Inducement date set!!

I set up my inducement today!! I'm so excited it will be on November 2nd in the morning!  That's less than 2 weeks from now.  Of course he could decide to come on his own too.  I'm already at a 2 1/2 and next week my doctor will be at a conference and Graydon has 3 tests.  So if murphy's law comes into effect here I will go into labor next week right before one of Graydon's tests.  Well we shall see what happens.  I'm excited to have an end date in sight and it's so close.  It also means I only have 7 more days of work which is nice!

Well until next time!

There is an end in sight!!

So had my doctor's appointment yesterday and I'm dilating nicely and the baby is head down and dropped down.  Now most of this is making me more uncomfortable because he is so low but there is good news.  My doctor says he could come any day but if he doesn't come by November 2nd he will induce me!!  Yea that's a week before my due date so if baby doesn't come on his own I only have a little over 2 weeks to go!  It made me so happy to hear!  I was induced a week early with Kayla and I loved being induced.  I only felt a half hour of contractions and I was able to get everything in order because it was planned.  But we shall see if he waits that long, he is so low that the doctor could actually feel his head when he was checking me.  THERE IS A END IN SIGHT!  I can't wait to meet the little guy!  Kayla has started asking when her brother will be here.  I have to tell her soon but she doesn't really understand that.  I'm ready for him to make his entrance but we will have to wait and see.

28 weeks

I can't believe I am in my third trimester!  It has gone by so fast.  With Kayla I was so ahead of the game and was all about getting everything ready.  But with this one it sure is sneaking up on me.  I don't feel like I'm ready at all or have things out of storage but I also don't feel the need to do that yet.  So I guess I will be doing a lot the last month when I finally realize how close it is.   But other than that I feel pretty good, tired but good.  He is all out front and down low so I can feel it tugging and pulling my stomach when I pick up things.  Kayla is starting to become too difficult for me to lift.  Well this is when the baby is really suppose to pack on the pounds so lets see how big I get.

Feeling Very Pregnant

So I am now 25 weeks and I'm really starting to feel very pregnant.  I dropped something at work and found it very tricky to bend over and pick it up.  I am having a harder time getting up from the ground when I sit down to interact with the kids at school.  The baby is kicking around more and more and Kayla is getting excited now that she sees my belly getting bigger.  I am trying to keep Kayla as involved as ever.  The other day I was washing and putting away clothes that my friend gave me and Kayla had to comment on every outfit and I had her help me put them away.  I have so many clothes for 0 to 3 months that I'm very excited about that.  This picture is of what I have put away already and I still have tons more to put away.

Speaking of Kayla she is being such a big girl.  The other night she decided that she didn't want to wear pull ups to bed any more.  We said okay and after a couple nights of accidents she has been doing great with no accidents.  I'm very proud of her!!  It will be nice to have her completely potty trained and only one kid in diapers!! When she was refusing to poop on the potty I bribed her.  She wanted a princess dress so much!  Well she got it.  here's my cute girl in her princess dress.

So to top off this entry here is a picture of me at 25 weeks.

Life is complicated.

So trying to figure out what to do with work and the two kids in January has really been pressing on our minds.  It's so expensive to have an infant in child care even with a discount.  I also have that nagging that I really just want to be a full time mom.  It's always in the back of my mind but I know that I need to help out and work.  Some days are harder then others to go to work and miss my daughters funny games and watch her grow.  It seems like a constant battle within me and sometime I feel defeated.  Like today when Kayla's eye was all gross and she needed to go to the doctor and I couldn't get out of work and lucky for me Graydon was able to get her.  I want to be able to just be there in a second to fix things.  It was just a tough day and tomorrow when me and Graydon have juggled our schedules to be able to keep her home.  I wish it was easier to not have to juggle.  Sorry I'm complaining but some days it hits me harder than others.  I just want to be mom today and I had to be mom and worker.  Oh well, I will pick myself up and get through it and know that it's best for my family.

It's a ......

Ultra sound was today and the baby looks really healthy and everything is there.  The baby's heart is beating strong.  Oh and we found out what we are having and the results are a.....

 

Hand sucking.....

 

Kicking baby.....

 

BOY!!!

Doctor appointment

I didn't get yelled at because I gained a pound!  He told me if I didn't start gaining weight last time we would have to look at why.  I measured a little big, (surprise) for 17 weeks but he wasn't worried.  Kayla almost didn't make it out of the doctors office alive!  She was going through other peoples purses and in general not listening to mommy at all!  So I sat her on a chair to have a talk with her and screaming ensued.  That lasted for about 10 mins!  I got those looks like just control your child.  It was not very fun.  So after I finally got her to stop screaming I was able to talk to her about how we act.  Lucky for me Graydon came to my rescue and took over while I saw the doctor.  It really got my temper flared and I was so irritated that she would act that way.  I had to remind myself that she is just 2.  So lets hope she learned from the experience that mommy means it when she says no and I can control my temper because I'm sure with two little ones I will need all the patience in the world.

 Oh here's a picture of me almost 19 weeks along.