Cherish Those Moments

Wow, another blog so soon.

This is seriously the worst time possible for me to be blogging.

Oh well.

Last night I layed down with Hyrum to put him to bed.

The plan was to sing a couple fun songs with him, say his prayers, and let him fall asleep.

Hyrum and I ended up singing songs, playing 'finger pupets', and chatting about spiders, bugs, movie characters he likes....

We did this for a good solid hour until Ricky decided he was going to bed also, and made us be quiet.

:(

Hyrum went right to sleep.

I had a good time playing and chatting with him. We don't spend time like that together extremely often.

Oh, and we went and chopped down our Christmas tree last night and Hyrum was soo happy to FINALLY have a Christmas Tree in HIS house.

While we chatted last night in bed, I learned that Hoba, an ant from the movie Ant Bully, lives in our Christmas Tree. :)

..Title?

This post isn't about too much in particular. Just updates I suppose.

I haven't been taking pictures tately, so I don't have anything to post from Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was pretty good. We had lots of good food, and friends came in and out all day to eat.

I didn't feel good. Had an awful headache all day, that lasted until early Friday morning, and no amount of tylenol or attempt in fluid intake helped it.

I managed to survive the day though and enjoyed the company.

I had planned to do some Black Friday shopping at some point, but knew I wasn't going to head out right away and wait in any crazy lines outside anywhere. Plus, I had that awesome headache that I mentioned.

I decided I'd sleep, and nap, until I woke up and then go do some shopping. I woke up at 2am, but did not leave.

The headache was still there, and I get paranoid about going out in the dark, late at night, alone..

I have a phobia of being 'kid napped' and hurt.

Any way, I decided that I didn't feel comfortable leaving the house, feeling crummy and not being 100% on my game at that time of night. So, I sent Ricky to sleep in my bed with Hyrum and I took over sleeping on the couch for a little while longer..

I woke up again at 6am, got dressed and headed out. First stop was Target. When I got there, the parking lot was nearly empty, so I got front row parking. I didn't have to wait around for a cart, and cashiers were literaly standing at their stations waiting for people to come check out.

The other awesome part of this was that I got everything I intended on getting! and I didn't have to fight a crowd to get it!

I had the SAME LUCK with Old Navy, and Home Depot after that.

Once going to those three stores, I decided I'd just get back in bed because I was feeling crummy, but Ricky, Scott and Hyrum decided to wake up and get dressed to head out for some shopping also.

I was going to stay home and rest, but I was starting to have anxiety, after feeling so sick, and being tired, and having them leaving, I decided to put my shoes back on and go back out with the guys so I wouldn't sit around thinking about how I felt.

We went to, WalMart, Game Stop, Best Buy, Target.. I barffed at every store. While in the car driving from one place to the other, I'd have to roll the window down and hang my head out. I spent 30min in the bathroom at BestBuy barfing.

Fun stuff.

After we got in the car from Target, I emptied out the target bag by me and started throwing up in the bag.

Luckily we were right by the apartment.. I was able to go home, jump in the shower, and rest. Though I was EXTREMELY concerned and somewhat freaking out..

At that time I was 17wks pregnant, I had had a Dr. apointment 1 week prior to this.

I decided to weigh myself, and when I did, I was 8lbs DOWN from my Dr. Apointment just a week before.

I called around and got ahold of some on call nurses and they instructed me to go to the ER, due to the rapid weight loss.

I pretty much figured that I was dehydrated to some degree.

They hooked me up to IV's and started pumping me up with fluids, naseua meds, and an antibiotic to treat for UTI.

That day was the most I have ever felt my baby move this entire pregnancy. It was very happy from all the fluids, baby partied non stop for several hours. I wish it was like that more often. Give me constant reasurrance.

But any way.. That was my Thanksgiving adventure. And, I can now say that I have gone 1 full week without vomitting, for the first time in almost 5months..

Last week, I decided that at this point, no matter what, the baby in my belly will need a name. So, last week I started looking around at names.

I have a favorite name each day of the week. Nothing was really exciting me. I know that when we find out, boy or girl, on the 16th, things will be a lot easier. We will be able to focus on one sex of names, and crack down on our search.

I came across a name on Thursday I think, and I still loved it today. So, I MIGHT have a name ready if this baby is a boy! It starts with a D. and is Irish! it's fun, unique, and different like Hyrum's was/is, to most in the beginning.

I have a girl name that I have also been playing around with since the same day, and I have only divulged it to ONE person. Actually, this ONE person knows BOTH of the names I have picked out at the moment! lucky her.

Any way, there is one full week of class left to go. The following is just finals.. my last final is the morning of the 15th. yuck. but I can't wait to take it, because the NEXT morning, school will be OVER, and I will be getting the big Ultrasound!

On another note.. I am ready for Christmas.. this is the latest we have gone without setting up Christmas. We will be going out and chopping down our tree some time today.

I'm excited to finally be surrounded by Christmas decor. It's the best, and my favorite part of the entire year!

Well, I suppose I should stop being lazy and get my shower so that I am ready to leave when Ricky finishes up the work he is doing around the complex.

I hope you had fun reading my randomness. :)



No Control

Last week, I thought I was catching Hyrum's cold, the he had the weekend before.

So, my nose has been stuffy or snotty or both all together.

Then, Friday I started having nose bleeds. I've now had four since Friday.

Now that I am 16weeks, I started reading my 16week section in my pregnancy book, and it talked about the pregnancy nasal congestion, plus nose bleeds--- nose bleeds because of the extra estrogen and yadi yada..

So.. This is all pregnancy related.

I practicaly stayed in bed until 7pm today. I feel like I have no control!

Just one of those, extra tired, catching up on sleep, dealing with a bleeding nose kind of days.

I either sneeze, and pee myself.. or throw up and pee myself.. now, I can also add-- sneeze, and my nose starts to bleed.

It's only out of one nostril, and they aren't horrible, just really annoying.

A tenant knocked on the door today to tell me something and blood started pouring out of my nose. I had to grab a towel, and stand there plugging my nose while she talked, and then let her know I would tell Ricky about her issue, so he could take a look at it and fix it or whatever needed to be done.

I think I need to carry an emergency towel with me to class in the morning and what not incase my nose decides to bleed.

I was afraid to go grocery shopping in case my nose were to start bleeding.. I didn't want to grose everybody out.

So, Ricky is grabbing all of the holiday groceries and stuff for the week, as I type.

Well, that's my news and I'm sticking to it.

The big ultrasound is on December 16th at 11am.

I have no guesses or clues as to whether I am carrying a boy or girl this time around. I mostly call it a him when I talk to Hyrum.

Either, will be fine with me.

now, I am in desperate need of a shower.

Christmas Fever

 

(this is a 'Bubmlebee' themed bike from Transformers.. Hyrums LOVES transformers)

By this time last year, I was more than half way through my Christmas shopping.

I was buying for a ton of people last year, this year isn't going to be so crazy. Therefor, I have not started spending.

I did buy some fleece when it went on sale at JoAnns, so I can make some blankets for people this year.

I am 24yrs old, married, and have a 3yr old son--- I have not grown out of the excitement of Christmas.

My parents can vouch for the fact that gorwing up, myself, and my siblings would be out of bed waiting for Christmas by 5am.

I don't like surprises and just want to hurry up and know what is inside of all of the wrapping and packages.

Because of that fact, I am today, still as anxious about Christmas as ever! Especially now that I have a child who I get to see be excited when he awakes on Christmas morning.

I can't wait to give other people gifts, especially if it's something I am positive they will be super excited about.

It's just all fun and feel good, who can not like it?!

Now that you have all noticed the collage of bikes within this post I will explain!

My favorite and most memorable "Santa" gifts, were all of the new Bikes I recieved throughout the years.

I loved walking into the living room and seeing the awesome, new, shiny bike that Santa had left in the living room for me...

I would take a seat next to my new bike and that would be where I open my gifts when the time came.

I remember when Jessica and I would ride our bikes after school, or throughout the summer, all day long. We would ride so much, to the point where I mastered the skill of riding my bike, HANDS FREE, around, in and out, and up and down every street in the neighborhood.

I don't dare practice that skill today, and I have a bike that I love, that is far to expensive to ever replace. especially not every year.

I DO however, have a 3yr old son who has mastered the art of peddeling his trike!

Do you know what this means!?

YEP! My Hyrum is ready for his very own big boy bike.

He will have the chance to wake up, and walk into the living room this year, and lay eyes on his very

own, new, shiny bike, that Santa will have placed, perfectly and carefully in our living room, next to our Christmas tree!

The bikes you see throughout this post are some that are being considered, that Hyrum picked out while we were browsing through the Toys R Us website together!

BABY it's Cold OutSide

First of all, I really shouldn't been blogging right now. I should be doing more work on my 4-6 page personal essay so I can turn in a rough draft Tuesday night.

On another note, it's cold outside! "Summer" abruptly ended what seems like three weeks after it started. Now, we are welcomed with gray, cloudy skies, and 50degree weather during the day with weather in the 40's at night.

It feels like Christmas. Forget Halloween, bring on Thanksgiving, Black Friday shopping, and a month full of Christmas decor, Christmas trees, Christmas music and a month to really pay extra close attention to our Savior.!

October through January are my favorites months of the year. Within those months are two of the best holidays of the year... and I love the cool weather.

Other updates.. School is going well. I MIGHT be able to pull off a 4.0 in ONE of my classes, something I have never accomplished in my life.

I graduated from highschool on and all C average..

The nice thing about college is the fact that nobody is making me do it, and I get to choose and decide what I learn and the order I learn it in. (i no, this makes me sound totaly stubborn!)

Other than that, Ricky and Hyrum are doing well. Hyrum continues to surprise me with things he say and learn every single day. Ricky works 6 days a week now but he actually enjoys working the 6th day for the most part because it's all over time pay.

Also, Little Leiser is still doing well as of Friday morning.

I had a second ultrasound as part of first trimester screening, which consists of 2 series of blood tests and an ultrasound.

This first ultrasound was done at 9.1 weeks.....

..and this second ultrasound was done exactly 2 weeks later at 11.1 weeks along.

Isn't amazing to see what TWO weeks of growth and development looks like in a growing baby!?

In the first ultrasound you can't hardly tell what you are looking at if it isn't pointed out to you by someone who does know.

Then two weeks later, you can look and know exactly where the head, arms, legs, eyes, mouth.... are.

also, due to the translucent skin at this point, you can sit there and watch it's heart beating on the screen.

On Friday, Ricky Hyrum and I got to sit back (lay back for me) and WATCH our little baby on the TV screen in the doctors office for nearly an entire hour while they tried to get the little one to coperate to they could get specific measurments.

Other than finding out the sex of the baby and what I am able to start it kicking and moving around, THIS is my favorite part of pregnancy.. being able to just lay back and watch the baby move around, suck it's thumb, kick and punch the inside of my uterus for about an hour is like a HUGE bonding experience to me.

I still have my anxietys about the pregnancy and talking about it on a regular basis even though the doctors that looked at it and took all of the measurments and looked it up and down and all around told me that they didnt see anything abnormal, unusual, or of wrong size, I start thinking about my friends who lost their babies at 16-18 weeks... then I just leave room for "What if?"

I guess in a way I'm trying to protect myself from hurting to badly if something happens.. I KNOW it's there, and within the next 2 to 3 weeks when I can no longer wear most all of my clothes, I wont be able to pretend that there isn't a baby.

I have another appointment this comming Thursday for a check-up and to listen to the babys heartbeat.

I will be 12 weeks along, then it will be 4 weeks before I have another appointment.. chances are I will have my ups and downs and my anxiety about weather or not everything is ok, but I will survive. I should start feeling baby move around during the end of those 4 weeks, and I will be continuing to grow, so I have things to look at and stay positive about..

You wanna hear something funny..? I've been sick since day one of this pregnancy.. Now that I am nearing my second trimester, the trimester where you usually feel the best, I have been feeling a lot better and not so sickly, AND I am finally eating or at least have a bit of an appatite.

That's not the funny part, this next part is...

Well, now that I am starting to feel better... on the days that I REALLY feel good, no sickness or anything, I freak myself out and worry that something is wrong because I'm not feeling sick... this leads to me having anxiety, which makes me feel sick, which makes me feel a little better that since I'm feeling sick, I'm still pregnant...

Welcome to the complicated world that is Laurie's Anxiety..

Any way, now that I have used all of this time to blog I should go jump into bed so I'm not tired tomorrow so that I can finish my paper.