Moving on

Update: Photos added!

If your reading this post and there aren't any pictures I'll try to update it soon. I was just tired of seeing the prego stick and wanted to update ASAP.

I've been meaning to update this blog for a while now. But to be honest I have NO time. Zack likes to be near me at all times. If I'm on the computer he's right there beside me. Usually getting in to my scrapbook stuff, pulling on computer cords or climbing on something.

This isn't a very good pictures but shows that Zack is trying to climb onto the couch. My foot is there to help "boost" him.

Zack has become quite the little climber lately. He can mostly get on the couch by himself now, every once in a while he'll need a little boost. He has no problem climbing on our glass coffee table. That is a big problem seems how we put the table away at one point because one of the legs broke. We "mostly" fixed the leg, so we are still a little nervous about it's unstability. He'll also use toys to help himself up onto a side table that we have between the couch and chair. He's also mastered climbing from the lovesac to the chair that is next to it. It's pretty funny. He flings himself over the armrest and lands on the cushion. He'll even go into our room and get a laundry basket and drag it into the front room to stand on. He gets up on top and he's so proud of himself!

This picture is of Zack going from the Lovesac to the Loveseat. I wanted to post a video but it's not working, so this is all you get.

Zack has also started a shoe fetish. He loves giving people their shoes. This has become a problem because we are constantly missing one shoe. He also loves to wear shoes. He'll bring me one of his shoe, plop himself into my lap and lift up his foot. I'll put the shoe on him and he'll be happy. Most of the time he'll just have the ONE shoe on. it's really funny. And he'll walk around for as long as I let him with only the one shoe. And if I try to take it off he gets very angry! We've tried to hide a lot of his shoes so we don't have the above mentioned problem with missing shoes. We are still missing one of his sandals. Either he's thrown it away or it's hidden somewhere.

We've finally trained Zack to throw garbage away. It's so cute. He'll eat a fruit snack and when he's finished we'll tell him to throw the wrapper in the garbage. He'll do just that! But if there is any chance that he can get it back out he will. I've also seen him pick up random garbage and thrown it away! I love my little helper, if only I could get him to put away his toys! He loves to pull things out of the garbage and give it to us. He's our little garbage man. I have caught him a few times throwing his balls in the garbage along with other toys. I'm sure a few of his stuff (and maybe ours) have made it to the landfill. Zack has also figured out how to open the toilet seat. We've caught him a few times playing in the water. He's also thrown my slipper into the toilet at one point... not cool! He's such a troublemaker, but we love him!

As for the pregnancy everything is going fine. Currently I am 17 weeks along. I feel fine other then being tired alot. Normally in your second trimester you start getting your energy back, but I haven't. I'm sure alot of it has to do with the fact that I don't sleep very well (thanks abbie!) and 3 days a week I have to get up earlier then I'd like to be awake. We had a fun ER visit because I was having pains in my chest and the doctor thought it may be a gallbladder problem. It wasn't an emergency my doctor just told me to go to the ER because they would be able to get the test results quicker. Thanks for that, now I have to pay an ER bill and waste 4 hours of my life! Everything ended up being fine, they think it was just reflux. Which in my opinion is a "I don't know what is wrong with you" diagnose. I've felt fine since then and haven't had to take any prescriptions... (knock on wood).

Ultrasound picture is when I was 15 weeks

We should find out what we are having on October 12th. I am excited. It's hard to tell what we may have. This pregnancy has been very different then with Zack. With Zack I started getting sick right at my second trimester and pretty much couldn't eat or think about dinner at all! With this pregnancy I started feeling sick earlier on, but was able to contain it with eating every few hours. I really haven't had too much morning sickness, which has been nice. Bob thinks we are having a boy. But I'm leaning towards a girl. We'll be happy with either one. Deanna is convinced we are having a boy because we did the wedding ring thing a while ago and it said I was going to have 2 boys. It will be interesting to see the outcome. My Aunt and Grandma (and I'm sure my mom) would like to have a granddaughter. If we could pull it off, this would be the first grand daughter for my mom and the first great grand daughter for my grandma. I've already broke tradition by getting pregnant a second time, we'll see if I can break it again by having a girl! But like I said I'd be happy with either.

I'm also fighting not to wear my maternity clothes yet. I don't know why, I guess I'm worried about gaining so much weight again. My pants are starting to not fit but thanks to the bellaband I can still wear my pre-pregnancy clothes. My shirts on the other hand are starting to not fit properly. I may have to cave and just pull out the maternity stuff. It's so funny because when I got pregnant with Zack I couldn't wait to wear maternity and now I'm the opposite.

So that is the update as of right now. I'm sure I've missed a few things but that's what preggo brain does.

Moving on

Update: Photos added!

If your reading this post and there aren't any pictures I'll try to update it soon. I was just tired of seeing the prego stick and wanted to update ASAP.

I've been meaning to update this blog for a while now. But to be honest I have NO time. Zack likes to be near me at all times. If I'm on the computer he's right there beside me. Usually getting in to my scrapbook stuff, pulling on computer cords or climbing on something.

This isn't a very good pictures but shows that Zack is trying to climb onto the couch. My foot is there to help "boost" him.

Zack has become quite the little climber lately. He can mostly get on the couch by himself now, every once in a while he'll need a little boost. He has no problem climbing on our glass coffee table. That is a big problem seems how we put the table away at one point because one of the legs broke. We "mostly" fixed the leg, so we are still a little nervous about it's unstability. He'll also use toys to help himself up onto a side table that we have between the couch and chair. He's also mastered climbing from the lovesac to the chair that is next to it. It's pretty funny. He flings himself over the armrest and lands on the cushion. He'll even go into our room and get a laundry basket and drag it into the front room to stand on. He gets up on top and he's so proud of himself!

This picture is of Zack going from the Lovesac to the Loveseat. I wanted to post a video but it's not working, so this is all you get.

Zack has also started a shoe fetish. He loves giving people their shoes. This has become a problem because we are constantly missing one shoe. He also loves to wear shoes. He'll bring me one of his shoe, plop himself into my lap and lift up his foot. I'll put the shoe on him and he'll be happy. Most of the time he'll just have the ONE shoe on. it's really funny. And he'll walk around for as long as I let him with only the one shoe. And if I try to take it off he gets very angry! We've tried to hide a lot of his shoes so we don't have the above mentioned problem with missing shoes. We are still missing one of his sandals. Either he's thrown it away or it's hidden somewhere.

We've finally trained Zack to throw garbage away. It's so cute. He'll eat a fruit snack and when he's finished we'll tell him to throw the wrapper in the garbage. He'll do just that! But if there is any chance that he can get it back out he will. I've also seen him pick up random garbage and thrown it away! I love my little helper, if only I could get him to put away his toys! He loves to pull things out of the garbage and give it to us. He's our little garbage man. I have caught him a few times throwing his balls in the garbage along with other toys. I'm sure a few of his stuff (and maybe ours) have made it to the landfill. Zack has also figured out how to open the toilet seat. We've caught him a few times playing in the water. He's also thrown my slipper into the toilet at one point... not cool! He's such a troublemaker, but we love him!

As for the pregnancy everything is going fine. Currently I am 17 weeks along. I feel fine other then being tired alot. Normally in your second trimester you start getting your energy back, but I haven't. I'm sure alot of it has to do with the fact that I don't sleep very well (thanks abbie!) and 3 days a week I have to get up earlier then I'd like to be awake. We had a fun ER visit because I was having pains in my chest and the doctor thought it may be a gallbladder problem. It wasn't an emergency my doctor just told me to go to the ER because they would be able to get the test results quicker. Thanks for that, now I have to pay an ER bill and waste 4 hours of my life! Everything ended up being fine, they think it was just reflux. Which in my opinion is a "I don't know what is wrong with you" diagnose. I've felt fine since then and haven't had to take any prescriptions... (knock on wood).

Ultrasound picture is when I was 15 weeks

We should find out what we are having on October 12th. I am excited. It's hard to tell what we may have. This pregnancy has been very different then with Zack. With Zack I started getting sick right at my second trimester and pretty much couldn't eat or think about dinner at all! With this pregnancy I started feeling sick earlier on, but was able to contain it with eating every few hours. I really haven't had too much morning sickness, which has been nice. Bob thinks we are having a boy. But I'm leaning towards a girl. We'll be happy with either one. Deanna is convinced we are having a boy because we did the wedding ring thing a while ago and it said I was going to have 2 boys. It will be interesting to see the outcome. My Aunt and Grandma (and I'm sure my mom) would like to have a granddaughter. If we could pull it off, this would be the first grand daughter for my mom and the first great grand daughter for my grandma. I've already broke tradition by getting pregnant a second time, we'll see if I can break it again by having a girl! But like I said I'd be happy with either.

I'm also fighting not to wear my maternity clothes yet. I don't know why, I guess I'm worried about gaining so much weight again. My pants are starting to not fit but thanks to the bellaband I can still wear my pre-pregnancy clothes. My shirts on the other hand are starting to not fit properly. I may have to cave and just pull out the maternity stuff. It's so funny because when I got pregnant with Zack I couldn't wait to wear maternity and now I'm the opposite.

So that is the update as of right now. I'm sure I've missed a few things but that's what preggo brain does.

Seven Months

This week Zack turned seven months old. It really is amazing how quickly they grow up.In the past month he has:

• Learned to crawl
• Started pulling himself up on furniture
• Terrorizes the cat by crawling after him and pulling his tail (Abbie is really handling Zack well and doesn't seem to mind too much -- just today I saw Abbie rub his head on Zack which is a HUGE step for Abbie)
• Got his first hair cut
• Able to sit up on his knees without holding onto anything

And

• Had surgery.

At his six month checkup Zack is still over the 95 percentile in height. His head circumference is below the 5 percentile and his weight is between 5 and 10 percentile

Stats:
Height 28.5"
Weight 18 lbs

Another first and hopefully the last; Zack had surgery this month. It's a surgery we've know that he was going to have since he was born. Zack had what is called Hypospadias. It's a very common correctable defect among boys. I actually have a couple friends that their sons have had the same problem. Basically what hypospadias is is a urethra that does not reach the tip of the penis; or the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis. Zack had a very mild case of this. The pediatrician realized he had this before he circumcised him so Zack was also only 1/2 circumcised. The reason for this was they could use the foreskin to help correct the hypospadias.

Friday, February 13th we checked into Primary Children's Hospital (outpatient surgery) for the procedure. We were only able to feed Zack clear liquids from 12:30 - 7:30. After 7:30 he couldn't eat at all. We checked in at 9:00. We were told that we were scheduled for surgery at 11:00. About 11:30 we were told the surgery before us was running longer then planned so we would be in about 12:00. I think they actually took Zack back about 11:45. Luckily Zack fell asleep about 11:00 so the wait wasn't too bad. The surgery was scheduled to run about 2 - 2 1/2 hours. I handled the surgery a lot better then I thought I would. I got teary as they were taking Zack (crying) down the hallway. Then we got something to eat from the cafeteria, then went to the waiting room. Luckily Bob brought his iPod so we just watched The Office. About 2:30 we were told that Zack was in recovery and the doctor would be with us to tell us how the surgery went. About 15 minutes after that I was able to go into the recovery room to be with Zack. He was not a very happy camper. He was still hooked up with an IV (in his ankle) and he was crying! I got teary again seeing my little boy in such pain. I wasn't able to get him calmed down so they gave him more pain medication through his IV. It didn't take too long for it to kick in. He got kind of loopy and was lying in my arms looking at the ceiling and chattering. It was really cute. About 20 minutes later we were taken into post-op where Bob was able to come meet us. We finished giving Zack a bottle and had to wait about 1/2 hour to make sure he didn't throw up or need more pain medication. After that we were given the discharge information and was sent on our way. About 3:30 we were on our way home. Luckily Zack feel asleep in the car on the way home. That evening we gave him some of the liquid Lortab that was prescribed and Zack slept until about midnight. Then he woke up and wanted to play. I was up with him until about 2 AM when he fell back asleep. He didn't seem to be in pain and was crawling around like nothing happened. The next day we took the bandage off and soaked him in the tub (doctors orders). He's a little bruised and swollen; but all in all he's a fighter. He hasn't needed any pain medication since the 13th and he's crawling as normal.

Here are some pictures that we took at the hospital. We forgot my camera so the pictures are from the camera phone.

This is what Zack was given to wear for the surgery. The shirt ties in the back.

These pictures are post-op. See he doesn't seem too unhappy. Of course he was still on his happy medicine.

Seven Months

This week Zack turned seven months old. It really is amazing how quickly they grow up.In the past month he has:

• Learned to crawl
• Started pulling himself up on furniture
• Terrorizes the cat by crawling after him and pulling his tail (Abbie is really handling Zack well and doesn't seem to mind too much -- just today I saw Abbie rub his head on Zack which is a HUGE step for Abbie)
• Got his first hair cut
• Able to sit up on his knees without holding onto anything

And

• Had surgery.

At his six month checkup Zack is still over the 95 percentile in height. His head circumference is below the 5 percentile and his weight is between 5 and 10 percentile

Stats:
Height 28.5"
Weight 18 lbs

Another first and hopefully the last; Zack had surgery this month. It's a surgery we've know that he was going to have since he was born. Zack had what is called Hypospadias. It's a very common correctable defect among boys. I actually have a couple friends that their sons have had the same problem. Basically what hypospadias is is a urethra that does not reach the tip of the penis; or the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis. Zack had a very mild case of this. The pediatrician realized he had this before he circumcised him so Zack was also only 1/2 circumcised. The reason for this was they could use the foreskin to help correct the hypospadias.

Friday, February 13th we checked into Primary Children's Hospital (outpatient surgery) for the procedure. We were only able to feed Zack clear liquids from 12:30 - 7:30. After 7:30 he couldn't eat at all. We checked in at 9:00. We were told that we were scheduled for surgery at 11:00. About 11:30 we were told the surgery before us was running longer then planned so we would be in about 12:00. I think they actually took Zack back about 11:45. Luckily Zack fell asleep about 11:00 so the wait wasn't too bad. The surgery was scheduled to run about 2 - 2 1/2 hours. I handled the surgery a lot better then I thought I would. I got teary as they were taking Zack (crying) down the hallway. Then we got something to eat from the cafeteria, then went to the waiting room. Luckily Bob brought his iPod so we just watched The Office. About 2:30 we were told that Zack was in recovery and the doctor would be with us to tell us how the surgery went. About 15 minutes after that I was able to go into the recovery room to be with Zack. He was not a very happy camper. He was still hooked up with an IV (in his ankle) and he was crying! I got teary again seeing my little boy in such pain. I wasn't able to get him calmed down so they gave him more pain medication through his IV. It didn't take too long for it to kick in. He got kind of loopy and was lying in my arms looking at the ceiling and chattering. It was really cute. About 20 minutes later we were taken into post-op where Bob was able to come meet us. We finished giving Zack a bottle and had to wait about 1/2 hour to make sure he didn't throw up or need more pain medication. After that we were given the discharge information and was sent on our way. About 3:30 we were on our way home. Luckily Zack feel asleep in the car on the way home. That evening we gave him some of the liquid Lortab that was prescribed and Zack slept until about midnight. Then he woke up and wanted to play. I was up with him until about 2 AM when he fell back asleep. He didn't seem to be in pain and was crawling around like nothing happened. The next day we took the bandage off and soaked him in the tub (doctors orders). He's a little bruised and swollen; but all in all he's a fighter. He hasn't needed any pain medication since the 13th and he's crawling as normal.

Here are some pictures that we took at the hospital. We forgot my camera so the pictures are from the camera phone.

This is what Zack was given to wear for the surgery. The shirt ties in the back.

These pictures are post-op. See he doesn't seem too unhappy. Of course he was still on his happy medicine.