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.

Hyrum 3yr old Pictures

Hyrum had his 3yr old pictures taken a couple weeks ago.

Here's a peek at what they look like.!

I love my Rock Star.!

The book shown above is actually very educational.!



Things You Do/Don't Know

Since I was pretty sick for a bit there, I wasn't sharing a lot with the 'world' or blogging.

But between all of the sickness, I was/am still pretty busy and I'm starting to get a bit better each day.

Any way, since the last time I blogged I started school! Surprise!

I've just completed my first full week, and am now starting my second.

I am in night school mostly, with one AM class that I couldn't change to an evening class, so I wake up early in the morning every day and run to school for one 50min class.

I feel like it's over by the time I get there and sit down.

This early morning class happens to be MATH. I mean, who doesn't want to wake up early in the morning and start their day off with a math lecture? (barf)

My schedule luckily isn't very crazy. I am home from class by 10am every day, then I have night classes only 2 nights a week.

on Tuesday and Thursday nights I am in class from 5:15pm to 10pm.

This works out great because I don't have to stick Hyrum in a daycare yet, and I am able to work, and answer calls and do what I have to do still. Then on Tuesday and Thursday nights I just pass the phone off to Ricky and he takes over everything at home and the complex.

Luckily, my music class doesn't require me to attend, and attendance doesn't count against me. So, if Ricky has to work late I don't have to stress about what I am going to do so I don't miss class, then once he does get home I can leave and attend my English class.

So far I haven't had to miss class yet and I really hope I don't ever have to.

People ask what I am going to school for, right now I'm just doing generals and don't have any kind of major picked out. So I'm just on a track for an AA degree.

Basically, I'm just going to school and getting an education for the heck of it, because I want to, and because it's free as long as I hold a 2.0! Geeze, they really set that bar high for me. 2.0 sounds crazy hard to pull off! (hear the sarcasm)

Plus, having an education and a degree to put on a resume' would look better if I were to ever have to go out and get a big job to support my family if something were to happen to Ricky.

Now, on to the next thing lots of you don't know yet. It's still something I keep debating on wether or not and when to share the news.

I approach the subject with caution. I try not to get excited about it because I'm afraid to get attached and then have something bad happen.

I've been a complete mess since the day I took the test and it came back positive. At around week 6 I had a crazy anxiety attack.

After the anxiety attack I got on my knees and started praying and begging and pleeding till my face turned blue. It helped me feel some-what better but I still had a lot of anxiety about everything.

Finally one day I decided to stop freaking out, and I actually prayed and appologized to my Heavenly Father for begging the way I had been to allow me to keep this baby, and in my appology I said that I needed to just trust in his plan for me and that I would accept whatever happened, happens, or doesn't happen.

I told him that I'd understand if It's not the time for another child and that I'd get through whatever it is I am dealt.

I've started feeling tons better since then and things are going pretty well so far.

I am now 10 weeks pregnant, and had my first ultrasound last week during my 9th week. Everything in the uterus looks great, the baby is the correct size for the dates and had a good strong heartbeat.

I haven't had any bleeding or unusual symptoms. I'm still cautious about getting excited.

 I have another ultrasound in about 2 weeks and maybe I will be more excited after that but I have had close friends lose their babies around 16weeks recently and It's scary to think about or immagine.

It's possible I will be on edge and extra cautious until I start feeling the little person move around and kick and hear it's heart beat at the monthly appointments.

Hyrum is pretty excited about the baby growing in my belly. He calls it "sister." He will tell me "sister is sleeping in there, sister is happy"

Today he lifted up my shirt and tried to 'tickle' sister then he kissed my belly and said "MOM, I kissed the baby!!" with a big smile and excitment on his face. He likes to look at the pictures of the ultrasound and talk about the baby.

He came with me to my ultrasound appointment because daddy was working out of town.

I plan to make sure Hyrum is a part of as much of the pregnancy as appropriate. Obviously he wont be there at delivery but I will take him to all of the ultrasounds and check ups when they listen to the heartbeat each month.

Only three more weeks left of the first trimester. Things have been going by pretty fast. Just taking it one week at a time and trying to make good decisions for me and the growing baby.

I'm not able to eat much and food is grose all around.. I feel sick from not eating but food looks grose. I might finally have a craving for something but once it's in front of me, or if I cook, once I'm done cooking I no longer want to touch it..

I no I need to eat something and I am able to eat just not much, and whatever sounds like it wouldn't be horrible if it came back up.. One week all I had was chocolate pudding and TONs of Ginger Ale.

When eating, I am finished after about 2 or 3 bites. My doctor said she doesn't care if I am eating or keeping food down right now, it wont hurt the baby, I just need to drink drink drink and keep hydrated..

So, I try and drink as much as I can when I can, mostly sipping throughout the day.. The last two days I've been chowing down on a jar of sliced pickles!

I like how they are cold, juicy, and the sour taste. It's like a form of hydration for me. I make sure I scoop up tons of juice with the pickle when I pull it up to eat.

Any way, I will update once and a while on the pregnancy but probably not too often.

In this very last picture you can see the profile of the little face and it has it's arm up in the air in front of it's mouth. I like to think it's trying to suck it's thumb but at this point in growth it hardly has elbows to bend, and it's fingers are still developing and somewhat webbed.

The Ultrasound tech was surprised when the baby lifted it's arms during the ultrasound. She wasn't expecting to see much of any movement yet. So, it was pretty exciting to watch.

I kind of felt like it was saying "hey mom, I'm here and I'm ok right now."

I believe this sums up all that I needed to 'catch up' on for now!

 

I can't promise more frequent updates as I am now in school and still getting through this 'morning sickness' crazyness so this will have to do for now!

Catching up

Since I last blogged my parents came to town and we celebrated Hyrum's 3rd Birthday.

I was really lazy about planning his party this year. I just didn't seem to have the energy to throw some huge fun shin dig, but things came together at the last minute and turned out great.

I didn't have a particular 'theme' for his party. We ended up with a really fun and yummy Thomas the Train cake from a tenant of ours, then just had pizza, fruit, drinks, snacks and a big bouncy house/slide combo.

 All of the kids loved the bounce house. We actually got to keep it for several extra hours. It was dropped off and set up at 10am and wasn't picked up until about 4:30pm and the kids played on it till the last minute.

After recoverying from the Birthday Bash and getting a good nights' sleep we took my parents up to the top of Mt. Rainier.

 We also spent a day in Seattle going to Pike Place Market and the Ballard Locks.

The Puyallup Fair happened to be going on while my parents were visiting so we set aside a day to go 'Do the Puyallup.'

...and Do the Puyallup we did.

I hadn't been feeling the greatest and didn't care to be out running around doing stuff and planned to only be at the fair for like 2hrs maybe... We ended up being there for 6hrs!

The weather ended up being perfect for the occasion. No bright sun out to give us sun burns and it was nice and slightly cool for all of the walking around we would be doing.

Hyrum got a bracelet to ride rides and road practically every ride there was to offer for a kid his age and size. (i decided not to do a picture overlaod of the ride photos)

After riding all of the rides we made a stop at the 'pony' ride station. Hyrum absolutley loved riding the horse. He was smiling and happy the whole time.

My mom ended up buying the photos they took of Hyrum riding the horse with a cowboy hat. It's so cute, and I'd share it but I have to upload it to the computer first.

I'm sure these will do for now!

I know ALL of the pictures are of Hyrum and nobody else... but I didn't take a ton of pics and was a bit 'under the weather.'

It was a nice visit and we can't wait for them to come back for more visits.

I believe my mom will be here in April sometime, so it's not too far away.  ;)



Lack of Blogging.

I appologize to all of you faithful Leiser blog followers!

I know I still need to post about Hyrums awesome bday party

and the fun we had with Mom and Dad (MawMaw & PawPaw) in town.

I've been pretty sick especially this week! If I'm not laying down on the couch or in bed, I'm running to the bathroom to vomit.

The only energy I get I use to take care of Hyrum. We wish daddy wasn't working sooo many hours lately but I guess we will survive.

So, here's a blog. boring, and not full of pics of Hyrum that you all like or anything fun but it will have to do for now!