I got nothing...

I'm supposed to be blogging everyday, I have nothing exciting to talk about today.

Let's see. We were going to go to Disneyland today, but got as far as the parking garage. It was a mess so we left and went to the mall. I got some pants that fit me and are comfortable. Funny thing is they are the size I normally wear. I guess since they aren't jeans they are just more comfortable. I also got a few shirts, two of which are in a size smaller than I was wearing when I got pregnant. That's weird but I'll take it! In 3 more weeks I can start exercising again.

The house is starting to get back to normal, since having Anthony, it's still kinda cluttered though. If only the cleaning fairy could come between now and Thursday (which is when My mom and Grandma arrive. Eeep.)

Let's see what else is exciting around here? I decluttered a bunch of clothes this weekend. I even parted with my wedding dress. I am never gonna wear it again, and I swear it was taking up half the closet. And I don't want to pay $200 to have it cleaned and a couple hundred more to have it preserved, so why not donate it to someone else who can use it? That's what I keep telling myself anyway. :-)

I am starting to figure out Amelia's crazy behaviour a little bit. She goes completely over the edge when she is tired or hungry. Or when we have unfair expectations of her. Like today, Jeff thought she would be fine going to the mall with no stroller. At nap time. She is not taking naps much anymore, but still needs some down time in the afternoon. We ended up taking Anthony out of his stroller, I had him in the dressing room with me, and Jeff put Amelia in the stroller to calm down, she was being such a crazy girl in the store. by then we had already been wandering around for quite a while, and she was just done. At least putting her in the stroller helped her calm down a bit.

Frustrated

I am really frustrated with clothes. I only gained 15 pounds with this pregnancy, and have already lost more than that. But things seems to have shifted. My maternity pants are way too big, they didn't fit right when I was pregnant, I can't get them to stay up at all now. Yesterday I got out the bin of my regular pants that were in the garage, and while I can get most of my jeans on and buttoned, they are so uncomfortable! Because I had a c section, my incision is still pretty sore, and I just can't wear the jeans yet. Someone suggested I try wearing dresses, well I don't really have any dresses. I wear jeans every day. I did find one pair of regular capris that don't hurt, but I can't wear them every day!

So since I can't wear my jeans, and the maternity stuff doesn't fit either, I have been wearing yoga pants or pajama pants every day. I'm sick of pajamas! It's been 3 weeks. I know I was able to get into my jeans by 6 weeks after I had Amelia, but I don't want to wait 3 more weeks to be able to wear normal pants.

Maybe I'll just go buy a couple pairs of regular pants, they'd probably be a little more comfortable on my incision than jeans...

Seriously though, what do most women do after they have a baby? Just wear pajamas for 6 months after??

I have become...

that mom. The slightly frazzled looking woman, wearing sweatpants, a maternity top and flip flops, who is wandering around Target with two kids just randomly throwing krap in the cart. We arrived with no list, and left with what we needed ($7.00 worth of breast pads since aparently, the girls have made enough milk for 8 babies, not one, and ever time my kid cries, or I move at all, the milk starts leaking)and $90 worth of other stuff that we didn't need. A lot of it was stuff that will be useful, a tablecloth, some playdough and other craft stuff for Amelia to be occupied while I'm feeding her brother. I also got a few christmas gifts for Amelia. But still. I really just shouldn't go to target.

Weightwatchers...

I joined weightwatchers again yesterday. It was something I did after I had Amelia and it worked so well for me. When I'm nursing, I am starving all the time, so WW really helps me be aware. I am more aware of how much I am eating, I remember to eat at regular intervals (which helps with being starving all the time.) And it helps me get in all of my water and fruit and veggies servings. It will take a little time to get used to logging in everything I eat again, but thats okay. It's good for me to keep track of this stuff.

So much to say

I have so many things I want to post about today, and I'm not sure what to write about first. I started weight watchers again. Anthony is 2.5 weeks old! I'm finally feeling human again after this surgery. Amelia is going crazy being cooped up in the house. I am totally wanting to just take off and drive somewhere. Maybe I'm feeling a little cooped up too?

Oh well Amelia just very sweetly asked for a snack, so I guess I'll go feed the kids and come back and write some more posts.

Christmas!

Look what Amelia is getting for Christmas!

Thanks to my friend Lori, I found out about a great deal on this desk/easel. It's regularly priced 39.99. But it was on sale for 24.99. Then if I tried out google checkout, I got $10 off. So I got it for 14.99. AND I got free shipping too. I'm sure my little artist is going to love it. I hadn't planned to buy her anything like this, but I just couldn't beat the price. She was already going to get a new set of crayons and markers and other craft stuff so this will go with it perfectly. Thanks again Lori!! :-)

Wordless Wednesday #3

Amelia doesn't understand why we can't go out and play today. This is why. Those aren't clouds. It would be clear today if not for the smoke. It's good that the winds are dying down, but it means the smoke just sits over the fires. These pictures are SE of us which is where the Santiago fire is. Doesn't it almost look like it should be sunset or something? I took these at noon today. It's about 95 degrees our right now too, and I think the humidity is around 10 percent.

Wordless Wednesday #2 This is what happens when Amelia finds a freshly baked chocolate cake on top of the stove.

Amelia discovered a cake that I had made earlier that day. I was in the other room and thought she was asleep. Ooops! Oh well at least she had a tasty snack today. :-)

oops

I made the mistake earlier of not closing my garage door. I didn't realize how yucky the air was until I went out into my garage a few hours later and found that everything was covered in a layer of ash from the fires. I guess I'll be washing that clean basket of laundry that's sitting on top of the washer again.

Costumes

Posting this for my mom, these are the costumes we got today for the girls. Aren't they cute? Thanks Kathy for going to the disney store with me. I actually bought two costumes for Amelia as well, but didn't take pictures of them. They are for Christmas, I got her tinkerbell and a sleeping beauty costume. I really wanted to get her the Ariel costume, but they just didn't have it in a small enough size for Amelia. The one she is trying on is for one of my cousins kids, she is taller than Amelia.

38 Weeks

Here's a 38 week belly shot. I'd have a better shot if I'd remember to do these pictures when jeff was home. :-)

Preggo stats so far,

Total weight gain: 14 pounds
Total trips to Labor and Delivery: 3
Total ultrasounds so far: At least 15
Number of times we've confirmed he's a boy: At least 6 or 7
Trips to Babies R Us: Way too many!
Days until the c Section: 13


That's all I can think of for now. I'll leave you with a picture of Amelia in the car. Ain't she cute??

Fires-updated

Click on the picture to see it more clearly. It looks cloudy doesn't it? It's not. It would be a clear day if not for the smoke.



Look at the palm trees blowing in the wind...

There are about a dozen wildfires burning around Southern California today. At least 3 of my friends in different areas have had to evactuate so far. In Seven counties, the governor has declared a state of emergency. We aren't in direct danger where we are, there was one fire in Orange but it has burned further South and is not threatening us. But, it's hot, and it's windy and smokey. Even with the house all closed up I can smell the smoke. I just went out in the garage for something and it's even worse smelling out there.

We've had winds at 30-40 miles an hour with gusts in some places up to 80 or 90 miles an hour! There are trees down, people without power, and 100's of thousands of people have had to evacuate.

So if you're the praying sort say a little prayer for all the people who have already lost their homes and for the ones who still don't know if they will have a home to go back to. Otherwise, send some good thoughts our way.

I took some pictures of the nasty sky earlier but can't find the camera cord to upload them. I'll be back when I find the camera cord.

One more

quick post before bed. There is one thing about being pregnant that I will miss. That's the movement. My baby boy has his head down in my pelvis and his little butt is just above my belly button. And he kicks me all day long. But every one of those little kicks lets me know he's doing well in there. Knowing that this is my last pregnancy, I know I won't be feeling those movements again after his birth. I'm good with that, two kiddos is good for me. But I might miss those kicks and flutters just a little.

writing...

So am I a total dork because I actually like writing most of these blog reviews? It's fun for me. I get to go search the different topics available and then pick what I want to write about today. If I'm wishing I could go on a vacation, I can pick a review of a travel site. If I want to go shopping, I can review a shopping website. I can do as little or as much as I want every day. Yes, I'm sure there are people who don't read my blog as much now because of the paid posts, but I'm okay with that. Writing is a good outlet for me. Even if I'm just writing about where I'd like to go on my next vacation.

I know I'm not a great writer. There are some bloggers out there who should have a big career working in journalism. They write well and I really enjoy reading what they write about. I even enjoy reading their paid posts! LOL I am however an honest writer, and I tell things how I see them. If I think some website is krap, I'm probably going to say so. If I think a particular elected official is an idiot I'll probably tell you.

And I promise in two weeks I'll quit whining about being pregnant, and I'll start whining about not getting any sleep. But at least then I'll have baby pictures to share!! :-)

Labor and Delivery Part 2

The kiddo is napping now so I should be able to finish this post without her assistance. :-)

So we dropped Amelia off at Kathy's and went to the hospital. I arrived at Labor and Delivery and the doctor working said, "oh you're my c section for this afternoon." My doctor had already called and talked to her, so they told us we'd have the surgery around 330. It was early in the day maybe 10 or 10:30 when we got to the hospital. They put me in a room in triage and hooked me up to the monitors. Baby was all over the place. The nurse got a urine sample and hooked me up to my FAVORITE machine, the blood pressure monitor. She set it to go off every 5 minutes. Oh the joy. I hate that thing.

They had one on me after I had Amelia and I hated it. I was recovering from surgery, had to have oxygen in my nose, had an IV in one arm, an oxygen monitor on one finger and a blood pressure cuff going off automatically every 10 minutes. Did I mention I was also trying to figure out breastfeeding for the first time? It pretty much sucked! Anyway, I just went off on a tangent there, sorry.

Where was I? Oh yeah the BP monitor. So I'm hooked up to the BP monitor. They had me give a urine sample and the nurse said someone from the lab would be coming to take blood. An hour later she came back and asked if the lab had come yet, I said no. Finally a couple hours after that the lab came and got my blood. Then around 2 PM the nurse comes back and says the labs are back, but they are waiting for the doctor to come back from lunch to look at them. Finally at 3 or so (a half hour before I'm supposed to be ready to have this baby!!) the doctor comes in and says I can go home. She told me that my BP was great, my labs were great and everything else looked fine. So I spent the whole day thinking I was going to have a baby, and I got sent home to be pregnant for two more weeks.

Stupid Kaiser.

Trip to Labor and Delivery Part 1.

Part 1 (Amelia is in bed with me helping me type, so I'm not sure how far I will get on this post before she needs my attention. LOL)

So I never posted much about what happened on Wednesday. I had a check up with my Doctor that morning. Amelia and I go in, and the first thing they have me do is pee on a stick and check my BP. My BP was high and there was protein in my urine. These are both signs of Pre Eclampsia which is something I had with Amelia. So I walk into my appointment and the doctor starts asking how I'm doing, I tell her I feel like krap, and that I'm really swollen. Then she looks at my chart on the computer and says "Your BP is high. You have protein in your urine. Can someone come pick Amelia up now so you can go have the baby?" I was like what? Then she asked if I had eaten breakfast. She then told me they couldn't do the surgery for 8 hours after I had eaten, so I probably had time to go drop her off somewhere and get to the hospital to get hooked up and start monitoring until it was time for the c section.

I called Jeff and Kathy (and most everyone else I knew). Jeff came and met me at home and we got our bags packed and went to drop Amelia off. By this time I am a little nervous, but mostly really happy that I am going to be done being pregnant and have my baby soon!

Amelia needs my attention now, I'll write more about this later on.

My sweet girl

Amelia is in love with babies. She knows there is a baby in my tummy, but she also thinks there is a baby in her tummy. I'm thinking she is getting the idea a little more today though. I've been trying to get her ready for me to go to the hospital and have him, and for her to go to Kathy's house for a few days. So anyway earlier today I asked her to go into her room to do something, and she told me no. She said she wanted to stay here and talk to "Amphony" as she calls him. Then she told me he was sleeping, and he was ready to come out now. She said "lets go mama. I go a hospital, and baby Amphony come out of your tummy." Awwww what a sweet girl. Poor kid has no idea what she's in for when this baby arrives!

I've got lots of stuff going on this week. And, I'm tired.

Yesterday I had a NST. In the morning I started having vertigo really badly. Every time I'd change position I'd feel like I was spinning. So, I mentioned it at my NST and got some flack for having driven myself there that way. Don't know how else I was supposed to get there. Baby was good, although it took him a little longer to finish the test. Not because he wasn't active, but because he was all over the place, they needed him to calm down so they could get his baseline heartbeat. Uh oh, he's already like his sister won't calm down! LOL

So Jeff came and got me from my appointment since they didn't want me to drive. Then he went and picked Amelia up from Kathy's house. It was nice that he was able to take the afternoon off to make sure I was okay, but sometimes it's easier to deal with Amelia and the house on my own. She gets so excited when Daddy is around, that she gets a little wound up. LOL And I still had to make dinner. I think he was home for moral support and to make sure I wasn't going to pass out or something. :-)

Uhoh, Amelia is quiet, I'll be back to post more later.

This is what happens when Amelia finds my lip gloss. At least it matches her shirt! :-)