Another great OB appt!

Miss Thing is doing great! Her heartbeat was 139 bpm. I'm up another 3 lbs (from a month ago) which I was shocked that it wasn't more because the belly has more than doubled in the last 2 weeks. My tests (glucose tolerance, urine culture & hemoglobin) were all perfect. I'm still measuring ahead but I have been the whole time. Dr. R is very impressed with how well I'm doing with pregnancy in general. YAY!! We go to appts every 2 weeks now. I'm wondering... when do the internal exams/checks start?

We had our carseat class last night and a labor/delivery class on Wed. They were both really good. We did a tour of the family birth center which we've obviously been to before with Lily but we saw more of the normal areas such as triage, the nursery, ect. It was weird being back there as everything with Lily was such a blur due to all the emotion, anxiety, ect. I didn't even really remember where my labor room was except that it was kinda by the kitchen because Lee kept running across the hallway to get me grape popsicles. I can't wait till we go back there when Miss Thing decides to make her appearance and make it a good place instead of a dreaded, icky place. We still need to sign up for lamaze...I'm just not sure when we're going to fit it in... but we will!

My horse is doing AWESOME at the trainers! She's still not shed out enough to show next weekend but that's ok. I'll still have 3 shows I can hit this spring before Miss Thing is due... that is if Miss Thing decides to cooperate and wait until closer to her due date to arrive.

It's Lance's birthday tomorrow! The big 2-7!! Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a cradle robber. I'm very proud of it too! We're only 4 years apart so I don't think that qualifies me as a cougar. Doesn't it have to be like 10+ years to be a cougar? More power to those women!! Can you imagine being 40-ish y.o. and having a 20-something boyfriend?!! Wowza!!! Grrr!!!!! Anyway... we're having a BBQ gathering tonight at our house for his birthday. Just low key and casual. I'll take lots of pics of the b-day boy and post them later.

Have a great weekend and Happy Easter!!

More shower info.

The shower was held at our home because we have a great house for entertaining plus its big so we can comfortably fit a lot of people in it. Lance's MIL and AIL threw it for us. They did an absolutely FABULOUS job. They did all the decorating plus some of the cleaning! I barely had to do anything except keep the coffee going for them:) It was very nice to have the shower at our house so we didn't have to pack everything up and haul it back. We will be packing and hauling at the next one in May but that's ok.
The game with the cotton balls on the nose is: you divide everyone up into 2 teams. You put vaseline on your nose then go "pick up" a cotton ball with your nose. Then you have to go drop it in a bowl. Dropping it is the key as it is hard to get that cotton ball away from the vaseline! It was definitely a great game that everyone could do.
It was such a great time! I'm doing laundry like crazy as I want to get as much as possible done before Miss Thing makes her arrival.

We start our baby classes this week... A carseat class and what to expect during labor on wednesday and thursday evening. It's Lance's birthday on Saturday but we're going to have a gathering at our house on Friday nite. Just a casual BBQ and cake with some friends. I have a prayer service tonight and funeral tomorrow for a very good friend of mine's brother who just passed away from cancer. I'm going to try to fit in a walk with Teddy everyday plus a couple of visits with my horse. I need to return a few items we received at the shower as we got 3 sets of the same size/color/design onesies. It was on the registry but we don't need 3 of the same size! I'm going to call on our nursery furniture as it's suppose to be here in April. I'm very anxious to get it and get the room all set up and finished. I'm such a planner that I want to do as much as possible. I've got to get all my type A traits out as much as possible before Miss Thing crashes it.

What a party!

WOW! This child is not going to need clothes for the next year. We're going to have to add on to her closet in order to fit it all in. The turn out was huge! We almost ran out of cake, punch and food. I don't think my MIL expect everyone plus some to show up. We also received our travel system which is perfect timing as we have our carseat class on Thursday.

Here's some pics!

Sorry it's so quiet over here...

We've been on the run... to work, the barn, store, vet, ect. We've also had the decorating fairies (aka Lance's mom, aunts and grandma) attacking our house for the last couple of days. Our house looks like a fairy princess land with tons of pink and purple. I think Lance might be next, if he doesn't watch out;) Our 1st baby shower is TOMORROW. WTH??? Really??? Is it already that time? How can it seem like I've been pregnant for years (and I actually HAVE) but all of a sudden there's only 10 weeks left... where did the time go??

I will post a ton... and I do mean a TON of pictures from the shower on Sunday or Monday. It depends on how exhausted I am from all the festivities!!

Have a great weekend:)

Weekend Wonder!

I love the weekends but they seem to go by too fast. They also don't come around often enough! It should be Mon, Tues, weekend, Wed, Thurs, Fri, weekend, repeat! That would be awesome!

This weekend is going to be spent cleaning and getting those projects done that need completing before we have a ton of people at our house for the baby shower Lance's fam is throwing us next Saturday. I can't believe it's already ~that~ time! We're also hitting the road again tomorrow for a short work week. YAY... I love short work weeks!!

Faith, my horse, is doing great at the trainers! She is still shedding like crazy and almost starting to look like a show horse! Almost... except for the extremely fuzzy ears and poll. I'm hoping to head out there today or tomorrow but we're not suppose to have unnecessary travel in and around Fargo/Moorhead due to the flood. Is going out to the barn to play with my horse unnecessary? Hmmm.....

On the mend.

Oh man do I feel better today. I'm actually able to walk, climb the stairs and get my pants on without assistance. I feel like a new woman! OK, maybe not that great but SO much better than Tuesday or yesterday.
I forgot to mention that I am officially in the THIRD TRIMESTER! WTH?! Where did that come from? I can't believe I have 83 days left. It seems like it goes by so slow then all of a sudden I get a mommy/baby email about "are your bags packed?". I saw that yesterday and thought WTH do I need my bags packed for? I read a little farther and discovered that in about 6 weeks they are suggesting that I have my bags packed. OK, that settled down my freak out a little. We still have quite a bit to get ready before Miss Thing gets here. We don't have our crib or dresser/changing table here yet. It's ordered but won't be in until April sometime which is right around the corner. We don't have our stroller/car seat and several other essential items but I'm planning on buying all that after our baby showers.

Today I'm off to the clinic to do my glucose tolerance test. Then onto Target, the party store and the barn to see my horse. If you haven't heard, Fargo/Moorhead is in a major flood watch. The Red River is due to crest on Saturday sometime so for the last few days this area has been virtually shut down so everyone can help sandbag. My horse is at the trainers which is about 1/4 mile away from the Sheyenne River which is also going to crest on Saturday. The water is right under the bridge and getting ready to go over the road anytime. We're hoping to not have to move all the horses out of there but if we have to that is completely fine. It's better to be safe than sorry. We live 25 miles outside of Moorhead and are high and dry. There isn't any water around us but we do have about 5 inches of new snow. Ick! Fargo also received snow which is not helping with the flood fight.
I'm off to hit the town! Happy Thursday!!

Ouch.

So I've always been a very independent woman. That's just my nature. If you ask me to help you, I am MORE than willing and happy too. BUT if I have to ask for help...it just doesn't happen very often. Lance and I have gone rounds on this especially while I'm pregnant as I feel there really isn't that much that I can't do even when pregnant. Lance feels differently and would like me to ask for help more.
Let me give you an example:
We moved Faith (my horse) to the trainers on Saturday in order for them to put some time on her while I can't ride. Plus she needs just a little additional finishing that I just can't do. So I let her relax and settle in on Sat and Sun (she's been there before as that's where I board when I'm not pregnant and showing hard. She even has her same stall!). I went out to clean her up on Monday and work a little showmanship. Now Faith has been in a non-heated barn for the last 9 months but she's been blanketed so she's furry but not super hairy. She is normally a very hairy horse so I have some major clipping to do. Plus she was filthy so I wanted to give her a bath. Lance dropped me off at the barn while he ran errands. I started out clipping Faith's front legs and face. I thought I would split it up as that's a lot of bending over for a pregnant lady! Then I lunged her and worked showmanship. By the end, I am sweating like a pig. I'm working in an arena (aka deep dirt/sand) and it's usually a tropical 75 degrees in the barn/arena. So I finish clipping Faith's hind legs then give her a bath. 3 hours later and I'm FINALLY finished. So I call Lance to tell him I'm done and whenever he wants to pick me up that's great. The trainers are riding like crazy so I'm just going to sit in the chairs, watch and relax. Lance gets there so I go pull Faith's cooler off as she's almost dry now. I have stiffened up so but the more I move the better I feel. We leave, get groceries, go to Best Buy then go home and I make supper. By now I'm getting pretty stiff and slightly sore. After supper, Lance fills up the jacuzzi tub for me and I relax in there for a little while, then put the heating pad on my sore back and go to bed. I get up a couple of times to pee, of course, and can barely move. I attribute it to being groggy and my eyes aren't very open, so I go back to sleep. Lance wakes me up at 6am so we can get ready to hit the road by 7am. I eat breakfast first, especially while preggo, so I'm going to head down to the kitchen and I literally can.not.walk. I can barely get out of bed much less walk. My hips are so stiff they will barely flex forward, my sciatic nerve is on fire and my left leg is numb. I feel horrible. I slowly hobble to the kitchen and Lance looks at me in horror. I mumble "I guess I over did it yesterday" and stagger to the fridge. I finish breakfast and head back up to our room to hit the shower. I crawled up the first 4 steps but then I get stuck. I yell for Lance & he has to lift/carry me the rest of the way up. Needless to say, I am still at home and barely moving around. My right hip let loose around noon so that will flex forward but the rest of me is still pretty crippled. The good news is Miss Thing is feeling fine as she's been entertaining me all day with her bouncing around and my horse looks fabulous!
So the moral of this story is that apparently I can't do EVERYthing I could do pre-pregnancy.