I'm just a little behind... the last time I posted an update was Week 27. That's fine by me though - it just means things are going good, busy, but good! :) I am well into the 3rd trimester now at 31 weeks. Crazy! I still can't believe how fast time is going. Between the end of the school year, baby showers, class reunions, writing thank - you's, and preparing the nursery, I have had plenty to keep me busy! Not to mention Brad has been working some crazy hours at work lately. Last week, he was at work at 5am 3 different mornings and 6am another day. He has been working later hours too, but he has still been a trooper and helped me with the nursery.
I just got a call from Buy Buy Baby and our furniture has arrived. Of course, they messed up and had on their notes we were picking it up, so I kindly reminded the guy that it was supposed to be delivered. I am patiently waiting on a phone call for confirmation of delivery time now. :) So, you know what we will be doing this weekend... hopefully!
The baby seems to be growing like a weed. He is still constantly moving, kicking, and squirming. I had a doctor's appt. last week, and will start going every 2 weeks now. The doctor said I am measuring right where I should be.
The only thing that is still really bothering me is my back. It hurts when I have been on my feet all day, but also hurts when I am sitting. It's kind of a lose/lose situation right now because I just noticed that my ankles are really starting to swell. When my mom was here 2 weeks ago, she thought she noticed them swelling but I didn't think much of it. Well, this past weekend at home, I really noticed them swelling and I think it's the craziest thing! So weird! Anyway, of course my mom is now telling me to stay off my feet (which of course she is right), but when I do then my back just kills me! Hmmm...
Zoe cannot figure out what is going on. Before we were expecting, we really didn't use the bedroom that will now be the nursery very often, mainly when we had extra company. So, now that we are in and out of that room all of the time, Zoe is too. I have found her in there laying by herself several times. She cannot figure out what all of this new stuff is all about. She is very interested in anything that makes noise and is soft and squishy... aka all of the toys! Of course when the stroller arrived she was very curious about that, too.
Stay tuned for furniture pictures! :)
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Baby Shower
On Sunday, Mom, Brad, and I loaded up in the car and headed to Grainfield to Brad's parent's house. Neither of my parents have been to their farm, so it was exciting for me to bring Mom along for the trip! Jen and Bev threw me such a fun baby shower. They both put in a lot of time and work for this to happen, so I hope they know how much fun I had and how much I appreciate everything they did! :) We had a houseful of people. Brad's aunts, Grandma, cousins, and some friends came over for the celebration. Baby Z and I received SO many wonderful gifts! I had so much fun today sorting through them and starting to put things away. He is already so spoiled, and has so many people that already love him! Thanks to everyone who came to the shower... I can't wait for you to meet the little man!
Aren't these just the cutest decorations?!
So cute and so tiny!! :)
I just LOVE this diaper cake! It took 3 of them to put it together - even Brad's Dad got in on the action. But I think it turned out so stinkin' cute. It's sitting on my kitchen table right now... I don't want to take it apart!
Jen took the picture from the shower invitation to the bakery and they duplicated the picture onto the cake.
So creative!
Class Reunion
Brad and I went back to Osborne for a fun - filled weekend. We were busy from the time we got there to the time we packed up and left, but it was so much fun. On Saturday we met up with several of my high school classmates to celebrate our 10 year class reunion. I cannot believe it has been that long! We had about half of our classmates there. We had a BBQ for lunch on Saturday, watched the kids play in the pool, and just caught up with each others' busy lives. Even though it was extremely hot and windy, it was still so great to catch up with so many friends! That evening we gathered back together for a dinner and a dance sponsored by the Alumni Association. Thanks to Lacey and Tracy for opening up their house and backyard for our afternoon of fun... and thanks to Stef and Lacey for all of the time and planning you two put into our big event! :)
Brad and I before heading to the BBQ. Luckily, he knows most of my classmates who were there, so it wasn't too big of a deal for him to come with me. :)
Stef and Me - Thanks for all of your hard work!
1/2 of the Class of 2002!
Kristin and Me - Wish she didn't live so far away!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Sweet Treats!
Last week I received the cutest/sweetest baby gift from one of my students. I teach down the hall from her mom, who is one of the most creative people I know! You will understand why I say this when you see the pictures of their gift! :)
It was a bakery box all tied up pretty with ribbon. Inside were 4 "cupcakes" made out of blankets and onesies. The blanket was rolled up acting as the cake part, the white onesie was the frosting and both were tucked inside a coffee filter to look like the cupcake wrapper. Everything was secured with ribbon. So stinkin' cute!
It was a bakery box all tied up pretty with ribbon. Inside were 4 "cupcakes" made out of blankets and onesies. The blanket was rolled up acting as the cake part, the white onesie was the frosting and both were tucked inside a coffee filter to look like the cupcake wrapper. Everything was secured with ribbon. So stinkin' cute!
Shopping for Baby
Saturday morning Brad and I headed out to get a few things checked off of the shopping list for baby boy. We went to Buy Buy Baby and ordered our Stroller/Car Seat Travel System. I am soo excited for this to be delivered in a week. Baby Boy Z is going to be riding in style!
We then headed over to Babies R Us and added a few more items to our registry. While there, we looked at baby monitors and swings.
We then headed over to Babies R Us and added a few more items to our registry. While there, we looked at baby monitors and swings.
By the end of the weekend, we had purchased a swing and had a monitor picked out.
From the very beginning I told Brad he could pick out whatever monitor he thought was best. Now for those of you who know Brad, he didn't just go out and pick the first one he saw. He looked at them in every store we went to (multiple times), researched them online, price matched on all of the store's websites, and asked my opinion numerous times. He finally decided on this one, after playing with it in the store on Saturday. I am giving him bonus points because he even found a coupon that we can use on it. :)
There is not much this monitor won't do and although I didn't think we needed one of the most expensive ones, it is very cool. After playing with it in the store, it was kind of hard not to think it was the coolest thing ever. Some of my favorite features are that you can use buttons on the monitor that you keep with you to tilt the camera up and down and back and forth. This helps if you have a baby who moves all over his crib - ha! I also like that it plays music. It has a huge screen, as you can see, and is in color. Brad is so into his technology, which is a win/win for me because then he can be on baby patrol when the little guy is in his crib.
We haven't made much more progress on the nursery because we are still waiting for the furniture to be delivered. This is the weekend my mom is coming to town though, so we are going to work on the curtains and window coverings. I will post pictures soon!
Week 27
One more week closer to the 3rd trimester!!
Last week I had a little scare - but in case you are one who needs to know the outcome right away, the baby is completely fine! Looking back now, I am so glad I did what I did by calling the doctor. Although at the time, the nurse treated me as if it were no big deal and I was a crazy person. Excuse me, but everything is a big deal to someone who has never been this far along in a pregnancy before, as well as two previous miscarriages. So here is what happened. Late Wednesday afternoon I started having some cramping, that continued to get worse. They felt more like a stomachache than anything that could be related to pregnancy. I cooked supper, still had an appetite so I ate a good meal, and then went to the couch, still cramping and by this time really, really bad backache and side ache. Worse backache than I was complaining about on FB if you happened to read and/or comment on that post. I mentioned it to Brad a couple of times, but could never get real comfortable. A few hours later, I was still having really bad sharp pains so I took some Tums - still not thinking it pregnancy related, more like something I ate. Around 8:45 they went away, and I turned nauseous instead. This is pretty normal for me to have an hour or so of feeling blah in the evenings so I didn't give it another thought.
Fast forward to Thursday morning I noticed while I was eating breakfast I had a few cramps again. Later on, as I was reading in my pregnancy book, I just so happened to be on the chapter that gave warning signs for preterm labor. What were the first two listed? 1. Severe abdominal cramping (like a stomachache) and 2. Bad backache. Along with some other symptoms. I immediately panicked! Called Brad, we agreed I should call the doctor so I hung up with him and dialed my nurse's line. Of course, no answer because they NEVER answer their darn phone. 2 hours later I hadn't heard from her, so I call again, leaving another message. She finally calls me back and I explain to her my symptoms and I was concerned it had something to do with preterm labor. What does she tell me to do? Take some Tylenol and lay on the couch for the next 2 days. If it gets worse then I need to call labor and delivery. I made it through Thursday and was still having on and off again cramping Friday morning so I called labor and delivery. They told me I should come in right away. I called my nurse back and told her that L&D said I need to get checked out right away and that I wanted to come in and see the doctor. Her response, you need to go to L&D because your doctor is out of town and we don't have a doctor to see you right now because we stop seeing patients at 12:30. It was 8:30 in the morning. Well, thanks a lot lady!
After hanging up, (and I am sure some not very nice words toward that nurse), I called Brad and asked him if he could meet me at L&D that afternoon since I had to go downtown to the hospital and he works about 5 minutes from there. Long story short... after 3 hours at the hospital and being hooked up to a fetal monitor, everything was fine. The baby was completely fine, moving the entire time I was hooked up to the monitor. Several tests they ran on me came back negative, and I had no signs of preterm labor. They really couldn't give me a reason I may have had those symptoms except some stretching and possible being dehydrated that day. Although I didn't have a solid reason, I was still thrilled to hear the baby was fine and wasn't going to be making an appearance just yet.
Other than that, the backache is the worst complaint I have. I posted about it on FB and got a ton of ideas and responses back. I have a feeling I will be visiting a chiropractor before this baby makes his arrival! I cannot wait to blog next week because I will have officially began the 3rd trimester!!
Last week I had a little scare - but in case you are one who needs to know the outcome right away, the baby is completely fine! Looking back now, I am so glad I did what I did by calling the doctor. Although at the time, the nurse treated me as if it were no big deal and I was a crazy person. Excuse me, but everything is a big deal to someone who has never been this far along in a pregnancy before, as well as two previous miscarriages. So here is what happened. Late Wednesday afternoon I started having some cramping, that continued to get worse. They felt more like a stomachache than anything that could be related to pregnancy. I cooked supper, still had an appetite so I ate a good meal, and then went to the couch, still cramping and by this time really, really bad backache and side ache. Worse backache than I was complaining about on FB if you happened to read and/or comment on that post. I mentioned it to Brad a couple of times, but could never get real comfortable. A few hours later, I was still having really bad sharp pains so I took some Tums - still not thinking it pregnancy related, more like something I ate. Around 8:45 they went away, and I turned nauseous instead. This is pretty normal for me to have an hour or so of feeling blah in the evenings so I didn't give it another thought.
Fast forward to Thursday morning I noticed while I was eating breakfast I had a few cramps again. Later on, as I was reading in my pregnancy book, I just so happened to be on the chapter that gave warning signs for preterm labor. What were the first two listed? 1. Severe abdominal cramping (like a stomachache) and 2. Bad backache. Along with some other symptoms. I immediately panicked! Called Brad, we agreed I should call the doctor so I hung up with him and dialed my nurse's line. Of course, no answer because they NEVER answer their darn phone. 2 hours later I hadn't heard from her, so I call again, leaving another message. She finally calls me back and I explain to her my symptoms and I was concerned it had something to do with preterm labor. What does she tell me to do? Take some Tylenol and lay on the couch for the next 2 days. If it gets worse then I need to call labor and delivery. I made it through Thursday and was still having on and off again cramping Friday morning so I called labor and delivery. They told me I should come in right away. I called my nurse back and told her that L&D said I need to get checked out right away and that I wanted to come in and see the doctor. Her response, you need to go to L&D because your doctor is out of town and we don't have a doctor to see you right now because we stop seeing patients at 12:30. It was 8:30 in the morning. Well, thanks a lot lady!
After hanging up, (and I am sure some not very nice words toward that nurse), I called Brad and asked him if he could meet me at L&D that afternoon since I had to go downtown to the hospital and he works about 5 minutes from there. Long story short... after 3 hours at the hospital and being hooked up to a fetal monitor, everything was fine. The baby was completely fine, moving the entire time I was hooked up to the monitor. Several tests they ran on me came back negative, and I had no signs of preterm labor. They really couldn't give me a reason I may have had those symptoms except some stretching and possible being dehydrated that day. Although I didn't have a solid reason, I was still thrilled to hear the baby was fine and wasn't going to be making an appearance just yet.
Other than that, the backache is the worst complaint I have. I posted about it on FB and got a ton of ideas and responses back. I have a feeling I will be visiting a chiropractor before this baby makes his arrival! I cannot wait to blog next week because I will have officially began the 3rd trimester!!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Painting the Nursery
First of all I want to say a big thanks to Meg and Bret who made the trip from Wichita to help us paint. Well, help Brad paint! Also, thanks to Brian for your help and Drew for keeping Megan and I entertained! :) And Jen and Jack who came a bit later to check out the final product!
Well, after 2 weekends of prep work, many hours spent on deciding on the paint color, 5+ trips to Home Depot, and 2 1/2 hours of painting, the room is painted! Yes, it does sound like way too much work was put into this project, but neither Brad nor I had painted a room before, so we had some learning to do along the way. The hardest was definitely picking the color though. Even the night before we still weren't sure as Meg, Bret, Brad, and I sat in the room staring at the 3 samples on the walls for an hour.
I had been back and forth the whole week before on the color we had chosen. I loved it on the sample card, but hated the actual color once we got the sample at HD - it looked waaaay too orange for me. We were going for more of a brown to fit our Jungle theme. So, while we were still in the store we picked a 2nd color, bought it's sample and headed for home. Came home, Brad painted a strip of the 2 samples on the wall, and there we sat, and sat, and sat, pondering over them. He put the 2nd color down first, I loved it. Then he put the 1st one beside it...I thought oh it's not so bad, I kinda really like it, too. So there you can see where our dilemma came in. Well more mine than his because Brad was still sold on the first one. He wanted to make the decision then and there and wanted to be done with it. I, not so much. So, I walked out of the room and shut the door and didn't look at it again for the rest of the day because I knew we had a whole week until we had to actually buy the paint. I actually didn't go back in the room until Tuesday again - hated them both that day. It had to do with the lighting. The next day I was back to liking the 2nd sample more, but by the end of the week I was back to agreeing with Brad on the first one.
Fast forward to Friday night. Brad and I go back to Home Depot to buy the paint. We get all of our sample cards out again, hold them under their light samples and I still don't love either. So, what do we do? Pick out a 3rd sample! Yes, crazy I know! But, I didn't want my baby sleeping in a room that was an ugly color! So, home we go, painting a 3rd sample on the wall. Half an hour later Meg and Bret show up. We take them into the room but don't tell them our thoughts and see what they think. I'll spare you the details, but after about 45 minutes of much discussion, holding the crib set up to the samples, covering them up one at at time, we all 4 agreed the first sample still looked the best. Winner! I really did like the 3rd sample but it just wasn't the brown we were looking for to match our furniture and crib set. After all that time, I could only trust that our first sample was the one - especially after pondering over it for a whole week and picking out 2 other samples.
Brad decided to wait until Saturday morning to buy the paint, so he and Bret head out to Home Depot to get a can of our first sample. Meg and I head out shopping. After a couple of hours of shopping we decide to head home to check on their progress. By this time, Brad's brother Brian along with Drew were also there. Brian really knows a lot about painting, so Brad was happy that he came to help! Megan walked in the room first, turned and looked at me and said "that's not your color you picked out". In my mind, I freaked out! Actually, it really was though. It just looked sooooooo much different on the wall. And guess what? I loved it! It was a bit darker than I was expecting, but not a tint of orange at all. Why did I waste so much time going back and forth, when I should have just stuck with my first instinct after all!
I tried to take a few pictures but didn't get very many because I didn't want to be breathing in that paint smell for too long. I still was probably in there for longer than I should have been because I just really liked the color! :) The room is still airing out, but I am really itching to get in there and get to work. There isn't much to do just yet because we are waiting for our furniture to be delivered, which hopefully will be here by the end of this month. My mom is coming in 2 weeks to help me with the curtains and blinds, and getting some other stuff bought.
Well, after 2 weekends of prep work, many hours spent on deciding on the paint color, 5+ trips to Home Depot, and 2 1/2 hours of painting, the room is painted! Yes, it does sound like way too much work was put into this project, but neither Brad nor I had painted a room before, so we had some learning to do along the way. The hardest was definitely picking the color though. Even the night before we still weren't sure as Meg, Bret, Brad, and I sat in the room staring at the 3 samples on the walls for an hour.
I had been back and forth the whole week before on the color we had chosen. I loved it on the sample card, but hated the actual color once we got the sample at HD - it looked waaaay too orange for me. We were going for more of a brown to fit our Jungle theme. So, while we were still in the store we picked a 2nd color, bought it's sample and headed for home. Came home, Brad painted a strip of the 2 samples on the wall, and there we sat, and sat, and sat, pondering over them. He put the 2nd color down first, I loved it. Then he put the 1st one beside it...I thought oh it's not so bad, I kinda really like it, too. So there you can see where our dilemma came in. Well more mine than his because Brad was still sold on the first one. He wanted to make the decision then and there and wanted to be done with it. I, not so much. So, I walked out of the room and shut the door and didn't look at it again for the rest of the day because I knew we had a whole week until we had to actually buy the paint. I actually didn't go back in the room until Tuesday again - hated them both that day. It had to do with the lighting. The next day I was back to liking the 2nd sample more, but by the end of the week I was back to agreeing with Brad on the first one.
Fast forward to Friday night. Brad and I go back to Home Depot to buy the paint. We get all of our sample cards out again, hold them under their light samples and I still don't love either. So, what do we do? Pick out a 3rd sample! Yes, crazy I know! But, I didn't want my baby sleeping in a room that was an ugly color! So, home we go, painting a 3rd sample on the wall. Half an hour later Meg and Bret show up. We take them into the room but don't tell them our thoughts and see what they think. I'll spare you the details, but after about 45 minutes of much discussion, holding the crib set up to the samples, covering them up one at at time, we all 4 agreed the first sample still looked the best. Winner! I really did like the 3rd sample but it just wasn't the brown we were looking for to match our furniture and crib set. After all that time, I could only trust that our first sample was the one - especially after pondering over it for a whole week and picking out 2 other samples.
Brad decided to wait until Saturday morning to buy the paint, so he and Bret head out to Home Depot to get a can of our first sample. Meg and I head out shopping. After a couple of hours of shopping we decide to head home to check on their progress. By this time, Brad's brother Brian along with Drew were also there. Brian really knows a lot about painting, so Brad was happy that he came to help! Megan walked in the room first, turned and looked at me and said "that's not your color you picked out". In my mind, I freaked out! Actually, it really was though. It just looked sooooooo much different on the wall. And guess what? I loved it! It was a bit darker than I was expecting, but not a tint of orange at all. Why did I waste so much time going back and forth, when I should have just stuck with my first instinct after all!
I tried to take a few pictures but didn't get very many because I didn't want to be breathing in that paint smell for too long. I still was probably in there for longer than I should have been because I just really liked the color! :) The room is still airing out, but I am really itching to get in there and get to work. There isn't much to do just yet because we are waiting for our furniture to be delivered, which hopefully will be here by the end of this month. My mom is coming in 2 weeks to help me with the curtains and blinds, and getting some other stuff bought.
This was the weekend before when Brad was doing some sanding on the walls.
Not sure what he's doing here, but you can at least see the old color versus the new color.
Hard at work. Brad on the left - Brian on the ladder - Bret on the right.
The final product. I wasn't going to add this picture because the color looks a little different - but you get the idea. :)
Sorry for the long post but I knew it would be so funny to come back and read this some day. Moral of the story - go with the paint you liked first and stick with it!! It will always work out in the end.
Week 26
Somehow I missed blogging about Week 25, so since this is the start of Week 26, we are going to focus on that! I cannot believe I am only days away from beginning the 3rd trimester, yes 3RD! What?! I know I wouldn't have said this 4 months ago, but this pregnancy really is flying by!
I'm still feeling pretty much the same as the last few posts, except getting waaaay bigger. I've been getting so many comments at school everyday about how fast he is growing. So much fun! I even had someone ask me today if I was sure there weren't 2 in there. After 8 or so sonograms, we're pretty sure. :) My sister and Jen both were surprised this weekend at how much bigger I was than when I saw them last a month ago.
Not complaining, but the backache is still the worst - especially after I have stood and taught all day. Getting off the couch, or out of bed is getting to be an even slower process, too. Brad asked me last night how I was going to do it in 2 more months - haven't gotten that far yet, so not sure. :)
The little guy is still as active as ever! I can tell the movements and kicks are getting stronger each day. They will be hurting before too long!
The nursery was successfully painted this weekend, but I am going to save that for a separate post. Cannot wait to get our furniture and decorations in there!
Now that it's officially May, we are down to only 3 months left! Happy May Day!
I'm still feeling pretty much the same as the last few posts, except getting waaaay bigger. I've been getting so many comments at school everyday about how fast he is growing. So much fun! I even had someone ask me today if I was sure there weren't 2 in there. After 8 or so sonograms, we're pretty sure. :) My sister and Jen both were surprised this weekend at how much bigger I was than when I saw them last a month ago.
Not complaining, but the backache is still the worst - especially after I have stood and taught all day. Getting off the couch, or out of bed is getting to be an even slower process, too. Brad asked me last night how I was going to do it in 2 more months - haven't gotten that far yet, so not sure. :)
The little guy is still as active as ever! I can tell the movements and kicks are getting stronger each day. They will be hurting before too long!
The nursery was successfully painted this weekend, but I am going to save that for a separate post. Cannot wait to get our furniture and decorations in there!
Now that it's officially May, we are down to only 3 months left! Happy May Day!
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