Baby Shower

Here are a few of the baby shower pictures for those of you who could not attend, or if you are male and were at the Hoag's shop during this time. Enjoy!

Only the most awesome baby showers have balloons in a vice (This was at the Hoag's shop, where we had a BBQ after the "official" party)






We are blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives.




The item hanging on the wall is part of the bedding. We are doing Baby T's room in a Ladybug theme.



Jessie and Andrea did a great job getting everything together...especially with little ones of their own at home.

FALL DECORATIONS!!

I love me some fall! Also I love fall decorations.

Our entertainment stand isn't very pretty so I like to spruce it up a bit.



The only spider I am okay with is the one eyed spider I made in elementary school with pipe cleaners and gogglie eyes...somehow he now only has 1 eye. Whoops.



Since the former office items are in the kitchen and living room you will have to wait until the nursery is completed to see the rest but trust me...before the big remodel started it looked nice.

Baby Room Part 1

So we have begun our first big house project together - Remodel Baby T's room. It has mostly been one of Cody's projects because I am not much help these days and there are some things I'm not good at or at least not up to his standards and that is okay because we both want it done right.

It began like this, with my piles of "stuff" everywhere.








Then there was the demolition, he is ripping the framing from the closet.



Yes, he is putting the trash through the window....better than tracking it through my nice clean house.



So manly when he's ripping out sheetrock



Thanks for mudding the sheetrock Drew!!



There are some things my husband is better at supervising than doing.




Part 2 is soon to come.

Spoke too soon

"Oh well, if the most horrible thing I go through until "Labor Day" is leg cramps I can totally deal! " - quote from last post.

I spoke too soon...yesterday I went to the hospital. (SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE IS FINE)

Here is the abridged version. Woke up at 3:30am to Baby T kicking like crazy and since I was all warm and snuggled against my husband she woke him up too and then neither of us could go back to bed, so I dozed/stared at the ceiling for the next 2 hours.

5:30am got up and showered, got around for the day, ate breakfast. Felt great - totally pumped for the day, even got to talk to Jana and Krista AND got to see their mom on the news.

9:00ish (end of 1st hour) not feeling so good, sort of light headed, ate a strawberry nutri-grain type bar.

9:30 (middle of second hour) Feeling worse, getting clammy and shaky. Eat some Club crackers (also muli-grain..gotta get that fiber)

10:00ish (Beginning of third hour) Feeling really crappy now and sweating. Feet are sliding around in my shoes and I am SO HOT! Eat some hummus with the crackers and get a carton of milk from the cafeteria. Cooks ask me if I feel okay - tell them I'm just tired.

11:00 Go to office to get a requisition to get groceries for class. Superintendent asks if I am okay because I am shaky and sweaty. Tells me to call my doctor. I call dr office, they ask a bunch of questions and tell me to go to hospital.

11:45 Get to hospital, can't find Baby T's heart beat at first (longest 2 minutes of my life), put on an extra monitor so heart beat will be recorded on the machine if she moves to the other side. Take blood and do a non-stress test. Baby T's heart beat goes up to 170 (should be around 130-150) for a few minutes and nurse looks really worried because Baby T begins to move very rapidly like she is trying to beat her way out. She is kicking the monitors strapped to my belly so hard the monitor is making a whapping and smacking noise. As her heart beat goes down she slows but is still kicking very hard.

NOTE: the monitors look like very large stethoscope ends and if you thump them it sounds just like tapping on the flat end of a stethoscope real hard.

12:30ish My blood pressure is gradually going down also, was way high when I got there but I think it was partially high and partially just me freaking out. Dr says blood work is in and my sugars are low. Still strapped to the monitors, still kicking like she's a UFC fighter.

2:30 I can go home...under Dr orders I am not to return to work or go to PT conferences tonight but if I feel up to it I can go to work tomorrow.

So...what do I do about this. Eat every few hours and make sure my hands and feet are not swelling, especially if I feel like this again.

Angry legs

My legs are angry with me...too much standing *cramp*, too much sitting *cramp*, too much sleep all curled up warm and cozy next to my husband with out Baby T kicking hard enough to wake me up *Charlie Horse cramp*

Bananas, water, Tylenol, plenty of iron, extra vitamin, alternating walking and sitting in 15-30 minute rotations during the day. Nothing helps, suggestions??

Oh well, if the most horrible thing I go through until "Labor Day" is leg cramps I can totally deal!

At least the toes at the ends of my angry legs look really great. (Thanks to my awesome hubby...he did a fabulous job!)

Pump it up!

This is my "milking machine" as Grandpa Cope so lovingly puts it. The best part...it's from him! He's also pleased that I'm already "leaking"...not that we have had a sit down conversation about this or anything, but I talked to Mom about it and she told the Aunts and well, now the whole family knows, so why not THE INTERNETS too?!?!

"Why is he pleased," you may ask? Because Grandpa Cope always likes to compare things to farming and what is better on a farm than a good ole momma cow with plenty of milk? I personally think there are lots of things better, but it is nice to know that I should be able to feed Baby T right from the beginning.

2 of 7

We have completed 7 weeks of school. I have been present all five days of the week for only 2 of them and will miss one day from the next two weeks also. I think my doctor was right - too busy.

This week was Homecoming and Spirit Week. Wednesday was "Teacher/Student Swap Day" and several of the girls dressed up as me, which would be flattering except that they only wanted to because I am pregnant and they thought it would be fun. (insert look of crazed emotion and a disheartened gasp!) Of course I missed Wednesday due to a state committee meeting.

My goal from this moment on is to tell little good and MUCHO negative about my pregnancy in an effort to deter those students who may find pregnancy cute and seemingly fun....I suppose it's time to tell them about peeing my pants, the walking farts and the fourish hours of sleep I get because Baby T likes to party from 2-5am.

So I will share with you all of the fun, enjoyable parts of babyness. Pictures to come!