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1) Flip baby flip! Getting nervous that she will stay breech. :( I am pretty sure she is not head down yet but maybe I'm wrong. Next appt on the 24th so we will know then. Prayers please that she settles into head down position soon because I am terrified of a c-section.

2) This was a big mail week at our house haha! Giselle's cloth diaper pail and liners arrived, Austins new dresser was delivered, Giselle's wall art from Etsy came in the mail as well as 2 new (to her) diapers! Poor Mason didn't get anything new with all this mail action.

3) Speaking of Mason....he has been peeing on the potty at night before we put on his night time diaper! Hoping to try all day potty training on my stretch of days off at the end of the month. He seems interested and will ask to sit on the potty during the day but he's only been consistent at the end of the evening lol!

4) Austin has been telling me he wants to "hold his sister" a lot lately. Such a sweetie! :)

5) Starting to feel more pain in my hip again like a couple weeks ago. Then today the lovely pressure down low started. She better hang tight for several more weeks! Part of me wants to deliver the week of Thanksgiving since I'm already off 4 days at the beginning of that week and part of me wants to be able to enjoy all the great food without being sleep deprived, recovering from all the pain, constant newborn nursing, etc. That makes me happy I don't get to pick her due date because I'm indecisive haha.

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1) OB appt this morning went well. :) Measuring on time, heart beat was great, weight was decent, and...she's breech. She has time to flip but the OB said trying the exercises that could coax her into flipping wouldn't be a bad idea. I figured she was breech based on where I feel her sharp knees and feet! At the appointment her head was just under my ribs on the right side. Glad I had her feel for position...so crazy how the doc can just lay hands on your belly when you are flat on your back and tell you where baby is!

2) Had a fairly productive day especially since I couldn't do much all week because of work ha! Besides catching up on some laundry, a target trip and some great play time with the boys we/I also ordered the wall hanging I've had my eye on for Giselle's room off of Etsy and then also ordered her diaper pail and cloth liners from Target (not carried in the store).

3) Boys have been crazy obsessed with their train tracks and puzzles this week. :) Always fun to see what they pick to play with. We've also been reading Halloween books they recently got from GoGo & Poppy!

4) Austin's new dresser should be here early this week...was supposed to arrive to the store last week but it was delayed of course. We decided to get him a "big boy" dresser and give his to Giselle since it matches her crib.

5) About time to start planning Christmas lists/shopping...love the holidays! Might actually be kind of nice to avoid crazy parking lots and long lines since we want to have all the presents bought early this year.

What a busy weekend!

~Passed my glucose tolerance test (yay!) & got the ugly Rhogam shot.

~Austin freaked during the rehearsal Friday night (bummer) and then we attempted to sit through a  long dinner. He got some very cool gifts for being a ring bearer from Aunt Kerry & Uncle Chase. :)

~He refused to walk down the aisle on Saturday...but he didn't cry or scream so no one knew thankfully.

~Boys had a great time at my parents while Andy & I went to the reception. :)

~Got to meet my bro and Cassie half way (in Wabash) for dinner tonight! Been a long time since we had saw them and the visit went way to fast (hard to conversate and keep 2 little boys behaving with no husband to help out). :)

~Not really ready for the new schedule that's coming at work for October and November...pretty sure the 4 day stretches that I have will be putting me in early labor by the time November is half done. Hopefully only 8-9 weeks of work left until maternity leave!

Had my "28 week" labs today and probably failed my glucose tolerance test. Lady drawing my blood asked me what I had for breakfast so I told her wheat toast with peanut butter thinking that I ate something good. She responds with "peanut butter has a lot of sugar"... fab. Hopefully the results will be back tomorrow. They also forgot to give me my Rhogam shot so I have to call them tomorrow anyway. Actual appointment went ok...I am measuring a week behind. If I still measure behind at the next appointment in 2 weeks then she will likely do an ultrasound for growth she said.

In the middle of all this I was also dealing with work drama so needless to say my morning pretty much sucked. Cried (I'm the crazy person that gets so irritated that I start crying ha!)...all the way home (appt was at the downtown office) and pulled myself together at the garage door since the boys were home and I don't need to be cranky/sad on my days off! It's amazing how hard it is for me to just let go and breathe sometimes.....

Another busy weekend ahead of us with Kerry's wedding. Picked up Austin's ring bearer tux today and the shirt and coat are too big so the lady has to overnight a smaller size to the store and should be available late tomorrow morning. Lets hope the smaller size works! She didn't have what he needed to try on the day of the fitting so they just measured him and ordered from that. Now to pray that he walks down the aisle on Saturday! :)

So overdue for an update yet again. Just been crazy busy... this month is half over! With raising 2 little boys, being pregnant, working, housework, never ending laundry, errand running, baby shower planning for the bestie and attempting to do fun stuff as a family....doesn't leave time for much else haha!

The rest of this month is going to be just as busy or actually busier than the first half. Big childrens resale that I love to go to is Friday, Andy is in a wedding on Saturday and then Emily's baby shower is Sunday. Work and a OB appt will keep me busy next week and then Andy's sister is getting married that Saturday...so next Friday night and Saturday will be consumed with wedding stuff! :) Austin is a ring bearer in Aunt Kerry's wedding and he is going to be a cutie! :)

With the craziness we haven't done much else with Giselle's nursery. We did get some 0-3/3mt girlie clothes from Andy's friend so those got washed and folded into pile (need to buy a dresser still) and I *think* I am done buying newborn cloth diapers. Looked at cutsey curtains for her room but about fell over with the price tags so I think we might just stick with a light pink curtain that blocks the light (did the same with the boys in their nursery colors). 3rd trimester starts Thursday for me (28 weeks!) so we really need to get rolling with things since we know she won't be late and we will have Christmas shopping to try to get done before she makes her debut!

Hope everyone is loving the cooler weather! I sure am!! :)

~25 weeks today! This pregnancy seems to be going kinda fast lately! Had an appointment today and am up quite a bit on my weight...opps! No swelling and blood pressure is fine. Doctor said the gain was perfectly fine and to be expected since baby is packing on some weight now too....dont remember this big of a gain in a 5 week time span with the boys. Oh well. Hard to get appointments to match the OB schedule and mine ....felt like to long between appointments. Have my "28 week" labs and Rhogam shot at next months appointment and then I start going every 2 weeks for a bit then every week til she arrives! :) Spent the garage sale earnings on baby necessities to cross some more stuff off her list of needed items! Was fun buying pink towels, pink boppy cover, changing pad cover, etc. :) Still have some more stuff to buy and really need to get her furniture so we can put the room together.

~Boys have been active, silly and so sweet lately. :) We changed the bedtime routine up a little to see if that would help make it smoother. It's working so far. They still take their bath together around 6:30-7pm and then Mason goes to bed between 7:30-7:45 and Austin now goes to bed at 8:30 (if its a day I work this all gets bumped back/moved along a little faster since I don't get home until 7:10 or so right now). Mason now says "love you" before we lay him down...so sweet! Austin continues to be his chatty self and has been doing awesome with the potty/telling us when he needs to go. :)

~Going to be doing a trial run of a potential new work schedule for October. We will have some 10 hour days and some 12 hour days. Interested to see how it works out.

~Glad that the hot summer weather is almost over with. September looks to be insanely busy for me/us....hoping it doesn't leave me exhausted!

I seem to have fallen off the blogging bandwagon of updating consistently. Oops! :( Here's a short update. :)

-I've had quite the nice stretch off from crazy town (work). Friday morning we went to Target to get random stuff that we needed. Gotta love finding most anything you need at that store! Then that afternoon I met up with the other hostess for my bestie's baby shower which ended up not quite working out as planned but the invitiations got mailed out Saturday as scheduled thankfully. :)

-Saturday was Andy's sisters bridal shower! She got lots of great stuff for their new life together. :) Took the boys with me (since Andy was golfing with all the guys) and they had fun playing outside while momma got a lil too much sun ha!

-Andy's grandpa died last Tuesday so we were busy with the viewing, the funeral and family lunch Sunday & Monay.

-Today has been a relaxing day with cool fall like weather making me want a Pumpkin Spice latte! Only a few more weeks til I can get one from Starbucks! :) Taking Lacy to her yearly vet appointment soon and not sure we have much else planned for the evening.

-Back to work tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday.

Happy August! Ready for summer to be over so we can start enjoying some cooler fall weather. Nothing much to chat about. Just been busy ...and it doesn't appear like things will slow down to much any time soon. Feel like the "nesting" is starting early because I just want to clean and organize everything! Been clearing out stuff to prepare for a garage sale that a friend is having at her house in a couple weeks. So ready to start working on the nursery but haven't been able to do much except work on clearing her room out of random stuff (its been used as a spare room for the last year).

Life has been a little busy and lately I am to tired to get on the computer haha! Figured I owed an update though. :)

We had our big OB appointment Tuesday and found out we are having a girl! :) Everything looks great as far as her health. She is measuring small though (20-30th%). My OB said not to worry just yet and she will continue to keep measuring my belly like usual and if I start measuring behind in that respect then we will do another ultrasound. I'm happy everything looks great and there are no issues except a possible smaller baby.

Austin & Mason are doing great!! I had another 4 day in a row work week so that was difficult to be away that much. Austin pooped on the potty today and told Andy that he was going to go get a new train when I got home haha! :) Hopefully soon he will stop pooping as soon as he gets his nighttime diaper on! Mason also thinks he's ready to start potty training so we might do a practice run these next 3 days to see if that's really the case. They are growing tooooo fast!

Now its time to start cleaning out the spare room and turning it into a nursery! We are pretty sure the theme will be a vintage ballerina one. Andy really doesn't want to paint...the walls are a light tan like the rest of the house (minus the boys rooms). We are also still planning to use the girl name we have had picked for years: Giselle Grace. Not after the supermodel...Giselle is a famous ballet for those that dont already know. ;) I've always like the name and we both like the uniqueness of it.

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1. Sorry no post last Friday and this one is so late at night. Didn't have much to say last Friday so I skipped it and almost skipped today too. Worked 4 days straight....which in our until/my line of work is kind of intense!!!! I am exhausted. Love my job but its so mentally challenging some days. And now with being pregnant its physically tiring as well ha! Looking forward to 3 days off and know that my patients are in great hands. :)

2. The weeks seem to be going faster now...18 weeks yesterday! Less than 2 weeks til we find out gender. :) Cloth diaper addiction is a bit out of control so I had to force myself not to buy anymore til we know the gender. They are all used diapers from the b/s/t boards on facebook but still can get pricey! Almost to the total number that we would need for the newborn size so that's good.

3. Austin is now completely daytime potty trained! Still not liking to poop on the potty but its gotten better this week Andy said. Feel like I dont have much to say about either boy this week since I missed so much of it with them. :(

4. Mason is a eating machine! Can't believe how much he has been eating for Andy this week...sometimes out eats his big bro at meal time. He also has a new phrase "one more minute mama" ....this is something that Austin says when I say "time to go take a bath, time to get ready to leave, etc" haha!

5. Can't wait to sleep in this weekend...sleeping in is 8am at the very latest around here but I'll take it!! Enjoy the days off if you have them, attempt to enjoy your job if this is your weekend to work. :)

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1. OB appt today went well. The tech was rattling off how many weeks I was, blood pressure, etc today and she had my original due date for calculation so I asked her about it and she gave me the answer I already knew...as long as the first trimester ultrasound and your last menstural period due dates are within a week they don't change your due date. I had wondered why they added 3 days before but just went with it. So back to Decemeber 11th it is! Heart rate was in the 150's and I am measuring where I should...which was a little surprising since I feel smaller than I did with the boys. Oh well. Anatomy scan ultrasound is July 22. :)

2. Austin has done awesome potty training!! :) Still having trouble motivating him to poop on the potty but its getting there. We won't attempt night training him for a while because he doesn't wake up dry yet. He is incredibly chatty and has questions about everything. He told me tonight that he wants another little brother haha.

3. Mason is 2! Crazy how fast time goes! He is talking more everyday and said "bless you, bless you" when I sneezed today haha! He is also climbing up and down the stairs holding the rail versus crawling up the stairs now...big boy!

4. Tried to come off my diclegis (anti-nause med for pregnancy) this week and it backfired...went right back to how I was feeling before I started taking it so I got my prescription refilled and started taking it again tonight. Still get fairly nauseous at night and right when I wake up even when I do take but the all day nausea returned when I tried to stop taking it. Boooo.

5. Get to meet baby Max on Sunday!!! :) Can't wait to see my cousin's newest little man!!

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1. Baby #3 seems to be giving me less nausea this week. :) Still looking smaller than I did with the boys so maybe this one is a girl? I will be happy either way but have been worried lately that if its a boy he will feel left out with how close Austin & Mason are with their close age gap. Andy swears #3 is a boy....won't know til next month unless I can convince my OB to do a sneak peek ultrasound at my appt at the end of the next week haha!

2. Austin has been working on potty training all week! It's steadily getting better!! Had only one accident today. :) He is also becoming a crazy boy about wanting to know the name of every road we drive on and tries to request driving a certain route when we go places lol!

3. Mason is talking nonstop and it's so funny to hear what he says ... have loved being off this week to spend so much time with them! Some funny new phrases "wow momma!" "ewww, momma, bug!"

4. Almost all done with party preparations. Only things left to do are buy the food (tomorrow) and finish cleaning the house. Got the plates/napkins/table covers for 50% off online...major score in Mr Budget Man's world haha! Party city only had the invitations and the rest was out of stock so we hopped online and it was all 50% off so I'm guessing this theme is going bye bye from the store. Can't wait to see the cupcakes when we pick them up tomorrow!! I ended up not doing them because 1) it looked like more work than I could do & 2) all the supplies would have been more than the cost of having them made at a bakery.

5. This week off has been great and I'm sure the weekend will fly by with my birthday tomorrow, Mason's party on Sunday and his birthday on Monday. Might be picture overload this weekend. ;)

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1. Baby #3 and this nausea is relentless. It's finally getting better during the day but morning time and evenings still are sucky. The newborn cloth diaper stalking obsession I have on the b/s/t boards for used ones is getting a lil crazy too haha! We didn't cloth either boy in the newborn stage so we have none. Even though this is our last baby we are still going to get some newborns since they keep their resell value very well. Up to 7 so far and would like 18-24. Still hoping to buy some off my lovely cloth diapering cousin since her newborn will be 6 months old by the time #3 arrives. :)

2. Austin is doing great! Soooo chatty! Having some sharing issues with Mason lately...was bound to happen now that they love basically the exact same type of toys now. Still loves to be outside. :)

3. Mason is also doing great! Saying more words/phrases every week. Current new faves: "ok momma" and "sing momma"! :) Still a big cuddler and loves the outdoors almost as much as Austin.

4. Party planning for Mason's 2nd birthday is underway. We are having a small family party and the theme is farm animals. :)

5. Getting one year closer to 30 next Saturday....crazy that my 20's are almost done!

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1. Finally starting to feel better. Had what I thought was bad allergies or a head cold starting Sunday and by yesterday morning I was still feeling bad so I went to the doc and they said sinus infection. So I'm on an antibiotic for 10 days. All day nausea is starting to get better each week...think the new medicine is doing the trick. Had a OB appt today for all the lab work and what not. Baby's heart rate was right around 160 which is great for this gestation! :)

2. Austin is officially done with speech therapy! He was making rapid progress so our last session was last week. He's growing up so fast! Hoping to tackle potty training very soon....he has been so resistant that nothing motivates him.

3. Mason will be 2 in just a few weeks! He has added a ton more words to his vocabulary and loves to play outside with Austin. :)

4. Landscaping is done! Patio project is being started on Monday and they are estimating only two days to do it!

5. That's all for now haha! Hopefully I won't be away from the blog so long next time. :)

--5 on Friday-- (several blogs I follow do this so I'm going to see if it helps motivate me to post more)

1. Yes, I am pregnant!! :) Due December 14th. We are excited! I am feeling awful just like I did with the boys. Hoping maybe third times a charm for not feeling sick til 20-22 weeks. This winter will be a busy time for birth haha!! I know 3 people delivering within 4 weeks of my due date already.

2. Austin's hand seems completely better now. He hurt it on Easter...sure everyone read about it on facebook. His big boy bed (round 2 since toddler bed was a complete failure) arrived on Wednesday. It's a twin bed that should last him til he leaves for college. So far he is excited about it but hasn't slept in it....still ends up on the floor ...and then in our bed. We'll get there, I'm not worried.

3. Mason is officially discharged from feeding therapy! Yay! :) He has come a long way. Still has progress to be made but the therapist felt comfortable with my skills and we all decided that it was ok for therapy to end. OT should be starting in the next month possibly....theres a waitlist and I could just decide not to go through with it since he borderline qualified for it. Another exciting thing that happened early this week...he had some cooked dairy and did great! So I talked to his doc on Tuesday and she said it was ok to just go ahead and do one serving a day as long as he had no symptoms. He has been symptom free all week!!! So we will likely not do the 2 year allergist referral appointment.

4. Patio has been decided upon! Just on the waitlist for the guys to come out to do it. Its an amish business and he's estimating up to 4 weeks on wait time til he can get our project. We are going to do stamped concrete and it will look like stone gray Texas flagstone. No...it will not fade/peel...already got that question. The way this business does it is by mixing the color in the concrete not just painting it on.

5. Landscaping is set to be done next weekend! Happy that its finally getting crossed off the list but will be kinda a bummer to spend our anniversary (the 10th) and potentially Mothers Day (the 11th) getting it all done.

Yay for SPRING weather! :)

Austin was so excited to go outside 3 times today! Can't wait til our patio is done and we can play more in the backyard. Mason also started shaking his head "yes" this week. So cute!

Our SLP told us today that Mason may not qualify for any more feeding therapy after the end of this month...he is doing that well! :) Won't get the offical word til our progress meeting next Thursday morning. Also at that meeting we will get to formally request OT for his sensory issues.

Austin is finally over his sickness....has been feeling himself for the last few days thankfully. Was very scary that first night in the ER! Still has a couple days left of his antibiotic (has to be on it for 10 days). He is so chatty and throwing some crazy tantrums when he doesn't get his way...hoping once we are able to go outside every day that it will help him!

Mason is growing and eating more and more every day of stuff that he couldn't before. He has added turkey dogs and corn to his menu line up this past week. :) Still hanging on to the bedtime nursing session but it's getting really short so I think he's about done with that too.

Work is crazy as usual. Sounds like the census has gone up on my 2 days off....hope tomorrow goes fast for me while I'm there!

Looking forward to dinner with friends tonight!!

Need to get better about blogging...sorry fellow readers!

--Austin is singing, saying his ABCs pretty well and couting pretty consistently to 10 now. :) Big boy! Crazy that we need to start looking for preschool for the fall!

--Found out this week that we won't really know much about when OT will start for Mason until our quarterly feeding therapy/IFSP progress meeting April 9th. That is when we/they can make the formal request to add OT. Kind of annoying but whatever. He is doing awesome with his feeding therapy though!!

--Hoping that cycle #3 is our lucky one. Won't know til early April.

--Work has slowed down just a lil bit which is nice. :) Think we all needed a break. Hope I didn't just jinx it haha!

--Soooo ready for nicer weather!

Cycle #2 also a negative...just in case anyone was wondering.  My cycle is so irregular since I've had the boys, makes things a bit more difficult!

Feb is done and on to March...crazy!! Time to wear green, eat green and decorate green. :) Have to enjoy St Patricks day with the Irish in my family. :) Got the boys their shirts to wear on the 17th ...to bad I'll be working!

No update yet on OT for Mason...talked to our ST yesterday and she said hopefully soon they will get back with me/us with a plan for what to do since technically First Steps can't have 2 therapists coming to your house each week...??...I dont know..think I could have misunderstood.

She did say that Austins clarity is improving really fast so that's great to hear!! Mason is also doing well too...actually ate some chicken today without puking!