Midnight Snacks

Posted on 7/23/2004 by Amy

The other night we were up late as usual and I couldnt fall asleep because I was sooo hungry. So I got up and made myself a sandwich, it was 12:05 a.m.! Today it’s around 11 pm and I am again extremely hungry. Tonight I am sure it’ s because I’ve spent that last few hours cleaning the house like a crazy woman because I havent done a thorough job lately and Dean was out so why not catch up on chores? The hard part about being hungry this late is I’m usually too tired to fix anything to eat and we dont have any quick snacks, like crackers available. I even went to the store this evening I dont know why I dont think of these things when I’m not hungry! So tonight I think I”ll just munch on some popcorn but I am just unbelievable hungry. I know I never felt this way w/ Caleb’ s pregnancy. I’m afraid this child is going to be huge if I keep eating when I am hungry, not to mention so will I! Well the popcorns ready and so is my belly so off to enjoy my almost midnight snack!

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Ah to be young again…

Posted on 7/23/2004 by Amy

Things used to be so simple. Pre-marriage and kid(s) we were able to go out with whoever we wanted whenever we wanted. When you get married you kind of only want to go w/ one person or maybe some friends but scheduling isnt’ as big a deal. I am venting today becuase we have a lot of single or dating friends who like to make last minute plans but dont understand it’s not that easy for those of us w/ kids. Granted yes I chose to be only 25 w/ a child and one on the way, and others choose to remain single or childless until they are older, but I wish for once the other side would acknowledge that just because we choose a family over being alone doesnt mean we still dont long to go out and do fun stuff alone or even as a group or on a date w/ our spouse. It’s just harder and I guess I dont know why I expect someone who’s never had a kid to understand but I hardly want understanding, I just want acceptance that sometimes you need to be willing to change plans so all of your friends can go out together. Tonight I’ll be flying solo w/ the kid so Dean can go out. Not that I dont want to go with him, but it’s a Friday night and its hard enough to find a sitter for anyday of the week let alone primetime date night. So I choose to sit at home and do nothing. This is how things usually go in our life. I dont mind so much, except when I’m the one who is home 24-7 and never get to go out and do anything fun it gets to be kind of a drag. I love my son but theres something to be said for going out and having fun w/ adults. I think we are going out tomorrw w/ my brother and his wife to see a movie while my mom enjoys her 3 grandsons, but if it werent for mom I dont think we’d ever go out. I’m hoping to get out at least once a month w/ Dean before baby B comes because if finding a sitter for one kid is hard I cant imagine how hard it will be to find a sitter for two kids!!!

that being said, as seen in my prior post, last night I splurged at a salon for a good haircut. I love it! i’ve been seeing girls w/ their hair this way, it’s hard to see in the pic but it’s a cut I’ve always thought was cute so I went for it. I didnt know how I’d explain to the stylist what I wanted but I was lucky that two girls that were getting their hair done were almost getting the same type style done so I said I want that!! It was nice to get a good cut and have a conversation w/ an adult about anything but kids, but ironically of course we ended up talking about kids and being pregnant! While I was at the salon Dean was next door at Best Buy picking out a new digital Camera to replace our dead one. We kept saying we wouldnt get one but I’ve been wanting to document the pregnancy and it’s hard to do so w/ those disposable cameras since I’d like to post pics here. So we decided to splurge while we could, figuring making the purchase before baby B comes would be more sensible. So we ended up w/ this camera. It’s much more compact than our old Sony Mavica, which is good. The picture quality is better too, but thats expected since we bought our last camera about 5 years ago! So I’m sure I”ll be posting a lot more pics soon!

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My New Haircut

Posted on 7/22/2004 by Amy

My New Haircut, with our New Camera

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the Name Game

Posted on 7/22/2004 by Amy

We have had a girl’s baby name picked out for 4 years now, and were hoping to have a little Brynne Marie McKenzie, apparently God thinks we are in need of more boys so we will have to wait to see if we ever have a little girl named Brynne. So really we weren’t stressing over boys names but we do have one we are planning to stick with, but it’s becoming harder to come up w/ a middle name that sounds good and that Dean will give his input on. If you already have been told, dont share here, but if you dont know yet, our Boy’s Name starts w/ the letter “B” and that’s all we are divulging on the internet world until his birth, so guess all you want!

This pregnancy is sooo different than my first. My appetite right now can be summed up best by the word “ravenous” I seem to have a bottomless pit of a stomach and often w/in an hour of a meal I am hungry again. W/ my first pregnancy I was still throwing up a lot at this point, so needless to say I am concerned I’ll gain a lot more weight this time, although I’m doing pretty well so far in the weight category. I am also have experiences I never did w/ the first, like a ton of Braxton Hicks contractions and a lot of “pressure” off and on. I am afraid this means an early labor for me since I didnt know what a contraction felt like w/ Caleb until labor was induced and even then most of the pain was in my back , so these feelings are odd and a little frightening. Overall though, this pregnancy has been healthier for me than Calebs, at least so far. The drs think the coming weeks may hold a change as I get further my risks for diabetes and high blood go up, but for now I am feeling great, tired, but great!

I am feeling Baby Boy B move all of the time, and it went from feelings of “flutters” to full blown Dean can feel from the outside kicks in just a few days, after a few days of my eating non stop! I think maybe our little Boy was growing a lot over the weekend and he’s become a quite good kicker. The u/s showed he had long legs and his legs were right in the place where I kept feeling his kicks, so that was neat to see. It’s one thing to feel the kicks and another to see your baby move as you feel it. I love this part of being pregnant! It’s so amazing to me that this little child inside of me is spending his days just floating around exercising his new legs and arms while I go about w/ my life. I feel guilty when I am in conversation w/ someone face to face and I find myself distracted by the baby’s kicks, it’s like I want to say hey wait, the baby wants me to pay attention, I’ll talk to you later! I dont want to miss a single moment of bonding w/ this baby but w/ having a toddler and dog to care for all day I notice I barely get a chance to enjoy being pregnant so lately I’ve taken to making a point to stop when I feel the baby move and will talk to him if I can. I’ve yet to try to get Caleb to feel my belly, I figure he is kind of young and it seems the more we talked about baby yesterday the grouchier he got.

today we went to walmart and I let myself buy a baby boy outfit, a pj outfit, and Caleb asked if it was for his baby cousin Jack and I said no for our baby B and he said oh, he needs that to sleep in? he will come out and sleep. Too cute! I told him he will wear it when he sleeps yes, but I didnt mention time. We keep telling him the baby is coming for Christmas and when it’s cold out, since that wont happen for a while and thats something he can understand. The baby will be here before Christmas, but I figure we’ll decorate the house before I have the baby, we usually do right after thanksgiving and thats right before they’d schedule my c-section so he’ll think it’s Christmas time when the baby comes! both our boys will have had their first Christmas’ young, Caleb was only 4 months old for his first Christmas and this child will be anywhere from a month to 3 weeks old when Christmas arrives. A wonderful Christmas blessing indeed!

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Pretty in BLUE???

Posted on 7/21/2004 by Amy

oh my goodness! it’s a BOY!!!!! we were totally suprised since I felt for sure it was a girl and w/ Caleb I thought for sure it was a boy and it was. So we were a little thrown since we both were hoping for a girl, but we’ve been talking about it since and are just happy the baby is doing well. Of course the baby’s head measured big, which is not a big suprise, Caleb’s head was big and still is in a high % for his age! I gained 4 lbs since my last appt, a month ago. That is good since I had been losing, after I gain 2 more lbs. I’ll be back up from the weight I lost, and at the weight I started the pregnancy with. My blood pressure was great, which is awesome since thats been a big concern in the past. overall things went great! wont know for a few days about passing or failing the glucose test so we are just waiting on that and praying I can at least get through the next 8 weeks w/out having to worry about it. (they’ll retest at 28 weeks if I pass this one) So the appt was good and things look great! right now I am extremely exhausted and am hoping to get a nap w/ Caleb, but thought you’d guys be dying to know how things went today!!

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Posted on 7/20/2004 by Amy

Catching up. Weeks ago the company who housed our email and webpages lost all of my info and now I still can not access my webpage to update it. Finally got this up and working, or rather Dean did, so that I can post, finally!!! Tomorrow is my big 20 week u/s and glucose test!!! so I will post again more later!!!

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Posted on 7/1/2004 by amy_mck

Everytime I start to think I’ve done away w/ morning sickness it comes back w/ a vengeance! I hadnt thrown up since Sunday and then last night before bed I felt so sick. I was able to fall asleep w/out incidence but then awoke this morning feeling worse! I forced some food in but my body forced it back out. Ironically now I”m hungry and nauseas, it makes no sense. your body wants food but if you give it what it wants and it doesnt like it then you have to pay the price. BLAH! (literally!)

In other pregnancy news, my belly is popping out much more w/ this pregnancy than the last. or at least it’s doing so earlier. I cant believe how big I seem although my weight gain is well at this point there has been little weight gain. The preggo books say by this point I may have gained between 5-10 lbs or something and at my visit last week, having been done 7 lbs the prior visit, I’d only regained one lb! so I guess I’m still at the -6 for weight gain!! I’m sure at my next visit the number will be drastically different, but I thought so that last few times too. I wore my new Old Navy maternity swimsuit yesterday. It is sooo comfortable! I think I’d wear it all the time if I didnt look so huge in it!

we went to target last night and I tried on this cute dress and for the first time I really noticed how pregnant I looked, the dress was form fitting so that didnt help but I was disturbed by how big I am at this point. with caleb I didnt start showing well into the 5th or 6th month even becuase I kept losing weight. oh well, at least now I can blame my weight on pregnancy!

well we refinanced our house and finally closed on it, we paid off all our debt save one credit card. we’ll actually not have a car payment anymore. that will be odd. our mortgage pymt went up but thats because we consolidated all of our debt into the mortgage, but still we’re saving money each month. if anything the best part is not having to worry about credit card finance charges and late fees!! wohooo! before we know it we might actually be debt free, except the mortgage of course!!

looking forward this evening to a trip to Ikea w/ my mom. I love that place and for once we have some money so I might get a few things. well other than that life is pretty boring around here. the weekend will prove to be busy and chaotic, but it’ll be a nice change from the same old same old! have a good holiday weekend everyone! (prolly wont post again before it’s over)

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