Baby, Baby, Baby

Today was all about our BABY! My family gave me a baby shower today and it was fabulous. We had so much fun. The shower was given by my Aunt Kim, Best Friend Jessica, and Sister In-Law Janel. It was held at my Mom's house. I love going to back there, it makes me feel like a kid again, no matter how big and pregnant I am. It was so hot here today so I had to stay indoors most of the day today - hot temps don't mix well with big, fat pregnant girls!!!

Back to the shower... We had so many people there, it was great. Daniel got so many cool things. I must say he is quite loved by his aunt and uncles. This is the first grandchild on both sides (the child has no chance in the world) not only do his grandparents spoil him and boy do they, now his aunt and uncles have chimed in. Of course a big topic of conversation was the size of my belly. Most of my family had seen me Mother's Day weekend, lets just say that I grew a lot since then. Everyone was nice about it, until it came to my feet, they look like footballs again.

I didn't have a traditional baby shower, nothing about me is traditional so why start now!! Instead of decorations, they hung Daniels baby clothes on twine like a clothes line. They found baby pictures of David and myself and put them all around the house. We can't wait to see who he looks like. During my shower everyone there made me a scrapbook. We took Polaroids and they scrap booked there own pages. It turned out so well, it will be something that I will treasure forever. As for the gifts, well I don't think there is anything left on our baby registry! Daniel has just about everything he needs from now until he's at least 1!!

So, we have 5 weeks to go. There is still so much to do. As most of you already know David and I decided that we are going to have a green baby!! To make sure that this really happened we had to become green ourselves. We still have a couple of things that we must do to get everything complete but after that he can come anytime he wants. I must say that I am favoring July 4th, we have talks about this everynight. I tell him before dad reads his book now many more days he has. Sometimes he kicks like he agrees other times I think he's asleep!

Please pray that I have a good week, I am a little worried about the weather being so hot!

I have hit a wall!

It has officially happened, I have hit the pregnancy wall. My friends told me about it but, until you get here you can't even imagine. It's the wall where you hate everyone, and everything around you. No one understands and all they can say is, "are you OK?" Which is the last thing that you want to hear. My poor husband, well at this moment I do feel bad for him for having to put up with me. Ask me later and I am sure that it won't be that positive!

The good news is Daniel has dropped and he is head down. The bad news is that he loves my ribs and my back. Some days I feel like every part of my body has hurt at one point or another. I really do have nothing to complain about, until now I have had a easy pregnancy. It's just hard to remind yourself of that.

Work is starting to slow down, which is good. I have just a couple of more meetings and events and then it will be over. My last day, if he doesn't come early is June 30th. God has opened up a lot of big doors for me lately and I just pray that I am able to finish all of them before he gets here.

Stacey

Can we say over concerned mommy!

OK, so I admit that I have become an over concerned mommy! It all started Wednesday night, we came home from church and I was not feeling very well at all. I started throwing up, and got really dizzy. I just went to bed and thought I had over done for the day.

I woke up Thursday morning not feel all that great. I decided to stay home and just take it easy. All day I kept my feet up and drank water all day. At 4 o'clock I took my blood pressure and it was high. I called the doctor and he told me to go to the hospital.

My mom came to pick me up and we went to the hospital. David met us there (Mr. Worry Wort) and they started doing test. They finally realized that I was dehydrated and have a small kidney infection. Daniel is doing fine, although he hated the monitor. The nurse had to keep coming in and changing it because every time he moved the alarm would go off. He is are little adrenaline baby!

Stacey

Where does the time go?

Really, where does the time go?
David left for New Orleans Monday and I had all of these things that I wanted to do - how many have I done? That would be none of them! Yesterday I had to go to our last bradley class, I didn't get home until 11 at night, so I went straight to bed. Today, I worked all day, came home and I have been to sleepy to do anything. The days go by so fast, and I feel as if I get nothing done. I have 7 1/2 more weeks left:) My official last day at work is going to be June 30 after that I get to start mommyville!! That is if Daniel doesn't come early. I am still having to keep my feet up so that they don't swell. I have to go to the doctor every week for a check up, and we are still on a search for a doctor. Hopefully this week will slow down and I can get more done!!!

Stacey

The Football Feet Are Gone!

Well, my football feet are gone. After keeping my feet up for almost 24 hours the swelling went away. I must say, the stay at home thing is NOT for me. Yesterday, I woke up at 6 a.m. because I couldn't sleep anymore, by 9:30 I was so bored! What do people do that stay home everyday? I realize that once Daniel gets here I am going to be begging for time to be bored. However, for the time being, I don't like it. Today I am going to try to work, we'll see how that goes. Tonight David and I have our newborn care class, that should be fun. David and I get to give baby dolls a bath, change there diapers, and all the other fun stuff. Pray that my feet stay OK, and I'll update later on our class!!

Stacey

This was NOT the plan

SO today I am going about my life as I always do - except by 12:00 my feet looked like footballs. I feel great, that's the part that is hard to understand. So I called the doctor and he was able to see me. The good news is I didn't have protein in my urine, and my blood pressure is fine (OK, after the second time they took it) The only problem I have is that my feet look like footballs. Needless to say, my doctor wants me to go ahead and start my maternity leave two months early. Of course the first thing I say... no,I can't it's not in my plan. My plan was to work until the end of June and then take off. That's the thing with plans - they hardly ever work. The good news is I am able to take care of my customers from home and get out only a couple of hours a week. Please pray that we are able to do that!

Stacey