For those of you who still look at my page, since I havent been on here forever......here are some pics for you. The first few were taken by JCPennys when she was like 2 weeks old. But the others are alot more recent. Well by now Addi is going to be 15 weeks old on wednesday August 12th. Very close to 4 months already, I cant believe it. I was told time and time again to cherish every moment you have with her and I have tried very hard to do that but it still moves wayyyyy too fast. I love being a mom and she is such a good baby. She has been having some sleeping problems lately but we have worked up a schedual for her bedtime and shes been doing really well on it. And she is starting to find her fingers and toes. She loves shoving her fingers down her throat.....I hope that doesnt end up being a problem later...hahahahaha j/k She weighs about 14 lbs and is almost 25 inches long. Shes a tall little one. She is also a very happy baby when she isnt screaming cause shes tired. She unfortunatley fights sleep all day cause she is too much of a nib-nose. but she does sleep pretty well at night. She has awsome head control and is trying very hard to sit up on her own.....shes a little wobbley but I think here in the next week she will be sitting up on her own. She also rolled over the other day in her crib but sadly I missed it. She was on her belly and fussy cause it was 5 am and she was hungry and just woke up, well I was making her a bottle and realized I had to pee. It couldnt wait so I went. When I came back she was on her back looking up at me like "holy shit how did I get this way"......so I have been working with her to try to get her to do it again and she just wont yet. I am thinking it may have been an accident hahaha. She is also starting to giggle. Its the cutest thing ever! She is also doing this thing where she gets really excited and like inhales and out comes this like squeek thing. Its so funny cause she smiles when she does it. Anyhow I think thats about all thats going on here so I will try not to take so long next time, with getting pics on here. Love you all!!!

Stressed but cant wait to meet my little girl.......April 6th 2009

Hello all....I know, I know, its been forever. With remodeling a little, planning the shower, to the actual day of the shower, to trying to figure out what goes where in her room and getting things cleaned up and organized and not having any energy and being 8 months pregnant and working full time.......yeah I have been busy! Hahahaha In all honesty though, I am super excited about meeting this little girl!! We both cant wait. However I still have many things I need to do before she gets here. As of today I had a doctors appointment and everything is going very well. I have had some pain in the front and back part of my upper body and have been nauseated. Dr. Pizarro seems to think it may be my gallbladder but of course nothing can be done about it at the moment. Other than that I am great. I am tired but thats to be expected. My bloodpressure is 110/64. No bloodsugar problems. No swelling.....on the days I am not working. Her head is down and shes moving like crazy. She must be like 25 inches long hahahahahaha she is all up in my ribs and sternum and she feels like she is going to fall out the bottom. She has dropped so its getting alot harder to get up and down and even walk sometimes. I am getting very clumsy!! He also did a vaginal exam and I am not dialated yet. So I still have some time left......And she is still a girl!!! Thank God. He did a quick look see with the ultra sound machine today to see her position and I asked him just to check and see if she still was a girl. Not that I wouldnt want a boy but everything is pink.........I dont think he would like pink hahahahaha



As for the things still needing to be done......her room is not finished yet. Yeah thats really bothering me but I only have the weekends and I can only get so much done in 2 days. the crib is not here yet.....it will be here tomorrow. The house is an utter disaster....literally! Since we have been remodeling there is drywall dust caked to everything except Addisons things.....which is all that really matters, but I dont want her to be around all of this and breathing it in so I need to get the walls washed down and the floor mopped and things dusted off. I just finally got my hospital bag packed. I thought that was probably something I needed to do soon hahahaha



Chris still has to do his two week annual training for the military this month. He leaves April 13th and gets back April 27th or 28th.....that is if I dont go into labor first. His Pap Ralph does everything by the farmers almanac and according to him....I will be giving birth on the 24th. We will just have to see who is right. I have a feeling I am not going to make it until the 29th.......and alot of other people think the same a few dates people have chosen are the 14th, 15th, 24th, 25th or all the way into May 5th.....I said yeah there is no way iam going a week past my due date let alone 2 weeks. So anyhow I have my work cut out for me these next 3 weeks. This week is actually my last week of work. I wasnt going to take any time off before she got here because I wanted to spend all of it with her but with as much as I still have to do and as bad as work kills me yeah I thought I would take at least 2 weeks.



I am sorry there arent any pics on here at the moment.....chris didnt have any time earlier to crop the pics I do have, and I am not sure how to do it so as soon as I can I'll just post a whole bunch of pics so all of you can see my belly and the shower. We cant wait for her to get here and for all of you to meet her!!!! Its almost time!



We love you all!! Talk to you later!

Busy and waiting.....January 19, 2009

Hello All! Again I have not been on here for a while.....part of that reason was because we have been very busy getting our room straightened up so we can start on Addison,s and the other part is because we lost our internet for about a week. So anyhow, there's not too much new with me and the baby. We are both doing well. She keeps moving more and more everyday and kicking me pretty good now. Chris gets to feel it more often which makes us both happy. I am doing well just getting more tired. Here about a week ago I had the flu with the vomiting and diarreha. And Addison was not happy since I couldnt eat for about a day. But other than that we are good.

As I said in the last post Chris was trying to get into Consol, well he has had all three interviews and he is in!!! We are so happy for him. He thinks his start date is the first week of Febuary. Also he went to drill this month and found out that his annual AIT training (that he does every year) happens to fall in the month of April right around my due date.......go figure. Just my luck! But when we thought about it, it might actually be better than if he was down inside the mine. For one he was allowed to take his car. He asked of one his superiors and they said they would arrange it and all he has to do is say that I had popped and he could go. Also he is allowed to carry his cell phone so it will be a hundred times easier and faster to get ahold of him. Luckily he wont be too far away just in Youngstown, Ohio, unlike his usual training that is in Michigan so thank god for that. But I am also lucky to have my family near by incase I would need something since I will be by myself for about 3 weeks in the last part of my pregnancy.

As for our room.....its almost done! FINALLY! It seems like its been forever, but with my dad and Chris both working they can only go as fast as the days they have off. And I feel bad because I cant help but I am hoping to be able to do more in Addison's room. And I cant wait to get started on it. The pictures above are of our floor, and the red paint is the final color.....hahahaha! I love it but dad calls it whore house red. We are almost finished so when we are done I'll put the pics on here of the final product. We are hoping to be able to move into our room by this weekend and maybe start on hers next weekend.

We are also going to register this Saturday.......what I have been kinda dreading for a while. Not that I am not excited about it but I am just not too sure of everything I need. Jaime, my cousin, gave me a list of things she uses all the time and gets the most use out of, which will be a BIG help. But I am not a shopper and I have a feeling it will be an all day thing. Chris is going along and he said that if he doesnt get to scan items he's not going...........so it should be an interesting day. I just hope to god I dont leave Target or Toys r Us and end up with the entire store on the registry. Hahahaha!

Let me think if there is anything else I forgot to mention. As usual I posted another pic of my belly.....and I think in this picture I am 25 weeks or the sixth month. Iam definately feeling more klumsy....loosing my balance and tripping more. I have a little swelling in my fingers so I had to take my ring off. I only have swelling in my toes when I have been standing for about 2 hours or more. And also its getting alot harder to stand all day at work and not feel exhausted or irritable. I stood the other day for about 5 hours straight. Yeah its not fun. So I try very hard not to take it out on Chris but sometimes its not that easy.

I have another doctors appointment on the 10th of Feb. I will then have my belly measured and have the gestational diabetes test done. I am hoping everything goes well. After that appointment I will start going every 2 weeks, which means I am getting close!!! I cant wait for her to get here! I never thought I would be so excited about this but I am thrilled beyond belief!

I need to be going and get dinner started but I will keep you updated as it gets closer to the due date. Love You All!!

ITS A GIRL!!!! Dec 9th

Sorry I havent been on here lately......We have been busy. But I have plenty of new pics and news to share. As most of u know by now, we are having a girl. We had our ultra sound today....but I'll share more of this later when I get to the picture of my belly.

Ok so here is what Christmas is going to look like for me.........My house is a mess!!! I have no place to put anything. I came home yesterday and Chris had my tree put up for me! He is so sweet!! I was so excited. We were actually given this tree from Chris's uncle Russ. The lights on it dont work but we are just going to buy some new ones. I was so upset when I realized I might not have a tree for christmas this year. See last year I had to throw my old one away because I think it lost more needles than a real tree Hahahaha. So we didnt have the money this year to go out and buy a new one since we are using all the money we can right now for the back room. So Chris's uncle Russ gave us this tree that he had gotten from one of his friends. I hope to have it decorated by the time christmas comes but Im just not sure hahaha.

Here are some pics of our room in progress.......

And here is Jace....the cutest little cousin a person could have. I am so missing that little one right now.

And here is my newest pic taken today after my appointment. Ok so to continue the first paragraph....we found out today that we are having a GIRL!!! The women who did our ultra sound said she was almost 100% it was a girl until she saw the little hands down in the nether regions.....indicating it might be a boy hiding his goods. But she took alot more pics and almost every one after that showed a girl so at the end of the appointment she told us that she is about 90% sure. Which is good enough for me, of course Chris wants 100% but after seeing the pictures I am almost sure she was right. I am just so excited that everything else looks good. She took measurements of the head and belly and she said that everything measures out normal. She also took pictures of the umbilical cord and it had all three vessels in it, the brain looked really good, i saw both kidneys, the bladder and all four chambers of the heart. So I think that both of us are more excited about everything being ok than it being a girl....but we are also very happy about that!!
Also this really has nothing to do with the baby, but Chris had his interview for consol mines yesterday. He feels it went well but he wont hear anything for a little while. He works for century mine right now which is not union and consol mines are, which means he wont work as hard or as much unless he wants to. He also wants a mine to retire from and consol is the place. We are all so happy for him, I just wanted to pass the info along.

Ill write more later but for now I am going to relax for a while......Love You All!!!

The Fourth Doctors Visit

Hello all! I am sorry for not posting sooner but i have been very busy and tired and just havent gotten to it. Anyhow the top picture is a picture of our back room. We first had decided that the back room was to be the babies room. However now that we are getting into it we realized that our room we have have now is actually going to be the smaller room. So we are taking the bigger room since we have more furniture than the baby will have. It may take longer since we have two rooms to do instead of one but it will be better in the long run i think. And of course the bottom picture is me.....its a bad picture but at least you get to see the belly. Here I am 15 weeks. Yeah and also dont mind the mess in the backround of the pic.....we have no where to put anything from our back room so it has to be shoved into the living room which is driving me bananas!!

So as for the doctors appointment on the 11th, it went well. I have only gained 1 lb since my last visit which is about 6 or 7 lbs total. I got to hear the babies heartbeat for the first time also. That was pretty cool. It sounded like a horse galloping. There were 149 beats a min. And i was talking to a girl at work who has had two boys and a girl and she said that the lower the heartbeat the bigger chance its a boy.........so there is a good chance i may be carrying Corbin. We didnt do an ultrasound, but he said we will hopefully find out on Dec 9th the sex of the baby. He told me everything looks good and iam where i should be. So like i said my next appointment is on Dec 9th and if the baby cooperates we will hopefully find out what we are having. As for now there really isnt anything else going on so I am going to shower and make sugar cookies with Debbie. Talk to you all later!!

The third visit to the doctors!!

Well, there is me and big belly along with the ultrasound pic we had done today. Yeah I know I am huge for as far along as I am. Today we had our third doctors apointment. Everything went well and as far as we all could see........there is only one peanut! Yes only one. Hahaha But suprisingly I have not gained anymore weight from my last appointment. Yeah for me! I am 12 weeks now and out of the three month period.....Almost! The doctor said everything looked good and as long as I was feeling ok he was just going to see me in 4 weeks. I am still very tired but feeling good for the most part. Again today she used the intravaginal wand to take peanuts pic, but because I am still early we got a better pic that way. And just for the fun of it she looked to see if we could see the sex yet but nothing. Maybe next time. Let me tell you this baby is a mover. It was turning and flipping like crazy, using its little head to try to turn over and things. I just cant wait until I start to really feel it. We also got to see the heartbeat. We measured 165 beats per min which is good! It was the most crazy thing ever. And Mr. Tough guy (Chris) standing in the corner said that when he saw the baby moving he started smiling and got really excited. I have to admit also that I got a little emotional too. But anyhow I think thats about all that happened today. My next appointment is on Nov. 11. I will post more later but for now, I am quite tired. Love you all!!

The First Update--September 26

Well this is my first post to tell you all about how I am doing so far. At this point I am 9 weeks in and it feels like its been forever already Hahaha. I havent had much morning sickness, what little I did have I think was because of my prenatal vitamins. Unfortunatley I have been very very tired. I feel like I could sleep all day and still not have any energy. I have had two doctors appointments since I found out August 21st about "peanut". The first appointment (on Sept. 4) I was very nervous and sadly Chris was unable to be with me because of work so my mom went along. The doctor said then that I was about 6 weeks and doing well. The "peanut" had its first picture that day with an intravaginal ultrasound wand....that scared the living poo out of me. Debbie failed to let me in on that little tidbit.....Haha J/K. Anyway, I had blood work taken and on my next appointment (on Sept. 18th) we discussed it and looked again at the ultrasound....which Chris got to see but that was about it. My next appointment is on October 14th and at that point I will be 12 weeks and hopefully in the clear......with the whole first three months and all. If for some reason...u have anything you want to know that maybe I didnt include in here feel free to call me. I love you all and on my next apointment is when u'll hear from me again.