Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes. We are all feeling much better.
DH didn't go to Tulsa this week... don't know if he will be now... But Monday he leaves for Lennox, SD... for the whole week!
And for those who don't know, a V-BAC is Vaginal Birth after C-section. Its safe for most people and according to my doctor I should be perfectly fine... I just guess I can get worried over the littlest things. I'm scared of pain!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
sick - gross content
I have never felt so miserable in all my life! I was either on the couch half asleep, in bed or on the toilet from about noon yesterday until 7:30 this morning! Whatever bug DD had over Thanksgiving, she gave it to me and it had me "running"... and the pain! I never felt any of the contractions with Dinah, but if they are anywhere as awful as what I felt, give me another c-section with tons of medication! Well, DH took care of DD for me from the time he got home from work, so I went to bed and stayed there as much as my stomach would allow. Praise God for Imodium! I feel so much better this morning! Not 100% normal, but enough to function. DH stayed home a couple extra hours this morning to see how I'd function and get DD up for the day.
Just a quick prayer request... I have been going back and forth for a few months now whether I should go for another c-section or if I should have a V-BAC. Any readers out there have there input, I'd be happy to hear it!
Just a quick prayer request... I have been going back and forth for a few months now whether I should go for another c-section or if I should have a V-BAC. Any readers out there have there input, I'd be happy to hear it!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Week 27 pic
Well, I don't like this photo much, but it shows where I'm at as of last night.. Please ignore my pajamas... and my hair... and the tired look on my face... DD and I were both sick most of the long weekend (she was worse than I was but that tired me out!)...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Registered
I've had a couple people ask if we were registering for baby gifts this time around. So, I registered at Walmart.com. Normally, Walmart wouldn't be a top choice for us, but after DH read this article, we decided to support the "buy-cott" at Walmart.
http://www.afa.net/emails/transform.asp?x=walmart_112107&s=browser&y=2007&m=11
and in other good news, DH doesn't have to go to Tulsa today! :)
http://www.afa.net/emails/transform.asp?x=walmart_112107&s=browser&y=2007&m=11
and in other good news, DH doesn't have to go to Tulsa today! :)
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
2nd Ultrasound
Hi Everybody!
first, DH called Staples but the guy he needed to talk to wasn't there. He said that when they do interviews the want a couple guys from the board their too, so they have several people's schedules to get coordinated.
Had my second ultrasound today. Galen couldn't make it and I couldn't find a sitter, so I had DD with... not the easiest task, but she did alright. Everything looks good right now. Here are the newest pics.
Will it ever end?
Well, looks like DH is leaving... AGAIN! He's taking off Monday morning for Tulsa... coming home Wednesday night... and then the following week he will be in Lennox, SD for 4 days! He's calling Staples today to see if they would like to see him tomorrow... PRAY HARD!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Frustrated again
I just don't get how things work at DH's job. As of WEdnesday night, He still didn't know if he would be coming home Friday evening or if his boss was sending him to New Hampshire to return home on Sunday evening. How can a company be run that way? Well, atleast his boss is going to give him the day before and the day after Thanksgiving off. It will be nice to have him home for a long weekend... especially since he'll be spending 4 days the beginning of December somewhere in South Dakota on another project!
Monday, November 12, 2007
Pictures from New York - Sunday site seeing
Statue of Liberty on our way to and from Staten Island. Peacock at the Staten Island zoo. Family pic taken at the zoo. DD on a pony at the zoo.
Pictures from New york - Friday site seeing
Ceiling at Grand Central Station. Central park fountain I mentioned visiting.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
About New York
Thursday: We hopped on the plane in Fargo. DD was really good. We made it to Minneapolis for our flight change and the stewards were so nice. They flagged down a driver to take us to our next gate since I was pregnant and hauling so much stuff including DD. The flight to New York was longer and DD got a little stir crazy. And of course, right when she had to go poop we hit turbulence and never made it to the bathroom! airplane bathroom would have been too small for the two of us anyways. We made it to JFK and DH met us outside our gate. He took DD to the men's room to change her so I could go to the bathroom. I don't think baby liked the turbulence much as I got sick! (It could have been nerves/stress too.) We took the AirTrain to the Shuttle pick-up and went to our hotel.
Friday: DH took the rental car he had been driving back to the airport as we didn't want the hastle of paying for parking ($20 per night just to park at the hotel!) The put us in a double room which happened to be a handicap room. DH flooded the bathroom with his shower as the shower drains onto the bathroom floor where the second drain is in the middle of the room! The tile was slippery and soaked! How dangerous for a handicap room! After we got up and moving (later than I had hoped) we hoped the AirTrain to the Subway station and rode into Manhattan. We had lunch at Grand Central station. It was hot, crowded and nosy, but the main terminal was definately beautiful. AFter lunch we hopped on a bus for Central Park. The place the bus dropped us off wasn't an entrance. We didn't realize that until we had walked all the way to the west side of the park without finding a way in! So, we wandered the park. I was impressed with how clean it was, but we must have been there at a rotten time of day. I overheard somebody on their cellphone saying it sounded like Vietnam in the park as the helicopters were flying over our heads nonstop! DH took DD on a Merry -go-round. She hated it! We got to the zoo late because of our detour across the park, so we were unable to get in. However, we did watch the seal show from just outside the gate. We went to the fountain (don't remember what it is called) but there was some guy playing violin and singing in what might have been a Hindu-type form. It was amazing! Found our way out of the park and back on the bus... back to the subway and back to the hotel where we ordered in pizza and went to bed.
Saturday: We hopped on the subway again and went into Queens. After a short walk we arrived at the New York Hall of Science. Its kind of a hands-on learning place mostly aimed at kids. DD (and DH) had a blast! I was getting pretty exhausted by this point. Much more walking the past couple days than I had been used to. We spent most of the day there and then hopped back on the subway and back to the hotel. We ordered Chinese this time (pretty yummy!)
Sunday: We hopped on the subway again and headed to the southern most point of Manhattan. There we boarded the Staten Island Ferry. It was cool! From our ferry we could see the statue of liberty without having to pay any money! Fargo has a mini-Liberty statue so DD was thrilled! She loved the big boat and all that water. Once on the island we hopped another bus and headed into town. We took a short walk and ended up at the zoo. Because the FArgo zoo has a partnership with the Staten Island zoo and we have a membership here, we got in free! I was kinda impressed with the place. It was definately a small-town zoo. No lions, tigers or bears here! Dinah got to feed some goats and a deer some crackers. And then she got to ride a real pony! She loved that! We watched them feed the otters and DD thought that was pretty fun, too! After wearing ourselves out at the zoo we hopped back on the bus and made it to the ferry. It was sunset, so DH got some lovely shots of the statue as the sun set. ON the subway home, DD fell asleep. Poor girl was exhausted. Slept all the way back to the hotel (about an hour) and then we took her shoes off and jacket. She sat up and smiled at us and said "We're here!" and something about daddy ... then rolled over and slept all night! (About 12 hours total for our monkey!) DH and I ordered Mexican and went to bed.
Monday: We took it easy packing and getting ready to go. Had to be out of the hotel by noon and our flight didn't leave until 5:30! Had lunch at the airport and watched the planes take off. DD enjoyed that. Since DH was able to come home with us, we got somebody to switch seats so he could sit with us. DD enjoyed having Daddy there. We hit some turbulence just outside of Minneapolis and DD was so exhausted she allowed it to rock her to sleep. We were supposed to be able to stay on the same plane, so DH was gonna run get us something to eat. Unfortunately we discovered there had been a change of plans so I had to get the stewards to help get DH's carry-on, Dinah's and the carseat while I struggled with the sound asleep babe! DH had made it to the gate and they told him of the change so he ran back to help. Our next gate wasn't too far away (from c6-c1) but when you are tired, 6 months pregnant and carrying a 26 pound sleeping child it seems like forever! we made it just in time. DH even had a couple minutes to run and grab us a couple burgers. Since DD was still asleep we decided to gate check her carseat so DH could sit with me again. Because of the threat of snow (I assume) all other flights to Fargo had been canceled except ours so we had to wait forever before we could take off. DD slept all the way to Fargo. We arrived at the airport and my pastor was supposed to be there to take us home. So, I called him... he had gotten distracted helping his daughter with an English project and hadn't even left home yet! DD was awake and not really happy... "I want to stay here" "But DD, we can't! They don't have any beds!" "Yes they do!(through tears)". I sat on the steps comforting her while DH went to collect all our luggage. By the time he got it all, Pastor arrived and they loaded us up and took us home. Rough night for DD. Over tired and not sure where she was she ended up sleeping with us most the night.
All in all it wasn't a bad trip. I would have liked it more if I hadn't been pregnant or needing to keep track of DD, but she had fun too. Its neat to see the world through her eyes. Now she understands better that DD is going to New York tomorrow (but she wants mommy and DD to go on an airplane too!) My first experience on the subway was scarey and I had a minor panic attack. Some black guy in grubby clothes comes in our car and says "I hate to do this to you folks..." and I immediately wonder if he is going to pull out a gun or something! He claims he recently gotten out of prison and didn't have much except Jesus and wanted to know if anybody would give him some money to help him get started again. Later in the trip we had a second, older black man asking for money too... He gave me the creeps almost worse than the first guy, but DH liked him because he played peek-a-boo with DD and gave him the loose change in his pocket. and we really were not impressed with many things at the hotel we stayed at... especially their shuttle service. sunday night I called them as we boarded the AirTrain back to where the shuttle would pick them up. They said a shuttle would be there in 7 minutes. We stood in the cold with a sleeping toddler for 20 minutes! And when I called to ask where they were, they didn't have record that I called and would be sending somebody in 5 minutes!
Well, I don't think I want to go back... just too big a place for this small town girl. I'll post pictures later.
Friday: DH took the rental car he had been driving back to the airport as we didn't want the hastle of paying for parking ($20 per night just to park at the hotel!) The put us in a double room which happened to be a handicap room. DH flooded the bathroom with his shower as the shower drains onto the bathroom floor where the second drain is in the middle of the room! The tile was slippery and soaked! How dangerous for a handicap room! After we got up and moving (later than I had hoped) we hoped the AirTrain to the Subway station and rode into Manhattan. We had lunch at Grand Central station. It was hot, crowded and nosy, but the main terminal was definately beautiful. AFter lunch we hopped on a bus for Central Park. The place the bus dropped us off wasn't an entrance. We didn't realize that until we had walked all the way to the west side of the park without finding a way in! So, we wandered the park. I was impressed with how clean it was, but we must have been there at a rotten time of day. I overheard somebody on their cellphone saying it sounded like Vietnam in the park as the helicopters were flying over our heads nonstop! DH took DD on a Merry -go-round. She hated it! We got to the zoo late because of our detour across the park, so we were unable to get in. However, we did watch the seal show from just outside the gate. We went to the fountain (don't remember what it is called) but there was some guy playing violin and singing in what might have been a Hindu-type form. It was amazing! Found our way out of the park and back on the bus... back to the subway and back to the hotel where we ordered in pizza and went to bed.
Saturday: We hopped on the subway again and went into Queens. After a short walk we arrived at the New York Hall of Science. Its kind of a hands-on learning place mostly aimed at kids. DD (and DH) had a blast! I was getting pretty exhausted by this point. Much more walking the past couple days than I had been used to. We spent most of the day there and then hopped back on the subway and back to the hotel. We ordered Chinese this time (pretty yummy!)
Sunday: We hopped on the subway again and headed to the southern most point of Manhattan. There we boarded the Staten Island Ferry. It was cool! From our ferry we could see the statue of liberty without having to pay any money! Fargo has a mini-Liberty statue so DD was thrilled! She loved the big boat and all that water. Once on the island we hopped another bus and headed into town. We took a short walk and ended up at the zoo. Because the FArgo zoo has a partnership with the Staten Island zoo and we have a membership here, we got in free! I was kinda impressed with the place. It was definately a small-town zoo. No lions, tigers or bears here! Dinah got to feed some goats and a deer some crackers. And then she got to ride a real pony! She loved that! We watched them feed the otters and DD thought that was pretty fun, too! After wearing ourselves out at the zoo we hopped back on the bus and made it to the ferry. It was sunset, so DH got some lovely shots of the statue as the sun set. ON the subway home, DD fell asleep. Poor girl was exhausted. Slept all the way back to the hotel (about an hour) and then we took her shoes off and jacket. She sat up and smiled at us and said "We're here!" and something about daddy ... then rolled over and slept all night! (About 12 hours total for our monkey!) DH and I ordered Mexican and went to bed.
Monday: We took it easy packing and getting ready to go. Had to be out of the hotel by noon and our flight didn't leave until 5:30! Had lunch at the airport and watched the planes take off. DD enjoyed that. Since DH was able to come home with us, we got somebody to switch seats so he could sit with us. DD enjoyed having Daddy there. We hit some turbulence just outside of Minneapolis and DD was so exhausted she allowed it to rock her to sleep. We were supposed to be able to stay on the same plane, so DH was gonna run get us something to eat. Unfortunately we discovered there had been a change of plans so I had to get the stewards to help get DH's carry-on, Dinah's and the carseat while I struggled with the sound asleep babe! DH had made it to the gate and they told him of the change so he ran back to help. Our next gate wasn't too far away (from c6-c1) but when you are tired, 6 months pregnant and carrying a 26 pound sleeping child it seems like forever! we made it just in time. DH even had a couple minutes to run and grab us a couple burgers. Since DD was still asleep we decided to gate check her carseat so DH could sit with me again. Because of the threat of snow (I assume) all other flights to Fargo had been canceled except ours so we had to wait forever before we could take off. DD slept all the way to Fargo. We arrived at the airport and my pastor was supposed to be there to take us home. So, I called him... he had gotten distracted helping his daughter with an English project and hadn't even left home yet! DD was awake and not really happy... "I want to stay here" "But DD, we can't! They don't have any beds!" "Yes they do!(through tears)". I sat on the steps comforting her while DH went to collect all our luggage. By the time he got it all, Pastor arrived and they loaded us up and took us home. Rough night for DD. Over tired and not sure where she was she ended up sleeping with us most the night.
All in all it wasn't a bad trip. I would have liked it more if I hadn't been pregnant or needing to keep track of DD, but she had fun too. Its neat to see the world through her eyes. Now she understands better that DD is going to New York tomorrow (but she wants mommy and DD to go on an airplane too!) My first experience on the subway was scarey and I had a minor panic attack. Some black guy in grubby clothes comes in our car and says "I hate to do this to you folks..." and I immediately wonder if he is going to pull out a gun or something! He claims he recently gotten out of prison and didn't have much except Jesus and wanted to know if anybody would give him some money to help him get started again. Later in the trip we had a second, older black man asking for money too... He gave me the creeps almost worse than the first guy, but DH liked him because he played peek-a-boo with DD and gave him the loose change in his pocket. and we really were not impressed with many things at the hotel we stayed at... especially their shuttle service. sunday night I called them as we boarded the AirTrain back to where the shuttle would pick them up. They said a shuttle would be there in 7 minutes. We stood in the cold with a sleeping toddler for 20 minutes! And when I called to ask where they were, they didn't have record that I called and would be sending somebody in 5 minutes!
Well, I don't think I want to go back... just too big a place for this small town girl. I'll post pictures later.
Friday, November 9, 2007
quick update
DH's New York trip was postponed again until Monday, so he'll be gone for about 5 days this trip.
He spoke to the guy at Staples today... still no interviews given, sounds like he is waiting for schedules to be available for several people to interview on the same day... DH's still in the running for that job!
He spoke to the guy at Staples today... still no interviews given, sounds like he is waiting for schedules to be available for several people to interview on the same day... DH's still in the running for that job!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
We're back
OK. Just a quick post to let you know we made it to New York and back safely. The good news is DH's last New York (Which was suppose to start while we were there) was postponed, so He was able to be put on a flight with us back to Fargo!
... but the bad news is he is being sent back to New York on Friday for another week! (At this point it looks like Phoenix is out but New York is still there).
I'm busy catching up with emails and stuff, so I'll post again later with pics and details.
... but the bad news is he is being sent back to New York on Friday for another week! (At this point it looks like Phoenix is out but New York is still there).
I'm busy catching up with emails and stuff, so I'll post again later with pics and details.
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