Update

Gage's birthday party was last weekend. It was a lot of fun and he loved his cake. It was perfect because it was very stress free and they did everything for me. I am so happy I chose that this year.

We are getting Gage's pictures done today at 1. I hope he cooperates. :)

I am 32 weeks today. About 8 weeks left. The shower my sister is throwing me is next Saturday. :) Mostly will be just family because it's a birthday weekend next weekend. We have a birthday party down the street with Gage's friend at daycare. Then my friend's birthday and we're going to dinner for that. A night out!!

Here are some pictures below of Gage's birthday party.







2 years to the date that Gage was born:

29 weeks 2 days....less than 11 weeks until my EDD

I guess I should update. Haven't done that in a while. A few things have changed. One being my midwife moved practices and I decided to not follow her until after the baby is here. It was a mess, but I'll just stay since I'm already in my 3rd trimester. I have my appt this week too. I will meet the OB/GYN. Then set up my next appt with the new midwife, if she's accepting patients by then. While I'm in the area I will get my pre-registration for the hospital as well. :)

The second being my boss was fired. Ha. It was a matter of WHEN not IF. I like our interm boss we have. She is nice and knows a lot about our system. They said they'll start recruiting new people this week.

Pregnancy wise, I'm a big emotional mess. I'm antsy to get stuff done that I want done. I go on a hunt for things I can't find until I find them. It festers in my head until I find it. I freaked because I couldn't find my sling. I finally remembered it might be in a basket in the garage. I was happy that it was!!

I wanted the shelving unit to be put in the back room before my step mom came. (She gave it to us and it's been sitting in the garage since June.) It helped clean up and store more things in the back room.

I cried last night from built up stuff, but it was a nice release. I sleep like crap, still.

I picked up my FMLA/STD papers today. I am going to get 100% pay while I'm leave which will be SO flipping nice. We are going to maybe visit my dad in Tulsa during my leave.

I'm going to do my belly cast this weekend. :)

We got a new crib too. I got my voucher in the mail. It was quite an ordeal, but I ended up getting a $300 crib for nothing. I only had $275 to spend so not paying the extra was nice, though I had to drive 45 mins to get it. It's also not the color I wanted. I love Cherry Wood but it doesn't match the room, but at that point I didn't care. One thing I like is it's shorter than the other crib, so I can put the baby in with out leaning over too much as I'm only 5'2. Gage slept in it last night and he didn't wake up at all. Nice transition, thankfully!



His birthday is in less than 2 weeks!! My baby is almost 2!!! AH! He has me sing him "happa birtday" all the time. He loves it.

He also started asking for 'big (long i) hug' all the time too. It's so cute too. He is talking a lot more and saying pretty much everything he can. I still don't always understand but I just kind of go with it. hehe.

Well I better get to work.

Almost 27 weeks

I'll be 27 weeks tomorrow. That means I'll hit my 3rd trimester next Saturday! Wow! Already! Crazy! It's going fast. My body has been run down lately though. Very tired and achy, fun stuff like that. I had my monthly appointment yesterday. Everthing is good. Little baby is moving so much right now. She is so active. I like it because I know she is okay. :)

I'll get my Rhogam shot on the 4th. They decided not to give it to me this time because I'm not close enough to 28 weeks to have it.

Gage's birthday is less than a month away. His birthday is actually on the day of his party, the 23rd, so that is fun! I have one more address I need to get and I can send the invitations. (Wendy, email me at ********@yahoo.com, we are having at a place that Isabella might enjoy and I can send you an invitation, if you like :)...)

Guess that's all. Just swimming this weekend and my grandma from out of town is coming over Sunday to spend time with tus.

Catch Up

Things are kind of boring right now. We've been going swimming a lot and Gage really enjoys it. He's really good in the pool.

Pregnancy wise not much is happening. I'm 25 weeks today. She is moving around a lot and is very active. I do my glucose next week and have a drs. appt the 25th. I think I get my Rhogam shot at that appt if I don't have any antibodies left over. I think my appts will start every 2 weeks since I'll be close to my 3rd trimester.

Me about 3 weeks ago. :D



This pregnancy is going so fast. I've bought a few more clothes. My sister is giving me a baby shower in September that will be for people to just bring clothes since we have everything else. :) My other sister's baby shouwer is next weekend. I'm not really looking forward to it, oh well. I have to go.

Gage's crib was recalled. I filled out the form online, they sent me a package to send all the hardware back and they'll send you a voucher for the price of the crib at BabiesRUs. I'm excited for a new crib. Right now Gage just has his mattress on the floor and he thinks it's so cool!

I've started planning Gage's birthday party. I can't believe he'll be 2 in August!

We cleaned out our garage today, well started. It was hot, but it really needed to happen. AJ bought this house 4 years ago last week and it's never been cleaned.

New Couches & Layout!

New Layout! YAY!

I sometimes forget to update here because this isn't my primary journal.

Pregnancy wise, I do eat more and I've been gaining weight steadily. I did eat pretty bad last week, so my goal for this week is to eat no fast food. Plus it will save money too!

We got our new to us couches this weekend. They look so great! And my step-mom said they are only about 3-4 years old. I took pictures last night. We are going to rearrange the room. We are tired of the way it is and we can give ourselves more space if we do.

It was a hell of a trip coming back but we made it. It took us over an hour extra to come back. Gage did pretty well though considering the cirmumstances. He slept part of the way because he ran himself so hard at the park. He climbed different bars and would be so proud when he got to the top.

I also purchased the stroller this weekend too. I bought it from Walmart.com. I use them as much as I can because you can choose "site to store" and you don't have to pay shipping. I always have it sent to the walmart just a 1/2 mile from my work so it's not out of the way at all. It's a great feature. It was also on sale. It was originally 199.98 and this weekend it was 183.98. With tax it was 198.96!! Good deal for us. Now all we need for the baby is her and some more clothes. I did buy her some this weekend but they are for next summer. I think I'll hit up the local resale shop because they might have fall clothes. No one has any fall clothes right now and with her being born the end of October it might be cooling off some by then and she'll need long sleeves and pants. I'm going to keep all of Gage's clothes until after she is born. I don't want to sell them and then she come out a he. Just in case!

Have a nice week!

Wednesday the 11th

I can't believe it's almost halfway through the year! Time flies so fast sometimes, but stands so still other times. Weird.

I am halfway through this pregnancy too. It's weird to think I'll be a mama of 2 in the fall. I had a co-worker buy me some cute little clothes from Old Navy. One is PINK! YAY! PINK!

I also got notice I'm to report to Jury Duty on June 30th. I am excited. Even if I don't get picked I have always just wanted to be selected to go. AJ got picked in 2005 and served on a jury. He said I should put *no* that I don't want to serve and that will help my chances of being on the jury. He said they told them that was one of the things that makes them WANT to pick you for jury. So we'll see.

I had my next drs. appt on July 1st so I had to reschedule it to June 27th. I'm glad they had it open. :)

We are going to my dad's this weekend to the couchs he is giving us. AJ's brother is driving since it's his truck we are borrowing. We are supposed to take a trailer but I don't want to because it wont fit in my dad's driveway very well. AJ insists we take it but whatever. I don't think I'll win this battle.

It's a GIRL

We found out today we are having a girl. I am so excited! AJ is too! I just can't go broke from buying girl stuff. :)

I stayed home from work yesterday because Gagie had a high fever. He was okay most of the day but when his fever was really high he just wanted to snuggle with me. He slept a lot. I called the doctor and they just said if he continued to have a fever after 3 days call them back.

It finally broke about 5 and stayed down the rest of the night.