*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!

Repost from eqp for friends here:

Well Tuesday I went in for my 37 1/2 week appt. and my blood pressure, which has been so nice & low decided to go up to 140’s over 90’s and I had to go back in on Thursday to get it rechecked. Yesterday, my hubby happened to be working from home luckily for me because when I went in to get the recheck done, it was still up. They sent me down to labor & delivery to get hooked up to the monitors for a stress test (nst).

Needless to say, i’m now on bedrest (don’t worry i’m only using the computer for a second) and had to go back in today for another recheck. Today it went down just a smidgen to the 130’s over 90 but still up from my usual 117/70’s that i’ve been the entire time. I have no swelling, headaches, protein in urine …all related to pre-eclampsia / high blood pressure BUT it’s still a concern. They checked my cervix and i’m no where close to “favorable” as they say….basically my cervix is soft and that’s all ..no progress! hehe If I would’ve been dilated at all yesterday and showing a more favorable condition, i’d have been induced then but we are holding out for a few days in hope that my body starts to progress some. They had me hooked up to the fetal monitor for over an hour to watch baby and he’s active / healthy and has wonderful accelerations they said…she commented that he was content to be in their for weeks yet lol but my body isn’t going to have that. I was asked if I had any contractions and I said no but while on the monitor they noticed me having them every 10-15 minutes but not too strong. I had no idea but who knows whether I just thought it was him moving or something.

Anyhow, I go back in on Tuesday to discuss my induction date / whether it’ll be Tuesday or not, we don’t know yet. We are almost 100% sure it’ll be before the end of the week though. I’m 38 weeks today so he’s plenty cooked as they all say.

hugs
heather