Conversation with Samuel

Samuel:  Mommy, give me some orange juice.

Me: Only if you ask properly.

Samuel:  Mommy, give me some orange juice please.

Me:  That still isn't a very nice way to ask.

Samuel:  Mommy, let me have some orange juice please.

Me:  How about asking...May I have some orange juice please?

Samuel:  No, I am not saying that.

Me:  Then you aren't going to get any orange juice.

Samuel:  Mommy, I can't say that because I only speak Spanish.

After I had a good laugh, I asked him to try to speak English and ask.  He finally did and he got his orange juice.

More Tulsa

Here are some more pictures of our trip to Tulsa.  

On Monday night I went to hear one of my former classmates speak about his new book that just came out.  I went to middle school and high school with Daniel Wilson, check out his website: http://www.danielhwilson.com.

His book Robocalypse, just yesterday was said to have gotten on the New York Times Best Sellers list and this is the first week it came out.  The book has been optioned by Dreamworks and Steven Spielberg has signed on to direct the film.  It is due out in 2013.

Anyway, he is really excited about the book.  My other high school friend that moved to St. Louis this past year and I went to his book talk and signing.  Then we hung out with him that evening.  I didn't get home until midnight which has totally screwed up my schedule this week.  I haven't recovered from the lack of sleep.

Oh here is a picture of my friend Robyn, Daniel and me.

Anyway, Joseph has been waking up around 6 am every day and I am beat.  He is usually really loud so he wakes Samuel up by 6:30/6:45 am.  It is making for very long days.  Samuel is no longer napping.  He has been great at letting me get some stuff done in the afternoons.

I am not motivated to do much these days, so this is the extent of this post.  Maybe when I have more energy I will post more.

I've Exploded

I seriously don't know how I am going to make it through the summer.  I EXPLODED this last week.  I feel like I am retaining a ton of water, my stomach has at the least doubled in size, my boobs are getting huge and I don't even want to talk about the size of my ass.  It is actually frightening to see.

This week I have been in Tulsa.  The boys have been super busy playing tons outside everyday.  They have been exhausted.  They are not giving me a break on sleeping though.  They wake up at 6 am.  What is wrong with them.  Samuel has insisted on sleeping in the same room as Joseph, so they have been waking each other up.  This morning, Joseph woke up first and started saying "Samuel, Samuel!"  I tried to grab him before he woke Samuel up, but of course I didn't.  Then Samuel said he can't sleep because Joseph always wakes him up.  However, yesterday it was Samuel that woke Joseph up.  Oh well.  It is nice that they are sleeping in the same room and giving me a little bit of a break.

I have been staying up later then normal because it is nice to have alone time with my parents.  It makes for a long tired day.  The boys have been wearing my mom out.  She normally can stay up pretty late when I am in town, but this week she has been wanting to go to bed around 10pm.  I can relate.  They are busy busy boys.  

So far I have had a really nice trip.  I can't believe that the week is almost over.  It has been almost 100 degrees everyday here, which is absolutely miserable.  No wonder I am ballooning.  I am really going to have to watch my sodium intake this summer and drink tons of water.  I was soo good the first part of my pregnancy.  I hadn't gained much weight, but now I am making up for it.  I am not getting on the scale right now.  I am so scared of what I might see.

Here are some pictures, from our busy week.  Hanging out, sidewalk chalk and paint (the paint is super cool), swimming, dressing up and eating.

I am off to put my feet up.

Summer Summer Summertime

It is hot hot hot.  The weather went from chilly to 90's.  I seriously don't know how I am going to survive the summer.  I finally got myself some maternity bathing suits, so I am set to spend most of my days at the pool, but I am worried about the heat and how big I am going to be getting.

I had a doctor's appointment yesterday.  I am almost 22 weeks and I have gained 10 pounds so far.  I feel like I have gained at least 20 more.  My body feels huge.  My stomach exploded in size the last two weeks.  I still look down and I can't believe I am pregnant.  Samuel is starting to ask me almost everyday if he is going to have a brother or a sister.  This morning he told me that he really wanted another brother, but that he knew I wanted him to have a sister.  I don't know where he got that because I have never said I wanted him to have a sister.  He is getting excited because he can see I am getting bigger and he always wants to lay his head on my stomach to see if he can hear the baby.  It is really cute.  I just love how loving Samuel is.

The doctor yesterday told me not to worry about my low-lying placenta.  She said that she is almost 100% sure that it will move as my uterus gets bigger.  I will have another ultra sound the beginning of my third trimester to make sure that everything looks okay.  The only option if it doesn't move is a C-section.  She said that she isn't worried about that at all right now.

My varicose vein in my right leg is huge and disgusting looking.  I am going to be so excited to take care of that sucker once this pregnancy is over.  My body has really changed with each pregnancy.  With Samuel I got tons of stretch marks, with Joseph I got my huge varicose vein and with this baby I am getting spider veins.  My legs are looking absolutely terrible, which is depressing to me since I will be exposing them all summer.  Oh well, it will all be taken care of at some point.

We have officially started summer break and I am looking forward to lots of fun projects with the boys, lots of swimming and hopefully lots of afternoon napping for everyone.

I am off to get some stuff done while the boys are taking a rare nap at the same time.

Power Outage

We survived 24 hours of a power outage.  A storm came through yesterday mid morning and it didn't seem like it was all that bad, but there was some high wind.  Apparently it was worse then I thought.  I was on my way to my haircut appointment and trees were down all over the place.

My babysitter was home with Samuel and she texted me and said that our power went out, but that it was so bright outside that it didn't bother Samuel.  I thought by the time I got home around 4 it would be back on, but it wasn't.

Samuel absolutely didn't understand that he couldn't open the fridge or the freezer or that we couldn't turn lights on or the TV.  We played a ton of games last night and wore the boys out.  We got them to bed and then it was getting dark and there was nothing for us to do.  I ended up sleeping on the couch close by the boys rooms so I could hear them if they woke up in the middle of the night or turn off all the lights when the electricity came back on.  Dave slept in our room.  We went to bed by 8:30.  I wish I could say that I got a lot of sleep, but I woke up a lot and I kept waiting for the electricity to come back on.

It didn't come back on until today around 11:30.  So we were out for a long time.  The house was hot.  I ran errands all morning so we wouldn't have to be in the house.  When I came home everything was on.  The alarm was going off, the TV was on and pretty much every light.  What a relief.  I didn't know how we could make it any longer.  I was hoping I wasn't going to have to throw everything out in the fridge and the freezer.  It seems like everything stayed cold, despite the fact that Samuel opened everything at least three times.

I am hoping to get a good night sleep tonight and relax.

We have a busy week and weekend planned.

Pictures and Update on Ultrasound

I didn't realize how many good pictures I had taken and not downloaded until today.  

Here is a picture of Dave with the boys:

I watched Haidyn about a week ago and Samuel was dying to hold her.  I got a couple of really cute pictures.

Now to the exciting part about our ultra sound today.  Here is a picture of the little babies face.  

The baby looked great.  I am exactly on schedule.  The baby measured exactly 19 weeks and 5 days.  The due date has not changed from October 7th.  The baby weighed 11 ounces and the heartbeat was 155 beats per minute.

I think we are having another boy, but Dave thinks it is a girl.  We have a few more months to go to find out.

So as I said everything looks great with the baby, but the ultrasound showed that my placenta is close to my cervix.  They want the placenta to be at least 2 cm away from the cervix and mine is a little under 2 cm.  I have what is called a low-lying placenta.  Since I am only 20 weeks, there is a good possibility that as my uterus grows the placenta will move up and there will not be a problem.  I have a doctor's appointment on the 31st and we will probably talk about all the different scenarios.  If the placenta doesn't move and gets closer to the cervix I will be diagnosed with placenta previa and there are lots of complications that may occur and I will have to really start preparing myself for a C-Section which is normally the only option.

There are lots of things that are up in the air at this point.  In a few weeks after talking to my doctor I will have a better idea of what is going on.  I am just relieved that the baby looks great and I am feeling overall great.

That's the update.

Where's the light?

These past few weeks haven't been the greatest.  Sometimes I get down on myself because everything really is wonderful around here, but I still get depressed and upset.  I know a lot of my mood has to do with the very little sleep I have been getting.  My insomnia the past few weeks was really really bad.  I was up at least every two hours to pee.  Normally I can go right back to bed, but not the past few weeks.  I spend at least 30 minutes to an hour awake and then when I finally fall asleep I get back up an hour or so later.  Then I have been waking up at 4 am and I am wide awake.  Sometimes I contemplate just getting out of bed and doing stuff, but I keep thinking or hoping I am going to go back to sleep.

This week, well Sunday night through Tuesday night, I have been able to sleep from 11:30 pm to 5 am straight.  This is a nice change, but I think my body is in a little bit of shock with getting more sleep.  I am still really tired, but if I can continue this 5 and half hours a night sleep I will be great.  If I go back to my few hours of sleep a night I am not going to make it through the first few months of the baby.

The boys have been napping terribly.  Samuel isn't really napping at all in the afternoons, which isn't too bad.  However, Joseph is falling asleep late morning or early afternoon and then not taking any afternoon nap.  He is almost unbearable in the evenings.  He gets so cranky.  The good thing is that he goes to bed at 6:30 pm.  The bad thing is he starts off the day at 6 am or earlier.  It makes for a really long day for me.

I am trying to find a balance in my life right now because I know how important that will be with three kids.  Right now I am so sick of all my mom duties.  I feel like all I do lately is laundry, loading and unloading the dishwasher, cleaning the pots and pans, keeping the house looking not like a tornado has hit it everyday and thinking and cooking meals.  Plus, I know I mentioned it before, but I am also doing a ton of work for Woman's Place.  I don't mind doing any of the above mentioned it just feels like there is more of everything lately.

I did four loads of laundry yesterday and I had done almost all all of our laundry on Sunday.  It was mostly sheets because Samuel woke up yesterday and had leaked, which rarely happens, but it starts off the day with a load of laundry.  

By the way, anyone have advice on potty training at night?  Samuel has been potty trained for almost a year and doesn't have any accidents at nap time, but he rarely goes through the night without peeing.  We tried getting him to pee after he had already been asleep for a while, but he is a very heavy sleeper and got really out of control when he tried to get him to pee because he was sound asleep.  Anyway, any ideas would be great.


Enough with the complaining.  On an exciting note, today I am having my BIG ultrasound.  We could be finding out the sex, but of course we aren't.  I am just excited to see how big the baby has gotten and what it looks like.  This is going to be our last ultrasound before I go into labor.  I will have to post pictures when we get them.  I can't believe that I am 20 weeks in two days.  Half way through this pregnancy.  This is crazy.  Time has really flown by.  So far this baby is really calm and easy.  I can't wait to see what this one is really like.  Only have four and a half more months to go.

I am off to enjoy the day.