, in the house. We get Braysen’s big boy bed this next week so that will be an interesting transition for all of us!

Going to keep this short and simple since I’m a bit tired and am on the Mac Powerbook instead of my desktop. I prefer to post from my own computer and use a mouse instead of a touchpad

I’m so overwhelmed with the amount of things I have yet to buy before this baby makes its grand entrance! We are heading into Babies R Us this weekend to hopefully get a few things off my list while I have coupons. I’m also trying to get through each day at work, although lately I’ve been spending my entire time there on my feet which has shown with the lack of ankles showing by the end of it! *sighs*

Well ~ kiddo seems to love my laptop (he keeps pointing to the “tick tock” on the screen and is practically attacking me trying to get to it. In fear of this getting deleted with him climbing, I’ll end my ramblings!

I had my midwife appt. last week and had the pleasure of drinking that nasty orange crap for the glucose test. Went through all the usual stuff and baby is head down, was hiccupping away while listening to the heartbeat, measuring right on target and my blood pressure is staying in check so far. I passed the glucose test but found out I’m anemic. I keep saying, “if it isn’t one thing, it’s another.” So, last night Patrick cooked steaks and I’m trying to find ways to fit more Iron into my diet so my next blood draw looks better. I’m not a big meat eater while pregnant so I’m not too surprised but I do still eat a ton of veggies and other sources.

The whole 29 and some weeks thing right now has me on freak out mode, knowing that I’m probably only at most 9-10 weeks away from delivery. (Pretty sure that I’ll deliver early again). I can’t help but feel like we have so much to do and buy even before this baby comes into the world. We can’t even come up with a for sure name…think we have our 1st but no middle.
Cut for length~ rest is about my cleaning / nesting and anxiety issues!
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I didn’t disappear off the face of the earth! ? Thanks to those that asked! I did however disappear from online / the computer for a while and I’m still scarce to be honest. I realized that when my own grandma and mom were writing me asking me how I was doing, that I basically had dropped off the face of the earth a bit or so it had seemed! Basically, before Christmas things got hectic with the trip to KC for family and then on top we found out that I had signs of protein in my urine (way early for this to happen). I’ve been watched carefully since and so far things are ok but it is very likely that this baby will come early like Braysen due to Pre-eclampsia. I’m due May 1st but April is looking more likely. I have an appointment next week with my midwife again. The last thing I need is a bunch of worrywarts so please let the issue drop ? and I’ll let everyone know If something changes!

Our KC trip for Christmas was chaotic but relaxing all at the same time. I miss my family dearly and I miss those big family holidays. I haven’t had one in years (4 I think?) and to say it had been too long is an understatement. I have family that hasn’t seen Patrick and I since we got engaged, let alone even meeting Braysen. He got to see his Great Grandparents on my step-moms side and oodles of aunts, uncles & cousins. What a character he was and it brought a smile to my face to see him interacting with everyone and how easy going of a kiddo he was around that many new faces. He must’ve known that he was in a loving place! He quickly picked up names, Papa, Nana, Justin, Molly and struggled a bit with Christina/Stina (who I tried to get him to just call Stinky! hehe…mean sister that I am!) He points them all out to me in the pictures we have in our house and on my background for my computer. I can’t even describe how sad I was to leave behind my family again and know that I won’t see them for a while or they won’t be part of Braysen’s life as much as I wish they were if we were closer. I really did move off to the farthest place west that I could go (as my parents joke) besides going off to say Hawaii or another country! There is nothing like a big family for the holidays imo!

Christmas Pic of kiddo

The rest are off in my gallery.

I’ll cut the rest for those that are interested in random house junk– I hope everyone is doing well! I’ll probably be typing up a Braysen & baby mumbo jumbo post here soon but I’ll cut things so it’s not sooo long for those that don’t want to read about braysen happenings or baby stuff! I need some place to put all my ideas and lists at that are taking over sticky notes on my desk and in my purse!

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*I’m going to apologize right now for not cutting this on my lj friends pages. It’s been so long, I cannot for the life of me remember how to do it in wordpress now, so I’ll figure it out later and edit it. Again, I’m so sorry!!!!! I know this is a pet peeve of some of ya so again, I didn’t mean to spam your page!*
Pumpkin patch pics from last weekend

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done a blog update on this thing. I managed to get some posts out on myspace or a few message boards but I’ve neglected this way too long!

Big news first (although no news to some I know!)
~ Braysen is going to be a big brother somewhere around May 1st, 2008!!!!~

Yep, we are expecting #2! They’ll be just over 2 years apart, which is right where we were hoping (2-3 years ideally hehe). That probably should answer the famous question I keep getting asked, “Was this planned?” Why yes actually it was. I’m around 12 weeks and FINALLY feeling relief from my 24/7 morning sickness that plagued me again this pregnancy. I got on the same drugs that they put me on for Braysen but this time around they didn’t work. It’s been a daily battle of trying to not throw up or eat constantly hoping to curb the nausea. I swear I’ll be a cow just from having to eat snacks all day long. I have been eating healthy snacks like yogurt, cucumbers, fruits and such at least. I have horrible nausea in the late afternoon/evening currently and if that would pass I might just feel slightly human. I can’t sleep worth crap but that comes with the territory.

We’ve had an early ultrasound just shy of 7 weeks (I think it was) and saw the baby’s heartbeat. I heard the heartbeat by Doppler around 9 ½ weeks (I’m horrible at remember the exact dates unless I look at my calendar at home). My next appt. is next Thursday. The sad news to me is that I won’t have another ultrasound until 22-24 weeks. I was hoping to find out the sex of the baby before Christmas vacation when we head off to KC but it looks as it’ll happen when we return. *sighs* I’m really hoping for a girl, healthy baby first of course.

I think we are done after this, I am not a happy pregnant girl. I know they say pregnancies can be different from kid to kid but 2 times in a row of this throwing up stuff is almost too much for me. It gets even more difficult when you are throwing up with a toddler running around! I’m thankful Patrick has been a huge help. He has been working from home 2 days a week lately so he tends to get some dishes done or do a quick vacuuming before I get home. God bless a man who helps out with the housework! How did I get so lucky? He’s also been a great French Toast cooker. I’ve sadly seen Braysen turn into quite the little daddy’s boy because of this but it’s ok.

On Braysen news~ He’s quite the talker. I mean the kid has a vocab that astounds us. He picks up new words so quick. He has started to learn what certain shapes are in books and what colors are. I should say this is by him looking at picture books and pointing at things and telling us what they are or we tell him if it’s word he isn’t quite there yet on. He LOVES books still and plops into our laps after he throws the book at my head ½ the time. He gets mad if you won’t read the book he brings to you hehe. For the longest time he’d say “dada dada dada” all the flipping time but no mama. This was until we figured out finally that I’m “baba” not “mama”. We do this cute thing where I point at his chest and say Braysen then I’ll point at Patrick and say Dada and finally myself and say mama. His latest thing with this is that if we are out with other people, when we first start talking to them, he’ll point at me and say “baba” and look at the person like he’s trying to tell them I’m his mom or if dad is holding him he’ll point and say “dada”. It’s adorable!!! I need to get him on video with his little finger puppet duck that he now puts on his finger and says “quack quack quack” as he hops his finger around in the air. He also has taking a thing to Tigger and “bouncing”. He’ll bounce (basically tries to jump up and down) around the room in circles, saying bounce bounce bounce all the while and it had us rolling the first time we saw it.

Home stuff~ I can’t remember if I posted about our new furniture purchase but we got ourselves a new King Bedroom set last month and it’s beautiful. When our room isn’t a disaster I’ll get some pics of it. I think it’s a marriage saver LOL as Patrick no longer has to feel pushed out by the million pillows that have formed around me to keep me comfy.

For another update, our friends Koby & Rain were out visiting 2 weeks ago. It’s raining nonstop here in the good ol’ NW and of course I can’t stand it but oh well.
We’ll that’s some stuff for another update, sorry all!