It has been a while, and life has been busy to say the least. Wes has been gone for over a month now, Kercher is in his last week of school, my baby sister graduated college and my brother graduated high school. Talk about feeling old!
A few weeks back we had another "scare" I guess you could say with the baby. I failed my 1 hr glucose test as well as had a dangerously low iron level. The OB was considering sending me in for a transfusion. Got both of those shockers at the same moment and it was a lot to take. Luckily I just went in for an iron injection so no transfusion. Took the 3 hr GD test and all was well. Had a 2nd Iron injection along with an INSANE amount of iron supplemen (ya me), but with the 2nd injection things seem to be just fine! They will continue to monitor my Iron. I have added a lot of greens to my diet as well as take the supplement I was prescribed everyday. Very relieved that both issues seem not to be a big deal as the OB was very concerned in the beginning.
Friday I had a growth ultrasound, and lets just say I am having another big baby. It kind of surprised me a little because I feel so much smaller this go round. I think a good deal of that is weight gain. With Kercher I gained around 60, after my apt yesterday I am only up by 17 so ya me. It has been a pain to stay down, but given I have extra weight to begin with it is a really good thing for me, so for that I pat myself on the back. Gaining weight when you are pregnant is a good thing, but when you have some you could shed from the get go it is better to not gain a lot, so I have really stayed on top of myself and made sure to not fall into the "I'm pregnant and fat anyway so I can eat whatever I want" like I did with Kercher. I also carried Kercher around like a tire, which is how most people carry girls, and am carrying this baby straight out front like an over inflated basketball which is how most people carry boys, but hey Old Wives tales are just that, tales. Anyway, Braelyn was weighing in at just shy of 6 lbs on Friday at 32w1d. I know growth u/s can be off by up to a pound, but I tend to believe she is right. Even if she is wrong and she is just shy of 5 lbs, the average baby at 32 weeks is 3.75 lbs. I had been measuring 14 days ahead, but have taken a huge jump and am now measuring 4 weeks ahead. However, from our 1st ultrasounds we know I am not any more pregnant then we thought and originally the OB was thinking I was less pregnant. Oh well =) So we are off the chart in size. As long as she has a small head like her brother I will be good with that.
Well, that is enough catching up for today. I will try to be better about posting.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Mommy, where is your wewe....
Yes, this was the 1st question of the day today.
We are at church for Easter Sunday. Little man has to potty so off we run. Being a little over 25 weeks pregnant, I figure lets kill two birds with one stone so I too decide to use the potty. Then I get the show stopping question "mommy where is you wewe?". Being that it is Easter I had more prepared myself for "why did Jesus die" or "how did Jesus come back to life" question today. I was pretty much completely blindsided by "where is your wewe?" Best I could come up with is mommies don't have wewe's. Oh if I only knew the slew of questions that would follow. See if you can follow along:
K:"mommy where is your wewe?"
me: "well mommies don't have wewe's"
K: "well daddies do, I know because I saw daddy's it is like mine just bigger, because he is bigger"
me: kind of taken back by my child's detailed account of my husbands body but ok..."right daddies and little boys have wewe's but mommies don't"
K:"well how do you peepee? do you not peepee mommmy?"
me: processing how to explain human anatomy to a 3 year old "mommies peepee just in a different way"
K: "right you sit on the potty like you have to poopoo" as he giggles
Me: "right mommies sit down to go peepee"
K: "so is your peepee broken?"
Me: thinking this is a good way to exit this conversation "yes, mommies have broken wewe's so we sit when we peepee."
K: "cool"
Me: thinking to myself thank goodness that conversation is over for now, I better figure something out before the baby gets here because I am sure the "where is Braelyn's wewe" question is looming around the corner.
We exist the stall to wash our hands were two women in their mid-forties both smile and me and say "that one threw you for a loop didn't it? Just wait they get better! No worries you handled it like a pro". Then they walk out.
I just kind of laughed to myself. I remember my mom always saying that you explain things to kids a little bit at a time. They will keep asking and you keep giving a little more till they are satisfied with what you have told them. I have to say after today's experience I think that is totally right. I don't think my 3 year old is ready to process the deference in male and female anatomy and if a broken wewe works, then we will go with it =)
And in other completely not related to this post news. I finally took a bump pictures for all of those who keep bugging me for one =) don't hold your breath of another...but here you go =)
We are at church for Easter Sunday. Little man has to potty so off we run. Being a little over 25 weeks pregnant, I figure lets kill two birds with one stone so I too decide to use the potty. Then I get the show stopping question "mommy where is you wewe?". Being that it is Easter I had more prepared myself for "why did Jesus die" or "how did Jesus come back to life" question today. I was pretty much completely blindsided by "where is your wewe?" Best I could come up with is mommies don't have wewe's. Oh if I only knew the slew of questions that would follow. See if you can follow along:
K:"mommy where is your wewe?"
me: "well mommies don't have wewe's"
K: "well daddies do, I know because I saw daddy's it is like mine just bigger, because he is bigger"
me: kind of taken back by my child's detailed account of my husbands body but ok..."right daddies and little boys have wewe's but mommies don't"
K:"well how do you peepee? do you not peepee mommmy?"
me: processing how to explain human anatomy to a 3 year old "mommies peepee just in a different way"
K: "right you sit on the potty like you have to poopoo" as he giggles
Me: "right mommies sit down to go peepee"
K: "so is your peepee broken?"
Me: thinking this is a good way to exit this conversation "yes, mommies have broken wewe's so we sit when we peepee."
K: "cool"
Me: thinking to myself thank goodness that conversation is over for now, I better figure something out before the baby gets here because I am sure the "where is Braelyn's wewe" question is looming around the corner.
We exist the stall to wash our hands were two women in their mid-forties both smile and me and say "that one threw you for a loop didn't it? Just wait they get better! No worries you handled it like a pro". Then they walk out.
I just kind of laughed to myself. I remember my mom always saying that you explain things to kids a little bit at a time. They will keep asking and you keep giving a little more till they are satisfied with what you have told them. I have to say after today's experience I think that is totally right. I don't think my 3 year old is ready to process the deference in male and female anatomy and if a broken wewe works, then we will go with it =)
And in other completely not related to this post news. I finally took a bump pictures for all of those who keep bugging me for one =) don't hold your breath of another...but here you go =)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Things a 3 year old will teach you
1)Candy, Cake, and whatever else they can reach themselves is a nutritional breakfast as long as it means you do not have to get out of bed yet.
2)The word Finger sounds weird when you say it 100 times.
3)Fingers do not have proper names. They are all fingers. You have the "littlest finger" (the thumb), the "tiny finger" (pinkie), the "biggest one" (middle finger), the "medium one" (index finger), and the "almost big one" (ring finger). But they are all "just fingers"
4) your favorite color will be assigned to you not chosen by you.
5)Dirt is ok because God made it and made man from it so therefor I cannot be angry when he is dirty because he is made from dirt.
6)Fish Sticks are a vital part of a daily diet.
7)Watermelon is only for little people, and I am not allowed because I am big people.
8)No need to have one best friend, everybody is a best friend.
9)Work is elective.
10) the word mommy can be said a 1000 different ways, but when heard 1000 times a day you may start to wonder why you taught them the word.
11)Bath time=Break time.
2)The word Finger sounds weird when you say it 100 times.
3)Fingers do not have proper names. They are all fingers. You have the "littlest finger" (the thumb), the "tiny finger" (pinkie), the "biggest one" (middle finger), the "medium one" (index finger), and the "almost big one" (ring finger). But they are all "just fingers"
4) your favorite color will be assigned to you not chosen by you.
5)Dirt is ok because God made it and made man from it so therefor I cannot be angry when he is dirty because he is made from dirt.
6)Fish Sticks are a vital part of a daily diet.
7)Watermelon is only for little people, and I am not allowed because I am big people.
8)No need to have one best friend, everybody is a best friend.
9)Work is elective.
10) the word mommy can be said a 1000 different ways, but when heard 1000 times a day you may start to wonder why you taught them the word.
11)Bath time=Break time.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Welcome to the Boom Boom Room
Welcome to the Boom Boom Room, aka my uterus. Oh the days before you could feel your little one move. Even being a 2nd time around mommy and knowing that once you do feel him/her they tend to want you to feel them when you want to do something else, like sleep.
Braelyn is a picking mover, just like her big brother. I have been able to feel her from the outside and even see her kick my blanket for a few weeks now, however the second Wes's hand touches me she lays still. No less then 2 minutes after he has stopped waiting to feel her she is off again. She is a night time mover, hence her Boom Boom nick name. Around 7 pm the acid reflux kicks in, and then by 8 she is in a constant state of movement.
I envision her thinking something like this:
"ooo what is that over there (i feel major kick) ooo a kidney, that is bouncy, kick, kick, kick, hey hey look at that, what is that? (squeezes bladder by sitting on it) humm, I wonder if mommy needs to pee? Naa (bouncing up and down on bladder). Uh oh there is daddy I better be still....ok he is gone lets run our finders across things and make mommy feel all flutter and weird. LOL did you hear mommy? She said it is creepy lets do it some more....( as little tinnical(sp)like feelings spread across the upper rib cage). Ok well I am board now I will leave her alone for now.
-2 hours later laying in bed-
DANCE PARTY time! Forget hitting these crazy things lets just do some new butty busting moves, a little cha cha to the left, oh no mommy don't lay that way, I don't like it (bang bang bang on my side till I re adjust). Like that, yes lay like that. Da da da da da da, da da da da da ta this dancing all around and flipping is fun. Whooooosh summer salt (sp) whoosh and another one (me feeling nauseous feeling as insides are spinning wile this child literally flips herself over and over and over again. Don't believe it? You can watch as her butt passes on by the top of my stomach, again and again, an again). Ok well I will sleep now."
Tap tap on face, "mommy you awake" oh good lord the other one is awake now.
Braelyn is a picking mover, just like her big brother. I have been able to feel her from the outside and even see her kick my blanket for a few weeks now, however the second Wes's hand touches me she lays still. No less then 2 minutes after he has stopped waiting to feel her she is off again. She is a night time mover, hence her Boom Boom nick name. Around 7 pm the acid reflux kicks in, and then by 8 she is in a constant state of movement.
I envision her thinking something like this:
"ooo what is that over there (i feel major kick) ooo a kidney, that is bouncy, kick, kick, kick, hey hey look at that, what is that? (squeezes bladder by sitting on it) humm, I wonder if mommy needs to pee? Naa (bouncing up and down on bladder). Uh oh there is daddy I better be still....ok he is gone lets run our finders across things and make mommy feel all flutter and weird. LOL did you hear mommy? She said it is creepy lets do it some more....( as little tinnical(sp)like feelings spread across the upper rib cage). Ok well I am board now I will leave her alone for now.
-2 hours later laying in bed-
DANCE PARTY time! Forget hitting these crazy things lets just do some new butty busting moves, a little cha cha to the left, oh no mommy don't lay that way, I don't like it (bang bang bang on my side till I re adjust). Like that, yes lay like that. Da da da da da da, da da da da da ta this dancing all around and flipping is fun. Whooooosh summer salt (sp) whoosh and another one (me feeling nauseous feeling as insides are spinning wile this child literally flips herself over and over and over again. Don't believe it? You can watch as her butt passes on by the top of my stomach, again and again, an again). Ok well I will sleep now."
Tap tap on face, "mommy you awake" oh good lord the other one is awake now.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Blogging='s time I do not have!
SO I realized the other day it has been a while since i posted. Funny thing is it hasn't been a long time since I have written. When looking in my blog post I currently have 10 that is right 10 unfinished blog's! That is just too many! Some now are from so long ago I don't even know if they are worth posting, so I will sum them up really quick =)
1. Kaje has adjusted to having a little sister instead of a little brother. A few weeks back he brought me one of his small Elmo cars and told me it was for Baby Braelyn. He wanted to out it in the crib where we have all of Braelyn's little things displayed. He said that she will need this (meaning the car) to play with him. It was so sweet!
2. I think the people on Toddler with Tiaras are CRAZY! Yes I did pageants, NO I will not put my 2 year old in Glitz Pageants! maybe the mall pageant where she wears a church dress and the winner gets a savings bond, but rest assured I will not be spending thousands of dollars and spray tanning my child and putting on fake teeth and hair!!!! Those people are just OUT THERE!!!
3. My hubby heads to VA here soon and I am very sad. Explain to me how you have a Deployment Meeting at a Shore Command? No really sure but we did!!!
4. My sister got hitched! I got sick and swoll up like a balloon. Traveling is so hard when you are preggers. Now Ihave to figure out how I will get back to Memphis for my little sisters graduation from College and my brothers high school graduation...I am sure I can figure something out.
5. Wes's cousin had brain surgery to hopefully help with his MS we are still waiting but so far so good!
6. Kaje heard the babies heart beat finally! He thought it was "cool" seriously this was his response! "Cool mommy" then he informed the DR that Baby Braelyn was a girl and not a boy and he wanted to make sure she understood that. Got to love a 3 year old that knows it all.
7.I am exhausted all of the time again and morning/all day sickness has returned yay me!
Ok so there is a wrap on life here =)
1. Kaje has adjusted to having a little sister instead of a little brother. A few weeks back he brought me one of his small Elmo cars and told me it was for Baby Braelyn. He wanted to out it in the crib where we have all of Braelyn's little things displayed. He said that she will need this (meaning the car) to play with him. It was so sweet!
2. I think the people on Toddler with Tiaras are CRAZY! Yes I did pageants, NO I will not put my 2 year old in Glitz Pageants! maybe the mall pageant where she wears a church dress and the winner gets a savings bond, but rest assured I will not be spending thousands of dollars and spray tanning my child and putting on fake teeth and hair!!!! Those people are just OUT THERE!!!
3. My hubby heads to VA here soon and I am very sad. Explain to me how you have a Deployment Meeting at a Shore Command? No really sure but we did!!!
4. My sister got hitched! I got sick and swoll up like a balloon. Traveling is so hard when you are preggers. Now Ihave to figure out how I will get back to Memphis for my little sisters graduation from College and my brothers high school graduation...I am sure I can figure something out.
5. Wes's cousin had brain surgery to hopefully help with his MS we are still waiting but so far so good!
6. Kaje heard the babies heart beat finally! He thought it was "cool" seriously this was his response! "Cool mommy" then he informed the DR that Baby Braelyn was a girl and not a boy and he wanted to make sure she understood that. Got to love a 3 year old that knows it all.
7.I am exhausted all of the time again and morning/all day sickness has returned yay me!
Ok so there is a wrap on life here =)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Mom, Dad, you have some explaining to do!
These are the words uttered by our ultrasound tech as she notified us that we were having a Girl! To say that complete disbelieve and utter shock hit both of our faces is by far an understatement. I asked her 3 times if she was sure, and she was sure, 100% sure. 3 lines, spread eagle, bearing it all and her mouth was wide open as she laughed at us! Needless to say Kercher did not take kindly to this news. he informed the tech that the baby in mommy's belly was a BOY his name was Brock and that she needed to check again. Nope, no baby boy there just a Baby Girl moving around like an acrobat so we have no, no decent pictures. luckily my office does another ultrasound at 30 weeks! Yay for that i had no idea I thought this one would be it. So hopefully when there is less room for her to move around we can get a good shot of her =)But the more important issues is how to get Kercher to understand that Mommy is having a girl and not a boy.
Rookie parent of one mistake. Don't assume you know the sex of the new baby and tell your 3 year old. he is excited to have a sister, be he is still asking about his brother. He let me know this morning that he would like Brock 1st and then BraelynAnn can come. I am not sure that it is going to work out quite like that. Kids are resilient (THANK GOD) as well as if you keep enforcing things they tend to adapt to them so I am sure it will be fine. I have a friend who was told she was having a girl so she prepared her family for a girl, however brought home a little boy. Granted this situation is not exactly the same, I am thinking we will get through it. Of course I though about her last night and looked at my husband and was like "that had better not be us, he is going to be so confused if we tell him it was a boy, no now it is a girl, then come home with a boy!" At the 30 week u/s they will be able to get a super clear, oh yea its a girl shot!
We are both so glad that we didn't wait for the delivery room to learn the sex of our little one. I would say most of the time a mothers intuition is right on what she is having. I think with all the emotions in that delivery room and how convinced we were it was a boy I am just not sure how all that would have gone, so this makes me very excited! And although I wasn't exactly sure I wanted to know, I am so relieved that I found out. the feeling was not what I thought it would be. It was great don't think it wasn't, or that we weren't excited because we were, but it is just funny. I was so sure it was a little boy that I told my husband I felt until we knew it was a girl that this was it. 2 boys and we were good. I was happy with that. But now having one little girl makes me think that I really need one more little boy, but something tells me you are always going to want one more of something =) and you have to draw the line somewhere.
We are excited to announce that BraelynAnn Ensley will be joining the family in mid July! And hopefully by then Kercher will have come to terms with a sister =)
Rookie parent of one mistake. Don't assume you know the sex of the new baby and tell your 3 year old. he is excited to have a sister, be he is still asking about his brother. He let me know this morning that he would like Brock 1st and then BraelynAnn can come. I am not sure that it is going to work out quite like that. Kids are resilient (THANK GOD) as well as if you keep enforcing things they tend to adapt to them so I am sure it will be fine. I have a friend who was told she was having a girl so she prepared her family for a girl, however brought home a little boy. Granted this situation is not exactly the same, I am thinking we will get through it. Of course I though about her last night and looked at my husband and was like "that had better not be us, he is going to be so confused if we tell him it was a boy, no now it is a girl, then come home with a boy!" At the 30 week u/s they will be able to get a super clear, oh yea its a girl shot!
We are both so glad that we didn't wait for the delivery room to learn the sex of our little one. I would say most of the time a mothers intuition is right on what she is having. I think with all the emotions in that delivery room and how convinced we were it was a boy I am just not sure how all that would have gone, so this makes me very excited! And although I wasn't exactly sure I wanted to know, I am so relieved that I found out. the feeling was not what I thought it would be. It was great don't think it wasn't, or that we weren't excited because we were, but it is just funny. I was so sure it was a little boy that I told my husband I felt until we knew it was a girl that this was it. 2 boys and we were good. I was happy with that. But now having one little girl makes me think that I really need one more little boy, but something tells me you are always going to want one more of something =) and you have to draw the line somewhere.
We are excited to announce that BraelynAnn Ensley will be joining the family in mid July! And hopefully by then Kercher will have come to terms with a sister =)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
It is time I suck it up….
and buy some maternity clothes. I am not sure what I was thinking back in October when we discovered we were pregnant and thought I could make it through this pregnancy without the purchase of any maternity clothes. You would have thought I had never been pregnant before!
I think my initial thought was that I was not working in the office, so I would not need any work clothes. Well that is stil true. I figured I could wear my “fat” jeans (yes I have those) and put on a Bella Band and that would work. Still good there. Then I am pretty sure I could just wear all the cotton dresses I wore last summer because they are cotton, I bought a few of them a little large I figure oh yea sure that will work. Oh yea NOT!
I was at Target the other day and saw several super cute cotton summer dresses just in! granted I don’t really “need” anymore. But it is all I wear in the summer just about and I love it! So I tried them on. OMG laughable! I put on my regular size and although the top of the dress was super cute, let’s just hope that although some of the 80’s styles are making a comeback I really hope that a spandex preggo dress is not one of them! Tried a size up, umm still a little stretchy going on, went 2 sizes up the top looked ridiculously HUGE and the bottom, well it fit, for now! There was definitely no room for growth and given that I am only 20 weeks, something tells me I will be getting larger then I currently am. Not to mention that the few that did fit and looked cute, and had room to grow, would be so short in the front that I would look, well I would look like my clothes didn’t fit.
So….I hopped on the internet a few hours ago and ordered away some preggo summer clothes. I think I can make it till it gets warm. Provided that all this global warming will hurry up and kick in because I am still freezing my tushi off up here. I ordered WAY more then I need. But since I couldn’t try anything on I figured it was better safe then sorry. If I can get half of it to work I will be set. I still need a pair of jean Capri pants because I so do not wear shorts even when not pregnant. But, other then that I think I can make it through the summer =) and hopefully will be back in my non maternity clothes by the fall.
I still just can’t believe I thought I would be fine without any maternity clothes? I can be so blonde sometimes.
I think my initial thought was that I was not working in the office, so I would not need any work clothes. Well that is stil true. I figured I could wear my “fat” jeans (yes I have those) and put on a Bella Band and that would work. Still good there. Then I am pretty sure I could just wear all the cotton dresses I wore last summer because they are cotton, I bought a few of them a little large I figure oh yea sure that will work. Oh yea NOT!
I was at Target the other day and saw several super cute cotton summer dresses just in! granted I don’t really “need” anymore. But it is all I wear in the summer just about and I love it! So I tried them on. OMG laughable! I put on my regular size and although the top of the dress was super cute, let’s just hope that although some of the 80’s styles are making a comeback I really hope that a spandex preggo dress is not one of them! Tried a size up, umm still a little stretchy going on, went 2 sizes up the top looked ridiculously HUGE and the bottom, well it fit, for now! There was definitely no room for growth and given that I am only 20 weeks, something tells me I will be getting larger then I currently am. Not to mention that the few that did fit and looked cute, and had room to grow, would be so short in the front that I would look, well I would look like my clothes didn’t fit.
So….I hopped on the internet a few hours ago and ordered away some preggo summer clothes. I think I can make it till it gets warm. Provided that all this global warming will hurry up and kick in because I am still freezing my tushi off up here. I ordered WAY more then I need. But since I couldn’t try anything on I figured it was better safe then sorry. If I can get half of it to work I will be set. I still need a pair of jean Capri pants because I so do not wear shorts even when not pregnant. But, other then that I think I can make it through the summer =) and hopefully will be back in my non maternity clothes by the fall.
I still just can’t believe I thought I would be fine without any maternity clothes? I can be so blonde sometimes.
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