10 Week Survey

This is a little dated, but none the less here's how Week 10 went.
10/28-11/3

How far along? 10 weeks

Baby is the size of? A Kumquat, approx 1 inch long

Baby's heart rate? 171 bpm

Maternity clothes? None yet!

Stretch marks? No new ones

Sleep? About 8 hours at night, plus a nap : )

Movement? None yet

Symptoms? Morning sickness, evening sickness, all day sickness?

Food cravings? I want salty food! Pickles, salted ham, salted raw potatoes...

Anything make you queasy or sick? Brushing my teeth...eeek! And just getting out of bed.

Labor signs? None

Moment of the week? On Sunday the 28th, Perry took me to the ER. Turns out I have a subchorionic hemorrhage so the ER doc put me on bed rest for 3 days. The check up on Friday the 2nd showed baby and mommy are okay and just need some rest.

Miss anything? Being able to do things my self! Perry has been great waiting on me hand and foot though!

Looking forward to? Going back to work

How We Spread the News

Obviously having a baby is an exciting thing and the moment you find out, many people want to tell everyone! I told Perry flat out that if we find out we're pregnant soon, we're not telling any one right away. For some reason I just didn't want to. Maybe its because I just don't like people constantly asking how I'm doing every where I go. Needless to say, I found out I was pregnant 2 days after my missed period in early September. We were trying to have a baby so I knew I needed to take a test. I spilled the beans to three people the day I found out I was having a baby. So much for not telling anyone! And it's been killing me not being able to blog about it until now! 

It was super hard to keep a secret from our families, but we wanted to tell them in a special way, as opposed to just flat out saying "We're having a baby!" 

I dropped a few hints to my little sister Robin through text messages. Her birthday is mid-May so I first told her (in September, 8 months away) that I had the perfect birthday present for her. She knew we were trying so I figured she'd count out the 8 months and get it right away. She didn't. I later asked her if she wanted her present to be pink or blue. Again, I thought it was pretty obvious. She responded with "PINK! Haha you thought I'd pick blue!" Didn't get that hint either. A few days later I let her know that Perry picked out the color already and I wouldn't know what he picked until her birthday. The suspense was killing her. A couple weeks later she asked how the baby making was going, and I told her we gave up trying to make a baby. She was devastated...

For our anniversary this year, Perry's parents bought us a night stay at a resort with 18 holes of golf in the morning. After spending the day on the course, we went to Grandma's house to pick up the boys to go home. I took little JP to the potty and told him when he was done to go tell Grandma he is going to be a big brother. So he did just that. He marched up to Grandma and grumbled "I'm going to be a big brother." She looked down and responded "OH! You went potty! Good job!" I just giggled and told Perry we'd try again later. As I was buckling JP into his carseat I told him that when Grandma came over to say good-bye, to tell her you're going to be a big brother. And he did as soon as she opened his door. Clear as day this time. "Grandma! I'm going to be a big brother!" She looked at him and responded this time with, "Maybe some day but not today." And proceeded to say her good-byes as Perry and I stood on the other side of the car and giggled.

Meanwhile, my mom's birthday was in early October, so I decided to make her a birthday board to tell her to expect another grandbaby. The birthday board (which I will post later) was a hand painted board, by me, that said 'Family Birthdays' across it with the months listed across the bottom. I painted everyone's names and birth dates on their own disc and hung them below the month of their birthday. Hanging down from May was Perry, then Robin, then Dustin #3 (on the back it said 'coming in 2013'). I sent pictures of the board with that baby disc in view to my sisters as I was working on it. I sent out the completed picture to them, and only Robin caught it, because she was looking at her birthday. 

When my mom and dad passed through town, they stopped by to pick up her birthday present. She thought there was too many discs on it, so she immediately started looking for something that said 'Baby' on it. My dad noticed shortly after my mom got excited. I told her to not tell anyone because my two older sisters didn't know yet. They were already suspicious of my sickness but her 'just talk to Sadie' gave it away. JP stilled called them to tell them he was going to be a big brother though.

"These are for the baby!"

Since a few weeks had now passed since our last attempt to tell Grandma, we thought we should try again since all of my family knew. JP called her up on the phone and when she answered, he shouted out again, "Grandma I'm going to be a big brother." And again Grandma said "Maybe some day." So JP pipes up again and says, "But Grandma! There's a baby in mommy's belly." The phone was silent, and then "Perry....is that true?" "Yeah mom. We've been trying to tell you!" 

We next called Grandpa and JP told him the news, and he understood it right away. As did Uncle Cameron and Aunt Erin. I wasn't around when Perry called his sister, but because he hardly ever calls, she assumed I was pregnant because "He only calls when Sadie's pregnant." 

For the rest of our family and friends, we sent out our holiday cards (early I know!) with our "We're growing by two feet" picture on it. I figured if this was going to be my last baby, I wanted to enjoy it more than I was able to with my boys and spread the word in a fun way!

We're Growing by Two Feet!

Yep, that's right, we're expecting to welcome baby #3 into the world near the end of May 2013. Officially I'm due on May 26 but the baby is measuring to be closer to May 30th. But seriously, what's a couple extra days? Who knows though, little JP came 2 weeks early and I was overdue with Hunter and had to be induced. I'm hoping it's early.

I've been bugging my husband for quite a while, probably a year and a half, about having another baby. A little baby girl. Although I don't think that it has anything to do with what I'll be having, it has been said, I believe 5 generations now, on the paternal side of the family, the first two born are boys, and if there is a third, it is a girl. It gives me some hope, but I really just think its luck that it happened that way! We figured if we were going to have another baby, we should get to it because Hunter will be 4 1/2 by the time this one is born, and we don't want them too spaced out!

I'm currently 12 weeks along, and it has been anything but easy. My morning sickness started right around week 6 and has held strong since. Morning sickness? Who am I kidding? My morning-noon-night sickness is more like it! I'm lucky to be an Executive Housekeeper right now because I'm never but a few feet from a toilet at work. Thank goodness! It's saved me quite a few times! Along with being/feeling sick all time, I have had almost no energy. I'm in constant need of a nap. I toss and turn all night trying to get comfortable. Yay, the sleepless nights have began already....

Just like with the boys, we are keeping this one a surprise as well. The suspense is going to kill me! In this day and age, its not very common for people to keep the baby's sex a surprise until birth. I was watching videos earlier this morning with my boys, and we watched one where JP was just born and was getting cleaned up. You can hear me in the background ask, "What'd I have?" The nurses all laughed, but I recall having to ask with Hunter too! 

Sesame Street Live in Missoula

We some how lucked out and had Sesame Street come to Missoula. We had to go! As soon as I told the boys about the show, they were jacked! We, however, waited until today to get tickets...

 ..and scored AWESOME seats! Row 5 on the floor. We had 4 seats starting from the right outside isle, which initially I thought might kind of stink, but it turned out great!

 The boys each had their own bag of popcorn (mostly to keep them occupied before hand) which turned out to be way more than we needed.

 Hunter sat like this for quite a while...

 Although we were in row 5, we still managed to get all adults in front of us. I think row 4 had maybe 2 kids in it?! Kind of lame...But the boys didn't mind sitting on our laps so they could see better. They probably would have had to anyways.

 We had a big advantage sitting on the isle...we got to see Cookie Monster up close! And Oscar's mom (?) came past and gave JP a nice head rub and stole some popcorn! JP was jacked! He turned to me and said "Maybe Elmo will come by!" I responded with "Keep your fingers crossed!" And he did. He kept his fingers crossed for about 10 minutes.

At the end of the show, the boys were getting a little antsy so we let them out of the isle to dance. And for those who haven't seen him dance, Hunter has some serious dance moves! He rocked it! They absolutely LOVED the show!

JP was so excited to go and see Mr. Noodle, and I didn't have the heart to tell him that he probably wouldn't be there. By the end of the show, he didn't seem to mind. Everything was Elmo this and Elmo that. With Hunter too! And all the characters were there too...Elmo, Big Bird, Abby, Gonzo, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Rosita, Zoey, the purple guy, the red guy, a blue girl, Bert and Ernie....A ton of them! It was so fun to watch how excited the boys got and to watch them actually get into the show and interact! Such a fun family outing!

Halloween 2012

I took the easy route this year, though I hadn't planned on it. We bought costumes from Wal-Mart, a week ago. And since then they've gotten a lot of use! Although there wasn't too many options for boys, I was able get them similar but different costumes. This year they are Transformers.

Despite the picture, Hunter really was excited about Halloween. I woke them up fairly early in the morning, when it was still dark out, to get them ready to go to daycare. When I was waking them, I explained that today was Halloween and when it gets dark out, they would *finally* be able to go trick or treating. They took that as, "it's still dark out, let's go now!" Err..can't go trick or treating at 7:30a. Not so sure many people would be ready for that.... But I did let them wear their costumes to daycare, which they loved.

This is the boys with showing their famous "how strong are you" pose. Little JP is Bumblebee the Transformer and Hunter is Heatwave. When JP is asked what he is for Halloween, he says he's a butterfly. Close but not really : )

We had a total of 6 trick-or-treaters this year, which was expected. We left a little earlier than we normally do, so we probably missed a few that would have normally stopped. We stopped at a few houses on our lane before we went to Nanny & Papa's new house. After seeing Papa hand out candy, I took Perry home so he could go back to work. After taking a couple days off work to be home with me, he had a lot of catching up to do.

Aunt Kim was anxious to see the boys, so we headed up to her house next. Hunter and JP said her house was their favorite. Of course...she loaded them up! In fact they loved her house so much that we had to stop there twice! 

Fun at the Corn Maze

 Yesterday was the perfect day for us to enjoy our local corn maze! The weather couldn't have been better - a nice 63 degrees with the sun shining! We've been talking about going for a while now, but when the boys came down with colds last week, we opted to stay home. Nearly every trip to and from daycare, depending on the route we take, we drive right past the corn field. All the boys needed to see was the tractor sitting out front to get excited about going.

The boys were so eager when they saw all the hay bales. There was two "little kid" mazes there. JP did awesome! 

Hunter, however, wasn't too impressed. He stood in this spot for quite a while as he was his brother navigate though. Eventually he started back up, but then climbed over a few bales to get out.

 We let the boys play on the play around on the play equipment before we went over the behavior rules for the maze. I haven't been to any other maze before, but this maze has clues to help you through the maze. Perry was our clue reader and the boys acted like they knew all the answers to questions about the Egyptians. (We played level difficult!)

 The maze went back and forth between the hay bales and the corn. For the most part we let the boys take turns leading us around. One would go until we were lost and then the other would take over.

 At this point, we had been in the corn portion of the maze for quite a while. We came upon one of our clue spots and the boys found this piece of corn hanging down. It seemed like Hunter had just had an epiphany. "Mom! This is corn! We're in the middle of a corn field!" Ha! Took you a while bud! 

 My job, other than cameraman, was the "cattle herder." You know, make sure they keep going where they're supposed to.

Towards the end, the boys were anxious to get back out so they could go play again. JP cracked me up a few times. When he and I would hit a dead end he would exclaim, "Uh oh! I guess we'll try again tomorrow!"  And then would just stand there until I told him to turn around. : )

 Once we made it out of the maze (way faster than in years before!), we headed over to the little petting zoo.

 Although JP really wanted to go see the little pony, he refused to pet it.

 He did however love on this little lamb, until his attention was diverted to this lamb on the right taking a giant dump, practically in his face. He thought this was the COOLEST!

 Hunter also showed us he has a soft side too. He really enjoyed the petting zoo.

 We finished up taking pictures in the pumpkins. Here is Perry and little JP. 

When it became my turn, JP decided he wanted to be in the big one, so I crouched down for the little one as he stretched out onto his tippy toes just so he could see out! 

JP, Your Fish are Dead

A few mornings ago around 4am, Perry woke up when he heard something in the kitchen. He wandered out without his glasses on to check it out. It was Hunter. Surprise surprise. He was promptly sent back to bed and that was that. 

About half and hour later, Perry found him in the kitchen yet again, this time with his glasses on. Hunter immediately shouting "Look dad! I found worms!"

 Perry took a good look and couldn't decide what it was that Hunter was looking at, so again he was sent off to bed. At that point, Perry opted to stay up and clean up what ever it was that Hunter was looking at in the kitchen. It was then that he noticed the net in the fish bowl and put two and two together

 In the morning Hunter was SO excited to tell me about the worms he found last night. I explained to him that those worms were actually JP's fish. His response? "They were just floppin around on the floor!"

These were the fish that JP received on his 2nd birthday from Aunt Bobby. I'm not sure what made her want to get him fish, but both Perry and I weren't sure how long they'd last. She reassured us that they were the most durable fish the store had. And boy were they! There was plenty of days on end when we would forget to feed them. Or go on trips and forgot to tell the neighbor to feed them. Unfortunately they weren't durable enough to survive Hunter. JP took it like a trooper.