I had another ultrasound on Monday and our little one is still a girl. My Dr. has been extra cautious about the size of this baby since my last one was 9lb 10oz. (hence the extra ultrasound) From the ultrasound estimate she was 4 lb. 12 oz. at 33 weeks and is in the 43 percentile - so she is perfect and not a giant as predicted (so far!) Of course those are just guesstimates, but I’m glad to hear she is on track at this point. She was unfortunately still feet down but her head had moved from the top to the side, so hopefully she is navigating her way towards head down. I think she still moves around quite a bit. Definitely not in “launch position” quite yet!

We are gradually getting back into the school routine and Dane seem to be enjoying his first year of pre-school as well. Apparently some kid in his class came to school with lice - on the FIRST day of school! So they had to send home notes and clean clean clean but it doesn’t sound like anyone else picked it up thank goodness - that’s all I need at this point! Thankfully he has short blonde hair so it is pretty easy to check, but yuck! My head started itching as soon as I heard about it. LOL

Well, speaking of Dane he is informing me he wants some lunch. I’m not feeling creative, so I might have to pull out my Kid Approved Meals book and see what I can come up with!

Take Care!
Christine

Have fun!

Anyway, if you scroll down a bit, on the left you will see a green box that says “what am I doing”. That is my twitter box. You can keep even more up to date on my day to day crazy life if you feel so inclined. And… if you already have a Twitter account (or want to open one - it is free) you can follow me on there as well (and I can in turn follow you!). See the little link on the bottom of my twitter box to head to the site.

Fun times! We’ll see how good I do at keeping it up to date.

C-

The baby is growing - I was measuring 36 weeks at my 31 week appointment - EEK! Of course we knew she would probably be big since the last three weren’t exactly tiny. I go in on the 25th for an ultrasound to try to determine just how big she is getting. Her kicks are definitely starting to feel hefty.

We tried making homemade pesto yesterday - have you ever tried? I had some fresh basil from our CSA farm veggie program and wanted to try using it up one way or another. I really haven’t done much with fresh herbs besides throwing them in my cooking periodicallly (and that only uses a tiny bit), so I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do with all that basil! Pesto it was! It was pretty easy - Just threw the basil leaves, olive oil, and some garlic in our Vita Mix for a few seconds and viola - pesto! I made up some pasta, mixed it in and topped it with parmesan. No one was too impressed…. but it fed us! I generally like pesto from the grocery store, but I think this was a bit too strong or something. I actually liked the leftovers better, so maybe if I let it sit for a day before putting it on pasta - who knows!

Well, I better go investigate what those boys are doing… Or maybe I’ll drag my husband out of bed and make him take a shift. I just started a new book last night “Drowning Ruth” and it is calling my name! Have you read it? It is keeping me pretty captivated so far - unlike the one I FINALLY finished a couple nights ago after reading it all summer - “A Million Little Pieces” I didn’t enjoy that one much at all, but of course once I started reading it, I’m one of those who can’t just give it up, I have to finish it and find out the ending (which was just as disappointing) Obviously written by a man. LOL Have a great week!

C-

I did pass my 3 hour gestational diabetes test. Thank you to all of you who sent kind words. Everything went well (although my arms were black and blue and sore for about 4 days). The good news is that I passed all 4 blood draws and am free from gestational diabetes. I am so thankful to be done with that. We are down to 10 more weeks until this little one is due. My doctor may consider inducing a bit early depending on her size. My last baby was 9lb. 10 oz. so we are both a bit concerned how big this one may get. In the meantime I have been washing up her clothes, painting the nursery and overseeing as my hubby assembles her furniture. Fun times!

My 7 year old is ecstatic that football season starts tomorrow. We went and picked up his gear today. However, tomorrow is the first day of practice (5:30-7:30) and we are under a heat advisory for humid temperatures near 100 and a heat index above 100. I’m not sure how this preggo mamma will handle that. We’ll see… I might have to make Matt go instead. We will have practice every night until school starts at that time, so it kind of throws off our dinner schedule - we usually eat around 6:00 or 6:30… so I’m not sure how that will work out. I guess we’ll either be eating really late or really early… (or bringing something with?) Who knows. Maybe as we get into the season I will just be able to drop him off. I guess we’ll see!

Not too much else is going on around here. We had a couple kind of quiet weeks after swim team ended and my in-laws left. School starts on the 19th, so that is actually just around the corner! The boys are ready, I think they are starting to get kind of antsy around here. I am sort of ready although I’m not ready for that early morning rush to get out the door.

I hope you’re having a great week!
C-

With school around the corner we have been busy with back to school shopping, Dr. Appointments, Dentist Appointments Etc. Swim Team is just about over, but it won’t be long before football starts! I finally gave in and let Ryan sign-up this year. I am still shocked that they play full contact starting in Kindergarten, but I’m just praying he stays safe! He’s wanted to play for 2 years now.

I had my baby check-up on Wednesday and found out I have to take the 3 hour gestational diabetes test - blech! I passed the 1 hour, but was only 2 points from the cut-off and since Dane was 9lb 10 oz. she wants me to do the 3 hour just to be on the safe side. I am really not looking forward to that! I never had to do that with the 3 boys. This little girl is giving me a hard time already!

At the moment Matt is assembling the crib in the dining room… It probably won’t fit through the bedroom door when assembled (we found that out with the last crib) but I won’t let him put it in there until I paint… and he just didn’t want to wait apparently. So he’ll assemble it now and probably have to take it half-way apart to get it in the room. Oh well… his choice, I’m just glad he’s around to perform such tasks - I’m awful at trying to read instructions and put things together.

I hope you’re having a great week!
Christine

At the moment the tree service is out in the yard chopping down our lightning struck tree. The boys are quite fascinated with the whole project. It is quite a big tree!

My inlaws are also visiting, so that has been keeping us busy. They have been here for a week and have one more to go.

Today we are off for swimming, swimming and more swimming. We have swim lessons for an hour, then swim team for an hour, then an out of town swim meet that is about 2 1/2 - 3 hours. I better go slather on the sunscreen!

Have a great week!