As promised...

I am all squealy about St Louis, though I have no idea where e stand at the moment. Stephen completed the stage 2 application process, and now we wait some indeterminate amount of time until we hear something. About interviews or whatever. This makes me crazy, since we have no idea how many steps there are to this process, or how many other candidates there are. All the email said was he was selected from dozens of applicants to continue to the second round of the process. We don't know how many people were selected or anything, which is very disconcerting to a spastic little control freak like me. Honestly, I am half expecting Stephen to club me over the head just to shut me up.

OTHER THINGS!

Christmas was ok. I'm not a big Christmas person, but any time I make it through without any funerals, wanting to kill my father, or sitting on the bathroom floor crying I call it a success. My brother was fairly subdued, and gave my a $75 giftcard to Old Navy, so even that went pretty well.
Sadly, this dress


was not available, but I did get 12 shirts and 2 sweaters by rocking the clearance racks. Lots of pretty things, man y of which were purple. : )

I also got a fantastic food processor so I have been chopping the bejeesus out of things. My girls Christmas dinner was Saturday, and I was making this gorgeous Ciabatta stuffing, and I minced 3 large onions, 6 carrots and 4 celery stalks in a few minutes including washing my machine. ♥ This makes my least favorites tasks quick and easy. I kind of want to make out with it.
Anyway, I spent the day with MAC and helped her clean her house since Amanda has decided that living there has no bearing on her responsibility now that she has a boyfriend. The tension level there is really increasing. Amanda has had some bad luck with guys (partly due to her own poor decision making) so she seems to think she gets infinite leeway to blow us off to climb into his ass. It's irritating to me, but it is making MAC ready to kill her. Esp Saturday when I was there cleaning Amanda's bathroom so she and Redneck Baptist could go his grandmother's birthday, and then she admitted that they didn't even go because they overslept. So after waking up at 11 am , they showed up at the house at 5:30 pm just in time for the party to start. I have to admit, I was pretty irritated by that since she didn't seem to think that she had any need to help MAC clean the mess which 90% of it was hers so I ended up doing it while I prepared her dinner to try and keep MAC from losing it.

LNZ and E are both having girls, so Layla Rose and Evelyn Bailey will be joining us this spring.
OBFF won't be able to find out for a month or so what she's having.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. I'm trying to decide whether to go out to MAC's for New Years. I feel like I need to spend as much time with everyone as possible since we may well be moving away, but I don't know if I want to be in the middle of the tension of MAC and Amanda, nor am I sure about leaving Kellan. I have some breast milk stored, but I get pretty stressed by leaving him. Stephen had me leave him at his parents on Christmas day while we had Japanese with MAC, and I was very displeased. I'm much fussier about being away from him than I was with Aidan. No clue why.

Kellan is still ridiculously cute. Every morning when he wakes up he gets super crazy excited to see me. He seems to feel each night that I may disappear and he is overwhelmed with joy that I am still there to provide him with boobies. I still melt every time though. He gets a huge grin and actually squeals with little baby joy. I will add some pictures in another post. Until then, how are you?

Oh... I am a sick. Can't breathe. Can't sleep. Don't want to. This is not the day to be home with my 2 children, it just isn't. I probably shouldn't even be near Kellan, but what else can I do? At least the breast feeding should be giving him antibodies. Blah. Even in my dreams I was sick. At least the last 2 night Stephen has managed no to assault me in his sleep. His subconscious desire to kill me seem s to be on hold until I am well, which is nice.

Waaaaaah!

Anyway, how is everyone? Any big plans for Christmas/Hanukkah/Yule? I am too tired to go back through my f-list right now. So if I missed anything good, let me know.

Got me some Glee icons, yo! : )

I am feeling a deep need for snow. I want to run away to a place with snow. I have no idea what has propelled my deep childhood wistfulness for an Indiana white Christmas into a fever pitched frenzy of desire to be up to my eye balls in snow. *shrugs*

Kellan is being super insanely cute tonight. He is smiling now and seems to find everything Stephen and I say deeply amusing. What's better is that he doesn't do the big huge grin like some kids do. He just looked politely amused about everything. It reminds me of me, LOL.


ETA: Politely amused







Also, Aidan is the best Christmas tree ever!

herminia I don't know if you read post secret or not, but this one made me think of you today.




I have so many things swirling through my brain today. I wish I could see just a short distance into the future. Are we going to move to TX? To Boston or Chicago? To somewhere else? Not at all? I feel so unsettled by the not knowing, and yet I'm almost dizzy with anticipation. Just the thought of all the something that might be waiting for me in someplace I haven't seen yet.

How is everyone?


PS_ My perfect baby is sleeping through the night now. I'm almost afraid to have a 3rd baby now. He is even better than Aidan was as a baby and I fear that the next one would be Rosemary's baby to make up for it.

I fail at life. MY girls went out to see New Moon tonight. I did not. IT was for ASH's birthday so it's kind of a big deal. I could not find any motivation to go. I was up and very productive today. I cooked. I cleaned. I remade the f-ing bed. I made brownies and did laundry and dishes. This isn't a situation where I was too tired because I have a new baby. I could have gone. I even had 10 oz of breatmilk frozen and ready to be bottle fed. Instead I watched Bones. I fail at friendship I guess, but all I want to do these days is cuddle my baby and watch Bones.

Am I the only Bones watcher here? Because the last 2 episodes have been freaking epic, and my 2 Bones buddies are DVD watchers so I am alone in my Squee. If anyone here doesn't watch it, shame on you and start. But from the beginning or you won't like it.

So I got behind on tv (what with having a baby and all) btu last weeks episode of Glee was way awesome, and OMG Best Bones EVER!!! IT featured my 3 favorite things: Booth/Brennan shipping moments, Mr. Nigel Murray, and Gordon-Gordon! : ) I was so squealy after it was over it was kind of ridiculous. So far, I have managed not to watch it again so Stephen won't mock me, but !!!!!

Also, new baby pictures. Kellan is the world's easiest baby, I swear. He eats, he plays he sleeps with only one 30 minute wake up at night. He's like a baby in a tv show that never bothers or disrupts anything. Plus he's sooooo cute!! :)




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I have no idea if this will work, but here are the hospital pictures of me and Kellan. Don't worry, no graphic shots!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=172465

Also, please someone explain to my son that 5am is not bed time. Thanks!

WE are home!! : ) I was wondering if I was ever going to get out of that stinking hospital, but here we are. More pictures are to come of course, but here's the link for the hospital website with today's pictures.
http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/BabyDetail.aspx?birthid=4252610f-4042-4d56-a4b3-9c66d3f0aa5e

Sorry my voice post was apparently a mess. He's here!!! Kellan Paul joined us at 4:03pm after only 10 minutes of pushing. He was 7lb 12oz being 3 weeks early. Dr said he eould have been 11 if he had made it to his due date. *phew*. He was 19 inches long and has a ton of hair. I will be adding pictures as soon as we can figure out what's up with the wifi on the laptop.

Yes I can! The induction begins!!!! I only had to wait 6 hours for the maternal fetal specialist to tell me what I already knew.

*sigh* The softest, fluffiest doctor in my practice is on call today. That is good in a way (and not just the way that I love her) but she is also not just going to induce me flat out. At this point if they lay me down my blood pressure is perfect, but if I am sitting up or moving around it spikes very high. They did 2 sets of labs to check for pre eclampsia, which were ok, but there was some glucose spilling. This means I get no baby at the moment. Instead I have to stay all day and overnight again to continue watching my labs and doing a 24 hr urine catch to check for protein output. If those results are not favorable then I am induced in the morning. If they are ok, then the maternal fetal specialists will come in to some sort of in depth testing to see if there are indications for delivery without an amnio to check for fetal lung maturity.

She did point out several times that if I would just go into labor on my own that this would all be much easier. I would love that both for the sake of getting on with it, and because I would really like for her to be the one who delivers me, but they won't let me even walk around because it raises my blood pressure. I am going to be a pregnant rebel and make tiny laps in my room today. This whole thing is beginning to annoy me. Plus, 8.6lb is more than Aidan weighed at birth, and no one else seems to find that nearly as alarming as I do.
So, labor vibes for me, please?

Still here. Nothing productive is happening with my contractions but they are still monitoring my BP and labs. Last nights ultrasound puts gigantor here at 8.66 lbs so I am going to be begging for delivery today. I'm hoping one of the softer, fluffier docs is on duty today so I have a better shot.

Good morning everyone!

First- Happy Birthday to be beautiful rainbowstrlght I heart you so, my fairy god lesbian!!

Second- My last blood pressure was 173/105 and my contractions are 12 minutes apart so we are going to the hospital to see what's up. The laptop is along for this ride, so there will be updates.

Today was from hell, but I will get to all that later. For now, fingers crossed that this is it and they keep me.

Pregnancy is ongoing. Not much to report I guess. I have another dr appointment tomorrow so we'll see if my sex/walking/everything possible routine has gotten me anywhere. : ) I'm just hoping for progress at this point. Mostly to end the heartburn. I'm so over the heartburn at this point.
I had a lovely day shopping with MAC. She needed to get furniture for the new house, and I just wanted to be out of the house for a bit.

Stephen fixed the wall shelf in Kellan's room, so we can get the last of the animals up and put somewhere besides the floor.

Yeah, my life is even boring to me right now. Entertain me?

I survived through the baby shower. Yay! We didn't get all that we needed (of course) because people will insist on buying cute but useless things like zebra socks, but we made some major progress. My real disappointment was that no one bought any of the pieces to the cloth diaper system I want to use, but I actually returned some of the dozen packs of white onesies (we never once used any wit Aidan so I don't see it happening this time) and scented bath stuff (we are all allergic, so odds are Kellan will be too) and got some of it from there. I asked my mom to wait on a gift to see what we got, so I am going to have her get the rest. www.gdiapers.com Yay for being a hippie!

Tomorrow is mine and Stephen's anniversary!! I can't believe it's been 7 years. I ♥ my husband. That seems obvious, but it's true.

How is everyone? Gigantor and I are ok. I'm planning a routine of walking/sex/any natural induction method not involving castor oil starting this week. Mostly because I am tired of lying awake with violent heartburn. Wish me luck!

So as of today's measurements we are looking at 6lb 12 oz. At 34 weeks. Good grief. On a good note, we got some really good face pictures today!!



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Yes technician, STILL a boy


Look it!!

I am naughty, and I apologize. I got several messages yesterday indicating I caused some level of concern the other day. And by concern, I mean you guys thought I had the baby and didn't tell you. I apologize for leaving it hanging, but no I didn't go to the hospital. I promise you all, you will know when that happens. One of the first things I did was make sure the hospital had Wi-fi so I could post during labor, which I will be doing.

I have a great number of braxton hicks contractions, some of which are painful, and most of which are my own fault. I am very bad about doing what I should be doing, which is very little. I prefer to do what I want, which includes shampooing the couch and the carpet and going to football games to sit on concrete bleachers. In other words, don't feel too sorry for me, it's my own fault.

Not much else to report. My perinatologist appointment is Monday. I am still not entirely sure why I am going, other than CYA by my regular doctor. I did get some cute pictures of him playing with his toes last week. *shrug* I don't know what to say. No one will give me a date for my induction yet, so I just drag myself across two towns to be told nothing. I am guessing around Nov 1 right now, barring any major complications or sending myself into labor by being an idiot. As long as I make it to next weekend I'm fine. My baby shower is next Saturday, and I really need to be there for that. Too bad I can't register for LJ, LOL. I miss my icons.

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( Pictures from the latest ultrasound )

Had my next ultrasound today. He is now above the 98th percentile, and my fluid level has increased to the actual line of polyhydramniosis. (I'm at 24 cm and 25 is too much) This means that I have to have a biophysical profile and have now been referred to the perinatologist. At no point did they give me a date for when they might be inducing me. The dr did offer me a c-section which I politely declined. All I really want to know is when gigantor the magnificent might be joining us. Is that so much to ask?? I understand they have to follow up on all the other stuff, and that's fine but when do we get him out? I am just trying to plan my month here. *sigh*

On a super positive note, E gave me a 1.5 hour prenatal massage tonight, so I feel much better after that. Things were messed up that I didn't even know about until she touched them, but I noticed how much improvement there was to my ability to walk even as I was leaving. Let's hear it for trained massage therapist friends!!!

How are you? herminia any kissing?

We got the crib all put together and the bedding on it and a few pictures on the wall. For some reason this gave me a mild panic attack. Suddenly the thought of something that slept in a crib was very overwhelming to me. I'm fine now, but I thought it was funny that I freaked out in the middle of that.

Not much else. I am very boring today.