Baby come out!

(not my baby's sonogram)

Okay today is July 24th! My due date! I have no baby yet! I think we were all so surprised, even my doctor that this child has decided to stay in my belly this long. It's become a stressful event. If I didn't have 3 weeks of contractions, I would of been fine with letting this child stay for a week in my belly. But, it's enough! And Mary Caroline needs her Mommy to get back to normal also. Well, maybe not normal but feeling up to playing!

Ash and I made the decision to have me induced on Monday. I have no problems with inducing, I just wanted to let this child come on its own. I wanted Baby to tell us it's birthday! There has to be SOME surprises in life. I took one surprise away by finding out the sex. So, I was really upset that I am not getting the chance to let this baby have it's own birthday, without medical help.

However, I think this choice has made my family and I more relaxed about the whole baby situation. And.... I truly believe Babies do sense when you are stressed and upset. Or at least they do when they are outside the womb (M.C.) Maybe, Baby Pouche #2 has sensed my struggle with this pregnancy and wants me to be truly ready.

Well, Baby P #2 I am ready for you! Come out and play with your sister! Daddy, Mommy, and your big crazy family want to meet you! :)

(Side note: please don't take offense to the comments about inducing and gender finding out. This is my feeling on it. Everyone has their own opinions and reasons. I fully respect those)

Good Intentions

So, I have had all the intentions to do all of these fun things this week with M.C., thinking this maybe the last week (just us).... yah Momma is too tired and in pain. It's not all day long, but the mornings are becoming very difficult. This summer, Mary Caroline has been staying up later than usual. It's summer and our schedule is never the same. So, she's slept in to 8:00 on those nights. Well, she went to bed about 8:45 last night and she was up at 6:30 this morning. This has been the trend lately. BOOOO!!! I guess my honeymoon is over! God, is getting me ready for two babies by keeping me up at night and up bright and early in the morning. YEAH!!!

Since I have already finished all of the "nesting" responsibility. I'm bored! You can only do so much housework, that it becomes daunting. That is why I wanted to do some fun stuff with the kiddo. But.. it's too dang hot today, even to go to the pool. We've resorted to playing 'school' and yes, (bad Mom) watching t.v. The school part is good: she is learning her sight words and I let her color on paper as I cut out pictures from grocery adds. She puts those hand made cards in a coffee can as I ask her what the object is. (no, this idea is not from the teacher in me, but from Mom and sister, Katie)

The t.v. part is educational, we watch A Baby Story to prepare her for Baby #2 and in the morning we watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (it's her favorite) That's it. Okay maybe Dora when Mom is starting to feel a contraction come on. Yo Gabba Gabba at 4.

I did manage to get the baby pool out today and I let her take the hose with a sprinkler attachment and spray it everywhere. Including on me! At this point, I feel like I am on bed rest. I am afraid to get out of the house in fear that a contraction will be soo painful that driving would be hard.

Mom Kunz will be here on Friday! Thank GOD!

Almost here!

Well time is approaching for that final hour where I'll be experiencing the worst set of cramps in the world! Yes, Labor!! I guess my body has been preparing because I've been having contractions since last week! And they are a biatch!! At this point I am so uncomfortable that the basic everyday functions are exhausting! My ball, water, and the toilet are my best friends. It's nice that we got a new toilet seat, because I am getting great use out of it!! Because of the contractions are so strong, I drink water to settle them so that results in more peeing!! Fun Fun!!! If you do read my blog, aren't you soo excited to hear about my peeing?

Actually the toilet seat is really cool because we bought one of those that has a little kid seat connected for training! Okay enough potty talk. Anyways, we are ready to go! The reality of two is not scaring me anymore. I am thinking that this will be just another adventure to tackle! I know that we'll have our ups and downs but millions of families do this! So, we can too!! I am just ready to be done with pregnancy. It's been two years and it's time to give this body a break!!

I haven't had a normal wardrobe since early 2008! It's time for this Mamma to have cute clothes and pack up the maternity clothes forever! (maybe) I think two is enough. :)

So here's to coming early Baby Pouche #2!! We would love to have you here

say..next Monday?

Waterbabies!!! Party on Fourth of July with Mara Franke, Mickey McGraw, and Grant Pomianek.

Ah Nesting!

So, I've noticed a lot of preggers talking about their nesting lately. Well, I guess I went in overdrive yesterday because I put myself in what I thought was early stages of labor. I took M.C. to run errands: UPS store, Teacher store and Once Upon a Child. Mary Caroline weighs about 24lbs. Not bad. But I take her in and out of the car. She is walking but not trusting to let her on her own. So, have to carry her or put her in the shopping carts.

The Teacher store is very tempting because you feel like buying every educational toy/game out there. I began to think, I need to be teaching M.C. how to read. That's what I'll do while I am breastfeeding the other one. HAAH!!! Well she loooooves the store too and that was fun to get her out of the store.

Once Upon a Child is very bad!!! It's like box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get! I like the fact that I found a Peg Perego double stroller! I've been looking on and off for double strollers since I found out I was pregnant. I really didn't want to get one unless it was necessary. Well, I watched my friend Kara with her two babies and I know I won't be able to handle M.C. trying to walk and maneuvering a stroller with a baby. So, lock them up is my goal!

When I got home, we had lunch and settled down to sight word/picture cards. Yes, I am really trying to teach M.C. to know what objects are at least. Meanwhile, I am thinking about my new buy (the stroller)

At nap time, I get all of my things done so I can play with the stroller. Swifter, put dishes away, laundry and take out two strollers out of my car. Start cleaning my stroller.

Then come the contractions...... UgGGGG!!! I timed them, at one point I had 7 contractions in one hour. I give Ash the warning and start getting the bag ready, paperwork ready, but manage to get baby fed and act like everything is normal. Boil some ravioli and sit on my ball with my dinner. 7 o' clock rolls around and they have subsided a little so I give M.C. a bath.

At that point I am exhausted, but not having the contractions as much. Daddy takes M.C. from my arms and put her to bed. I take a shower and feel like melting in the water.

So, I guess I over did my day? Got way too excited about a dang stroller! Today I go to the doc. Let see what she says. What's hard is that this is the second baby and I have M.C. and many things to do. So "slowing down" is not in my vocabulary. I know, that is bad.

(Ash's response to the contractions: oh you better get on your blog and start blogging/twittering whatever you do. Dork)

So Girl or Boy?

Mary Caroline Pouche- December 23, 2008 Baby Pouche #2- ????????

Whenever someone is pregnant, the first question you hear is "Do you know what your having?" Well, these days yes most people know what they are having. Ash and I didn't find out the first time with M.C. And it was really annoying to answer that question over and over again. Everyone has there own opinion over the "gender" revealing! Mary Caroline was due Christmas 2008. We felt that it was like opening up our big gift before Santa arrived.

Okay, so the true is this time around one of us knows what this baby is. And that person would be me. I wasn't planning on finding out but I went to my appointment by myself and the sonogram tech was so cheery and happy that she made me feel it was alright to find out! So, when people ask me if I know what I am having, I say yes but my husband doesn't know. Then the response usually is "How do you hide it from him?" Well, it's simple I act like I did the first time around. It's Baby Pouche or M.C. and I call it "Buddy."

I've never been the one to really care to have the bedroom ready or the clothes set. So, it didn't matter if I knew anyway because once Baby arrives we'll deal with that. I know many people who go crazy and have to have clothes ready, etc. Well, good for you!! :) This baby does have a little going home out in it's specfic gender but that's about it.

Of course Grammy Kunz knows and she's been working hard on the revealing of the room. Pink or Blue? HMMMMM? :)

So, what is Ashley's response to all of this. He thinks it's: 1. playing God 2. opening a present before christmas. 3. the coolest thing about pregnancy, not knowing. (3rd one not so much in his words) He's an old fashion guy when it comes to this. Frankly, I think he's still in awe that there is another one coming very soon!! LOL! ME TOO!!!

Thankful

In my last blog, I was quite the "debbie downer!" My daughter is not the devil as I protray to her to be in my note! :) Yes, she is an awnry little one but she is so funny & has a personality of her own. She makes me smile in the morning when I get her out of the crib! Mary Caroline has been the best thing going in my life! I couldn't imagine life without her. It's amazing how everything you thought was important changes when you have a child.

My first thought today is what fun can we have today? I am trying the best I can to be a trooper for M.C. in the next three weeks! She needs that! We are off to get donuts now and then to the pool later.

Losing patience and getting bigger!

http://www.babycenter.com/0_tantrums_11569.bc?scid=mbtw_post18m_1w:795&pe=2UvJ2sJ

It's just down right hard to have an 18 month old and be almost 37 weeks pregnant. I am not trying to be a complainer but really I am so big that I managed to fall flat on my belly! Baby and I are okay,we just had to be monitored for four hours at the hospital. Overall, I am feeling fine. I just can't handle the constant battles that Mary Caroline seems to be wanting to do! I think 18 months is the terrible twos! If that is the case, then hopefully at 2 she will be done with these outbursts!! HAAH!

Maybe, I am just hormonal and they aren't really that bad. I know she's senses my stress! I can tell. That is where I just can't handle it! Yesterday, she was climbing on the new baby bed and I told her no, um 3 times. Finally she got so mad that she tried to run out of the room and hit her head on the door. This gave her a knot the size of Texas. Of course, I am trying to comfort her. And she cries and cries for 15 minutes. I get her a snack and she gets mad and throws the stuff that she doesn't want on the floor. Time for NAP! I put her in the bed and take a shower. That's all I can do, to SAVE me from going insane!



TODAY, she was fine up to 11:00 a.m. I am trying to get ready so that we can go see Great Grandmother Janet for lunch and she starts whining. Now, I figure she's hungry and bored but really can't you wait and be patient for a second? No, Mom I'm 18 months old!!! I try to put clothes on her, a really cute dress and of course that pisses her off. I get upset myself and pick her up in a not so nice manner and set her on the floor in her room to cry. I calm myself down and realize that she is the baby. I hug her and cry myself and say are you okay? Mommy loves you and she calms down. I try to tell her how pretty she looks and then it's like nothing ever happened. Starts playing with a toy.



Five minutes later, okay ready to go. We just need your shoes and change diaper. Her response, gives me the sandals and then runs away as I try to pick her up to change diaper. I put her on the changing table she of course is fighting me, almost hits her head on the table. Pick her up take her to the kitchen corner where we have "time out." She cries and looks at me, I say are you ready to go and be a good girl? She calms down and comes to me. Then I take her back to the room and she throws a fit again. This point I am soooo frustrated that I just sit her down on the bed in her room and say you can cry all you want, we are not going to see Grandma till you calm down. I leave the room and sit in the kitchen and cry too. She cries for what seems like forever. Then slowly comes down the hallway peeking to see me. I look at her red eyed face and she looks at mine. I say lets try this again. We move to the living room, give her a toy and she plays with it as I change her diaper.



Of course, she's perfect at lunch. Well almost! :)



God grant me the serenity to except the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the patience to keep from going nuts!! Amen. (And please tell me that I am going to survive two! )