Today I have hit the third trimester. The time has went by very fast, we only have 11 more weeks before she gets here. She has been pushing and pushing on my stomach for a few weeks now. You can feel really hard spots when she is pushing. Her favorite time to move around is at night. After Jason takes the dog out he says he can always feel her moving around when he gets back in bed. My feet and ankles are still swollen but thats normal, I go back to the doctor today and my visits start being every 2 weeks. In November I start going weekly. I have the 1 hr glucose test today - I dread it, I hate really sweet stuff, has always made me sick to my stomach. Everyone says its not too bad so it probably isn't. We start our childbirth classes in November as well.
Our fence is almost completed, we just have to put the door on it and hopefully that will happen tonight. The city has to come inspect it and then we can put the mesh on so that the dog can run free all the time. I think the fence looks really good, especially for it to have been done by people who have never built a fence before. Dad, mom, Josh and Veronica helped us out a lot. Dad cut down some trees at the end of the yard and it looks much better, now I get to plant some more.
We are still looking for a newer car - Our search is made more difficult due to Kate. We have to get something that she can sit in the back of comfortably, which means the BMW and Saab are out for now. Kate is a handful but I am glad we have her. I love to take her to the dog park and watch her play with the other dogs. Yesterday there was a sheltie out playing. Sheltie's are the breed of dog that Jason and I wanted so badly before we found Kate. He was the most adorable little thing I had seen in a long time, he was not very much bigger than my cats. If we would have gotten a sheltie it would have probably had to have been a housedog and I don't think I could have handled that. Kate sleeps in the house at night in her kennel and that is it. I couldn't take her running around all the time loose. It would drive me crazy! Our little Scottie cat has got the sneezes and she snotted all over Jason this morning lol.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
28 Weeks!
The baby is only 12 weeks away! I don't really feel that great so this will be short. The baby's movements have changed from what it used to be. It is like she is pushing, she will do that for about 30 secs, instead of kicking. My feet are hugely swollen, they didn't bother me until tonight. They have become tight and a little uncomfortable. My mother has told me to have Jason rub lemons on them but we haven't been back to the store. She said granny did that for her when she was pregnant and it made them feel better. My blood pressure is still very good, 111/66, so I'm not worried about my swelling being bad - just normal.
We have finally started work on the fence and have one side of the yard fenced in. Our neighbor is a surveyorso we hired him to mark our property on the other side so we know what is our yard and what is not. We have more yard than originally thought, the small bit of land across the creek is ours as well. I feel better knowing that the fence will be ready for Kate soon. My parents are coming back up this weekend along with my sister and her boyfriend so hopefully we can get it completely finished. Jason worked on it Saturday, mainly be himself since I can't really do much and of course he did a good job of it but when my parents helped out Sunday it went a lot faster. I am very glad that even though Anna will not have as much room to run around as I did when I was younger she will at least have a yard and a nice looking one at that.
Now I gotta get Jason to rub my feet before Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes on or it won't get done! Season four starts tonight! :)
We have finally started work on the fence and have one side of the yard fenced in. Our neighbor is a surveyorso we hired him to mark our property on the other side so we know what is our yard and what is not. We have more yard than originally thought, the small bit of land across the creek is ours as well. I feel better knowing that the fence will be ready for Kate soon. My parents are coming back up this weekend along with my sister and her boyfriend so hopefully we can get it completely finished. Jason worked on it Saturday, mainly be himself since I can't really do much and of course he did a good job of it but when my parents helped out Sunday it went a lot faster. I am very glad that even though Anna will not have as much room to run around as I did when I was younger she will at least have a yard and a nice looking one at that.
Now I gotta get Jason to rub my feet before Always Sunny in Philadelphia comes on or it won't get done! Season four starts tonight! :)
Thursday, September 11, 2008
27 Weeks!
My stomach is getting bigger and bigger every day. I now have the line that most women get but of course mine is not straight up my stomach, it is over to the side. The baby moves and moves all day long. It is very comforting to feel her, she keeps getting stronger and a couple times this week she has tried to push her way out with her entire body. Although Jason has seen her move and feels her quite often she still slows down when he comes to watch her. Every time I tell him to come look she chills out for a few mins. It is pretty funny because as soon as he turns around she starts doing it again.
I had to go to the doctor on Friday because I got really dizzy and just felt very disoriented. It felt like I had been drugged. Turns out I just had an ear infection which caused me to have some vertigo. I had to take it easy all weekend but according to Jason I take it easy everyday LOL. My BP was 106/60 so that worried me a bit being that it had dropped but it was fine.
We went shopping for Anna on Saturday and spent a little too much money at the Old Navy baby sale. BUT we did get a lot of clothes and stuff she can wear when she is born that is warm - we think we have found her outfit to come home in if she doesn't wear her UK cheerleading outfit- it isn't anything special but it has a hood with ears and that has been something Jason's been looking for for awhile. She is also going to wear the boggin my great-granny made for me when I was a baby. Mom gave it to me a couple weeks ago and it looks like someone just crocheted it, not like it is almost 27 years old.
Still no art for her room, still no decision on themes for the baby shower and still haven't painted her closet and bedroom doors. This weekend if it doesn't rain we are putting up our fence. Kate should be happy. We had to get an anti-barking device for her Tuesday morning at 5:30. It is a birdhouse that sends a vibration to make her stop barking. I know it probably sounds inhumane but her barking is a little inhumane. At least we didn't buy her a shock collar or something. We only use it at night. We only have a few weekends left before the baby gets here and a lot of stuff to do.
I had to go to the doctor on Friday because I got really dizzy and just felt very disoriented. It felt like I had been drugged. Turns out I just had an ear infection which caused me to have some vertigo. I had to take it easy all weekend but according to Jason I take it easy everyday LOL. My BP was 106/60 so that worried me a bit being that it had dropped but it was fine.
We went shopping for Anna on Saturday and spent a little too much money at the Old Navy baby sale. BUT we did get a lot of clothes and stuff she can wear when she is born that is warm - we think we have found her outfit to come home in if she doesn't wear her UK cheerleading outfit- it isn't anything special but it has a hood with ears and that has been something Jason's been looking for for awhile. She is also going to wear the boggin my great-granny made for me when I was a baby. Mom gave it to me a couple weeks ago and it looks like someone just crocheted it, not like it is almost 27 years old.
Still no art for her room, still no decision on themes for the baby shower and still haven't painted her closet and bedroom doors. This weekend if it doesn't rain we are putting up our fence. Kate should be happy. We had to get an anti-barking device for her Tuesday morning at 5:30. It is a birdhouse that sends a vibration to make her stop barking. I know it probably sounds inhumane but her barking is a little inhumane. At least we didn't buy her a shock collar or something. We only use it at night. We only have a few weekends left before the baby gets here and a lot of stuff to do.
Friday, September 5, 2008
26 Weeks!
Apparently my week 25 blog decided to delete itself. Hopefully I can somehow restore it. That is really odd!!!!!
For some reason I forgot to do this yesterday so it is a day late. I realized that I had forgotten when my dog woke me up for about the 10th time this morning barking. Having a dog has gotten us a little prepared for the baby, we have had to lose some of our selfish lives over the past couple months due to Kate. Our lives are going to be getting even less selfish in December.
I went to the doctor last week and got to meet with my new doctor for the first time. She said that Annabelle is measuring big and that she will be a big baby. My due date is going to stay the same, December 14th. I get the hour long glucose test next visit which I am kind of nervous about due to different reasons. After that visit I start going every 2 weeks to see the doctor and then at the end of October I start going weekly. I am very much looking forward to Annabelle's baby shower in October. Her nursery is finally finished! It is beautiful, Jason and the cats worked so hard on it. We still have to find some art to hang on the walls - Jason is going to try and make some himself. We kind of want some of those wall words to go behind the crib - the crib is huge!!! All the furniture is so nice. We did have to take the changing table back to Target though because when we opened it we noticed some bad places in the wood. Luckily they had another one and that one was perfect. Scottie cat loves to sleep under the crib, she also jumped into it from the window sill. Too bad there is no mattress so somehow the 12+ pounder managed to slide through the bars to the bottom. I think the worst part is that Jason and I both saw her and knew that she was going to jump, knew what would happen when she did but let her jump anyway lol.
Annabelle is still a very active baby - she did not want the doctor to get her heartbeat. The doctor had it for a couple seconds and then the baby started moving. I think it took about 4 mins for her to settle down enough for the doctor to get the hb. It was 158 this time. Jason got to see her move in my stomach and then he put his head there so she kicked him. He has been trying to teach her multiplication tables this week - she apparently doesn't like that too much.
For some reason I forgot to do this yesterday so it is a day late. I realized that I had forgotten when my dog woke me up for about the 10th time this morning barking. Having a dog has gotten us a little prepared for the baby, we have had to lose some of our selfish lives over the past couple months due to Kate. Our lives are going to be getting even less selfish in December.
I went to the doctor last week and got to meet with my new doctor for the first time. She said that Annabelle is measuring big and that she will be a big baby. My due date is going to stay the same, December 14th. I get the hour long glucose test next visit which I am kind of nervous about due to different reasons. After that visit I start going every 2 weeks to see the doctor and then at the end of October I start going weekly. I am very much looking forward to Annabelle's baby shower in October. Her nursery is finally finished! It is beautiful, Jason and the cats worked so hard on it. We still have to find some art to hang on the walls - Jason is going to try and make some himself. We kind of want some of those wall words to go behind the crib - the crib is huge!!! All the furniture is so nice. We did have to take the changing table back to Target though because when we opened it we noticed some bad places in the wood. Luckily they had another one and that one was perfect. Scottie cat loves to sleep under the crib, she also jumped into it from the window sill. Too bad there is no mattress so somehow the 12+ pounder managed to slide through the bars to the bottom. I think the worst part is that Jason and I both saw her and knew that she was going to jump, knew what would happen when she did but let her jump anyway lol.
Annabelle is still a very active baby - she did not want the doctor to get her heartbeat. The doctor had it for a couple seconds and then the baby started moving. I think it took about 4 mins for her to settle down enough for the doctor to get the hb. It was 158 this time. Jason got to see her move in my stomach and then he put his head there so she kicked him. He has been trying to teach her multiplication tables this week - she apparently doesn't like that too much.
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