Gub Gub is......

Well ,we went to the doctor yesterday to have our ultrasound, to figure out the sex of the baby. We were at 19 weeks so the ultrasound lady was not positive, but said that Gub Gub looked like a girl. She said that all the other things she checked were perfect, except Gub Gub is about 5 days smaller than she should be. Baby of Dreams was, and is, on the small side, so it could be that the Husband and I just make small babies. The doctor wants me to have another ultrasound when I come back in at week 23, so that he can start tracking Gub Gub's growth. If she continues growing at the proper curve, just under it, then we just have small babies and everything is okay. If she is not growing at the proper curve, then the doctor will figure out what to do from there. I am assuming they will double check the sex too. I am getting used to the idea that Gub Gub is a girl. As some of you know I had a gut feeling that Gub Gub was a boy. It took me most of the day yesterday to change my thinking. It will be easier having another girl, I think. We already have all the stuff. Our biggest problem now is we already have our first boy name completely picked out, so a boy would have been great, we thought we had a girls first name decided on, but are second guessing it and now looking at all of our options again. We aren't decided on a middle name either. Baby of Dreams was easy to name, but we just don't know about Gub Gub. I guess we still have about 5 months and I am thinking we will need it.

Nursery

It has been over a month since my last post and I really have no excuses. We have had tolerably interesting stuff going on and I have had time to write short posts here and there, I just haven't. Oh well, life continues to go on.

Our biggest news lately in that Baby of Dreams went to nursery today and is officially okay with it. We went two weeks ago and I stayed in there the whole time with her. She was a bit nervous and made it clear that it was a good thing I was there. She was sick last week so we did not make it to church at all. I went with her today and it was clear she did not need me, but I could not tear myself away until about 45 minutes until it was all over with. When I got back to pick her up, she had just barely started to get sad. (Nursery is from 12-2 which is right in the middle of nap time, so I feel a bit of sadness is totally understandable.) I figured she would be okay with nursery and I am pleased that she likes it. She even waved and told a new friend "bye bye" when she left. I can't believe my baby is 18 months old and in nursery!

Tomorrow I will be 17 weeks along. We find out what Gub Gub is in two weeks. At the moment this pregnancy is going by somewhat fast. The morning sickness is getting better, I think. I have had two different types of colds and a flu thing in the past four weeks, so that has been overshadowing a lot of stuff. And with work and helping the Husband with school, things have been busy around here.

Gub Gub's Due Date

It turns out I was right. Gub Gub's due date really and truly is the 27th of July. We had our first Doctor's appointment on Monday. We got ultrasounds and the tech said that baby had a very strong heartbeat. The ultrasounds are a bit more developed than Baby of Dreams were, so it was fun seeing what almost looks like a baby. I'll have to scan them into the computer so I can post them, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I am 11 weeks along now and still feeling pretty sick. I had truly forgotten about this part of pregnancy.

The Husband starts school again on Monday. For those of you that haven't had to listen to our lofty life plans yet, here they are. The Husband has been working for a large retail store for the past year and a half. He has been taking a break after two years of school. He realized that he would very much like to go into management in this store, but the easiest way to do that is to finish his associates degree, which he is 4 classes short of doing. So starting on Monday he will only be working on the weekends and will be going to school full time during the week. I meanwhile will be working around 28 hours a week to make up for his loss of a decent paycheck. We worked it out so I will go immediately to work when he gets home from school so one of us will always be able to stay with Baby of Dreams. That is extremely important to us. We probably won't get to see each other too much, but it only lasts until the very beginning of May. He will then graduate and we will go back to him working full time and me working about 15 hours. That will hopefully last only about 1-2 months and then he will hopefully be able to make it into the manager's program. Then I might work a bit before Gub Gub is born, but I won't really have to anymore, it will just help out. The plan is that I will not have to go back to work at all after Gub Gub is born. I look greatly forward to this blessed day. Well, that is the plan. I am planning on it not going as smoothly as I outlined it, but this is the hoped for version. It is good to finally have a plan again though.

Baby of Dreams Has An Announcement

As some of you, but not many of you, know. Baby of Dreams is going to be a big sister sometime around July 27th. I am not exactly sure of the due date yet, just because we haven't been to the Dr. yet for our first appointment. We will be going on Jan. 5th so hopefully we will know slightly more after that. I have been pretty sick for the past three weeks, so I am sure that this baby is extremely healthly. I am 10 weeks along now and would like to believe that the sickness will leave when I start my 2nd trimester, but am not putting any stock in that actually happening. I was sick with Baby of Dreams until month 5. We are all very excited about "Gub Gub". I was talking to Baby of Dreams one morning about the new baby and it sounded like she called it Gub Gub and the name just stuck. We waited to tell our parents on Christmas Eve and they were all pretty excited too.

I have more updates, but they will have to wait until later, because Baby of Dreams is really done with her nap and needs lunch. Come to think of it, Gub Gub really needs lunch too. I'll try to update sooner than later.

Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Night

The Husband came home sick this morning and slept most of the day. He has some type of flu. Baby of Dreams and I spent the day playing, grocery shopping, napping and playing some more. The Husband woke up at 5:00pm and spent the rest of his evening confined to the couch. At least he hasn't thrown up again. We tried to not let Baby of Dreams climb on him or get too close. I put her down at 7:00pm and stayed up with the Husband for a while longer and then went to bed. I woke up around 1:00am because Baby of Dreams was sad and also making strange noises. I went in to her and realized that lunch was all over her crib, including her brand new tiger from Grandma. Now Baby of Dreams spit up a lot when she was smaller, but this was nothing like it. I grabbed her and ran her downstairs, where luckily the Husband is feeling a bit better. He stripped her down and gave her a bath while I tackled the crib. I took the sheet outside to dump off the particles and wasn't as careful as I should have been. I sprayed myself with the sick and almost lost my own dinner twice. Everything is now safely in the wash and washing in hot water. I now need to take a shower. I get in the shower and can't get anything more then slightly luke warm water. I had not taken into consideration that one baby bath + one load of hot laundry + our water heater do not = a hot shower for me. So I burst into tears, get out of the shower and am now sitting on the couch, smelling throwup, telling my woes to the world. (The Husband has kindly taken Baby of dreams and is sitting with her in the office.) Interesting that my first thought after destroying my water heater, was to write about it. I do feel a bit better though. And I am going to be checking the water for correct temperature very soon.

Health Update on Baby of Dreams

Well, it turns out that Baby of Dreams was not over her fever and continued it off and on all day Friday. She seemed okay to me in the morning and I left for work in the early afternoon. When I got home, she was good for about 10 minutes and then started screaming. She was due to got to sleep so I put her down. She woke up again about 2 hours later and I thought she was ready to get up and eat. I was wrong, she wanted to get up and scream, so I put her to bed for the night. She slept well enough that I moved her to my bed so I could make sure she was still breathing, every once in a while. She woke up late, for her, Saturday morning and again screamed a lot and flailed around on the ground and refused to let the Husband or I comfort her. I called the Dr.'s office, explained and they told me to bring her in. I am so grateful they are open a bit on Saturdays. We did have to wait almost two hours at the Dr. office, which was pretty excruciating, but I am so glad we went. Poor Baby of Dreams had two ear infections and was in the rash stage of Roseola. I hadn't even noticed a rash until we got to the Dr.'s office, but in my defense it probably only showed up sometime that morning. We then got Baby of Dreams her first anti-biotic and some really great ear drops that numb the inside of her ears. She has been sleeping a lot and practically living on juice. She definitely has not gotten dehydrated from this experience. She seems to be feeling a lot better now, but is still a bit cranky. I am now assuming that it is her ears that still hurt her a bit. The poor child has been through a lot the past 6 days. I remember my mom took such good care of me when I was sick, I hope I can do as well for my Baby of Dreams.

Statistics

I am on a roll tonight, with catching up on a bit of blogging, so I might as well get some good information down.
I took Baby of Dreams to the doctor yesterday to get her next set of immunizations. I was definitely worried, but we brought her tiger and her favorite blanket, (that coincidentally was given to her by the Husband's mom) and a full sippy of juice. She did scream, but really the nurses do an excellent job. Five shots in just a few seconds. I let her have the strawberry dum-dum that the doctor gave her and she got happier pretty quick. *A side note: This was her first, legal, candy. We are trying to keep her, as much as we can, off of processed sugar for at least her first two years. I took her home and she just sat with me on the couch for about 20 minutes, until I had to leave for work. If you know Baby of Dreams at all, you know that this is not normal. She is usually running around the house and most often climbing on things, every moment that she is awake. I put her down for a nap and the Husband sat with her when she woke up. When I got home from work she was definitely running a temperature. She sat with me for the next FOUR hours, barely moving. She was so hot! After a run to the store for more medicine, a call to the on-call doctor and a blessing from the Husband, Baby of Dreams was finally able to go to sleep for the night. She slept pretty well and seemed fine this morning. About the time I was about to get ready for work, she started running a temperature again. So I stayed home to tend to her. She seems much better now and was getting cranky around bedtime, a sure sign that she is back to normal, for the most part. Her temperature last night had been so high that the Husband and I were both extremely worried. She was so lethargic that it just was not normal and I knew she was feeling rotten. I was so sad and worried for her, but I am going to admit that I LOVED holding and cuddling my baby. She is so busy that she rarely has time to let me hold her, let alone cuddle and coo her. It was awesome being able to hold her like I used to.

On a more technical note, we got all her size statistics again. She was 15 months on the 10th.

Weight: 17.44 lbs. that is the 0.42 percentile

Height: 30 in. that is the 37th percentile

Head Circumference: 18.25 in. that is the 64th percentile

I could have sworn she was getting a lot heavier, but she has only gained about a pound and half since she turned one. The doctor is still not worried about her weight and he gave me the okay on turning her big girl car seat around. I know I was given advice a bit ago that I could probably do this, but I was chicken. You have to remember that this is my first child and I am entitled to a bit of over protectiveness.

I figured that I needed a picture in this entry, but did not really have one to go with it, so I might as well put this one in and tell a bit about it. Baby of Dreams loves playing the keyboard. She likes it much better when mom remembers to turn it on for her. We are working on not standing on the stool and pulling everything off of the keyboard. She usually does a pretty good job already on not pounding on the keys. She is seriously contemplating her next composition.