Warm weather a blessing or a curse?

oh my goodness we finally got a bit of warm weather this week. the green grass is growning and its starting to feel like spring and summer. I'm so excited i love the smell of fresh cut grass and being able to walk around outside barefoot in it. But as the pregnancy has shown me some of my favorite things aren't so easy any more. it is really just barely warm i think sunday it was in the high 60's we have church at 1:00 PM so it makes for a lazy morning. you all know me and how i like things to be about 80 all the time. well i'm definatly getting that pregancy heat now. Our apt was probably about 60 and kurtis was cold and turned on the heater and i was dying. Then we went to church which for once had the ac on. We have a ward filled with quite a few older couples so they make it generally unbarebly hot in there even for me normally. Kurtis told me it acutally wasn't bad in there this sunday but i still ended up going into the bathroom and running my pudgy puffed up hands under the cold water for about 5 min. before returning to sacrament with two paper towels that had also been run under the hot water. I shared time with those between my hobbit feet and my pudgy hands trying to cool down. Alas i ended up leaving and having kurtis take me home to our once again cool apartment with about 15 min left of sundayschool. i've been finding that my feet even just sitting for about 15 to 20 min end up getting puffy it is the least bit warm wherever i am at.

So for now i'm day dreaming of my inlaws 3 foot deep pool and nice days so i can enjoy the sunshine and stay cool. :-) so close now girls almost down to 5 weeks!!!!! I promise i'll get some picks up this week the baby has dropped so i can breath again but its making sleeping a little harder. But it makes me feel like i kinda look cute in clothes again which has made me feel a little better.

Anyway hope all is well with everyone we'll keep you updated.

almost 34 weeks!!

Ok so now that we're not sick anymore and things are relativly back to normal i figure i can put up a small update blog. I went to the dr. this morning i have one more 2 week checkup and they will be doing a strep test then. I'm hoping that soon we will get to have another ultra sound so they can somewhat figure how big he is. All they told me this time was that in two more days when i hit 34 weeks if i go into labor they won't stop it. Yay. That means its getting close.

In other news my parents came down this last weekend and got to see my pregnant belly. My dad most likely won't be coming down after i have the baby so it was nice to see him. No one really said anything except the following. Jay said "sam you look alot different when your pregnant." and dad said hugging me was like hugging a basketball. Mom brought down lots of presents for baby. My favorite are two stuffed animal puppets. One is a duck and the other is a frog and they ribbit and quack different songs when you push their mouths together. I love them. I'm not sure if they will have any battery left by the time our little boy gets here but i figure thats ok. Other than that she brought a big shopping bag full of clothes. Some really cute ones, and 3 tubs of blankets. I made her go home with one. As we are still in the process of getting the babies room ready and i still haven't figured out a theme for it hopefully these blankets will help. Along with each blanket is either a matching 2 or 3 burp clothes, a toy or a few hats one for baby and one for toddler. I'll see if i can't some more pics up on here sometime soon i'm just absolutly horrible at taking pics so...

Other than that i'm by myself today and most of tomorrow kurtis has to go do a job for work in st. george and won't be back for a bit so i'll have the house to my self. don't know what i'm going to do with the time. we'll see i guess. anyway hope all is well

Can baby say Walking Pneumonia?

First off laura you have to let me know when you get to utah for sure!!!

Now well so i may not get preeclampsia or bleed during my pregnancy like my mother did.... but i get everything else i think. So last week on about wednesday i started not feeling to great. Since Kurtis got what we thought was a cold the saturday before we figured i had just caught his cold. However thursday night after talking with his parents we found out that his brother Kevin has walking Pneumonia. And since kurtis's cough sounded a lot like kevins his mom and i were both thinking that we should go into the dr. However i am glad she said it to him before i did. So we were ok thurdsay and then friday we had a game night where we were both hacking up a lung. That night i couldn't sleep and at about 5 AM i decided to take a bath to try and get the pain out of my chest. When i got back to bed at about 7AM apparently i was pushing kurtis away anytime he got near me. Now thats not all that uncommon but ususally i remember such a thing and don't do it hurtfully. So he got out of bed and i slept until about 9:30. NOT NORMAL for me anyway. so when i got up we went to the dr. the best part of this trip for me was when the nurse who was going over our symptoms etc asked me when my last period was. kurtis an i both kinda looked at each other and smirked and i proceded to say ahh august...31st. all the while she was looking down at her paper and her face was priceless. when she did look up i told her i was pregnant. Then proceded to ask kurtis if i really just looked fat. But he explained that since i was wearing sweats and a hoody that it did just kinda look like i was a little plump.

Anyway so they basically told me that they couldn't do anything for me tested me for strep which was negative. Which i could have told them and then said well even if you do have anything we can't give you and x-ray and even if we could we can't give you any meds. soo.. on to kurtis. They did give him an x-ray and said there was a little fluid in his lungs but not much, however since his brother has walking pneumonia that wanted to treat him as if he had it full blown. so they perscribed him some meds and we picked them up that afternoon.

We stayed home from church on sunday so bad but hey at least we didn't infect anyone. and i slept in till 11 AM i think that might be a record. went to family night at his parents where we just kinda laid there the whole night i didn't ever really wake up that day.

on to monday...

Monday i went into work was there for about 5 min and my supervisor told me to go home and not to come back unless i was feeling better. so i've been out of the office for two days. But on monday i also called my dr. and after basically the whole day they got me on some meds. actually the same exact stuff that kurtis is on. so here we are day three of walking pneumonia... and going strong.

For the record i envy those that love being pregnant because i wish i did and i feel bad that i don't. but i am tired of being sick. But i am so thankful for the baby that is on the way and i know he will be worth all of it. i just wish he would get here sooner....

update!

Ok for laura and anyone else wondering my Due Date is June 7th, but i'm shooting for him arriving on May 31.

So preganancy has done a number of weird things to me and my body but among the newest development has been my eye sight. I have been having some blurry vision lately and trouble getting things to focus like letters on a computer. Since i have been under watch for getting preeclampsia i have been monitoring things like this lately. aka swelling fat feet, fingers, face(check) headaches (check) blurry vision (check) Stomache Pains (Check) Protien in Urine (Check) High blood pressure NOPE. So at my dr appointment the dr and i talked about all the symptoms i've had. We figured that the swelling feet was from traveling and not getting enough water, that the headaches adn blurry vision went together, and the stomache pains were either gas or something to do with my gull bladder that we can't do anything about until after the baby is here anyway. I think the protien in my urine happend to be because i had a big steak the night before for dinner. And since i have really low bp 116/71 i do not have preeclampsia. which is great.

So now it was time to figure out what was wrong with my vision after talking with some people at my office and becky and reading different things on the net about vision and pregnancy and the weird things it can do to you i decided to get my eyes checked. So after the exam the dr told me its very common that after the baby is born that your eyes go back to normal. Meaning in short that my yes got worse in fact one eye was as much as .75 worse. The good thing is that i can go back after the baby is born and he will check my eyes for free since its only in a few months.

I've decided that your body is just stupid the first time you have a baby it doesn't know what to do or what is going on. Or that at least that is what my body has done. However i am very happy that my baby is healthy and i for the most part am healthy and have had no real complications. one more day and i am 32 weeks. wahoo!!!

little scare

So tuesday night i had a bit of a scare. I was getting these sharp pains in my stomach and the little turd (i've so affectionatly started calling my son who is obviously taking after his father already) was moving so much that it hurt more. they've been monitoring me pretty cautiously for preeclampsia (toxemia) for the duration of my pregnancy and with the swelling i had around easter we've been trying to be really careful. They had told me before that if i started to get cramping or stomach pains to first try some tums or some sort of ant acid so did. Unfortunatly it didn't do a thing. so i decided it might be just gas and decided to take a warm bath and kinda stick it out. we ended up going to bed early and at about 4:30AM it started to feel better. By morning i still had a bit of pain right at the bottom of my rib cage. now first of all that night i'm sitting there going through one of my pregnancy books trying to figure out whats going on. Let me tell you something how are you supposed to know what any of these things feel like unless you've experienced them!!! anyway... so i wake up in the morning still in a little pain and decide i need to call my dr to make sure everything is ok. Of course being a girl and a country girl at that i think the first thing we all do is call our mothers. Not to mention that my mom did have toxemia with me so if that is whats going on she would kinda be able to explain what everything feels like. to make a long story short mom thinks it could be the baby just pushing on a nerve or gas something like that but tells me if it countinues to hurt to call the dr. So after i get off the phone i called the dr. They told me it could have been braxton hicks contractions, could be a sign of preeclampsia but since i haven't had any of the other symptoms of it for the last little bit and i have a dr appointment next wednesday that just to monitor if i get any swelling or blurry vision to come in immediately. or that it could just be gas, and to take some more pepto. They basically told me that with any of these the best thing to do is to relax lay down with your feet up and drink lost of water. most of these things can be brought on my dehydration and stress so i needed to take the day off and not do anything.

So yesterday i layed on my back at our apartment all by myself all day being annoyed at daytime television. i don't know how much of a de stresser that was but no pain yet today....

Fresh of the press Belly Pics

Here you go Guys these were taken this morning. Sorry if i look a little onery i was really tired.