33 Weeks, 6 days

 I am 35 weeks today! I had another u/s and fetal monitoring yesterday and the babe is still looking great! These were from the last growth u/s and first fetal monitoring last Wednesday. I think it is really starting to hit me that we are having another little sugar and I am getting really, really excited :) 

The u/s tech was crazy fast this last time, we go in every four weeks for a growth u/s and last week started the beginning of my weekly monitoring. She didn't give anything away in the gender department and she said that the picture above is little wisps of hair she could see on the baby's head! Ah! I was dying - I think she thought I was crazy, but that's pretty cute to me. I was laughing because I have had some heartburn with this one and none with Connor - I said watch this one have no hair and Connor had a full head of black hair. I for some reason think maybe this one will have lighter hair, but I don't know why :) 

There is my sweet little pork chop! I think this is one of the few profile shots without an arm or hand in front of the face. It was funny yesterday the little arm was right back up there :) After she checked everything she goes "okay the baby is measuring about 6lbs" - I was STUNNED I had to have her repeat it a few times for me, hahah! I seriously couldn't stop smiling - to me that is the size of a 2 month old, not a baby still in the tummy. I am not going to lie, I was a little proud of myself - that is some hard work on bedrest and a few brownie sundaes right there :) This child LOVES vanilla ice cream! The lovely u/s tech then asked if I was tested for gestational diabetes - yes, I was and I don't have it thank you very much. I saw my high risk dr the next day and he laughed he said it is a perfectly wonderful and healthy size, he said it must have been a shock coming from my little 4lb first born! I still can't get over that sweet face and those CHUBBY cheeks!!

I had to laugh at how much technology has changed from even having Connor. I was sitting there in the monitoring room texting on my iphone, playing on the ipad and sipping my water, juice and animal crackers. This is a far cry from the hospital room where all I had was the tv and a laptop to keep me busy, haha! It was kind of like a treat for me though, I was out of the house and alone - hahaha! They said things are looking good - I am seeing the dr weekly now, I have weekly monitoring and one more u/s scheduled! 

Hanging Out!

Bj left town with his family for the Notre Dame national championship game last week - he had a great time but was obviously disappointed with the outcome of the game! My mom, aunt and cousin came over Saturday night for a "girls night" we had such a fun time hanging out, eating pizza and chatting! We did laugh at one point when all of us were sitting on the couch with some type of phone, ipad or kindle - this world of technology is amazing :) I didn't get any pictues of all of us, but I just wanted to remember how lucky I am to have family who will drop everything to help me out :) My mom got the short end of the stick and had to stay with us until Tuesday and she did a great job sewing my kitchen curtains while I "supervised" from the couch :) I took this picture of Scout boy and told Bj that there were worse things in life than being one of our dogs or kids :) He was looking at me like "What all you do is sit around all day baking the baby why can't you pet me?!"

I may look horrific but I love any picture I have of my sweet boy - he loves to snuggle! He has been sick with a high fever since Saturday night so we have been getting lots of snuggles in. I tell you what, that is the best thing ever. Today we were resting upstairs and he was asking all kinds of questions about the baby. How we would hold the baby, could he put the baby in the crib, how the baby gets out of my tummy, and if we could snuggle the baby. I asked him what the first thing he was going to do was and he said "give the baby some love" - he really is too sweet for words. I taught him how to swaddle using his blanket and scully as guides and he thought that was pretty funny. 

He was playing the other day and goes "look momma, where am I?!" oh yeah he had rolled himself up in the carpet runner - he sure is a silly little one!



He was so excited for game day! We sent daddy a little video message, it was cute! Maybe next year they will go back and win!! That about sums up our last week!

4 Year Stats

Even though I am on bedrest and have time to do things like make Connor's four year check-up, I forgot and we didn't get in to see the dr until the beginning of January - oops! :) I had a hard time with 4, it just seems like all of a sudden everything went too fast. I told Bj thank goodness we have a baby on the way or else I would have wanted one immediately! I just can't believe my boy is 4. I said I am loving the start of four much more than the start of three, C seems to have worked a few of those emotions out :) The doctor said he was perfect! He was so good and when she asked if he liked fruits and vegetables he said "yes, and we made a garden this summer!" it was really cute. She told us that he was going to be such a good helper when we have the baby and I totally teared up, I can't help but feel so blessed and lucky - I have a pretty awesome little kiddo. I almost had a heart attach when she told me I could start getting his kindergarten shots at any point this year when we are in with the baby...what?! How on earth - I think I may have to visit the homeschool topic! He was looking great and she said he is perfect! We do have to make an appointment with the opthamologist, she did this scan of his eyes and said he could be far-sighted. We just signed him up for vision insurance and we will make an appointment!

 

Here are his stats:

Height: 40.5 in 50%

Weight: 34.8 lbs. 50%

 

He is sitting pretty in the 50% percentile! I asked when she recommended moving him to a booster seat and we both laughed with his weight gain he will be 12 before he moves up to 40lbs :) He definately doesn't take after me when it comes to putting on weight :) It was a great visit and we are so proud of our sweet boy! He is getting a little too big!



Happy New Year!

We had a nice little low key New Years over here, Connor had a little ear infection so we just took had a little dinner and hanging out! Bj had to work during the day for a little while so we took a pictue of us stealing his snuggie :) I had a dr appointment in the morning and Connor ended up having to go in as well - after that we were on the couch the rest of the day :)

We had some dinner and a sparkling grape juice toast - you would have thought C won the lottery he thought it was the best thing ever! He goes "I want to toast 6 times in a row!" and he kept refilling our glasses - he loved that we drank it out of real champagne glasses too :)

Cheers to 2013! We made lots of memories in 2012, had some hard times and had a great time as a little family. The best part of 2012 was finding out that little britches was arriving sometime in 2013. I have a feeling he/she will also be the best part of our 2013 :) I am so thankful for everything that 2012 brought and I am really looking forward to this next years adventures!

C at 4!

I had wanted to do a little Q&A with Connor when he turned 3 but never got around to it, so I knew I wanted to do one when he turned 4. I realy hope I remember to do this with he and baby brother or sister because it was SO fun and I can't wait to see how is answers change every year. I couldn't find just one I liked so I used a few different questions from several places. I was so surprised at how much he wanted to do it, and his answers totally cracked me up! Here we go, Connor at 4!

 

 

1. How old are you? "Momma, I am 4!"

 

2. How is your best friend? "Ressey, and Ressey and Cam, Atticus and Vivienne"

 

3. What is your favorite thing to do? "Play with Catey Lou" -- Caitlin was on her way over to play and he was SO excited :)

 

4. What is your favorite color? "Red, blue and Green"

 

5. What is your favorite food? "Toasted Ravioli"

 

6. What do you like to do with your family? "Play hide and seek and watch Mommy and Daddy make my delicious meals" - that was word for word, I mean apparently we dish up some gourmet meals around here! Too bad Momma hasn't cooked in the kitchen since bedrest, ha!

 

7. What is your favorite toy? "My ambulance from Santa and my Captain Hooks"

 

8. What do you want to be when you grow up? "A daddy"

 

9. What makes you happy? "My baby sister in your tummy and what makes me happier is lots more babies!!!" -- that was verbatim and made me cry like a baby! I want to also note that we do not know if this is a baby brother or sister in my belly - C just really, really thinks/wants a sister. He did mutter under his breath "or brother" :)

 

10. What makes you sad? "When Sedona bites my booty or she barks" um, not really sure about this one, to the best of my knowledge Sedona doesn't bit his booty? :)

 

11. What is your favorite show to watch? "Curious George"

 

12. What is your favorite book? "Curious George Christmas"

 

13. What do you love to learn about? "my ipad" this totally cracked me up, I think he thought I said learn on or with? Ha!! Side note: It's really mine, I think he forgets that :)

 

14. What was the best part of your birthday? "opening my presents"

 

15. Where do you like to go? "the zoo"

 

16. What is your favorite treat? "cookies and cake"

 

17. What do you think about before you fall asleep? "Skipper" the elf, he really misses him!

 

18. What was your favorite birthday present? "A baby" he didn't get a baby, I think he means the baby that is yet to come :)

 

19. What is your favorite drink? "Milky and water"

 

20. What is your favorite outfit? "My jammies"

 

21. What is your favorite game? "Candyland"

 

22. What do you love about Mommy? "That you have a baby in your tummy" Um, melted my heart a little, made me chuckle a little - I am pretty much these days an oven for his sibling and I love it :)

 

23. What do you love about Daddy? "He is sweet"

 

There you have it - 23 things about Connor at 4! It was too fun and I can't wait to hear what he has to say next year :) 

My December View from Bed Rest :)

I don't spend much time off the couch these days so I was laughing at my different views from my phone the other day. This picture I did switch from the couch to the chair, our poor Christmas tree is pretty much dead by now but I don't want to take it down. I just love looking at it and the lights. I can't believe that Christmas is already over!

Connor loves his leappad 2! He was showing it off to me the other day and I was taking a picture of my cute new slippers from Aunt Steph - I said she was making me awfully fashionable on bedrest! :)

You can see Scout at the end of the couch, he is a permanent fixture on the couch with me, he has taken to bedresting quite well. Sedona is always laying on the floor next to me at the couch. :)

This is standard somedays when I want to take C's picture, that hand in front of the face. Little stink pot :) It hasn't stopped me from still taking the pictues though :) I love that the cozy coupe is still a favorite toy, that thing is seriously the best money we have ever spent on him. He has driven/pushed/played with that thing every single day since his first birthday. 

Nonny got a new bathtub and we took the box, I am not kidding you it is endless amounts of fun. It has been a fort, pirate ship and boat. He plays in it everyday, it's awesome! I finally had to tell him that I couldn't go in there anymore though - it is a little too hard for me to get out of it and it KILLS my back - he said when I didn't have a baby in my tummy I could play in there :) I agreed!

I just loved this picture, he came and snuggled with me (which he is pretty good at, he snuggles with me all day and I love every single second of it!) after school one day. He wanted to watch something on my phone and I just loved this little smile. I think he looks just like Bj in this picture.

Sir Scout, I mean we joke all the time about how Scout has NO idea that he is a dog. When I die, I want to come back as one of the dogs, they live a pretty cushy life around here. I think Scout has taken it upon himself to personally take care of the babe and I while on bedrest :)

Connor has been saying the funniest things lately and I have to write them down so I don't forget. They mainly have to do with me on bedrest - he told me the other day "remember when you didn't have a baby in your tummy and you could cook dinner?" ha! He told me that they took his blood pressure two times in the ambulance when he got his stitches, he goes "Momma, it was just like I had a baby in my tummy like you!" Ha, poor thing will probably forever associate blood pressure with pregnancy :) He has also been taking the best care of me, if I even think about doing something I am not supposed to he goes "Momma, remember you aren't supposed to be doing a lot, right?" Sweet, sweet little boy. I am pretty darn lucky to have such a great little sidekick bedresting with me. He is starting to get a little cold so he has been even more snuggly than usual and I kind of love it more than anything!

Christmas Morning, 2012

I am sure if I looked back to last Christmas I will have said the same thing, but I am not sure there is anything more magical than Christmas with a 4 year old. Oh my word, my sweet boy has been SO excited for Christmas. He couldn't wait, every morning he wanted to know how many more days we had left - next year I really want a fabric advent calendar, the chocolate one didn't last too long in our house :) Connor was in his jammies right after dinner on Christmas Eve and I think he was ready to for bed! He was a little sad, he kept telling me how much he was going to miss Skipper the elf. He took a few pictures of him before bedtime so he could remember him until next year, ha! This was our little tree after Santa came, I kind of love being Santa. I had a little bit too much fun shopping from the couch for everything but after looking at it I realized I didn't do as bad as I thought :)

Skipper the elf played one last trick on Connor, he taped him in his room on Christmas morning! I was actually the one who woke everyone else up on Christmas morning, I guess that isn't too surprising at nearly 31 weeks pregnant though! It was a few trips to the bathroom and all of a sudden I heard "Momma, I can't get out of my room!" haha! I of course flew up and ran in with the camera so we could videotape him :) He was really happy that Skipper left him a little note and and played one last prank on him :) Sweet, sweet boy - we had a lot of fun with the old elf on the shelf this year.

I will have to get the videos uploaded, he was SO sweet going down the stairs - he goes "Santa ate his cookies, the reindeer ate the carrots and the milk is gone!!" He was SO excited to put it out and equally as excited that they were gone in the morning :) He was then SO excited that Santa had come! He ran over to the tree and asked if all the presents were his! :) We laughed because only few were not his :) We were actually surprised that it took nearly an hour to open everything - he was more of the whirling dervish of wrapping paper this year flying through things! He kept going "this is what I wanted! this was on my list!!" haha!!

Daddy wanted to stop and make some coffee so we were able to get C to take a very brief reprieve from opening presents to get a picture and then we were right back at it :)

This ambulance was and still is the PRIZED pocession of Christmas morning. I mean, he was SOOOO, SOOOO, SOOOO excited about it! He pulled the wrapping paper off SO fast and was screaming "this is what I wanted!!!! Santa brought me the exact ambulance I wanted!!!!!" He RAN over to his toy boxes and grabbed out his police car and firetruck to go with it. It was the cutest thing ever. Bj and I seriously couldn't stop smiling all day. We got a really good video, I mean - I am telling you what it's just magical :) My mom and Davey came over to celebrate with us before they left for my Grandma's. Connor met them at the door and showed them the ambulance and was handiing them their presents, it was so funny! The ambulance has a stretcher, 2 paramedics and a little boy with it. So we have been playing that my little boy fell and hit his head on the coffee table and has to get stitches :) Sound familiar?! :)  

He was also pretty excited about more play food to go in his kitchen. We love the pizza exhibit at the magic house so this pizza set was a huge hit! We ate a lot of pizza on Christmas morning :) 

This little set was the second hit of Christmas, Captain Hook's cabinet of Hooks! Santa was really excited because she got a GREAT deal on this and it went over really well! It has all of these interchangeable hooks, they are pretty cute. His favorite is this one that shoots out water cannons :)

He loved his microdrifters set, legos and everything! He got a new Jake and the "Leverland Pirates" stuffed toy and he loves it - I am not kidding when I say that over the course of the day we opened every single present that he received! It was really pretty precious :) Nonny and Uncle Davey came in time for breakfast and round two of presents! I think Connor was in heaven, he couldn't believe all the presents and he loved having visitors stopping by!

This was my view for most of the day and I just couldn't stop feeling so happy and blessed. It was not lost on me that I was so lucky and happy to be able to be at home and spend Christmas morning with my boys and not in the hospital. That was one of the hardest things for me thinking about when I was put on bedrest so many weeks ago. But, I was home and so incredibly blessed, thankful and happy I was. I couldn't stop thinking about what our Christmas morning will look like next year with two little stinkers! It's so funny to think are we going to have double the boy toys or boy and girl toys next year?! :)

Santa brought the Peter Pan dvd and it was another hit, we have watched it quite a few times since Christmas! Bj got a new "snugglie" as Connor calls it from Nonny and I think it's his favorite gift of this holiday season :) He didn't spend much time out of it at all for the two days he was off :)

"Mini" was I think the family's favorite gift this year, I was SOOO surprised! She hasn't been out of someone's hands since Christmas eve either :)

I just loved him sitting here "reading" with his little slippers and legs crossed. My sweet, sweet boy! We had a wonderful Christmas - as hard as it was not being a part of the big celebration with families it was really nice to be calm and quiet just our little family. We didn't brush our teeth or change out of our jammies, we just enjoyed the time as a family. We played, watched movies, sat on the couch and really enjoyed being together. We are so very blessed and happy and full of love this holiday season! We hope everyone had a very merry christmas as well!