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Saturday, 11 July 2009

  • Are we done yet???

    I was miserable last night, awake at least once an hour for no good reason. Didn't even need to pee usually. I am having crying fits a few times a day. Come on Garrett, there is so much more room out here.

    On a plus note, the movie trailer for 5th Quarter just came out. The kids and I were extras during filming last fall. I do not know if we had made the cut yet but I cannot wait to see the movie. It is based on a true story.
    http://www.the5thquartermovie.com/theater.html

Monday, 06 July 2009

  • Garrett's advancing size








    Leslye had been telling me the size of her babies by food references that came in emails from a site she signed up to. I love it and it gives you such a great idea what the little one really is like.

    week 4 - sesame seed
    week 5 - grain of rice
    week 6 - lentil bean
    week 7 - blueberry
    week 8 - pinto bean
    week 9 - raspberry
    week 10 - kumquat
    week 11 - fig
    week 12 - lime
    week 13 - medium shrimp
    week 14 - lemon
    week 15 - apple
    week 16 - avocado (4.5 inches)
    week 17 - turnip
    week 18 - bell pepper (7 ounces)
    week 19 - large heirloom tomato
    week 20 - banana
    week 21 - carrot (10.5 inches)
    week 22 - Length of a spaghetti squash
    week 23 - large mango (about a pound and 11 inches long)
    week 24 - ear of corn, just over a pound (viable outside the womb)
    week 25 - about the same weight as a rutabaga, 13.5 inches
    week 26 - english hothouse cucumber, just under 2 pounds and around 14 inches long (his testicles are beginning to descend into scrotum)
    week 27 - 2 pounds (about the weight of a head of cauliflower), 14.5     inches long. Lungs are practicing breathing.
    week 28 -     about two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of his head to his heels
    week 29 - weighs about 2.5 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is over 15 inches longs from head to heel
    week 30 - just over 3 pounds and 15.5 inches     (like a head of cabbage)
    week 31 - 16 inches and about 3.3 pounds (four naval oranges)
    week 32 - almost 4 pounds and nearly 17 inches long (a large jicama - kind of like a big turnip)
    week 33 - Just over 4 pounds and just past the 17 inch mark (pineapple)
    week 34 - 18 inches and 4 3/4 lbs (large cantaloupe) fat layers beginning to fill in
    week 35 - 5 1/4 pounds (honeydew melon)
    week 36 - almost 6 pounds (crenshaw melon) and 18 1/2 inches. Shedding the vernix and lanugo. Bones other than the soft skull are hardening
    week 37 - 6 1/3 pounds and as long as a stalk of swiss chard, over 19 inches. Considered TERM.
    week 38 - nearly 7 pounds, 19.5 inches long, like a leek



Thursday, 02 July 2009

  • Progress report.

    50 % effaced (cervical thinning) and fingertip dilated. Midwife says Garrett is still high but doubts I'd go 2 weeks late like with Braeden. Gave me phone numbers and things to call in about as far as labor signs and what they like to know and when. Come on little guy, we are ready!

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

  • Random photos from letterboxing:

    My mom and I at Red, White & You: 6/27/09




    From my boxing baby shower:



     





    Our letterboxing trail name has been Just4Bees so this is a jab about it and not knowing what we will call ourselves.


Friday, 26 June 2009

  • She is home, early

    Yesterday turned out to be so much busier than I anticipated. Braeden and I left the house in the early afternoon to get painting supplies at Lowes for my new bedroom. Next came a quick trip to Walmart for a few necessities as well as a gift for his friend Lance's birthday party today. Just as I was leaving Walmart, Eric called asking for us to pick him up at the truckyard, he was home for the evening and had to leave out 5am Thursday. As soon as I got off the phone with him, it rang again. This time it was Mom. The camp nurse had been trying to get ahold of me to come get Eliana. She was running a fever and felt miserable. I ended up having Mom get Eric from work so I could run to get Eliana from camp. She was running a temp over 101 and looked so sick, poor baby. We got lost on the way home... the camp is really out in the middle of nowhere. Finally, 5 hours after leaving home and about 100 miles, we were home. I was exhauseted and convinced that my poor sore swollen ankles were going to split the skin open, it was so bad. I let Eric take care of sick Eliana for a couple hours while I soaked in the hottub for some relief. Even 2 hours later I was still swollen, albiet not nearly as bad. Today we took Eliana to the doctor. Her ear is looking better. Throat cultures are negative since is she is already on antibiotics. Her throat is red and raw. It hurts for her to talk and swallow. In the meantime, she is resting, drinking and trying to eat soft stuff. Poor baby. She wants to try camp again next year though. It just really sucks that this all had to happen THIS week. It is noone's fault but I hate that she missed out on 2.5 days of camp that we paid for. On tomorrow's agenda... painting. I am excited to get my room done but not looking forward to how sore I will be and how swollen I will end up.