Bi-weekly Appointment

I have been swtiched to every 2 weeks now due to my BP being a little on the high side. I have been testing it once a day now as well. It has actually been pretty good. I am still down 10 pounds, and my BP was 134/84. Pumpkin sounds good, her heart beat was 154bpm.

My next appt is 12/08/10 at 4:15pm

Nathan knows his colors

It is so cute, Nathan knows his colors. He can say green and yellow as well. We were at the dentist office waiting for Kevin to get finished up, and Nathan and I were coloring pictures to pass the time. Every Time I asked for a color Nathan would grab the correct one and hand it to me. I am so proud of our little smart man.

He knows the basic colors: Yellow, green, blue, red, purple, brown, black, white, orange.

Updated Vocabulary list

It seems in the past week or so, his words are taking off. I am sure I am missing a few, but here is the bulk of it.

Momma, Mom, Dadda, Daddy, Dad, Grandma, Hi, Night, Kitty, Bubba, Huh, Bryan, Papa, Dog, Car, All, Gone, Good, Girl, Diego, I, Told, Yes, This, GaGa (for my grandma) Cat, Juice, Diane (grandma S. name), Duck, Rojo (spanish for Red), Grapes, Slurpee, Sippy, Popsicle, Lissa, Love, you, Chicken, Santa, Asoul (spanish for Blue), Dora, Stacey, Please, Kyle, Neil, cracker, tea, green, yellow, see, boo boo, gobble, ouch, up, baby, sissy, cool, car

Putting a few words together:

Night night, All gone, Good girl, I told, Love U, Papa this, Mommy this, Daddy this, Bubba this, I see momma (and daddy, papa...etc.), cool car

He is also doing AMAZING with his letters. He knows all his letters, and is now working in sounding them all out. So far he can sound out:

A,B,C,D,E,G,H,I,K,M,N,O,P,R,S,T,W,Y,Z

He also knows most of his colors.

Nathan has an appointment tomorrow for his hearing evaluation, and next Friday (11/19) he has his speech therapy evaluation.

Monthly Appointment

I seen Dr. Al-Jerdi again today for my monthly appt. It went ok. I am still down 10 pounds, and pumpkin sounds good. Her HB was 150bpm.

Doctor is not happy my blood pressure is a little high (130/90) so he wants to closely monitor it. I will now be going to see him every 2 weeks, and I have to test my BP once a day, and keep a record. I will be starting my NST (non stress test) at 34 wks (first week in Jan) I asked him if I was still going to be able to work. (I wasn't able to with Nathan when I started the NST) He said only time will tell, but he doesn't think so. I guess we will wait and see.

The other thing I was bummed to find out was I am not allowed to pickup or carry Nathan anymore, because he is just too heavy. I will still need to, to get him in and out of the car, but that's pretty much it.

My next appt is 11/22 at 4:15pm

Nathan's first night in his big boy bed

Tonight was Nathan's first night in his big boy bed. He did so well. We laid him down at 9:30pm. He got up once, but after we told him he has to get back in bed, he did and stayed in bed. He didn't fall asleep until about 11:15pm though~Lol We are so proud of our lil man.

**Its been 5 nights now, and Nathan is doing amazing. He did get up 1 night at 2am, and crawled into bed with me. I walked with him back to his bed, and told him it was still night night, and he had to sleep in his cool car. He fell right back asleep. He has been getting up earlier than usual, so we just have to work with him some. 7am is too early for him, as he gets cranky real quick. We also do not have the gate at his door, so when he does get up, he will either wake me or Kevin up. Once Kevin and I move upstairs (after baby is born) we will have a gate so he can't escape his room. We won't be able to hear him when we are upstairs and dont want him getting into things and hurt himself.

Let the painting begin!!!

Kevin is on vacation this week, so it was decided we would start working on Nathan's new room. At first we were going to just go with a basic blue color. Then just joking around I said..."Let's go with the Disney Car's theme"

Well it stuck, and we rolled with it. Nathan was all excited. He kept saying "cool car" every time we asked him what his room is going to look like. Kevin's parents decided to buy his bed as his Christmas gift, which was so super nice of them. And my parents bought him the bedding for the bed (Christmas gift) Nathan was so thrilled when it was all done. As of 10/30/10 he sleeps in a big boy bed, and he is doing fabulous. I am so proud of our big boy.

Below are pics before, during and after!!!

It's a GIRL!!!!!!!

Today is the day we find out. I couldn't wait for it to get here. The ultrasound tech started taking pumpkins measurements on everything she needed too, then we heard her say "Come on baby" I was thinking to myself, oh no, pumpkin is not cooperating and we will not find out. Then a minute later she said would you like to know what it is??? I asked her how sure was she?. She advised she is 99% sure, and has not been wrong in 25 yrs. Then I said okay. She said...."It's a Girl!!!!!" Kevin and I started tearing up immediately. I told Kevin I am sure she is already wrapped around his finger. He of course said yes.

It was cute though, the tech would leave to check other areas, and then come back to make sure she is still a girl. I loved it.

Kevin and I had some running around to do before our parents came over for dinner. We stopped at the bulk food store to see what we could buy that would be a neat way to tell the family. We found these cute chocolates shaped like cigars that were pink and said its a girl. So we picked them up. When we got home I put a stick on the end of it, and wrapped them in regular Reynold's wrap. When everyone got there we handed them each one. As soon as Nathan said "GO" They pulled the chocolate out. They were all so excited, and of course said they knew. I informed them, they didn't know it...they assumed~Lol We called a bunch of people too. It was a great great day. Nathan is so happy he is going to have a sissy.