better late the never

well i figured i would post this for memory sake. we didn't do anything great for our anniversary and just got the cake from my mom from our wedding. it was gross!!! so we tried it and finally took a picture of the two of us 20 days late!!!! oh well! :) also a good pic of the belly at 26 weeks!!!! six and a half months pregnant!!!!

baby room

ok here are some pictures of the baby's room. we are still working on the final product but it is very close to done. we need to get our rocking chair, put bubbles on the wall which will be on the crib wall, get the darkening shade, hang some things and add a few things here and there, but for now it s pretty good!!!!
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this is before, an ugly, dirty white box!!!



this is the crib, this wall will have the mural of bubbles hopefully!!! we obviously still need all the bedding too.



here is the dresser and closet. the cubbies are just filled with clothes right now, i need hangers and i need to organize everything one last time. the bunny diaper holder on the closet door was the one my mom made for my sister and me when we were babies and it fits in perfectly. i even have a few newborn diapers in it!!!!!


this is the changing table. i love how high it is very good for my back!! the lamp will be moved to the dresser soon. the rocking chair will be put in the corner.

view from the door. we also added a ceiling fan with light but i didn't get it in the picture. the carpet is also new through out the house.

we are very happy with the turn out. i absolutely love the furniture. i am excited for the baby showers so i can fill it up even more and get more organized. we are getting closer and closer!!!!!! i am so glad we have a few rooms getting finished up too. we will be painting the living room soon and hopefully our room too. and once i clean up the guest room i will put those pics up too. all the befores are about the same, dirty, nasty white boxes!!

visitors!!!

wow,we had a busy week this week! i can't even believe it is sunday already. beth, averie and baylor some friends from toledo came to visit us. really they came to see tonia's new baby tierney but they stayed with us and it was a nice visit. averie and baylor just loved stella!!!! callie did very good with the kids too, so that was comforting! my sister mel also came and stayed and my mom and dad came down for the day on friday. it was nice to see my whole family. we all went out to eat and had a good time. my mom also brought lots of stuff for the baby!!! and a few maternity things for me too, so that was nice. they also brought the cake from our wedding that we were supposed to eat on our anniversary. we tried it the other day but it was pretty nasty, brandon took a bite and said "do we have to eat the whole thing?" you know it isn't great if he doesn't want to eat it!!!
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this is just our crazy cat stella. she is hanging off the ledge in our hallway which is about the same height as the top of our staircase. she rolls around up there and has already fallen off once. not jumped, actually fallen, she was so confused when she hit the ground!!



here is averie carrying stella around the house, these two were pals by the last day they were here. i was shocked that stella would just let averie pick her up and carry her around, it was very cute. i think averie needs a kitty in her life!!!!!!!!


in the midst of all that fun we also went over to the tonys last night for dinner. brandon really hasn't had time to see them or the boys much since we got here because of how busy he has been with the house and work. i just have to say though that he is going to be the best daddy ever. he ran around with the boys for a long time and played games with them. carmine kept saying "do it again!" when he was throwing him up in the air. he also held tierney and did a great job, he stayed very calm even when she was screaming at him. he even let rece get him with the hose!!!! i can't wait to see him with our kids as they grow, he is going to be awesome!

back pain and baby names

back update: the last few days i have been pretty busy and so i have been having more pain, some moments are up to 8 or 9. i even took Tylenol last night but of course it did nothing. so today i am taking it easy and trying to do nothing at all but maybe stretch. my upper back is now also cramping a lot lately.

good news though, my PT office is in network, and i am going to go to my next appointment to see what i can learn, i think i will keep going if i find some things that give me relief. my PT is great i have emailed her about 100 times already and she answers all of them, i am excited to see her again and see what she has to say after she sees me do the exercises. then i will know if i am doing them right but also if the pain level is too high or not. i am very bad at that 1- 10 scale, i hurt everyday so i think that messes up my scale.

BABY NAMES!!
ok everyone asks all the time what we are going to name the baby. first of all no name will be picked for sure until the baby born. i have always said i would take 2 girl and 2 boy names we really like and see what the baby looks like. so here are the top 3 boy and girl names in no particular order. we have lots of others hanging out on the list too i will list them at the bottom.

girls:
scarlet ann
kinsley rose
ramsey jane

boys:
bram joseph
lennox jon
ryker james

other names we like:
girls:
molly
nia
remi
brynn

and brandon would love to name her stella, but that is the cats name already, if it were his choice we would be changing the cats name and using stella for the baby!!!

boys:
leland
malcolm
barron
stone

so we will see what the final pick is after the birth!!! i don;t think much will change between now and then.

TMI

that stands for to much info...so you may not want to read on...read at your own risk!!

i am writing this more for my own memory sake then anything else.


ok, so i have been feeling the baby a lot lately, it moves like crazy all over the place. my belly jumps, and people can see and feel it now!!! super cool. but for some reason this baby keeps punching me in the butt. and i mean the anus!!! yes, it is great, not sure what is going on but just about everyday a few times a day the baby is knocking on my back door. i know this is not actually possible but it is by far the strangest feeling so far for me. just imagine getting punched in the butt on the inside. so weird!

PT Update

last week i went to see the PT for an evaluation. they gave me some exercises and stretches to start at home and i made two follow up appointments. i am hoping these will help with the pain, some days get so intense it is crazy, brandon has to actually help me move and push me up the stairs. so we will see how it goes, i need to find out how much this will all cost too!!!! i am excited for the next appointment because i get to do some pool therapy which i think will be great.
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so far the stretches are fine, but some of the exercises cause some major pain so i have emailed my therapist to find out what level of discomfort or pain i should expect. usually i just ignore the pain and do what i can till i can;t move at all, but of course that is what got me here in the first place so i am going to try to to this all right this time.

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side note: i will be posting pics of the baby room soon, it is all done for now. furniture made, panted, organized!!!! i love it. i still want to get bubbles on the wall but that will be awhile still so i will post what we have done. stay tuned!!

MAJOR UPDATE

OK i found my camera cord so hold on tight!!!!
first are a few pics of the new house. it is a 2 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath house. it has a great back yard, but a lot of work. we have already done a lot of renovations, i will have to do before and after pics some other time. so far we ripped out all the floors, got new tile and carpet ad have slowly begun to paint. all with help form both of our families...thanks guys!!!

this is the kitchen, it is a good size for us!



this is the back yard, we are hoping to add a deck soon!



and this is the front.

i only put a couple pics on here because the others just show crappy house really, i will post more soon as we finish projects!


ok now on to the baby pics i only have a few. these are out of order but the first is on my belly at 6 months. this was also the night brandon and i went out for our 1 year anniversary, and this is the only picture we took. we had a nice dinner out together, but really since we moved we have had a lot of those do to a major mess in the kitchen. it was still great to stop working and just sit with him at dinner and talk. we can't believe that in 3 months we will be a mommy and a daddy!!!!


this one is of the two of us at our friend Melissa's wedding. it was a fun night and we had a chance to relax and dance. this was right before we moved. i was probably about 5.5 months or so there. it was on May 24th. and again the only picture we took all night.

so there you go...i think the belly looks pretty good, i am always tired now and totally over doing it here trying to unpack, clean up, paint, and so on. i know i have to slow down but it is hard to live in a mess. i tend to go all out one day and pay the next. we do have the baby room all painted and it looks great, i absolutely love it!!! we only have a few more things to clean and then the rest of the painting can begin. i am pretty sure we will have on going projects for quite some time now. but as long as all the big stuff is done by the time baby comes it will be fine. speaking of baby, it moves a lot these days, you can see my belly jump when i get a good kick or hit in there. brandon gets very excited about it, he waited along tome to feel it. i am not getting sick like i was anymore, an occasional nauseous moment or gagging episode but other then that it has been pretty god...thank god!!! i was way over that.

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i have my next appt. on july 2nd so i will post more baby info after that. in the mean time i will try to take some after pics of the house to share.

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some other big news, my friend tonia had her 3rd baby on may 28th. a little girl named tierney. she is just beautiful, i don't have a good picture of her yet but i will post it when i get it. most of you would have met her at the wedding shower or wedding she was one of my brides maids

public blog

ok i have now made the blog public so no one will need a password or account. the website is babypod1.blogspot.com, you can pass it on to anyone who may like to check up on us. funny story i can't find my camera cord in all the unpacking mess, so a few more days til pics are posted. i know you all want to see the house and belly, sorry for the delay!!!!

back online

ok we are officially back online, i will do a major update hopefully tomorrow. but for now, thehouse is looking better the belly is looking cuter and the baby is moving all the time now. i will post pictures tomorrow.

23 week appointment

we met our new doctor today!!! she was very nice and all went well. no much to tell about. the heartbeat was in the 140s. i did find out that i will not be able to have a water birth...that was sad for me. apparently there is a 200lb weight limit, and i am now officially over 200lbs. FABULOUS!!!!! so that made me feel like a fatty!

she gave me a referral to a PT for my back pain, it has been very intense lately, so i have been a little worried about it. i have not been in pain like this since before my surgery so i just want to be cautious. i want to be able to actually take care of my baby when it comes!

next appointment i will have an ultrasound to check my placenta and i will have to do the glucose test for gestational diabetes. that will be on july 2nd.