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 :(