Well, it appears that we are having another girl! Poor Aaron, I guess it's his luck in life to be surrounded by beautiful women:) He was hoping that this baby was a boy, but hopefully, we will have better luck next time! My Doctor believes that since Cecelia was born weighing only 4 lbs, 4 oz, that she may have suffered from intra uterine growth restriction or IUGR. Because of this, with this baby, she wants us to have ultrasounds every 6 weeks from now on to measure the baby's growth. And, if she starts to fall off the growth chart, then she would want to induce me early. I'm happy with this and that my doctor is being proactive instead of reactive. I also had to have some blood work done to test me for clotting disorders (if my blood is too thick, then the baby isn't getting adequate nutrition, since the baby is getting all of her oxygen and nutrition via my blood). I plan on having them reconfirm the baby's gender at each ultrasound.
For now though, the baby is weighing 11 ounces and measuring 8 inches long. Meaning she is in the 75th percentile for height and weight. She is also in the vertex position; head down and in the fetal position. Which is great since that is what she needs to be in for delivery. I'm so glad that we held on to many of Cece's cutest clothes so we have a little bit to start off with.
We just had parent teacher conferences for Cecelia. They went great. She is reading at a second grade level and her math skills are "phenomenal". So proud of her! She is having a musical at her school next week. They will be performing The Sound of Music. I anticipate hearing lots of yodeling! LOL
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
So I actually LOVE working overnights! I thought I would hate it and be sleep deprived but I have had no problems so far. It helps that I have a completely supportive husband who is a hands on dad too! I like that it is so quiet at night and that I have time to actually learn instead of if I worked on day shift, I would be sooo busy that it sometimes is hard to learn.
Cecelia lost a front top tooth! She looks like a little jacko lanturn:) Here's the story: Yesterday, Cecelia and I decided to go see the Justin Bieber movie. We invited my cousin Megan and her daughter Tealyn with us. The girls are less than a year apart and have fun together. So after the movie we decided to head back to Megan's house so the girls could play SING IT on the Wii (which was so much fun by the way). Well Megan has a 1 year old son who had just gone to bed. At one point the girls were having so much fun that Cecelia was screeching and I instinctively put my hand over her mouth to silence her so she wouldn't wake up the baby.Well...I bumped the tooth that was already very loose and it was ready to come out. So my cousin talked Cecelia into letting her pull it out with a tissue. I will put up a picture but for now the computer is not cooperating!
Oh, and I have to include this before I forget. Stanley has become extremely protective of me and my stomach. He has always been my little man, constantly following me around the house, and wanting to go where ever I go in the car. Suddenly, Aaron is no longer allowed to put a finger on my belly without Stanley jumping to my defense. We have made a game about this and it's quite funny. In fact, as soon as the computer wants to upload I'm going to post a video of Stanley freaking out. It's hilarious!
Cecelia lost a front top tooth! She looks like a little jacko lanturn:) Here's the story: Yesterday, Cecelia and I decided to go see the Justin Bieber movie. We invited my cousin Megan and her daughter Tealyn with us. The girls are less than a year apart and have fun together. So after the movie we decided to head back to Megan's house so the girls could play SING IT on the Wii (which was so much fun by the way). Well Megan has a 1 year old son who had just gone to bed. At one point the girls were having so much fun that Cecelia was screeching and I instinctively put my hand over her mouth to silence her so she wouldn't wake up the baby.Well...I bumped the tooth that was already very loose and it was ready to come out. So my cousin talked Cecelia into letting her pull it out with a tissue. I will put up a picture but for now the computer is not cooperating!
Oh, and I have to include this before I forget. Stanley has become extremely protective of me and my stomach. He has always been my little man, constantly following me around the house, and wanting to go where ever I go in the car. Suddenly, Aaron is no longer allowed to put a finger on my belly without Stanley jumping to my defense. We have made a game about this and it's quite funny. In fact, as soon as the computer wants to upload I'm going to post a video of Stanley freaking out. It's hilarious!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
I'm beginning to feel the baby move! Actually, just last night, I felt the baby kick externally. I thought I felt the baby kicking and put my hand to where I thought I felt the kick and sure enough....3 kicks in a row! I just wish Aaron had been here because he specifically asked me to tell him when I felt the baby kick so he could try to feel for it too! He is soooo sweet! I can't wait till next Tuesday when we find out the sex! Aaron had originally wanted a boy but at this point he says that he really doesn't care as long as the baby is healthy. Cecelia however would like a boy. She says because a sister "would take all of her toys and clothes". She has a slight complex about her possessions. I think this stems from the fact that for most purposes Cecelia is an only child about 85% of the year. Cecelia and Kiley have to share a room and Kiley takes home almost everything she receives as gifts from us and family. That means that Cecelia must share all of her possessions in addition to her room with Kiley when she is in town. Which is fine, she should share. However, when Kiley is in town the girls often fight over items because Cecelia has a hard time sharing everything all the time when she's not used to it, and Kiley believes that since she is never here she should get to play with whatever she wants and not have to share with Cecelia. On top of that, the girls are just over 2 years apart in age and are sisters. And sisters will be sisters (they will fight, no matter how sweet and innocent they can be at times)! To say the least, the girls have some unfortunate family dynamics that they must deal with. We wish that it wasn't so, but Kiley moving, never would have been our choice but we must deal with dynamics that it now leaves. We are hoping to find a 4 bedroom home and that having the girls have separate rooms will alleviate some of the needless arguments but until then, Cecelia still would like a brother over another sister:( I don't care what the sex is either way, I just want to know so that I can start shopping for the kiddo! Although we have decided to try and stick to neutral colors and themes when buying the bigger items because we would like to be able to save and reuse everything for the next baby as well. I'm already thinking ahead to the next one! HA!!! Poor Aaron:( My belly popped out about 2 weeks ago. It seems like it happened overnight! All of the sudden we both agreed that I suddenly looked obviously pregnant. Which is fine by me because I was kind of self conscious of whether people thought that I was pregnant or just overweight!
Cecelia is back in swimming lessons (in addition to gymnastics). She's happy to be back in. She's a pretty good swimmer and it's definitely a self esteem booster for kids when they can excel at a sport. Last week I went to Cecelia's school for her 2nd grade classrooms "Writer Celebration". Parents were invited to come to the classroom and be present while the kids read stories that they had been working on and proofreading and adding to for a few weeks. Cecelia wrote her story about a fiasco that occur ed when a little boy in her 1st grade class was asked to give all the kids a squirt of hand sanitizer in preparation for the teacher to hand out cupcakes to celebrate another child's birthday. It turns out that the boy grabbed the hand soap instead of sanitizer and the kids didn't notice it until almost all the children had it on their hands and were rubbing it in! Everyone chuckled at that story!
My best friend Rachel is getting married in September and I'm the maid of honor and Cecelia is one of the flower girls. I've been a little busy getting measured for my dress (not fun seeing as how I will be 1 month post partum and not really sure about how large my breastfeeding boobies will be), I've had to get Cecelia measured for her custom made dress as well. I'm also planning her bachelorette party with the help of another best friend who is the maid of honor. We're planning a weekend in Kansas City. Shopping, manicures and pedicures, laying out and swimming, a nice dinner out and then heading out to the power and lights district....imagine me 7 months pregnant having to be the designated driver for a bunch of drunkies! LOL!
Our house has just finally gotten over a terrible cold. I think that I got the worst of it. I didn't sleep well for over 4 nights. Which totally sucked since I started my new job that same week. All is well now though:)
Sadly, I just found out that our beloved pediatrician will be moving out of state this summer. Our pediatrician's husband works as an intensivist in the ICU and he shared that they were moving back to his wife's (our pediatrician's) home state to be close to her family. We absolutely love our pediatrician and I'm very sad that I now need to seek out a new one.
Cecelia is back in swimming lessons (in addition to gymnastics). She's happy to be back in. She's a pretty good swimmer and it's definitely a self esteem booster for kids when they can excel at a sport. Last week I went to Cecelia's school for her 2nd grade classrooms "Writer Celebration". Parents were invited to come to the classroom and be present while the kids read stories that they had been working on and proofreading and adding to for a few weeks. Cecelia wrote her story about a fiasco that occur ed when a little boy in her 1st grade class was asked to give all the kids a squirt of hand sanitizer in preparation for the teacher to hand out cupcakes to celebrate another child's birthday. It turns out that the boy grabbed the hand soap instead of sanitizer and the kids didn't notice it until almost all the children had it on their hands and were rubbing it in! Everyone chuckled at that story!
My best friend Rachel is getting married in September and I'm the maid of honor and Cecelia is one of the flower girls. I've been a little busy getting measured for my dress (not fun seeing as how I will be 1 month post partum and not really sure about how large my breastfeeding boobies will be), I've had to get Cecelia measured for her custom made dress as well. I'm also planning her bachelorette party with the help of another best friend who is the maid of honor. We're planning a weekend in Kansas City. Shopping, manicures and pedicures, laying out and swimming, a nice dinner out and then heading out to the power and lights district....imagine me 7 months pregnant having to be the designated driver for a bunch of drunkies! LOL!
Our house has just finally gotten over a terrible cold. I think that I got the worst of it. I didn't sleep well for over 4 nights. Which totally sucked since I started my new job that same week. All is well now though:)
Sadly, I just found out that our beloved pediatrician will be moving out of state this summer. Our pediatrician's husband works as an intensivist in the ICU and he shared that they were moving back to his wife's (our pediatrician's) home state to be close to her family. We absolutely love our pediatrician and I'm very sad that I now need to seek out a new one.
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