Birthdays

Happy Birthday my sweetheart!!!

I love you! I hope that you have a wonderful day! The pics are the most recent ones I had of my Stu. They are Halloween pics from this year.

Well it certainly has been a while....

1st pic: Audrey eating spaghetti, about 7 and 1/2 months old.
2nd pic: Audrey drinking juice, same day as spaghetti.
3rd pic: Audrey eating a cookie, two days later.
4th pic: Audrey, Halloween, she is a kitty, Grandpa Howse gave her the costume.
5th pic: Audrey eating Zwieback Toast, sometime in Oct.

Things have been crazy around here. And I just forget to put anything up on here.

Well a synopsis of what the past 6 or so months have been like.

Well in May we decided to look for a house to move into. Having a water heater spray hot water into the room that your baby would be moving into, doesn't really make you want to stay in that apartment. So we started looking into the housing market. Scarey... good grief. After about a month of looking into things. We got a call from my husbands parents, they have a friend who needs to sell his house quick. It needs work but this means we may be able to get a deal on the house.

We go look at the house and within 3 weeks we have made an offer and are about to close on the house...

All of the sudden I am having pains in my stomach... I mean put me out of commission pains. I need to go to the hospital I can't sit up pains. So we drop the babe off at grandma's house. And head into the ER which is only like 2 blocks from grandma's. It takes them 5 or 6 hours we need to bring the babe to the hospital she needs to nurse...

An x-ray and ultra sound later...

I have gall stones and the doctors are saying it is best to have surgery to get the gall bladder out. Yikes!! Should I have the surgery... Hmmmm well if I don't then there is a big possibility that I could have the same thing happen during a subsequent pregnancy. Ok, I will have the surgery.

Well the only time I can schedule the surgery for is one month from then. Ok fine I will do that. But I am still having pain right now. 3 days later I am going back to the Er. My skin is very very yellow. Crap I am jaundiced. this time they take me right in and put me on strong pain meds. Can't nurse the babe for at least 3 days after this. They keep me overnight and do an ERCP scope to get the stone that is plugging up my bile duct. Audrey was sooo mad at me after that surgery. She wanted to eat but I couldn't feed her. In fact mostly what I remember from that night is that she cried every time I held her so mom and dad had to take her home and try to figure out how to feed her from the bottle. At that point she really wasn't liking the bottles.

The doctors talk to me and tell me that I am going to be having the surgery that next tuesday. Ok, well lets get ready for this. Still can't nurse Audrey. But she is taking the bottle very easily now. Tuesday comes and I am in the hospital. I can't see anything I don't know anyone and I am waiting for surgery. I don't remember much until I am waking up and my husband and my mom are there with me trying to get me to see the ducks outside of the window. And they kick me out of the room like an hour later. I can barely stand and they send me home.

Anyways... That next friday we are signing on the house. And we need to get things packed up and ready to be out of the apartment by the end of the month which is only 3 weeks away. And we need to get the house into livable conditions. The paint and the carpet were all original from 1981. so we need to repaint, recarpet, and lay down new linoleum. Well at least we can pay some one else to do the tile and carpet. But we have to get the house ready for all of that.

The lawn is weeds, the house is full of junk...

Ok, lets get to work. First, cleaning the house, get the walls ready to be painted. tear out the carpet, the gross toilets, cut down the weeds, trim the tree. Pack the apartment.

But with a lot of help from all of our family we get the house ready to be moved into. Now we need lots of help to move all of our own junk into the house. In one night... or else we need to pay the moving van lots of extra money.

Wahoo! We have wonderful friends and family that helped us get it all done. Wow...

That was all in June and July...

Now we have the house mostly settled in... we need blinds and railings on the stairs but the front lawn has a sprinkler system installed and we laid grass about a month ago.

The baby has 2 teeth and is learning to get around faster crawling and is trying to walk. She loves to eat mommy and daddy's food. And she can be a handful when she wants to. As in right now.. I think she is hungry. I know I am. Anyways here are some pics of her.

hmmm Update???

Well I realize that it has been forever since my last update... but things have gotten a little hecktic around here...

So I had my baby girl on March 5th 2007. She was born at 10:05 am. 6 lbs and 0 ounces. 19 inches long.

I went in the night before to begin the inducement process. And I started labor at about 3 am. I then asked for an epidural at 3:30ish... My hubby could tell you about the right times... Recieved the epidural at 4:30ish. And promptly fell asleep. At 7am the doctor came in to check on me and be there when they started the pitocin. And she figured that she wouldn't have to be back until the afternoon. So she went to her office across the valley. Two hours later they checked me and I was ready to start pushing the babe out. So they then called the doctor to have her come back. Luckily my drugs worked wonderfully and I was mostly asleep through apparently the hardest part of labor. :D

We had to wait for a while for the doctor to get to the hospital. But once she got there the baby was out within like 20 mins. She did have a little bit of trauma and wasn't breathing when she was born but they fixed that very quickly. I held her for about 3 seconds before they took her into the nursery to get an i.v. put in her little hand. She was beautiful. And I was soooo happy to see her finally.

But the whole thing felt a little weird... I was just happy to be there having my daughter. My husband and the doctor were both a bit surprized at how I acted... I guess I was too calm for them. The doctor asked if I had taken any anti- depressents before delivery. Because my daughter was acting just as calm through all of her stuff she was going thru.

Anyways... now she is 2 months old and doing wonderfully... Most nights she only wakes up once to eat. And lately this past week she has been sleeping 7 hours straight at night. Then in the morning she will wake up, eat and then go back to sleep for another 2-3 hours. I guess I am blessed for all of that.

It is very interesting trying to get used to life with a baby. Trying to take care of her, the house, and my sweet hubby... oh and then trying to take care of myself.

So here are a few pics of her....

Baby blog

I suppose I should update this....

I am 30 weeks along now... just started into the 2 week appointments with the doctor.
Everything has been going well with the pregnancy. I haven't been really sick at all *knock on wood*. I have just been told by the doctor that I have Gestational Diabetes. I have yet to see the dietitian but I will be speaking with them shortly. And they are going to put me on some drugs to help control my sugar levels. But so far I have been right on track with my weight gain. I have only gained 17 lbs.

The nurse practioner... who I saw today.... said that it looked like I had a "little bit of" diabetes... that made me laugh. How does one only have a "little bit"? She said also that the babies head felt like it was down in the correct position. 2 weeks ago the baby was laying sideways in my tummy. I wouldn't be surprized if she moved a couple more times before she is through with being inside me.

Anyways... I think I am just rambling right now. So...... talk to y'all laters...