Trip to the Lake of the Ozarks area

We didn't actually make it to the lake. We went to the outlet mall, a really good BBQ restaurant (Wobbly Boots if anyone ever goes to the area), and played putt putt and bumper cars. Well Gabriel, Tom, and Rene (one of the guys in the same school as Tom who is from Slovakia) did the bumper cars while Katheryn and I watched. Here are a few pictures.




The kids in the Truck before we left.

At the outlet mall they had a fountain. I was looking at a shoe store while they went down to it. Well, when I come out Gabriel has his socks and shoes off walking around in the water. This is before that happened. I guess that's what I get for letting two guys watch the kids (both of which are from Europe and grew up playing in fountains).

Luckily they didn't get Katheryn in the water.

Rene is Katheryn's new buddy.

Gabriel wasn't too happy because his shorts and underwear were soaked from the fountain. I had to go find him some more clothes. Which was hard because they had all their summer stuff on clearance and didn't had a hard time finding his size.

This was at the Putt Putt place.

I'm sure I look worn out. This was towards the end of the day at the Putt Putt course and the heat and walking were getting to me.

Misc Pics of the Kids

Katheryn's Fun with Markers
(the aftermath)

Gabriel came walking out of school for a week holding her hand. He told us she was one of his girlfriends. :-) The other one was a bus rider.

Katheryn likes to get my reading glasses out and put them on when I leave them laying on the end table.

We had went to the Bass Pro Shop in Springfield and came across this John Wayne gun safe. If it wasn't so expensive I'm sure Tom would have bought it.

Halloween Fabric Ornaments

Well, I was trying to wait until I got these done before I posted pictures, but it doesn't seem like I am. The Walmart here stopped saleing fabric and pretty much alot of the craft supplies (unless you like to make jewelry or paint). So I've had to rely on the the online sites that I find. Well, I wanted to put bat, pumpkin, or some other halloween buttons on them to hold the ribbon/cord to hang it, but I can't find any. What I did find is on backorder and keeps getting bumped further and further into October. Ugh... Anyways, I just wanted to post what I made. I found the panels and added batting and a back to them. I somewhat quilted them and then used pinking sheers on the edges.

School Crud

Well, right now Gabriel and Tom are waiting in the ER because Gabriel's temp was 103.5. He woke up Saturday morning with a fever of 102.5, but had went down to 99.7 until around 6:30pm today. We had been giving him Tylenol and Dimatap (sp?). It cleared up his runny nose, but his fever went up and he still had a headache. We think it might be the flu, but want to make sure and get something to make him better. So they left around 6:40pm and are still in the waiting room (now at 10:30pm). Ugh. I just hope he will get better and no one else will get sick since we are so close to having the baby. Which is the last thing I want is the baby getting sick. Even though I really don't like seeing any of my family sick, the baby doesn't have the built up immune system to fight it.


Update: Well, they spent over 9 hours in the ER last night. The doctor didn't tell Tom what he thought Gabriel had, but gave him some antibiotics (which said it wasn't for the common cold or flu...so I guess it takes what we thought it was out of the picture). So we're keeping him home from school today so that the antibiotics have time to get in his system. He still had a bit of a fever this morning, but it wasn't as high as it was yesterday.

Good News

Well, my appt went well yesterday. I still have 4 weeks until my due date, but the midwife believes that I won't go another 2 weeks before I have the baby. I am almost 3 cms, 70%, and the baby is at the -2 station. The first thing out of the midwife's mouth when she went to check was "WOW! This baby's way down there." She also had the happy surprised look on her face. Which I could have told her because the baby likes to play poke the hip bones and lets try and poke our way out when mommy lays down to go to bed at night. She also told me that I didn't have to be on bedrest anymore and that I could go back to what I was doing beforehand because at this stage they aren't going to do anything to try and stop labor. She also said that the baby would be ok to stay at the hospital here without being transported to the NICU in Columbia (unless of course there was anything wrong with the baby's health). I feel so much better and my spirits are up. I think it's both the knowing that the baby will more than likely stay here with me after I have her and the fact I can go back to doing stuff. I'm excited! I hope that the baby can wait to come out until the evening of Oct 9th (since Tom will have a 4 day weekend), but as long as I can go another week then my mom can come up and help out (she's planning on coming up anyways, but the school system she works for has their fall break starting then).

I'm excited and dreading it at the same time. Ready to have the uncomforts of pregnancy over, but not ready to have 2 in diapers!

One more week down

Ok so I followed the nurse's suggestion and laid down as much as possible the last week and thankfully had a pretty uneventful week. I felt better about half of the time and the BH contractions seemed to lessen.

Well, yesterday when I went to pick Gabriel up from school and we were on the way back to the truck, Katheryn started walking toward the parking lot instead of staying in the grass until we got to the truck. Well, she tripped and I went to grab her to keep her from hitting the asphalt and that caused the BH contractions to start up again for the rest of the day (3:30 on). That really sucked! Today I am trying to take it easier, but I am still getting the stupid BH and having a bit of pressure. UGH! Oh well, at least Tom has the rest of the day off of school so he can help me out with the kids and let me get some rest.

I'm just glad that it has been one more week that the baby has been able to grow and develop inside me! Each week it has a better chance!

My Visit to L&D

Well, after a few uncomfortable BH contractions and some pushing from Tom, I went in to Labor and Delivery to get checked out last night. Long story short, I stayed there 4-1/2 hours (most of which was on the monitors) only to have 2 contractions. Well, when I lay down they go away, but when I'm up and doing stuff (even light housework or just getting up from the couch to go to the bathroom) BH start in. So after the first 20 mins of monitoring they check my cervix. Come to find out I am already 2 cm dialated (I'm hoping that it's just because I've been pregnant more than once). Well, the doc tells them to monitor me for 2 more hours then check again. Luckily nothing changes and I finally get to go home at 12:30am. Though I'm told that there is a possiblity of putting me on bedrest later on if things continue and that if I do go into labor they have to send me 2 hours away because they don't have a NICU here. UGH! So even though I have TONS to do and I HATE laying down all day, I am resting and laying down today and will continue to take it easy because that is what is best for the baby. I don't want to have her early!

Sigh...

Well, I went to my 32 week appt today (even though I'm 33 weeks). I'll start with the good news. The baby is measuring good and is gaining weight and getting big (according to # of weeks along). Not so good news (I won't call it bad because it's not to the worrying stage yet), my blood pressure went up and I lost about half a pound. At my appt 4 weeks ago my blood pressure was 105/70 (my blood pressure usually runs low) and today it was 126/85 when she took it about 20 mins later it was 120/80. So now I need to keep an eye on other signs and I need to gain weight. So not only do I need to watch that, but I need to keep an eye on my contractions. If they don't go away after resting (which they are going away now when I lay down and rest) I'll need to go in. UGH! That's all I needed was one more thing to worry about! I'm just happy that the baby is doing good!

Kindness of Strangers

Well, so today has been a really rough day. Probably one of my worst so far for this pregnancy! So we went to Walmart because I needed to do some grocery shopping and about halfway though shopping this lady just out of the blue makes a comment to me. She said "You're one of the cutest pregnant ladies I've seen." Even though I was feeling like crap, that made me feel good. I guess at that time that is what I needed to hear.