I know it's been a while...

I know it's been a while. I started blogging somewhere else more frequently. Jacob is doing great. I think he might have a cold right now or he might just be teething. I'm not sure. He's started crawling 3 weeks ago so he's always on the move now! I just feel so lucky and so blessed!

My miracle baby!

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So busy!

Sorry it's been a while since I've updated this. I've been so exhausted and busy! No one tells you how hard this can be early on! I've been only getting 4 hours of sleep a day since Jacob was born. While it's hard it's also amazing and beautiful. I'm working on getting him set in some routines so he'll rest better at night and during naps. Then maybe when he's awake he'll be more interested in toys and learning. Right now he's still in that "baby blob" stage. LOL! Can't wait for the day that he picks up a toy and tries to figure it out. He's gaining more head control and he loves his new Bumbo seat that helps with his neck muscels. He is such a little angel.

New Car

So we ended up getting a new car. It's a Mazda 6 and we had the Mazda 3. I really like it and it's big enough for all our stuff now, but we now have a car note again. We had one more payment on the other car.... go figure! My mom and sister might come to visit this upcoming weekend so I've been trying to clean the house as best as I can. It's a bit time consuming with Jacob on my hands all day by myself. He likes to be held 24/7. He's growing so fast to! I'm already putting away a few newborn outfits because they don't fit. :( It's kinda sad. In a way I want him to stay sweet and tiny, but on the other hand I can't wait to watch him grow and learn. He's learned to smile really good! It's so frickin' cute! I can't wait until he plays with toys so I can entertain him more. That's gonna be fun! :)

Baby pics!

Nudey Booty!

Me and baby (sorry no time for makeup anymore LOL!)

So everything is okay. My car broke down last week and still is not running right after we spent 2 thousand dollars on it. Mechanics always seem to leave something undone! We might trade in both of our cars so we have more room for the baby stuff. The baby seat barely fits in the backseat of my car and the trunk space is so small it'll be hard to fit the basinett and stroller in there when we go to visit family in Lousisiana. It just really sucks because I only have one more payment on it and now it's starting to give me trouble. I was hopeing not to have a car note anymore! *Sigh* Oh well. And hubby's car hasn't been used in over 6 months. It just collects dust. So we'll see.

The baby is doing good. He really wears me out to an extreem point of exhaustion, but he's so worth it I try not to complain to much. So I thought I'd just post some new pics up of him. Enjoy!

Jacob is almost a month old!!!

Wow, time really went by fast this first month! Maybe it was all the sleep deprivation and the days all just running into one another. I started pumping milk and we still use formula as well. This has allowed me to have time to do things around the house while James feeds the baby and on weekends allows me to get about 5 hours of sleep in a row!! WOW!!! Jacob has finally passed up his birth wieght of 7.1 pounds and is now almost 8 pounds if not more by now. This means that we can let him sleep as long as he wants at night without having to wake him up for feedings every 2 to 3 hours. The only thing is he's used to waking up so for now he still gets up every 3 hours on his own anyways. I think one night he went 4 hours and I was begining to wonder if he was okay LOL!

BABY IS HERE!!!

Sorry it took so long to post this. I've had a difficult recovery, but I'm really starting to feel better now. Jacob was born on Dec. 16, 2009. Labor was hard and painful and I ended up having to have a C-section. Jacob wasn't lining up right for a vaginal birth. Guess he was just to comfy in there he didn't want to come out! The guy who administered the epidural was an idiot and "forgot" to turn the machine on for the medicine. So after the test shot wore off (about 30 min.) I was in the most intense pain ever! No one figured out the idiot didn't turn on the machine until I was told I needed an emergency C-section due to the baby not coming out fast enough. I pushed without drugs or pain medicine for 3 LONG hours!! It was the hardest thing I ever went thru, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat just for him. He's just so perfect and beautiful, I couldn't ask for more.

James is so good with him. He's such a natural. Jacob is already a daddy's boy. When I as pregnant all James had to do was put his hand on my tummy to calm him down. Now that Jacob is here all he has to do is hold him and Jacob just relaxes almost instantly. It has been alot of work as far as feeding him every three hours around the clock and then trying to find time for sleep. He's a little pro at breast feeding and had the perfect latch the very first time he tried. Which is one of the things I was scared of because if he has a bad latch then you get pain and bloody nipples....ouch!!!!We spent 6 days in the hospital due to kidney problems which we are still working out.

It's been really nice to be home and to see Jacob use his own things instead of the hospitals. Jacob has already tried out his swing, bouncy, bassinet, and sling. He loves them all already. James and I are really loving having a REAL changing table instead of a hospital bed to change him on. It really makes things much easier because it brings him right up to your level.Other than that we are just hanging out around the house trying to find a routine that will work for us and enjoying our new precious little boy.

Induction tomorrow!

Oh my goodness I can't believe that I'm going to become a mother tomorrow! I'm ready to not be pregnant anymore. The doctor swept my membranes yesterday and said I'm 1 cm dialated already. So I have a good start for tomorrow. Hopefully it will all go well, I am really nervous and excited at the same time. I'll try and post pictures for everyone as soon as I can get the laptop up and running at the hospital so "stay tuned"!

39 weeks! Induction on the 16th!

So I've been having problems and the doc wants to induce me on the 16th. I'm soooooooo ready so I said yes. I'm just scared and I'm hoping he decides to come out on his own before the 16th. She's going to give me pitocin which I hear causes really painful contractions. We'll see I guess. I'm just trying to stay brave at this point. I've been having contractions now for about 3 weeks, but she hasn't checked me in those 3 weeks either so I don't know if I'm dialating or not. She will check Monday though. I'm so nervous. I hope those contractions were dialating me so I have a head start Wend. Well wish me luck. My next post I should have some baby pics up!!! YAY!! I cannot believe I'm about to be a mother! WOW! For those of you TTC, I'm sorry I'm not trying to boast. I've been there and I know it's hard, but I'm proof it's possible so NEVER EVER give up!!!!!

36 weeks... almost there!

So I've made it to 36 weeks so far!! YAY! Everything is fine except that I have a low blood count. I was put on iron pills today for it. I think that's what was causing some of my problems I was having such as sleepiness and the heart racing. So hopefully the iron pills will help with that. I've started getting Braxton Hicks Contractions a few days ago. It was really bad last night. I think I had about 6 of them. I had about 5 today. I think it's really getting close. I hope he stays in there though for another 2 weeks.

My cat is still sick. He has made some really huge improvements, but still will not eat on his own. I feel that in maybe 2 weeks he might be able to take better care for himself without me having to syringe feed him every 2-3 hours. It would be very stressfull doing that while taking care of a newborn. I love my cat so much (His name is Prozac) and I really want him to get better. He started sleeping on the end of the bed two nights ago. Something he used to do all the time, but hasn't done since the move. So I really think he's coming around. Like I said, I just need a little more time with him. I'll post a picture of my precious Prozac to! :D

33 weeks!

So I've made it to 33 weeks this Saturday. I'm so exhausted. I'm ready for this pregnancy to be over. It's just to the point where it's just plain painful. Not to mention all the stress I've been under lately. After Randy died, Prozac (my cat) got really sick. He still is sick and nothing I do seems to help. I've been force feeding him for 3 weeks now. It's so tiering and I already do not have energy. I try to feed him every 3 hours and I stop at night, but I think maybe I should feed him thru the night if I want him to recover faster. *sigh* I'm just soooooo ready for everything to turn back to normal so I can just look forward to my new baby.

Sad post: Step-Dad passed away :(

Like this year hasn't been stressfull enough for us. I got a call Friday morning from my mom saying that her husband Randy died. He was having chest pains and she took him to the ER in the middle of the night. They hooked him up to heart monitors for 3 hours and sent him home saying he had indigestion! He went on to work the next morning and fell out of his chair onto the floor. He had a heart attack and it was to late to do anything for him although the people around him at the time did CPR and everything they could for him. I'm so mad at the hospital that they couldn't have caught the problem earlier when he was there. My mom married him when I was 15, I'm now 29, so I've become really close to him.

I feel so bad to that we just moved 6 hours away and I cannot be there for my mom like I want to. Our "old" house was only 2 streets over from her. There is no family there besides my sister. His family lives 2 hours away and the rest of ours live 3 states up north. My sister was on vacation in another state when she got the call, so my poor mom was all alone when she found out. Randy's family drove down to be with her since they were closer, but that was 2 hours she had to spend alone in that house surrounded by his things. It rips my heart to peices!

He was burried 2 hours up north in his family's cemetary yesterday. I was there for her for the wake Saturday for 6 long hours and the funeral yesterday as well, but we had to come back home. He was the kind of person who could bring a smile to your face no matter what situation you were facing. He was always smiling and laughing. And if something broke he was always more then willing to fix it. From car trouble to plumbing, he was always there when you needed him. It's especially hard for me because he was going to be the grandfather of the baby. I don't have contact with my real dad, so he's all I had. He was so excited about the baby to, it breaks my heart that our baby will never know him. He would have made the perfect grandfather.

Well, I haven't really slept in the last 4 days so I'm going to try and get some sleep before James gets home from work.

We got the house! :)

Okay, so we've been back and forth many times trying to close on this house and now it's ours. We've been in the house now for about 3 weeks. The neighborhood is really nice and quite. We also have put up a fence so we can let our dog out and just run free. He loves it. It's his first time outside without a leash and he's 4 years old!!! My bunny rabbit died right after the move. I guess the stress was to much for him :( My cats (I have 6!!) however are doing good, except my Siamese. It's taking her a little longer to adjust, but I think she'll be fine. I bring my smallest cat (6 months old) to the vet tomorrow to get fixed. I kind of favor him the most recently because I found him the same day I thought I was having a miscarriage and he really lifted my spirits that week. So I pray my little boy will be okay tomorrow.
I'm officially in my third trimester now. Saturday made 28 weeks for me. I can't believe how the time just flew by. I guess because we were so busy. I did have a major scare Saturday night. I was getting ready for bed around 10pm and I started bleeding! I tried to keep my calm (it was hard) and went straight to the ER. Lucky for me my regular doctor was on call at the hospital that night. I stoped bleeding as soon as I got into a room (of course). So I was put on 2 different types of fetal monitors. One for the heartbeat and one for contractions. I wasn't having any contractions thank God. My doc did an exam and my cervix was still closed so she didn't seem concerned. I still had to stay there until 2am to have the baby monitored and to be sure it wasn't the start of preterm labor. Everything checked out fine with the monitoring and I was sent home. I wish they could have told me EXACTLY what was causing the bleeding, but they couldn't. So I've been resting alot since then just to be safe. I bleed early on from week 6 thru week 10 and I hate that it's come back. Hopefully it was just a one time thing this time.

Still waiting to close!

So we are having so many problems trying to close. Long story short, we had to use a relocation company provided by my husbands employer. The man on our case has to be the most laziest person on the planet and we couldn't switch, we are stuck with him. He went on vacation for a week in the middle of everything and left a girl in charge that didn't know squat about anything. When he came back everything was still a mess, although I don't blame the poor girl, he left her poorly informed. The bank has been ready to hand the money over to the seller, but the relocation guy didn't do the paperwork right and it's taking him forever! We had to get 2 extentions already and the seller is ready to back out. We are now told "Maybe" Monday we can close. Urgggg! Its so awful. I already went there twice, which is a 6 hour car drive just to have to come back home!

The pregnancy is going great! My body..... not so much! I've had bad back problems before I got pregnant and had to see a chiropractor once a month for it. It was mostly from 2 car accidents and also waiting tables for 7 years straight really did a number on my spine as well! My chiropractor warned me that if I was to get pregnant I'd have alot of back problems and boy was he right! I have NEVER experienced this kind of pain before in my life. And there is nothing I can take for it besides Tylenol, which does NOTHING! Being in the car for even 10 minutes makes the pain so much worse. It's up and down my middle back along the spine and my lower right rib. The rib actually feels as if it is broken! So all this back and forth in the car for 6 hours is just awful. The pain gets so bad I feel like I'm going to pass out, which sometimes I wish I could just pass out so I wouldn't feel it. I love that I'm pregnant, but I wish I could just "enjoy" it more right now. I was hoping to have another baby down the road, but this has me thinking twice about it, which also leaves me feeling guilty. I wanted my son to have a sibling.

On a much lighter note. I've felt the baby move for about 3 weeks now. Just tiny flutters. BUT today I could actully SEE and FEEL the movement from the outside. It's the most craziest thing ever. Of course it had to happen right after my hubby left on buisness for a week! We've been waiting forever for him to be able to feel it. It just happened overnight to. I sat on the sofa this morning just watching my tummy jump around. It made me smile and laugh and made me realize that all this pain is worth it!

It's a BOY!

We just came back from the OBGYN and found out we are having a boy! The original plan was for us to have a boy then a girl, but for some reason when I found out I was pregnant I switched and wanted a girl! I totally freaked out, because I don't know what to do with boys! I grew up with all girls and that would seem to be easier for me to relate to. But all week leading up to the doctors appointment I dreamed of having a boy and I knew in my heart that I was having a boy. So I'm still really excited and now me and hubby are back to the original plan; have a boy then try for a girl. I know it's silly, but now I kinda feel guilty for wishing for a girl! Also they said all the organs are developing great. So honestly what more could I ask for? I feel like the most luckiest person on Earth right now.
As far as the moving goes, it's just right around the corner! I can't wait. I'm going stir crazy in our house now. Mostly because it's just me, myself, and I. I joke around with my hubby that we're not just moving to another state, we're moving in together! So he's going to be home every night after the move. So I'll have some human interaction and I get to cook dinner again! I LOVE cooking so it's going to be nice to get back into a routine again and actually have stuff to do LOL! Never thought I'd say that. Especially since I'm use to holding 2 jobs and school all at the same time. I was always like "I need some down time!" now it's just the opposite. So hopefully I'll be finding a happy medium soon!

Getting Really Bored!!!

OMG! So I'm 16 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Hubby is still only home on the weekends. I am SOOOO freakin' sick of being by myself! We only had about a year when we were first married that he's been home every night. After that first year it was one week gone at work and one week at home with me. The last 2 and 1/2 months it's only been weekends. It's really driving me nuts! At least with the week on week off, I was able to get tired of him and send him right back to work long enough to miss him again LOL! No seriously though, I'm so bored outta my mind right now! I usually work or go to school and now with the move coming up and the baby coming there really isn't much that I can do right now.

We have a packing company coming to pack up our stuff for us, so I can't even pack my own things to keep myself occupied! I can pack the liquid stuff, but I'm using all that right now. I just watch T.V. all day long (Baby Story on TLC) and stay on the computer to pass time. Sometimes I even will just try to sleep the day away so the next day will get here faster! Oh, I'm so pathetic!

Anyways, now that I'm done ranting on about my boredom and loneliness, this week is almost over! YAY! I got my toy poodle (Peanut) fixed yesterday. He isn't very happy right now. He's getting these coughing fits from the air tube they put in his throat. I try to keep him occupied, but he mostly is just aggravated right now. He was sick a week ago. He was sneezing really bad. Now all of my cats are sick! I have 6 cats! I've spent over $600 at the vet in the last 4 weeks, I can't afford to bring 6 cats to the vet! OH GEEZE! My smallest kitten just got fixed and I think he might not be as sick as the others. He was still on some anti-biotics from his surgery. Crazy pet days over here. I guess I'll have to break down and bring one in and see if they will sell me extra meds for the other cats. Oh well, what can ya do?

*Oops, don't know how to fix the side ways picture lol!

Waiting on closing...

So we've found our dream home and now we're just waiting on closing. It seems to be taking forever, but I know the wait will be worth it. I'm just ready for it all to be done so I can stop worring about it already. I have so much to do when we move from finding a new doctor to where the furniture will go. I guess it's a good stress to have. Moving from a trailer to a house is a big deal to me. I've lived in both growing up, but for some reason when you get a house it just feels good. Hurricane season has started already, but it looks like we will be out of here in time before anything hits. I feel so blessed to be able to offer my family a safe place to evacuate to if need be. I know last year alone we all spent about $600 each in hotel stays alone and Fema only will pay you $100 back "if you qualify". So I'm glad for that for to. I'll put up a pic of us in front of the new house. We took this picture when we just went by to view it. We fell in love with it right away and I think we somehow knew it would be the one we would choose. :)
I'm now 15 weeks 2 days pregnant. I still cannot believe it. After 15 months of trying I have a baby in there! It's so weird! You get so focused on getting pregnant that when you ARE pregnant it's like it's almost not real. I know that must sound crazy! All of my symptoms have gone away except for dizzyness which is normal at this time. I'm excited to find out what I'll be having. I find out on the 27th (I think) of next month. I want a girl, but at this point it doesn't really matter as long as the baby is healthy.

Found a house!

So I finally got to take a house hunting trip up to Northern Texas where we will be living soon. I was really nervous and scared that I wouldn't like it. I already have my Mom and sister giving me a hard time for moving away in the first place. So that didn't really help. It reminded me of my hometown in Kentucky and it felt so homey. The people there are very nice and friendly. Here you'll get flipped off for looking at someone the wrong way! So that is a major plus! I'm even considering letting my kids go to school there instead of homeschooling. I would definitely home school where I'm currently living. So that opens up future options for our child's education which is nice to have options.

We got there on a Sunday with a list of approximately 20 houses we wanted to see. It was pretty overwhelming and I was scared we wouldn't find something or have enough time to see them all before I had to come back to Louisiana. We met our realator at 8:30am. We soon found out that there were only 13 of the 20 houses still on the market. I was kind of relived believe it or not. So we looked at all the 13 houses by 12pm! We were done by lunch time! Some of the houses you just walk into and it just didn't feel right. We narrowed it down to 4 houses, but I fell in LOVE with one in particular. 3 of the 4 were in a town about 25 minutes from town. It was kind of run down town with a train track that you had to wait on. I really didn't want to live there. I want something close to town so I can just run to the grocery store when I need something. So the house I fell in love with won. My husband had seen it 3 weeks ago and he loved it. I honeslty didn't think I would, but I did. So at about 3pm we called her back and put in an offer. We got a counter offer and accepted and now we are just waiting for closing since we went FHA loan which can take up to 45 days to complete.

So it's a really nice house on a little more than half an acre of land. It has 3bd and 2bath. The house itself is about 1700 sq. ft. which is all we need. We are coming from a single wide trailer after all! 1200 sq. ft. tops! So this is a big step for us. I couldn't be more excited! A new kitty, a new house, and a new baby all in one year! WOW!

Time to clean up!

So we are suppose to have a real estate agent come by the house Friday to discuss our selling options with us. I'm not sure if she is also doing an inspection or not so I need to clean up! I threw my back out last week and it's just now getting to where I can move again. It's surprizing what accumulates so quickly. Everything is a mess. Dishes, laundry, dusting, clutter, dirty floors, you name it I have it! It looks like a tornado just ripped thru here lol. So I guess it's time I get to cleaning. I hate cleaning.... obviously... who likes it right? I think I'll start with the clutter and work my way to the floors last so it looks nice and clean by Friday. I'm so not looking forward to it, but it needs to be done.

We got approved for a little over $200,000 for our new house. I can't wait to start looking! I really would rather stay in the $175,000 zone if possible. I don't really want a huge house note, but we'll see what the difference would be. We are looking for a 4bd and 2bath house. Hopefully we can find what we are looking for in the alloted time. I would like to have an office, nursery, and a guest room. I haven't seen any 4bd on the market that isn't old. Most of the 4bd we've seen online were built in 1975! We are looking for something at least built in the year 2000 lol! I'm not very picky so I think it should go well. As long as I have a roof over my head I think I'll be happy.

I'm feeling pretty good today. Went grocery shopping with my sister today and it really wore me out. It's crazy how one shopping trip wears me out now. I feel like I'm 80 years old sometimes. At least most of the sleepyness and nausousness have worn off for the most part. I'm officially off of pelvic rest today! woo hooo! Guess where hubby is... work! So yea, this may be TMI, but the last time we "woo hooed" was when we concieved the baby!!! So it's been a little over 2 months! Sorry, it will just be a mile stone for us lol. Well better go find something to clean or put away. Wish me luck.....

11 WEEKS! YAY!

So, I'm 11 weeks pregnant now. I would like to state that I did have more bleeding. It was bright red again and everytime I kept going to the doctor. I felt stupid, but it paid off! I went in on a Friday to my OBGYN and the doctor was out. The nurse practioner examined me and couldn't find anything. The ultra sound tech. was not at work that day, so I was sent to the hospital for the u/s. Which instead of only 4 pics like my doctor does, I had about 30 taken. FINALLY we discovered where the bleeding was coming from. I had a small tear in my uterus. It was so small that they said it should heal fast, but if it were bigger I might loose the baby. So, I was put on both bed rest and pelvic rest. So please ladies, never give up on finding out what is going on with your body. Go with your gut instinct.

Everything is GREAT now! I'm feeling SOOOO much better already! I don't have to take naps anymore and I don't feel nausous that much anymore. So my apitite is coming back! YAY! I'm so happy I can eat again! I was forcing food down my throat before.

My hubby got the job in Texas that we've been waiting on since November-ish. So we should be moving within the next month or so! I'm soooo excited! Hurricane season is coming up and I'm so glad we don't have to worry about that anymore, except to worry about our family that lives here. But now they will have a safe place to go. My mom isn't really supportive of our move as of yet. She's laying the guilt trip on me whenever she can. It really sucks! I wish she could just be happy for us. It's her first grandchild and I guess she thinks she will be missing alot, but she was planning on moving in 2 years anyways! Geeze! Besides, we'll only be 5 hours away. It's like we are going across the contry! Anyways, I'm still excited! YAY! The pieces are finally falling into the right places!