WE GOT IT!!!

We had mike's interview today....it wasn't too bad. some questions but not digging questions. and at the end she told us she was approving the application. So in a few weeks mike will receive his green card in the mail!!! yeah!!!!! so so happy. And tonight we're hanging out eating pizza and watching a movie with my brother and his girlfriend. good times.......

off to get a green card

Tomorrow we are heading to Minneapolis/St Paul to spend the night and then on Friday at 1pm Mike will have his interview for his green card. We will both be there and they will take us in different rooms to interview us. (to see if we're really married) So today i'm getting the rest of his paperwork and stuff ready. ( hope i have everything) and i'm a little nervous cause it's the government n' all that we are meeting with. But i know that we are a legitimate marriage and we have a kid which i think should help a little.....ahhh.....yesterday I worked from 5am- 1:30pm and then i had to go back to work at 5:30 and was there til 9:30for a training session with all the staff. so i'm tired today and my legs are very tired. but overall i'm glad it's over and the training was fun. anyways....onto the green card stuff....

Major Disappointment

Well...tonight i went to a birth center to check it out. They have a tour every wednesday. And i loved it. it had beautiful birthing rooms, very much like a relaxing bedroom....a whirlpool tub to labor in or give birth, a nice bathroom with a big shower...and then came the time for questions..and my only question tonight was if it was there a problem if my first was born by c-section. And the answer i didn't expect came and brought on my major disappointment. Birthing center's in wisconsin are not allowed to have VBAC's. (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean ) So, no matter how nice the birth center was - I cannot give birth there. But i could have a home birth (isn't that weird) but insurance doesn't cover home birth , only hospital or birth center. So, i'm kind of stuck. I do have an appointment with the owner of the birth center in 1 1/2 weeks and hopefully she will be able to help me figure out my options. I'm very disappointed. i wish i could just fly back to Vancouver and have elizabeth deliver my baby again. And here midwives do not have hospital privileges So even if i see a midwife for my whole pregnancy when it comes time to deliver the doctor has to deliver. It's soo frustrating and i feel like the US is behind the times and need to get with it. So i'm kind of at a loss.

highly unmotivated

i'm tired, and whiney. my stomach has not completely given up on me yet. but it's not really that sure it wants to be nice to me either. i'm not throwing up but i'm not feeling so great. nausea ...and tired. i don't want to do anything. i don't want to cook any meals for mike because everything sounds gross, all my stomach wants is bagels and cream cheese, or pizza or really tame food. i feel guilty for not eating healthier but i can just barely eat. ahhhh.....and my house is a mess. kael's toys are everywhere and i just can't be bothered to pick them up right now. i feel like a bad mother and wife. i know it will pass. i just wanted to whine.

Super Nanny

Do you ever wonder 'what would super nanny think ???'

shoes

check out kael wearing my shoes....

just once

so all of the sudden friday night i started feeling very sick, it hit quickly and just had to lay down, it hurt so bad, like acid burning my stomach, constricting my chest and making my back ache. i've had something similar after my c-section and i'm just not sure why i'm having it again. I'm sure it's because i'm pregnant but it sucks so bad. i pretty much couldn't do anything but the necessary. and mike was gone and couldn't come home so i had to take care of Kael on my own, so before his bedtime i put him in the tub for an extended bath while i threw up( it didn't seem to scare him or anything) he was happily playing in the tub. and then it went away, in the middle of the night felt horrible again but by 4am (when i had to get up for work) i felt mostly better. but not all better i ended up leaving work a few hours early. so my first unpleasantries of being prego again.
mostly i am just exhausted. and running after kael seems to take so much energy.
for some reason i can't get an pics to load i'll have to post again later

5 weeks

well...
i'll take leanne's advice. I'm 5 weeks prego right now. Crazy huh? I am due October 9th (emily n josh's anniversary and the day before our anniversary. And i'm feeling great. it's weird. I'm not feeling sick at all. which is weird since last pregnancy i was feeling sick all the time. I feel extremely tired and some little pains here and there but overall feeling great!!! I wish i could nap every afternoon but i don't always get to. But my birthday was this week and it was great. I was amazed by how many birthday wishes i got. My mom came down and took us out to this great restaurant. She even made me cheesecake (which she's never done before and it was soo yummy) I got cards, presents, flowers delivered from my in-laws and because my mom was here i got to take a nap. :) I usually have this sense of disappointment on my birthday and I didn't have that at all. I didn't expect to feel disappointed and I was actually blown away by how many people wished me a happy birthday. i felt very loved and thought of. Thanks everyone!!

super hero

i think kael looks like a super hero in this little outfit. for some reason i love his pj outfits so much...maybe the way they make his belly look really big. and he loves the broom and the swiffer....dust pans, little brushes. he's so funny.