Birthing Class

So tonight was the first night of our birthing class. Was quite a good size group of people there too. Nice to see a few familiar faces, but at the same time wondering why people were there if they have already given birth before. Maybe they forgot the pain and torture it was the last time?

We did learn a few things in class tonight. Child birth is definitely a miracle...so is staying awake for a class that doesn't end until 9pm! Our instructor was nice and a little odd too. She likes to fidget. And by that I mean she walked around either playing with her name badge or with a pelvic bone and a baby doll!

Bonus of the night...cookies and free magazines! Not sure if we will return next week for class. George says its up to me...we shall see...

The Lion's head...

Jake woke up this morning and was ready to play. He couldn't wait for his uncle George to get home from work. George was in the kitchen and Jake went to get him saying, "Uncle George you've got to come see this!!" He was so excited as he was watching a Dr. Seuss movie. It was funny. Unfortunately George couldn't play long as he was tired and time for him to go to bed. So Jake and I headed off to the park up the block.

It was the first time that either of us had been at the park and we had such a great time. Jake's favorite part was the lion head drinking fountain. He would take a drink...go play for a five minutes...then come back for another drink. He even said he wanted his daddy to make him a lion's head fountain! haha

It's great to see his imagination at work. He would pretend that we were on an airplane as a tunnel on the playground has windows like an airplane, then it would become a space ship. What a clever little guy.

Later on it was time for him to go home and time for Aunt Missy to take a much needed nap!

That evening I ate supper at my sister's house with her husband's brother and sister and their spouses and children. Was fun to see them. Then I was off to a 30th birthday party for some high school classmates: Brad Poppen, Kevin and Kyle Stuart, and Heath Holtapp. There were tons of people at the party and it was fun to talk to people that I haven't seen for quite some time, but I quickly got tired and headed for home.

Sad to say that I was home by 10 pm on a Saturday night! haha

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.