Ultrasound :)

We went to Boise today to get a 3D/4D ultrasound of Sydney. It was such a great experience, and definitely worth the money paid. Thank God we saved for it. HA! We really enjoyed it though, it was a very relaxed environment and we were the only clients in at the time, so it was very quiet. Austin did well, he just played with the toys they had in there. He perked up to hear Sissy's heartbeat, and looked again at her once more, but that was it! :) Here are the pictures!


2D image of her being a girl!!!!! I was a little worried for some reason that I was going to end up having a boy instead of a girl... so it was a GREAT relief :)

She was yawning in this picture, and those are her little fingers :)

4D image of her bing a GIRL!! You can see the arrow pointing to where you need to be looking.

Her foot (left hand top of the picture)

This is my favorite one. You can see tat she's got Bry's nose, and my lips. YAY! Finally one of our kids as a trait of MINE! :)

Front view, she's all nice and squished up!

She's beautiful!

A little squishy! She wouldn't quit moving! She was even kicking the ultrasound tech...HA!

A little squishy again! It's so amazing how they can see all of this by just doing an ultrasound on my belly... that just blows me away!

She was wiggling around right here, her hand is up by her chin.

Anyhow, there they are! We are very proud of her!! The ultrasound techs both even commented on how beautiful she was during the ultrasound. I wish I could upload the DVD, but we can't figure out a way to get it to save to our computer and be uploaded. Oh well! It was an amazing experience, and I highly recommend it!! We went to Fetal Foto's in Boise!

xoxoxo

k.

Shh.... it's quiet!

Both my boys are napping. It's peaceful. Except for the cat rolling around on me trying to get me to pet him.





Not right now Thumper. This is mommy time.





Today as been a good day. I got up and showered and ready before Austin woke up... that always makes for a great start to the day.


A friend came over this morning, Claire, with her daughter Dailey. Claire is as sweet as they come, and her daughter is incredibly adorable. I asked Austin if he was ready for a sissy like Dailey and he said no. Uh oh. However, he [kind of] played with her and even shared a train with her, so that's a good sign! :)





This is what Austin was doing after our company left. He pushed the ottoman up so it was touching the entertainment center, and proceeded to watch Dora the Explorer. He thought this was completely normal. Then he decided it would be hilarious if he chewed on his finger for awhile until it got good and slobbery, and stood up and wiped it all over the TV screen. Wow. I don't know about this kid....

Austin has my cumberbun from work when I worked the casino night. He puts it up over his mouth like this and says, "I'm a doctor Mama!" Then leaned over my toes saying "Hmm... Let me see...." He has got such an imagination these days! I love it... just hearing the things that he comes up with now cracks us up. We never know what is going to come out of his mouth.

His new favorite thing is sitting on the counters. Of course, he's only allowed to do it when mommy and/or daddy are in the kitchen with him, but the other day I did find that he climbed up there all on his own.... bad Austin! :)

He's also incredibly addicted to Cinnamon Toast Crunch these days. Every morning he asks for a bowl.

Austin's favorite cartoons (which he has many...) are: Thomas the Tank Engine, Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets, Little Einstiens, Olivia, Max and Ruby, and The Penguins of Madagascar.

Mommy's least favorite at the moment is Thomas the Train. Which is why mommy has been telling him that it's broken for the last week. I'm so bad. But I'm also soooo sick of watching the dang thing ALLLLLL DAAAAAY LOOOONG! So for now, until further notice, it's broken. :)

Well, I'll wrap this up, Sydney has decided it's a great time to start kicking my bladder, so the bathroom is calling. TOMORROW we will be headed to Boise for our 3D/4D ultrasound of the little bug... I cannot wait. It's at 2pm, so look for pictures tomorrow evening!! YESSSSS!!!!!

xoxoxo

k.

A few pictures

I'm a little too tired/exhausted today to write anything special, so here's a few pictures to look at!

Me at 28 weeks..... and feeling like it too!!! Notice how my shirt doesn't cover my belly, so I have to wear a tank top under it? Haha!! Gotta love not being able to go buy maternity clothes!!! :)

Austin and his buddy Noah eating olives. They had fun :)

Austin cocking an attitude with me this morning for taking his picture.

The furniture came in. We really like it. However, the delivery guy told us this particular set is junk, and we will be fed up within 6 months. GREAT! Guess we'll see. For now, we love it.

Another view of the living room. We've moved things around, and we like it a lot better.

Enjoy!

xoxoxo

k.

Grandma Update!

Just wanted to let you who are curious know that my Grandma is doing great. They admitted her to the hospital and she was there for observation/testing overnight. Her EKG showed nothing too abnormal, besides her heart racing now and again. A racing heart of course, isn't good, but hers was a steady racing heart. Her beats wouldn't be irradic, like 150, 180, 170, 180, ect. They stayed the same rate, however high it was, but it was consistant. So that's great news. They put her on a medicine to regulate her beats, and help with the racing. She went home the next day, and is doing great.

Sounds like she is going to contact a cardiologist to be seen by him. The on-call cardiologist never did come see her while she was in the hospital, which given her complaints, and her age, should have happened. Anyways, I'm glad she's following up with a cardiologist.

That's all for now!

xoxoxo
k.

Monday Monday!

This is a picture of Austin last night. He found my "snuffer" for my candles. There's black all in the inside of it, and he had it around his mouth. He was pretty proud... haha! (I know his face is incredibly messy, it was right after dinner :)

This is going to be an incredibly exciting week for us. Not that there is a TON of things happening, but just the few that are, are very exciting to us!

First off, was this morning. We had a baby check up at 10:15am. We went in and I got weighed,(oh joy....however... I only gained 3 pounds in the 6 weeks, so that's GREAT!) measured, (I am just over 27 weeks pregnant, but am measuring at 28 weeks still) and we got to hear Sydney's heartbeat. It was good and strong. The doctor was incredibly impressed with how strong her heart beat was. She said "Now that's a happy baby!!" So that made me feel like I'm doing SOMETHING right! :) Austin was pretty excited to hear the heartbeat... afterwards, he even started making the same sound of what the heartbeat sounds like. Once again though, I forgot to ask how fast it was.... I'm so bad about that! If I would guess, I'd say in the high 150's. It was faster than when I was in the doctor for being sick, which she was 140's to 150's.

I will be a repeat C-Section. I opted for this because of the risk of my placenta rupturing during natural childbirth after having a c-section. There's too much risk for both baby and I, and we just don't feel comfortable with that. What kind of joy is having a child without a mommy? Or vise-verse. So we're okay with what we've decided!

The report on the Holter Monitor (for my heart) that I had to wear a month or so ago came back normal. I had a few palpitations while wearing it, but it registered as normal I guess on the monitor. So I guess I'm just chalking it up to being pregnant and having so much extra blood volume in my body right now!

NEXT!!!

Not sure how many of you know (parental wise) but we decided to return our furniture. We just weren't happy with it. For how much we paid, it's really not very good stuff. Pretty? Yes! Very! But we haven't even had it for 3 months, and there's already bolts falling out of it left and right. We don't want to pay that much for something just to have it fall apart in a year. No thank you! So we were told when we bought it that we had 90 days to return it (come to find out, the salesman that told us this, was WRONG, but they still honored it... thankfully!) so we decided to do that. We went to the store and picked out new furniture about a month ago, and it will be here TOMORROW!!! They will be picking up the old, and bringing in the new... we can't wait.

Saturday.............

Is going to be VERY exciting! We have our 3-D ultrasound scheduled for Sydney. A 3-D ultrasound is soooooo neat. Instead of just seeing the baby in skeletal form, we will actually get to see what our little princess is looking like. We will actually get to see the HUMAN that it inside of me. How crazy is that? We are really bouncing off the walls waiting for this. Insurance doesn't cover it, but they give a GREAT military discount, so it is going to be MORE than worth it! We CANT WAIT! We will be getting a CD with all of the images on it, so we will be able to load them on the computer, so this weekend or early next week, make sure to check back for pictures of our baby!!!!

TENTATIVE:

As far as Bryant's career is concerned... there are a lot of things happening, or possibly will be happening in the next few months.

*Bryant wants to go into OTC. He's in the bachelors program through Ashford University, and as been taking classes towards is CCAF. Next will come his Bachelors classes. If he continues at the rate he is going, he will be finished with his bachelors in 2 years after completion of his CCAF. (Two more classes.) Then he will go to OTS (Officer Training School) for a couple months, and afterwards he will be an officer. He's pretty excited about it.

*There is a job opening in Tacoma, Washington at McChord AFB. It's a classified mail courier job. He would be getting his Top Secret Clearance for it if he is selected, so he's pretty excited about that. He's wanted it for a long time, and this job requires it. It obviously isn't in his line of work, but at this point, he's not concerned about it. With going to OTS, there's a lot of different possibilities that can happen with that, so he isn't really concerned about staying in his specified career field. AND it puts us insanely close to all our family!!! We will be 2 1/2 hours from 2 sets of our parents, and 4 hours from the other set!!! (As opposed to 8 hours, and 10 hours respectively) So we are excited about this possibility as well. Bryants application is due by April 19th, however, he's working on getting it completed today so he can have it turned in early. He said it will probably take a couple months to find out the results on that, so we will let everyone know as soon as we know.

For now, I believe that's all my news! Austin is doing well on potty training. I am getting up with him once or twice per night to take him potty, or to at least check to see if he needs to potty. He's doing wonderfully. Bryant and I were just talking yesterday about how nice it is not to have to buy diapers and wipes, and not to have to CHANGE ANY DIAPERS!! Our goal was that we'd get a little break between Austin's diapers and Sydney's diapers, and we're happy that we met that goal!

xoxoxoxo

k.