7 Weeks to Go, YAY!

What a rough couple of weeks. My back and hips were getting worse by the day and I was able to do less and less for Caleb, which really sucked! So on Friday we were out shopping for a church outfit for the baby and some sewing thread when we noticed that Caleb's eyes were really gross and goopy. Since he had his 2 year check up scheaduled with the doctor for the next morning, we decided to wait until then.

Well, turns out he has pink eye, which I was pretty sure he did anyways, but other than the pink eye the doctor said he's doing great. On the way there we were trying to get him to say the doctor's name (Doctor Jackman), but all we got out of him was 'Doctor Batman', ha ha, he's so cute sometimes. John got his blood pressure checked again since it was really high a couple of months ago and he was supposed to be getting it down or he'd have to go on pills for it. Happily, it was right back to a normal range, YAY! I guess the exercise is REALLY doing him some good.

He's been exercising 6 days a week for the last couple of weeks. I think the biggest motivation is that he gets $0.50 put into a container every time he exercises and has to take $0.50 out if he misses exercising without a good reason, so he's saving up for Wii games. He also gets and extra $0.50 from me if he does all 6 days in a week and an extra $2.00 from my mum for the same thing, so he's super motivated now.

So after I picked up Caleb's antibiotic drops, we went to Healthcare Solutions and I finally invested in a maternity support belt. That was probably the best $70 I've ever spent in my life. The difference with it on is so amazing. I'm able to stand long enough to do dishes again, walking up the stairs doesn't make me cringe in pain anymore and most importantly, I'm able to sleep without having to take the Tylenol 4s. That's a good thing since I think I was actually getting hooked on the codeine. I've has tummy problems and cold sweats the last 2 nights since I stopped taking them. I'm hoping it's out of my system now, though.

So since Caleb has pink eye, we knew I'd have to stay home from church with him since it wouldn't be 24 hours since he started his medication. John was still going to go and he was going to teach my primary lesson as well. As luck would have it, right before John was about to leave for church, I started getting WICKED nasty pains in my lower abdomen. Since the baby has an umblical cord condition that gives him a 20% chance of being premature, I of course started worrying like mad and John ended up staying home to take care of Caleb while I was having the pains and in case I needed to get to the hospital. Luckily, they went away and haven't come back since, but it was still quite a big scare. My brother came over for supper, which is always fun. We had roast beef, baked potatoes and veggies. He horsed around with Caleb a lot, which Caleb absolutely loved. Caleb is a big fan of his Uncle Kyle, they have lots of laughs together.

Anyways, so that's about all that's new here, really. Now I'm really looking forward to having only 7 weeks left of pregnancy, at the most. However, at the same time I'm really nervous to have a new baby again. I'm sure that will disappear as soon as I hold him in my arms, here's hoping...

Another week...

Well, the appointment with my doctor didn't go QUITE as well as I'd hoped, but he at least gave me a prescription for Tylenol 4s. I need to take one every night before bed. They help out a little bit, but they make me tired during the day, even though I'm only taking them at night, which I find to be kind of wierd, but whatever.
On Friday I went shopping with my brother's girlfriend, Danielle. I got some stuff from Thyme Maternity and Bootlegger as well as a couple of things for John from Cole's. Amazingly enough, 2 of the 3 things that I bought at Bootlegger even fit me now, belly and all. I thought that was pretty cool. I had fun, but the mall floors totally killed my back and I was waddling worse than a penguin by the time we left.
Saturday we took Caleb to the park, which he VERY MUCH enjoyed. I took loads of pictures, but haven't gotten them onto the computer yet. We went to Heather and Mike's for supper that night for burgers, which was pretty good.
Leela's baby blessing was on Sunday, and not too much interesting happened that day.
We're mostly unpacked now, just a few boxes in our bedroom and then the basement. We got our new living room curtains today, and they look better than the old ones, so that's good. Tyrell's room is just about ready, which is nice. Anywho, that's about all that's new from here...

Loving the New House

We're moved into our new unit and loving it. The layout in the 3 bedroom is such a better layout. Our master bedroom is HUGE! I think it's about 4 times the size of Caleb's new room, ha ha. We even added another piece of furniture to it than we had in the old house and it still looks so big. Caleb got new curtains for his room. They are Cars ones to go with his Cars bedding. He really seems to like them. He's huge into cleaning up messes right now (and still making them). He likes to put things away in his room, throw garbage away and sweep the floor with his little toddler broom. The living room and kitchen are totally unpacked (I just have a couple things to put into a box from the kitchen). The baby's room is about half done and Caleb's room is done other than putting up his Cars wall stickers. Our room just has about 6 boxes left and the dining room has 4 boxes. Then it'll just be the basement to worry about. Last night we went out and bought a new pantry unit. We don't have a built in pantry here, so we had to use the unit from the living room that we used for movies as our actual pantry in the dining room. We also bought a rake for the backyard and Christmas presents for Joseph and Leela. Anyways, tomorrow is my prenatal checkup where I'm REALLY hoping my doctor will be able to give me SOME hope for my back. It's worse than usual today because I went overboard with unpacking yesterday. I should get going though, I still need to have some lunch.

Lauren's Birthday and Moving Day

I don't understand why Mother's Day is so hard for me but Lauren's birthday isn't, it makes NO sense to me, but oh well. I can't believe that girl is 4 years old already, it makes me feel ancient and I'm not even 24 yet, ha ha. Her birthday was good for me. I thought of her more than usual, but it was mostly thinking about how happy she looks in the pictures her parents sent me last year and what a beautiful girl she is. They were all happy thoughts. It helps that I've never really regretted my decision and that I was blessed with so much peace about it. And it certainly helps that I know she went to the right home. As soon as I picked up her parents' adoption portfolio thing, I knew that they were the family for her, and that feeling has never changed for me. She is where she belongs, and I get so much comfort from knowing that. I can only hope that her parents know how grateful I am for them and how much they love her. I hope I get the chance to tell them that someday.

So the last couple of days have been spent doing what else but packing. This is the fifth time I've moved since our wedding, so I'm getting REALLY tired of it. I told John that unless he gets a dream job in Lethbridge then I refuse to move for at LEAST 2 more years, probably 3 though. Yesterday evening I went with Danielle, my brother's girlfriend, to the Relief Society BBQ. We couldn't stay too long because we had to go back and do more packing and what not once my mum and brother got into town, but we enjoyed what we got to be there for. Kyle, my bro, and John got our new bedroom curtains put up in the new unit last night. They are chocolate brown and micro suede and I really like them. So after visiting, Mum, John and I went to bed at midnight. My internal heater went into overdrive at 3am and I've been up ever since then. I couldn't sleep, so for a while I just sat in my glider rocker and looked at the Sears Wishbook (am I the only adult who still gets excited about that?) and then I tried laying down and took an antacid somewhere in there. Finally at 5:30 I couldn't take it anymore, so I got out of bed, got dressed, did my bathroom routine and took a couple things over to the new unit, opened the windows in there and emptied a tote of kitchen stuff. Came back home at just after 6 and decided to spend a few moments on the computer before Mum and John get up and the day starts going like mad. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend. I'm just looking forward to being done with moving, ha ha. Later:)

Packing...

Caleb's throat infection cleared up fine, thankfully. Last Friday we had a neighbourhood BBQ, which we all really enjoyed. It was so nice to get out and socialize. Saturday we got some packing done, bought Caleb some underwear and a new shower curtain and then John's mom took us out for supper at Applebee's. It was really good, but Caleb kept acting up (whereas he's normally really good when we go out to eat) so that kind of sucked. Sunday John helped me teach my class again. I had a visitor and so my class was a lot harder to control than usual. We had a roast for supper that night, it was really good. We love having slow cooker roast:) Monday night John's mom came over again and we got a bit more packed and then John and I went and bought groceries after we put Caleb to bed. Yesterday John's dad came and he and John got some stuff for the dump put in Dad's van, so that's dealt with and then we got a bit more packed. It's mostly just the master bedroom, a few odds and ends and the last minute stuff left now. John is going to pack up the majority of our bedroom tonight, I think. Not much else is new here though, other than the fact that this Friday will be Lauren's 4th birthday, which makes me feel really old. It's also exciting because it means I'll be getting a letter and pictures right away. My back and hips keep getting worse by the day, but I'm going to see my doctor a week from today, so I'm just trying to hang on until then for now.

Another throat infection!!!

Apparently I was spelling my niece's name wrong, it's Leela Rose. We went to see her on Monday, she is so tiny and cute. When John's mom showed her to Caleb, he backed away from her like she was a terrible disease, it was pretty funny! He never did go near her, but oh well. I'm not too worried about it. Unfortunately, Rachel had come down with a throat infection that day so yesterday Caleb ended up with it and we got the enjoyment of spending almost 2 hours in the Medicentre with an active toddler, ACK! The doctor gave him some pretty powerful antibiotics though, he only has to take them once a day for 5 days! As long as they work for him then I don't really care, ha ha. I've gone through all the baby clothing at my house now, and am even MORE excited about having another little buddy (other than the fact that my house will be overrun with testosterone). It's really hot this week, not so much fun when you have an internal heater, but there's not much I can do about that other than eating some freezies. I'm just really looking forward to moving next Saturday. Anywho, scanner still isn't working so I still don't have any ultrasound pics up here, sorry...

It's A Boy!

So the ultrasound went well. We found out that the baby is growing right on scheadule, which my doctor was a bit worried about, and also found out that we're having another boy. He was very open about letting his gender be known this time, ha ha. Even I could tell that it was a boy, which means it was REALLY obvious. I was disappointed at first, I had to fight off tears in front of the ultrasound tech. Yesterday was pretty hard for me. But today I feel really good about it. I'm happy that I'll get to use all of Caleb's cute baby clothes again. Since this baby will be born about a month later in the year than Caleb was it'll work out great because the clothing will all work with the right season. So today we finally decided on a name that we both like. We'd been trying to think of one just in case for a while but couldn't find one that we both agreed on. The name we've picked is Tyrell Jason Bly. He'll be called Ty, probably. I went through a whack of Caleb's old clothes tonight and got really excited seeing all of his cute outfits, many of which I'd even forgotten that he had.

On another note, I became an auntie again tonight. I now have 13 nieces and nephews. Heather and Mike had a baby girl. Lila Rose (I think that's how it's spelled anyways). She was 8 lbs 6 oz.

Anywho, that's all the news for today from the Bly house. My scanner isn't working, so I can't get a picture from the ultrasound up, but here's a belly shot for you (26 weeks, 0 days). Hope you're having a great long weekend:)