Wordless Wednesday

Trust

I just want to point out before I start this post that I normally don't like vague posts on blogs or facebook, but I am going to be a little vague with this post. I have to get my feelings out on "paper" and this is the way I can do that so bear with me.

When we are younger we learned that if you treated people as you wish to be treated, they would do the same back onto you. As I have grown up and become an adult I still kept a sense of this trust, but sometimes I wonder if it's to a fault. Hence why I am writing. Recently Mike and I have put our trust into something that has betrayed us. We did all we needed to figure out this is what we were going to do and wanted and have been taken advantage of.

I am very saddened and stressed by recent of events (If you really want to know what this is about please email me or message me). We are supposed to be welcoming our baby girl soon and enjoying this time and we can't because of this other nonsense. I pray that it will be cleaned up soon and we can move on to happier times with the holidays coming up and the birth of our baby girl.

37 Weeks

Well it's getting to the point where it could technically be any day now, so I am taking weekly pictures now. I am feeling a lot more uncomfortable. I think the little girl has dropped because she doesn't seem all up in my ribs lately which is nice, but at the same time puts pressure in other areas.

The heartburn is less - also why I think she has dropped. Sleeping is getting harder and harder at night, I just can't get comfortable, but hopefully I will get some sleep soon.

Still having my weekly appointments and weekly ultrasounds. They are talking about letting me go until 40 weeks or right before it so that's nice. So in less than 3 weeks I will have our little girl in my arms! Exciting!

 

Gabby's Room

I have posted a bit about Gabby's room but now it's completely finished. I am super excited that both my girls have their rooms all ready.

So here are the final pictures for Gabby's new Big Girl Room.

No longer a little girl

It sort of snuck up on me, I have to admit. One day she was this little girl in my arms who couldn't walk or talk and now she is in Early Preschool and going on the potty. I seriously do not know where the past 2 years have gone. It really is amazing at how time flies!

This past week my little girl (who will always be my little girl - even when Pineapple comes into our lives) has started to reach a major milestone in a toddlers life. She is going on the potty!

We have had potty seats/stools in both our bathrooms for awhile now. We haven't pushed her. We haven't decided to one weekend not leave the house and just let her run around bare butt and let her "feel" what it's like to go to the bathroom. Just 2 weeks ago I started to panic that she was "behind" (No pun intended there) schedule and I was going to have a 4 year old in diapers (Yes, I realize she isn't three yet). But Mike and my wonderful friends assured me she would potty train on her own schedule and it was worse to push her.

Fast forward to Tuesday. She had said her tummy was hurting when I dropped her off, so I emailed the director at daycare to find out how she was doing. She was not only feeling fine and didn't complain about her stomach, but she had gone on the potty and didn't have a wet diaper. Mike and I arrive to pick her up Tuesday evening and she had not only gone once on the toilet but 3 times. The only time she had a diaper change was when she went #2 after nap time! I couldn't believe it.

When we got home from trick or treating at the local grocery store (See next week's Wordless Wednesday) and were eating dinner I told her if she needed to go to the bathroom to let me know. About 10 minutes later she said she had to go. We went into the bathroom and sure enough she went! I was so excited, she was excited and her dad was excited. Mac was wondering what the heck all the laughing and smiling was about - but what does she know she is just a dog....or as Gabby would say "My puppy".  We tried again before she went to bed and sure enough she went. All she wanted was a fist bump. I swear I can get her to eat almost anything with a fist bump, so maybe we won't need M&M's.

I plan on making up a potty chart and having her put stickers on it because she LOVES stickers! She went on the potty two more times at daycare on Wednesday and then again Thursday morning. She is telling us when she needs to go. I just don't know if Mama is ready for her to be a big girl....I know I can't stop her from growing and trust me I don't want the terrible twos for the rest of our lives, but it's so bittersweet to see her grow up. I love the new things she is doing and I know it will just get better from here.....just a little hard for this working mama to swallow.

How did you handle potty training??

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Thats my girl....leggings, skirt, sweater, hat and playing in the dirt.

Pineapple's Nursery

We finally got Pineapple's nursery all completed. I am so excited that it's done and ready. The only thing we have to do is move up the dresser - but since I am 9 months pregnant, Mike is going to get someone else to help out with that. We decided to do the same theme as Gabby's and reuse the decals and things. But we did get her a new rug with some girlish look to it!

When she is born and we decide on a name it will go above the crib.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a local pumpkin patch this year. Turned out it was great! It was literally a 5 minute drive there and we spent about an hour there, got some pumpkins, played a little, bought some fresh produce. We had a great time. And it was all free - well except for the pumpkins and the peppers we got.

Here are some pictures from our afternoon adventure!

36 Weeks

It's getting down to the last month! Can you believe it. It's a bit surreal for me I have to admit. But I am also getting super excited about it as well. I can't wait to hold my new baby girl in my arms and see what she looks like.

I met with a new OB at my clinic. With the diabetes my Midwife needs to manage my care with an OB and the last one that I saw a few times has left the practice. But I totally LOVE this OB. She is amazing. She fits my personality perfect and I would be TOTALLY comfortable with her delivering our little girl.

I am still measuring on and actually about 1 cm dilated already, but anyone who has been pregnant before knows that means nothing. You can walk around like that for weeks. So I am hoping this baby girl will still bake for awhile. We discussed induction or rather my concerns about inducing. And she really doesn't want to induce unless we have to. She won't let me go over 40 weeks (which my MW said the same thing), but she said there is no need (at least right now) for induction before that. She said we will just take a wait and see approach to it. I told her I wanted to stay away from a lot of meds - no pitocin if possible, no epidural and I wanted to stay away if possible from a c-section.

Overall I am feeling really good. I have another ultrasound and an appointment with my midwife on Monday so we will see how the little one is doing, but I suspect she is doing great.

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She was very proud of herself - she picked out her clothes and dressed herself

She HAD to have 3 pony tails in her hair...Love her sense of style

35 Weeks!

Well we are at 35 weeks. I seriously can't even think about the fact that little pineapple is going to be here in 4 to 5 weeks. Really where did time go??? I know where it went, it went chasing after a toddler and dealing with our remodel. It truly is different.

Things have been going really well. As through most of the pregnancy. At 32 weeks I started weekly ultrasounds for the biophysical ultrasounds. Next week at my ultrasound they are doing a weight check to see how big this little girl is.

The cool thing about getting to see her every week is that I get to see how much she grows or can see how she is positioned. It's really amazing to see how she is positioned and then figure out her movements from there. Right now (at least as of last Monday) she is in a C position. Her legs and butt are up in my ribs on the right side and her hands and head are nestled into my left hip. So she gets to punch me and kick me all at the same time.

I am meeting with a new OB next Friday. The last one that was co-managing my care with my midwife is no longer at the practice. So we are going to meet with her and see how she wants to handle my care. Usually the protocol is induction since I am on meds, but Mike and I are going to meet with my midwife on the 22nd and talk to her more in depth about it.

I am no longer meeting with my nutritionist (which is good, one less appointment). Since my sugars are in line she didn't feel the need to meet with her again. If I have any issues with my sugars I just need to call her.

We are getting down to the wire and soon I will be holding my baby girl in my arms!

Wordy Wednesday - My Crafty Side

So when we found out we were doing this remodel and figured out Gabby's theme I searched high and low for a decal that would take up most of a wall for her room. I couldn't find  any that were cheap enough (I love etsy but man were they expensive) and were big enough. DH finally found one that we both loved.

We found it online at Popdecors.com. Hot pink and pink flowers with some birds and 71" tall. Here is the link if you are interested.
My parents were awesome and ended up getting the decal that we wanted for Gabby's birthday. Mike and I finally had time to put it up this past week.

I have to say it was a ton easier than I thought it was going to be. Thanks to my friend Aurora we got some tips before we began. Thanks Girl!! We finished the trunk in about 30 minutes.

One thing I didn't realize (But probably should have) when I ordered this was that it would come in pieces....for some reason I was thinking it would come all as one or at least the tree. So above is the trunk part and it came in 4 different pieces. The trunk, and the three branches.

After we got this up I had the task ahead of me of cutting out the gazillion flowers that needed to go up. Okay maybe I am exaggerating but still it was a lot of flowers. Then I taped them all up (or most of them) on the wall so I could make sure it all looked good before applying them to the wall.

The pieces come on contact paper. You peel off the one side, squeegee (That is a fun word isn't it??)  it onto the wall and peel off the front and you are done. It magically sticks to the wall. So Yep did that for all the flowers and birds. I would say with the taping and the peeling/sticking/squeegeeing it took me about 2 hours or so to get them up there. So all in all with the prep work (cleaning the walls, figuring out where it would go, lining up the branches etc) it took about 3 hours. So not bad. I even had a few extra flowers left over and put them by Gabby's shelves to bring the room together a bit. I have to admit I am pretty proud of myself. I mean I know it's just applying stickers to a wall but it still took some though of where things should go.

Now we just have to hang up her name and a few more things and her room will be complete. I showed it to Gabby tonight when she got home and she squealed with delight. She clapped her hands and said "flowers and birds". So glad she "noticed". I love my little one....So if you want good decals that are easy to put up and good quality check out Pop Decors.