Perfect Day Off

After all of our travels we got home on Sunday and decided to use our final 2010 vacation day Monday! The morning was spent in or PJ's relaxing. We did a Target trip (who doesn't love Target?). After Little Man's nap we went skiing at Lake Maria with my parents. Adam went a couple times last winter on my back, but this time he road on dad's back. It was so much fun and I'm so happy that I can ski even though I'm preggos.

After the skiing we went out to a Thai restaurant and then some shopping at the Albertville Outlets. We got a couple shirts for #2 and Correlle dishes. I really love the dishes that we got for our wedding. The blue Colorwave dishes were the only ones we liked when registering. They are too huge and heavy for little hands and the pregnant me. I have broken three or four in the last few months. Every time I drop one it makes me so sad. But the new dishes are light and perfect for our family. Thanks for the family friendly dishes mom and dad! Below is my little guy bundled up hanging out on our big snow bank.

Merry Christmas

Well we're back from our whirlwind Christmas travels and happy to be home! Below is Adam singing Jingle Bells:

Crafty Christmas

My mom is from a huge family. She's smack dab in the middle of 11 kids. Their Christmas party is always a week or two before Christmas in order for everyone to make it. My aunt Bernie has a huge heated garage and welcomes the whole family for the occasion. I missed the party two years ago because of work and a snow storm and I hated it. We were going to announce our pregnancy with Adam to the whole family, so my mom had to do it instead.

I didn't want to miss it this year either. So we packed up right when I got home from urgent care with Adam on Saturday morning and drove the hour and 45 minutes to Hugo. Little Man did great. It took him a while to warm up to Henry (he calls him 'Enry). I got to talk to all my aunts and uncles and cousins.

My favorite part of the day was my aunts brought out some boxes full of unfinished quilts and afghans and other crafts my grandma was working on for us to look over and take what we wanted. Grandma was a very crafty lady, but her eyes just don't allow her to do that kind of stuff anymore. It was fun to sort through it all with my aunts and cousins. I got two cross stitched squares of an owl:

and strawberries:

They will be framed and up on the nursery wall. I was originally thinking a pillow, but a baby doesn't need a pillow and I really, really like them and want to keep them safe. And I took a doily that is going to be starched and hung on my Christmas tree:

No one likes Ammonia

Poor Little Man had pneumonia this week. When I picked him up on Monday he was sitting at a table all by himself and kind of spacing out. He felt warm to me and he did have a low grade fever (like 99). Otherwise he was pretty darn normal that night. We were up three or four times early Tuesday morning with him, but his fever was still below 1oo. We had our ultrasound at 8 AM so we took Adam with to make sure he was feeling ok before taking him to school. He seemed totally healthy and fine. So we took him to daycare. I had a two hour meeting and by the time I got back to my desk I had a message that I needed to come pick Adam up. His fever was 102 or something. I called Dave and then left. He was a sleep on his cot when I got there at 11 AM.

On the car ride home I asked Adam if he was hungry and he said yes. I fed him a pb&j and then put him back down for a nap. He had a fever, but he ate and seemed OK. Dave relieved me at 2 PM so I could make it back for a meeting and by then Adam was up from his nap. Dave called me around 4 and said he was going to take Adam to urgent care. He was lethargic and ibuprofen wasn't knocking his fever down.

I met them at the doctor's office and figured we'd get the typical "it's a virus and he'll get over it." Instead the doctor said she thought he was too sick for it to be just a virus. So he had to get his blood drawn, throat swabbed and a chest x-ray. We had a long wait for the results and all Adam did was sleep on me. He little heart was racing, his fever was high and his breathing was fast. The doctor told us there was a dark spot in his lungs, so they were going to treat it like pneumonia (the radiologist was gone). She asked if he had a cough and we said not really, but for the last few weeks he's coughed once or twice when he gets up in the morning but then he's fine. She said we had to make a follow up appointment and if he got any worse bring him right back to the clinic or the ER. She even mentioned that he may have to be hospitalized. I was freaked. My baby was so pathetically ill.

We kept alternating ibuprofen and Tylenol and prayed that the antibiotics would work. Wednesday I went to work in the morning and Dave went in the afternoon. Dave said Adam seemed better, but by the time I got home he seemed the same as Tuesday night. All he did was sleep on me, I put him down twice. Dave took Adam to the follow up appointment Wednesday night. The radiologist diagnosed him with pneumonia. Basically the doctor said keep doing what we were doing.

Thursday I stayed home all day. Thankfully his fever broke Wednesday night and he started eating more. He still napped a lot, but he didn't have a fever all day. We all went out to dinner to get out of the house that night and Adam was in great spirits. So Friday he went back to school. Dave told Adam Friday night that he needed to take it easy because he had pneumonia and Adam repeated "Ammonia". So stinking cute!

Adam developed a rash on his face and torso about 30 minutes after I gave him his antibiotics Friday night. Saturday I had to take him back to the clinic for a third time. Thankfully we were in and out fast and his rash was not an allergic reaction, just Adam fighting a virus. Adam was feeling much better and he let me know he was not happy I was bringing him back to the doctor by screaming almost the whole entire time. Poor Little Guy fell asleep on the way home.

Today he asked to nap at 10 and then again at 1 and slept for almost 2 hours each nap! He's still working on getting healthy, hopefully by Christmas he'll be 100%. We have 2.5 days of work and then we'll be going to Cheeseland!

Cabin Fever

We are snowed in.

Well actually that's the snow drift out our back door out of the garage. Dave has been doing a great job snow blowing the driveway to keep it clear.

People are calling this nasty blizzard snow-mageddon and snow-nami. Despite the warning we did venture out once today to finish up our Christmas shopping and get groceries (we stayed in Hutch). But now Adam is curling up with his favorite books to avoid getting cabin fever.

Today I'm halfway done with this pregnancy. The big ultrasound is on Tuesday. We're going to have the ultrasound tech write the sex of the baby in a card that we will open on Christmas. We didn't find out until Adam's birth that he was a boy and I'm so happy that we waited, but this time around I want to know.

My Duh Moment

Today I had my third OB appointment. It started out with the receptionist warning us that our doctor was running late. She was dialing our doctor's nurse before I could respond and asked exactly how late. The nurse said about 30 minutes. And what were they suggesting I do about it- find a really good and long magazine to read. 30 minutes is normal, not late, so of course we waited a full hour to see our doctor. Not a big deal it was nice to rest and get out of work early.


The only concern I brought to this appointment: my complete and utter exhaustion. She asked if it was due to taking care of Adam. I told her I didn't think it was because I wasn't this tired in the first trimester. I said I was most exhausted the days I get up to swim at 5 AM. Her question to me was what time do you go to bed- my answer 10:30 or 11:00. Duh, I'm pregnant, exhausted and only getting 6 hours of sleep three nights a week. She wrote "not getting enough sleep" in my chart. So now if I don't get to bed by 10 PM no swimming for this little mama.

Other fun facts- I've gained 20 pounds in a little under 20 weeks (next time I'm not looking at the scale) and I'm measuring about 21-22 cm and should be only 19-20! Baby's heart rate was 147-150. Also I started feeling the peanut really move around the Monday after Thanksgiving- so about 18 weeks this time.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

This little boy loves his bath. He had to have one again tonight. Normally he has his bath every other night, but tonight he was begging to get in the tub.

Dad taught Adam about filling the fish with water and then squeezing it. Now we sometimes get a shower while Adam is taking his bath!

Winter Walks

Going for a family walk is a lot more work in the winter. First everyone has to get bundled up to go out into the Frozen Tundra. Then we bring in the backpack carrier in and try to strap the snow-suit boy in. I used to put Adam on my back, but with my expanding belly and slippery ground Dave has taken over for me. It's okay because now I get to take pictures of my two favorite guys when we're out!

We don't go much further than around the pond down the street, but on a cold night that's enough. I think Adam prefers the backpack carrier to the stroller.