Pregnancy update.

Well, I am now at my weekly visits to the Dr. Last week I was almost 1 cm dilated. This week, I am 2 cm dilated. I am actually dilating on my own. Gotta be honest...that never happened with Scott. Guess my body just knows what to do this time around.
So, the Dr. has said he will call the hospital and put me on the list to be induced on Mar. 17, but does not think I will make it to then. He is guessing I will be there within the next couple of weeks.
So, I guess only time will tell. He is guessing that she will be about 7 1/2 lbs if born within the next two weeks.
So, like I said...only time will tell.
I do have pink flowers and glittery green shamrocks, pink and green paper (okay, they didn't have enough green paper in stock, so I still gotta work on that), pink and green ribbon, pink eyelets (to be ordered very soon) and green eyelets already on order. I am prepared to do the baby announcements either way. But I may just do shamrocks anyways. We shall see.
Have a good night.
I will give you another pregnancy update next week after my appt.

And the discussion has officially come to a close as the spelling of the name has been chosen and approvd of (by Will).
Our baby girl will be named...

Aerin Sienna Kahle.

I am glad to finally have that over with. Now we know and I don't have to think about it anymore.
The only thought now is that I am almost willing to go into labour today just to get rid of the pain...lol
Good reason, huh???
But you know, that doesn't work out so well since Mum still does have my car seat cover and bassinet cover, both of which are very important to have in one's own possession at the time of birth. So, yeah, in the end, going into labour today would not be a good thing :)
You understand that, Aerin???
I am so excited to get new covers, though. The new car seat cover will match my new double stroller and the bassinet cover will just be so much prettier. So excited. I think Mum is getting annoyed with me always asking about them...what can I say??? I'm a little anxious.
Scott and I had a little picnic on the living room floor last night...it ended up quite messy :) We sat and watched Tom & Jerry (he loves Tom & Jerry) and say on a blanket with my big body pillow with other blankets to snuggle with...eating crackers and apple. I love to sit and watch him laughing at Tom & Jerry. It is so cute. I just discovered this week that he liked them. I just went to the free movie section on cable and found them and thought, "Hey, I liked them, maybe he will." I would prefer them anyday over Barney and The Teletubbies. So, anways, yeah, he's so cute.
He fell asleep in my arms last night while watching another free movie on tv...The Cutting Edge. Just knowing that in 3 weeks, he won't be my only baby anymore made me not want to get up and put him into his bed. I just wanted to hold him all night and never let him go. I just watched him sleep. I said a special prayer for him when I lay him in bed. My little boy is growing up. It was bound to happen. We are always warned by ther parents about how fast time flies, so we expect it, yet it still seems to just be gone. One day I was in the hospital, seems like yesterday, and the next day, my newborn son is in a big boy toddler bed and about to become a big brother...no longer my only baby. And yet, what a blessing it is to welcome another special spirit of our Heavenly Father into our home. I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Being a wife and mother has been, and I know will continue, to be the greatest blessing in my life. I would not be who I am today without my husband and my children. I couldn't be this person without them.
So, to all my friends who are mothers, we've all heard it a million times, treasure it. Treasure every moment with those special spirits. Let them help you become better people. Give and receive every snuggle possible, cause there may come a time they don't want to. Take all the slobbery kisses they want to give, cause you won't always get them when you want them later. And love them like there is no tomorrow...because, sadly, sometimes there isn't.
I love my baby boy who is quickly becoming a big boy and I love this little girl about to join our family.
I am blessed. We, as a family, are blessed.

I have come to terms with reality.

Some of you may be surprised by what I am about to type (at least you should be if you read 2 posts ago). I have come to terms with the fact that my baby may not be born on her due date. Likely, but not guaranteed. So, to mentally prepare myself for this, I now have the birth annoncements designed in flowers and pink if not born of St. Patty's day and shamrocks and green if she is born then. I won't tell you, though, that I have yet to buy pink ribbon and flowers even though I have already bought shamrocks and green ribbon. Oops...did I just type that??? lol
I should also mention that when I did the practice run of the birth announcement, I realized that I do not actually need 16 eyelets for each one, but only 12...happy day :)
Well, a lot is going on right now. Life is busy, as I seem to enjoy making plans almost everyday. Why, I don't know.
The carpet cleaners were here this morning...so nice. I love having clean carpets...so much nicer.
I had a dr. appt. this week. I am almost 1 cm dilated and my cervix is soft. So, yeah, all is well. Baby's head is nice and low (which is a huge contributing factor to all my pain in my back and hips). I have only gained 21 lbs so far in this pregnancy. A far cry from the approx. 36 lbs. already gained by this time in my last pregnancy...and to think that last time I was trying much harder not to gain weight. Hmmmmmm...
I am glad I am not gaining as much this time around. It will hopefully be a lot easier and faster to get off and get back to below pre-prego weight.
We are now deciding how we want to spell her name. I know I have said it would be Erin, but that was before Will came home with the suggestion of Aerin. Now he is trying to decide if he likes it enough...even though he suggested it. To me, that should mean he likes it enough...but I tell ya, that guy changes his mind more than he changes his underwear...lol
At least when it comes to baby names, anyways. :)
Scott is such a little delight. He loves helping me around the house. Yesterday, I was vacuuming, and using the hand held extension to clean in the tracks of the closet doors and he grabbed ahold of it and was helping me. He likes to pass me clothes out of the dryer as I am folding htem...unfortunately, he grabs faster than I fold, so, yeah. He helps pick up his messes off the floor all the time, too. When he pulls plastic bags out of the drawer, if I ask him to pick them up and put them back, he walks around picking up one at a time, opening and closing the drawer each time to put another bag away. He is such a good helper.
I gotta be honest, my life would not be the same without him.
He has now slept through the night in his own bed 2 times now. On Friday night, and last night. He will usually wake up at 5am and come toddling into my room and then I pull him into bed with me, but today he didn't come in til 7. He is just so gosh darn cute...I love him so much.
He loves rubbing my belly. If I ask him where the baby is, he will point to my belly.
Which reminds me, awhile back, Kari-Lynn mentioned in the comment section that I should take a pic of her "home from the hospital dress" next to one of Scott's shirts to we could see really appreciate how tiny it is...so, here's a pic.

I apologize for the blurriness, but my camera is starting to be really fussy, so if I don't hold it perfectly still, it's blurry.
I imagine you still want to see belly pics too, huh???
Well, according to Michelle, she agrees with me that she is now officially bigger than me...lol
I look a lot bigger with the shirt up compared to down. I think I must have just eaten before taking this pic, cause I am sure I don't look this big today...lol
But here are pics of both.


Now let me go see if I have a pic from my last pregnancy at this time.
Well, good news and bad news. Good news is that I found a pic within days of the right day, bad news is that I would have to import every pic from that disc onto the computer in order to post the one picture on here. So, I'm sorry.
I will try to post on Scott's blog tonight or tomorrow as well.

MIA

So, you may not have really noticed my absence from the lack of blog postings on my blog, but you may have noticed from my lack of comments on your blogs...at least I would like to think you noticed my lack of comments.
Did any of you even notice I was gone???
Well, let me tell you where I have been.
This is how the story goes.
We have been trying to figure out some money-saving techniques, so we decided that one thing we would do, is cancel our home phone and internet and switch to a bundle with our cable company...it would save us aprox. $100/month...seems worth it to me.
Anyhoo, the new internet and house phone got connected on Tuesday. Tuesday was a fine day...internet just as normal.
Well, Wednesday comes along and guess what does not work??? Internet.
So, I call them up and the tech guy does a reset of the modem. Well, I wait the allotted amount of time to turn the comuter back on and the internet still does not work...so I call back. Well, we try resetting it again...Still does not work. Well, the technicial calls me back and ends up that her computer is calling for a technician to come to us...but of course, the tech can't get out til Thursday.
So, we wait til Thursday. Thursday comes along, and he tries to fix it...doesn't work. Says it could be a problem with the computer, but doesn't know for sure since he doesn't ahve his laptop to test it on there. So, Will and I decide to go look at computers, just in case we have to get a new one.
Well, we get home, and find a note on the door from the technician who said he tested it on his laptop and it worked just fine.
So, in hopes to not have to spend a bunch of moolah on a new comp, we backed up all files, and did a system restore (where comp settings are set back to as if the comp is brand new). It's not like we've never done this before.
Yeah, that didn't go over so well. The computer would not restart up...it killed the computer...or something did, anyways.
So, Friday we go out and get the new computer we picked out. We get it home and try to hook up the internet and guess what doesn't work...the internet.
So, now we gotta wait til Sunday (today) for the technician guy to come back and try to figure it out for us. Well, he showed up today, and he finally got it working...YAH!!!
So, yeah, we now have the internet hooked up on a brand new computer that should not die anytime soon.
As for what new is going on in life...you know what, maybe I will leave that for tomorrow. It is quite a bit past my bedtime and I need to get as much sleep as possible.
So, I promise to you right now, that I will try to darndest to post again tomorrow, but if I dont get to it for a couple of das, please don't hate me...I have a nasty habit of filling up my schedule and being busy, but I do promise to put forth an honest effort.
P.S. Check your bog postings...I tried to leave comments on everyone's tonight.

Am I obsessed???

So, you remember my post after New Years??? You know, the one where I said my one goal (not resolution) of the year was to have my baby on her due date. Well, I have a confession to make.
Are you ready for this???
I am obsessed with this goal, I have realized.
And when I say obsessed, I mean obsessed.
I am planning my birth announcements around it. They are gonna be green and white and have little shamrocks on them. And I am gonna have to find the shamrocks...trust me, I have been goggle's biggest customer...and I am gonna get green glitter to make them glittery. And I actually designed the announcements last night on paper. I know exactly how many eyelets I need for each announcement (16). All I have to do is a practice run to make sure that number is right.
So, I'm talking to Kari-Lynn today. She is my sister who is wicked crazy talented at using photoshop and she will be doing the picture/writing part of the announcement. And she asks me something.
She asks me a question that addmitedly, I have thought of before, but dread the answer.
"Krystin, what are you going to do if she is not born on St. Patrick's Day?"
Oh, how I hate this question. (My sil asked me the same thing a couple nights ago.)
You want my answer.
I'm gonna cry.
I will be upset.
I will (and if you are LDS, you will understand what I am about to say) weep and wail and gnash my teeth.
I will likely be upset for a lot of years.
And you know, the funny thing is, that I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding one little bit.
It will be a little regret that will hang over me for probably countless years.
I mean, I am planning this as well as I can. You know, as well as a person can plan a non-planned non-c-section birth. The best I can hope for is this...
1) hope this birth is just like Scott's.
2) hope that, like Scott, I will need to be induced.
3) hope that my body reacts to the induction the same way it did for Scott.
4) hope that my body does not go into labour early.
5) cause if it does, I will not push until 12:01am Mar. 17/08.
WISH ME LUCK!!! :)
The only thing I really got going for me, is that my Dr. will not let me go over my due date before inducing me. This is why I must get him to start the induction the night before..not the day of. I can't risk a Mar. 18th delivery.
Because, heaven forbid, that I should have to do birth announcements in *gasp* pink or *be still my beating heart* spring colours.
Because, don't even think that I can use a shamrock if she ain't born on St. Patty's Day. In my mind, that just don't work...lol.
Like I said, obsessed with a St. Patrick's Day baby.

Okay, so I really guess I should do a blog update.
So much has been going on I just don't even know where to start.
I received my green card in the mail late last week. So I am now officially a resident alien of the USA. Yes, lovin' the term alien.
I am so glad that it is all over and done with and I don't have to do anything else for a long time for it.
My camera is sick. Well, it's not so sick that it doesn't work, but it sure sounds sick. It sounds like the motor for the lens keeps trying to bring the lens out, even though it is already out. So, yeah. It just sounds very sick whenever I turn it on. At least it still works. I mean, seriously, what would I do without a camera??? I think I could quite possibly die...or maybe just be very sick and close to death. Kinda like my camera.
Scott is sleeping in a toddler bed now. We got a crib a few months back..my mil bought it for him, andhe hated it from the start. But, really, that is kinda out fault...lol.
Shhhhh, don't tell anyone I said that. I loved having him sleep with me at night. It was nice to have someone to cuddle up to every night since Will works nights. And I just love that kid so much that everything made up for the fact that he woke me up a few times a night.
Well, my mil was garagesaling a couple of weeks ago...yes, in January, and found a toddler bed for $10. It is so cool. It has glow in the dark stars and moon on the headboard and she bought it for him.
Well, he loves it. He had no problems at all with me sitting him in it for the first time or laying him down in it. With the crib, I could not even stand him in it without him screaming. So, now he takes his naps and sleeps in it at night. Everynight he gets better and better at sleeping through the night. Well, guess who just wandered out of his room??? Alright. I am back. He has a nasty little habit of waking up halfway through his nap and can only go back to sleep if I lay him back down and sit with him a few mins. So, anyways, like I said, he is getting better at sleeping longer in the bed without waking up. The first couple nights he was up every hour for 3 or 4 hours. Last night, I think his 3rd night in the bed, I never even heard him til 3:15...that's 5 hours of straight sleeping.
Anyways, of course, I have to show you a pic of my kid in all his cuteness sleeping in his bed for the first time.

Oh, what else is new???
I dunno. Oh, baby stuff.
We do have a name picked. Did I tell you that already??? Erin Sienna Kahle. At my last appt. (32 wk.) the dr. said I was measuring around 31 weeks. And his guess at weight was about 3.5 lbs.
She is laying quite low and is quite good at giving me extreme back and hip pain...still. But, she will be worth all that pain.
I am so excited to be having a little girl. Scott is so cute about it, too. He loves to lift up my shirt and smack my belly (that makes Erin nice and mad) and he even now waves at my belly. I ask him if he wants to say hi to the baby and he waves at my belly. But the waving thing, he just did out of the blue one day. Just lifted my shirt and waved at my belly. It was so gosh-darn cute.
A few days ago, I was sitting over at my bro-in-law's house and asked Scott where the baby was and he pointed to my tummy.
I love that kid so much.
He is so gosh-darn cute.
I finally found an outfit to bring her home from the hospital in. I have been looking for about a month now and just couldn't find something I wanted. Well, Scott and I picked something out today. And I do mean, Scott and I. I held up two cute dresses and I let him choose. This is it.

Well, I am gonna go work on updating Scott's blog now. I have tons of pictures of him to post and it is about time that he has an update, too.