A date with my nephew Jake and my mom

Tonight my mom and my nephew Jake came to spend some time with me. We grilled supper and sat outside to eat, played ladder ball (when Jake would get a ball on the ladder he would say, "I must have been a good boy cause I got it on!"), hide and seek, and went up town to watch the fireworks. Jake went down the bouncey thing a few times and loved it. Then it was time to find our perfect spot to watch the fireworks.

While we waiting for the beginning of the show we quickly downed our melting ice cream cones from the Dariette (awesome place to get flavored ice cream...definitely my favorite!). Then it was show time. It was great to see and hear Jake's reactions to the fireworks. We called his mommy and he tried to decribe it to her..everything was, "BOOM! BOOM!" and then he would laugh and get so excited. One of the downsides of watching the fireworks was that it was a late night for us and Jake fell asleep on his nana's lap. So precious!

It was time for all of us to go home to bed.
We had such a great evening together. Will definitely need to do it again soon.

35 weeks

I can't believe that the time has just flown by so fast. I'm already 35 weeks pregnant. That means that in plus or minus 5 weeks, our little one will finally be joining us. Are we excited? You bet! George said the other night that he wishes she would hurry and get here as he can't wait to meet her. I agreed.

Along with the excitement also comes some nervousness on my part. What if I can't decipher what her cries mean? What if I forget something? What if I can't get into the motherhood routine? George reassures me that everything will be fine and that we are in this together...but still.

We can already tell that she likes to play tricks on her daddy. George will come over and put his hands on my belly and talk to her...hoping that she will move while he is touching the belly. Each time she doesn't move, but as soon as he takes his hands off...you guessed it...she starts moving! haha

Today didn't go as planned...it was even better!!!

So I needed to use some personal hours today before the end of the month. I took the afternoon off and came home. We had a lady from Public Health come to look at the house for lead paint today. Unfortunately, she did find some. But for the most part we won't have to worry about it. Just need to repaint over some of the areas. Sometimes I think that moving into this house was more of a hassle than we ever bargained for! I asked the landlord if there was lead in the house. His response, " I think there used to be but it was stripped. I will ask my mom." That was a few days ago and I have yet to hear back from him. Go figure!!!

I took a wonderful nap this afternoon. Lately I find myself wanting to get more and more sleep. I can sleep all night and wake up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. I don't know if this is my body's way of trying to store the sleep for in the months to come when I will be lacking the rest because of the baby.

My sister stopped over later and brought me an AWESOME gift from my sister's family, my brother's family and my parents...they got us a travel system! A few nights before I had a bad dream that the baby came early and I didn't have a travel system yet and I was driving around illegally with the baby. WHAT a relief to know that my bad dream will never come true!!!

I couldn't wait to get the travel system put together and to show George when he gets home from work tomorrow.


Penny and Jake had come to town to participate in Relay for Life. She was walking in honor of her neighbor and friend, Jodi Lawman. So I decided to tag along and walk a few laps myself. It was a wonderful evening for the event. Such a nice breeze outside and a great turnout too. I walked a mile two for Jodi and two for another co-worker who had a cancerous lump removed from her breast today.

I ended my evening with a green apple ice cream cone from The Diariette. I LOVE that place!!!

What a waste of time!

Just needed to have a little doctor rant for a moment. I was supposed to have a doctor's visit, with my doctor on Tuesday. However, ten minutes before I was to leave my office to go, I got a call saying that the doctor had an emergency and she is out of the office for the rest of the day. I was quite disappointed as I had been looking forward to seeing my doctor. She had been out of the office for at least a month +

So I was rescheduled to come in this morning at 11:30 am. I get to the office and the doctor just left to go deliver a baby. Just my luck! Can't blame the patient, just wish the office would have called me. So back to work I went. Thank goodness that I work less than five minutes away.

They rescheduled for me to come back this afternoon at 2 pm. This time I had George in tow. When we arrived they informed that the doctor had just left again for labor and delivery. So what do we do...we sit and wait. Keep in mind that I haven't had any lunch yet so George being the caring guy that he is decided to go downstairs to the cafeteria to look for something for me. He came back with a cup of fruit. What a man!!!

And then we found out the next bad news....the doctor was now in surgery with a patient. Poor lady (meaning both the doctor and the patient). So we continue to sit and wait. Finally my nurse came out to see if I wouldn't mind seeing another doctor. Sure that's fine with me. I will see anyone at this point. So I was going to be seeing Dr. Turek. He is the only doctor that I hadn't seen from the practice yet at this point.

We finally got to see Dr. Turek at 3:30 pm and he was done with us by 3:33 pm!! And he wasn't able to answer any of my questions. So disappointed and it was all a waste of my time!! Now I won't get to see my doctor until July 8th. Hopefully she can at least answer my questions.

Work Baby Shower

It's hard to believe that I am 32 weeks pregnant!!! Time has just flown by so fast. Three co-workers decided to host a baby shower for us.

That is the awesome diaper cake that they made. So awesome! And of course you can't forget the Larita's cookies...these are to die for! These are the awesome co-workers who put on the baby shower. Tera Peterson, Darci Bangert, and Kim Jackson. Thank you ladies so much. I had so much fun talking with all of the guests, playing games, and opening presents. We were truely blessed by our friends and co-workers. Thank you all so much!
My mom and my sister both were able to come to the shower as my specials guests.

When George got home that evening I had everything sitting in the dining room. What was his reaction??? Where are we going to put all of this? haha He had forgotten that we do have a dresser in the baby's room.

What a fun day I had! Lots of great memories too.

A busy weekend

So Saturday George woke me up bright and early...6 am to start working around the house for the day. I was ready to head back to sleep as I had been up several times throughout the night checking on our patient (my mom). Our first project of the day was putting together the baby crib. Surprisingly it went really quick! I thought it would be much harder than what it was. I had started to put it together last Sunday, but stopped when I noticed that one of the pieces had a big crack down the side. The company is sending us a replacement piece ASAP.

I was in checking on mom and noticed that George was outside mowing the yard! I couldn't believe my eyes. Neither of us had used a push mower before (this was his 2nd time ever mowing a yard period). He had asked our neighbor, Dick, to show him how to use it. Of course I had to capture the moment. :)
Later in the day George painted the baby's room. What an act of love. Poor guy had been so busy and was just plan tuckered out.

I thought it was pretty cute to see the paint on his feet.

Here is our little girl's bed in her room. We are still waiting for the back replacement piece to come from the company.

This is a dresser that George had originally made for us while we lived in Virginia. It was a cream color before but together we repainted it white for the baby's room. The picture frames were a hand made gift from my friend Nikki Jones to match the room. We are so excited that things are coming together so well.

Trip to Des Moines

So today I took mom to Des Moines for well...lets say for a biopsy. She was such a trooper through everything. Perhaps it was because they gave her some really good drugs! haha

After her biopsy we made a quick trip to Babies R Us and I bought our diaper bag! I was really excited so now I can start filling it up with things for our little girl. On the way home mom got a little sick (thank goodness they sent us home with a barf bag!). I was getting really tired and exhausted and got pulled over right outside of Fort Dodge. The trooper said he clocked me at 65 mph. I think he was day dreaming as he was driving in front of me and there was a stop light and construction so there was NO way I was doing 65 mph but perhaps 59 mph. UGH. Anyways after much tears and a ticket we were on our way home. Mom would spend the night with us so that I could take care of her.

When I got home I was helping her out of the car and left her barf bag on the ground as I planned to take her in the house then come back for it. When I did...it was gone!!! WHAT?!? Yes, someone stole a bag of barf! Oh dear! Mom said she thought she saw a neighbor walking with it. GROSS! Oh well. It really made for an interesting day.

By the end of the day I was exhausted. I could feel it throughout my whole body...especially my swollen ankles! EEKS!!! Needless to say my evening was spent with my feet up.