I’m Home
I am home as of Monday afternoon, everything is A-OK and I feel great, nice and recovered. I am so grateful for everyone’s prayers and kind words and help during the past few days. I spent 5 days in the hospital, which felt like an eternity, especially for Brandon and Aiden. Kinda blurry for me with the pain meds, but I definitely missed being home, although the hospital was the best place for me to be during that time. Best of all the baby is fine, in fact she is better than fine, she is doing great, and growing like a weed, she is almost 4 pounds! And I still have 8 weeks to go:)
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It’s Saturday morning and I am laying in bed, at the hospital. I have been here since Thursday morning, and I feel terrible. Luckily our baby is doing well, I am having a bit more pre-term labor, and looks like I have kidney stones when is pretty agonizing. I go between being in massive pain, and doped out of my mind. Luckily there are pain medications that are safe during pregnancy, but I still hate the thought of drugging my unborn child. I will spare you all the gory details, we just ask that you would all say a little prayer for a quick recovery, with no permanent damage.
On a happier note I had an ultrasound yesterday and the Doctor was able to take them most beautiful face picture of our unborn daughter, she is GORGEOUS! I will post the photo’s after I recover. She has my lips, but otherwise I think she looks like Brandon. You can even see her eyelashes in the photo, I can’t believe how beautiful she is,it brings tears to my eyes when I look at the pictures. Makes all the nausea, fatigue, heartburn and everything else so much more bearable knowing that I will get to meet her soon ( just hopefully not too soon)
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So last night we all went to the mall, when it’s cold and dark the park isn’t a good place, but the mall has one of those great playplaces, with all the soft-ish stuff you can climb on, and Aiden loves it. He needed to get out of the house and run around a bit, he’s been cooped up with me for the most part. I got the sweetest complement I have ever received (so far) last night, and it came from the mouth of my 2 year old. While working our way down to the end with the place area for Aiden we passed by a Victoria’s Secret. In the window there was a gorgeous, scantily clad VS Models barely (almost) everything, with a perfect body. As we walked past, Aiden shouted and insisted that it was a “picture of mommy” he said this at least 3 or 4 times. I found it toally amusing, and so cute! Nice to know someone thinks I look like a VS model. Although I know it’s weird coming from a toddler, I still thought it was pretty darn cute! It makes everything else a little easier to forgive.
So a few weeks ago we decided to give the big boy bed a try, the first night was mostly successful it took several tries and a few threats to get him to stay in bed, but at around 9:30 he finally fell asleep, and didn’t make a peep until just before 7am which I thought was pretty good (he usually sleeps 8-7). The next night it took several tries again, and he fell asleep and at about 11 or 12 I heard the pitter patter of little feet above my head. So I trekked upstairs only to find my 2 year old sitting on the floor in the middle of the kitchen with a package of Blackberries (half eaten). Apparently he needed a midnight snack. So I hauled him off to bed again, and he slept until 3 or so. This was Brandon’s turn, so he put Aiden back to bed and he slept until about 6am. No nobody got much sleep in our house that night. We discussed it and decided to put Aiden back into the crib, until we get into our new house. Well now he scales the crib, climbs right out of it, and has been waking us up in the wee hours of the morning. I hear his little voice outside our door at 4am “Good Morning Mommy.” Not a good morning when you get up that early, trust me! Luckily he usually will go back to sleep, but I thought once they slept through the night they were supposed to STAY sleeping through the night. I read differently this week. Kids apparently have lots of night wakings, but only the lucky ones (or maybe the parents are the lucky ones) are able to get back to sleep on their own.
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We’ve all been slightly under the weather. Aiden has been a bit sick for over a week, took him to the doctor and she said give him Tylenol and wait it out. But he is still coughing, and apparently gave his cold to Brandon. I on the other hand dodged the cold, but am plagued with pregnancy ailments. I somehow never remember feeling this crummy when I was pregnant with Aiden. I am still having tons of nausea, I guess it’s my turn since I had none with Aiden. Anyone have a good cure for heartburn? Good Grief, so far the only thing that works is a pint of ice cream, but if I keep that up I’ll gain 100 pounds. Even yogurt makes it worse. This kid is going to be hairy (yes I believe in old wives tales!).
Everything has been compounded by our move, whew, glad we got the worst of it done. We now have an amazing HOUSE (yes, an actual house!) it’s 5 bedrooms and HUGE (at least compared to our current place). We are doubling our space, and Aiden is getting a yard. I say it’s for Aiden, but really it’s for me, so I can let him run around somewhere besides the kitchen, living room or bedrooms (moms you understand!) Aiden is so incredibly energetic, maybe we need to cut down his sleep! But hopefully he will get worn out in the yard on the non-rainy days.
LA has been raining like cats and German shepherds (for the slower readers, I mean a lot). It’s like I am living in Seattle or something crazy. Everything is soggy, damp and cold. I am looking forward to more sunny days. We get a few in here and there, but not enough in the last couple of months. Although Aiden is enjoying the puddles. So that is why we are staying in bed today, reading, watching movies and overall just resting. Trying to keep boxes off my mind.
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