It's been almost a month

Baby H is here! and has been for almost a month. I'm bad, I know! but I've had one heck of a month.

I promise promise at some point ( hopefully soon) I'll share his birth story. I finally feel like life is getting back to normal.

Hank Elwood Bouffiou
9 pounds 12 oz
19.5 inches long
born Oct 8th @ 11:54pm

Week 36.. will it be my last?

I hope!!

I'm so ready to get this kid out and snuggle him already!

Poor Baby Brother....

He got the smallest room in the whole house. I'm not totally in love with the way the furniture is arranged but oh well! Over all I think it turned out pretty cute. It's could use a little bit more on the walls but I think for now it's good enough.

I couldn't find any framed pictures or art work that I really loved or felt like went well with the theme. So I turned it into a project for Kenna. I headed to Michael's and picked up some frames and paint to match his bedding and let her go to town. If you couldn't already tell they are a picture of our house... some polka dots.. and a picture of baby brother of course!

Game On!

I had an OB check today and I told my doctor all about my contractions the night before and how I was debating on whether or not i should have went L&D. Honestly I just didn't want to have to disrupt the whole household at 1am if it was false labor. He said, contractions at this point are normal.. but do not mean that labor is/isn't too far off. He says it would be a very good idea to have my hospital bag packed and ready just in case, because at this stage in the game they wont be stopping any labor! If baby H does end up making his arrival in the next week or 2, he may have to stay in the hospital a few extra days under the lights and to "fatten" up a bit but that he should be fine and wouldn't need to be transferred to a bigger hospital. I guess this is my wake up call to hussle up and get ready for him! I'm sooo excited, but really nervous too. I thought I had at least 2 more weeks! There is nothing worse than having contractions in the middle of the night and saying to yourself.. No! You can't come! I haven't washed your clothes yet and you'll have nothing to wear!!!

Week 33

Better late than never!

Please excuse all the baby gear in the background. Kenna has been "practicing " for baby brother.

My mom swears that I've dropped, all I know is that this baby's head has been all up in my cervix and I've been having lots of pressure and weird little pains.

I look at all these pictures and I long for the day when I can hold my baby in my arms... and then hand him over to daddy so mama can go get herself a tan!!

38 Weeks with Kenna

My 32 week with baby h... and 38 week with Kenna the jumbo baby are all too similar.

I'm scared! Please oh Please let him be a few weeks early......

Week 32

Am I done yet???


and just some proof that I don't ALWAYS look terrible LOL!

Diapers and Coupons

As most of you have seen from my pictures we have a HUGE diaper supply so far. Well.. I wanted to share my secret :) We have been picking up a pack here and there, whenever I can find coupons. I have yet to pay regular price for a pack of diapers or wipes! The coupons are usually only valid for a month from the print date, but they put new coupons up every week, sometimes everyday! Some good sites to check out are:

www.coupons.com ( you can also get great grocery or household coupons! Many of them for $1.00 off per item!)

www.couponsurfer.com

At one point coupons.com had a printable coupon available for $5.00 off any size pack of huggies. As you mom's know.. Huggies aint cheap! The site would only let you print 2 coupons per computer so I called my Mom/Dad and brother and put them to work printing me coupons from all their computers.

I'm not really the most frugile person, but I do like to save money on the nessesities.... so that way I don't feel so guilty splurging on the extras :)

30 Weeks

No picture this week :(
I have lost the charger for my camera
Ryan has lost the charger for his camera too!
(I bought him his own.. cause I didn't want him breaking my pink one on accident)

I ordered new chargers for both of us today, and an extra battery so I can have one charged and ready to go at all times. Never fails.. i grab the camera and my battery is dead.

I figured I'd give an update anyways!
I go for my next OB Appt, Thursday the 13th. Then I start going every 2 weeks.

Some pro's are:
Baby H, is getting BIG! Moving lots, and is Healthy. I feel very blessed for all those things
He started hiccuping last night, I'm assuming that's what it was. It was still pretty faint.
He can tell the minute his sister enters the room and starts talking He starts moving and kicking. Just her talking will wake him up faster than my poking and pestering.
We scheduled our Family Birth Center tour for September 8th!
The awful heat has passed and my feet have returned to their normal size :)
My hips and tail bone have finally stopped aching
According to my scale, I've lost 1 pound since my last appointment ( July 16th )

Now some Con's:
Baby H is getting BIG!! It's getting uncomfortable and crowded quick!
He kicks HARD.. and directly in my ribs or PUUUUSHES
Heartburn.. need i say more?
We asked big sister what she thought of his name.. she said "that's a funny joke! that's a stupid name!" oops.. hopefully it will grow on her, like it has me
There is also a pregnant celebrity who has mentioned using this name... i'll be mad if she does cause it will probably make it become popular ( lets just hope she has a girl!)
Ryan STILL hasn't put up my curtain rods in the baby's room yet....grr
My belly button is not just flat this time around.. but poking OUT instead. My innie, is now an outie and is quite noticeable through all my t-shirts. I don't like it..
I've gained 30 pounds so far.. eeek!

all and all this pregnancy has been easy, and we have been very blessed. I'm just a whiner

Is it possible??

I've been pondering this for a while.. and I have a theory.

Every month for about the last 6 months, Kenna gets in these cry baby emotional whiny moods. It only lasts about a week. There is no rhyme or reason to it. She's unrational, she's hysterical one minute.. happy the next.. being sassy/ back talking or just not listening. It's like she's a loose cannon, you never know what to expect. She cried for 10 minutes earlier, I'm guessing cause a bee flew by her and it scared her. She wont tell me exactly why she's upset.. she just hugs and hangs on me and balls her head off. The more I console her.. the more dramatic it gets. Finally I get mad and frustrated and demand her to calm down and she'll stop. Then she starts getting weeping again saying how much she misses her Papa and wants to go see him, ( even though she went over there last night to see him, then wanted to come home after an hour cause she missed me!). She even threw a temper tantrum this week because the other girls didn't want to play outside anymore. This is sooo unlike her, I can probably count how many temper tantrums this girl has thrown in her life time on 1 hand. She's having these crying spells 3, 4, 5 times a day. She's eating fine.. sleeping 12 or 13 hours a night and there is absolutely nothing new going on.

At first I thought.. well maybe this is because of baby H. but seriously he's not even here yet. All she talks about is how she wants him to come out now and see him and play with him, she is really really excited about everything. I've thought, maybe it's an attention thing.. but she still has all my attention, and even that doesn't help. I try to give her more.. and talk to her about how she feels and what's wrong, but I swear she just feeds into it. It's almost like she doesn't know what's wrong. My theory is.. that little girls have a monthly cycle too! They may not menstruate/have a period and all that jazz but they have an emotional cycle.. just like a woman would have pms. I have a bunch of little girls I watch in my daycare and it seems they all have this rough week every month. They are all between the ages of 4 and 6. I've been bringing it up to the other mom's and they are like "omg yes! I've been at my wits end with them and I don't even know what brought it on."

I don't know what it is.. but it's made my sweet, loving, well behaved little girl turn into this kid I desperately need a break from! I don't know what the problem is.. so I can't fix it :( I also don't want to feed into it either, and let her get what she wants by throwing a crying fit. It makes me feel heartless if I don't at least try to console her, because if it is a hormone thing and she doesn't know what's wrong.. I want to at least reassure her that I'm there for her.

She's only 4!!! I have a feeling I have some terrible teenage years coming my way. This is just more proof that my baby isn't a baby anymore. It's sad :(

28 weeks

28 weeks down, 3 months to go! OMG I feel huge already. It's gonna be a loooong 3 months.


This is me 28 weeks pregnant with Kenna. As you can see, I'm much bigger this time. Eeeek!!!

Progress

As you can see.. I have made progress. This week we had a major heat wave so I used this as an opportunity to sweat my booty off and get to work. It really only took me 2 days to paint. Then today Ryan cleared out the rest of the junk and put together the furniture. We still have yet to pull Kenna's old crib out of the attic. Ryan is avoiding it like none other. He put the bouncy chair and bassinet together without me even asking. I think it was his way of diverging my attention for the big empty spot where the crib should go. He also keeps reminding me that the baby is going to end up sleeping in our bed anyways since I plan to breastfeed ( and I'm terribly lazy, and don't want to get up in the middle of the night to feed lol ). As you mama's know.. it doesn't really matter where the baby sleeps. Their room needs to decorated and ready to go anyways!! I think it's a pregnancy hormones and being prepared thing.

I have the bedding for both crib and the twin bed on order from pottery barn, as well at the curtain valances. We haven't picked out a dresser yet but never the less, I feel like it's finally coming together!

Ugh!!!

Everytime I try to load more wedding pictures up, it wont work. Grr....

July 19th, 2008

This coming Sunday is Ryan and my first wedding anniversary ! On Monday the 20th, we will have known eachother 2 years. We got married 1 day shy of knowing eachother a full year. Anyways.. I thought for the next few days I'd post some of my favorite wedding pictures. Oh gosh that was such a fun day..

3D Ultrasound

We had our first 3D ultrasound appointment this morning. It was sooo cool!! He is so stinking cute, it just makes me love him a million times more than I already did. He's a bit of a weirdo and kept licking and was trying to suck on his hands and arms lol. We got lots of cute shots with his tongue sticking out. The tech said that it's possible he was just tasting the Orange Juice I drank before my appointment. He was having a hard time getting his thumb into his mouth, and had a little temper tantrum. It was so cute, he wrinkled his nose and squished up his face and gave me a big kick. She also said, it looks like he's gonna be a face scratcher. He constantly had his hands all over his face. He's a chubby one already! He's got my double chin, and big cheeks. She says it's quite possible.. he could end up being as big as his sister was. EEEK! We get to go back at the end of August :)

trying to get his thumb in his mouth

big smile!

look at those cheekies

licking his arm

and.. trying to suck on his arm.

Bye Bye Baby Hair :(

Kenna has been bugging me for months to get her hair cut again. She told me she wanted her hair just like her friends/daycare kids, Hannah and Daisy. They both have chin length hair, but I just couldn't bring myself to let her cut THAT much off. I finally made her an appointment with Brook, and off we went to the salon. Kenna will only let Brook cut her hair. She's my stylist ( the one who did my platinum blonde for all those years) and also the one who did our hair for the wedding. She's really attatched to her for some reason.

Before

please excuse the wet "sprinkler and slip and slide" hair lol

After!!!

a classic Kenna "wierd picture face"

Brook says that was the last of her baby hair, and the last of her baby curls :( She absolutely loves it though, and it is MUCH easier to take care of for me. Every morning asks me to curl it for her. I'm just wondering what kind of monster I've created!

Our trip to Ocean Shores

A few weeks ago we went camping at the beach. It was a nice break from home and work, and the normal day to day stuff. Being 6 months pregnant and camping wasn't THAT horrible! We had an aero bed to sleep on, but still... I have a feeling that will be our last camping trip for this summer. We orginally thought it would super cool to go the weekend of the sandcastle festival. They have a big sandcastle contest and all kind of activities. Once we got there and saw all the crowds and realized that Kenna had NO interest in the sandcastles.. we quickly found a much less crowded part of the beach and spent family time. All and all we had a really good time. By the time I got home, i was sooo sore ( I swear I walked 5 miles on Saturday) and my feet were so swollen and puffy, I got sunburned/windburned and was pretty much miserable. It was all worth it though! Kenna making her own Sandcastle

Ryan showing Kenna how to fly her new "Hannah Montana" kite

Flying it all by herself!




Go Karts!!!

Ryan showing Kenna how to make a sandcastle!

This was her telling him.. his sandcastle was not a good one lol!

She ran up and down the beach all day long and searched for Sand dollars :)

24 Weeks!

I'm a day early.. but who cares! I'm finally 6 months pregnant. I never thought this day would get here. Around a year ago this June I stopped taking my birth control. Ryan and I knew that as soon as we got married we wanted to TTC. So I figured.. if I stopped taking in in June, by July 19th we would be married! Even if I did just "happen" to get pregnant before hand, I could hold off on testing and still enjoy a glass or 2 of champagne at the wedding ( yes I'm a terrible mother like that! although with a CONFIRMED pregnancy, I don't think I could even allow myself to have a sip of beer or a glass of wine). As it turned out.. it wasn't an issue because it took us 7 long months of TTC before we got our positive! In fact I was so heartbroken every month that I had decided that if January wasn't our month. I wanted to hold off "trying" for a few months and take a weekend trip to Vegas. I wanted to plan something I could look forward to.. and not focus allllllll my attention on getting pregnant. It's amazing how obsessed you can get with getting pregnant. I actually looked at airfare dates and prices the day I got the Pos! It's funny how things work out.

These are pics from today.. yes I cut my head out of them. I wasn't lookin' too hot, it really hasn't been my top priority lately lol.

and as promised.. a 24 week picture from my pregnancy with Kenna. I looked sooo young lol

Week 23

I know, I know!! I missed taking a picture last week, but I'm back on track. This week has been a rough week and I'm really REALLY starting to feel the aches and pains of pregnancy. My belly doesn't look much bigger in the last 2 weeks but I can tell baby h. is growing a ton. I'm finding that I can no longer bend over, or lean forward without my rock hard belly getting in the way. Then when I really can't avoid it, I get a ton of irritated kicks to remind me that hello!! someone is in here! I also haven't been very good at "taking it easy" throughout this pregnancy. I don't like to ask for help, and I try to do everything myself. Well.. Monday I went to Costco, big Mistake! I lifted way too much.. with the in the cart, out of the cart.. into the car.. unload it all when I got home. I way over did it. By Monday night I started having a few contractions and freaked everyone out. So I've been banned from going to Costco.. at least by myself. They stopped all together after I drank 2 bottles of water and stayed off my feet. I'm hoping that was just my warning, that I'm not superwoman and I need to take better care of myself. I go into the doctor today for my ob check. I wonder what kind of fun things he'll have for me to do today!

Where do I even start??!?!

I've been getting asked by lots of people if the nursery was done. Unfortunately no, I haven't even started yet :( I'm going to start clearing out the room this week, so I thought I'd share some before pics. We're doing a garage sale in a couple weekends, so this has been the "holding" room. As well as, the place to store all the new baby stuff we've bought so far. It used to be our spare room, so ryan was storing all his "boy" stuff in it lol. Like his duck decoys and other random hunting stuff. I warn you.. it's a mess, but here we go!

* From the dooorway*

* Standing in front of the closet *

*standing in the middle*

The only thing that I have managed to get accomplished is the closet. I had Ryan install a closet organizer and I've been hanging clothes, sorting them into seperate sized bins, and stacking packs of diapers. I guess it's a start.

*left side*

*Right Side*

Hope you've enjoyed the pictures of my mess! I've got my work cut out for me....