I had my second OB appointment Wednesday. All my bloodwork came back fine and baby's heart beat was 162. My blood pressure was fine and they didn't mention my weight loss, other than to say "oh, you lost weight". I'm 13 weeks 1 day today. I feel fine most of the time. I'm still tired but it seems I'm starting to have more energy some days.
Logan has been wearing big boy underwear during the day for a week now. He's only had 2 accidents since last Friday and no accidents at school. He's gotten up a couple times at night to tell me he needs to potty but has only ended up completely dry once. I guess it just took him being ready to potty train and not on anyone elses time. I kind of felt like everyone thought I was slacking since he wasn't trained yet, but he just wasn't having it. He's doing good at school. I almost feel he needs to be in the next level up, but birthday/age wise he can't. He's just so much bigger and advanced than everyone else. This month their topics are apples, the color red and the nursery rhyme "1, 2, buckle my shoe". The only one of those he doesn't know is the nursery rhyme, but he knows how to count to 10, which is what that promotes. Even physically most of the other kids still look, talk and act like a baby. Maybe he does too and I don't see it or maybe i expect too much out of him....or maybe he's just a little ahead. His daddy was always smart, so who knows. He was super excited to bring Hoot (the class mascot) home with him this weekend. There's a little notebook with Hoot and the mom's have wrote about Hoot's adventures and even taken pictures. Poor Hoot won't have any pictures this week though. We went to feed the ducks and ride the tractors at the orchard and take pictures, but apparently my camera has decided to not work. I have the worst luck with electronics. He asked me last night to say the "God the Father" prayer, so if anyone knows of a children's prayer that says "God the Father" let me know. I have no idea what he's talking about other than the Apostles Creed, which says "I believe in God the Father" but I doubt they are teaching that to two year old.
Nate is doing great. He sleeps through the night most nights. His molars still haven't came through, but he seems to be dealing with it better. He's still eating like a little pig and even ate a couple boiled peanuts at the orchard today. He's added a couple more words. He'll point to the stove when I'm cooking and say "hot". And of course now that I'm trying to document it, I can't remember what else it is that he's saying.
Our friends, Josh and Taylor, came down last weekend to visit. We watched the UGA game here Saturday night. I cooked low country boil, sausage balls and fried pickles for us to pig out on. Sunday afternoon we went to lunch and to the Aviation Museum. For the first time ever, we completed the whole museum. Of course Logan and Jackson wanted to run through it so we didn't, and probably won't ever, get to read all the signs. We had a great time with our friends and miss them so much!
We're headed to Chickamauga next Saturday for a wedding. Laura is a bridesmaid, so she'll be in town. Excited to see her and her baby belly!! They found out today what they're having but it hasn't been officially announced to the whole family so I can't post it here yet. I can't wait for the news to be out!!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Oh Poor Blog
Oh poor blog, how I've deserted you for the last month.
I had my first OB appointment August 9th. Everything was perfect. We got to see #3 for the first time and her heart was just a fluttering away. Such a comforting sight to see....and scary at the same time, having a life live inside of me (AGAIN!!). I'm 12 weeks today. I've lost a lot of weight. In the two weeks before I found out I was pregnant I had lost somewhere around 8-10 lbs (I can't remember exactly). Once I found out I was pregnant, I stopped my diet and gained back a couple pounds. Since then I've lost an additional 9 lbs. I'm down 15 lbs total. I'm smaller right now than I was when I got pregnant with Logan. Sadly, I know that will not stick around for too much longer, haha. I'm feeling ok. I have a ton of food aversions. I can't stand the look of meat, much less cook with it. Poor Brent has been having many meatless meals, like corn chowder or pinto beans and cornbread. I can cook bacon and sausage this time around so we've had several breakfast for supper days. I absolutely want nothing to do with meat. I don't really have any nausea unless I've not eaten. I have to eat before I get hungry or I feel sick.
My main complaint is that I'm exhausted. Exhausted doesn't even describe how tired I am, not even remotely. Nate's molars are giving him a hard time so he's been waking up once a night where I have to go in an comfort him and he usually wakes up 1-2 more times and whines himself back to sleep. I don't have to get up those times but I still hear him in the monitor. Logan has had some sort of sleep issue since we took passy away back in February. Currently I believe he is having nightmares/night terrors. I also think he sleep walks and sleep talks. Sometimes he's sitting up in bed crying and seems awake but definitely isn't. Last night he fell asleep on the couch, I left him there so Brent could carry him up when he got home from work. Logan seemed to wake up, he even agreed to lay down so I could change his diaper and take him to bed. He looked a little wide eyed, but so does Brent when he wakes up from a dead sleep so I thought he was just tired. Apparently, he wasn't really awake because he jumped up as I was changing him, ran into the playroom (which is somewhat the path to our bedroom had he been in his bed) and was screaming for me. He kept saying his legs were hurting (I later figured out they had fallen asleep). He finally woke up and realized where he was and then was all confused and questioning why he was downstairs and not in bed. Gah. It was a 30 minute ordeal. At least I wasn't already in bed. A couple nights before that he woke up in the middle of the night and was beating on the gate on the stairs and yelling for me to open it for him and was very upset that I wouldn't. I'm not sure if he was awake or not that night. During nap time I hear him talking a lot, several times he's been crying. I go in to check on him and he's passed out. It's something every night. Most of the time I just have to carry him back to bed, but then he's up again in another hour or so. Several nights he's ended up in bed with us. I don't know what to do. I've tried a night light, door open, door closed, curtains open, curtains closed, fan on, fan off. Comfort items like his monkey pillow pet or dinosaur. His Buzz Lightyear and Woody toys. Letting Jade sleep with him (he wouldn't stop playing with her so she had to come out). I read somewhere that sometimes sleep apnea causes kids to wake often through the night. He doesn't snore though, which is a sign of sleep apnea. I'm going to ask the pediatrician about it at his well check, but that's another 6 weeks away. Oh my goodness, he's going to be 3 years old in 6 weeks!!
Nate is growing so fast. He's really starting to show his personality and be a little demanding. He gets super jealous if Logan is sitting in my lap and will literally try to push Logan off of me. Neither of them like sharing me at all. He eats pretty much anything except veggies. He ate a hard boiled egg off a salad I got at Applebee's the other day. He ate cottage cheese a couple days before that. He's a big fan of dairy and I'm having to give him apple juice every day to keep him from getting stopped up. He switched over to whole milk just fine. I didn't even have to mix it with formula. He doesn't care as long as it's in a specific cup. He's talking a lot more, but has only added "Jade" to his vocabulary. He repeats almost anything I try to get him to repeat. He follows commands really well. He pulled a toy out of the toy box while I was cleaning and getting ready for nap time. I told him to put it back...and he did!! I thought it was just coincidence so I tried it again with something else later in the day and he did it again. He's done it most every time since then too. He's not walking yet, but as soon as he does he's going to take off running. He's really fast when crawling and can run in his walker. He chases Logan around the house in his walker and it's quite hilarious. Logan is afraid he's going to run over his toes, which doesn't feel good at all, and Nate thinks it's so fun to torture his brother. Nate is starting to pay Logan back for all the torture over the last year. Logan will be sitting in the floor watching TV or playing with a car and Nate will crawl over as fast as he can and tackle him. Nate growls when he wrestles in the floor with Logan or when he attacks a pillow. It's so cute.
The boys both started "school" the first week of August. Nate goes 1 day a week from 9-12 and Logan goes 3 days a week from 9-12. Logan loves it. Nate couldn't care less. He's such a laid back baby. A lot of the kids are crying at the door or hanging onto their mom's leg but Logan runs right in and doesn't even look back or wave bye. Next week he gets to be the class helper, which means we provide snacks for the week and he gets to be the line leader and gets to bring the class mascot (an owl) home with him and record the owls adventures in a journal.
Logan is doing really well with potty training and I think we are almost there. He has been wearing underwear (which he calls panties, hahahahaha) and shorts for the past two days and hasn't had an accident....but he's been holding his BM for those days too, so we'll see where that takes us. I plan on taking him out of the house this weekend in just his "panties" and see how he does and hopefully start going to school on Tuesday without diapers!!
Sorry this got so long! Hopefully I won't neglect blogging as much once I get some energy back. As soon as my computer is fixed, I'll post pics from Nate's birthday party.
I had my first OB appointment August 9th. Everything was perfect. We got to see #3 for the first time and her heart was just a fluttering away. Such a comforting sight to see....and scary at the same time, having a life live inside of me (AGAIN!!). I'm 12 weeks today. I've lost a lot of weight. In the two weeks before I found out I was pregnant I had lost somewhere around 8-10 lbs (I can't remember exactly). Once I found out I was pregnant, I stopped my diet and gained back a couple pounds. Since then I've lost an additional 9 lbs. I'm down 15 lbs total. I'm smaller right now than I was when I got pregnant with Logan. Sadly, I know that will not stick around for too much longer, haha. I'm feeling ok. I have a ton of food aversions. I can't stand the look of meat, much less cook with it. Poor Brent has been having many meatless meals, like corn chowder or pinto beans and cornbread. I can cook bacon and sausage this time around so we've had several breakfast for supper days. I absolutely want nothing to do with meat. I don't really have any nausea unless I've not eaten. I have to eat before I get hungry or I feel sick.
My main complaint is that I'm exhausted. Exhausted doesn't even describe how tired I am, not even remotely. Nate's molars are giving him a hard time so he's been waking up once a night where I have to go in an comfort him and he usually wakes up 1-2 more times and whines himself back to sleep. I don't have to get up those times but I still hear him in the monitor. Logan has had some sort of sleep issue since we took passy away back in February. Currently I believe he is having nightmares/night terrors. I also think he sleep walks and sleep talks. Sometimes he's sitting up in bed crying and seems awake but definitely isn't. Last night he fell asleep on the couch, I left him there so Brent could carry him up when he got home from work. Logan seemed to wake up, he even agreed to lay down so I could change his diaper and take him to bed. He looked a little wide eyed, but so does Brent when he wakes up from a dead sleep so I thought he was just tired. Apparently, he wasn't really awake because he jumped up as I was changing him, ran into the playroom (which is somewhat the path to our bedroom had he been in his bed) and was screaming for me. He kept saying his legs were hurting (I later figured out they had fallen asleep). He finally woke up and realized where he was and then was all confused and questioning why he was downstairs and not in bed. Gah. It was a 30 minute ordeal. At least I wasn't already in bed. A couple nights before that he woke up in the middle of the night and was beating on the gate on the stairs and yelling for me to open it for him and was very upset that I wouldn't. I'm not sure if he was awake or not that night. During nap time I hear him talking a lot, several times he's been crying. I go in to check on him and he's passed out. It's something every night. Most of the time I just have to carry him back to bed, but then he's up again in another hour or so. Several nights he's ended up in bed with us. I don't know what to do. I've tried a night light, door open, door closed, curtains open, curtains closed, fan on, fan off. Comfort items like his monkey pillow pet or dinosaur. His Buzz Lightyear and Woody toys. Letting Jade sleep with him (he wouldn't stop playing with her so she had to come out). I read somewhere that sometimes sleep apnea causes kids to wake often through the night. He doesn't snore though, which is a sign of sleep apnea. I'm going to ask the pediatrician about it at his well check, but that's another 6 weeks away. Oh my goodness, he's going to be 3 years old in 6 weeks!!
Nate is growing so fast. He's really starting to show his personality and be a little demanding. He gets super jealous if Logan is sitting in my lap and will literally try to push Logan off of me. Neither of them like sharing me at all. He eats pretty much anything except veggies. He ate a hard boiled egg off a salad I got at Applebee's the other day. He ate cottage cheese a couple days before that. He's a big fan of dairy and I'm having to give him apple juice every day to keep him from getting stopped up. He switched over to whole milk just fine. I didn't even have to mix it with formula. He doesn't care as long as it's in a specific cup. He's talking a lot more, but has only added "Jade" to his vocabulary. He repeats almost anything I try to get him to repeat. He follows commands really well. He pulled a toy out of the toy box while I was cleaning and getting ready for nap time. I told him to put it back...and he did!! I thought it was just coincidence so I tried it again with something else later in the day and he did it again. He's done it most every time since then too. He's not walking yet, but as soon as he does he's going to take off running. He's really fast when crawling and can run in his walker. He chases Logan around the house in his walker and it's quite hilarious. Logan is afraid he's going to run over his toes, which doesn't feel good at all, and Nate thinks it's so fun to torture his brother. Nate is starting to pay Logan back for all the torture over the last year. Logan will be sitting in the floor watching TV or playing with a car and Nate will crawl over as fast as he can and tackle him. Nate growls when he wrestles in the floor with Logan or when he attacks a pillow. It's so cute.
The boys both started "school" the first week of August. Nate goes 1 day a week from 9-12 and Logan goes 3 days a week from 9-12. Logan loves it. Nate couldn't care less. He's such a laid back baby. A lot of the kids are crying at the door or hanging onto their mom's leg but Logan runs right in and doesn't even look back or wave bye. Next week he gets to be the class helper, which means we provide snacks for the week and he gets to be the line leader and gets to bring the class mascot (an owl) home with him and record the owls adventures in a journal.
Logan is doing really well with potty training and I think we are almost there. He has been wearing underwear (which he calls panties, hahahahaha) and shorts for the past two days and hasn't had an accident....but he's been holding his BM for those days too, so we'll see where that takes us. I plan on taking him out of the house this weekend in just his "panties" and see how he does and hopefully start going to school on Tuesday without diapers!!
Sorry this got so long! Hopefully I won't neglect blogging as much once I get some energy back. As soon as my computer is fixed, I'll post pics from Nate's birthday party.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Oh.My.Gosh.
While I was talking to Laura on the phone I noticed Logan was filling up cups of ice and putting it in a pot in the kitchen floor. I assumed he was "cooking" something like he normally does. But instead......he peed in the pot! OMG! I guess that's officially his first "accident" although it was no accident at all.
He's doing really good with peeing in the potty but he's yet to poop. He either holds it til he gets his night time diaper on or he poops outside. He has absolutely no shame in pooping outside and letting Jade eat it, but he acts like sitting on the potty is the worst possible thing. At least his aim is good and I'm not having to clean the bathroom everytime he goes...
He's doing really good with peeing in the potty but he's yet to poop. He either holds it til he gets his night time diaper on or he poops outside. He has absolutely no shame in pooping outside and letting Jade eat it, but he acts like sitting on the potty is the worst possible thing. At least his aim is good and I'm not having to clean the bathroom everytime he goes...
Update
I'm 7.5 weeks today. No nausea for two days now, so maybe it's starting to get better. I am extremely tired though. Taking care of two kids, one of which is still an infant, is exhausting in itself....then add in pregnancy tiredness. It's a whole new level of tired I've never experienced before. Nate has decided to sleep at night now, but now Logan is getting up every couple of hours. I swear...if it's not one, it's the other! Logan has a little bit of a cold and the rest of a 2 year molar trying to come in, so I'm hoping that is whats wrong.
Brent and I are headed to Minnesota, along with Nate, on Thursday morning to see Laura and Ben. The boys are going to have man time while me, Laura and baby Nate shop til we drop....and since we're both pregnant that probably won't last more than a couple hours before we need a nap! haha.
Did ya'll know Laura is PREGNANT!?!?!?!? She is due February 20th. The day before my birthday and 3.5 weeks before #3. Soooo excited for her and Ben!!
Brent and I are headed to Minnesota, along with Nate, on Thursday morning to see Laura and Ben. The boys are going to have man time while me, Laura and baby Nate shop til we drop....and since we're both pregnant that probably won't last more than a couple hours before we need a nap! haha.
Did ya'll know Laura is PREGNANT!?!?!?!? She is due February 20th. The day before my birthday and 3.5 weeks before #3. Soooo excited for her and Ben!!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Ahhhh...
This nausea has got to go away!!! I was never this nauseous with the boys. I have been constantly nauseous for at least a week now. I'm not throwing up but I feel like I could any minute. Maybe that means it's a girl?? Hopefully it doesn't mean twins, like Logan keeps insinuating. A couple days ago he was talking about the babIES in Momma's belly and he pointed to one side and said "there's a girl here" and then he pointed to the other side and said "and there's a girl here, too". He's referred to the baby in my belly as "babies" several times. I hope he doesn't have some kind of intuition! I don't need a psychic almost 3 year old on top of twins, haha.
My morning sickness ended with Logan at 7w2d and with Nate at 8 weeks. So hopefully I'm almost over this phase. I'm 6w3d today. I feel so worthless and like the worse mom and wife on the planet. The house is definitely suffering and so is meal time. I can't even cut up Logan a hot dog without gagging. Poor kids and Brent.
My morning sickness ended with Logan at 7w2d and with Nate at 8 weeks. So hopefully I'm almost over this phase. I'm 6w3d today. I feel so worthless and like the worse mom and wife on the planet. The house is definitely suffering and so is meal time. I can't even cut up Logan a hot dog without gagging. Poor kids and Brent.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Momma's Boy
Nate is a Momma's boy, through and through. I thought now that he's taking formula I might just get a full nights sleep once every couple of weeks. Brent has tried and tried to get up with him but Nate absolutely REFUSES to take his sippy from him. He pitches the biggest fit. Last night it went on for 30 minutes before I had to go in there. As soon as I sat down with him, he chugged it down. He also absolutely refuses to hold his sippy and feed himself if I'm anywhere around. If I'm on the floor or sitting on the couch and he wants a drink, he brings it over, throws it in my lap, climbs or pulls up in my lap and puts the sippy in my hand. He can hold it by himself if he thinks I'm not looking. Silly boy. I love that he loves me that much, but I wish he'd let Daddy do something for him every now and then! Logan was always very independent and wanted to do everything himself. Nate is the complete opposite. Funny how different their personalities vary.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
My Boys
Nate is learning so much, oh so fast these days! He is pointing to everything he wants. I didn't think babies started pointing til around 15 months? But maybe I'm wrong. He is surfing the furniture with ease these days. He took one step to Brent the other day but hasn't attempted it again. He occasionally accidentally lets go of the furniture and stands on his own, but when he realizes what he's done he falls down. He likes to play rough with Brother and Daddy. He says Mama, hey and ut oh and knows what they mean. He started saying bye bye the last couple days but I don't think he understands what it means yet. We can tell him to wave bye bye or hi at someone and he usually does it without us having to show him to wave. At restaurants, stores or where ever he waves and says hi to everyone that walks by. I thought he was going to be my shy, reserved one! He is taking formula so much better. I was really curious as to why my milk disappeared, but I guess we have that figured out now! Apparently pregnancy dried me up. It was a rough struggle that usually ended up with me in tears every night trying to get him to sleep without boob, but it's over now. I hate that he had to go through that. It's amazing how dependent babies can become on certain routines and things. It was like he was a newborn again and we were both trying to figure everything out. He is sleeping so much better on formula, go figure, but I'm not necessarily upset about that!!
Logan is officially in the "terrible twos". He has one heck of an attitude that we're trying to curb. Hopefully we can get a handle on it soon. I'm about to start some hardcore potty training (again). The treasure box is/was a massive fail. Reward systems just do not work for him, for anything not just potty training. Consequences don't seem to work either. He couldn't care less if I "throw away" his toys for not picking them up. He even tells me to throw them away because he doesn't want to pick them up. Before too long all his toys are going to be hidden in garbage bags in the garage! If I threaten a spanking, he tells me to go ahead and spank him. I just don't get it! He is definitely asserting his independent about a lot of things and usually wants to do everything himself....from putting on his clothes to buckling his carseat. He is finally using pronouns and is not referring to himself in the third person quite as much. Yesterday he hurt his leg and said "I hurt myself" instead of "hurt Logan" or "hurt Logan's leg". He does stutter a lot. I don't know if that's part of the toddler stage or not. It's like he's trying to think of what to say and put the words together in his head, but instead of doing it mentally in his mind, he's also saying it aloud. He's proven to be quite the little athlete hitting the ball off the tee. Brent has been showing him how to hold the bat and how to stand. He makes contact every time left handed but his instinct is to hit right handed. He's not nearly as coordinated on the right. He always colors with his left hand but we'll see if he changes that up. I think it's pretty common for toddlers to use both hands equally. I'm sure he'll get it all straightened out soon.
Logan is officially in the "terrible twos". He has one heck of an attitude that we're trying to curb. Hopefully we can get a handle on it soon. I'm about to start some hardcore potty training (again). The treasure box is/was a massive fail. Reward systems just do not work for him, for anything not just potty training. Consequences don't seem to work either. He couldn't care less if I "throw away" his toys for not picking them up. He even tells me to throw them away because he doesn't want to pick them up. Before too long all his toys are going to be hidden in garbage bags in the garage! If I threaten a spanking, he tells me to go ahead and spank him. I just don't get it! He is definitely asserting his independent about a lot of things and usually wants to do everything himself....from putting on his clothes to buckling his carseat. He is finally using pronouns and is not referring to himself in the third person quite as much. Yesterday he hurt his leg and said "I hurt myself" instead of "hurt Logan" or "hurt Logan's leg". He does stutter a lot. I don't know if that's part of the toddler stage or not. It's like he's trying to think of what to say and put the words together in his head, but instead of doing it mentally in his mind, he's also saying it aloud. He's proven to be quite the little athlete hitting the ball off the tee. Brent has been showing him how to hold the bat and how to stand. He makes contact every time left handed but his instinct is to hit right handed. He's not nearly as coordinated on the right. He always colors with his left hand but we'll see if he changes that up. I think it's pretty common for toddlers to use both hands equally. I'm sure he'll get it all straightened out soon.
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