Wisdom from my walk

Well, my friend Karen had her baby last night and I was able to be among the first few to see her(other than hospital staff that is!) Today I got to see my newest addition via ultrasound. It was so tiny! But there was movement which I guess was a heartbeat. Unfortunately we also saw a cyst that is the cause of some major cramps, so I’ll get another u/s at my next appt in a month to see if it’s gotten better or not. I had cysts w/ both of the other kids too but they went away so it’s probably not a big deal, other than the pain part! The dr was great, I saw her w/ my last pregnancy too and she remembered me. Which is good considering I never saw the saw dr throughout the pregnancy, I saw them all equally I believe. my due date is April 16th but she said they’ll do a c-section 10 days prior which makes it April 6th. My brother and his son’s birthday are April 7th so I think it would be cool to make it for that day. I mean my mom had a baby on April 7th, my brother’s wife had a baby that day(and it was my brother who mom had that day) and I could possibly have a baby on that day!

As I type Caleb is saying we need to think of a name for the baby, he says we need a girl since we dont have one. I agree! but we’ll see, a boy would be less expensive since we have all boy stuff. well gotta get…I’m so hungry and tired; not to mention someone needs a diaper change. so all is well w/ baby and I although we’re still waiting for my thyroid bloodwork results and all of the other ones from today.

My cousin had a baby yesterday, still unsure of all of the details. I just got a call about Karen, the one I wrote about having the baby on Aug 30th and her hubby says her bp was too high and they are taking the baby sometime today(via c-section) I’m so excited for them both! Makes me get really anxious about finding out my due date and other good stuff tomorrow at my first ob appointment!! Just had to write about all of the excitement!

The other day I was joking about how Boaz is becoming a lot like Stella was before we got rid of her. I said that because he will play in the toilet water if the seat is up and he has learned how to unroll a roll of toilet paper on the roll and make a mess with it. Today was the worst though. Another bathroom incident, which I think is funny. We keep the bathroom door shut at all times so he wont go in there to cause problems but if Caleb is in there going potty or one of us is he will sometimes make his way in. The only time he’s actually allowed in the bathroom is for bath time. After a messy breakfast I thought I’d waste some time this morning bathing the kids. I took off his clothes and diaper in his room then let him stand outside the tub waiting for the water to fill up. Caleb got in the tub while I got some towels for them. Caleb said someone smells stinky. At that moment I noticed a little poop on the floor, and thought it was odd it looked as if someone had some on their shoe or something and got it on the floor. Then I watched in shock as naked Boaz pooped all over the floor. he just stood there pooping. I didnt know what to do. I didnt know how to get him to not step in it or how to clean it up, it was way too soft if you know what I mean. Caleb wanted out of the bath and the room altogether, he was mad at Bo and said he was bad. I threw Bo in the sink to get most of the mess off, but that left me w/ a poopy mess on the floor and the sink! I tossed Bo in his tub and cleaned up as best as I could while making sure he didnt climb out of his tub. I was so relieved when bathtime was over and the bathroom is now very very clean! i hope Bo doesnt take up any other dog habits, I guess we should start paper training him! Maybe when he ate that dog food out of the dog’s bowl in ohio it did something to him! 😉

My friend Karen and I. She is scheduled to have her second baby, Emily on August 30th. We figured we’d get the only picture we have of us both pregnant at the same time!

that’s right folks, we are pregnant, again! While I was visiting Dean’s parents in Ohio I took a home preganancy test and sure enough almost immediately I saw 2 lines. I called Dean and we both were in shock, I think I still am! we know we wanted more children and that with my health continuing to be crazy we’d start sooner than later to try for our next child. We assumed this would take at least a year since it took 2 or more years to conceive either one of the first two kids. It was barely a month after that conversation we had about having another that were pregnant.

I have my first ob appt this week and I apologize for not calling everyone to share the news but I’m tired, very tired and hate not being able to blog about how I am doing because I havent shared the news here yet. I finally told my mom and brother yesterday, the rest of the world will know as I see them or as they read here. I’m doing ok mostly, just tired and sick, nothing new for me and pregnancy. I’m nervous about being pregnant and having so many health issues and I dont know how it will affect the pregnancy so I’ll know more after this wednesday and after my appt w/ a specialist on the 29th.

Again dont be offended that I didnt call you personally to tell you the news, I’m anxious about my health and the pregnancy and not having complete info about that or a due date I felt theres really not much to share other than that we are pretty sure I’m pregnant. We’re happy to be blessed with another baby and are having fun talking about “e” baby names.

We know that God has given us this chance to be pregnant again and I know He will provide a healthy pregnancy for the baby and I or give me the strength to overcome whatever happens. My mom is praying this is the easiest of the 3 pregnancies, I’m scared that it will be the worst but I’m praying too that this is easier than the first 2. I’m very very tired, and am waiting for a round of results from bloodwork about my other two health conditions. I havent had any “pregnancy” related bloodwork yet but I’d be suprised if two hpt that were positive were wrong! So wish us luck, or say some prayers, either way please join us in our joy for this new life!

6 weeks pregnant, will know exact dates later this week.

The interesting parts of this story are that we found out I was pregnant again on the night of Caleb’s 4th birthday. I’ll have my first ob appointment on the day Boaz turns 9 months old. I think both of those are two really cool things to know and to have happen!

In my daily internet reads I came across a new blog and while checking it out I found this. It’s a great guide for those new to crabs and I wish someone would have done something similar to this before. When we moved back to Balto. from Ohio one of Dean’s co-workers was working here temporarily and we took him to eat crabs. It’s a hard thing to teach someone to eat crabs. For starters, everyone has their own system. Dean does it completely differently than I do. I’m sure it’s been done somewhere, and now I’m determined to look into it, but there should be a how to eat crabs guide for all the different ways people eat crabs. Maybe I should start a book about it, I’m sure I could make a small fortune selling it at the store at the Harbor that sells everything crab related. Love the post and I love the name Brooklynne.. too bad our next baby’s name will start with an “E”. Although we’ve talked some if we ever have a girl we’ll stick with the girls name we’ve had picked out since we found out we were pregnant with caleb(Brynn Marie), so maybe we’ll toss the ABC theory out the window. But I was talking about crabs not babies right? sorry for the deviation from topic, I’ve got baby on the brain.

While in Ohio Boaz woke up at least 5 times a night instead of sleeping peacefully through it. I had trouble sleeping as well on top of his restlessness. I assumed it was from being someplace new but the first few nights home have been challenging as well. he’s waking at midnight, around 4:30 and then is ready to face the day at 6:30. I told Dean we need to make him go back to sleep without a bottle but it’s near impossible. Today I gave him a bottle and put him down awake for morning nap, he cried a bit which made Caleb concerned, but in the end he took a nice nap. I’m waiting for him to fall asleep after trying the same routine for his afternoon nap, suprisingly he’s quieting down, it seemed he’d never nap this afternoon! I know the closer he gets to one year he’ll need to be weaned from a bottle to a cup and to not be used to drinking a bottle before sleeping but since he was nursing for so long that is what he expects, eat then sleep. I hate making him cry it out, and in reality its never for more than 5 minutes, but it seems like an eternity!! I know some people are against this method but if I dont get him used to going to sleep on his own then I’ll be up at night for the next few years! He was doing well at going to sleep on his own, but that was before he was mobile. Now that he can play and get around it’s hard to put him in the crib awake and expect him to not play.

Sounds like he’s dreaming away and Caleb is too so I need to catch up on a few errands before Dean gets home. I’m hoping to make it to the lab for some more bloodwork before they close at 6 then we have plans for life group at 6:30. it’s good the boys are resting, but I’m so tired these days. I should nap but I dont have time to nap and do things that need done. at least tomorrow is Friday and the weekend is in sight! I will probably not update again anytime soon, been kind of stressful for me lately and I’m hoping to update more later next week.

Please say a prayer for my neice, when she was 9 months old (around Easter) she went to the hospital for what was thought to be febrile seizures. she ended up back there last night for more seizures, her mother had seizures as a child which makes me think that’s it’s something she inherited but the drs cant figure it out. She’s got a high fever again and the drs dont know what it’s from. On top of this they are expecting baby # 2 in a few weeks so I’m sure things are stressed for them dealing with everything. they are in Ohio so there’s not much we can from here but pray and wait for someone to call us and tell us what is going on. (thanks Rach!)

The kids did so great at the drs today! In the the car before we went in Caleb and I prayed that Jesus would be with him while he got his shots and that he’d be happy and safe. The nurse didnt know this of course and commented while during and aftere the first shot caleb laughed hysterically that she’d never had a kid respond that way before! the second shot he got antsy and moved which resulted in a long scratch from the needle coming out and scratching him. by the 3rd shot he really wasnt too keen and laid his head on my chest and kept trying to get his arm away from the nurse. Not a tear was shed by my big boy and he was back to himself before we even left the room we were in. on the way out Caleb said he was never going back there, the office staff laughed as they heard him saying this while walking out the door. Outside he commented that Jesus didnt take the pain away, I reminded him that I didnt pray that he take the pain away just that he’d be with him, he’d be happy, and that he’d be safe. He said oh yeah, he said to me that Jesus did help him.

He even commented that Jesus made his ear better, he’s got swimmer’s ear. He ecomplained of ear pain on Monday and I was concerned but knew he’d be at the dr today and all day yesterday he was fine. the dr was suprised when I told her that he only complained one day of the pain since it was very obvious his ear was a mess when she looked at it. she warned me the meds for it will hurt at first, gee thanks! I always had swimmers ear growing up and dont wish it on my kids. worse part is he’ll have to miss another day of swim class, he cant swim for a week! he missed last week while we were in Ohio. you cant make up missed classes so we paid for 6 weeks but he’ll only get to enjoy 4 weeks of it. that’s frustrating.

the important stuff from today, the kids’ stats. Boaz weighed in at 17 lbs 10 oz (10%) and height 28 1/2 (50%) and head circ. 17 3/4 (50%) she wasnt too concerned about his weight, she thinks it’s because he’s active. but if he doesnt gain more by his next appt and falls farther down on the growth chart they’ll do some more tests. He was pretty close to falling under the curve on the growth chart, so I’m going to try to push himi to eat some more, but it’s been hard getting him to eat as much as he is. Caleb is in the 75% for weight , 38 lbs, and height, 41 1/2. I was suprised because he’s so stinkin skinny, you can see his ribs even. She said he’s fine, she even said her 4 year old only weighs 31 lbs so I guess Caleb is just fine!

After the drs appt we went to visit my mom at work and one of her co-workers gave caleb money for his birthday so we went to the dollar store to let him spend his money and he was so cute thinking about what to get. He’s so used to only getting one thing he was amazed he could get more at that store w/ his money. Then after lunch we walked to the park, the weather has been amazing these last few days. Last night we slept w/ the windows open and it was great! today I’ve not yet turned the air conditioner back on yet but it’s getting hotter as the day goes on so we’ll see. I have a feeling when Dean gets home he’ll say it’s too hot in here, I’d like to say on the BGE bill as much as possible though!

well I gotta get the kids down for a nap. I’ll try to check in later this week.