Most Wonderful Baby

I love my little baby. We've decided to nickname him B.B. for Baby Brenden. My Uncle Jason came up with it a few days ago and Chris and I have decided that we really really like it. So B.B. it is. Brenden was so good today. We took him to Idaho Falls and he was so happy the whole entire time. He got hungry while we were at Sam's Club, but once we fed him, he was a happy boy again.

Our home teachers came over tonight to teach us and of course to see Brenden, and talk babies. One of our home teachers and his wife already have a baby and she sounds just adorable. And our other home teacher and his wife are expecting a baby boy in June, Chris and I are really excited for them. Hopefully they stay in the ward so we can meet their little guy and have play dates for Brenden and Aiden.

My mind keeps going around in circles of excitement and I just can't stop thinking and I just can't stop hoping for things that are to come. I'm really excited about possible becoming a Childbirth Educator. I blog about it all the time, I obviously think about it all of the time, and I spend most of my day researching Childbirth Educators and taking care of Brenden. I don't know how to possibly put it into words, but I'm just overwhelmed with excitement, just the thought of being a Childbirth Educator and knowing everything I know and went through with Brenden, it just seems to fit and that makes me happy.

The other thing I just keep thinking about is having another baby. I know, its too soon, right? But if the Lord sees fit, it will happen and he will provide a way. Being a mommy twice over would make me so happy. I know that Brenden is so young, but I want to have as many children as Heavenly Father could possibly bless me with.

My Life is Exciting!

I can not tell you how much I love our life right now and how much I love love love being a mommy to a great little boy! I can't believe that Brenden's going to be 2 months old on Sunday. It's amazing how time flies, unbelievable! I just look at this little baby everyday and think, Wow, I did that. I grew this tiny little being in my body for over 9 months. Its so amazing to me and I just want to learn so much more about the process.

I want to know what happens when. All the good and bad things that can happen during pregnancy like gestational diabetes, down syndrome, morning sickness, I want to know all about all of these things and more and what to do about them and how to try to prevent them. I want to know when each of the organs develop and how long it takes and how young a fetus can survive. i want to know about all the differences between natural births and c-sections and drugged births. I want to know the difference between hospital births, birthing center births, and home births and all of the statistics that go along with them. I want to learn about the best techniques, the right things to say to a pregnant woman. I want to have all this knowledge about being pregnant and bringing children in this world and I would love to share all of this knowledge with all the blessed mommy's to be that I come into contact with.

I am just so excited to learn and I haven't had this excitement about education since starting high school. I'm beginning to really know that this is the right thing for me. The opportunity for me to love my life of being a mommy and share all of my wonderful knowledge is just a dream come true to me. My excitement is endless!

Childbirth Educator???

I'm starting to truely seriously think about becoming a childbirth educator. Being pregnant and having a baby is the best blessing any woman could ever have. And she can do it over and over again. Its so wonderful to think that We can go through 9 months of having this baby in our body and a day being uncomfortable and out comes this little human being that is exactly like us. It just amazes me. I'm a new mom and every day I look at our little boy, I think, Wow, I made that, he was inside of me for months developing into this whole person. He's got his own mind and personality, his own thoughts, and things that he wants to do, he's got his own hurt feelings, and his own happiness, I think about how all of these things are just going to grow over time and how really wonderful that is.

It would be so great to be involved in other people's journey to become a mom. Whether they are experiencing it for the first time or for the eighth time. I think about the birth class that Chris and I went through and how much fun it was and how much we learned that we would have never learned from books or just from talking to our parents and friends. We took a hypnobirthing class and it was so wonderful knowing that we had the tools to do everything that we wanted.

I really want to think a lot more about this and to pray about it and see how I feel about it over the next couple of weeks. I'm not very educated in childbirth right now. All I know is stories that I've listened to and Brenden's birth story, but I think it would be so great to learn more and to be able to teach and be there for other mother's to be through their births.

Crazy!?

Am I really crazy? Quite possibly! I have a new baby that's only 7 weeks old and I'm already thinking about more and how I definitely want more and NOW! And I have a wonderful husband who thinks its a little early, but is totally on board with the idea. What a great husband I have. I keep telling myself that I'm crazy mostly because Brenden is only 7 weeks old and I am totally craving to be pregnant again, to be in labor, to have a little brother or sister for Brenden. I'm just craving everything. I think this time around I wouldn't mind the wait since I've already had a baby.

When I was pregnant with Brenden it seemed like everything was so far away. We were about 9 weeks along when we found out about baby and we thought, great, we're almost a quarter the way there, but from that point on everything went extremely slow, well for me anyways. Its seemed like all of the doctors appointments were so spaced out, we only had 2 ultrasounds, it took forever to find a doctor in Rexburg, and then we decided to go see the midwives, they changed our due date to almost 3 weeks later than it originally was, and when I finally did go into labor, it just didn't progress.

Now that I know what to expect, I know that the next pregnancy and birth will go so much better. I'll have Brenden to keep me busy during the pregnancy and hopefully no pitocin to get the labor started. I hear that pitocin makes labor a lot more intense and a lot harder to endure. So I'm really hoping with our other children there will be no need for the pitocin and I can just enjoy being in labor and enjoy giving our babies life.

I'm just so excited about being a mommy to lots of children. And I can't wait for them to start flooding our home!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We seriously have the best little baby in the whole entire world! He is just so cute. This is his St. Patrick's Day onsie. No pinching this baby today. Haha. He had a doctors appointment today, well actually mommy had her 6-week appointment today and we had told the midwife how we were worried about him because he wasn't gaining a whole lot of weight and she suggested getting him in to see the pediatrician. He was in to see his doctor within the next 15 minutes. He got weighed and our little guy weighed in at 8 lbs. 5 oz. A whole pound heavier than he was at his appointment last month. He isn't gaining as much as the average, which is an ounce a day, he's only gaining about 1/2 an ounce a day. But they said as long as he's gaining weight there's really nothing to worry about yet, but that we should keep an eye on it. If he doesn't start gaining more weight in the next few weeks we're gonna have to start looking into what our options are. But we're not there yet and they said nothing else was wrong with him. He's eating plenty and has much in his diapers.

We are just so in love with our baby and so glad that he is doing so well!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

Baby Brenden's Announcement Invite

Not Enough Time!

So guess whose brother is having a baby on the first, and guess who has nothing to show for it?
That's right, me. Sure I could always use the excuse of just having a baby, but boy would I ever feel bad! I talked to him today and got some really good ideas. They don't have a booster highchair yet, and we happen to have an extra one and I was thinking about crib bedding, you can never have enough with little ones. So I'm going to borrow a pattern from a friend for the fitted sheet and dust ruffle and make a quilt. I'm thinking purple and green and maybe a little black. I'm having so many great ideas flow through this head of mine! Its great! I'm pretty excited about it.

I'm really excited to become an Aunt again, almost as excited as I was to become a mommy. It's really great knowing that Brenden will have cousins around his age to grow up with. All the pieces of life are really falling into place. I've got a wonderful husband, the best little baby boy, great in-laws, I love my parents and my little brothers (WOW, they're uncles now!), and I'm excited that my older brother is an uncle to Brenden and I get to his children's Aunt, I love the way that works!

I love my life and everything about it!

Life as We Know it

We have the cutest little baby boy. And he is sure the greatest baby. He 's not a cranky fussy baby, he's been sleeping through the night since he was just a few weeks old, He sleeps great during the day, he's generally happy, he smiles so well in his sleep, he's so great at holding his head up, he's got the strongest little legs, he can scoot all over the place, he recognizes so many things already. He's such a smart baby! I'm so happy that I get to be his mommy and take care of him everyday.

Chris is so in love with little Brenden. Its very cute. Not so cute when Brenden cries for almost an hour after his daddy scares him. Chris doesn't quite realize that he's still a little teeny tiny baby. He plays with him like he would a 2 year-old. Hopefully he starts to understand soon, mostly because he decides to scare him right before he has to leave for school or work and then I am stuck with this upset baby that cries for 20 minutes.

A little about our growing little boy. He's about 21 1/2 inches long and is still under 8 lbs. at 5 1/2 weeks. Its hard to believe that he'll be 6 weeks old this Thursday. Let's see, he's still in all of his newborn clothes. He's long, but hasn't put on any chub yet, we're still waiting. His feet are getting pretty big. His feet are about as long as my index finger, BIG FEET! He's got some awesome coordination. He's already to scoot across rooms, he can hold his head up on his own, he's got some great control over his hands, and he can focus on objects abotu 3-4 feet away. His favorite thing to focus on is our picture of Christ.

I just can't get over how amazing his development is!

Our Beautiful Baby Boy!

Brenden has some gorgeous eyes, just like his Daddy. :)

This is one of our favorites. He is just so adorable.

Mommy and Baby in the hospital.

Daddy and Brenden in the hospital before we got to go home.

Brenden has such a serious face...ALL OF THE TIME!

Brenden's first time in his car seat. You can't tell by his face, but he really loves it. :)

I love his many facial expressions.

Brenden's Gran came and took tons of pictures.

Brenden and his Gran. She really adores him.

Brenden and his Grandad. Grandad held him almost the whole time he was in town. It was lovely.

Brenden and his Uncle Josh.

Baby Brenden's Blessing. It went great!

All of our wonderful friends who were there.

We were the happiest parents ever!

Brenden in his Daddy's blessing outfit.

Baby Brenden posing one of his many grumpy faces.

Baby Brenden is here!

Brenden James was born on February 3, 2011 at 5:24 p.m. Weighing in at 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 20 inches long. I think he is absolutely perfect! He had such a hard time getting here. First off, he was just late, which for Chris and I was really frustrating. Especially with everyone else, mostly due after us were just popping out their babies left and right. But he is finally here and we are so excited. So now for the story!

Brenden's Birth Story.

The night of February 2nd, I was having some contractions and they were about 6 minutes apart so Chris and I decided to go to the indoor track and do some walking. We didn't walk for very long, maybe 30 minutes. I was having to stop pretty frequently. So we went home and decided to play some Wii bowling. Not any regular bowling, but the 100-pin bowling. So we were timing contractions, I was sitting on the birth ball and bowling. And the contractions kept getting closer and closer together. When they were about 4 minutes apart we decided to go to the hospital. This is right before midnight. We get there and they're looking at contractions, they're there, they're just looking a little inconsistent. And I was only dilated to a 3. So they told us it would be better for us to go home, that I would be more comfortable, take a bath, and be able to sleep. Chris and I went home and through the course of about 5 hours I took 4 baths and pretty much no sleep. The contractions were just too uncomfortable.

Around 6 in the morning I told Chris it was time and that we should go back to the hospital. And of course with all of our hospital visits that were false alarms he was quite hesitant. He called and told the nurses that the contractions were now consistently about 2-3 minutes apart and they told us to come in. While we were in the exam room waiting Chris was freaking out. He would have been so upset if we weren't any further dilated. Well I got checked and was dilated to a 6. Woo Hoo!

No one tells you that you can be dilated at a 6 for 7 hours though. Thank you. It wasn't too bad, it was just unnerving and uncomfortable to know I was that far along and to still be waiting and not progressing. They put me in the tub, made me walk, put me on the birth ball and gave it some time and absolutely nothing was happening. So around noon they decided to break my water. It didn't hurt like I thought it would. It was just an odd experience. They weren't sure that they had actually broken my water because I didn't have a whole lot of fluid. Turns out they did break my water.

The breaking of the water didn't really help to progress anything. Dang it! So around 2 they gave me some pitocin which is the drug they use to induce labor. And also some IV pain medication. Never again. That stuff made so loopy for the next couple of hours. There is not much I remember. I dilated a whole 2 centimeters in the next hour or so.

Around 4 or 430 they gave me to epidural. Didn't hurt at all. Granted at this point the contractions were so close together I was going through one the whole time it was being administered so I was kind of focused on that. After that. I continued to push for the next hour until Brenden was born at 5:24. Way too much pushing for me. I was hoping to push for may 30 minutes. No such luck.

Brenden came out and we had to cut his umbilical cord right away. He was dangerously blue. His cord was in a knot. For some reason they call it a true knot. It was about 4 inches away from his belly button so he just wasn't getting any oxygen. After Chris cut the cord they took him over to the table to get him breathing and clean him off. I remember looking down at my bloody gown. He was just covered in it. Normal right? I'm pretty sure.

After the initial scare of my child coming out blue everything went great! I got to eat and rinse off in the shower. It was great.

Get This Baby Out!!!

So far an update on the last few months, since I am a horrible blogger and haven't blogged in a while. What can I say, life keeps me busy, and there isn't even a baby to preoccupy my time yet. We have been in and out of doctors offices and the hospital for the last month, not because anything is really wrong, but mostly because I have no idea what's going on with this baby and my body. It's a little frustrating honestly.

The first time we went in the hospital, we were at 36 weeks since they decided to change our due date on us from January 12 to January 29. Kind of lame if you ask me. I was in labor, well I wasn't sure if I was or not. Chris and I were at Sam's Club doing some of our grocery shopping done before he had to start working. Well I started having these pains a lot like braxton hicks, but they were way way to frequent just to be braxton hicks and they just weren't easing up no matter what I did. Later on that night, they were just getting super close together so we decided to go to the hospital just in case something was wrong. Well I was in labor, but they decided that we needed to stop it because only being 36 weeks they said they would have to send him to the NICU and we really didn't want that. So they gave me some drugs to stop the labor. DANG IT!

And after this point, every day being pregnancy started to seem like an eternity, even though it wasn't. I just felt like everyone that was due after us was having their babies and I was just stuck being uncomfortable and just feeling gross. It was so frustrating.

I think it was the next week we had an appointment with the midwives and they did the regular checking on heart rate of the baby and all that good stuff. And he hadn't really been moving around a lot so they wanted to hook me up to this machine that monitors the babies heart rate and contractions. The most annoying machine ever. Every time you move or really anything it messes with the machine and it has to be readjusted. Really dumb. Well the variation in his heart rate was good, there just weren't a lot of spikes like they were hoping for so they sent us to the hospital to be monitored. LAME! So we went to the hospital and he was fine once I had some apple juice there. I think the cold juice just woke him up. He's just not very active in the day, he's always super awake at night though.

This week has been particularly crazy. This last Friday I was having contractions, so we went in, and of course we had to go to the hospital because by the time they were getting close together, the doctors office was closed. So we go to the hospital and back to being hooked up to that dreaded machine. Yes, contractions are there, but they were't too intense and I was only dilated to a 2. But I was 80% effaced. Greatest news ever! So were sent home. It was ok, I was super duper tired. So we did some walking and hung out a little bit and went to bed.

And this week we had to go back to the hospital because I thought my water broke. False Alarm! Kind of. My water hadn't broken, but I was leaking fluid. So they said just to keep an eye on that and any contractions.

Today we had another appointment with the midwives. We really love Helene, in my opinion she is by far the best! We went in to find out that I had dilated another centimeter. Great news! And they set up an induction date for Tuesday since next Friday is the last possible day to get this baby out! I'm just hoping that he decides to come before that. It would be a blessing not to have to be induced.

I have another appointment with them on Friday for an ultrasound and non stress test to make sure I can actually make it through the weekend. They just want to make sure there will be enough fluid to support that baby of ours, if not they will induce on Friday. I would really be ok with that, but I'm hoping to wait for the induction as long as I possibly can.

So this is our life for the past few weeks, hopefully Brenden will come soon.

Let it Snow!

We are so excited for Christmas to be here! Its only a few weeks away and I'm so ready. Christmas shopping is done, presents are wrapped, tree is up, lights on, ornaments made, it's awesome! Chris and I made some homemade ornaments yesterday. I have to say, I love them! Its just flour, salt, water, food coloring, and then you cut out shapes and bake. We also had some ceramic ornaments, but they were all white, so we cheated and painted them with nail polish. Stinky house! And now our tree is gorgeous!

I'm kinda sad that we'll be here in Rexburg for Christmas too mostly because we won't be able to see family, but I'm so glad that we have so many friends that will be here, stuck in Rexburg too. So far the plans are to have a formal dinner party at a friends on Christmas Eve, it will be awesome. We'll probably just do Christmas morning at our house, just the two of us and skype our families. I love skyping with our families, it makes it seems like we're not so far apart. I'll be glad when school is over and we can see family more. Just over another year. Yes!

Chris has been working like crazy lately and working really hard in school. I love him for it. He has been so crazy busy and with all of the snow, I have been sewing a lot and just trying to keep busy. I started a new quilt this last week since I'm not aloud to really touch the one that Chris has started. He is doing really well on his quilt. So cute!

Our week after Thanksgiving has been going so well. Spending as much time together as we can. Birthing Classes. Cleaning the whole house. Setting up the baby's room some more. It feels like we've been getting gifts for Brenden almost every day this week.

I'm so ready for him to come already!

December

Today is the first day of December, and we all know what that means....Christmastime is so so so close! I am so excited for Christmas this year, even though we'll be spending it here in Rexburg because of Chris' lame work schedule. I'm just Thankful that we have so many great friends and that they'll will be stuck here with us.

Chris has been working really hard today to get the house all cleaned up. We had a blizzard last week and then Thanksgiving and Black Friday came and we just haven't been home enough to get it to just the way we like it. I'm so thankful that he's so willing to clean the house and do laundry for me on his days off. Its really a blessing.

So last week, Thanksgiving was so much fun, we practically made a whole week out of it. On Monday we had Family Home Evening with some friends playing a game called Minute to Win it. It was a blast! You have one minute to accomplish a certain task or you're eliminated.

I forgot the names to all of these, but basically this one there are 5 different size paper bags and with out using your hands you had to get the bags to the table behind you in less than a minute. The only part of your body that could touch the floor was your feet. It was a tough one, I assume. Being pregnant, my task was a lot easier. My bags were set up on the couch. Haha. Talk about easy.

This game you had a yo-yo strapped to yourself and had to knock over all of these plastic cups.

This game you had to mummify yourself in a roll of toilet paper without ripping it. Chris was amazing, I think he did in like 10 seconds or so.

We had a lot of fun with this, these are not all of the games we played, but for the most part its almost all the ones we took pictures of.

Baby Classes!

We started our hypnobabies birthing classes last week and we love them! There is so much to learn and out teacher is so amazing! We were supposed to have a class last night, but it was canceled. Apparently our teachers whole family was sick and usually it wouldn't have been a big deal, but with all these pregnant ladies, we didn't want to take a chance.

The class is a lot of meditation, hypnosis and going into it we were very skeptical, ok mostly Chris, but now he loves it! The workbook that comes with the class has so much information, nothing you can really get from reading other birthing books, its great! We have homeowrk assignments every single week. We have reading assignments, communication assignments, scripts for hypnosis, and it has been so much fun! The book has a lot of references to other books on different topics.

Other than our birthing class, we are so looking forward to the holidays even though we'll be spending them here in Rexburg, but we have some great friends!!! We already have our Christmas tree up because I am very stubborn and a pregnant woman who generally gets her way. Now it just needs ornaments. And I really need to start planning a baking day here in Rexburg, that would be so much fun! Now time for so grub!!!

29 weeks today!

Only a few short weeks left to go. And I have this feeling that time is going to go by so quickly. With all the Holidays coming up and just being that busy time of season, I'm looking forward to time flying by.
We have our first doctors appointment since St. Louis on Friday. We're both really excited for that, mostly because it's been a really long time and it will be nice to hear that everything is going great.
As for some not so great news, we're going to have to spend all of holidays in Rexburg. Chris was fairly, okay, he was really upset about it. We found out yesterday that Sam's Club has company wide Black out for all of November and December, and in order for him to get any time off the General Manager has to sign off on it. Their regular GM quit last week, so they have this temp. coming up from Logan about once a week until they find someone to be their new GM. When Chris talked to the temp. guy he just flat out told him no, no explanation on either side, nothing. Chris was mostly upset about that.
Its not ideal to spend our holidays in Rexburg, but we'll make the best of it. We'll have our own Thanksgiving dinner and spend it together and do whatever we can to make it fun. :)

27 weeks, 4 days!

Time is flying and I'm sure going in the winter holidays, life is just going to get even more crazier and everything is going to go even more faster than it already is. We're really excited for January and for Baby Brenden to become a larger part of our lives, but at the same time, we think, "Ahhhh, we have no idea what we're doing!" We're in the 3rd trimester, I'm definitely in the nesting stage, Chris has been going to school and working non-stop. It has been a crazy couple of months, and the next few months are going to be even crazier. But overall we're really excited. For the holidays, for family, for friends, and for baby.

We have met a lot of new friends the past couple of weeks being in Rexburg. It has been so much fun. We met a couple in our ward that have connections to St. Louis, and they are so wonderful. They're so sweet, helpful, and absolutely hilarious. We also met a couple where Chris knew the husband from home and from his mission, we had a game night with them last night and hopefully we can get them over for dinner this week when Chris has a day off from work. I really look forward to getting to know them better, especially the wife, Shayanna, she seems so great! I like her already. :)

As far as medical and doctors go, we haven't seen a doctor since St. Louis, but hopefully soon. We're turning in the last bit of paperwork in tomorrow to get approved for Medicaid so all the baby expenses will be paid for. We have to turn in this form for Plasma. Chris has been donating plasma for awhile, so we kind of have to estimate how much he's made and let them know and sign a document because according to the state of Idaho, since Chris donates and earns money from it, he is considered self-employed. Ridiculous, I know, but that's life and how the system works, I'm sure everything will work out, and hopefully soon.

For now, we need to got o bed, Chris has an early morning of classes and work for tomorrow.

Baby Brenden James

Here are some of our Ultrasound pictures from the last time we went to the doctor in St. Louis. Its been awhile!

This is the ultrasound we had when we found out we were having a boy! So exciting, :D

This is a picture of the baby's face, personally I think he looks like Chris.

This was just a picture they did for measurements, and apparently Brenden measures a bit below average, but that's ok.

Boy picture!

Oh Whoa!

So much has been going on in the last almost 2 months. I am a horrible blogger since we've been back to Rexburg. When we first got back it took so much time to get our home back in order, from all the cleaning, grocery shopping, putting all of our stuff back together after subletting for the summer. It was a lot of work and I have to say its still really not completely done. Especially with a baby on the way and trying to prepare for that also. Work, work, work!

Chris transferred from the Sam's Club in St. Louis to the one in Idaho Falls, which is wonderful. Trying to save as much money as we can. He loves it, he works in the wireless department, but he also works in electronics and jewelry when they need it. He just got cross trained in jewelry this week, and I'm pretty sure he is doing great at it!

While Chris is at work, I have been cleaning and working on a lot of projects. I've made a blessing blanket, 2 maternity skirts, and a fabulous quilt so far. Its been a lot of fun. I'll have to pot pictures once I take some. I have to say that most Christmas presents this year will probably be homemade. :D

I have to say, I love my mom! She has been so great! I remember when Chris and I first got married everytime I would call her, "Am I gonna be a grandma yet?" Never failed, and as soon as she gave up and stopped asking, it happened. It makes me laugh. I call her everytime I don't understand something about pregnancy or think something is maybe a little weird. From morning sickness to what should I eat to all these cool baby crafts to Ack! I'm not showing yet, she has been so amazing and I love her! This weekend after General Conference on Saturday she's throwing me a baby shower. I get to see my wonderful family, it'll be great! I don't really know anything about it other than its on Saturday at 3. Haha. I think it'll be a lot of fun. I'm excited.

And then I think, Wow! Am I really so far along to having baby showers. Wow! So real and so cool! You read these pregnancy books and they're usually week by week and they'll tell you what your baby looks like and how its developing. Its so amazing. So hard to even comprehend how amazing life really is. 25 weeks along on Wednesday! Thats so weird to me still. I'm going to be the woman delivering a baby still in shock that its really happening. Haha. And after this semester its going to be right there. Wow!

Doctor's Appointment

Today we went and saw a doctor for the first time, well pregnancy doctor that is. The best doctors appointment since we've been in St. Louis. We've been to about 3 other doctors and its been really hard to try to figure out insurance stuff and try to make doctor's appointments at the same time. Its just been one huge mess. And the only thing the doctors at the past appointments would do is take pregnancy tests. OK, look, I may not look like it, but I'm in my 2nd trimester, having morning sickness like you wouldn't believe, have had pregnancy tests up the bazooka, definitely knowing we're having a baby! You think the doctors would understand. I hate peeing in a cup, I don't think men understand how utterly impossible it is for us.

So doctor's appointment today...Great! We have a great doctor even if she won't be our doctor for very much longer, with us moving back to Rexburg for school and all. But she really was great. She asked for a full medical history, did some tests, took blood, that was cool. Kind of like donating plasma, but way way way faster!!! She said that some insurance companies don't like doctors to do ultrasounds the first appointment, but she didn't much care, she was as excited as we were. So we did one of those heart beat ultrasounds, and I have to say, it really is as weird as it sounds in the movie. No picture, just the whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, Ha ha.

And then, and then we got to go do the picture ultrasound!!! So cool. Some things were hard to make out, but you can definitely tell, the head is a head. The heartbeat was really awesome to see. It was really fast! And we got pictures! :)

Quite a fantastic day!!

Escapades in St. Louis!

Ahhhh!!!! This is the life! You know, going to bed early just because we're married. Weird, getting married is like vowing you will forever more be drowsy after 9 at night. I used to love being young, well of course, I still am, but I used to love staying up late fitting in everything I possibly could in that 24 hour period, going to bed super late and being able to wake with all the farm animals. Now I'm lucky if I can stay awake for those Friday night movies. Yeah, I'm the one asleep on couch before the previews even start. But you've got to love it!!!

Well today was was mommy daughter day with my mother-in-law. Best day ever! Love her! We went to down town St. Louis and had lunch at Lemp Mansion. Its on the10 most haunted houses in the U.S. list. Apparently it was owned By a Adam Lemp who came to America in the early 1900's to be a grocer. He owned his own store and started making his own ale to sell in his store. The Ale was turning out to be a better profit than the store. He then started his own Beer company. He died and left the company to his son William, who renovated the house for offices for the Lemp Brewery. In 1904, William Lemp committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in the upper room. William would not be the last Lemp to commit suicide. There would be 3 others, ending in the 1940's. The brewery went to the Bank. The last Lemp to live was Edwin Lemp, his life was service to others, and upon his death his orders were to destroy his art collection and his family heirlooms. This place wasn't very creepy, but it was a lot of fun to go and have lunch together. As we opened the front door it even had that creeky sound. It was really cool.And apparently they have murder mystery dinners there. Definitely want to go to one of those!!!!

After lunch at the haunted mansion, we went antiquing for a few hours. Man, we found some crazy things. Some really cool things, and some really really ugly things. Ha ha. But it was really hot outside so decided to call it a day, especially since a lot of the shops were closed. Went to go get ice cream in town, but the Ben and Jerry's in town went out of business. Someone please tell me how an ice cream place goes out of business. I admit not everyone has those baby cravings, but come on its summer time and ice cream, its like me and my right thumb, can't have one with out the other, or it just hurts!