a couple new pregnancy pictures

If you haven't guessed already, I finally got my memory card reader. So here are a couple new pregnancy progression pics. I'm almost 20 weeks so I'll take one sometime this week too. The first one is about 16 weeks and the second one about 18 weeks.

This is from back on Dylan's third birthday, Kev and I got him a little guitar because he always liked playing with mine, but I was always afraid that he would break it. This little one is so cute. The video is of everyone singing (and Dylan playing) Old MacDonald Had a Farm.

I really want this

When we lived our mobile home I had to take Dylan to the park so that he could play outside, we went almost everyday. I've looked forward to having a house so that he would have a yard to play in. He really likes the yard but there isn't a whole lot to do out there. My goal is to get a play structure for the backyard before the baby is born, and hopefully much sooner than that. I just want him to have some place to play and burn off energy without having to leave the house. This is a picture of the structure I want....now I just have to pray for a way (financially) to get it! Just a minor detail. :-)

Father Son time

We have a Nintendo Gamecube and this game, Donkey Konga, was Kev's favorite game right around when Dylan was born. It's a bongo drumming game where you can pick from various songs and modes and the motive is to follow the drumming patterns on the screen. Kind of a not as cool predesessor to rock band and the like. We haven't had the gamecube out forever because of our living situations so Kev just recently broke it all back out. Here is a cute video of Dylan and Daddy singing and drumming together.

Take me out to the ball game!

One of Kevin's vendors at his work (their paper supplier) was so nice and gave us 4 angel tickets for saturday nights game. When we got the tickets we were suprised because they were 98.00 each, which is a lot for baseball, and they came with VIP "diamond club" parking. Little did we know that the diamond club is this area with a restaurant and bar, and waitstaff that serves you in your seats. It was so awesome! We were about 10 rows behind home plate. We invited Kev's brother Eric and his new girlfriend Geraldine, who we met for the first time (she is great!). They were so stoked at the whole experience too and we had such a good time. Hopefully Kevin has been on the phone sometime today thanking that vendor for such a great gift! The Angels lost but it didn't really matter because they clinched the playoffs a long time ago. Thanks also to my sister who kept Dylan overnight for us so that we could go to the game and sleep in the next morning! Here are a couple pictures I took with my phone:

I needed this!

I decided to finally get my hair cut and styled today, it has been at least 6 months! I was pretty much having to wear it back all the time because it had grown out of any style it may have once had. I got an angle cut where it's real short in the back and longer in the front. The stylist was young and she did it a little trendier than I usually would have gone for, but I like it! It was nice to spend some time doing something like this....it's been awhile. Here are a couple pics, sorry about the quality I had to take them with my phone.

Mom 2 Mom finally started, yay!

My Moms group at church finally started back up again today after summer break. It was so great to be back! It's so great how well the ministry is doing, there were so many women there, and lots of new faces. The group has been such a blessing to me. It's two hours a week without kids that I just get to spend with other awesome women and the Lord and listen to great speakers and enjoy awesome fellowship. Kevin even says I'm nicer when I go to Moms, lol. My table is great and I can't wait to spend the next 7 weeks with them. I also can't believe how many pregnant women we have in the group right now. There must have been at least 6-8. That means lots of new babies in the late winter and spring. The only downside is that I typically have to work right after it's over and it's a rush getting Dylan over to my sister in laws and getting to work on time. Ideally I would like to request wednesdays off, buy I already feel like I'm being too picky about what I work. I'll be praying that it will all work out so that it can be a stress free day for me.

Just an update on my lack of pictures. I ordered a camera cord and it's not working, grrrr. So now I ordered a memory card reader and I'm waiting for that. It's driving me crazy to have such a pictureless blog. So as soon as I get it I will be posting like crazy to get caught up on everything.

I also think that I decided not to pay for the early ultrasound. I should be patient and not spend money that I don't need to spend. But I'm still super anxious! Two more weeks until my doctors appointment and probably a week after that for my ultrasound! Lord give me patience!

What should I do?

As you all know from my griping, I really, really want to find out the sex of this baby...as soon as possible! Realistically I am probably looking at 4 weeks until I can get my big ultrasound done. However, there is a place in Palm Desert that does 3d/4d ultrasounds that are purely for fun, they don't take insurance or anything. They also have a find out the sex package that is only 65 dollars. With this package they only do a 2d ultrasound, but if they can't see the sex of the baby they will let you come back for free. They also have a small summer special package for a short 3d/4d ultrasound session for 99 dollars. They recommend that you are farther along for the 3d because the baby is bigger and more filled out which equals better pictures. I'm comtemplating if I can get an appointment sometime this week, going ahead and doing it. I would talk to the people there to see whether they thought I should do the 3d or not. In a way it seems like a waste of money since I will be able to find out in about 4 weeks, but in another way it seems worth it to just find out already. Give me some feedback if you have an opinion! Thanks!

I'm not Anemic....can't use that as an excuse

I went a couple days ago to my Mother-in-law's office to have my iron levels checked. Everything looks ok for now, most of my levels are on the low side of normal but still ok. My levels were dangerously low right after I had Dylan but I lost a lot of blood in delivery, so that is partly why, although my MIL said that I must have been anemic before or they wouldn't have been that bad. I'm so thankful to have her in my family because I feel like there is always another person looking out for our health and welfare (for those of you who don't know she's a nurse practitioner). In any regard, I guess my slugishness is just plain old pregnancy related. Speaking of, I think it's time for my nap. More updates later!

Thanks everyone

Thank you to Kristen, Danielle, Hailey, Katie, Holly and Crissy for making me feel like I'm not going crazy. All your comments and prayers and stories make me feel so much better. And thanks for your offers to help also, I'm sure I will be taking you up on it! Love you all!

Another Bad Day :-(

I don't know whats wrong with me (I know you're all saying- your pregnant!), but I feel like I'm having a lot of hard days lately and today was another one. What bothers me is that I know that it really isn't that bad, but my emotions don't get that. I have these struggles with Dylan and then all of a sudden I'm sobbing partly because I'm frustrated and then I cry harder because I can't believe that I am having such a hard time. I don't remember it being this bad at all when I was pregnant with Dylan, and I was working more and going to school full time. Sometimes I feel like crying for no reason at all. Please someone tell me this is normal! I'm also very tired, even if I get enough sleep at night I'm nodding off by early afternoon. My Mother-in-law wants to check my iron levels to make sure I'm not anemic because after I had Dylan I was extremely anemic. So I will do that soon and maybe that will account for some of my tiredness. Please just keep me in your prayers, I hate to have my mood-swings have an effect on my family.

I love you Kevy!!!

On monday of this week my family came over for dinner for the first time in the new house. Therefore Kevin and I spent that whole day cleaning the house and getting it ready for company. Well, I don't know if we got burnt out of cleaning that day, but it has gone majorly down hill since then. Our room was a mess, Dylan's room was a mess, lots of dishes, lots of clutter, laundry, etc. I was planning on tackling some of it when I got home from church tonight (and I was dreading it). However, Kevin thought he had to be to work at 10 today but when he got there he found out he didn't need to be there until three so he came home while I was working and cleaned the whole house!! I'm talking straigtening all the rooms, doing the dishes and putting them away, doing the laundry, everything! It was so nice coming home and not having to deal with all that. So THANK YOU honey, your the best!!!

Funny little boy

Dylan went to my sister's house today while I was working. He was there from about 9:30 till 3:30 and during that time he went swimming 3 times and didn't take a nap, in other words, he had a great time with Auntie G!. I took him to church after that and he was a little grouchy. We stopped for Taco Bell on the way home and when we got home he started throwing a fit about something. I told him to come sit down and eat...he cried on the floor...I counted to three...he continued to sit and stare at me, so I took him in his room for time out. I listened to him cry for a minute and then it got quiet, I thought he was playing. When I was done eating I went to his room and opened the door (which creaks really loudly) only to find him asleep on his bed. The time is 7:15, he usually goes to bed at 9:30. I didn't know what to do but I decided to just leave him there. He just woke up about 5 minutes ago, (9:00) but still very grumpy and sleepy, so I got him some water, changed his diaper and put him back to bed. We'll see whether we pay for this early bedtime in the morning. It just cracked me up because he is not the kid to just fall asleep like that. He'll prob wake up at 2am and want to have his dinner, lol.

Oh and I forgot...

I forgot to write this in my last post about my appointment. I was really hoping (well assuming really) that the doctor would tell me to schedule my big ultrasound appointment before my next regular visit but when I asked him about it he said to wait until my next appointment and he will send me from there. Well my next appointment is in 4 weeks and I will already be 21 weeks then. Typically they do them between 18 and 20 weeks. I don't know why but I am super anxious to find out the gender of this baby. Partly it is because the baby's future room is filled with boxes, mostly of Dylan's old clothes and misc, and I want to find out whether it is a boy or a girl so that I can go through the stuff and figure out what I'm keeping. I wish I at least had the date so that I could count down, but oh well, I'm sure I'll live.

17 week doctor appointment

This afternoon I had a doctors appointment. I was surprised when they took me back and told me that the doctor was going to do another ultrasound. I had 2 with the tech at 6 and 9 weeks to make sure the baby was ok since there were some miscarriage concerns. But now the doctor has done one at both of my regular appointments. I'm not complaining, I love to see that they baby is ok, and watch him/her wiggling around in there (he/she was waving today!!). The doc said he was doing it because they doppler is sketchy at this point to find the heartbeat so he would rather do a quick ultrasound to check on the baby. He tried to look at the sex but it wasn't a very good ultrasound machine and the baby wasn't cooperating. My weight is good so far, at 12 weeks I had gained a pound, and at this appointment I was down a pound. So I'm happy to be almost half way with no weight gain. Because I am heavy to begin with it is good to keep my weight gain minimal. And we all know how it comes real quick at the end. My placenta is still low, I asked him at what point they consider a low placenta a placenta previa and he said it is already called that, but that my placenta could still move up as the baby grows, they just have to watch it. Kind of scary, I had a very uncomplicated pregnancy with Dylan, so it's odd to me to have anything wrong. Sorry for the lack of pictures lately, I haven't been able to find my camera cord since we moved, but when I do I will post some new pictures of the house, updated pictures of dylan, and more accurate belly pictures.

reminising....

I was just looking through some pictures on my computer from when Dylan was just born. I haven't used my laptop in a long time, so I haven't seen these in awhile. I can't believe how much change takes place in such a short time. I also can't believe that I will have another little one here sooner than I know it. So here is a little walk down memory lane....

This is the day after we got home from the hospital...so precious

He looks so small on Daddy, and his pacifier looks huge!

I caught him smiling while he was sleeping

This was my favorite early outfit

This is one of my favorite pictures of those early smiles :-)

Such a happy boy

He always looked like he was trying to sell something in this picture... "So you wanna buy a used car?"

Once he could walk we were at the park allllll the time

Potty Training....grrrrrrrr

I really wasn't stressed about potty training Dylan. From what I had seen with other boys, they just need more time, and it's best to just wait until they are ready. So I was enthused about a month and a half ago when he initiated the whole process himself. Within a short period of time he was using the potty for #1 almost all the time. He really never did get the hang of #2 whether he was in pull-ups or underwear, so I kept him in pull-ups to avoid the mess. It pretty much all went down hill when we moved into the new house. Now I'm lucky if I can get him to use the potty once a day. I don't know if it was the move, if I got lazy, if he got lazy, I'm really not sure, but it bums me out. Today I re-vamped my efforts, made a new sticker chart for #1 successes, and bought 99 cent store prizes for #2. I decided this morning after he went in his diaper a few times that I would just take his diaper off and let him wear nothing on the bottom, because I think he is aware of it, he just knows nothing will happen if he goes in a diaper. So this worked while we were at home. When he got up from his nap I took his diaper off again, but then he wanted to go outside and ride his trike so I put cotton training pants on him, and explained that they weren't a diaper and he needed to come inside if he had to go. He was out there for all of 3 minutes when I noticed he looked wet, so I made him come inside and he had pooped and peed in his underwear!! The funny thing is that I wouldn't even be worried about it if he hadn't started the whole thing and been doing so well. It made me feel like he was capable of doing it, so therefore I should do everything I can to push him in the right direction. I've always read that if they are resisting you should just back off, otherwise they will resent the whole thing. But now I feel like he is getting kind of old so I don't know what to do. Any advice?? Help!!

I've been tagged

I'm so excited I've been tagged by Kristen, and the object of the game is to list six unspectacular things about myself and then tag six new people....However I think everyone I know that blogs has been tagged so I will have to skip that part. Here I go:

1. I sing and play guitar, but a lot of people wouldn't know this about me because I don't like performing. My family used to have to beg me to play something and gatherings and whatnot. I love doing it, and when I see other people performing I ache to do it to, but I just can't get over my fear.

2. I'm a pretty huge fan of the show Seinfeld. I've seen all the episodes tons of times and I still DVR them so that I can watch them whenever I want. I just like the style of comedy and no matter how many times I've seen the episodes they still crack me up!

3. My degree is in English Lit so I have done a lot of reading in my life, therefore it's kind of hard for me to admit that my favorite books are the Harry Potter series. I just love them! I've read them all at least 3 times and I would pick up another one right now. When they came out and were so huge I thought the whole thing was so stupid, but then I saw the first couple movies and started reading them from there. I'm super bummed that the series is over.

4. I'm stealing this one from Crissy, but I also smell a lot of things before I use them. And the funny thing is that my sister does it too. I smell glasses, dishes, clothes, milk, or anything that I think might be questionable, lol.

5. For me, Disneyland is still the happiest place on earth. I didn't really go there as a kid, I started in middle school on choir trips. We used to go every year and perform there with my high school choir and we had the best time. Some of my fondest memories are from that park. It is even where Kevin and my relationship sparked our junior year in high school. Every year since high school we have gone with a group of friends and this year we got season passes and have already gone 4 times. I always swore I wouldn't take Dylan there until he was older but we have taken him twice in the last 6 months and it has been so awesome! Now I get to see what it is like for a child. If anyone out there has ill feelings about disneyland, you need to go with us and our friends, we'll show you a great time!

6. My favorite dessert is fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. I buy the frozen dough and just make them like 4 at a time because they are so much better when they are hot out of the oven. I like them the best when they are still a little doughy....yummmmm.