Better late then never! A total random update

O.k. so I am a total slacker and have fallen behind in my posting. I admit it. But I can't promise it won't happen again! =D In all honesty, I did have good intentions. I just wanted to wait until I had some real official diagnosis to share. Apparently I'm not that lucky so I will just share the situation and the "assumed" diagnosis.

Last month, when I went into the doctor my blood pressure was up and I was beginning to have small amounts of protein in my urine. All this points toward pre-eclamsia. With my history, pre-e was only a matter of time, but it is a little earlier then I was hoping. ( I am currently at 27 weeks 2 days) At this point in time, they aren't doing anything special for it (except ask me to come in for an extra blood pressure check, that I missed because we had the flu at my house) I have another doc appointment next week so we will see what is being said then. Hopefully with more rest, and less sick children, (we were sick at our house for 3 weeks of the month of February) my blood pressure will be down into the "more acceptable" range. The little muffin (who is still UNNAMED at this point, ACK!!) is growing like a weed. I am starting to get a visible belly that looks more like a preggo belly then a "man, is SHE getting FAT" belly! I have to admit, I am enjoying that aspect of it. No one likes to the be "fat" lady! I am carrying her very high, just like when I was preggo with Lainey. Must be a girl thing. =)

Kyrin and Lainey are doing very well too. Kyrin was chosen this week to be "detective of the week" (basically Student of the Week) in his class. He is loving the extra attention. He gets to be the line leader all week, help pass out papers, and serve lunch in the lunchroom. We also got to fill out and COLOR (yuck!!) a poster and send pictures of him to be put on the classroom bulletin board. After spending 10 days in the month of February home with illness (bronchitis, pink eye, and the ever dreaded flu) I think he is really enjoying being in the spotlight at school. I think he really missed being with people his own age.

Lainey is growing faster then I know what do with! I pulled out a bunch of 3T shirts, and the are almost all too short!! I have had to start purchasing 4T clothes for her just for the length in the torso. (of course that makes them all too big in the shoulders but what is a mom to do?!?) She still has her "witch moments" but she is such a love bug too. Today she crawled up on my lap and pulled my face to hers and said "mommy, I just need some cuddles!" How can a mom say No to that?!? She has had some issues with her speech lately, and I can't help but wonder if this new baby is playing a roll in it. She seems much more clingy lately and keeps telling me, "mommy, it's not our turn to have our baby." I shudder to think what a c-section and the resulting 3 days in the hospital is going to do to her. We are working on having daddy more involved in her night routine and helping her through her night terrors but she is still a 100% mommy's girl. Hopefully it won't scar her too much!

This is just a quick (if totally random) update on our family. I hope you and yours are doing well too! And if anyone has any name suggestions or ideas to help Lainey with the new baby transition, we REALLY need all the help we can get!!!

My Lainey girl

What do you do with a 2 year old?!? Lainey is officially 2 and a half and quite the handful. She already has an emotional rollercoaster, which just scares me for what life is going to be like when she is a teenager!
Two days ago, I made a quick trip to the grocery store for a few items. When I came home I just set the bags on the floor so I could get dinner started. After I started cooking the meat (which is the first time I've been able to do THAT since I got pregnant! yay) I turned around the put the food away and Lainey had done it all! That's right! Three bags of groceries put away in the proper places! (as long as the bread is supposed to go in the fridge, but that was the only thing outta place) I was so suprised! That is more helpful then her brother is most days! I figured that we were having a "good" day. It was not to be. Less then a half hour later, she was screaming at the top of her lungs (and MAN, does she have a set of lungs!) throwing toys at her brother because he was trying to do his homework and that wasn't in her "plan". Sigh, so seriously.... what do you do with a 2 year old?!? I don't remember Kyrin being like this. Is this one of those things like labor that you forget so you can go through it again? When will it end? I know that she can be sweet and her loves are the best. She cries when I am sick and does everything in her power to make it better (including wrapping me in her blanket as I lay on the bathroom floor) but these witch moments are scary! Sometimes I wish I could permantly lock "her broom" in the closet so I could have that sweet loveable caring little girl all the time!

But then, she wouldn't be MY little girl if she wasn't a little emotional! (o.k.... A LOT emotional!)

Placenta Previa

O.k. folks, I got a call from my doc this morning. The baby looks wonderful. All pictures showed that she is doing as wonderfully as can be expected. I DO have complete placenta previa. This is when the Placenta is completely covering the cervix. Not a good situation for a natural birth, in fact it is impossible. This means that a c-section could seriously be in my immediate future. The doc said that Complete Placenta Previa "usually" doesn't move out of the way all the way and that automatically means c-section. We will do another ultrasound at 36 weeks to see if the placenta has moved and if it hasn't then we will schedule a c-section for 38 weeks, which means this baby could come mid-May. We are officially changing my due date to June 1st (Yeah) There isn't anything I can do to "make" it move, it just happens on it's own, so without sounding "preachy" any thoughts or prayers sent for this to correct itself would be wonderful. I am scared spitless for the dang epidural. (selfish, I know but it's a NEEDLE in my back!!) No matter what the outcome, it's nice to know that the baby is looking good and developing according to plan... Now all we need is a name. Anyone have any suggestions?!?

And the Verdict is.....

Dearest family and friends,

We are having a......... BABY! ha! Got ya! We are back from the ultrasound and things are looking good. The baby was very calm, we could hardly get her to move at all. It was almost eeiry, but then the baby usually moves in the evening for the most part. We were unable to get a good look between the legs at first, but with some more juice, and some movement on mom's part we were finally able to see... but we will get back to that later... =P (I MUST keep you in suspense!)

The baby is measuring ahead of what the doc thought (but EXACTLY what I said my due date should be) That makes my due date June 1st. The baby is breech, but looks good, but apparently I have a complete placenta previa. I only know this because I snuck a glance at the technicians paper work, and I will know more when my doctor calls with the ultrasound results in the next few days. =D
Now, back to the news that you really wanted to know about...

We are supposed to be having a BABY GIRL!! We are pretty sure about it... but you never can tell until they are born! Kyrin is a little disappointed, he really wanted a baby brother, but excited to have a new baby in the house. He loves babies quite a bit. He just said... "I'm always ganna be the only boy in our house.... except for dad.. but he doesn't count cuz he's a dad not a boy." All in all we are pretty excited and pleased to be one more step closer to having this baby in our arms. (and it doesn't help that I am now a week and a half farther then originally thought!!)

My new workout

I woke up this morning feeling like I hit the gym a little too hard. The problem? I didn't go to the gym! With the new baby coming, John and I decided that it was time to move Lainey out of the crib/toddler bed and into a new big girl bed. The problem is that space is LIMITED! So we decided to get bunkbeds. Lainey will be on the bottom and Kyrin on top. John and I put them together last night and apparently all the bending and twisting and strange positions that I had to pull to put in screws was better then going to any gym! I'm just glad that it is a one time only workout! I think I would cry if I had to do it again tonight! But no matter the pain, the Kids LOVE their new beds and that is all that matters! Now to get their bedroom back into one peice.....

Opps, I forgot the pictures

Lainey was all about sitting on Santa's lap, until it actually came time to do it! Then she wanted NOTHING to do with him! She grabbed her goodies and was GONE!

Kyrin couldn't think of a single thing he wanted for Christmas! His list, "Surprise me" I think that means the Kid has WAYYYY too much STUFF!

Lainey and Kyrin loved decorating the tree! Check out the concetration on her face as she tries to get the hook onto the branch.

Kyrin was really into decorating the tree this year. He was so precise and exact. He made sure the ordaments were spread out evenly over the whole tree and there wasn't a bare spot. Lainey on the other hand, thought the ordaments looked better all on the same branch. Frustrated him a little bit, but they worked it out!

The final product with ALL the loot! The kids were extremely spoiled this year! Thank you Santa and Elves!

P.S. Andrea, can you see how I made the couch work?!? It took some creative shoving and it was actually a LOT more work then I thought it would be. But it really did work well.

really REALLY late updates =D

So, Merry Chirstmas! Yep... it's me again, and I am really that far behind!!

We had a wonderful christmas this year. We stayed home in Moscow, which ended up being a mixed blessing because even if we had planned to travel there was a real possibility we wouldn't have been able to make it! There was A LOT of snow here. It seemed like it snowed over the whole christmas break!

We saved our pennies and was able to fly John's mom up for Christmas this year. It was a little dicey getting her here, her flight from SLC to Spokane ended up being cancelled and she had ONE chance on a stand by flight before she was stuck in the airport for 3 days before they could get her on another flight. Luckily she made the standby flight into Lewiston, (which was a blessing as the roads were 100% better headed that way. All of Spokane was declared a disaster area and every road but 2 were "closed") She finally made it to our house at about 1 am. It was a LONG day for her! But we were glad to have her here. She suffered a stroke a few months back so John and I felt it was important to have the children be able to spend some time with her as life can be so short!

We waited until Kathy (John's mom) was able to be here to decorate the tree. It was so much fun to see my two little munchkins be so excited to show off all the "cool" decorations to grandma before they were put up. It really was a lot of fun. It's amazing how much more fun some of these things can be when you look at it through the eyes of a child. I was really dreading the decorating of the tree because it was "so much work". But we ended up having a lot of fun and the work aspect kind of disappeared!

My kids were spoiled rotten this year! There were so many gifts under the tree for them! I think John and I had one present each under the tree and the rest was the kids. There were so many people who wanted to make sure my kids had a good Christmas we were really blessed. I appriciate everyone who loves my kids as much as I do!

Other then the usual crazy christmas morning (that didn't start until after 7:00 am THANK YOU CHILDREN!) we had a very laid back vacation. We played in the snow some, watched lots of movies and just enjoyed being around each other. We are very thankful for family and friends and all the blessings we have received this year.

We all hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas as well.

As for a quick update on baby, We are still taking it one day at a time. This baby seems to really be a mover and a shaker. The baby likes to kick a lot in the evening times. Kyrin has gotten to be able to feel him/her once and he thought it was TOTALLY awesome. John has yet to feel the baby because whenever I call him over to feel, the baby stops moving as soon as he puts his hand on my bump! It does make it nice for me when I want some sleep at night though, John just puts his hand on my belly and the baby stops moving and I get some relief! We have another doc appointment this week for the same old drill but the big news is our "big" ultrasound will be Jan 21!! (at 6:45 AM... yes that's right AM!!!) At this ultrasound we should finally get an offical due date, the date currently is fluctuating between June 1 and June 11. We will hopefully be able to see how healthy this little one is, and if we are lucky if the baby resembles a Kyrin or a Lainey. Kyrin is still hoping for puppies though! Silly kid! If I am really nice, and good, (o.k. if I remember!!!) I'll update you all on the final decision, until then, feel free to post your guesses on sex in the comments. I would love to see what kind of vibe everyone else is feeling!

Love ya all, and take care!