Life's adventures with Matt, Amanda and the girls... Makenzie and Madison!

Friday, May 31, 2013

27 Weeks!!

27 weeks was like 4 weeks ago, so I'll do a more current belly/baby post soon!

(FYI: You can click on the pic to make it larger)
27 Weeks:

Weight Gain: 35 lbs.  :-)  I look back on my 23 week post and I guess the salads didn't help!  The Dr laughed when he saw my weight and told me I was going to be well over the 50 lbs I gained with Makenzie.  Great.  I swear I keep flying thru maternity clothes!  Thankfully a friend had some I could borrow because I outgrew the new clothes I had bought AND outgrew what I wore with Makenzie.

Cravings: Ice cream, brownies, cookies, sweets, sweets, sweets!  I had my glucose screening test at 27 weeks and I haven't heard any results... no news is good news??  I DO pick a few days each week to go without.... sometimes I can do it sometimes I can't.  What-cha-gonna-do?

Energy: Good!  Not my normal non prego self energy.  But I think a lot for being pregnant!

Sleeping: I am definitely getting use to getting myself comfortable with a big baby belly.  Rolling over and moving positions is hard work!!  Thankfully Matt sleeps thru me pushing myself off of him to move :0)

Feeling Baby: Oh yes... there are nights when this baby keeps mama up!  If I do a lot during the day the baby is up a lot during the night not giving me much sleep.

Baby & Makenzie: Makenzie keeps asking when the baby is going to come out!!  Not yet!

Braxton Hicks: I have slowed down what I do each day and don't rush the first part of the week to get ALL my chores done.  I do a little bit each day AND I haven't been lifting Makenzie as much and that seems to be helping.  Bummer is that before my Thursday and Friday's would be pretty relaxed mellow days since housework would be done.... but now I've got housework EVERY day that I do.  Boo.

There's the scoop!!  I'll leave ya with a belly picture of me with Makenzie and then with baby #2!
I don't know that I can really see a difference?  Can any of you?

Thursday, May 30, 2013

April's Sunny Spring Days

Alright!  We are back in action!!  Took awhile to get the problem fixed, but a big THANK YOU to whoever did fix it. (Maybe next time fix it faster!)  So get ready for some big posts as I lump everything together!

One of my last post was about how rainy it was and how we were stuck inside and getting bored!  Well, Michigan has had a change of attitude and we have had beautiful sunny spring days. 

Cousin Natalie chasing Miss Makenzie!
Caleb and Nat have her cornered!!
Starting the day out right!  Butterfly pancake with OJ!

Mommy got a pedi while Nana and Pop took Makenzie on a picnic!

Pop and Makenzie feeding fish and a few ducks!

Isn't she SO cute!?!?
Unless we have the doors locked (which even then doesn't help all the time) Miss Makenzie will sneak out!  Matt was outside so she was going to find him but I told her she couldn't go because she wasn't wearing shoes.  SO.... she finds some boots and heads outside...QUIETLY!  I go to take a peak on what she was doing and I see her outside!  Next time I'll have to be a bit more specific as to what she is missing!  God only knows what our neighbors must think of us!!  LOL!
First corn on the cob of the year!!  Yum Yum!
Bike riding season has begun!! 

Holding the flowers we picked at Poppa's house!  We did lose one out the window :-(

Beautiful hot spring day!

We had an airplane fly really low, Makenzie yells "plane mama plane!" picks up the rain gauge and there ya go!  Silly girl!

Loving running thru the laundry!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A Month of No Blogging :-(

It's been almost a month since my last post and it has been DRIVING ME CRAZY.  I have a lot to say and a lot of pictures to show off.  Post are really boring when they don't have pictures :-)  They help tell the story.  Anywho, something is wrong with my blog/ computer... something!  I see/ hear that other bloggers are having issues too.  For some reason I can't upload pictures to the post.  I have been impatiently waiting for blogger to respond to the issue and fix it so I can fill everyone back in on the day to days over here.

For the meantime here's a quick what's going on at our house!

- I'm 30 weeks today!  Contractions have pretty much gone away since I stopped picking up Makenzie.  (Which is SOOO not easy for me... she's not a cuddler but loves to be held when you walk around and I'm missing all of that as well as playtime outside with her.)

- We finished planting our 50 x 22 foot garden last night!  Yikes... big garden :-)  I am SO excited but a little nervous at the same time.  Gardens are a lot and we have a lot going on this summer!

- We planted: strawberries, rhubarb, red cabbage, carrots, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, muskmelon, beans, green peppers, jalapenos, banana peppers, tomatoes, grape tomatoes, green onion, onion, potatoes.  Whew!  (See why I'm a little intimidated?)

- Makenzie has been REALLY cranky.  She hasn't been taking naps.  She has started having night terrors.  (I was up 4 times with her last night... Matt was up a good chunk of the night with her Sunday night.)

- Our landscaping is pretty much done.  Rose bushes were transplanted, new perennials were put in, mulch put down, LOTS of weeding, lots of digging overgrown plants out.  Looks SOOO much nicer and cleaner. 

- We bought a new truck!  One that will be big enough to fit our growing baby.  We are selling our old one!  Any takers!?!?

Okay, Makenzie is napping, I cleaned the bath, the floors and am in process of making dinner!  (Amazing how much I can get done while she is sleeping!)  I should get back to making dinner before a fire alarm goes off and wakes her up!