Easter 2011

Happy Easter every one! We had a great weekend. We made our first ham-with out a grandma or a mom helping out! We are getting a hang of this holiday food stuff. It turned out great and I'm sure we'll be eating ham for the next few days.
Axel got a big boy bike from the bunny this year.
We had a small egg hunt in the neighbor's yard


Hope every one had a great weekend. We had fun hiding eggs and eating a lot of food. Check out the mountain's in the back round. Now there's a different back drop for Easter. We missed all of our family and can't wait to share our new surroundings with them this summer after the baby is born.

34 weeks!

Yeah we have made it to the 34 week mark! Here is Axel helping the doctor find the baby in mom's tummy.
I think I found him Mom! Wow, I can't believe how round my belly is! Maybe it's just the side view:)
Things have been going well-or at least maintaining. I still have been having high blood pressures but nothing else going on, so we continue to push through each week. I'm so happy that things are good. I feel good, just have high blood pressure. My weight gain so far is around 34 pounds, which isn't to bad. I gained a total of 50 pounds with Axel! The baby should grow around a 1/2 a pound a week now so I'm sure things will keep growing!! We have an ultrasound planned next week to check on baby to make sure the blood pressure isn't stressing him in any way. But from the sound of it things are good and we have a good chance of making it to the end! I'm so ready to meet this little man but I really like the idea of him not coming to early.
Don't worry guys I know how this works.
We got a Wii from our new neighbor friends this week. They had an extra one I guess?! All we had to do was buy the remotes. Brian and I haven't been in to the games systems at all but we've always talked about getting one. Well getting a free console talked us in to it! We had a blast trying to figure it out. I think Axel caught on quicker than we did! (neither of Brian or I have had a games system since the original Nintendo-that sure does date us! )

Wonderful Spring weekend

It's a beautiful spring weekend here in Alaska. The temp's are around 50 degrees and a lot of the snow has melted. We went to a park/trails down by the ocean. It was really nice to be outside and enjoy the weather. Axel loved all the mud every where and had a blast getting nice and dirty!
View of one of the mountain ranges across the ocean, half of the water it is still icy. I should learn all the mountain's names but there are so many I don't know all of them yet.
Axel taking a break during our walk.
Dad and Axel getting adventurous down by the ocean. I'm still a little top heavy these days so I stayed back to take pictures!
Cheese! I can't wait for summer!! It's almost here. The days are getting longer-we gain about 6 minutes of sunshine per day here. Right now the sunrise is around 7am and the sunset is around 9pm. I can't wait to see what the long Alaskan summer days are all about. Luckily we have darkening blinds in all the bedrooms so the kids will sleep? maybe?

Baby shower

A huge thank you to all the wonderful people I work with for the baby shower!

After the whirlwind of emotions last weekend ending it with a baby shower was really great. We were spoiled by all the people I work with. We had a great brunch with waffles, fruit and tons of good eats! Even Axel, the to be big brother, received a ton of gifts! He was so excited to have his own gifts to open. The baby party was much more fun than he ever thought it could be! So once again we are just maintaining along with only 8 weeks to go! Wow, I can't believe how close we are getting to the end! I am ready. Here are a few things I have been dealing with :)
None of my T-shirts are long enough any more, I feel like I get winded walking to the car, I hate sleeping on my side (I'm a stomach sleeper), my hands are numb in the morning, heartburn and my legs are achy at night. What a whiner huh? No, over all things are great. I love feeling the baby make his big movements every day and I feel good for the most part. I am just ready to hold my little man!

false alarm

Okay, once again so far so good I guess. We got monitored today for about an hour, then baby is doing great, my blood pressure is still up but maintaining. And NO bed rest! Yeah!! I've never been so happy to go back to work. My doctor is still keeping a close eye on me and the baby but for the time being things are back to normal. (well as normal as they are at 32 weeks pregnant) This baby is not coming early! Or his momma hopes any ways.....

Bed rest?

The saga continues. I had a week and a half of good blood pressures, then followed by a few bad days. I called the doctor to let her know and then I spent 3 hours Thursday night in the hospital getting my blood pressure and the baby monitored. The baby is doing wonderful, but momma is boarder line. My blood pressure does better when I'm at rest but when I'm up and about it likes to keep creeping up. So the doctor put me on bed rest until Saturday-today. I have to go back to the hospital today at 2pm to get monitored again. Then she decides my fate-bed rest or not. They might even not let me go home on bed rest-YIKES! I'm only 32 weeks. I have a long time left! The bean is good and that's the most important part, but bed rest for how long?! I really hope I can do it at home. Here's hoping that today goes well......

31 weeks

Axel kissing his little brother
On man! Yes that is me! Crazy what this pregnancy stuff does to your body! I don't think Axel even notices the change in me. I guess he's seen me every day. He did like feeling his brother kick around yesterday. Axel is very curious on when and how the baby is going to get out of my tummy. At 31 weeks the doctor says that the baby will grow a 1/2 a pound a week now. Wow! That's a lot of growing to still do. As for my blood pressure things have just been maintaining, which is good. It was a little lower the last week so that's good. For now it's just a week by week thing. But I like a good week! Less headaches and feeling alright. All I need is 8 more weeks just like last! The doctor talked about maybe doing a one night stay in the hospital-on the weekend-to monitor the baby over a 24 hour period. If we do this she wants to do it before 34 weeks, in case the baby is going to come early I will need steroids for his lung development. But it's still up in the air.
This weekend the boys have been fighting bad colds. I sure hope I don't get it!