We've picked up some kind of yucky stomach bug around our house. :( Luke started it all on Saturday, when he threw up twice in the morning, but that seemed to be the end of it at that point. Then on Monday, I woke up feeling yucky. :( I was able to get through most of my day, but I just didn't feel right. By dinner time, I made it home from a walk with my friend Tami, and it was all downhill from there. Vomiting, extreme fatigue, faintness, a very sore stomach...NOT fun! I spent all day yesterday on the couch, snoozing and hoping to feel better. Luke was SUCH an angel all day. He played quietly here in the family room while I rested and just even let me nap here and there without getting himself into any trouble. What a big boy!! He started in with some diarrhea yesterday afternoon and then Ty came home with all the same symptoms I had. :( I was starting to rejoin the land of the living by evening last night, but Ty is now feeling the brunt of it, and even had to call into work today...the first time he's EVER done that since he's worked for Sonia. Poor guy...he was so worried last night about not being able to work today. "This'll be an expensive illness if I don't go in tomorrow. It cost each of us a day of work." Yup. But whatcha gonna do? Unfortunately, neither one of us have sick benefits or paid time off. I don't, simply because I'm only per diem, but Ty doesn't because he's self-employed. :( Guess that's what our emergency fund is for, right? A rainy day. Or in our case this morning, a SNOWY day!
Yup...you read that right....it's SNOWING here this morning. Gigantic, heavy flakes of that white stuff are falling from the sky as I type. It's beautiful! It rained too much over the last 24 hours for it to stick, I think, but it's beautiful to watch falling. We are all huddled here on the couch in our pj's trying to get some HoneyNut Cherrios and gatorade on board. Luke and I are making much better headway at that than poor Ty. It certainly is no fun to be sick! But the snow somehow makes it just a little more tolerable!
Well...Master Luke is asking for me to turn on the fireplace, so I shall go appease him. It IS a bit chilly in here. I'm sure I'll find him huddled into his Luke-sized recliner shortly, as he enjoys the warmth of the fireplace. It's his favorite spot when it's chilly! :) Quite cute. I'm off for now to attend to my sickies. Hopefully we'll all be on the mend soon!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
I only have eyes for you...
So I've been enamored with Luke's eyes lately! I realized as I was cruising through some of the recent pictures of him that I have taken, that I have inexplicably focused lots of my efforts on his eyes! (Remember the picture from my last entry?) I am just enamored with them! Pictures really don't do them justice. Really. I wish you could see how incredible they are...especially just as he climbs out of bed and into my arms as we rock together with the morning sun streaming in through his window. Or how the color changes with the time of day or his surroundings. I'm just in awe of him lately. Truly in love with my son! I could literally just sit and stare at his precious face for hours...that is, if he'd let me! :) There is just something about his skin...the soft, glowing pink of his cheeks surrounding those blue eyes that are rimmed in dark, long lashes. Oh...what a beautiful boy I have! I love, love, love him!!!!! I wish these precious moments could last forever. I'm reminded constantly of how fast he is growing and how numbered these magical toddler days are. Makes me sad when I think of it that way. I wish he could just stay little forever! Here are some of those pictures I was telling you about...
I was so caught up in the whole eye-thing today that I even snapped this one...
My blue-eyed boy and my brown-eyed girl! :) Wonder what color eyes the Bambino will have. Oh.....speaking of Baby.....I have officially entered into my second trimester! For many pregnant women, this means we can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the risk of miscarriage is now much lower. That is a good feeling, although I am still feeling a little on alert from the spotting I had. It seems ironic to me that with my first pregnancy, I hardly worried about a thing. I never recall feeling worried about miscarriage or focusing much on all that could go wrong. I always say that I was blissfully ignorant! That is, until things started to happen. But this time around, I'm not. Its ironic to me because most first time moms-to-be are super cautious and vigilant about their pregnancies. They worry about their diets, their exercising, eating just the right things, or making sure not to eat things that might be harmful. Some go as far as to change the kind of deodorant they use, because of the aluminum content in most deodorants. It's not that I wasn't careful in my pregnancy with Luke. I was. I tried to exercise, eat alright and abstain from things that would hurt the baby (like alcohol or too much caffeine). I just remember feeling pretty easy-going. Maybe I'm just romanticizing it in my mind...maybe I was a little neurotic at times (I'm sure my mom or sister could tell ya!) but I don't remember being that way. Anyway...all that to say that I am admittedly feeling a teeny-tiny bit neurotic this time around. At-least when it comes to weird sensations, spotting, lifting, eating well, and exercise. That control-junkie inside me wants to make sure that IF something does go wrong again this time, that I can't look back look back and find something to blame myself for. I never really felt guilty for anything that happened with Luke. I was lucky that way. A lot of preemie moms do. But like I said, I was blissfully ignorant and somehow that ignorance removed any possibility that I somehow caused my pre-e. (Just so you know, I KNOW that there is a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing I could have done to stop my pre-e! It just happened.) I guess the difference this time around is that I know that there are some things that can possibly help my chances of not having it again, and I just want to make sure I'm doing all those things. Make sense??
Okay...I'm rambling. Sorry. Wasn't intending to go there tonight, and seeing that it's getting late, I should just rest this weary head. Hope you all are enjoying your weekend! And quickly, I just wanted to say a great, big CONGRATULATIONS to my online-buddy Kristin (who also suffered from severe pre-eclampsia with her first son Easton, born at 33 weeks) but who just delivered a healthy, 8lb 15oz son...Dalton Cole via a SCHEDULED c-section on Friday! Welcome to the world, Dalton! You and your mommy give me hope for a normal pregnancy! :)
I was so caught up in the whole eye-thing today that I even snapped this one...
My blue-eyed boy and my brown-eyed girl! :) Wonder what color eyes the Bambino will have. Oh.....speaking of Baby.....I have officially entered into my second trimester! For many pregnant women, this means we can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the risk of miscarriage is now much lower. That is a good feeling, although I am still feeling a little on alert from the spotting I had. It seems ironic to me that with my first pregnancy, I hardly worried about a thing. I never recall feeling worried about miscarriage or focusing much on all that could go wrong. I always say that I was blissfully ignorant! That is, until things started to happen. But this time around, I'm not. Its ironic to me because most first time moms-to-be are super cautious and vigilant about their pregnancies. They worry about their diets, their exercising, eating just the right things, or making sure not to eat things that might be harmful. Some go as far as to change the kind of deodorant they use, because of the aluminum content in most deodorants. It's not that I wasn't careful in my pregnancy with Luke. I was. I tried to exercise, eat alright and abstain from things that would hurt the baby (like alcohol or too much caffeine). I just remember feeling pretty easy-going. Maybe I'm just romanticizing it in my mind...maybe I was a little neurotic at times (I'm sure my mom or sister could tell ya!) but I don't remember being that way. Anyway...all that to say that I am admittedly feeling a teeny-tiny bit neurotic this time around. At-least when it comes to weird sensations, spotting, lifting, eating well, and exercise. That control-junkie inside me wants to make sure that IF something does go wrong again this time, that I can't look back look back and find something to blame myself for. I never really felt guilty for anything that happened with Luke. I was lucky that way. A lot of preemie moms do. But like I said, I was blissfully ignorant and somehow that ignorance removed any possibility that I somehow caused my pre-e. (Just so you know, I KNOW that there is a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing I could have done to stop my pre-e! It just happened.) I guess the difference this time around is that I know that there are some things that can possibly help my chances of not having it again, and I just want to make sure I'm doing all those things. Make sense??
Okay...I'm rambling. Sorry. Wasn't intending to go there tonight, and seeing that it's getting late, I should just rest this weary head. Hope you all are enjoying your weekend! And quickly, I just wanted to say a great, big CONGRATULATIONS to my online-buddy Kristin (who also suffered from severe pre-eclampsia with her first son Easton, born at 33 weeks) but who just delivered a healthy, 8lb 15oz son...Dalton Cole via a SCHEDULED c-section on Friday! Welcome to the world, Dalton! You and your mommy give me hope for a normal pregnancy! :)
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
A day with my 'other' man...
Luke and I flew solo to my OB appointment today. We weren't able to schedule it on a day when Ty was off, this time around. :( He'll be there for all the rest of the though, so no big deal! The appointment itself went great! I prepped Luke all morning for what to expect, making sure that he understood that we were going to Mommy's doctor and not Lukey's (they are in the same building, so I wanted to be sure he didn't worry that he was the one being seen.) We talked a lot about the baby beforehand and how we would hear the 'whoosh-whoosh-whoosh" of the baby's heartbeat. He was excited for that and kept saying "Baby...whoosh!" Cute! We went over how he would sit in the chair next to Mommy while I laid on the table and the doctor touched my belly....and how IF he behaved well during the appointment, he could have a 'sutter' (aka sucker) afterwards. I think the sucker bribery alone would have done the trick :P but either way, he was an absolute angel!
My BP this time around was a teeny-tiny bit better than last appointment (112/68....still normal by the doctor's standards, but still what I consider high for me) and we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat, although mine was masking it for a good part of the time. It was around 150, which is nice and healthy! Dr. Hage did a quick ultrasound to peek at my little bambino and we saw the heartbeat there too! No pictures this time around though, since the printer wasn't working properly. :( Bummer! But I saw him/her as clear as day, with its nice, round head and a body that no longer looks like an alien! :) Just a teeny version of a newborn! Everything else checked out well and I am just 2 days shy of beginning my 2nd trimester! I was able to schedule my 20 week fetal anatomy ultrasound for 6 weeks from now (I'll actually only be 19 weeks, but that's okay!) Yay! That ultrasound would normally be the one when we would learn of the baby's gender, but Ty and I are planning to share the experience of finding out with our parents and a few close friends a week earlier at a fetal imaging place in Redlands. We'll be able to have everyone in one big room, equipped with a big-screen tv to watch the 3D ultrasound together! I know my parents and Ty's mom have never been afforded the opportunity to see something like that, since ultrasounds really weren't done when we were all born, so this will be extra special! We're calling in our Gender Party....maybe G-day for short?! I can hardly wait! March 30th! Yay!
After the OB, Luke and I headed back to Target to exchange some of the towels and things I bought the other day for the downstairs bathroom, and then headed home for naptime. While he slept, I did the next installment of my every 4 week belly pictures (check out the very bottom of the blog page for the progression to date) and then photoshopped a bit. When he woke, the first words out of his mouth were "Cheese?" (His way of saying he wants his picture taken) so I snapped a new of him! Check out these big, blue eyes!
Then he asked for his hat, and I obliged. I bought this for him last weekend at the Gap...I just couldn't resist it! My Prince Charming...
And last, he asked for Tess...
A boy's favorite things....his hat, his dog and his Snuggie! :) Not the greatest quality of pictures, but not to shabby either, when you consider that neither the dog nor Luke wanted to hold still long enough for me to focus! :)
After our impromptu photo session, we headed outside for some sunshine, a juice box and to wait for the garage door repairman who decided NOT to show up! Grrrr! I really hate unreliable people! Oh well! Luke and I enjoyed the fresh air, a little tee-ball and a few good rides down his slide. :) Who can complain about that!
Guess that's it for today! Happy sleeping!
My BP this time around was a teeny-tiny bit better than last appointment (112/68....still normal by the doctor's standards, but still what I consider high for me) and we were able to hear the baby's heartbeat, although mine was masking it for a good part of the time. It was around 150, which is nice and healthy! Dr. Hage did a quick ultrasound to peek at my little bambino and we saw the heartbeat there too! No pictures this time around though, since the printer wasn't working properly. :( Bummer! But I saw him/her as clear as day, with its nice, round head and a body that no longer looks like an alien! :) Just a teeny version of a newborn! Everything else checked out well and I am just 2 days shy of beginning my 2nd trimester! I was able to schedule my 20 week fetal anatomy ultrasound for 6 weeks from now (I'll actually only be 19 weeks, but that's okay!) Yay! That ultrasound would normally be the one when we would learn of the baby's gender, but Ty and I are planning to share the experience of finding out with our parents and a few close friends a week earlier at a fetal imaging place in Redlands. We'll be able to have everyone in one big room, equipped with a big-screen tv to watch the 3D ultrasound together! I know my parents and Ty's mom have never been afforded the opportunity to see something like that, since ultrasounds really weren't done when we were all born, so this will be extra special! We're calling in our Gender Party....maybe G-day for short?! I can hardly wait! March 30th! Yay!
After the OB, Luke and I headed back to Target to exchange some of the towels and things I bought the other day for the downstairs bathroom, and then headed home for naptime. While he slept, I did the next installment of my every 4 week belly pictures (check out the very bottom of the blog page for the progression to date) and then photoshopped a bit. When he woke, the first words out of his mouth were "Cheese?" (His way of saying he wants his picture taken) so I snapped a new of him! Check out these big, blue eyes!
Then he asked for his hat, and I obliged. I bought this for him last weekend at the Gap...I just couldn't resist it! My Prince Charming...
And last, he asked for Tess...
A boy's favorite things....his hat, his dog and his Snuggie! :) Not the greatest quality of pictures, but not to shabby either, when you consider that neither the dog nor Luke wanted to hold still long enough for me to focus! :)
After our impromptu photo session, we headed outside for some sunshine, a juice box and to wait for the garage door repairman who decided NOT to show up! Grrrr! I really hate unreliable people! Oh well! Luke and I enjoyed the fresh air, a little tee-ball and a few good rides down his slide. :) Who can complain about that!
Guess that's it for today! Happy sleeping!
Monday, February 19, 2007
A close call for Ty!
God was looking out for Ty today, that's for sure! He was driving home from work on the freeway when the car in front of him kicked up some tire tread that was in the lane. The tread crashed into Ty's windshield, completely destroying it! Thank goodness he was alright AND wearing his sunglasses, since LOTS of glass came showering all over him! The windshield itself stayed mostly intacted, but lots of it also came in on him! Wanna see?
Crazy! I'm just so thankful that he is okay! It could've been MUCH, much worse. Phew! He is a lucky man today! The sad part is that not one person even stopped to see if he was alright. :( Guess that is how California drivers are though. Ty said that the lady who actually kicked up the tread just looked in her rearview mirror, watched the tread smash into him and kept on driving. Nice. We called the insurance company and they are sending out a company to replace the windshield here at our house tomorrow morning. The tire dented the roof too and made a few large scratches, so we'll have to take it in to a repair shop soon to fix all that. It'll be covered though, after our deductible.
Well...I have a little boy sitting here begging me "Mama, play! Mama, play!" so I should really get going. Just wanted to share our excitment for the day, even though its some we could have lived without!
More soon...
Crazy! I'm just so thankful that he is okay! It could've been MUCH, much worse. Phew! He is a lucky man today! The sad part is that not one person even stopped to see if he was alright. :( Guess that is how California drivers are though. Ty said that the lady who actually kicked up the tread just looked in her rearview mirror, watched the tread smash into him and kept on driving. Nice. We called the insurance company and they are sending out a company to replace the windshield here at our house tomorrow morning. The tire dented the roof too and made a few large scratches, so we'll have to take it in to a repair shop soon to fix all that. It'll be covered though, after our deductible.
Well...I have a little boy sitting here begging me "Mama, play! Mama, play!" so I should really get going. Just wanted to share our excitment for the day, even though its some we could have lived without!
More soon...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream!
As I sit here, slightly blurry-eyed, the clock reads 1:50am. :( Insomnia! Blegh! Gotta love THIS side of pregnancy too, I guess. This morning's insomnia is a bit early for me, actually. Seems like the last few nights, it has hit a little later. Must've been that all that Sweet Tea (mmmm...my special dinner out treat!) I had at dinner tonight that rustled me out of bed at for my nightly potty run. I think I jinxed myself on this one. It must have just been last week that I thought to myself "Hmmmmm.....I've been sleeping pretty well this pregnancy!" So much for that! With Luke's pregnancy I had HORRIBLE insomnia from the very beginning. Even at 6 weeks! I would wake in the middle of the night, only to remain that way for several hours afterwards. I remember the first night I went into the hospital before I delivered him as the first FULL night of sleep I had received in all my 31 (and a half!) weeks of pregnancy....and that was only aided my the sleeping pill they gave me. (And then of-course, it was quite some time again that I slept well!) But aahhhh...this time around, it has been blissfully different.....I've slept famously until a couple of nights ago, when the midnight rendezvous' with my thoughts and the utterly silent house began! :) There is a lot of random things to think about at 2am, that's for sure! Tonight was the first night I just opted to hop on the Internet from the get-go, rather than to lay there tossing and turning in bed, listening to my sweet husband snooze on! Let's just hope its a short-lived phase! We'll see!
Alrighty...enough 'bout that! Friday's trip to the park with Brayden and Jamie was a lot of fun! It was SO warm (nearly 80!) that I actually had to put sunscreen on my little Lukey before heading out! Good thing too....we spent well over an hour romping through the grass to feed the ducks and running 'round the playground after our two little former preemies! It was great! :) Luke had a blast, and I think Brayden did too! As the kids played, I was just in awe over our little guys and their miraculous growth! Especially Brayden, who for those of you who don't recall, was a 25 week preemie, born at home! A true miracle! Here are a few pics...
Playing together...
Ready...set...go!
The only picture I could get of them together, before one of them took off running! It's certainly not the best picture I've ever taken, but oh well!
Luke feeding the ducks...
And taking a few bites for himself :)
Friday afternoon was our tumble class. As usual, Luke spent the first 10 minutes 'adjusting' and not wanting to participate in anything! But he warmed up soon there after and had a blast jumping off the big, soft blocks, bouncing on the mini-trampoline and practicing his back bends on a big rolling cylinder. He was excited to get his Valentine's sticker from Ms. Cheryl at the end and can't wait to go back next week!
And tonight (errr...last night, since it is the am!) was dinner with my family to celebrate my dad's upcoming birthday. Luke got to play with all his cousins, which he LOVED! He's really starting to interact more and more with other kids, and he just can't get enough of his cousins!
So...I guess that's all for now. Still not feeling very sleepy, but maybe I will fall back to sleep if I head back to bed! Ty offered to let me sleep in in the morning while he takes Luke and makes me breakfast, so that I won't be too tired during my shift tonight. Isn't he sweet! :) Working the ED is my favorite, but the late hours take their toll on me now that I'm pregnant! I'm just not accustom to staying up much past 10, much less 11:30 when my shift is supposed to end! Yikes! I might head in a little early.
Okay....I'm off to dreamland, I hope! Let's pray for better sleep!
Alrighty...enough 'bout that! Friday's trip to the park with Brayden and Jamie was a lot of fun! It was SO warm (nearly 80!) that I actually had to put sunscreen on my little Lukey before heading out! Good thing too....we spent well over an hour romping through the grass to feed the ducks and running 'round the playground after our two little former preemies! It was great! :) Luke had a blast, and I think Brayden did too! As the kids played, I was just in awe over our little guys and their miraculous growth! Especially Brayden, who for those of you who don't recall, was a 25 week preemie, born at home! A true miracle! Here are a few pics...
Playing together...
Ready...set...go!
The only picture I could get of them together, before one of them took off running! It's certainly not the best picture I've ever taken, but oh well!
Luke feeding the ducks...
And taking a few bites for himself :)
Friday afternoon was our tumble class. As usual, Luke spent the first 10 minutes 'adjusting' and not wanting to participate in anything! But he warmed up soon there after and had a blast jumping off the big, soft blocks, bouncing on the mini-trampoline and practicing his back bends on a big rolling cylinder. He was excited to get his Valentine's sticker from Ms. Cheryl at the end and can't wait to go back next week!
And tonight (errr...last night, since it is the am!) was dinner with my family to celebrate my dad's upcoming birthday. Luke got to play with all his cousins, which he LOVED! He's really starting to interact more and more with other kids, and he just can't get enough of his cousins!
So...I guess that's all for now. Still not feeling very sleepy, but maybe I will fall back to sleep if I head back to bed! Ty offered to let me sleep in in the morning while he takes Luke and makes me breakfast, so that I won't be too tired during my shift tonight. Isn't he sweet! :) Working the ED is my favorite, but the late hours take their toll on me now that I'm pregnant! I'm just not accustom to staying up much past 10, much less 11:30 when my shift is supposed to end! Yikes! I might head in a little early.
Okay....I'm off to dreamland, I hope! Let's pray for better sleep!
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