First Day of School

Carson started school at the beginning of September. He is doing a Mother's Day Out program 2 days a week for 4 hours a day. He seems to really enjoy it, I know I do. It is nice to have some time during the day to run errands and not have to take Carson with me. I also think it is important that he has some social interaction with others when I'm not around. Here are some pictures from this first day.



Carson is doing very well, he is all boy. I call him the wild man. He loves to run and play outside on his play set. He also really likes movies. He loves Jurassic Park, Avatar, Return to Oz, and lots of Disney movies. He pays attention to them and understands them, it is amazing to me. He also knows how to count to 20, say his ABC's and recognizes shapes and colors. Carson also speaks very well and you can understand him, he has a large vocabulary. He acts excited about meeting his baby brother, only time will tell how that goes.

37 weeks and counting

I am now 37 weeks pregnant. Most of this pregnancy has been uneventfully until this past Monday. For two nights I was having a hard time sleeping because I was having numbness and pain in my right arm. Monday morning I called my OB's office and they wanted me to go to labor and delivery for monitoring. After spending over two hours being monitored and having some blood work done, it turns out I have carpal tunnel. It is common for pregnant women to get and typically goes away a few weeks after delivery. My OB also told me that it gets worse with each pregnancy, which is true. I had a mild case with Carson's pregnancy and this time I didn't even think it could be carpal tunnel because it was so painful. I thought I had a pinched nerve or something. I got a brace to sleep in and used it last night and it really helped.

This is a recent pregnancy picture

The baby is doing great, he moves around a lot and makes me very uncomfortable. I had a checkup Tuesday and was 1 1/2 cm dilated and 70% effaced. I have been measuring big so I had an ultrasound at 34 weeks. They estimated the baby was 5 lbs 12 oz, that has me a little nervous. Carson was 7lbs 13oz when he was born 2 weeks past his due date. This baby could be close to 9 lbs at his due date, so I will probably choose to be induced a few days after my due date if he doesn't come before then.

I was ready to post this blog once I added some pictures which I was planning on doing yesterday and then I got sick. I ended up going to Labor and Delivery early this morning because I was up all night sick. Turns out I have a stomach virus and I was badly dehydrated. They gave me 2 bags of iv fluid and some anti nausea medication. After being there for 4 hours I was able to go home. They want me to take it easy this weekend and try and get lots of rest and drink lots of fluids. I really hope the next time I have to go to Labor and Delivery it is when I am having the baby.

New House

Well, we have been in the new house for almost 3 months now. We have accomplished a lot, or I should probably say Dave has. Being pregnant I haven't been able to help out that much. Dave has repainted just about the whole house and has removed wall paper. I had the fun part of furniture and accessory shopping. This house is more than double the size of our other house so I had a lot of shopping to do and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now that we have gotten most of the inside completed all that is left is the landscaping. We are hoping to get started this weekend and hopefully finished before the baby comes, my due date is 3 weeks away. Here are some pictures of the house.

Dinning Room

Living Room

Family Room

Kitchen

Master BedroomMaster Bath

Carson's Room

Boy's Bathroom

Holden's Room

Basement

Basement Bedroom

Backyard

Whirlwind

It has been a while since my last post and that is because things have been crazy here. Here is what has been going on.

We have been working on getting our house ready to go on the market. Cleaning, organizing, painting and doing a bathroom remodel. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8643-Charlton-Ln-Saint-Louis-MO-63123/2855677_zpid/

We listed the house on March 28th and had our first open house. It was a success, we got an offer that night and accepted the contract.

Now we are packing like crazy, we have to be out of our house by April 29th.

The weekend after our open house we went house hunting and found a house that we really love. We made an offer and after some back and forth counters and another offer we didn't get the house. After this we decided we would just build a house. We were going to meet with the builders and we got a phone call from our agent telling us that the contract on the house that we loved fell through and would we like to make another offer. We did and we got the house.

We close on June 11th so we will be living at our parents house until we can move in. I will post some pictures of the new house once we get in and settled. We are very excited about this next step in our lives.

11 weeks

I am now 11 weeks pregnant. I had a doctor's appointment yesterday, and I was able to hear the baby's heartbeat. That was the second time I was able to hear it; the first was at my 8 week ultrasound. My doctor, Dr. Rockamann, whom I love, said that my ultrasound looked great and that all of my bloodwork came back fine. Everything is going well. I can't believe that I am almost through my first trimester. This pregnancy seems to be going by so much faster than my first. I guess that is because I have a toddler to chase around.

I have heard that with a second pregnancy that you will start to show earlier; I never imagined that at 11 weeks I would already need to start wearing maternity clothes. I was 20 weeks with Carson and it was around 23 weeks before I was really showing. I took a picture yesterday and I think you can already tell. It makes me wonder how big I am going to get by the end of this pregnancy.


On May 11th I have an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. I am so excited and I can't wait! This pregnancy has been completely different for me than my pregnancy with Carson was. With Carson, pregnancy was easy for me, I was never sick, and I felt great the whole time. With this pregnancy, I have felt bad since the beginning. I am hoping this means that I am having a girl :). I am trying not to get my hopes up because Dave comes from a long line of boys; he has nine cousins and only one is a girl. However, when I ask Carson if he is going to have a baby brother or a baby sister, he always says sister. In only eight weeks we will find out!

Family Update

It has been a while since we have posted anything on our family blog so I wanted to update everyone on what is going on in our life. These pictures of Carson best describe it.



That's right, Carson is going to be a big brother. I am 8 1/2 weeks pregnant and my due date is October 5th. I have had one doctor's appointment and one ultrasound and the baby looks great. I haven't been feeling so great with this pregnancy, so maybe this time we will get our girl.

We are cramped in our house now with just the three of us, so we are going to be putting our house on the market in April. We will be very busy next month making some updates and getting our house ready to go on the market. I just hope we can sell our current home and move into a new one before the baby is born. We are currently looking in the Oakville area, that is where my dad and stepmom and Dave's parents live. We seem to spend all of our time in that area now that we have Carson, so it makes sense for us to move close to our parents.

Carson update:
Carson had his two year checkup today and he weighed 25lbs 10 oz (20%) and 35 inches (70%). Carson is speaking in sentences and the majority of the time we know what he is telling us. He really loves hockey; he will walk around the house saying honk, honk, honnnnk...let's go Blues! He also wants to watch games on television and play hockey on the XBox. I am wondering if he will be into baseball like this once it starts back up.

I am going to try really hard, and at the minimum do an update once a month; hopefully Dave will do a few as well. So follow our blog and get updates on what is going on in our world.