We're having baby #3!!!

Yup, I'm pregnant!

We are so excited!  More excited today after a stressful week... well, stressful few weeks I guess.

First, spotting started...  spotting which continued for 16 days.  

At our first appointment at 6 weeks, the baby was measuring at the right size, but no heartbeat.  So there was our first stress.  So they did some blood work and wanted me back in 2 weeks to hopefully see a heartbeat on the ultrasound.

Spotting was still going on at this point.

Then the spotting stopped finally the Tuesday before my next appointment....

So, 2 weeks later (this last monday), we went and yay!!!!  There was a heartbeat... BUT, then there was the blood results.........
Growth hormone.... crazy high...
Progesterone....too low.. :(

I've known people who have lost their pregnancies due to low progesterone. 

The doctor likes to see a number around 15 or more.
Below 10 is dangerous.
I was at 7. :(

If that moment in the office wasn't scary enough, the doctor sent me for more blood work, and said to come back thursday...

That was it?  No progesterone prescription?  It's possibly been low for 2 weeks and now I'd have to wait 4 more days and have no idea what's going on or what's going to happen.  What if I lost the baby before the appointment?

Ugh...  that was a horrible 4 days.  Every cramp I was running to the bathroom to make sure there was no blood.  And I had pretty much banned myself to the couch to make sure I didn't do anything else that could help the chance of a miscarriage. 

So, Thursday came... yesterday.

I got more and more nervous as we headed to our appointment.  We finally got called back and of course the wait was longer than normal.  They put us in the ultrasound room again.  We waited... and waited...

The doctor finally came in and this time checked the blood results first...

He did a bunch of other tests that all came back normal...

Then the growth hormone...  Crazy high again...  It was at 90,000 at 6 weeks, and it had went up to 150,000 at 8 weeks.

Then for the progesterone.......
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It DOUBLED!   All on it's own!  It went to a 14.5! :D  The doc said anything close to 15 is good and it's obviously going up on it's own.  So he sent me for blood work 1 more time to make sure it's still continuing to rise.  and I go back before thanksgiving.  :D

Oh and ultrasound again... our little bean has at least doubled in size from the 2 weeks before, and I saw arms! :D  It was quick, just to check the heartbeat which was still beating away :D 

Ugh, what a relief. 

This is our last baby (so the husband says... he he he....), so we're hoping for a girl, but if we do end up with a 3 boy clan, it won't be the end of the world, we just want a happy, healthy little munchkin. 

And oh how I am enjoying my day knowing baby is ok... 9 weeks tomorrow! :D 

Have the most amazing news!!!!

But I can't tell you you :D

I know, I know... suspense, suspense!  lol

I should be able to tell you the good stuff like Tuesday???

Hope everyone's week is as blessed as mine and I hope you all have a fab weekend!

Cupcake Sandwiches

Last year I brought these for my Son (Aiden's) Kindergarten class.  Super cool Idea!  A little messy though.  I saw this idea on the Betty Crocker website.   


Simple Idea, you use the tops of the cupcakes.  You have to really overfill the cupcake pan so that they go over a good amount, enough to have a good top to cut off.  I added food coloring to the mix as well as the frosting and voila!!!!

 

I think they would have been more sturdy had I cooked them more, but I like them super moisy and almost goey!  

Maternity - Newborn Shoot w/ The White Fam Bam!

I am SO lucky to be surrounded with beautiful friends to take pictures of!  I got to take pictures for the gorgeous Lacey, her fiance Greg (or GDub as we like to call him), her daughter Carly and The soon to make an appearance Gehrig!  First we did pictures early on in pregnancy for her baby shower invites...

Then we did pictures again one week before induction!!!

 

And this weekend we did pictures of the little man at a little over 2 weeks old!  I must say he is NOT fond of the paparazzi!  lol  But I still love him anyways, we made it work!  lol

In our few hours together, I think I definitely captured the many moods of Gehrig!  Oh how I miss having a newborn in the house.  I'm pretty sure if I don't get pregnant soon I'm gonna go NUTS!  EVERYONE around me had a new baby or is pregnant.  ugh....  Someday... someday... hopefully someday before my other kids are 18!  :D

I'm coming home....

I feel like I've been gone from my poor neglected blog forever!

One of my goals is going to be to make a conscious effort to get back here and BLOG!  :D  I STILL have to update all the new updating we've done in the house, and I still have more I'm going to start doing!  :D  So exciting! 


I'm going to be working on transforming our office and updating the kitchen! :D 

And I have some super fun pieces of furniture I need to transform!  AHHH!  I can't wait! :D

wow, I'm so behind!

I have a TON of posts to do! I'm so behind!  lol 

Let's get caught up, the house updating is basically done.. for now at least.  There's still two rooms that need floors but we're not worrying about them right now.  The kitchen still needs cabinets redone and new counter tops but that will probably be our project when we get our taxes back next year. 

I'm officially licensed and open for daycare!  Been done for about a month and had kids for most of it! :D  Yay!  Exciting!  It was perfect to start over summer vacation because it's like a play date every day for my boys.  Quite a few of the kids that come are from his class so he loves it! 

We've been going to the park a TON!  We're always either in our pool or at the park.  Keeps the kids busy! :D 

I'm excited to hopefully get more full time kids soon!  Although it is nice having part time kids cause there's days we have no kids and it's just us and we can still go do other stuff (sea world, water park, etc...).

My little man turned 6!  AHHHH!  He's a 1st grader.  To know how he came into this world (born in a garage, birth mother used drugs and had no prenatal care), and to see where he is now (absolutely no struggles, you wouldn't know he had a rougher start than any other child around....  He just makes me smile! :D  And he has such an amazing little personality. 

My baby boy, he's about to turn 5 in... 17 days!!!!  (we're not counting or anything, lol) and he's super excited about that!  He's going into Kindergarten in a few weeks, and they have full days this year so I am very excited about that!  lol!  He's not a happy boy when he's home before his brother and has to wait for him.

I just totally wiped out my computer.. saved everything on my backup drive and deleted it!  It was so full I couldn't put another thing on it. 

Well, I have one munchkin eating breakfast in the high chair and the big munchkins are paying house right outside the back door and I'm sitting in between so I can watch both.  lol  So I'll leave you with some pictures of my munchkins and the daycare munchkins from june! :D 

I'm so lucky I have such an amazing group of munchkins to hang out with! :D  Love them!

Ice Cream or cupcakes??? little bit of BOTH!!!

So, I'm just finally getting some time to breath.  All the floors are done.... Correction...  All the floors we're doing for right NOW are done..  The painting's done, although I want to paint something on the boys wall.. a tree with an owl specifically.

So, I'm taking a minute to show you what I made for Aiden's class the last day before spring break.

Please don't mind my HORRIBLE icing job.  This is what happens when I use store bought icing instead of making my own!  lol  BUT, it was a must because at the time the flooring guys were working on the living room floors and I had no floors in the kitchen AND I had to not only make these cupcakes, but muffins for Nolyn's class and, AND paint the doors, door frames & bathroom ceiling and walls because the floor guys came the next day.  So, to say the least they were a rushed treat!

But, turned out super cute and the class loved them!  I just put the cupcake mix right into the cones and cooked them like that in the oven.  Came out great!  Frosted them after they cooled and added some sprinklers.  Will definitely be doing these again.