Scrapbook Saturday

I had a busy day yesterday and never got around to posting my LO. Britt has a new colab out this week with Suzy Q Scraps called Tale As Old As Time (which for some reason I can't get to link up right now, but if you click on my credits below you can get to the link from there if you want to see the full kit). It's a Beauty & The Beast inspired kit that's just gorgeous! Here's what I did with it...

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Then this morning I was actually able to get another page done. This one is a mix of a lot of different Britt-ish Design kits, and I love how it turned out! It felt kind of weird to be scrapping Christmas pictures this time of year when everyone else seems to be scrapping spring pictures, but I've been wanting to get these done for while, so what the heck? lol I'm really happy with the way this turned out, and I'm glad to have this fun memory down on "paper".

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Matthew's working on building a tool bench out in the garage, and the kids have been playing out there all morning, it's been nice and quite in here! The sun is starting to peek out though, so I'm thinking I need to go get some new pictures of the kids. I wonder how crazy the neighbors will think I am if I lug a chair and my camera down to the open lot half way down the street to do a mini shoot? lol I'll let you know how it goes if I decide to do it. :)

I have a little wiggle worm!

Sunday night I felt a definite little kick, and today this baby is wiggling around like crazy. I love it!
Here's a picture I had Matthew take around 14 weeks.


I ended up keeping my appointment for yesterday. The doctor had said to cancel it if I was still feeling okay Monday, and I felt great all weekend, but woke up in pain on Monday morning. So, I went in and saw my usual doctor and he seemed a bit surprised that none of the other doctors I had seen or talked to were doing anything about it. He checked the baby out and agreed with them that the baby is not being affected by this. He thinks it may be something to do with my bladder, so he's sending me to a urologist, I'm just waiting for them to call (will call tomorrow afternoon if I haven't heard anything). I'm feeling much better today, and I'm very glad my doctor is being more proactive about all of this!

So, there's the update on that.

The kids are doing well... I'll brag for a minute. :)

R is awesome kid of the week this week at preschool, he got to bring in some toys and pictures, and he was very excited!
He's finally starting to show a little bit of interest in letters. I have no clue what's normal for an almost 4 year old, M was writing her name and knew all of her letters and numbers by 4, where R just isn't interested it in. His teachers assure me it's normal, partly because he's a boy too. :) He likes to play with the letters on the fridge and ask us how to spell things with them now (even though he doesn't know what most of the letters are), but he's not into writing at all like M was. I'm just glad he's asking about it, I figure it's a good start.

M is doing great in school. We had a parent-teacher conference a week ago and they really didn't have much to say except good things. The one thing she has an issue with is interrupting, so we're working on that. lol Both of her teachers love having her in class and one even said that she would have done just fine in 1st grade this year (if it wasn't for her age). I think she's right on track for the reading stuff, it's so much fun to watch her read a book and sound stuff out now that she couldn't read a few months ago! I think the math is way too easy for her though, she was doing 1st grade math books over the summer before she started kindergarten, and she's adding and subtracting double-digit numbers at home now, so the 3+3 stuff is a little easy. The hardest part of it is that she goes to fast and misses whether it's a + or - sign. lol

Sorry, I haven't gone through birthday pictures yet. I really haven't done much of anything that I was wanting to do. I'm hoping that I will keep feeling okay and finally be able to get back in the swing of things here now.

Back from the doctor

And everything looks fine!

He said that whatever was going on doesn't have anything to do with the pregnancy and isn't hurting it at all. He thinks I either passed a small kidney stone (small because I didn't feel like I was in labor), or I had an irritated balder. Whatever was going on seems to have stopped... no more blood and I'm actually not in pain for the first time in over a week! I even went to Costco after my appointment and I had no problem walking around for a bit (and buying a GIRL outfit! I have a friend who's having a girl in May, so if this one's not a girl I'll give it to her).
It took him a minute to find the hb which totally freaked me out, but once he did it was very strong (162), and we could here the little one moving around in there too.

He told me to keep my appointment for Tuesday for now and if everything is still okay to cancel it on Monday and reschedule for 4 weeks from today.

Oh, and he told me that the babe was measuring 13w4d at the ultrasound when going by the 7 week ultrasound I would have been 12w6d, so I'm thinking my original guess of being due on the 14th was closer to right. I know a couple days really doesn't matter, it's just good to hear the baby is growing well!

Scrapbook Thursday

Yep, it's a day early this week! Britt has an AWESOME colab out today with Mira Designs called Totally Buggin' (and it's 20% off for today only!). This kit is totally jam packed with fun stuff (and as you can see I crammed a lot of it on my LO).

Anyway, here is my page, it's from when we went to Bonfante (I mean GILROY... still doesn't sound right to me) Gardens in November. I'm not sure if I ever posted pictures from that, so if not, here's a bunch (click to enlarge).
I had to take that picture of Matthew walking with the boys because I have one just like that from a few years ago where he's walking with those boys' big sisters, I thought it was cute.


That's about it for now. I'm going to the doctor this afternoon, so maybe I'll have more of an update when I get back. The office did call the other day to say the kidney ultrasound looked fine, so it wasn't/isn't stones. I'm actually feeling pretty okay right now, but I'm afraid if I try to do anything I'll start hurting again, so I'm trying to take it easy still.

Sorry!

I know I said I'd be back with pictures and then fell of the face of the earth.

Last week was not the calm and mellow week I was really hoping it would be. After the skiing weekend and that whole week of M's birthday I was ready to have a "do nothing" (or very little) kind of week, but it turned into pretty much the opposite.

Monday was fine. I took M to school, went grocery shopping with R, and took M to her 6 year appointment (I didn't know they don't need to go every year anymore! They said they didn't need to see her again until she's 8! ...She's 43lbs and 44.5" -almost square says the nurse- 39th and 35th percentiles).
Tuesday morning I woke up in pain. I couldn't tell if I was having cramps or what, but it was not good. After I took the kids to school things got worse and I had some spotting. I called Matthew and had him come home and my doctors office got me an ultrasound for that afternoon (the same afternoon the kids were scheduled for dentist appointments). We took them with us to the ultrasound and then headed straight to the dentist's. Everything checked out okay with the baby (thank God!!), but there was no explanation for my pain.
Wednesday... I don't remember. lol I'm sure it was a mix of being in pain and stressed and scared all day...
Thursday morning I was still in pain and I started having a ton of braxton hicks contractions. I ended up going to urgent care that afternoon where they did nothing. Seriously, they tried to get my weight, the scale was broken, they tried to listen to the baby, the doppler was broken... They were going to send me home without doing anything at all, but I made them check to make sure the contractions weren't doing anything so I could feel like it wasn't a total waist of 3 hours!
Friday I went in for a kidney ultrasound to see if it was kidney stones (still don't know the results of that). My mom took the kids for the night, and I finally started feeling a little bit better Friday afternoon. I took it easy most of the weekend though, I can totally feel it if I try to do too much (such as church and walking around the grocery store in the same day).
This monring I woke up with some pain, but it hasn't been too bad today. I have an appointment on Thursday afternoon with my doctor, hopefully they'll be able to give me some answers!!

I had all these plans to relax and catch up on life last week, and it doesn't feel like any of that happened (in reality I guess I did do a lot of relaxing, but it wasn't quite what I had in mind). I didn't even get to play with Britt's new stuff from last week, I couldn't sit up for long enough to scrap a page.

So, I'm really hoping and praying that this week is a lot more uneventful!! I would like to get M's birthday pictures up, get my Valentines wreath off the front door (lol), and vaccum my house (not sure that one will happen). We'll see though... :)

I'll leave you with my 10 and 12 week belly pictures. I'll be 14 weeks on Wednesday, this pregnancy is flying by! I'm really excited for the next week, 14 weeks is when I first felt both M and R move. :)

10 weeks:

12 weeks:

So, I will try to get some pictures from M's birthday up soon, but no promises at this point!

Scrap Stuff

M's birthday was Friday and our week/weekend was just crazy, so I'm just now getting a chance to post my Friday LO. Britt put a new kit out Friday called Sunshine In My Soul that's just adorable!! She's been getting a lot of requests for a religious kit, and I think this is just perfect! Lots of great stuff for everyone! And, if you buy it before Thursday at midnight instead of the usual bonus alpha, she did a pack of coordinating glitter papers that are just awesome!
So, here's my LO with the kit... I just love the sunshine and clouds!!

I'm working on going through all the pictures from M's birthday (and a couple belly pictures), hopefully I'll get some posted soon!

Skiing

I had to get over the trauma of the trip before I could post the good parts. M got sick late at night in her car set, and the night was just horrible, but the rest of the trip was good, so enough about that...

Getting all ready in the parking lot...

Matthew wanted to try snowboarding...

He actually wasn't that bad, he did a lot better than a lot of people I've seen try it! (yes, I skied, don't tell my doctor. I was really cautious and only went down the mountain twice and I didn't fall)

Getting ready to ski!

Little miss cutie lost her ski on the rope tow. I thought she looked extra cute sitting there in the snow. :)

Waiting in line to go up again (Matthew switched for skis after lunch so he could help the kids, it was way too hard for me to help them!)

Papa and Matthew helping the kids down the bunny slope

Skiing "by herself"

She really was getting the hang of it. This was her 3rd year and I felt kind of bad because she probably would have gotten a lot better if we would have taken the time to teach her more. It's so hard going for just one day, there's not enough time to teach the kids and get some runs in ourselves.

R loved it too, although he has another year or two before he'll be able to get it. He actually wants to try "snow-boring" next year, so the boys will probably do that.

Overall it was a fun trip, and I'm already trying to figure out how I can ski next year with a 5 month old who will still be nursing. :)