Mother's Day

Me and all 3 of my muffins. A lady in church was entertained that morning from the alien-like movements coming from my belly. " you're baby's very active". Isabelle made me a card while I was in bed that morning that said " I love you Mom, Today is Moms day, happy moms day, we will go to chrch( that's how she spelled it) love, Isabelle." So sweet.
Then we have the below picture, remember that commerical that went something like this.. " big big big BIG, so HUGE and BIG!" This is me last night, 37 weeks and 3 days. And I did work on packing the hospital bag finally, it's not completely done but you can't be completely done till you are actually going to go anyway, at least for me, I have a lot of face crap to pack. Check out those veins.. they look downright placental.... did I mention I'm running out of clothes that fit??? Here's hoping this is my last pregnant weekend.

My Pro Pics with Sarah

Pictures

A couple weeks ago my sweet friend Sarah of sarah nebel photography, did some maternity pictures for me. ( i'm sure she'd love it if you became a facebook fan) We had a lot of fun if you can't already tell from the pictures. She also let me put in my family for the first few shots, then they went off to play. I am so thankful for her special documentation of the last of pregnant days!! The evening was great, except for the pervey dude at the very end telling me I should take off my white sweater so I just had my tank top on and that my husband would really like it, and some other " compliments" of a creepy nature. He caught me off guard first asking me how far along I was, I just kept thinking, I'm getting in the vehicle... get in the vehicle, call Mitch to see where's he's at, let's get out of here!!! Mitch was NOT happy, not " boy I would've done this or that" but not really done it, as in I'm glad the kids were with us and he was able to go back and have a big, ugly confrontation. He was not happy some perve was allowed to run free. ANYway... Thank you Sarah AGAIN and I LOVE the pictures!!!

Random updates

I am big and tired, getting out of bed for my 3-7 pee breaks a night continues to get more and more challenging. Today I planned on planting flowers, but things changed when Isabelle got a rash that looked like a heat rash or something all over her trunk and it was still there this a.m. Took her to the dr, no fever, not contagious, she thought it was from something internal bothering her and she told me to give her zyrtec for a few days. So while we drove 20 minutes to the dr, we went ahead and went to the mall there, and Isabelle and I got our hair cut, hers is really cute in my opinion, shorter with some layers, easier for summer washing. We also did some shopping I needed to do while in that specific mall. We then went to Lowes and Kohls after getting to meet Mitch, he got to get off early today ( as in he already had probably 45 hrs in). So that was nice but I am beat.
In other news, can't remember if i blogged it, but Isabelle had a slightly loose tooth in Feb that had her permanent tooth behind it already broke through, we have been working and working on loosening this baby up and this week she was a trooper and let me work on and finally pull it, she was SO excited! She took it to school for show and tell and got a little treasure box for it, she also took her 50 cents to school and so thrilled she could buy something at the bookfair, ( I warned her she might not be able to afford anything with 50 cents) anyway, she got an eraser and a bookmark. Also, I didn't know till last weekend while Mitch had the kids at a park, that Isabelle can cross the triangular monkey bars. We were at that park because my friend Sarah was taking maternity photos for me and we also did a few family ones. Once I get the disk I'll upload my favs. I know Kay and Aunt Denise will want to see them. :)
Other updates... as of yet I have not made to 160 yet... but I'm thinking I will at my next apt at 34 weeks. I am hoping to go around 38 weeks, but who knows, the dr said she won't induce earlier than 39 so I'm thinking induction the day I turn 39 weeks... ;) what would it be like to not miss an entire night of sleep birthing??

2 More Months

yes that is my belly button poking out...

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First, here are the kids' room pictures, all done, finally!! One cool thing I didn't include in my pic descriptions was the great deal we got on wood blinds from home depot!! There discontinueing some of the blinds and they had them on sale for 23 reg. 57 dollars. The only thing was is that they were too big and we needed them cut down. We got one cut without a hitch, the next window got chipped on one side, so the lady sold that one to us for 5 bucks!! We took it home, Mitch cute the other side and I touched up the chipped parts and you would never know!!
And I have Aliza's room done!! I just need to get diaper rash cream and kleenex for that room. I am planning on getting that Buttpaste the natural version, I have a coupon but Walmart didn't have that version. At the bottom of the blog I have an Aliza album feed that you can click to check whenever.
I am still liking and doing my prenatal yoga I blogged a while back about. (twice a week, I'd like it to be more but projects and cleaning and life and groceries take me away from that)
2 pregnancy must haves for this time around for me were Be Maternity from Target. I got the white BeBand, it is SO nice, it helps to keep your pants up, and hide if you can't button them, I still have to adjust it some, but it sooo much better than constantly yanking up my jeans, smooths out muffin top issues, AND you can use it afterward, I'm thinking, more blob hiding, less plumber crack worries, and a little cover up while hiking up shirts to nurse.
The second thing from that BeMaternity is their tank tops, I got black, it is so stretchy and comfy, I love it because it shows off your bump early but grows with you. If you look at my belly pics, I'm wearing it at 20 weeks and am wearing today at 31 and I still have more room to grow in it. And you could totally use it afterward, nice and long. I think I made a paragraph sentence above about the band... oh well.
Also, I'm so excited to use this for Aliza,
Nature's Baby Organics, Organics, Shampoo & Body Wash, Vanilla Tangerine you can click on the link and read the reviews if you're interested. If you check back in my health/beauty posts I am still using for myself now and will use for her that Stoneybrook lotion.

I've also gotten some Hugo ( not the perfume) shampoo and conditioner I really like!! I am using the jasmine shampoo and the ylang ylang conditioner. If you're interested just search them on iherb and read the reviews. I was interested in trying something like WEN but I figured I could find something cheaper and more natural, a couple of the reviewers said they had been WEN users. The shampoo does great with actually cleaning my scalp of buildup which I was skeptical it would, and conditioner, I put in and comb through, but it's not your average slippery slimy stuff. Anyway, I love it thus far. I usually wait to use things a while before I review them and I did with all this stuff, minus the baby wash, but the reviews make me confident I will love it too.

Other pregnancy stuff, I was sad last night because when I woke up, Mitch was all the way on the edge of the bed and I felt unloved for a moment, then I realized my pillow I used for my back/belly, depending on what side I'm flipping to had forced over there, poor guy.

I also got teary today because while grocery shopping, there was this sweet old lady that reminded me of my grandma, just kinda the way she looked and the sweet way about her, we shared a few words about ketchup and arthritic hands....

Anyway, 2 more months and I can't WAIT to meet my baby girl!!! And I really need to take some pictures of my other children and video them... my muffins are turning 4 and 6 within this month or so!!! Isabelle got to have an easter egg hunt at school today and 80 degree weather was perfect for it!!

26 weeks

Most of my belly pictures are not to the day of actually turning a certain week. I made an Aliza Flickr folder in case anyone wants to refer back and see the growing belly pics and then finally her. I'm still figuring Flickr out so hopefully it works. Good grief, I'm huge...

Last week

A quick review from last week, above, my friend Katie's family and ours went to Chuck E Cheese this last weekend. The adults HATED it, the kids like it, most of it... although one of Katie's boys did get some tokens stolen out of his shoe. Horrific I tell you ,that place is horrible on the weekend and mildly tolerable during the week. I will NEVER have a weekend birthday part there. Ever. Only if I was rich enough to rent the place for a private party, hahahaha, that won't ever happen either. Not pictured, her 1 year old, bun in the oven and my bun in the oven.

My 22 week and some days belly. I have been told I look bigger in pictures, than in real life. But I feel like Jaba and I'm doing the dreaded pregnancy walk. One cool thing about this? I got that shirt a couple weeks ago at Target for $2.50. That's right. For one cheesestick at the state fair, I got a shirt. Ever since coming home after christmas to our wet basement, I have been slowly but surely cleaning out and organizing, goodwilling, trashing, paperwork cleanout etc; Cleaning out closets and prepping Isabelle's room and closet for her brother moving in. Mitch is hard at work on bunk beds. I can't wait to get it all set up!!! And all the crud in our house organized and a lot gotten rid of. I HATE clutter and excess. Our house is small and I don't like filling up spaces I worked so hard to clear with more stuff. I am a neat freak to some degree, ok a high one but I try to compromise with the people I live with. I think it's good for kids to not have every possible toy, or toys too soon they end up destroying. It makes them be more creative in my opinion. That's all, I'm off to whip up something define for supper, like frozen pizza.

Almost 21 week belly

Is this any bigger than my last belly pic? It should be because I feel bigger!!! If you turned this upside down, could you really tell a difference with the butt growth keeping pace with the belly?? ;)

Some of the details.

(18 week belly) a plethora of typos and missing words in this post, blame pregnancy brain, fatigue, being spent and doing this at the end of a long day.
Gone for a almost 2 weeks, we came home to an allegedly vandalized from storm door that won't close now and a leaking sump line which could've been worse but it still gave me a good mess to come to. Wet floor, my carpet patch in the laundry room, wet cardboard boxes, some containing keepsakes and stored kid clothes. So lots of clean up and sorting and laundering, oh the LAUNDERING, I am so tired right about now, I've been organizing and doing these mountains of laundry, fighting with boxes, getting down the bottom of 5 stacked high and going through them, oh yeah and I took the christmas tree down. But I did find a tv antenna I had been looking for. Anyway not too fun to come home to Saturday when Friday night I slept horrible with an anxiety attack and didn't really get all relaxed till... 7:42 am so I slept from about 9am to 11:30 am the day we needed to leave. Good thing I didn't know what I was coming to. :) I think it hit because of having to travel the next day and I knew my mom was not feeling well on the couch, she feels grody from time to time with hormones and my mind just kept racing all night along with my pulse. I kept seeing the game Acquire when almost sleeping. Not fun but I kept telling myself that while this is not the best thing for my body in the long it must be the best thing for my soul. It pulls me back to remembering that I am weak and dependant on the Lord and that He carries me. I slept like a ROCK Saturday night to say the least. 8 hrs now pee break which is rare these days.
In other news, baby's moving a lot. Mitch got to feel a kick last night. I asked him, "how does that make you feel?" He paused, "fine". You have to know my husband to appreciate this. He isn't a gusher on the outside, although he has said he's seen many things be born but seeing a person with a soul being born is pretty amazing. One more week and we find out what gender the baby is, then the battle over names will begin. ;)
I didn't even actually give details on our trip back home, bawled like a baby when leaving as usual, good time with family and friends. Oh yeah my thyroid was a little low and I found right before leaving and my dose went up to 100mcg levothyroxine. I get checked again in a couple weeks. I WAS feeling a little edgey and tired but nothing too severe... unless you ask the people on the other side of my rage. ;) Thank the Lord for people who forgive.
Laundry beeping...

Belly VS Butt

We all know who will win this contest eventually but the butt puts up a very good fight when all is said and done. A woman once asks me at around 40 weeks where I was hiding Isabelle, I said " right here" and you can guess where I pointed.

9 week Belly

This is blurry but you get the idea, bigness. I am going to have to find a picture of me at 20 weeks with Isabelle because I think I was close to this. I took this today, this afternoon, I could've done evening when it's at it's BIGGEST but I didn't. I am neither sucking in or pushing out. Because I could've stunned you all with a shot at about 7pm pushing out.
All I know is, I weigh 11.8 lbs more right now than I did with my 1st pregnancy at 18 weeks. But then again, I haven't weighed that little for a couple years now.... :)