Fun in Prego Land

I couldnt think of a title so i thought i would just be silly and put the above one. Partially due to the fact that I got the results of my Gestational diabetes test back and low and behold I am once again for the 3rd time out of my 5 pregnancies officially diagnosed with it. So on Monday i go to get all my supplies, glucometer, testing strips and all that fun stuff. I also get an appointment with the nutritionist at some point in the week. Like I said in my last post, its a good thing i eat or at least have the knowledge to eat better. Funny thing is (i may have mentioned this before) that i prayed before we found out we were prego that i would be able to be self controled and not gain a ton of weight especially since i had extrea "fluff" already. Well amen, here's to answered prayes, casue with this diet i shouldnt gain much. In my last trimester with Ashlyn i think i gained 5 pounds.

Today Ashlyn and I went on a date. Antonio took Devin and a preteen boy from church out bowling. We went shopping, she desperatly needed winter stuff and last weekend whent he high was 55 we were lacking some essentials. So i figured before we get our next cold spell , its 90 today, we better get some clothes. We had a really good time, she is really growing up. We went and had lunch at applebees and it was super yummy. Not a whole lot of resteraunts close by around here, you mostly have to go down the hill to Palm Springs for the good stuff. For some reason we hadnt went to applebees yet, not sure why, but it was good.

Not much else going on around here, i did take some pictures the other day but havent got around to downloading them yet and i really need to go sit in front of the TV and veg so i absolutly cannot do it right now. maybe Monday, we'll see LOL.

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Well, we have had an interesting week. Mommy and kids have all been a mess, not sure whats going on but I know it will work itself out. On Tuesday my belly kept getting really crampy at about 3:30 it really started to make me not feel so good, so i spent the night at home while the family went to bible talk. I was getting concerned that i was having real contractions, it was so hard to tell. Cause it wasn't anything timeable and it seemed to never go away. So I just layed on my left side drank some water and Gatorade and prayed God would make it obvious to me is i needed to go in. I ended up going to bed and woke up fine, but I noticed yesterday that i need to listen to my body and sit down often. I also noticed that my belly seemed to have grown over night so i am thinking that baby might be having a growth spurt. This being the third child you would think i would feel like a pro and nothing minor would concern me, but that is not the case, I actually feel more concerned this time around. And everything is more intense this time. My midwife told me that i need to make sure i get enough rest or when i get to the end i am going to feel like i have been hit by a truck (too bad i already feel like that some days). Seeing my belly grow is very exciting and I am feeling baby a little bit. They are very soft kicks at this point and they are very sporadic(sp?) it is exciting to feel it. I have been letting the kids feel my belly when i lay on my back, you can really feel the hardness of my uterus then, and they are really amazed. Ashlyn is really into the baby, she is at that age i guess. I told her that the baby can hear now so she loves to talk to my belly and kiss it, so cute. On Monday we had to go to the lab so i could do my glucose test, which i was supposed to do a long time ago but being sick and busy i put it off oooppps, i have to get it done early cause i had gestational diabetes with ashlyn and one of the pregnancies we miscarried. So the midwife called and i failed it, my levels were elevated so now i get to go back for a 3 hour test to see if i have GD this time around. I was telling Antonio that its a good thing i eat a lot better now then i did when i prego with ashlyn cause it wont be such a shock to the system when i have to eat the special way. I pretty much eat that way now with a few exceptions everyday so it wont be to big of a deal, but with the first pregnancy i ate a lot of carbs (and had the extra weight gain to prove it) so it was like being tortured eating the special diet. It was defiantly the start to learning how to eat better, so an amen is order i guess. Today we all seem to be doing better so hopefully today will be a turning point in our crazy week. Hope all of yours has went a little better than ours!!!

OB Appointment

We had our 16 week appointment today. The kids joined me and did pretty well over all. Devin was very funny and silly, of course. When she was trying to find the heartbeat Ashlyn, I think, asked me to tell her the names we have, so I did and then Devin piped in with his choices on names. He said if its a boy it will be Doo Doo and when it gets older he''ll call it Captain Bones. and then he decided if its a boy it will be Stinky and if its a girl it will be Pinky. It was very funny, I told him when we got home (after he repeated the names to me for the 3rd time) that we are gonna stick with Dillin if its a boy and Kailyn if its a girl. He said ok i like Dillin. I guess he thinks he gets a say in all this, I will let him think that it's fine.

So as she was trying to find the heart beat she had troubles, she would start to get it and then baby would move. So she diecided to just get the ultrasound machine. The funny/ironic thing about this was that in the car right as we were pulling into a parking spot at the hospitol Ashlyn was trying to explain to Devin that we might find out what sex the baby is next time but that they wouldnt be able to go. Devin was a little sad and said he wanted to see the baby and i was like i know bud i am sorry but the room is little and only daddy can come. So fast forward to the room and getting ultrasound, God really gave us a little blessing cause the kids got to see the baby. It was moving around lots and even looked like it waved at us. Ashlyn was so excited she was right up next to the screen just a talking to the midwife, Devin instisted on sitting with me on the table. It's amazing how much baby has grown since the 8 week ultrasound. I definatly want to get as little procedures and ultra sounds as possible done and try to go about things as naturally as I can, but this was super exciting.

A Bunch of Nothing

There hasn't been anything really out of the ordinary going on around here, so I thought i would just update on the norm. I think I felt the baby kick today, not totally certain but it really felt like a kick and not gas bubble. I was laying on the couch on my side and Ashlyn came and sat by me and was right up against my belly and there was a little pressure from her leaning and when she moved I felt this little thump right by my belly button. I don't know if it was wishful thinking or really a kick, but the time is getting about right for me to feel stuff. I will be 16 weeks Wednesday and i believe with Devin i started feeling stuff around 4 1/2 months so i guess in my mind i should feel it a little earlier this time. We have decided on a full girl name and part of a boy name, Kailyn Danielle (girl, obviously) and Dillin (boy). We have come to the tradition of "D" middle names, not on purpose it just kinda happened with the other two so we are keeping up the trend, so i am still on the hunt for a boy middle name. I was at candle party this weekend, yeah mommy time, and was flipping through my friends baby name book and saw a few that i like but my pregnancy brain took over and i cant remember them. So i guess I need to get that book from her. I have, for certain, come to the conclusion that i must stay away from wheat and tomatoes especially together. We had pizza the other night and i had 2 bread stick with sauce and only ate the topping off my pizza and i got super sick. But yesterday i had goat cheese on water crackers, which are made with wheat flour, and i was fine, I don't think i even got heartburn. So i guess tomatoes, which recently in last few years i also discovered i am sensitive to, are the kicker. So i am trying to listen to my body which is hard cause i love tomatoes although they don't like me.

Antonio had duty tonight so we have had a pretty lazy day. We did a partial day with school, kinda easing into it cause last week was our week off and this morning we were all a little groggy and grumpy. We started a new book, Homer Price, it is interesting so far. Ashlyn was dying to see what happens next but i was mean mommy and said we have to wait till tomorrow. Devin has gotten sick of his worksheets so I think i am going to start pulling out the 100's board and we are gonna do stuff with that together, and the ABC poster. I currently have it in the hallway by there rooms, but i think it just gets passed by there so i am going to move it somewhere more central so i can remember to talk about it more.

We did decide to use cloth diapers so i went on an ordering spree at diaperswappers, an online community where moms sell or trade there diapers they have been using, and got some great deals. I may still need a few more covers and another dozen prefolds but i am going to try and wait for awhile unless i get a deal that i cannot pass up (hint hint if anyone has anything they don't want or need LOL). A friend from one of our homeschool groups is going to come over tomorrow and we are going to serge some cloth wipes, i finally got it rethreaded (threading it is a pain), and whipped one wipe up yesterday in about 30 seconds. Flannel seems to be the fabric of choice at all the place you can buy them and the friend is done having babies so she is going to bring over a bunch of flannel blankets that we will make into wipes. I hadn't really had the sewing bug until we planned this and i got my serger threaded and now i cant wait. I also and knitting my first bootie/sock, it has really exercised my brain, i had to give up trying to use logic when reading the pattern and just do it cause it was frustrating me. But it all worked, proves that i guess you don't always need to know why your doing something. Well that's all the nothings i have for now. Ta ta

Theme Day

One of homeschool groups that we are apart of started doing theme days. Yesterday, Thursday, we got to go to a goat farm. It is a family owned farm that was small and personal, it was so fun. One of the ladies from the group is good firends with them and set it all up for us. When we first got there they gave us some information on what a family farm is and talked about several different types of goats and which ones they had. Devin didnt have so much fun on this part, so he spent his time running aroing playing oh and lots of whining. Ashlyn really enjoyed just sitting and listening, she always wanted to be right next the owners, she was really cute. After the information we got to go milk the goats. The man did it first and showed them how to hold and squeeze, ashlyn and devin both tried, devin couldnt get it but ashlyn did on her second try. It got pretty stuffy in the little building so me and devin stepped out and he explored their garden and petted several goats. They were so friendly, if you walk up to them they flock to you to get some lovins. Then they got to watch that same goat be sheared and each child got to keep a little handful of hair, later they also got a little bar of lavender goat soap it smells so good. Then the group got to give the goats little treats, they would slurp them out of the kids hands with their tounges hanging out, it was cute and a little gross for Ashlyn cause one really lapped up her hand. Ashlyn was is heaven on that farm, I barely saw her all morning, she was exploring and hanging out with the owners. She seemed in her element, we have talked about one day getting a little farm, and i mean little, i think she would love it. After all that we got to go inside and get a class on making goat cheese and of course she already had some prepared so we got to taste it. Oh my it put the goat cheese in the stored to shame, it was sooooo good. I think i may try it with some store bought goat milk for fun one time. After we were done with that the kids just romped around and played for awhile and then we headed to Pioneertown.

I am so glad we followed poeple who knew where they were going cause i would have driven right by this town. It was a one road old western style town, all the buildings, except one, had wood siding like they did back in the day. It was so cute, the bowling alley had its oringinal paintings on the walls from the 40's done by a artist who worked for Hollywood. The owner whom is also apart of the group was so generous. She was giving us all money for the pinball machines, which were also older and very neat and only a quarter. All the kids also got free popsicles and she gave me two sodas. It was so great we had a ton of fun. Antonio and I and the kids are going to go back to one of the resteraunts, well it may be the only resteraunt besides the bowling alley, they have a bluegrass band on Saturdays, and its supposed to be kids friendly as long as its early. As you can see i have no pictures, uuurrg, i thought about the camera in the shower but spaced it off and forgot it. Hopefully someone got some pictures and maybe i can get a few and post them later. It was a great day.