Woohoo!

3 hour glucose came back normal. Phew, that scared me. I will still be eating more cautiously though.

Easton

26 weeks

22 weeks (leg)

22 weeks

Yep, we named him already. Actually really or friend John named him. Ha ha ha. We were having a really hard time thinking of a name. We had a lot that we liked, but nothing was really sticking out to us. John has a 6 month old named Westin and just joking said what about Easton? Well, we love it so thanks John! Also I wanted to add that my original due date was August 8th, but after our 2nd appt, my Dr moved it up to the 4th, so the ticker on the side is four days off. Not like it really matters that much cause the baby will come when he's ready. It's just every time I see it I find myself subtracting 4 days. :) I just don't want to take the effort to change it. The pictures I added are backwards too, but don't want to change that either. Really, I think the baby looks a lot like Daxton did in his 3D pics. I'm pretty sure Easton has Todds nose. Daxton looked like he did in his 3D pics and he really does. I love that you can get an idea of what they look like in there. Technology is great.

Life Update

Found out a few days ago that I could have gestational diabetes. I have to go in Thursday and do the 3 hour glucose test. I was kind of starting to wonder if I had it anyway, cause every time I would eat a lot of sugar, I would just feel funny. Almost like I was shaking, but I wasn't. I guess my sugar after the first test was up to 170 and should be below 140, so I'm pretty sure the second test is going to be positive too. We have diabetes in our family and my twin sister had gestational diabetes in her second pregnancy too, and not her first. Since I found out, I've been trying to follow the diet as well as I can from what I've looked up online. Apparently they will give me a more specific diet when they find out what my sugars are doing. It's hard though. I don't know how diabetic people do it. I'm not a big protien fan, so eating a lot of protien is not fun for me. I love fruit, and yogurt, and cereal. You can't eat any of that very much on the diet. No pastries either (obviously), and that's what my cravings have been for this pregnancy. I love cinnamon rolls and danishes, mmmm, but there will be no more of that. Even if my diagnosis comes out negative, I think I will try to stick to a lower carb diet, because having that high of sugar scares me a little. I don't want to harm this baby, and I don't want to end up with diabetes any time soon. Lot's of people with gestational diabetes develop diabetes 5 to 10 years after the pregnancy. Exercising and eating healthy can help ward it off longer, so I think I will be doing a lot of that. It sort of doesn't make sense to me that my parents had 5 daughters, and the only 2 that haven't abused their bodies (drug use, anorexia, and not exercising regularly) are the 2 that end up with gestational diabetes. It just doesn't seem right. It scares me to find out this late in pregnancy if I have it. I probably shouldn't be reading stories about it, but who wouldn't. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to stillbirth. I couldn't handle that. Here's to hoping everything turns out normal and eating healthier.
On another note, Todd is starting a new job at Fidelity with insurance at the end of May. This is a huge relief to us cause we were freaking out a little with the baby not being covered if something were to happen and he had to stay at the hospital longer than expected, or if I ended up needing a C-secton.
Todd has always been a people person. He just has a way with people, and everyone loves him. He went in for an interview in a position that everyone starts out in, and got it. He is a regional manager right now, so that looked good on his resume. A lady hiring for a higher position saw it and decided to interview him even though they always hire internally for this position. He interviewed, and got it. He really loves his job now, granted he is out of town about once a month, but he has a lot more freedom and the potential of making a lot more money, but we really need the insurance Fidelity is offering. He's taking the job at Fidelity, and still going to be working on the side with the job he's at now. He will be busy, but we don't really have a choice. After the baby comes, and we don't need the insurance so much, I'm pretty sure Todd will be going back to the position he's in now. The only thing that would stop that is if the company he's at goes under. I don't see that happening any time soon though.
Somehow things always work out. I'm just greatful we have these good opportunities to choose from. Some people aren't that lucky.
I'm still working at the Post Office every Saturday, and doing BPO's during the week. They usually keep me pretty busy, except the past couple weeks it has been slow. I'm really glad the mail is pretty light in the spring/summer, otherwise I'd probably be in a lot of pain. It's getting harder and harder to lift things around that truck, and everytime I drop a letter I kick myself ;). If I can make it through the hot summer, I will be golden. I want to get my real estate license too, but with work being slow, we don't have the money to front for the class right now. The class is about $500 and then it's about $800 a year to keep it active. Once work pics back up, I will do that and hopefully be making more money. I have had some ups and downs at the post office, and I have thought about quitting a lot. The only thing stopping me is the money. It pays better than any job I've had before, and it's really nice to have the extra money. It's about $600 take home a month just for working 4 days a month. Not too bad. The other thing is if I stay there long enough and get a regular position, it has great benefits, and pays even more. The job's really not hard, just when you're pregnant. Hopefully I can stick it out that long. One of my biggest concerns is it being way too hot this summer. There is no AC in those trucks, and the sun beats down in the big windows. Last summer, I was always so sweaty, and it's going to be so much worse this year. My legs are probably going to swell up pretty bad. Using the bathroom is a hassle also, cause you have to drive somewhere that's not on your route and lock everything up. That could be a problem in a month or so too. Anyway, that's what's going on with us right now. I haven't updated for a while so this ended up being really long. Sorry.

Happy Birthday Todd and Daxton!

Ok, so most of the pics are from Daxtons Birthday, but for Todd we went and ate at Texas Roadhouse. It was pretty funny, they had a person dressed as an armadillo that Daxton was really scared of when we first walked in. I of course comforted him, and said it's ok, and gave him a hug. The person in the costume noticed he was scared and walked around the corner where he couldn't see. The next few days Dax kept holding my face, saying "scared?" then he'd pat my back and say, "it's ok." I don't think we could have asked for a sweeter or cuter kid. He is so adorable.

We had 2 birthday parties, one big one for the millions of people in Todd's family with April birthdays.......ok for 4 of them, but that was only some of the April birthdays. Then we had a big party with everyone at our house. It was pretty crazy. I'm waiting for the year it's warm enough at the end of April to just do it outside, cause our house just isn't big enough for that many people. So far both years have been really cold.

Todd turned 29 and Dax turned 2. Daxton is talking so much. You can pretty much just communicate with him now. It's pretty nice knowing what is going through that head. One of his favorite things to say is "mine, not yours" ha ha ha... I said he's 2 right? We are working on the sharing thing. Him and his cousin Abbi have butted heads since probably about a year ago. They are always fighting about something. I think it's starting to get better though. Dax is starting to understand the concept of sharing. It's taken constantly working with them to get to this point though.

Another of his favorite things to say is "come here" and "lets go." It sounds more like, "come ern its go", but we can all undrestand. He even says, "come here doggy, lets go Titan," but he say's Titan like Tie-at. It's pretty cute, he grabs your hand and tries to drag you with him. We BBQ'd with my cousin the other day who has twins that are about 8 months older than Dax, and he was doing that to them instead of me for a change. It was nice to have a break, and also nice that he is big enough to just go play with them now without us watching his every move.

Camping should be fun this year. For his birthday, we got him a little fishing pole and a camping chair. Also, from the easter bunny he got a shovel, rake, hoe set. He loves following me around the yard when I'm cleaning up dog poop (ewww). He grabs the snow shovel and helps me find the piles. He will have fun with the new tools helping us in the yard this year. I think he'll really enjoy trying to fish with us too. He likes being part of the action.

We put Dax in a toddler bed about a month ago. Amazingly, he did awesome. He still hasn't gotten out of bed once. I guess he was ready. He has always been really good at adjusting to things like that though. When we switched him to a sippy from a bottle and to milk from formula, a little over a year ago, he just switched and didn't even make a peep about it. Hopefully he'll adjust well to the new baby coming. He is always amazing me when it comes to adjustment. Every time I'm worried about something, it doesn't even phase him. Let's hope that's the case this time too.

Happy Easter!!

Daxton had so much fun coloring eggs, and hunting for eggs at both grandparents houses. He is old enough now to enjoy that kind of stuff. It makes it really fun for us to watch him. We colored eggs at our friend Josh's house a few nights before easter. We did a big BBQ and had Daxton, Emma, Abbi, and Lovelle color eggs. Dax did pretty good until the end I think he got bored and started dumping cups out and stuff. Good thing Josh had a black table, towels he didn't care about, and old T-shirts. We went to Todd's parents house Easter morning where we had breakfast and did an egg hunt. Dax loved finding all the eggs. Todds mom kept putting more out for him to pick up. It was pretty funny. He just kept going and going and going. Later we went to my families house where we had another egg hunt and lunch (which I made way too many deviled eggs for, bleh). I don't have pics of that cause I forgot my camera, but he had just as much fun. He is still having a couple pieces of candy a day, and I think it should last all year ;). I love being a mom and watching him learn and grow. It is amazing.

It's a Boy!!!

We had another ultrasound today and the Dr is pretty sure it's a boy. The umbilical cord was between the legs for part of the ultrasound so it was kind of hard to see, but it definitely looks like a boy. We are exited for Daxton to have a baby brother. He will love it.

New Baby

So most of you know, we are having a baby in August. The due date was originally August 8th, but she moved it up to August 4th at my last appointment. We will hopefully find out if it's a boy or a girl on Feb. 15th. It has been a little surreal this time around. For some reason it just isn't sinking in like it did with Daxton. Hopefully when we know what it is and can start throwing names around, it will be better. I have started feeling the first flutters, so that has helped a little. On the up side, it has been going by much faster this time. It might be because I'm preoccupied with another kid and 2 jobs, but it's been good. I'm already going into the second trimester!! I have been having some mixed feelings about having a second kid. I feel a little bad taking some of the attention away from Daxton, and I can't imagine loving someone as much as him... although everyone tells me your heart just grows and you do. I'm sure I will, it just seems so weird still. One thing that put a whole new light on things for me was when I asked Dax if he wants a brother or a sister (which I'm not sure he understands the meaning of those words yet) and his response was "friend". Wow, that was a really good reminder that things will be fine, and in the end Daxton gets a little friend to play with. Overall we are really excited for the new arrival.