kael lately...

here's a few pics of our wee boy. he's so much fun and i love that he's in my life.

feeling the need

feeling very much like i need to get things done NOW!!!! like pack a bag for labor/hospital. Get some last minute things i want to have for when the baby is here, maybe make some more meals to freeze so i don't have to do it later. organize the baby's rom/clothes. you know..the usual......

tour the hospitals, register still at one of the hospitals.....i have dr's appointments almost everyday this week, one for kael today, two for me tomorrow..another one on thursday (which is also partly a birthing refresher course/appointment) feeling pretty stressed and overwhelmed, i wish i had someone to just help me with where to start.

changes ahead

k, peeps. 3 weeks. i'm due in 3 weeks. looks like birth at the birth center is not going to happen unless there is some sort of mini-miracle. So i'm going to tour the hospital on Sunday. i have heard that the hospital has waterproof and portable moniters so i don't have to be hooked up to some machines and be confined to some bed....so that's positive. And my midwives are going to Doula me in the hospital, and they are very respected here so I will not be forced into anything i do not want (epidural's, etc) I feel very positive still that I'm going to have a natural birth. I'll labor at home as long as possible and then head to the hospital when the time comes.....i still need to pack a bag.....
we also got a mini-van and are selling our car. Our car will probably be gone by monday and we just picked up our new (new to us) mini-van. A toyota. it's very nice and i'm looking forward to having a mini-van again. And it has two sliding doors..:) with two kids i think it'll be so much easier and we'll have lots more room in a van.....
AND.....big news i keep forgetting to share...my brother, my baby brother is getting MARRIED!!!!! in november. So very soon and our little family is going to be in the wedding...me, mike and Kael. (not the new one though, hopefully someone will want to hold him during the ceremony) I am a little worried how i'll look in the dress since i'll have given birth not too long before the wedding....but we'll worry about that later.

Weekend Away

I just had a weekend away with my husband and no kid (except the little one inside) My mom came down and watched Kael for us, and we took off Friday night and headed to Chicago. We stopped at Ikea, and then headed downtown. We got a great deal on the Hilton downtown Chicago. So we got to sleep in (together) all weekend, take naps when we wanted, Go out to eat. We found this great diner for breakfast...and for dinner we had the BEST food ever!!!! None of it was a disappointment at all. We enjoyed just hanging out together and getting to talk and do whatever we wanted. We walked all over the city (so much so that i was in pain and we had to take a cab back to our hotel) but it was worth it. And when i got home my mom had cleaned our bathroom, hemmed sheets for me, cleaned my kitchen and of course she had watched Kael for us, and he was happy and well taken care of. It was such a treat and it was something that i had wanted but wasn't sure that it was going to happen. so i feel very blessed, And then we got to stop at Ikea on the way home and picked up a few things that we were wanting and needing for baby etc. So, it was a great weekend!!!!! the only sad thing was that all our pics got accidentally erased, so we have no pictures of our weekend away.......

a little pre-anniversary/baby trip

Well, i'm due in 4 weeks. can't believe it's all coming so fast. i feel like there is still so much to do in the house.....like i still need to buy a dresser for the baby's clothes. I've washed them all but they are in a bin in our spare room at the moment.
but anyways...i'm excited because my mom is coming down today, she is going to help me get some stuff done, and then tomorrow, she is going to watch kael for two whole nights while me and mike go on a little trip. We are going to Chicago for the weekend, (it's not that far) just the two of us, staying at a hotel downtown and just going to enjoy the time away. Since the baby is due the weekend of our anniversary and who knows when we'll get to go away together(without baby) AND who knows when we'll get to sleep through the night again once this little one joins us,(especially me with breastfeeding) we thought we'd take our anniversary trip early and it's so nice of my mom to take care of kael here for us. I'm really really looking forward to it. I feel like it is a break i've been craving lately. we can do whatever we want, nap if and when we want, both get to sleep in together ( a very rare treat) and enjoy some couple time. it'll be great for us i know. We are both longing for the time together. so, that's us leaving tomorrow and getting back on sunday. (and i hope we get a little trip to ikea in there)

unknown

that's what this pregnancy is pretty much about ..and i guess if i wasn't so 'pregnant' i might not be so emotional about it. i had an appointment last week at the midwife's office where they told me that it is actually still unknown whether i can give birth there and they'll let me know.
it's just that i have less than 5 weeks left now and it's been unknown for pretty much the whole 35 weeks so far....i was pretty upset when they told me, but i'm trying to not let me prego emotions get out of control. i talked to my dad last week ad he had met a girl who is about to have her second child as well, but she has to go right back to work cause she can't afford to take more than 2 weeks off , and she has no husband to help her...so it helped put things into perspective a little bit. i will still hope and pray for a birth at the birth center...but even if i have to go to the hospital it'd still be nice to just be able to have a natural birth.....no matter where it is. and in the end i do just want a healthy baby...so tha'ts me for now...lots of unknowns....

Kael's Party!!!!

Kael's party was a success! A small party but it was perfect. Me, mike and my mom. then our friends Katie and George and their son (and kael's little friend) George. As soon as the party started we let the kids open gifts, so that they could play with the toys. And we had a cookout and just got to eat and enjoy watching the two of them play together. We had balloons out so that when he got up from his nap he could see the balloons and the wrapped presents.....i think we enjoyed watching him open his gifts as much as he enjoyed opening them. He would start to open them and then say ''ooohhh' it was cute!!!
I can't believe i have a 2 year old.
i love his little personlity.
He loves to play,
He loves to watch everyone around him.
i love When he hears a dog, he growls.....
his favorite words are No, yuck, cool, Dang!!!