Bump Update

I had another visit with my ob/gyn this week. Things are still going along nicely. It was good to see her again after last week's scare. We got to hear out little ones heartbeat again. There is nothing better than hearing that. It is a good strong heartbeat too! I am in the last week of my first trimester and finally starting to feel better. The nausea is almost completly gone and only gets bad if I do not eat. I do not have an appetite and am not craving anything but I am sure that will change shortly. So far I have lost 4 pounds and I have not started to gain it back. I am completly ok with this.

We are going to have an ultrasound on Monday. This is called a first trimester nuchal test. It is to see if the developing baby has any signs of Down Syndrome. With Tim having a child with Down Syndrome this is just something we felt we would like to know. This is not going to change anything about the pregnancy or the love that we have for this child. We would just like to know either way. We will get some good pictures I am sure and I will be sure to post them when we get them. I am pretty excited about seeing our little one.

I am still prett tired. I think a lot of that has to with working full time and going to school 3 nights a week. I am sure it will get better once school is done. I have 2 more weeks of night classes and then have clinicals during the day. I am so excited to be able to go home after work. The kids are also excited to have mom at home and not a baby sitter.

More to come next week.

ER Visit

Just want to keep everyone updated. Friday this past week turned out to be a horrible night. My kids were at their dad's house and Layne had stuff going on with church. So Tim decided to go into the main lab for a while. I was looking forward to a nice evening to myself. Mostly I wanted to catch up on some napping! So I read a little and slept alot. Around 9:15 I got up and felt like I needed to go to the restroom. I will try to spare the details but I will let you know what I saw in their was the scariest thing I have ever seen while beibg pregnant. I was bleeding, and not just a little. Needless to say I was scared. I called Tim right away even though he was not due to be home until 10. He answered and I told him we needed to go to the hospital. He was 5 minutes from home. God is great. I knew he was looking out for me on this night. So we rushed to the ER. While there we thought the worst. We had lost the baby. All that kept going through my mind was we are going to have to get rid of the halloween outfits we had already gotten for baby wax. It seemed like we had the longest wait ever. They got me into a room in about an hour. The doctor came in and was more worried about my heart rate being elevated than my bleeding. So I was hooked up to an EKG and given IV fluids. Finally at about midnight the Dr came in to examine me. The only thing she could tell me was that yes I was still bleeding but no she could not tell if I was having a miscarriage. Since it was so late at night they did not have anyone there to perform an ultrasound. While laying on the stratcher in the ER I prayed that the babies life was in God's hands and for Him to give me the strength to get through whatever happened. After this I felt completely calm.

We were sent home with the diagnosis "threatened miscarriage". I was told to go home and wait for the rest of the bleeding to start and to follow up with my doctor on Monday. I was not happy with this diagnosis. So Saturday morning I called my doctor. She called me right back and told me she would meet me at the hospital to do a quick ultrasound for peice of mind. Oh what a great dr i have! We got the ultrasound and there was our baby with a very strong heartbeat. Sweet relief. Hearing the heartbeat was the best thing I had heard all weekend. It was a stressful 2 days but it all turned out ok. Hopefully this is not something that I will have to go through again. It was a reminder of how precious our lives are. I am thankful that I have a wonderful supportive husband.

Baby Wax 2011

If you can't tell from the above pictures, we are going to be adding to our family! Tim and I are excited to share this news. Baby Wax is due 10/8/11. We will probably meet this new little life on 10/3/11 as I have to have a scheduled c-section. I am currently 8 weeks along. I am not feeling great during the day. I get icky feeling if I llet myself get too hungry. And that happens a lot because no food sounds good to me right now. I am patiently waiting for this phase to be over! This past week we had an ultrasound and got to see our little raspberry with a heartbeat!

I am thankful everything is going so well and I am praying that it continues to do so. The kids are thrilled with the idea of another little one in the house. Jaxon practices his big brother skills on a daily basis and Sernea is warming up to the idea. She rubs my belly and talks to the baby already! Layne can't wait to hold the new baby! I will post updates on everybody. May God continue to bless this family!

Snow Days

It is a Tuesday and I am sitting a home with nothing but time on my hands. This is a strange feeling for me. The kids are at their dads house and I don't have to work or go to school. The reason for all this extra time? We are in a blizzard warning. So the hubs abd I stocked up on food and drinks and are in the house for the duration. Thank goodness I can adjust and enjoy the downtime!
I amm still watching the weight. I have bben eating smaller portions and am incorporating fruits and veggies and lots of water. I am down 2 pounds. WOO HOO.
Now that I am stuck in the house for who knows how long I hope I can keep up the good work. It is weird to have a snow day with out the kids. But I do have a BIG kid named Tim at home with me. I will post pics of the blizzard when we see what it does to us!

Mama Phat

This is something that I have not blogged about recently. Mostly because I fell off the wagaon and hit the bottom...hard! I gave up on my weight loss goals for the holidays. And in the process gained 5 pounds. This puts me above the dreaded weight that I never thought I would get to. So now I have a saying in my head that I repeat over and over again. A new year a new me! We are 17 days into this new year and it is hard to work on the new me. I am so set in my ways of eating bad and drinking soda. I can go a week with out drinking one, then the weekend comes, we will order a pizza, and bam I am drinking a dam soda again.

I am going to conquer this. How hard can it be to not drink soda. Am I that lazy that I can not come up with something else to drink? I think not. I am going to update at least once weekly if not more. I am going to be real and sometimes not so pretty. I have to get it out there. I think this will help me! Here goes.

Todays weight 200 pounds :(

I am going to set some mini goals. Once I accomplish these I will set more. The first one is to stop drinking soda. This includes diet soda. Second one is to be more active. I am going to try and get 30 minutes of activity in every day. This one may kill me. Third one is to be more positive about myself. I am a great person and deserve to feel that way.

Wish me luck. So far today I have had coffee with equal and non dairy creamer, kix cereal with 2% milk, stephanina's pizza and salad, and a diet dr pepper. Dinner is going to be a bit hard to be healthy but I am taking baby steps. Here is to a soda free night and week!! A new year a new me!!

Random Post

So there is not much going on in the world of waxes. The first of the year is going by fast just like 2010 did. This year is going to bring some much needed change but it is not here yet. I have 11 more weeks of massage therapy school. I am so excited to be done and able to build a small side business. I am going to massage at my home as well as go to people's homes. If you know anyone who needs a massage just let me know. I am going to take a few months off from school and then I plan on taking a few classes again. Yes I am on my way to becoming a life long student. I love learning and want to acheive big things for my family and myself!
Jaxon continues to do great in school. Just got his report card and he got all A's again. I am so incredibly proud that this smart interesting child is my son. I love him so much. Rena has recently started speech therapy. She is super excited about it and works really hard at learning new things. I am looking forward to seeing her improve and grow. Layne is as always awesome at school. Sometimes I think she is smarter than me already! She is going to grow up to be an intelligent women. We are so proud of all our children and really could not ask for a better group.
I am blessed to have a happy healthy family. the next few months are going to be filled with school and work but there is llight at the end of this long tunnel.

Christmas and New Year 2010

Our white Christmas

Grandpa reading the Bible

Christmas was very special this year. Tim and I gpt to take some muc needed time off from work and school and get to enjoy each other and our family. We have a tradition to get together Christmas Eve and eat drink and of course open our Christmas p,j.'s. This year we had family at our house. We had a great ttime and loved out pajamas.

Christmas morning was spent at my mom and dad's house. We had great food and got wonderful things fdrom everyone. The on to Christmas afternoon. This is the best part! We got to have all the kiddos together. All kids lined up on the couch and waited patiently to open presents one at a time. We went on order from youngest to oldest. They came down from the couch and everyone watched them open one gift. They were all so well behaved and had an awesome time opening everything from mom, dad and santa. We all had a wonderful time and got grea gifts. I love Christmas and really can not wait until we get to do it again net year!!

New year was spent quietly at home. My children were at their fathers this year and Layne had a lock in at her church. So Tim and I were on our own. We stayed in and played games and just enjoyed spending time together. It was fantastic!!

We did not make any resolutions but we did make plans and ideas for the coming year. We plan to accomplish a lot in 2011. Just a sampling of a few of the things that are in my plans: I am going to finish school and start a massage business of my own. I am going to eat healthy and incorporate fitness in to my daily schedule. There are many more things I want to get done and I will continue to update!!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you luck in the new year.