Home, Sweet Home...Almost

Well, gang, it's official.  We closed on the house just over a week ago, and the big moving day is Friday!

Other updates on our family:

• B can successfully count to 14 with no issues (sometimes higher, but he usually forgets at least one number).
• B knows his months of the year (in order, and he even knows when daddy's birthday is)
• C is causing me terrible heartburn (does this mean he will have a lot of hair?)
• Tomorrow marks 27 weeks pregnant!
• We've been busy packing and moving stuff, so that's all I have!

Pregnancy

This pregnancy is very different from B's.

With B, I had very mild nausea during the first trimester, which was easily cured by snacking.  By the second trimester, I had tons of energy, and was nesting like crazy.  My heartburn didn't begin until well into the third trimester, and overall, I had very little round ligament pain, and no Braxton-Hicks contractions.  As for cravings?  It was pretty much pizza and Mexican food throughout the pregnancy.

With C, I had a bunch of on and off nausea in the first trimester, and into the second.  Munching on crackers did nothing to help.  In the second trimester so far, I have had next to no energy.  I really just want to lay on the couch all day.  My heartburn has already begun at full force, and my cravings vary from week to week (and are mostly sweet things from candy to fruit).  I've had a lot more round ligament pain, and I think I've even started some Braxton-Hicks.  It's been enough to rouse me from my sleep in the middle of the night.  I have also had insane balancing issues.

The balance issues have me a little worried.  I understand that later in pregnancy there are balance problems, but that's more so due to having a huge bowling ball in your stomach.  Last week, I had intense vertigo and dizziness that lasted for over 6 hours, and landed me in the ER.  Yesterday, I felt fine.  I wasn't dizzy; I was simply walking from my car to the front door of our building.  I went to go up the first of two concrete steps to the front door, and it was like I suddenly had no control over my legs.  I started to trip, and tried to catch myself, but, I just kept falling.  Thankfully, I did no more damage than some achiness to my shoulders and arms (from landing), and scraping a chunk of skin out of my big toe (doesn't sound like much, but let's just say K was even grossed out by it).  When I was in the ER last week, they ran blood and urine tests, but nothing was out of the ordinary.  My next check-up is on Thursday, so I guess I'll see what doc says then.

It's a bird, it's a plane...

I received a call today from B's daycare that he had injured himself jumping off of some cots.  They asked if I wanted to come look at his nose, which had stopped bleeding and they didn't believe was broken, or wait until the end of the day.  I decided to go.

When I got there, he was sitting, quietly, with an ice pack on his face.  His poor nose was a bit swollen, and you could see the dried blood in his nostrils.  He also had a nice cut on his upper lip (which was swollen).  (And, just to top off his day, he had fallen this morning and hit his chin on the foot of his bed, cutting it.)

They explained to me that he had climbed a stack of about 6 cots (not terribly high), and basically did a Superman jump off of them.  This caused him to land flat on his face on tile floor with cement beneath.  He was crying, and had a bloody nose for a little bit, but had luckily agreed to let them put ice on him.

I took him to the doctor, and thankfully, his nose isn't broken.  He has a laceration along the inside of his left nostril, so they told me to make sure he doesn't try to pick out the blood clot.  Otherwise, he should be feeling much better in a couple of days.

When I asked why he jumped, he replied that he was jumping on one of his friend's heads.

By this evening, he was loopy from missing his nap, and was back to his old ways, wrestling with his daddy.

We're expecting a little boy!

On Wednesday, we went for our 20 week check-up and ultrasound.  Here's our baby boy!  B is really excited to have a baby brother!

House Progress

We went to visit the house today.  Drywall is up!

View from the front door

Dining Room (from the Family Room)

Kitchen

Garage (from Kitchen), Bathroom on left, Closet on right

Garage full of cabinets, railings, etc.! 

Living Room looking at the front door 

B's Room - he's excited! 

Baby's Room

Master - love the window!

Master Bath

Another downstairs view

And another

Settling In

Now that our Wisconsin house is off our plates, and we have another little one on the way, we've decided to officially settle down here.  We are building a townhouse (I won't post exact location here). We debated between an older house closer to everyone, or new construction just a little ways out, and decided that new construction is safer for mine and B's allergies.  K met with the builder this week to do a pre-drywall walk through.  Enjoy the pics!

Standing in the Living Room, looking at the front door and stairs.

Standing near the stairs in the living room.  That will be a wall with a cutout looking into the Family Room.

Standing in the Dining Room looking into the Family Room.

Standing in the Family Room looking into the Dining Room. 

Standing in the Dining Room looking towards the Kitchen.  That is the door to the garage in the back.  The half wall here is for the bar top. 

Standing in the Kitchen (door to Garage just to the right).  This will be a half bath.

View from the top of the stairs.  That will be our bedroom.

Standing in our bedroom.  The back bedroom to the right will be for baby.  The one to the left will be for B.

Standing in our room.  To the left is our bathroom with the full size shower stall.  To the right will be our large, walk-in closet!

Standing in B's room, looking at the closet.  Just behind his closet is the hall bathroom, and next to that is the Laundry/Utility room.

Standing in B's room, looking toward baby's room.

Another view into baby's room.

Another view from B's room, looking out into the hallway.

View from the front door.  We are standing in the living room.  The wall upstairs is the back wall of the closet in baby's room.

Mother's Day 2013

Highlights of this year's Mother's Day:

• "Mommy, I'm making you muffins!"  (followed by a kiss)  Ultimately, they were inedible as B somehow turned the oven up to 500 degrees when K turned around and burned them.
• "Hi, mommy!  Happy Mother's Day!" (followed by another kiss, as he gave me my gift)
•  Lunch at Ruby Tuesday
• B critiquing the dresses I tried on for a friend's upcoming vow renewal.  He actually came up to me at the register to make sure I was getting the "flower one" (I did...he has good taste!).
• B snuggling with me, at least for a little while, on the couch
• Feeling baby move around like crazy last night and today