Occasionally, I will find that something I've said makes absolutely no sense if I really listen to the words. Yesterday, I found Lawson playing with the toilet seat again and had somewhat of an "aha!' moment
Me: No, no! The toilet is not a toy!
... pause .... blank stare from Lawson ... click! AHA!
Inner Voice: WHAT?! The TOYlet is not a toy?
I remember hearing mothers speak to their children in the public restroom. They would call the toilet the potty, and the use all sorts of other colorful words for body parts and fluids. I swore I would use the proper words so as not to confuse my child. Well, I lied. The toilet is officially the potty.
Me: No playing with the potty.
Lawson: (head shaking) Nuh, nuh!
One step at a time, right?!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
bumGenius? bumAWESOME!!!
I am in LOVE. I am a cloth diaper addict and I have a new diaper-of-choice. Could these be any cuter and more functional? I know these are nothing new, but I've rediscovered them recently and can't get enough of them! With three rows of snaps in the front to let them grow with your baby, you don't have to keep buying new sizes. And now they come with an infant insert for the smallest setting so that they are trimmer fitting. The four new bright colors are just a bonus. These are durable, fit wonderfully (even on Lawson's skinny little legs) and even have elastic across the back to prevent blow-outs. Cloth diapering couldn't be any easierI bought two of the old version to try with Lawson when he was first born and hated them. They were SO bulky on his tiny little body that I felt he couldn't even bend to sit up comfortably. I put them in a box and forgot all about them, moving on to other types of cloth diapers. Well, with the impending arrival of Naomi, I went through my box of diapers that have been retired due to size or dislike. I decided to give the bumGenius a try again now that Lawson was a bit bigger and fell. in. love. Seriously!!!
I now have nine of them to use on both Lawson and Naomi and have also purchased 15 newborn sized bumGenius for when Naomi is a wee little thing. Those are the cutest little pink diapers I have ever seen. I can't stop staring at them. As in, I washed them a week ago to get them ready to go and have yet to put them away because they are so darn cute! I just want to look at them and hold them and look at them some more.
Function meets beauty. I am in love.
Friday, February 27, 2009
"No, No!"
Those words have been flying around this house a LOT lately as Lawson does his best "toddler" and tests every boundary possible. Apparently, these last few days, "no, no", has been said enough that something clicked. Last night, as he tried to climb up onto the coffee table for the umteenth time in a row, I pulled his little legs back to the ground and as I opened my mouth to once again utter the words.... he did it for me! "NUH NUH!" And then again for good measure, "nuh nuh". He then shot me defiant look and then, as if him saying the words negated their meaning, he once again began his ascent to the top of the coffee table. I pulled him back down, of course, but couldn't bring myself to say "no" again. My little man has officially become a toddler. Any chance we could speed through this stage before, say, June???
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I'm bringing blogging back...
I give myself an F for blogging. Truth is, I just haven't had it in me for the last several months. There's been a lot going on and sitting down to blog about it just never quite topped the list. Dustin was gone, has come back and is now preparing to go out again in a month. We are also in full swing with the house renovations. That's a whole post on it's own, but literally our entire upstairs is flattened and I am cooking out of my "closet kitchen" just outside our bedroom door (not to self: do NOT cook fish down here again. Very bad idea). I am also preparing for the arrival of our newest little family member! And by preparing, I mean nesting like crazy and getting HUGE!!!! I am the same size at 6 months as I was at 7 months with Lawson. Here's a comparison picture. And may I just point out the difference in maternity jeans. No panel is the way to go! They don't look maternity and they don't fall down every time you bend down to pick something up, which is often with a toddler to clean up after.
I was quite sure I was having a girl when at 14 weeks, I was still gagging constantly and the exhaustion was getting worse instead of better like it had at that point with Lawson. Early on I had a dream it was a boy and was convinced for a week or so it would be a boy, but a dream of twins quickly took away all credibility of my dreams and I was back on the girl bandwagon. Sure enough, at my 17 week scan, after nearly an hour of crossed leg shots, several trips to the bathroom to empty my bladder and jump around a little (in hopes that she'd change position), she finally gave us a peek! I have never in my life had an urge to shop like I did when I saw we were having a little girl! It surprised me a lot! It's all I could do to stay on the table and finish up the ultrasound. I wanted to run to the nearest baby store and stock up on tiny, adorable girl items. Not quite the reaction I'd have anticipated!
Of course, Dustin and I are so happy to be having one of each. I had a fear I'd end up with all boys, which would be fine, I'm sure, if that's what happened, but I just feel so lucky to experience a little boy and a little girl. It took us a few weeks to name her, but one Monday night, as I was watching The Bachelor... yes, I know how ridiculous this sounds already... one of the girls' names kept popping up and I thought to myself, "that's kind of a nice name." Well, Dustin happened to walk by, so I threw the name out to him and the look on his face sealed the deal. He ran upstairs to make sure it didn't have a lame meaning and ran back down declaring that I had found the name! We wrote it on a piece of paper to make sure we liked the way it looked and it was a done deal! It took me a few days to get used to it since it wasn't like the other names I'd been considering, but now I can't imagine her as anything else. She is Naomi May! And, no, I wasn't a big fan of Naomi on the Bachelor. Just the name!
As for the nitty gritty of the pregnancy, there have been a few bumps in the road thus far. At around 12 weeks, the doctor ran a thrombosis evaluation on me. He said it would be incredibly rare to come back with anything, but if it did, we may have some answers for why things went so terribly wrong at the end when I was pregnant with Lawson. Well, I got a call on Friday saying that I needed to come in first thing Monday morning. That was a LONG weekend. I did tons of research about thrombophilia those couple of days so I'd know what the doctor was talking about when we went in. I also realized google can be a bad thing. I scared myself so bad reading over all the possibilities of what we could be told that Monday. Finally, Monday rolled around and we got the news that I have a heterozygous gene mutation called a Prothrombin Gene Defect (or Factor II). Basically, it means that I am prone to blood clots. The elevated progesterone during pregnancy makes this risk much higher than normal so to combat this I "get" to give myself two injections a day of Lovenox, an anticoagulant. Not fun, but honestly, not so bad now that I've gotten used to it. Unfortunately, more blood work came back by the time I had my next appointment and they discovered I had yet another gene mutation called MTHFR. This also is a clotting disorder and makes it so my body doesn't really utilize vitamin B or Folic Acid. This doesn't sound like such a bad deal, but it's the worse of the two. Combined, the doctor said I had NO chance of making it through a pregnancy without serious complications like I'd had with Lawson. Luckily, taking massive quantities of both those vitamins daily, along with the Lovenox, should help things along. I'll be doing ultrasounds once a week to make sure that I'm not experiencing placental abruption, where the placenta separates from the uterus, or IUGR, where the baby isn't growing properly, as both of these are common side effects of the gene mutations during pregnacy. The will also be monitering my blood pressure twice a week the last three months and checking for protein in my urine so we'll now if anything is starting to go wrong. We're planning on a scheduled C-section, which I'm okay with. Delivery can be dangerous either way being on anticoagulants and the risk drops when you can plan around the last shot you've given yourself. You don't want your blood to be all thinned out when going in for surgery or delivering vaginally. Bad things could happen. Of course, the best laid plans or still only plans. We'll see how it actually happens, but hopefully Naomi will hang on in there until around June 15 and give her dad plenty of time to get back. He'll be gone the months of April and May and is set to get back just a week or two before she is supposed to arrive. Sounds familiar... we just hope he makes it to this birth!
SO, that's the short of it. I'll post more later about the house and in the meantime, leave you with a few of the latest ultrasound pictures that leave no question in my mind that I am growing another daddy-look-alike!
I was quite sure I was having a girl when at 14 weeks, I was still gagging constantly and the exhaustion was getting worse instead of better like it had at that point with Lawson. Early on I had a dream it was a boy and was convinced for a week or so it would be a boy, but a dream of twins quickly took away all credibility of my dreams and I was back on the girl bandwagon. Sure enough, at my 17 week scan, after nearly an hour of crossed leg shots, several trips to the bathroom to empty my bladder and jump around a little (in hopes that she'd change position), she finally gave us a peek! I have never in my life had an urge to shop like I did when I saw we were having a little girl! It surprised me a lot! It's all I could do to stay on the table and finish up the ultrasound. I wanted to run to the nearest baby store and stock up on tiny, adorable girl items. Not quite the reaction I'd have anticipated!
Of course, Dustin and I are so happy to be having one of each. I had a fear I'd end up with all boys, which would be fine, I'm sure, if that's what happened, but I just feel so lucky to experience a little boy and a little girl. It took us a few weeks to name her, but one Monday night, as I was watching The Bachelor... yes, I know how ridiculous this sounds already... one of the girls' names kept popping up and I thought to myself, "that's kind of a nice name." Well, Dustin happened to walk by, so I threw the name out to him and the look on his face sealed the deal. He ran upstairs to make sure it didn't have a lame meaning and ran back down declaring that I had found the name! We wrote it on a piece of paper to make sure we liked the way it looked and it was a done deal! It took me a few days to get used to it since it wasn't like the other names I'd been considering, but now I can't imagine her as anything else. She is Naomi May! And, no, I wasn't a big fan of Naomi on the Bachelor. Just the name!
As for the nitty gritty of the pregnancy, there have been a few bumps in the road thus far. At around 12 weeks, the doctor ran a thrombosis evaluation on me. He said it would be incredibly rare to come back with anything, but if it did, we may have some answers for why things went so terribly wrong at the end when I was pregnant with Lawson. Well, I got a call on Friday saying that I needed to come in first thing Monday morning. That was a LONG weekend. I did tons of research about thrombophilia those couple of days so I'd know what the doctor was talking about when we went in. I also realized google can be a bad thing. I scared myself so bad reading over all the possibilities of what we could be told that Monday. Finally, Monday rolled around and we got the news that I have a heterozygous gene mutation called a Prothrombin Gene Defect (or Factor II). Basically, it means that I am prone to blood clots. The elevated progesterone during pregnancy makes this risk much higher than normal so to combat this I "get" to give myself two injections a day of Lovenox, an anticoagulant. Not fun, but honestly, not so bad now that I've gotten used to it. Unfortunately, more blood work came back by the time I had my next appointment and they discovered I had yet another gene mutation called MTHFR. This also is a clotting disorder and makes it so my body doesn't really utilize vitamin B or Folic Acid. This doesn't sound like such a bad deal, but it's the worse of the two. Combined, the doctor said I had NO chance of making it through a pregnancy without serious complications like I'd had with Lawson. Luckily, taking massive quantities of both those vitamins daily, along with the Lovenox, should help things along. I'll be doing ultrasounds once a week to make sure that I'm not experiencing placental abruption, where the placenta separates from the uterus, or IUGR, where the baby isn't growing properly, as both of these are common side effects of the gene mutations during pregnacy. The will also be monitering my blood pressure twice a week the last three months and checking for protein in my urine so we'll now if anything is starting to go wrong. We're planning on a scheduled C-section, which I'm okay with. Delivery can be dangerous either way being on anticoagulants and the risk drops when you can plan around the last shot you've given yourself. You don't want your blood to be all thinned out when going in for surgery or delivering vaginally. Bad things could happen. Of course, the best laid plans or still only plans. We'll see how it actually happens, but hopefully Naomi will hang on in there until around June 15 and give her dad plenty of time to get back. He'll be gone the months of April and May and is set to get back just a week or two before she is supposed to arrive. Sounds familiar... we just hope he makes it to this birth!
SO, that's the short of it. I'll post more later about the house and in the meantime, leave you with a few of the latest ultrasound pictures that leave no question in my mind that I am growing another daddy-look-alike!
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