Cece at the pool. Her favorite place to be after all!!! She could swim all day every day if we let her. She is such a water goddess! Hopefully, this baby likes the water too, since we love spending time hanging out by the pool during the summer. Poor Kiley is so anxious to get here and be able to swim. Last time I talked to her she said that she hadn't been to the pool yet this summer:( Poor kiddo! Cecelia will be happy to have a playmate at the pool too. At the last OB appointment on Tuesday we found out that the baby has flipped and is head down! Yay!!!! Apparently, the babe is very unlikely to flip back around at this point. I'm so happy that a C-section is not immanent at this point! We got the new car seat and stroller delivered yesterday. Funny how the little things in life make me soooo happy. Aaron was working so I put it together myself....o.k. I took it out of the package and put the wheels on it. Not too difficult.

Summer Time Fun

Lots of Pictures. There are a few from my baby shower. Which was amazing! We are so blessed to have so many family members and friends who love us dearly. We are completely set for this little babe...as long as she comes out a girl still...I had a bad dream the other night that she actually came out to be a he! I can't wait for the baby to get here! I want to play dress up with her and take lots of pictures. Two things that Cecelia rarely lets me do anymore. She barely lets me help her pick out an outfit and when we try to snap a picture of her she gets annoyed because we are interrupting whatever fun activity she is doing. The next few pictures are from Fathers day. After taking Aaron to lunch and then to get his gift he had to go to work so we went over to Steph's house for their annual fathers day BBQ. We love their house. Steph's parents house has been like my second home since Jr. High. And her parents have always been so good to me. I love going over to the Nobb's house, and so does Cece...particularly because they have a pool and always yummy treats! One picture is of Cecelia playing squirt ball, Cecelia at a storm chasers game at Werner Park (conveniently located right down the road from our new home!!!). And then finally, the last picture (or in blog order, I don't know why it uploads in the exact opposite order I save it as: the first picture) is of Cecelia today at Halleck park. She found a quiet little spot and Aaron snapped a picture from the distance. So precious!

Some pictures from Rachel's bridal shower and bachelorette party. Two very fun weekends. I loved getting married and celebrating with everyone and I'm so glad that I can help make my best friends wedding celebrations joyful as well:)

33 weeks prego

Ugh:( Where do I begin? I am so uncomfortable these days. Today I had another ultrasound to check on baby's measurements, and this little butterball officially weighs more now than Cecelia did when she was born! Cecelia weighed in at 4 lbs, 4 oz. at birth and this little peanut is now 4 lbs, 6 oz. We got a few 3D pics of her today and she looks like a little chunk in her face, poor kiddo, she also looks like she has a very swollen nose and mouth (but apparently, they all look like that...must be from being in the water). The only bad news is that this babe is in the breach position. She still has a few weeks to flip around but I'm worried that she won't. At 36 weeks we will check to see if she has flipped into vertex and if she hasn't yet we then have to talk about them doing an aversion under anesthesia or scheduling a C-section! Yikes! I pray this doesn't happen. I Really don't want to have a C-section. My legs are swollen up to my knees...specifically, I have 2+-3+ pitting edema. I can't wait to have this weekend off because I am going to put my feet up and relax. I need it badly! We headed down to Kansas City last weekend for Rachel's bachelorette party. It was fun, but the weather didn't cooperate as much as we would have liked, and we walked around the Plaza shopping and I probably should have stayed by the pool instead because my poor legs are paying for it now.

We still have yet to agree on a name. Aaron has picked out 2 that I like and I have a name picked out that I love but Aaron doesn't love it. Since we can't agree, I'm just going to hold our until I get my way...or at least try to. I doubt that will happen but wishful thinking!

Baby shower on Saturday!!! Yay! I'm excited because I've been nesting like crazy and can't wait to find out what else we need to buy for the baby to finish preparing. Plus, I can't wait for all they yummy food my sisters are planning on making:)

Rachel took Cece shopping early for her birthday the other day. I stayed at home and nested for the baby, organizing clothes, setting up the bassinet, swing, changing table, etc. I told Rachel to not let Cecelia swindle her into more than 1 outfit. After I finished nesting the girls weren't' back from their shopping yet, so I jumped in the shower, when I got out of the shower I was surprised to walk into the dining room to find my whole kitchen table covered with new clothes...the majority of them from Justice. Cecelia loves Justice but it is usually pretty expensive and I try to steer her towards other stores for the sake of my pocket book. Rachel promised me everything was on sale and that Cecelia did not in fact, talk her into buying her anything she didn't want to buy her. Cecelia adores Rachel and asked me the other day if Rachel and Stephanie and Karissa were really her aunts ( they aren't...they are my best friends and are practically like sisters). When I tried explaining this to Cecelia she came up with the term frauntie (friend + auntie). Sounds good to me my cute little clever pumpkin!

Cecelia has been enjoying her summer break so far and can't wait to have Kiley home with us too. We have fun summer days planned for the girls and Cecelia knows we try to hold off on doing the really fun stuff until Kiley gets here in the summer because we don't want Kiley to miss out on anything.

So, I'm now 30 weeks pregnant. I had a little scare with my 1hour glucose tolerance test 2 weeks ago. I failed miserably. My blood sugar was 160. Normal is 90-110, and 200 would have been a definate gestational diabetes diagnosis. Because I failed the 1 hr test, I had to go to the hospital at 7:00 A.M. on a Saturday morning to do the 3 hour test...which is sooo much worse by the way because you have to be fasting when you go in. I was miserable and felt light headed and nauseus so they had me spend my 3 hours sleeping in a relaxation room. The would come in once an hour and draw my blood but other than that, after I got to lay down it wasn't so bad. But, I passed the 3 hour glucose tolerance test! I'm so happy because if you have gestational diabetes your chance of having type 2 later in life, dramatically increases.

We have come up with another name to take into consideration for the baby, and we were able to eliminate one of the names on our list...so we are pretty much no closer to picking a name as we were 6 months ago. This is going to get interesting.

Cecelia started squirtball. She's pretty good at catching and throwing but she needs to work on hitting the ball. Aaron has been working with her quite a bit. It's pretty darn cute.

Cecelia got her hair cut the other night. About 3 inches taken off, so her hair is just below her shoulders. This is great because it's so much healthier than it was now, and if we hadn't done this then her hair would have just sucked up all the chlorine and sun all summer and would have been even more damaged.

Cece's last day of school is tomorrow. She had a field trip last week to the Downtown slides and her teacher's father's firestation that he works at. I try to go to as many of her school events as possible. I don't know how first grade teachers do it. God bless them. After about 10 minutes on the bus, I was ready for a nap:)

The biggest news of all on our home front is that we decided to build a home! A hearthstone to be exact. The house is a 4 bedroom, 4 bath with a walk out basement. The neighborhood is Kingsbury Hills which means that Cecelia will be switching schools. Unfortunatley the house won't be finished until mid-October. Which means that we will be cramped in the condo with the new baby for 3 months. We are so excited to be homeowners but it's pretty scary at the same time. It's such a large purchase and so much responsibility. We really wanted to find a home we could grow into and I think that with 3,000 square feet we will have the room we need for our growing family.

The next 4 weekends are filled with fun. This holiday weekend we plan to do as much as the weather will allow. Next weekend is Rachels bridal shower, the following weekend is her bachelorette party in Kansas City and the following weekend is my baby shower. Time is flying and we before we know it Kiley will be here for the summer too.

I haven't updated this thing in a while. It's probably because I'm exhausted when ever I have a chance to actually do this. These days are filled with lots of having to get up to pee in the middle of the night, sciatica, lower back pain, calf muscle cramps in the middle of the night and swollen ankles. All as I'm just starting out my 7th month of pregnancy! Niether Aaron or I have any clue how I am going to make it 3 more months! This little pumpkin is also moving sooo much inside my big belly. I'm beginning to feel heels, elbows and knees coming out of my sides. My best friend Jade who has a 9 month old daughter has given me thousands of dollars worth of baby clothes and gear. I feel so blessed to have such amazing family and friends!!! We still have yet to agree on a name, but we have a few ideas. I joked with Aaron that if he doesn't get on board with my choices in names that I may just sign the birth certificate and name her when he wasn't at the hospital.
In other news...Cecelia has finished the swimming season. She passed to the next level, like we knew she would. She also has only one more week left of gymnastics. They did testing at the end of last month and Cecelia has been passed from beginner girls to intermediate level. I may be biased because I'm her mom, but I really feel like she excels at whatever she tries...some girls have all the luck! We also signed her up for softball this summer. Games are on Saturday mornings and she will have a practice one night a week throughout June and July. I'm excited to see her try this new sport.
I'm off orientation next month. I'm excited but so nervous! Critical care is serious stuff and I'm a little scared to be on my own but I know that I am surrounded by a very supportive nursing staff to help me when I have questions.

THE BABY IS A...

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