Rough Start

This pregnancy has already been interesting! I have been having a few complications so I am hoping that this baby decides to stick and stay around. If not, I know it is just not meant to be and I am perfectly okay with that. It just might not be in the plans but I sure hope it is! This baby will be so special because it is due on my birthday! I am sure I won't have it on my birthday but just that the fact it is due on that day makes this baby extra special :) I went the doctor today to get my HCG levels tested and might continue doing so for the next few weeks. My doctor is also checking on my progesterone levels as well. Here's to hoping that this baby stays awhile! Hopefully for the next 8 or so months!


UPDATE: My HCG levels looked good but my progesterone is really low :( I have to start taking meds asap in order to keep this pregnancy going. NO wonder it took me soooo long to get pregnant! Next time I will need to be on some meds in order to get preg's and stay preg's. Here's to hoping! I would really like to have my September birthday baby!

Arizona Trip

Griffin and I just got back from a nice trip to AZ! It was beautiful there! It was 75 degrees the whole time with tons of sunshine. It was crazy to see everyone there wearing shorts and tank tops. I forgot how nice the weather is in January! I basically just relaxed and shopped..that was about it! I got a ton of maternity stuff from Shade (who was having an amazing sale!) and some longer regular shirts for when my belly starts showing up, which might be sooner this time around! I also hiked and went on walks twice a day, everyday. I hit up all of my favorite stores and restaurants so the walking and hiking was much needed :) Griffin became really good friends with the family dog Lexi who is a tiny little spoiled Yorkie. He loved exploring the huge backyard and picking oranges off the trees with Grandpa. We had a great time! Now it's back to the grind, back to work, etc. I am hoping to have lots of energy and not be too tired with this pregnancy. I am hoping work doesn't totally wear me out too, yikes. I can't believe we are expecting again. I didn't even know a September baby would be possible! We had been talking so much about not trying for a while because of the economy, not wanting another October baby...those kinds of things. I honestly didn't even know I was pregnant which is exactly how it was with Griff. This time I had been having weird ovary/abdominal pain so I had made an appointment in Arizona with a specialist to check up on things. I had a huge ovarian cyst while I was pregnant with Griffin and I was afraid something was going on with my ovaries. I was actually kind of nervous for the appointment! So, needless to say I was 2 days late so I figured I should take a test to rule out pregnancy and there it was! I had been late a couple months before so this was just a routine thing. We are super excited about this baby and we are in the midst of trying to decide if we want to find out the sex but we probably won't. It would ruin it for me....there are few surprises in life :) Anyway, we are glad to be back and I know Griff can't wait to see everyone, especially Grammy!

September Baby?

I guess I spoke wayyyy too soon on my last blog post. I feel like such a fool because here I am pregnant and due in September! I thought a September baby wouldn't be possible because Kason had been out of town SO much in December. But here I am! I can't even believe it!! It pays to not think about things too much and not try to hard. I was actually excited to take a break from "trying" because I didn't want to have a baby within any of the next 3 months but September works for me! I LOVE September because it's my birthday month and anniversary month :) Anyway, so here we go again. I am very happy but also pretty terrified. The thought of 2 kids scares the daylights out of me! But we are so glad and we feel so blessed to bring another little spirit into this world and into our home.

Another October Baby?

Most of you know that we have been trying since Griff was 9 months old and he is now 15 months old, hmmm. Don't know what that's all about! I was so dead set on having my babies 19 months apart but obviously that didn't happen. For the first few months that we tried I was so worried and stressed about it. Then when it wasn't happening I started using ovulation predictors and when that didn't get me pregnant I moved on to basal body temperature taking. I don't even want to begin explaining that process, ughh. Anyway, now that Griff is older and harder but more fun, I am kind of over even trying! I am actually kind of terrified to have another one. I also no longer care what the age difference is. If Griff is the only baby I will ever have, I will be okay with it! I am also starting to rethink the number of kids I want to have. I am thinking maybe two? We will see...I am not getting any younger! Pregnancy and breastfeeding are the two hardest things on the planet! Anyway, I am pretty darn sure I don't want another October baby so we need to stop trying right NOW. I don't want to have the same exact experience again. I also don't really want a November or December baby. Too many holidays haha :) I don't want to be having a baby on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's. So I am thinking we are going to quit trying until April, May, June..something like that :)I am excited for another little one and sort of excited to be pregnant again but I think I can relax and stop thinking about it for now.

Christmas 2008

We had a nice Christmas this year despite the day after Christmas ER trip, blahhh. We spent this year with just Kason's family and it was a lot of fun. It was fun to see the two grandbabies together. I think they could care less about each other right now but maybe down the road they will be great friends! On Christmas morning we went to IHOP for breakfast and then over to the in law's to peek at our stockings and see what Santa brought. We opened presents for what seemed like hours and then we just hung out and relaxed all afternoon. I got a lot of really nice gifts this year :) A Buckle giftcard, a new purple ipod loaded with all my songs and pictures, an iHome to play my ipod, perfume and a food storage starter kit. Of course Griff got some great clothes, pj's and toys! The babies got so spoiled this year! It was so fun to watch them play with their new things. All in all, Christmas was really nice this year. Next year it is off to Arizona or my family will come here. We will see! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Stitches (real one's haha) Part Two

I guess I jinxed myself. I didn't want Griff to get real stitches and I avoided it when he fell last Monday and now here we are with some real stitches :( The little cut that had some liquid stitches on it has spread to a one inch gash with 12 real stitches. Here's what happened....We have been hanging out at Grammy and Grampy's a lot for the holidays and Griff is obsessed with the stairs at their house. So, I was making my one millionth trip up the stairs trailing VERY close behind him and I turned around for 2 seconds and he came crashing down. He fell down one little step and landed right on my feet but his head slammed the wall. Of course it was the side that had the little cut and the half peeled off liquid stitches. It bled immediately, he cried, I cried and flipped out of course. I was more angry than anything. I hate seeing my kid get hurt and I was so sick and tired of following him up and down the stairs. So, when he fell all my frustration came out with it! So, the cut split back open and spread. The once little cut I was so worried about was now a whole lot bigger. I knew Griff would need to go to the ER and finally get real stitches. Off we went. Kason insisted on Urgent Care because it is cheaper (what a lovely thing to happen right after Christmas, huh?) but they said it was too deep and too large for them to treat there. We then jumped back in the car and headed to the ER. The ER staff saw that he was bleeding and I was crying so they got us right in. Of course through all of this Griff was his cute, happy little self even with blood dripping in his eye. They checked us in and we headed back to a room and they had us put Griff on a bed. The doctor and nurse examined his wound and told us that is was deep and large so he would need to be put to sleep and have it stitched up. They hooked him up to an EKG machine (I think that is what that was????) and they put a few other monitors on. One on his foot, one on his arm plus the sticky things with wires coming out of them on his chest. He liked it at first and then became somewhat annoyed. I left the room as they gave him the shot to knock him out. I hate shots so I wasn't sticking around. That was Griff's first shot besides the Vitamin K from when he was born. I came back in and he was out, it was so sad to see :( They put him on oxygen, then trimmed up the gash with some scissors (it was jagged and uneven) and then stitched him up. They wanted to do inside and outside stitches but because half of the wound was from Monday they couldn't do the inside stitches. It took about 30 minutes or so to do that and then we waited for him to wake up. When he woke up he was grunting and groaning and super combative. It was awful. We could barely hold him down on the bed. Kase and I had to take turns because it was wearing us out! He wouldn't let us hold him, he just kept flailing around. He finally came around and the nurses gave us a bottle to see if he could drink. He slugged it down and was back to normal. We left the hospital, went to Walgreen's for Motrin and an antibiotic and then off to bed we went. Griff slept in this morning and woke up as happy as can be, thank goodness. He has had a pretty good day. He has fallen once and bumped his stitches so we had more blood today. I swear this cut is going to just keep spreading and wrap around his whole head....oh well. He's a boy, what do ya do?

"Stitches"

Can you see his boo boo? Poor kid.

So the moment I had been waiting for came today. Griff fell and smacked his head for the millionth time on our coffee table. Only this fall drew some blood. He fell and then cried and I looked at his face to see blood streaming down from a gash on his eyebrow. He only cried for a minute and we held a wet washcloth on his boo boo to get it to stop bleeding. It stopped gushing but continued to bleed for a few hours, very slowly though..I am not that crazy! If it was still gushing we would have been in the ER ASAP. So I kept an eye on him and realized that it would just keep oozing if I didn't go do something about it. It was also a pretty wide gash so I was preparing myself that my baby might need to get some stitches. Dr Barton squeezed us in and said that he needed stitches, I about died! I was hoping they could do some kind of fancy bandaid or something. I was very hesitant about my kid being poked and numbed and then sewn up, no thank you! I had a meltdown at his circumcision so there was no way I was going to stick around for needles and stitches. I asked the doctor if there were any other options and he said stitches would help it heal best and scar less. He then told me about Derma Bond which is like super glue for skin and I said, YES please! So, he got his little eyebrow gash to come together and stop bleeding with some glue. Thank heavens! Of course this ordeal was worse for me than Griff. He is just fine! This is just his first big boo boo of many, I am sure :)