Getting closer, let the countdown begin!

So I haven't blogged in awhile sorry! I am now 34 weeks and have just 3 left until I'm full term! Last doctors appointment little Charlie was 4 lbs 9 oz and looks like he has his dad's beautiful full lips! They say that when you get this far along the baby moves less but Charlie is still being an acrobat, sometimes it looks like he is knocking on my belly like "let me out!" HUGE HUGE HUGE!
I had a little get together/baby shower for friends down here in Layton and I got tons of diapers and cute little outfits, of course all clothes that small look soooo cute! My mom came down and spoiled her new grandson(and me) it was nice to talk pregnancy fears and labor worries with her and now I have a lot of the little things I needed like bottles and binkys and so forth. The nursery is just missing a few things so I guess I can post pictures now. It's monkey themed!
I made the things that say Charlie and now I want to get a shelf for the empty space.
I sewed those curtains and those baby slings all by myself, I was so proud of me!
I just love this wall because I cannot wait to fill this frame with pictures of my baby, and of course he is our little monkey! On the floor beneath this is a wicker basket filled with stuffed monkeys! If he was born now we could handle it I think but I want to make sure he is nice a chubby so three weeks to go!
Hiding her naughtiness under the table
So just a quick little post about our dog miss Suzie. I think she knows something is up. The other day she made me so mad, it was like she was trying to get me angry. I woke up, she pooped on the floor. I left her alone for a minute, she chewed the remote control and then tried to hide it in her kennel! I had to take a shower and came out she had gotten the hall closet open and taken out the shoes and ripped all the coats down and spread them everywhere! I had just about had it and put her in the kitchen with the gate up for a few hours. I let her out when I got done running errands and taking her on her walk we came back in and PEED on the floor right in front of me, she hasn't peed inside in so long and I had to clean up and it was stinky. And whenever she does something naughty she knows and will hide and try to get out of it by looking all cute. I am immune to her cutenes. She better not do this when Charlie comes!

32 weeks

Just a quick update, went to the doctor and weighed the same I did last time!! Probably because they weren't letting me eat anything! I talked to the doctor and was like um, I don't have gestational diabetes, my blood sugars have been fine. She said, oh yeah, it looks like your probably just sensitive to sugar....GRRRR, Yeah, I knew that like three weeks ago when this all started but whatever. I scared myself today by counting the days until I am 37 weeks and there are only 35 days, and I was thinking wow, I've been waiting for him to come and now I'm not so sure I'm ready! Larin says it is too late now!
The cold that everyone has been getting has made it to our house, it started in Larin and I thought I had dodged it and then woke up a few days ago coughing.
Robert and Rachel and their family were passing through and asked if they could drop in, I said sure if they wanted to brave the sickness, but apparently it had already been passed around their family. It was nice to see them, little Spencer is so grown up now, I say that all the time but him and Robert were playing and talking and I am like he is just like his dad! I'm glad family stops by since it is so hard for us to get up to Idaho with Larin's schedule.
Our apartment complex finally chipped out the ice in our area of the parking lot and what do ya know, we had a winter storm come through and the sun doesn't hit our area so it's all piled up again!
Anyways, no pictures this time, I really am trying to get the nursery all put together! There's our past two weeks in a nutshell!

Week 30 and Dr. update.

Well, I didn't pass my three hour glucose test, surprise! I have to go meet with the diabetic diet counselor, even though my fasting and my three hour sugars were well within normal I guess the others were not. I have DIR, for those who don't know anything about sugar and insulin release let me explain where I fall. If you have type I diabetes your body doesn't make insulin, if you have type 2 diabetes your body makes insulin but it is not functional, and DIR, which stands for delayed insulin release, means my insulin works fine and my body makes it, not diabetes at all. I just don't release it right away or in small amounts so my blood sugar goes a little high my body produces insulin and instead of releasing a little at a time to keep my sugars normal it waits and releases a large amount causing my sugars to drop really low. One time it got to 35 and it is not supposed to go below 70, so if they treat me for diabetes and give me insulin....bad idea! I have felt a lot better since I got pregnant and haven't fell too low in awhile and I really don't want to give up on my cravings!! Hopefully I can convince the counselor. Anywho, afterwards I was a little upset and told Larin that I might as well get an Icee since I might not get one later, and the Icee machine was broken!!! Bad day! Here's the week 30 belly picture, 7 weeks left by my count.....Starting to gain weight other than my belly! 17 pounds so far! We are finally getting somewhere on getting all the stuff for Charlie. Isn't it crazy that for a baby, tiny little thing, you have to buy I'm gonna say like 900 different items! I don't want to post pics of the nursery until it is completely done, but it is looking so cute. My new thing is finding cheap but nice things for the baby I get soo excited when I get a good deal. Larin doesn't really like buying stuff used since it's our first baby so a lot of the stuff is new and costly but I found a travel system, that's the stroller, the car seat and the car seat base for $50! And it doesn't look used at all and I got a military discount, saweet.I love it! I just had to post a picture because I am so proud of myself. Lastly, here's the latest picture of Charlie, he is sooo cute! Okay so I'm a little biased, but come on look at him!

I don't like doctors!

Nothing personal I've just had some bad times with them. I got really sick last year and the doctors couldn't get it together and figure it out. They gave me all these different diagnoses and then would change their minds after making me treat that diagnosis. Long story short it sucked, Larin even called in to complain because they didn't give us one of my lab results for almost two months and it was an important one. So after all this I wanted to have a baby, I said I didn't care if I was sick anymore just no more doctors! Larin said if I went to this one specialist for these few more tests and if he said I was well enough to have a baby then we would. Obviously he said it was okay and frankly I have felt most of my symptoms from before have gotten less intense now that I'm pregnant... then the doctor had to check me for gestational diabetes. I have done that test before and knew from how I felt I wasn't going to pass. So I didn't pass and have to do the longer 3 hour test tomorrow and I know from past experience I am not going to pass that one either, but it doesn't mean I have diabetes just that my body is all weird! I have been a very tolerant pregnant lady, with mild mood swings but if they take away my CARBS, even when I know it won't help, I will not be very nice, not at all! Just had to vent, doctors need to listen!

Week 27...10 to go!

Here's the updated belly pic! 27 weeks so in 10 weeks I'll be considered full term and I told Charlie that's when he is evicted! Pregnancy wise I am just getting more and more uncomfortable. I had bad hips before pregnancy and now if I try and do too much I wake up the next day in so much pain I can't get out of bed, it's tons of fun. Everyone I bump into thinks I'm tiny! Can't believe anyone thinks this is tiny! Charlie has been getting the hiccups which is a weird sensation, I feel bad for him because it happens a couple times a day but they say it doesn't bother them. I waddle everywhere I go and Larin thinks it's hilarious! Anywho that's the update on the pregnancy!

Here are the New Years pics

Taylor took this picture all by herself, she held the camera and said say 'Happy New Year's!'


She was very hyper!
Brooklyn invented her own little song
Taylor Belle playing her 'horn'
Grandma, Taylor, Brookie and RJ all ready for the new year!

Party! Kind of.....

Larin had to go back down to Utah for his work, go Army right? Anyways my parents were going to watch Katie and Ryan's kids and I didn't feel up to going out all night so we decided to have our own little party that would end early! Taylor and Brooklyn got really crazy after we let the two of them have their own bottle of sparkling cider, it was hilarious. They chased each other around the living room for 10 minutes straight! We bought little poppers and when their parents came to pick them up we set them off. Taylor had to tell everyone Happy New Year's about fifty times and Brooklyn was running around giving hugs and screaming, it was so cute! Poor RJ was just sleepy, and the party ended a little before ten, but for a pregnant tired lady it was perfect. I'll load the pictures later because my computer is being weird!