I have been so busy with being a stay at home mom, barefoot and pregnant that I have let the blog get away from me. I think of you every day and I will try to promise to be more faithful to you. This pregnancy is a little bit harder on me than the last. I don't know what the factors are that are making it so and I don't even wanna speculate. I have been getting killer heartburn since about the 20th week. Not fun. I wasn't diagnosed with gestational diabetes either which is good. I don't know if I could have handled pricking my finger 5 times a day either. It seems also that I feel this baby moving quite a bit more than Liesl did. I could be wrong though. I was a lot more stressed with Liesl and I am happy for the difference there. Today I have another Dr appt, I think it is going to start me at once every 2 weeks. I really like this office this time around. All of the Doctors have been awesome and have not bugged me about a thing. There is not much longer to go here. Looking forward to seeing her cute little face.We have gotten the baby's room all set up for her with lots of help from everyone. Thank you to everyone's painting skills and to Heather for helping me get that crib back together. I was stressing a little about it. The room is of course pink. I am looking for some fabric to make curtains and I was going to stencil some thistles on the wall. Not currently a priority.
Liesl has already been great about the pregnancy and has been a great help around the house....most days. She helps with the dishes, the laundry, picking up her own things, picking out her own clothes since I put a clothes rail down low for her to do so. We painted both of the girl's rooms recently. Liesl's room is purple, she has princess Aurora and Tinkerbell fairy stickers on the wall and some flower shaped shelves on the wall with an Aurora music-box and of course a Tinkerbell statue. She also has some new bedding on the bed. A princess bedspread and pillowcase, Liesl and I made some more princess pillowcases and a bed skirt with princess Tiana and Prince Naveen on it that she picked out. I am quite happy with the room and I think she is too. We also have gotten a little into making "ugly dolls". The latest of dolls I made for her she had quite the hand in designing. When I was finished she giggled and told me that it was perfect. If that isn't the most rewarding feeling I dont know what would have been. I am hoping to make more of them and sell them on Etsy. We shall see how that goes. She is such a chatterbox all of the time. It is so much fun to play with her and her doll houses. She loves to make up songs, She just made up one about how she loves me so much. We have been doing a lot of fun stuff as a family. Henry Ford museum, Zoo days, Dinosaur Museum days and play dates. We are able to let Gavin and Liesl play in their room or in the basement at the Perry's house without too much intervention. It is nice.She has really developed her creative make believe play with and without toys. Makes her pretty self reliant.She is excited about every holiday and looks forward to the next every time. She is very much looking forward to her sister coming and asks about her all of the time, hugs and kisses my belly and tells me of all of the things she will do with and for her little sister. She has already culled out her baby toys and clothes and tells me they are for baby Jeanie. So proud of her.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, December 12, 2011
Beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Here are a few pictures to help catch up on my blogging. Liesl has been a great help around the house. She was an enormous help with the leaves this year no matter what this picture looks like. She always wanted to go out there and help pick them up. So I guess our yard will look that much better next year. I dont think I posted any pictures of her in her halloween outfit this year. She had tons of fun in her rapunzel dress and she uses it alot to play dress up. Gavin and Liesl have been doing more visiting now that I am out of work. We visited the nature center a few weeks ago and took pictures under thier tree. Friday the 4 of us went to the mall so Heather could get some stuff done and Liesl and Gavin played in the Play area, visited Disney Store and we had a nice lunch in the Coney Island. Thanks Heather for the treat. After the mall we all went into Rochester Hills to have story time with Mrs Claus. We listened very well considering our level of tired. Liesl participated well with the story time and helped out Mrs Claus while she read "Elf on a Shelf" and "Reindeer Magic". The kids got to have christmas cookies and make a reindeer candy cane project. I think they enjoyed themselves alot. Liesl and I are looking forward to finishing up our suprise craft with Gavin and Heather.
Everything went very well with the ultrasound and the last appointment with our little Jeanie (yes it is a Girl). The Dr told us the ultrasound indicated everything ok and that she was about 13 oz at the time. We all know how accurate that weight thing is with ultrasounds though. Liesl was a lot lighter than the ultrasound indicated. Since that appt she has been moving and grooving in there and I really can feel her kick and squirm all of the time. Can really feel it on the outside too. Cant wait for Liesl to catch her little sisiter moving in there. We visited the Home Depot and picked out paint for the girls rooms and some for the rest of the house and are hoping to get that all underway. Girls rooms first of course. There is a lot to spackle around here though and a little bit of wallpaper borders but nothing too major. Friday we will be getting insultation in here and hopefully our heating and cooling will drastically improve. Taking advantage of some tax breaks and a consumers edison break. Should help alot. We looked at tile for the dining room and it looks like that is out. We will be getting new carpet as soon as we can though. This stuff we have is UG-LY.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Thanksgiving success
It was sad to not be able to spend Thanksgiving with Mom, Dad, Melisa and Scott this year but we managed to have a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner thanks to Oma Ronnie and Opa Peter's hospitaliy. The food was amazing and it didnt have to do with the 2 sides I brought. Thank you Veronika for the wonderful dinner for the 6 of us. It was also very nice to see Rich, Ev and the kids too when they dropped by for dessert. Liesl had a great time with the kids, especially Helena who played dolls with her and cuddled by the TV watching Barbie Christmas with her. I remember when Helena was her age, she is so big now. All of those kids are.
Liesl has been working hard for the past 2 weeks on her potty training. We have been using a caper chart whicha has a little bit of other things on it to get her lots of stickers for doing things well. I do believe she is going on a week plus of dry days now. We should have started the stickers earlier. It also helps me not get frustrated seeing how well she has has been doing with everything. Next task, teeth brushing.
As well as she has been doing with potty training she has been back pedaling on the sleep since the time change. I hate time changes. It screws up the whole schedule. But I suppose with me out of work that she is getting a lot more sleep anyways now that I dont have to drive her in the wee morning hours. Hopefully we can keep up this lifestyle that we are living. We have cut a lot of corners and I am enjoying spending more time with everyone in our little family and being able to focus more on nurturing the baby inside of me.
Last week Liesl and I visited the farm center and nature center with Gavin and Heather. It was quite an adventure as we got to see 2 twin calves that were only 5 hours old. They were very cute and it was nice to see the calves with thier mother as I have never seen one in the pen with it's mother before. The mothers have been seperated from thier calves every time I have been to the farm. Thank god I couldnt smell as well as Heather that day, she said the smell was horrific. I guess I was starting to get the cold I am experiencing now. Liesl and I have been doing a lot of resting for the past couple days to try and knock it out but I dont know if it is doing too much good. We are going to try and go to the movies again today to see Muppets with Kimmee. I dont know why I torture myself so......We shall see how she behaves. Last time it wasnt the movie theatre she misbehaved in it was the restraunt afterwards. That will not be a reoccurrance. I think one thing.....especially if she behaves we should not risk screwing up the good feeling.
Halloween went well, Liesl went as Rapunzel, thank you Dennis for the wonderful costume. She gets into wearing it every other day. In fact I had to tear it off her to make sure she didnt get milk on it when she was eating her cereal. She had a very fun time tooling the neighborhood around Shannon's new house with Shannon's little sister Chloe. They held hands the whole time which was good to keep them both contained. Again, another child I cannot believe has grown so much. She was also a bigtime sweetheart to Liesl. They did several streets around the house and she is still trying to make her way through her stash right now. She loved all of the lights and decorations on all of the houses and told Shannon and I that they were beautiful and wanted to walk around and see as much as she could. She even loved walking around on Tillson St which most kids would find scary. I dont know if that is a good or a bad thing.
Looking forward to finding out the sex of the new baby coming. I am either 20 or 21 weeks along now so I am into my second trimester. I dont know how much better I am feeling... At least I dont have the nausia anymore. I am into the acid reflux now. What the heck? took me til almost the last couple weeks to start up with that. I dont think I am gaining anything with this pregnancy. Last time I went in they said I had but of course I had the soft cast on my foot from the ankle twisting incident. Thank god I am feeling a lot better from that. I am a little unsteady still so hangining onto the gear to make sure I am prepared if I start to feel weak there anymore. I think I am past that though. It's always gotta be something doesnt it. I couldnt believe I took a tumble like that right before I was going to lose my health insurance. Well I am all hooked up now again and able to go to the Dr on the 5th when mom comes back to find out the sex of the baby. It will be good to be able to label the baby better than "It". I am of course putting off finding out til mom gets back from her trip. I couldnt go without her. I am starting to feel some definate kicks that I think others would feel if they had thier hands on my belly. I have definately been feeling the baby for a while now but it felt like bubbles not pushing. Having the experience from the first one helps me know signs earlier.
Photos to come soon. I have been saving them up for a while. I just need to get something in writing before I get too far behind.
Liesl has been working hard for the past 2 weeks on her potty training. We have been using a caper chart whicha has a little bit of other things on it to get her lots of stickers for doing things well. I do believe she is going on a week plus of dry days now. We should have started the stickers earlier. It also helps me not get frustrated seeing how well she has has been doing with everything. Next task, teeth brushing.
As well as she has been doing with potty training she has been back pedaling on the sleep since the time change. I hate time changes. It screws up the whole schedule. But I suppose with me out of work that she is getting a lot more sleep anyways now that I dont have to drive her in the wee morning hours. Hopefully we can keep up this lifestyle that we are living. We have cut a lot of corners and I am enjoying spending more time with everyone in our little family and being able to focus more on nurturing the baby inside of me.
Last week Liesl and I visited the farm center and nature center with Gavin and Heather. It was quite an adventure as we got to see 2 twin calves that were only 5 hours old. They were very cute and it was nice to see the calves with thier mother as I have never seen one in the pen with it's mother before. The mothers have been seperated from thier calves every time I have been to the farm. Thank god I couldnt smell as well as Heather that day, she said the smell was horrific. I guess I was starting to get the cold I am experiencing now. Liesl and I have been doing a lot of resting for the past couple days to try and knock it out but I dont know if it is doing too much good. We are going to try and go to the movies again today to see Muppets with Kimmee. I dont know why I torture myself so......We shall see how she behaves. Last time it wasnt the movie theatre she misbehaved in it was the restraunt afterwards. That will not be a reoccurrance. I think one thing.....especially if she behaves we should not risk screwing up the good feeling.
Halloween went well, Liesl went as Rapunzel, thank you Dennis for the wonderful costume. She gets into wearing it every other day. In fact I had to tear it off her to make sure she didnt get milk on it when she was eating her cereal. She had a very fun time tooling the neighborhood around Shannon's new house with Shannon's little sister Chloe. They held hands the whole time which was good to keep them both contained. Again, another child I cannot believe has grown so much. She was also a bigtime sweetheart to Liesl. They did several streets around the house and she is still trying to make her way through her stash right now. She loved all of the lights and decorations on all of the houses and told Shannon and I that they were beautiful and wanted to walk around and see as much as she could. She even loved walking around on Tillson St which most kids would find scary. I dont know if that is a good or a bad thing.
Looking forward to finding out the sex of the new baby coming. I am either 20 or 21 weeks along now so I am into my second trimester. I dont know how much better I am feeling... At least I dont have the nausia anymore. I am into the acid reflux now. What the heck? took me til almost the last couple weeks to start up with that. I dont think I am gaining anything with this pregnancy. Last time I went in they said I had but of course I had the soft cast on my foot from the ankle twisting incident. Thank god I am feeling a lot better from that. I am a little unsteady still so hangining onto the gear to make sure I am prepared if I start to feel weak there anymore. I think I am past that though. It's always gotta be something doesnt it. I couldnt believe I took a tumble like that right before I was going to lose my health insurance. Well I am all hooked up now again and able to go to the Dr on the 5th when mom comes back to find out the sex of the baby. It will be good to be able to label the baby better than "It". I am of course putting off finding out til mom gets back from her trip. I couldnt go without her. I am starting to feel some definate kicks that I think others would feel if they had thier hands on my belly. I have definately been feeling the baby for a while now but it felt like bubbles not pushing. Having the experience from the first one helps me know signs earlier.
Photos to come soon. I have been saving them up for a while. I just need to get something in writing before I get too far behind.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Birthdays and Baby Elephants
Still been feelin the insomnia, overtiredness and nausia although I did manage to get alot done this weekend and have some fun too. Saturday Liesl and I did a lot of yard work to get the yard ready for winter. Daddy managed to get our super-fast growing lawn cut down and mulched. I suppose that I should turn the sprinklers off and blow them out in preparation for the winter. Liesl and I put a new pirate steering wheel in on her playset and a new car swing from the mom to mom sale Saturday. Mom and I got up early and found a bunch of dresses for her for her 4T collection. I also found a couple fleece sleepers for the weekend in 4T but things are getting slimmer and slimmer pickings at those mom to mom sales for her since she has been getting bigger. We found some very, very cute little dresses and I cant wait to bring them back out of the wash to show her. I knew that as soon as she saw them that she would be all over them wanting to wear them.
Sunday, Liesl, Daddy and I went to the Toledo Zoo. We packed a big lunch with lots of snacks to keep us hydrated and fed throughout the day. The biggest reason for going was to see the elephants and a bonus feature was that there was a little baby calf elephant still nursing to visit. We went back to the exhibit 3 times that day and never got enough of it. Liesl was very excited about the baby having hammies. The little elephant was so cute to watch chasing momma to nurse. The big mother elephant even grunt/growled at Jim for one reason or another. They have a very nice zoo there in Toledo. Alot of the exhibits allow you to get very close to the animals and are large plexi or glass windows. We really enjoyed seeing the hippos which are in a large tank like seaworld had. Liesl even got nose to nose with one of them from the glass. The gorillas were really hamming it up for her and really close to the glass. She really enjoyed the aquarium that has black tipped reef sharks, tons of salt water fishes and fresh water fishes jellyfish, sea anemones, sea-horses, eels, stingrays and some bioluminescent fishes. There is just too much to mention. The zoo was super fun and we closed them out. Liesl managed to procure a baby orangutan from the store and has been babying it since.
Yesterday was my birthday. Thank you to all that celebrated with me and Facebooked me to wish me a happy birthday. It was so nice to hear from everyone and all the well wishes flooding in all day. It was a good day. We are planning on doing a mini-vacation to Frankenmuth on the 30th/31st to celebrate my birthday. Plus it should be pretty darn cool for halloween decorations! After putting the little one to bed last night I was rewarded with gorgeous sunflowers from my wonderful husband. thank you baby.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Visit with the Dr
I had my first appt with Dr Goulding for this pregnancy this morning and my "12 wk" ultrasound. She is guessing I am anywhere between 11.5 to 13 wks into the pregnancy. We are guessing from the ultrasound that I am probably about 12 wks. But who knows. So that would make the due date fall anywhere between April 8th and April 17. I had the ultrasound right before the appt. We even squeezed an extra person above the 3 allowed guests into the screening. Well it is par for the course since they made me wait an excruciating extra 30 min with a full bladder.
Liesl was very excited to see the pictures of her new sibling. She has been very good about the new baby's upcoming arrival. Every night she tries to listen to my belly for the baby, talks to it and tells us that the baby is tapping her on the ear or something of the like.
The Carousel is open at the zoo now. We are so excited to go and ride it. Liesl has been "reading" about it for a month now. Maybe tomorrow we will go. She has been having a lot of play dates with her different friends. She loves to hold hands on their little excursions to the zoo, play place, cider mill, bounce house etc. She visited the Rochester Play this past week and found that it was Legend......wait for it..... dairy and cant wait to bring her friends. They also have preschool there coming soon. We will have to check that out.
Liesl was very excited to see the pictures of her new sibling. She has been very good about the new baby's upcoming arrival. Every night she tries to listen to my belly for the baby, talks to it and tells us that the baby is tapping her on the ear or something of the like.
The Carousel is open at the zoo now. We are so excited to go and ride it. Liesl has been "reading" about it for a month now. Maybe tomorrow we will go. She has been having a lot of play dates with her different friends. She loves to hold hands on their little excursions to the zoo, play place, cider mill, bounce house etc. She visited the Rochester Play this past week and found that it was Legend......wait for it..... dairy and cant wait to bring her friends. They also have preschool there coming soon. We will have to check that out.
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