Almost 4 months since last post … uh, woops. I have so much to update on and want to make it not too long. Back way up to last time! We went July 30th to meet Katie’s 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Parker, and she was super sweet! August 3rd we went for our 12 week first trimester screening ultrasound for baby #3! Little bit didn’t want to move because of my full bladder so went to the bathroom a little and baby finally wiggled some more. Tech said baby looks like a GIRL! Found a beautiful big moth on our back porch that night. August 10th made it 10 YEARS since Brad and I were baptized and became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.. just cannot believe it’s been that long! I’m so thankful for my Heavenly Father. Also, watched the movie Tully and CRIED MY EYES OUT. August 16th read about Chris Watts murdering his family – what a monster. August 17th had a baby check up and found out my pre-term labor shots I got with Benjamin wouldn’t be covered for this pregnancy. Ugh. August 19th at 14 weeks 2 days pregnant I felt a tiny kick/jab for our tiny babe!!! Found out my aunt’s heart infection is more than just that… the infection caused damage to her aorta and she needs surgery. Without surgery she would only be expected to live two years or so. She has no insurance… but has been trying to work with a free clinic. I just continue to pray for her and that things line up and she can get the surgery and live a healthier life afterwards. This is from smoking, btw. September 11th – remembering the tragedy of that day in 2001. Katie came home crying because of the videos they watched at school about it that day and said, “It’s so sad.. because they never got to say goodbye”. Melted my heart! I told her, yeah, but there was so many brave people that saved many, many lives and some DID get to say goodbye. September 22nd – Brad’s sister had been staying with us for a week and we had went out to the mall and I got a call from my aunt saying my mom had been acting weird and she suspected maybe another stroke. I told her to keep me updated. Long story short- my aunt called a hospice nurse that night to come check on mom and the nurse took 2 hours, got there, looked at mom and said, “Her vitals are good, she’s fine”. My aunt was furious and knew better. She was gonna call an ambulance that night but decided to see how mom would be the next morning. Well, she was still acting really strange the next morning so she called the ambulance. Mom just got worse.. talking way left field, mumbling only. I drove down and took my aunt to the hospital. Mom didn’t look good at all and didn’t realize we were there and only mumbled. Confirmed stroke and then later found a pretty large sized brain hemorrhage on her left front temporal lobe. That’s why the mumbling. She was in the hospital… maybe a week? It’s been such a roller coaster. I’ll add more on this below. We had our anatomy scan September 24th and our 3rd baby was for sure a… GIRL!!!!!!! Little miss wasn’t giving the right angles for the rest of her heart scans so they wanted me to come back in 2 weeks. I had to take a cranky Benjamin with me.. ugh. September 27th Mom came home and they brought a hospital bed to her apartment and my aunt has been taking care of her at home since then. October 4th hubby felt baby girl kick for the first time at almost 21 weeks, awww. October 8th I had my follow up for the anatomy scan and finally finished everything, with once again a tired Benjamin along with me. We got a cute profile picture of our bitty girl though!!! October 10th I went for an OB check up and also found out the anatomy scan results and our bitty girl is healthy!! Took Benjamin outside on the back porch October 14th that night to give him another big boy hair cut and of course he looked/s so grown up. Found out that morning that a long time online friend of mine, Mary, had passed away. So sad to hear that and she was a great friend to me. October 26th – that morning as Katie and I hurried so we wouldn’t miss her bus, she was finishing up a breakfast bar and her tooth came out!! This is the first one she had lost in years so she was nervous lol. I got the paper towel out of her lunchbox to put on the empty spot in her mouth and sent her on her way. November 9th Katie and Benjamin were playing downstairs in the basement since we’ve been letting them do that for a while and then Benjamin cried out really loud and Katie came running upstairs and said, “Oh, he hit his nose pretty hard and I mean really hard this time” (since he’s fallen a few times before but nothing major). Brad rushed down to get him and yep, big ole gash on his nose. We were trying to figure out exactly how it happened and we think he was carrying a plastic bowl (without the lid) and tripped and hit his face on the edge of the bowl as hard as he could. It was a pretty nasty gash so Brad wanted to be sure it didn’t need anything more so he took him into urgent care. Took them about an hour or a little more before they got home but he was fine! No stitches but they put some glue on it and it’s been healing nicely since then. Oh, toddlers. He sure is a wild little one, for sure.
So THOSE are my major updates! I am now 27 weeks pregnant with our little lovely lady and she is so active and I LOVE IT. Sometimes she really gets going and just bounces around in there. Everything is going great pregnancy wise, I have really been blessed with a so-far decent pregnancy. I never threw up this time around and no bad nerve leg pain like I had with Benjamin. My biggest complaint this go so far has been the night sweats! But that might also have to do with the fact that I’m overdo for a thyroid level check… which I’m hoping to get ASAP. I love my baby bump and can’t believe we will have a new baby in a few months. Hoping she stays put at least 36 weeks but would love to have a Valentine’s Day baby or on her due date of Feb 15th, which is a month before my birthday! We only have ONE name that we agree on so far and that’s Hannah. We both really like it but nothing set in stone yet. I’m SO PICKY about names but want it to be just right for us.
Benjamin is now almost 21 months old and he is hardly ever still but that’s always been him since he has been able to GO. He has all his teeth for now but some of those teeth hadn’t come in all the way and so more recently that’s been going on and WOAH, he was super super super cranky for a bit but seems to be better now then his nose incident happened, haha. He has come along with trying to say words and can say “A- B- C!” now and is also working on “1- 2- 3!”. He does NOT like to be held and never really has and does not like to be cuddled either, except everrrrrrr so often. He eats as fast as his daddy and is not picky, thank goodness. He sometimes does the usual toddler hold-the-food in their mouth for 5 minutes before chewing, which can be annoying when trying to get through feeding times. He stays up late and sleeps in late but gonna work on hopefully moving that around a little. Few more months and he will be TWO.
My health is a whole ‘nother subject. Having PCOS, no gallbladder with digestive issues that have troubled me for years and years, and everything that comes with all that leaves me with more fatigue than I want and my hair looks a mess all the time no matter how much I try to make it look nice. Extra hair everywhere, as always. SO ANNOYING. I think that getting my food intake straight will go a long way for me so that’s what I’m working on, even while pregnant. It’s gonna be a bit tough to get rid of my daily pepsi sipping throughout the day but I know that’s no good for my current situation. Gonna cut down on the fat somewhat since that just seems to cause so much upset without the gallbladder, even with taking supplements for it. UGHHHHHHH. I just want energy to DO MORE and wish I could work out a little bit. Wish I could eat various things too but that’s not happening without the gallbladder because it causes more problems and issues. One step at a time.
Brad has been working hard at his job and is taking the whole week off for Thanksgiving next week!!! He just submitted his resume and application for a new position inside his current job and it fits for his Bachelor’s Degree in English!!! It would be awesome for him and I pray and hope he gets it. We are probably going to visit his family in Mississippi for Thanksgiving for a few days next week. Also, his mom had weight loss surgery last month and I really hope it helps her get to the place where she wants to be health wise.
My mom has had ups and downs since she came home after her stroke and brain hemorrhage. She was improving with her communication and everything but then got worse but has slightly improved again, which is so good. She is bed ridden and has a catheter plus adult diapers. Nurses come to bathe her 3 times a week. My aunt has a baby monitor she takes to her own apartment to keep an eye on mom when she’s not directly with her.. which is only long enough for my aunt to get stuff done, eat, sleep at her own place, repeat. My aunt is the only one to do this and take care of my mom but I hate that it falls all on her, especially with her heart condition and situation. It breaks my heart that Mom will never be the same again. I’ll never have a normal conversation with her on the phone again. We’ll never sit at her dining room table and play cards again like we did years ago. I’m just glad she’s still here but it’s hard. My aunt says sometimes she will just cry, whine, and mumble for hours. It’s just a sad situation and the hardest part of seeing someone’s health just go down, down, down. I make sure to repeat I love you’s to her when I see her, squeeze her hand, and give her hugs when she recognizes that I am there. I’m still trying to process the whole situation.
Well, it’s time for my morning nap before Benjamin wakes up! My goal is to update this hopefully daily, even just for a boring little highlight or update or something! I have a lot more to say but till next time!
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