Baby Update

Last week I went to the doctor, everything went really well although I only gained a pound since last month. So for the whole pregnancy I gained 6 pounds which is kinda typically for me. I usually put on the weight at the end but the doctor wants me to slowly start gaining weight. If I haven't gained enough by 32 weeks I am going to have to change my diet. I am really hoping the weight will stick because I don't want to eat ice cream or big meals every day. I think it is because I am pretty active at work and only crave fruit and veggies. When I went to the doctor I was in panic mode when I was done. We discussed a date either May 7th or 9th and I have one more 3 week appointment and then it will be every 2 weeks. I don't think I am ready for all of these changes to come so fast. It seems when you look at a calendar that 14 weeks is a long time but in reality it isn't. When I look at what we have for the baby and the nursery I get pretty overwhelmed. So lately I have been ordering and looking for things online. I feel a sense of relief when I mark something off the baby checklist. The other day Hayden and I were shopping for the baby and he told me mom lets just go because this is too much work! I decided on the decor for the nursery jungle/safari theme. I went to look at fabric and I am staring on the pieces for the quilt. I want to make the animals out of different fabric and then sew it on to the quilt. I am also working on making burp clothes. I have a lot of little projects to do which I like. Hayden is being such a trooper and I think it is because I am making an effort to include and spend time with him. He enjoys all the little stuff we do at night. He loves to read books and play Bingo with me. I think this weekend (if the gets better) we can go to toysrus and let him getting something for himself. He does see all of the stuff we get for baby and is getting jealous so it will be his turn next.

Sick One

You know how when you start off with a runny nose then it turns into a cough and now it is a fever? Well Hayden officially has that bug. I took him to the doctor and he didn't have any type of an infection, which is weird for him. He usually only gets a fever when he he has an infection so I figured he had an ear or sinus infection. Nope just a nasty little virus. So we came home and doctored him with over the counter stuff and I gave him a bath. He was ready to go to sleep at 7:30 which is unusually for him but he did. He was out within 10 minutes. I figured I should sleep too since it might be a long night. It sure was...I think I slept maybe 4 hours and it has been like this since Sunday night. I knew he wasn't himself Monday night because he was up a lot and he usually gets up to go to the bathroom and that's it. I keep checking his fever last night and it was getting higher instead of lower so I made him take a bath and that seemed to help. It was hard for me to sleep because I wanted to make sure he was okay. Hayden seems to be a little better this morning but not himself by all means. He is playing now but he laid on the couch for two hours. The doctor said to keep him home for 3-5 days, I want to make sure he is 100% better before he goes back to school. Hayden hates to be sick but I think its because he is constantly taking all kinds to medicine.

Baby Update

I am 23 weeks along. Things are going good some days are better then others but overall I am pretty happy. Oh, how I love how Hayden likes to feel and listen to baby. He is eager for him to arrive. I think that he is showing that a little differently then I would like to expect. Hayden hasn’t been behaving so well in school and David and I believe it is from all of the changes Hayden is experiencing, David’s new job and the baby. So David and I have been making Hayden our first priority when we get home from work. It has helped a ton. I think when David's work schedule get a little more consistent Hayden will stay home with David on his days off. We both agree that we need to spend as much time with him as possible before his world completely changes. David and I are discussing planning something over spring break. You can definitely tell I am expecting (I will post pictures soon). Our house is slowly changing, Hayden's room is almost done (gotta hang up a curtain and sew a pillow), and the closets are being rearranged so we can store stuff from David's office in there. I am buying the car seat tomorrow (I have coupons and a good sale). David and I have been researching and think we found something that we both like. I have an appointment this week so I am hoping that I've gained weight. I have been craving blue coconut drinks from Sonic and Pixie Sticks candy. The baby is really active and loves to move at night or when I am still. He likes music and hates when people push hard on my belly. I can't wait to meet him and for Hayden to have a little brother. I know Hayden will be great with him and do the big brother thing well.

Working Hard

We are at Ann's visiting. Dale is in town and Hayden is having a blast. He has followed Dale around like a little mini me. Dale is working on Ann's house so he has been in the mix. He loves to wear his tool belt and hand Dale tools. He tries to run the drills like him but I think we will wait a little longer on that one. Dale brought a huge truck with a ramp and Hayden has been going up and down on that. Yesterday, he rode his digger ride on toy down it. He has been outside playing so well. I told David that a fence is officially going on the list of to do. Hayden will enjoy that more then anyone else. If he could I think he would live outside. We will miss him when he goes back home.

Don't have the pictures of them working...those are on my phone, this will have to do.

Couponing again

I have been couponing on and off over Thanksgiving and Christmas, as my stockpile shrinks, I need to start hitting it hard! That is what I did this weekend. I had so much fun! It is kinda like something I can't stop. I look for a coupon for anything. Since are family status will be changing in May I want to stock up things while I can. So here it goes...



HEB-One of my favorites in a long time! I paid 6 bucks ($2 for the fruit) for all of this (there is also 2 packages of frozen yogurt sandwiches that were in the deep freeze that was to much work to get out)! it would have been over $20.00. I love the fact that I got milk for $.66. Hope it's good!! I am thinking I might run and do the deal again and freeze some stuff!!





Walgreens- Paid around $22.00 for $90 worth of products. My favorite is the hand sanitizer, only a buck (good to have when the baby comes and the cheap eye liner).





CVS: This was a great week for me here because of all the baby products. Believe it or not I haven't bought any diaper cream. It hasn't been cheap enough for me to buy so I waited. I was getting worried that I was going to have to pay over a buck for it. Not today, I bought all of the baby products for $.40 a piece, full price they range between 4.50-5.50. We opened our last baby bath soap last week so I knew I didn't have much time.

Overall, I spent $17.00 and it would have cost me $140. I love the free chap stick and the $.99 light bulb.

The Flintstones vitamins were from Target and I spent 3 bucks on those, a dollar a piece, when they are regularly 6 bucks each. I think we will give them a try!

**In case your wondering the diaper stockpile is moving along great. I have sizes newborn to 2 done. I started size 3 but I still need over 1,000 diapers in that size, so it will be awhile until that size is done. I have enough wipes for the first 3-4 months. I need to pick back up and find some wipe deals! I also started buying formula. I have enough formula to feed the baby for 3 months, 8 times a day. I have my receipts saved on the formula in case I need to take them back. I never pay more then 11 cents for a diaper and more then 7 bucks for formula. I have also bought new parts and nipples for the baby bottles, with coupons and money from babys r us. I have begun shopping the sale racks for baby clothes. I think that is a whole different issue, since the baby can only wear Hayden's sleepers and onesizes, everything else will be the wrong season. I need socks, bibs, and burp clothes. I think we ate them, after 3 different searches in the attic and no luck finding the vast amounts we did have, I gave up. I figure we can "splurge" on a few new items! Overall, the preparing and stockpiling for the little one is moving a long great.

Before when I went shopping David would ask how much did you spend, now he asks how much did you save! It is so funny because half the time he doesn't get how things can be free or bought so cheap. He likes the couponing way. He has graciously given up some of his garage and all of his closets (even the one in his office), for me! Gotta love that...

New Year...Fresh Start

I dread the new year, it always makes me relive the past year. As I thought about where we were and what has happened it made me do a lot of thinking. In the past year David and I have been in school, changed jobs, added a new family member, started couponing, went on a few vacations, and learned a lot about myself. Overall, I am excited about what this new year holds for us a family. I can't wait to meet our baby boy (who we haven't picked out a name for yet). I am so excited and proud of the career choice David has made and eager for him to start working the streets. David has started to do the boy stuff with Hayden...like working on projects, fixing things, and including him in anything that he is going to learn from. Hayden enjoys this!! When they are working in the garage, David will ask Hayden for tools and let him nail or screw things in. I look at Hayden and how much he has grown and matured, last year he wasn't sleeping in his bed all night or knew how to read or write. He has learned to be patient, a great helper, and a boy with a soft kind heart (he still wants kisses and hugs through out the day)! I am proud of the boy we are raising and how he surprises me. I think the best thing about last year is believing in the unknown. I am super big planner and life hasn't worked out to my plan and it has been 10 times better then what I planned. I am proud that I have stuck with getting my masters. In May, I will have half of my masters done and only a year half left!!! No it's not easy and yes there are sacrifices, but they are so worth it! Retiring earlier at 56, instead of 65!! I am proud that David and I "have our head on straight". We see the big picture and don't live in the present but plan for the future. I know that 2012 holds a lot of new things for us...change and many things not planned out, but this time I am okay with that!!

Whiny One

It is a wonder where your smartness comes from. I know for sure you don't get it from me, see it takes me a long time to get something and still at times I don't think I fully understand a concept. Your dad on the other hand gets things the first time around so your smarty pants mode, I believe is from him (you do have my nose and my smile which I think is the cutest).

So on to the title...Over new years weekend Ava and Laney spent the weekend with us. You began to ask a lot of questions and I really didn't understand why, today it hit me. You asked why do they cry a lot, why do they run to their mom, why can't they do things by their self, why do they sleep with their parents. I really didn't know how to answer because I am not sure. So today when we went for lunch, you went to the play area and there was a boy about a year or so younger than you and you asked all of the same questions about him as Ava and Laney (except for the sleeping part). I said Hayden I really don't know and you had this lost look and then you said he is just a whiny one. I know we really don't put up with whining (I can't take it....) so I am sure when you are whining I say all the time don't be a whiny one. I find it funny that you understand what I mean about whining. I think I need to have a new saying or something...I don't think it is politically correct to tell other kids they are being whiners.