30 Week Doctor visit and Alexis' Birthday

Well the appointments are becoming more frequent now.  I have 6 more to go until baby girl is due.  I cannot believe how fast the time is going.  There really is nothing to report from this visit.  All is well.  I gained 3 more pounds but I attribute that to eating too much at Alexis' party.

Alexis had a fantastic birthday and was throughly spoiled.  I was successful in making her cake but did end up having hubby help.  Those stars become quite tedious and painful to make.  I could not close my hand for about 30 minutes after finishing the icing.  I did learn to not play with constancy too much with the icing because we make the black too thick and it was very hard to use.  In the end it tasted great and Alexis loved her cake.  Her favorite part about the party was all of the balloons.  She is the only child I know that can pop 3 mylar balloons in less than 12 hours.

As far as Baby girls room.  That is a task for this weekend.  We have the paint and the wall decal is on the way as well as the furniture :)  I am so relieved that I finally decided on a bedroom set and got a great price for the furniture as well as free shipping.  So my chore for the weekend is clearing out my office so the Hubby can paint.  I should have some pictures next week.

Reminiscing

Today marks the eve of the birth of my daughter Alexis.  Two years ago today I was running around like a mad woman getting ready to go to the hospital in the morning to deliver Alexis.  I was so nervous,  excited, scared and uncomfortable to be able to rest.  I was told to get a "good nights sleep."  If you know anything about me you will understand how difficult of a task that proved to be.  I am a planner and love to know exactly what was going to happen and how and when.  Well when it comes to having your first child, there is no knowing.  Needless to say it was a very restless night, between my brain going non stop and having to pee every 15 minutes it seemed.
Finally the morning came and we went to the hospital.  The drive could not go fast enough.  In the end after 13 hours Alexis arrived.

She was and still is the most beautiful baby girl!!!

You know the saying, "time flies, when you are having fun?"  It is totally true.  Tomorrow my sweet baby girl will be 2 years old.  I am having a hard time grasping how fast the time has gone and all that we have gone through in the past two years.

My advice to all new parents is, don't blink.  You never want to miss a moment with your children.  I am so grateful that I get to spend everyday all day with this angel and have gotten to experience all of her firsts.  I am looking forward to seeing and meeting her sister here in hopefully 70 days or less :)

This weekend we are going to celebrate with close friends and family with a Mickey Mouse birthday party.  Have a fantastic weekend!!!

28 Week Doctor Visit

Well today I had my 28 week check up.  I received the royal treatment today.  Not really.

At the 28 week visit you get to do the glorified glucose drink to test for gestational diabetes.  Honestly I don't think it tastes that bad.  If you remember the drink Surge, that is pretty close to what the orange drink tastes like.  You do not have to fast before this one hour test, but if you fail you get to do the 3 hour test where you do have to fast.  For the one hour test, you drink the sugary drink within 5 minutes.  Then they set an alarm for one hour.  At the hour mark they draw your blood and test.  If I fail this test then I have to do the three hour test and with that you get to drink the drink 3 times.  I am glad my appointment was early so I did fast before the test.  The problem is with all of the sugar in the drink it made me a little sick to my stomach.  If you get sick in that hour, then you have to start the test all over. I am thankful I kept it down.  I will know the results of the glucose test later this week.  Fingers crossed I pass. I really do not want to fail and possibly have gestational diabetes.  I have sensitive fingers and do not want to prick them for 11 weeks.  Also if I am free of gestational diabetes I can continue eating whatever I want :)

So while I was waiting my hour I saw the doctor.  I am measuring at 26 weeks gestation but I am 28 weeks.  I have felt like I have been leaking fluid, but was not sure if it was from sneezing, laughing and what not or if it was amniotic fluid.  So they did perform an ultra sound to make sure there was enough amniotic fluid around little girl.  Her fluid level is great and on the plus side I got a really cute profile picture of little one.  She seems to be a bit on the smaller side.  I will not complain because she can grow very quickly in the next 11 weeks or so.  he smaller her head is the easier to get her out.

The next joy I was so gracious to experience was receiving a shot in the bottom for the rH factor.  My blood type is O- and hubby's blood type is O+.  With that being said my body could potentially attack baby girl like she is a virus and terminate the pregnancy.  They gave me a shot to essentially distract my body form the baby.  If her blood type is O- then there is no risk but the risk comes with her possibly being O+ so the shot is a precaution.  I will know what her blood type is once she is born.  If she is O+ I get another shot.

Consignment

Well the nesting phase has begun to some degree.  I have started going through all of Alexis' old clothes and sorting through the keeps and sells.  I have so many clothes that Alexis did not even wear all of the outfits because of the fact that I had that many clothes.  Also I found that I had my favorites and would just dress her in those rather than her wear every single outfit.  Needless to say I started with 6 storage totes crammed so full they barely closed.  I have decreased my volume of clothes by 50% by selecting clothes to sell in an upcoming consignment sale, over 300 items by the way.  Point of advice to any first time moms, Only get about 10 outfits for each clothing size.  For example 3-6 months.  You will just use your favorites and all others just take up space.  I am having someone else to do tagging and pricing of the items since I have never consigned anything and with working as a nanny and going to school and taking care of my family, I have no time.  As long as I get some money I will be happy :)  

With the money that I will earn from the sale I will reinvest it in more clothes for the girls as Alexis is growing like a weed and baby girl is just stuck with the hand-me-downs for now.  All of the clothes Baby girl will have are in amazing shape and super cute.  I will however invest in some matching outfits.  Hubby says that is ok as long as all of their clothes do not match, as they are not twins.

12 weeks and counting till she arrives!!!!

Oh on another note I did sell the 125 gallon salt water fish tank in the background on Craigslist in 6 hours of listing!!!  Now I have room to clean out the office to make it into baby girls room!!!