My Valentines

Today I went out with Brian. We saw Book of Eli (don’t see it). That’s all I’m going to say about that movie. But it was nice to go out.

What was funny is we left for the movie shortly after the Daytona 500 started. I returned home nearly 4 hours later and the race was still on. And it ended great as well.

Do I think Dale Jr. has a chance at the championship this year? No. But I think he’ll do better. Bonus would be him winning it though. I just don’t get my hopes up.

The baby is beating me up from the inside. She’s especially active at night which to me means she’ll have to be trained at birth to sleep at night, not be awake.

Tomorrow we’re doing a Toddler Chef cooking thing. Hopefully the kids enjoy it. Then I’m babysitting for a friend, much to the pleasure of my mother. LOL! But it shouldn’t be long.

I was going to write an interesting post, but nope I have nothing interesting to write at the moment.

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X Months…

Oddly enough with this pregnancy I haven’t been able to figure out how many months I am. I think I’m five months. The one thing I know for sure, I’m 21 weeks tomorrow.

Saw the doctor today! Heartbeat sounded good. Doctor seemed please.

Lost 4lbs as well. I’m hoping to continue to lose as well. I know some people are thinking, WHAT?! But I’m obese I could stand to lose the weight. The baby is measuring fine, actually big, so the baby isn’t suffering since I’m losing. Actually I think the baby is benefiting.

I asked her what my glucose number was when I did my glucose test at 10 weeks. She said 107. 130 is when you hit the high and above normal range. I’m happy, 107 is better than when I was pregnant with Kaylee. So that’s great. Hopefully at 26 weeks I will pass that one hour as well.

My blood pressure, which always worries me, was 120/74. Back down to where I was pre-Kaylee. My blood pressure has never been high, but since Kaylee it went up a bit to 130s/80s. So I’m glad to see it back down to where I’m used to seeing it. This might be because of the weight loss. Or maybe because I’m not eating as many things with salt in them and I’m drinking more water? Eh, who knows. But it’s low. Blood Pressure issues scare the shit out of me. Mainly the fact that you can have a stroke and die. I’d prefer to live.

I talked to the doctor about my heartbeat issues and I feel better now. I think part of it is anxiety, you can have attacks even without feeling the emotions, and also just hormones. I do notice it only happens for a few days a month and she says you have rushes of hormones each month, almost like PMSing. That’s when this happens. She said as long as I don’t faint, it should be a problem. So I feel better.

I asked about my birth plan as well. With Kaylee I never got to go over it. It’s nothing huge, I just told her I’d rather not be barking orders out at the hospital. She said to bring it in next time and we’d go over it. She said no problem with wanting to go over it early, she totally understands.

I’m sure I had other questions but I didn’t write them down. I didn’t ask about alternatives to Epidurals and Spinal Blocks, mainly because she said we’d go over the birth plan next time. So when we go over that I’ll talk to her about alternatives.

I’m feeling the baby daily, especially at night. She says that’s how it goes. LOL! I said yeah I’ll have to retrain this baby when she’s born. LOL!

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Baby Registry

I should just create one here on this site, lol! Because not everything I want comes on the same site but most are on my Babies R Us register.

For instance this Packin’ Smart 5 Tier system is so very cool. You could pack a whole days worth of formula in it. So very cool.

Then there is this Baby Leg Warmers. So cute!

There are a few other things that I can’t remember right now, one I know is far too much money anyhow.

Tomorrow I see the doctor by the way. We’ll see how things are going.

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Zee Craft

So Kaylee saw this craft on NickJr yesterday morning so I told her we could do it, luckily I had all the material needed to do it. Zee is typically a blue bird but I let her pick out the colors. She went with pink of course. It’s made of felt. The directions say felt is best but you can also do it with a fabric I suddenly can’t remember the name of.

What you do it go over to NickJr and print out the patterns and then just glue everything together. What’s kind of cool too is if you want you can make it a hand puppet by not glueing the bottom shut. I stuffed this one with stuffing so it’s a little plush animal instead.

Later today we’re going to make Moose. Sadly for a 3 year old, this craft kind of is boring to do. Mainly because they can’t do the cutting, only the gluing and the cutting part takes forever. So my advice is to cut the patterns out before you even tell your child you are going to be doing it so that when you do start it’s simply gluing everything in place.

You can make other animals as well, I’m thinking of doing a cat and a dog as well. I’ll put up pictures of our creations.

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The Reach of the Internet…

So off and on I do website google searches on some of the blogs I read just to see what’s going on. Recently on of the Mommy Bloggers gave a speech that I guess came off as condescending and offensive to some at the conference she was giving the speech at. I read the speed and maybe because I already know she’s insanely religious, I’d put her up there on the fundi level, it wasn’t much of a surprise to me. Perhaps though these people at the speech didn’t know of her, or were just not avid readers of hers. What she said is nothing she hasn’t said before. I can see though why her statements would anger someone especially those with children suffering with disorders or life threatening illness’. The common statement was, “Why won’t/didn’t God heal my child?” I’d actually like to see her answer that question. See what her thoughts are on the subject. But I’d hazard to guess based on her previous posts that she’d just say simply that it’s God’s will. That doesn’t answer the question of Why though but she’s not God nor should she even try to speak for God, and I would hope she never would.

Anyhow back to the reason for this post. During this I stumbled upon a website dedicated to pointing out the lies and what they deem bad parenting of this blogger. Some of it is amazing, it’s public record if you wanted to dig that deep. It also makes you wonder about how happy her life really is and why organizations such as Focus on the Family would even hold her family up to be a representative of the organization. Her husband was arrested twice on domestic violence last year. Hardly the model of a perfect family. But they have become very religious, I think even more religious than before, so perhaps it’s a story of redemption that Focus likes? Who knows, and frankly don’t care cause I’m not a fan of Focus at all.

It’s just interesting to know the true person behind the blog. The real struggles they’ve had, which I think she should openly address, and speak to. I mean many people in this nation/world go through these same things, losing homes, debt, domestic violence, sick children, skewed priorities, etc… so why not go ahead and actually speak to those things and how her faith and strength helped guide her through. Instead she deletes, bans and basically ignores anyone who questions her on those issues. There is nothing wrong with what’s happened in her life, so why she feels the need to hide them is beyond me. But sometimes people just like to keep the crappy stuff private. I think it just shows who you are when you tell everything.

Anyhow that was my thoughts on the whole thing. I’ll continue to follow both sites just because I find it fascinating. Plus the length some people will go to get information is amazing as well.

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