Here is the ultrasound photo from this morning, I will be 10 weeks tomorrow! Belly bean is finally starting to look like a real baby! YAY!!
Now if only Abbie wasn't so mad at me for taking her to daycare...
Monday, October 31, 2005
Sunday, October 30, 2005
I no longer need a sitter... now I need a maid.
Grrr, I'm bored, but completely lack the motivation to clean my house. It's not nasty dirty, just toddler tornado of monkey-ness cluttered dirty. Really the biggest problem is that I have done no laundry (with the exception of puke laundry for 4 days straight) in like, 3 weeks. Or more. The weather changed, so it hasn't really been necessary-- I have lots of essentials. Abbie's clothes went in with the puke stuff. She has clean clothes. I, do not. Although, my clothes don't really fit right anymore anyway. I am down to my "fat" pj pants, and jeans that I leave unbuttoned. Even my "athletic" pants leave an imprint of the waistband on my gut... I mean baby. No one else can tell, but I can. Maternity pants are still far too big, but my fat jeans are too snug when I'm sitting... what to do?
On the plus side, Abbie and I went to bingo Friday night, and won again. She must be lucky. This time I won a bowl... much more useful than the heart shaped plate that I still haven't figured out what to do with from last time. I think it will become a Christmas gift. Ooops, shouldn't have said that.
And on the downside, I now know the date Andrew will be going to Iraq, pinpointed within a range of a few days that it could vary on either end. Unfortunately, I cannot share that info with the cyber world-- sorry guys-- Operational Security. Grrr. It makes the fact that he is going to go much more real. Is it too late to move to Canada?
On the plus side, Abbie and I went to bingo Friday night, and won again. She must be lucky. This time I won a bowl... much more useful than the heart shaped plate that I still haven't figured out what to do with from last time. I think it will become a Christmas gift. Ooops, shouldn't have said that.
And on the downside, I now know the date Andrew will be going to Iraq, pinpointed within a range of a few days that it could vary on either end. Unfortunately, I cannot share that info with the cyber world-- sorry guys-- Operational Security. Grrr. It makes the fact that he is going to go much more real. Is it too late to move to Canada?
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Yay! The puke has left the building!
We are now working on a few days puke free-- let's hope it doesn't suddenly decide to show up now that I have put all her bedding back in the crib (instead of the bare minimum, now she has her pillow and comfoter back). She is totally afraid of being in the car for more than 5 minutes now, I guess since she has puked in it 2x in the last 2 months. Makes sense to me, I would be afraid of the car too. I just hope she decides one day to eat mac n' cheese (dinner the first night of evil bodily emissions) or chicken alfredo again! The chicken alfredo has been refused since she had a stomach bug way back in February! Eeek, what kid can live without mac n' cheese?!? I don't think I can live with her not eating it-- it's a quickie dinner staple in this house (homemade w/velveeta, not kraft)!
Now I just need to find out if I can find someone to watch Abbie for me tomorrow night-- it's polish pottery bingo again. Not that I really go for the bingo, but everyone is there and it's great to have a night with the girls (even if you are doing something usually reserved for nursing homes and first grade classes). There is so little to do here, you take what you can get! Anyone want to come over here and babysit?
I guess that's really all that's going on here-- Andrew finally comes home in about 2-2 1/2 weeks, so not too much longer. At least his being gone has kept me so busy that this first trimester is flying by! I have another doc appointment on Monday (oooh, halloween!) to see the bellybean, so of course I will post ultrasound pics again so you can see how big the little tadpole is getting!
Now I just need to find out if I can find someone to watch Abbie for me tomorrow night-- it's polish pottery bingo again. Not that I really go for the bingo, but everyone is there and it's great to have a night with the girls (even if you are doing something usually reserved for nursing homes and first grade classes). There is so little to do here, you take what you can get! Anyone want to come over here and babysit?
I guess that's really all that's going on here-- Andrew finally comes home in about 2-2 1/2 weeks, so not too much longer. At least his being gone has kept me so busy that this first trimester is flying by! I have another doc appointment on Monday (oooh, halloween!) to see the bellybean, so of course I will post ultrasound pics again so you can see how big the little tadpole is getting!
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Puke sucks.
Well, as you can tell by the title, there's been a lot of puke in my house. Not mine. Abbie's. At night. Twice a night. For the last 3 nights. Yuck. Thank goodness I have a lot of crib sheets. It really sucks since Andrew's not here, and I am thick in the throws of morning sickness (aka all freakin' day sickness). The constant queasy-ick state of my innards does not help when wiping puke off the walls. We have waterbased paint. Double yuck.
Anyhoo, there may not be an update until the Abbs stops puking. I thought she was doing better today, so we dared to leave the house. She puked in the car. Carseats have lots of little parts for puke to hide in. 'Nuff said.
Anyhoo, there may not be an update until the Abbs stops puking. I thought she was doing better today, so we dared to leave the house. She puked in the car. Carseats have lots of little parts for puke to hide in. 'Nuff said.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Water logged
Grrr... our dishwasher isn't working right... there is a bunch of standing water in the bottom, and I don't think that's normal :-(. I hate handwashing dishes, it takes me back to after dinner as a kid having to wash all the dishes :-(.
It is really cold and starting to rain here, which sucks since the weather was beautiful for the last week or two. Thankfully I got some pics of Abbie playing in the leaves on Monday while the sun was still out and the sky was that crisp blue that can only be found in October. I actually had to turn the heat on in the apartment, which for those of you that know me well, is unheard of! I love it chilly, it makes the best sleeping weather (especially when you share the bed with 2 85lb labs!)!
I keep waiting for the people on the other side of the building in the 2nd floor 3bdrm to get their moving orders-- as of right now all they know is December or January, and since we are going to be trying to get their apartment once I hit 12 weeks in November, I would kinda like to know when they're leaving so we can move over there! If they go in January, there's a chance we won't be able to move until after the deployment starts, in which case it will be Abbs and me moving all our crap to the other stairwell-- somehow I don't think a pregnant woman and a (then) 21 month old will be very effective... unless we strap our stuff to the dogs and make them carry it all over! Actually, it will probably mean me having to bribe the rear-d (the guys that stay behind) with beer and pizza for a weekend of services. The good news is that my dad is in the process of fencing his yard so he can take care of the dogs in the US for the deployment. I love those dogs and will miss them like crazy, but I can't really handle them while hugely pregnant and taking care of Abbie, let alone with a newborn and psychotic toddler in the house. I guess the only consilation is that I will be there with them for about 5-6 months of the deployment.
It will be really weird living in the other stairwell, since I am so close with the people over here. I love to just walk across the hall to visit one of my best friends here-- although one of my other great friends will be just above us in the other apartment. If housing even gives us crap about getting that 3bdrm they will be dealing with me... not pretty if you get on my bad side with all these hormones! We refuse to leave the building, my social life and support network would crumble if I actually had to leave my building to see my friends, since the baby monitor probably won't reach a few blocks. And, winter is cold here. Very cold. (I know, Jody, yours is colder, yada yada yada)
On the plus side, I got my birthday gift from Andrew in the mail yesterday... an iPod Nano! It is so cute and bitty and freakin' awesome! If only the apple store would ship to an APO address so I could order a case for it... guess I'll have to do it the long way and ship it to my mother in law and have her send it to me :-(. As of now, I still have the factory protection glooble on it, because the second I take it off I am guarunteed to drop it in a gravel parking lot and kick it while trying to retrieve it, of course all taking place with the screen side down to bear the brunt of the rocks. Happens with every single new cell phone. I don't even have a gravel parking lot, but I'm sure when I take the film off of it, I will be in one.
Anyhoo, Abbie's nap is ending and I have to go check the mail (I should say drive 15 min to check the mailbox) when she gets up... I should probably go put on something other than my pajamas.
It is really cold and starting to rain here, which sucks since the weather was beautiful for the last week or two. Thankfully I got some pics of Abbie playing in the leaves on Monday while the sun was still out and the sky was that crisp blue that can only be found in October. I actually had to turn the heat on in the apartment, which for those of you that know me well, is unheard of! I love it chilly, it makes the best sleeping weather (especially when you share the bed with 2 85lb labs!)!
I keep waiting for the people on the other side of the building in the 2nd floor 3bdrm to get their moving orders-- as of right now all they know is December or January, and since we are going to be trying to get their apartment once I hit 12 weeks in November, I would kinda like to know when they're leaving so we can move over there! If they go in January, there's a chance we won't be able to move until after the deployment starts, in which case it will be Abbs and me moving all our crap to the other stairwell-- somehow I don't think a pregnant woman and a (then) 21 month old will be very effective... unless we strap our stuff to the dogs and make them carry it all over! Actually, it will probably mean me having to bribe the rear-d (the guys that stay behind) with beer and pizza for a weekend of services. The good news is that my dad is in the process of fencing his yard so he can take care of the dogs in the US for the deployment. I love those dogs and will miss them like crazy, but I can't really handle them while hugely pregnant and taking care of Abbie, let alone with a newborn and psychotic toddler in the house. I guess the only consilation is that I will be there with them for about 5-6 months of the deployment.
It will be really weird living in the other stairwell, since I am so close with the people over here. I love to just walk across the hall to visit one of my best friends here-- although one of my other great friends will be just above us in the other apartment. If housing even gives us crap about getting that 3bdrm they will be dealing with me... not pretty if you get on my bad side with all these hormones! We refuse to leave the building, my social life and support network would crumble if I actually had to leave my building to see my friends, since the baby monitor probably won't reach a few blocks. And, winter is cold here. Very cold. (I know, Jody, yours is colder, yada yada yada)
On the plus side, I got my birthday gift from Andrew in the mail yesterday... an iPod Nano! It is so cute and bitty and freakin' awesome! If only the apple store would ship to an APO address so I could order a case for it... guess I'll have to do it the long way and ship it to my mother in law and have her send it to me :-(. As of now, I still have the factory protection glooble on it, because the second I take it off I am guarunteed to drop it in a gravel parking lot and kick it while trying to retrieve it, of course all taking place with the screen side down to bear the brunt of the rocks. Happens with every single new cell phone. I don't even have a gravel parking lot, but I'm sure when I take the film off of it, I will be in one.
Anyhoo, Abbie's nap is ending and I have to go check the mail (I should say drive 15 min to check the mailbox) when she gets up... I should probably go put on something other than my pajamas.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Everything was perfect!
Yay! Everything was perfect-- nice strong heartbeat, measuring right on time (7w6d)!!! Wooohooo!!!
On my way...
to my next ultrasound (it's in an hour)... wish me and the bellybean luck! I will update later with ultrasound pics!
Sunday, October 09, 2005
The details on Abbie's announcement!
Ok, I know I probably caught you off guard, but I had to wait until our families knew to put the news on the blog! Anyhoo, the details: Bellybean is due on the 30th of May (that's a Tuesday). I am 6 1/2 weeks, so I only have another 5 weeks until out of the "danger zone". I had my first OB appointment on Friday (Andrew was actually able to be there), and saw a fabulous heartbeat (then she turned up the volume so we could hear it!) at 130 beats per minute. The heart starts beating sometime in the 5th/6th week, so that is a great reading for 6 weeks, 3 days! The baby that we lost back in March had a heart beat of only 118-120 at almost 7 weeks, so this is a huge improvement! Baby is measuring right on target (about the size of a grain of rice) and my OB says everything looks perfect! For those of you who know my horrible experience with the German docs when I had my miscarriage, I finally found a GREAT doctor! The practice is all women, and all she wants to do is reassure me that everything is going as it should! She has me scheduled for ultrasounds every 2 weeks until I pass the 12 week mark just to show me that everything is perfect and ease my fears! She is also perfectly ok with Abbie coming to the appointments so I don't have to find childcare-- they even keep gummy bears in the reception! YAY! We are super excited-- this kiddo might allow us to see eachother on our 3rd anniversary (we haven't had one together yet!)... Andrew's parents had their 2nd child on their wedding anniversary! Oh, and I don't know yet if I'll be delivering in the US or here in Germany-- depends on whether the Army hospital 1 1/2 hours from here is going to be taking patients once the guys deploy. That will be determined in January/February. Anyhoo, that's all for now! I need some name ideas, so we can decide before Andrew goes to Iraq (we will know if it's a girl or boy as early as mid-november!). In the pics, the baby is in between the two "+" signs (on the first one).
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Never wanna see another dessert again... well, maybe for a week or so...
Well, I successfully made all my desserts-- and they were a hit! They were for a surprise baby shower we were throwing for my friend Laura-- I didn't want to give it away, since I don't know if she has seen my blog or not :-). She was totally shocked, and since I was the only dessert-bringer, most of my stuff got eaten. Here's the inventory:
24 mini cheesecakes (12 cherry, 12 blueberry)-- I hate cheesecake, but I hear these are good!
1 dual layer straight up normal cake-- that I made my neighbor Michelle frost so I wouldn't screw it up (she made it purty)
25-ish chocolate chip cake bars (yummy!)
1 Angel Strawberry Bavarian Cake-- a recipe experiment... turned out well, but too complicated!
1 big ole' bunt pan of monkey bread (the best thing ever to bake for the smell in your house-- smells like a cinnamon roll factory!)
My kitchen afterwards was a war zone. No kidding. 2 bags of trash to even begin doing dishes (which was 3 diswasher loads, plus handwashing a sink full-- and I ran the dishwasher as I filled it while I baked!)-- it is really hard to make that much stuff with an 18 month old monkey trying to "help" by screaming at you and grabbing stuff off the counters; running up to the 4th floor (we live on the 2nd) with said monkey in tow to decorate before the oven timer goes off; running back down to grab whatever out of the oven while holding the monkey back from the facinating inferno that is a 400 degree oven; sneaking off to the PX to pick up about 65 pink balloons, while hiding from Laura who was expected to be going to the PX around the same time (involved sweet talking the balloon folks to meet me at the loading dock in the back), and then having to cram all those helium filled vision blockers into the jeep and driving home totally hunched over the steering wheel (thank God it's only a few blocks!). Finally finish the baking, manage to get on some real clothes that aren't covered in icing (thanks monkey), manage to get most of the icing out of my hair (again, thank you monkey) since I have lost the time to shower, and run over and try to find a creative way to tell the guest of honor that she shouldn't come to dinner in her old tshirt and jeans-- never found a way fyi... thought of a great idea later... too little, too late! Managed to surprise the crap out of her, and then she ran home to change (well, as fast as someone 8 months pregnant can run anyway)! All in all, the shower was a great success! We had such a great time putting it together and sneaking around trying to pull off a surprise, I would do it all again tomorrow (well... maybe give me another week to recover!)!
This is really jumbled and kinda rambles, and for that I apologize. The child was very briefly released of her previous demon, and without warning it returned last night (and decided to stick around all day, oh joy!), so I am tired and going to bed early. Good night all, and if you know of a good exorcist, please leave the info in the comments section!
24 mini cheesecakes (12 cherry, 12 blueberry)-- I hate cheesecake, but I hear these are good!
1 dual layer straight up normal cake-- that I made my neighbor Michelle frost so I wouldn't screw it up (she made it purty)
25-ish chocolate chip cake bars (yummy!)
1 Angel Strawberry Bavarian Cake-- a recipe experiment... turned out well, but too complicated!
1 big ole' bunt pan of monkey bread (the best thing ever to bake for the smell in your house-- smells like a cinnamon roll factory!)
My kitchen afterwards was a war zone. No kidding. 2 bags of trash to even begin doing dishes (which was 3 diswasher loads, plus handwashing a sink full-- and I ran the dishwasher as I filled it while I baked!)-- it is really hard to make that much stuff with an 18 month old monkey trying to "help" by screaming at you and grabbing stuff off the counters; running up to the 4th floor (we live on the 2nd) with said monkey in tow to decorate before the oven timer goes off; running back down to grab whatever out of the oven while holding the monkey back from the facinating inferno that is a 400 degree oven; sneaking off to the PX to pick up about 65 pink balloons, while hiding from Laura who was expected to be going to the PX around the same time (involved sweet talking the balloon folks to meet me at the loading dock in the back), and then having to cram all those helium filled vision blockers into the jeep and driving home totally hunched over the steering wheel (thank God it's only a few blocks!). Finally finish the baking, manage to get on some real clothes that aren't covered in icing (thanks monkey), manage to get most of the icing out of my hair (again, thank you monkey) since I have lost the time to shower, and run over and try to find a creative way to tell the guest of honor that she shouldn't come to dinner in her old tshirt and jeans-- never found a way fyi... thought of a great idea later... too little, too late! Managed to surprise the crap out of her, and then she ran home to change (well, as fast as someone 8 months pregnant can run anyway)! All in all, the shower was a great success! We had such a great time putting it together and sneaking around trying to pull off a surprise, I would do it all again tomorrow (well... maybe give me another week to recover!)!
This is really jumbled and kinda rambles, and for that I apologize. The child was very briefly released of her previous demon, and without warning it returned last night (and decided to stick around all day, oh joy!), so I am tired and going to bed early. Good night all, and if you know of a good exorcist, please leave the info in the comments section!
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Ugh
I guess I will be holed up in the kitchen all day, baking my tail off-- I have a reason to bake like crazy... I need to make 5 desserts by tomorrow afternoon! At least the oven will be warm.
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