Preggo Update

I had a doctor's appointment today. Marie was being wiggly, but I did get to see some of her face in the ultrasound. She is looking good, with a current measurement of 6 pounds 5 ounces. However, her fluids are not quite what the doctor would like them to be.

"The doctor will measure the largest pockets of amniotic fluid in four different sections of your uterus and add them together to see where you rate on the amniotic fluid index (AFI). A normal measure for the third trimester is between 5 and 25 centimeters (cm). A total of less than 5 cm is considered low."

My fluids are currently at a 7, on the verge of being risky. The doc will check again next Friday and if they are any lower she is sending me to the hospital for an induction. With an AFI of 5 or lower, she will send me right over to the hospital. With an AFI of 6 she will send me to the hospital Saturday morning.

In the meantime, I need to make sure that this baby is moving alot by doing kick counts. If you want to know what that is, ask my mom.

So, it looks like Marie's birthday will either be the 12th or the 13th of October, unless she decides to come sooner.

My name is William and I am a car-a-holic

William and I tried to go to story time at the library today. I say "tried" because he only lasted about 10 minutes. By that time, he had already tried to steal another kid's toy car , had a time-out for that, and then tried to take shoes off of some boy. Can you guess what was on the shoes? Yep, cars. The boy tucked his feet underneath him and William just lost it. We walked out of the library with him screaming, "Caaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr." Oh my goodness, I am being punished for any judgmental thought I have ever had about any other mother. AND, I am so done with this obsession. I mean, it was cute when he would point out cars on the road and drive his toy cars around the house for hours at a time. It was cute yesterday when he got a stuffed car pillow from Rebecca. Today, he has taken it too far, he has gotten to the point that he thinks any toy car he sees should belong to him. Anyone know of any local Cars Anonymous meetings I can take him to? This Mom is in need of some serious help.

36 weeks, well, 35 weeks and 5 days, but who's counting?

I thought I would take another belly pic because the thing has totally popped out recently. I can't say I feel huge, this is nothing compared to how I looked and felt with William, but I am definitely getting anxious for this little bundle of joy to arrive. Mostly I am just really, really, really excited and also nervous, but who wouldn't be?

And here's another cute picture. We tell William to kiss Marie and he will come up and kiss my belly. I hope that that doesn't confuse him when Marie is no longer in my belly. Oh well, I am sure he won't go to college thinking that my belly is called Marie. Anyway, here's to the next 4 weeks!

I'm a big kid now!

On Monday night William made the big move, from nursery to big boy room! The room is still slightly under construction, the walls are a blank slate and the closet still has office stuff in it, but we moved the computer out and took the twin bed off the frame (it already had all of William's bedding on it) which made it ready enough for William to move in.

William was thrilled the first night. He was all smiles, hence the picture, and couldn't get enough of this exciting change in his life. He fell asleep quickly and looked so comfortable lying there! Brandon and I, on the other hand, after putting William to bed, went into the now empty nursery and cried a few tears over our baby growing up. I think we both would have been even worse off if we didn't have the arrival of our new little princess to look forward to in 5 weeks. Knowing that room would soon be filled again was comforting indeed.

I was somewhat surprised by my emotions. Why I am ever surprised by emotions anymore, is beyond me, since I am such a baby, nonetheless, I was surprised. I have been anticipating this move for weeks now. First, I knew it was necessary to make room for the baby and second, I was able to put my love for decorating to work once again. I spent hours searching websites trying to decide what color scheme I wanted to do in the room and getting ready to make it perfect for my little boy. As I made each purchase I couldn't wait to see it in the room. I moved William's clothes to his new dresser three weeks ago, right after we bought it. I am excited for this new stage in my little family's life!

But Monday night, when my little baby boy graduated from the nursery to the big boy room, I was a mess. My tears have dried since then and I have gone back to being excited, but now, 2 days later, the roles have reversed. William is a mess! He slept horribly on Tuesday night and semi-horribly on Wednesday night, waking up in the middle of the night crying and banging on his door. Nothing we could do could console him, so we had to just let him cry-it-out. Both Tuesday and Wednesday his naps were next to nothing, and when he would fall asleep it was on the floor by his door. The novelty has worn off and he is wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy keep putting him to bed in the wrong room. Today may be a break-through day, however. The only reason I am able to write this blog at all is because William is working on hour number three of his nap, in his big boy room, not on the floor by the door! We will see what tonight brings . . .

We're going to the zoo, zoo, zoo . . .

On Labor Day we decided to have a little family outing to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. William loves animals and calls all of the "goggy" or "nooooooh" (doggy or cow). So, be it a dog, cat, horse, or even a bug, in William's world it is one of two things, a doggy or a cow. When we first got to the zoo he did exactly what I expected, calling all the animals we saw "goggy" or "noooh." After about an hour, though, I think he began to figure out that they were different and just waited patiently for us to stop the stroller and point out whatever there was to see at the exhibit. William's favorites were the meerkats and the marmosets. Both are little animals that like to run around a lot. William just giggled and giggled as he watched them. After 4 hours of walking around William fell asleep in his stroller and Mommy really wanted to get off her feet so we headed home, but it was a great day! We are thinking that next summer we will get a season pass.


William was in a posing mood because it was the beginning of the day. Isn't this a great picture?!

And then, in the afternoon, not long before he fell asleep, he is wiggly and silly. And no, we are not the exhibit. We are standing next to a monkey exhibit, but our little monkey would not cooperate for us to get a picture with him AND them.

These are the only lions we could find at the zoo, the drinking fountains. Oh well, William had more fun with them then he would have seeing real lions.

He loves drinking fountains.

Our trip to California --- July 2007

William vs. Marie

I took a couple of belly pictures today and thought it would be interesting to compare my Marie belly at 30 weeks to my William belly at around the same time. I definitely carried William a lot higher, which proves the old wives tale wrong. Supposedly women carry boys lower than they carry girls, I am the opposite, of course, my hips spreading when I had William had alot to do with it, I'm sure! I'll take the lower belly though, I certainly don't miss the heartburn that accompanied my pregnancy with William. So, here are the pictures, green shirt is my William belly and red shirt is my Marie belly. I don't know, now that I look at them next to each other, maybe there isn't as noticeable difference as I thought. What do you think?