Happy Third Trimester/28 Weeks To Sweet Pea!!

15 Weeks / 24 Weeks / 28 Weeks (oops, I turned the wrong way)

P.S. I have Braxton Hicks that just won't quit!! Is that normal? :P

The First Day of School

My kids went back to school August 31st. They started a new school. It's a charter school here in Daybreak and so far it's really been great! They miss their old school and friends but there are so many great things about this school that make it worth it!!

• We love having it so close
• The kids can walk home after school if they need to (I usually pick them up before they've gotten very far tho)
• There are a bunch of kids from the neighborhood that go to the same school (especially some of Ben's friends from the ward)
• They have a great facility and lots of neat technology (like Smart Boards in every classroom....Ben's all over that!!)
• Their uniform rules offer a little more variety
• Oh and did I mention I don't have to drive clear across the valley to take them to school and pick them up!?!? I love that part....especially not having to take Bangerter Hwy everyday!!

The kids were very excited to go on their first day, as you can see in their faces. :) And they still love it 3 weeks later.

I first took a picture of the kids only but then as we were saying family prayer I looked at my family and thought it was funny how they all seemed to coordinate so I insisted on another pic. ;)

A Few Tidbits

• I had swelling in my legs and feet yesterday, is that normal?
• I had a charlie horse last night when I was sleeping, is that normal? :-/
• I had a dream that I went and had little Sweet Pea and then brought her home but I wasn't ready for her (no crib or bassinet or anywhere to lay her) so I laid her on my bed. But then I was so incredibly tired that I couldn't keep my eyes open to take care of her and I fell asleep. When I woke up I was frantically searching for her and finally found her lost in the mountains of pillows that I sleep with. She was under all of them, as well a small upturned box. :( I felt so bad that I'd lost her.
• I'm almost to my 3rd trimester!!! Hurray! :)
• My next OB appointment is Monday

24 Weeks!

I'm 24 weeks today so I figured it's time for another belly shot. :P Only I just remembered before bed, so it's a lovely end of the day, in my pajamas shot, courtesy of Ben (my son). :)

Also, according to the poll, it seems that "Gunnor" lost the contest...by a long shot....sorry Rob. :P

One more thing. The adoption agency let us know that we're not eligible to adopt since we're prego, and won't be until Dec. 2010. I'm honestly relieved to not have an infant right now. We would have taken him/her if we felt right about it and he/she had been offered to us, but deep down I'm glad to only have one baby to get used to at a time!!

DOCTOR...TODAY?!?! Ooops!

I had another baby doctor appointment last Friday, August 21st...only I forgot about it until Rob texted me (which I only noticed AT the TIME of the APPOINTMENT....ooops!) They let me go anyway. I was loading up the car to go look at change tables with my mom (and Julie's kids, whom she was babysitting) when I noticed the text and then the appointment reminder. The crazy/pregnant-brained thing about it is that I was DARN sure my appointment was for Wednesday, August 26th and that I'd even looked it up on my phone calendar recently to confirm it. (FYI: it wasn't, nor was there a reminder on my phone for that day....I think somebody is messing with my brain!) :)

My mom and Julie's kids (Dalton and Lindy) went with me to my appt so that we could just go to the Wood Connection afterward. It was fun to have my mom there to see little Sweet Pea on ultra-sound, (is it normal to do an ultra-sound at every four week appointment??? Sweet Pea is going to have a huge photo album of just her BEFORE birth!!) and Dalton was fun too because he was very curious about the whole thing.

Sweet Pea was VERY wiggly and entertained us all with her antics, including shooting completely off the screen at one point.

Also: She's still a girl. And: The new, un-official due date is Dec. 24th!!! :-/ (My mom piped up and said, "That was Misty's due date!!"....only my Dr. induced labor because he didn't want to be in the hospital on Christmas.....unfortunately, neither option sounds appealing to me. Oh well, I would have to have a little me!! Including the insane due-date!!)

Afterward we did end up going to wood connection and ordering a dresser that will work for a change table as well as a dresser for later...the only problem is I can't decide what color/stain!! This is my dilemma: Molly and Sweet Pea will be sharing a room and I want something that will look good in the room, not necessarily match anything specifically.

(Molly's furniture: Bed: Green, Dresser: White washed pine with pink/green/purple accents.










Sweet Pea's furniture: Walnut-ish color crib.)


I thought about having the dresser painted plain white and antiqued and glazed but the lady pointed out that since it'll be made out of pine the knots will bleed through after a year or so...if that matters. I'm not sure if it does. I also thought about doing it a beautiful walnut stain with glaze/antiquing...there was a dresser like this on the show room floor that I just loved! What would a little girl want long term???


The following are color options I'm considering. Input anyone?












P.S. This is our T.V. Amoire made of pine and painted cream colored....an example of the knots bleeding through.

A Few More Fun Pics of Our Precious Sweet Pea...

Name Dilemmas

Rob and I are having a difficult time deciding on a name for our little sweet pea. In an effort to get some ideas, my sister brought her list of our family genealogy over and we (Maria and I) scoured the names of our ancestors. Right off the bat we found a female ancestor named Gunnor and I jokingly suggested it to Rob because I thought he'd find it amusing/entertaining
...something. :) Well, more than that, he LOVES it. He speaks to her all the time and says things like, "How's my little Gunnor doing?" Rob also says that most of the women at work that he's polled have liked Gunnor as well. (I don't know if they're sincere or just trying not to hurt his feelings.) Therefore, I'm conducting a public opinion poll. Please feel free to give me any honest, unbiased opinion in the poll or comments. Thanks!! :)

At Last!! Molly's Baptism Post!!

I just barely finished a post about Molly's Baptism that I started back in may. You can see it by clicking HERE. Or go find it...published "May 18th" because that's the day I started it.

CELEBRATION!!!

Tuesday night my family went out to dinner to celebrate that the baby is half-way done!! (Theoretically) ;) She'll be here in 20 WEEKS!! Hooray!!

Rob also took a 20 week pic of me while we were out.

It Looks Pretty Obvious Now....

I had another Dr. appointment a few weeks ago and they did a pretty extensive ultra-sound exam and then gave me a DVD with most of the pics on it. I was excited that I had the pics in digital format so that I could blog them really easily.....well, as I've learned, almost nothing is simple! The pics were in video format and I had a pretty tough time extracting them to save still frames as picture/jpg format (being as computer-clueless as I am). :-/ Last night I finally petitioned Rob's help and he was able to find a way to get it to work. (BTW doing print screen of a paused video on REAL Player and another video software didn't work, but Media Player did...go figure. At least SOMETHING worked!!) So here is ONE frame from the video....one frame earned by blood, sweat and tears. :) But it's an important one. The Dr. and the nurse both checked her out that day and confirmed what the "OBGYN" said at Fetal Studios in the mall.... IT'S A GIRL!!!