Pregnancy Journal (32 weeks)

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about baby.

Today I’m 32 weeks.  I went to the doctor and everything seems great!  I’ve gained, ahem, 21 pounds.  And I’m measuring 30 inches which is 2 inches behind.  The little ladies heartbeat was 144, and she kept kicking the Doppler.  The dr. felt around and is pretty sure she’s head, which I agree with. 

My aches and pains haven’t been too bad.  I’ve had sore hips at times, but as long as I sleep with a pillow in between my legs, then I’m good.  I’ve had occasional heartburn, but the other pregnancies seemed worse.  I hate bending over, so I have to rely on the kids to pick stuff up!

The little lady is still moves a lot and is starting to get the hiccups more and more. 

I still crave doughnuts, but I’ve added chocolate chip cookies and pickles to my list.  I know. Pickles.  So cliché , right??

I’m almost done with my second big jar like this in 2 weeks time!  Speaking of, I think I might need one right now :) 

I went the other night and bought a few girly things!   I think I’m going to like this girl thing! 

There’s only one problem…

She’s not even born yet, and we’re having modesty issues!  Everything for the summer is sleeveless!  I know this shouldn’t surprise me, but it does! 

Does Shade have a baby line?

Anyone have any good places to shop or found solutions to this problem I’m not thinking of???

Pinewood Derby 2012

We’ve officially entered into the world of cub scouts!!

I think Josh is really enjoying it and is pretty gung-ho to work on anything we’ll let him!

Yesterday was the Pinewood Derby.

But the prep work began a couple weeks ago.  Darrin was pretty good to let Josh do everything except the sawing.  We bought a new saw, and Darrin proceeded to saw with the car clamped to the kitchen table.  He claimed it was only place to do it.  We now have a big slit in the table.  I’ve always hated that table anyway.

Josh sanded and sanded and then spray painted.

His car is letter “O.”  I think he was pretty happy with how it turned out.

Josh got awarded his Bobcat award!  Go Josh!

Then the races began! 

Josh won his first race and that was about it.  His wasn’t the very slowest, so Josh (and Darrin) felt good about that :)

He had lots of fun watching all the races anyway!

In the end he won the Cubmaster’s Choice Award!  He’s already planning next year's car and what he can do to make it faster! 

This past week…

Darrin replaced our garbage disposal after I killed it with popcorn kernels.  And just so you know: when the motor on a garbage disposal burns out, it stinks.  like really stinks.

Now I have a super nice, quiet garbage disposal.  It’s awesome!

We dyed Easter eggs.

Hunted for Easter eggs.

Ate a yummy Easter dinner with family.

Josh was the VIP at school for a day.  He got to eat lunch at a special table and picked 3 friends to eat with him.  Last Friday Andrew won the “paws”itive draw for his class. 

Way to go boys!

We have also played a lot at the park,

took J and A to the pediatrician for their yearly check up,

took A to get x-rays of his foot to figure out what’s wrong with it,

J and A had soccer practice in the rain (I decided I love spring soccer in Oregon),

Sunday Darrin was released from 2nd counselor in the bishopric and made the 1st counselor (yikes!),

and I completed all but the final exam of my BYU Independent Study class (yay!).

This weekend we will:

start and complete Josh’s pinewood derby car that is due on Wed.,

have a picnic at the park with friends,

attend J and A’s first soccer games of the season,

and enjoy the beautiful weather that’s in the forecast…until Monday that is, when it starts raining AGAIN!

Pregnancy Journal (Week 29)

Monday was my 28 week dr. appointment with the glucose test and all!  The stuff was grosser (is that a word?) to drink than I remember!  I had the sprite flavor, and kinda remember liking the orange flavor better.

But I’m happy to report that I passed!!!  Yay for donuts :)

The dr. did say that I have a low platelet count though, which I’m hoping turns out to be nothing.  Any one ever had that before??

Also, I made all the rest of my dr. appointments for the rest of this pregnancy!  That’s so weird!  Can’t believe we made it this far!!

Happy Easter Weekend :)

Spring Break 2012

This past week was our real spring break!  Between last week when we went to Mt. Hood and this week it seems like it’s been forever since our kids were in school. 

Sickness also has contributed to the eternal spring break.  Two weeks ago Luke got a fever and cough that lasted several days.  Next Josh got it, and then Andrew.  Darrin came down with it a week ago and missed 3 days of work last week.  Yesterday morning Luke woke up with another fever and seems to have same fever/cough thing all over again!  I have been lucky so far.  I always knew I had the strongest immune system in the family. lol.  Despite all these fevers, it never really interfered with Josh’s baptism or our family in town.  That is a tender mercy I’m grateful for!

Back to spring break.   Several weeks ago I decided to sign the kids (J and A) up for soccer camp to give them something to do during the break.  It was Tues-Fri 9:30-12:30.  Can I just say how much we all enjoyed it!?  They thoroughly enjoyed playing soccer and improving their skills (despite the rain), and I enjoyed having them busy doing something productive!  We will definitely do it again!