Monday News

I have been so bad about posting. OH WELL, sue me!!! Last week was just crazy! I am still not back to normal. The incision sites and my belly button still hurt, not as bad, but still. And the worst part....my belly is still huge!!!! All me regular shorts that I was wearing...yeah - no, not now! Maternity clothes!!! HATE it!!!! I literally cannot button regular pants.





Little Peanut is getting so big!!!! He is 13 weeks tomorrow and as of Friday's doctor's appointment, he is 7 pounds 13 ounces!!!!! I am so pleased with his weight gain and so is his doctor.





Nags Head plans are well under way. Trying to finalize some stuff before we head out. FYI - house will not be vacant all would be burglars!!!! We have two big dogs and they have a dog sitter coming!!!! BEWARE! They get very protective if momma isn't here!!!

Here is the menu and cooking teams that will go out to everyone this week. It's not very clear - but you get the idea. We are very organized!!! It's one of my favorite things to do with my cousin HollyBeth!

If ya can't read what we are actually eating it's like this:

Saturday - pizza and salad

Sunday - pork tenderloin

Monday- mexican night

Tuesday-shrimp night

Wednesday - pinwheels night

thrusday- hamburgers and hotdogs

friday - left overs

saturday- come home!!!

I am still trying to wrap up last years video - I can't find the cd that HollyBeth gave me from her camera with 08's photo's on it..might have to see if she can over night them to me!

Off to finish laundry and then to Walmart and work for a bit!!!

Men may not want to read this!

This is a very open and honest posting, so if you don't want to read anything icky, stop now.

So nothing about this pregnancy/delivery/baby has gone "normal". Right? Well, the saga continues.

I had continued bleeding well after my 6 week postpartum check up. I went to the doctor last Monday, which was a day shy of 11 weeks postpartum, still bleeding. My ob's did an ultra sound - which showed I had retained some "pregnancy tissue"...So a D&C was in my horizon.

I was not worried or anything. It was a simple procedure that had no emotional attachments like having one aftger a miscarriage....

I just wanted to stop bleeding!!

So yesterday I had my D&C. Which should have been a short little 20 minute procedure. Well it wasn't.

My uterus was in such bad shape (like the rest of my body) that it tore. Which then meant, they had to go in thru my belly button and make a couple other incisions around my belly, and stitch me up.

Oh and they fill you up with some sort of gas. Which causes the most god awful cramps in the shoulder/collar bone region. And blows your belly up. I look more pregnant now than I did when I gave birth.

Good thing I didn't put up all the maternity clothes!!

So, I got home late yesterday evening - in a lot of pain. Can't really move to well, but I have to move to keep from cramping up. I have been hit by a mack truck!!!

Now here's the "humorous part". I had mom take me so Neil didn't have to be out of work. Not a big deal, and after all, I did have Ethel take him for his vasectomy. Ethel had the kids (and baby). So, here was my mom, having to call my hubby and say - ummm yeah - not going as planned...bless his heart. He is such a good man and I am sure it tore his nerves up to not be with me. (yeah right)

As I was coming out of the anesthesia, I did ask two things....one for phone to call and check on the baby and two - if Ob Doc did a tummy tuck while he was working there.

He didn't.

So here I sit, on my but that is continuing to get bigger - all crampy and sore. And a little loopy from the pain meds - so if I missed a word or two - contact the publishing company.

I can't wait until baby is a teenager and I can use the phrase "you have no idea what I went thru having you! don't tell me your not going to clean your room"

Two Miracles

Peanut Weight Check.......as of Tuesday July 7th, he weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces!!!! It's all about the boobages... :)

This is a picture of Peanut and a little boy that we are friends with, Luc. Luc is 6 and he is a miracle too! He was born early and had some pretty extensive "issues" to battle. He won. Isn't he the cutest thing?

His family came into our life because of that dreaded thing called SOCCER!!!

Having been in our shoes 6 years earlier, they knew what we were going thru. They listened. Kerri, "the mom", let me vent and would just remind me that this is a roller coaster ride....It as meant so much to us to see their little boy, as he will also be thought of as special, he is just a "normal" little boy....

So of course, we were at soccer on Wednesday night - and Luc wanted to hold "un bebe", so of course, I was going to let him!!!! So here they are - two little miracles.... Peanut was totally sacked out!!!

And on a side note, here is Pootie and his buddies from soccer on Wednesday night, it was a memorial tourney for a young man who played and coached at one of our local high schools and was killed in a car accident last year...

These little 12 year old boys played high school kids and WON!!! It was awesome...and no, the big kids were not giving the games away - they were actually stunned to have their butts handed to them by these little guys. They wore the pink pennies to make the varsity girls team they had to play in the finals feel good.....Pootie is back row, 2nd from the right

As my daddy always says, "if size were a matter of importance, Miss America would weigh 400 pounds and the world would be ruled by elephants!"

And here is Lola and her new hair cut.......it was still a tad wet - but it's very cute...

And here is Crash - he was so sweet the other night at the tourney - he helped sell hot dogs and etc for the memorial fund...