Baby Shower!

Saturday my sister threw me an amazing Baby Shower!!!

(All the Goodies)

(50 carb cupcakes!)

(Delicious Food)

  We were so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family to help us welcome our Little Girl into the world!

Alivia of course had to come and be a part of the shower although she really thought it was going to be a real SHOWER, on the way there she said "Mommy you need to be careful not to get water in the baby’s eyes at the baby shower"...I couldn't help but laugh as I tried to explain that in was not in fact a SHOWER with water, more like a birthday party for the baby with presents, games and goodies to eat.

Alivia helping to open baby sisters presents...

I wish we would of video taped the shower, her Oooo and Ahhhhs as she opened all the gifts were PRICELESS!

Me and my Mini Me

LOTS of Pink!!!

I'm so excited to try this chair!

Things about me you might not know...

 Well I guess since everyone else admitted to reading Shamaes post I will too...

Things about me you might not know...

• I'm a  huge pack rat, my husband thinks I need therapy! But I like to hold on to stuff, you never know when you might need it! For example: I held on to every baby thing for 5 years, after 2 years of not getting pregnant again my hubby MADE me get rid of it all! Now I'm 7 months pregnant and have to buy EVERYTHING all over again!

At least I keep it all organized right???

• I'm a basket case! Not in the way you might be thinking but I LOVE baskets!!! I have baskets for everything!

Baskets for shoes...

Baskets for measuring cups...

Baskets for crafts...

Baskets for gum...

Many Many Baskets for Toys! One baskets per group of toys (Hot Wheels, Cars, Legos, Army, Dollhouse, Barbie’s, Ponies, Dress-up, I could go on and on!) I have a total of 4 of these shelves, each hold about 8 or 9 baskets...

• I buy almost everything in bulk, even if it's a years supply, but only if it's on sale...

Tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, diapers and wipes (for a baby that's not even born yet)...

Propel aka: "Grape Water"...

Over 300 flossers...

6 shaving creams, 8 deodorants, 8 new razors/refills, all still left from my last shopping trip back in November...

• I have a tiny bit of OCD, but only about certain things. A pile of mail can sit on the counter for weeks and I could care less but I like everything else done a certain way...

I like the dishwasher organized by size and color...

I like all the books on the shelf organized by size (very hard to keep done with kids)...

 Man I could go on and on...but the kids are in the bath and I hear a TON of splashing so I'd better go mop up the floor!
I may post a part 2 but being that I Procrastinate on everything I wouldn’t hold your breath!

3 month Endo appt and PUMP CLASS!!!

Endo Appt... I guess I'll start with the Endo appt because it just happened to be first up today...

This was only our 3rd appt and it was the first one that I didn't worry myself sick over the A1c. I knew the last A1c of 6.8 would be history and I was truly ok with that. August- October was so easy...too easy! November-January have been much much harder, I knew I tried my best but the D Monster put up a darn good fight, no matter how much I adjusted she had random highs everyday and random lows once or twice a week, there was never a pattern! I was actually a bit surprised that it was 7.5 (her current 30day average on the meter was 219...yikes!). Her Dr was pretty happy with that, he agrees that she's definitely coming out of her honeymoon period and expected the rise in her A1c because of that. He looked over our log book and couldn't find a pattern for her crazy highs either and didn't want to make any changes. He did offer up a few suggestions for us to try out on our little guinea pig to see if we could fix the problem. Well give them a try, hopefully it won't lead to lows!

If you've been reading my blog for awhile you'd know that we were all getting pretty concerned about her weight, at dx in May she was 27 pounds just 4 months later in September she was 40 pounds and only a month later at our last appt she was up to 45 pounds!!! I was so excited today when he told us she was 46 pounds, she's still off the chart for weigh but at least the gaining is slowing down!

And best of all he went ahead and gave us the green light for the PUMP!!!

PUMP CLASS!!!!!...
Can you tell I'm excited about this part????
As much as I liked meeting the reps during the in home hands on demos, I really felt like they were just trying to sell their product, mostly because they were!!!

It was SO nice to have an impartial person going over each and every pro and con for each of the pumps. In the end we just had to pick, there wasn't "the perfect" pump (someone needs to make it!!!!).

I wanted the good remote,
I wanted the linked CGM,
I wanted the tubeless feature...but which one did I want more???
I wanted the Ping, yes it has tubing, no I can't have a linked CGM, yes it will take a few more steps to deliver insulin, but it is waterproof, it can deliver the smallest amount of insulin which Alivia will need, it has the good remote, I can give insulin directly from the pump if needed, it keeps track of IOB and most importantly it comes in pink! We meet with the rep tomorrow to start the paperwork!!!
Honestly though if Medtronic had the good remote (they currently only have a tiny one with 3 buttons, no screen) I would of gone with them. With an active 3 year old I felt like we needed the remote, at least until she does it on her own.

If everything goes well with the insurance we should be pumping in a month!!!

Picking a Pump...

Well 1 week from today is our pump class! They will quiz us on insulin adjustment among other thing and if we pass (I think I'll let the Hubby copy off my paper) we'll get to choose our pump!!! The only problem is that I'm so torn in which one I want. My 3 choices; OmniPod, One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm.
OmniPod got the boot, apparently it doesn't keep track of insulin on board other than correction. in my 1st thoughts I didn't care about that because I couldn't keep track of it with shots anyways so it didn't really matter, but the more I thought about it, it hit me that why even bother switching to the pump if I'm not going to let technology help me gain better control of her numbers (we have enough lows with out over dosing her with insulin)! So I figured for now I'll skip on the awesome tube-less feature to keep my daughter safer, maybe when she can actually tell me she feels low we'll revisit the OmniPod.
So with that I'm only left with the One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm...I can't choose!!! I LOVED the MiniMed one but only because it had the pump, CGM and test meter that were linked together. The only thing I didn't like was that it didn't have a good remote and we'd need to actually have her pump in our hands to do what we needed to do. Most of you guys with young children know getting a 3 year old to stand still while you fiddle around with the pump imputing number and what not is next to impossible!
I haven't actually gotten to see the Ping one yet, the company has yet to call me back after my 3 e-mails about setting up a hands on demo. I've heard tons of good things about it! Those of you that have it, is there anything about it that you don't like or wish you could change? And does it come with good support? The MiniMed one came with a nurse for the first few weeks, you e-mailed over your numbers everyday and they'd help you make changes and once everything was good they'd turn you back over to your endo office, I really liked knowing I wasn't just turned loose with it.


I know there has been a ton of talk about pumps lately but if you're not too burned out on it please, please leave me a comment with any info you think I'll need to make this choice! Thanks!!!

Secret Santa!!!

Thank You Ronda and Olivia!
First of all Alivia LOVED the fact that not only did she get a present from her friend that "has diabetes like me" but that she got a present from a girl who has the same name!

"Ruby" the bear with diabetes!

 I had no idea they even made a girl one, we got the boy one when she was dx and now he has a wife!!! (Alivias words, not mine) The 1st thing Alivia did when she opened her was go get the boy one so they could be together.

We also got an ornament for the Christmas tree...

The Giving Tree book...

This was actually one of the very few books we didn't already own, great pick!

It even came with a picture of Olivia and her big sister Gwen inside and Alivia points to Olivia every night (yes, we've read it every night since we got it!) after we read it and reminds me "this is Olivia, she has diabetes just like me, just incase I have forgotten from the night before!"

A Christmas tree cookie cutter...

Which we put to good use already!

and a super sweet framed poem about families...

Thanks again Ronda and Olivia (& Family) they were such thoughtful gifts that she can keep for the rest of her life! Can't wait for the day when the 2 O/Alivias get to meet each other in person!

Sorry this is so short but my computer and blogger are not getting along very well lately and it's super FRUSTRATING!!!

And what happened to the spell check???

Tag Your It - My Turn

1. Do you like bleu cheese? NO WAY!!!


2. Have you ever smoked? NO WAY!!!


3. Do you own a gun? Nope…hubby made a bad choice in his young stupid days and now we aren’t allowed to have one in our house…something about breaking a police car window…


4. Favorite type of Food? Real Mexican


5. Favorite type of music? Contemporary Christian


6. What do you think of hot dog? We only buy all beef hot dogs, not sure if they’re better but we like to think so!


7. Favorite Christmas movie? The Santa Clause


8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Venti 2 pump black and white peppermint mocha, currently decaf


9. Can you do push ups? Probably not with the current baby bump


10. What’s your favorite piece of jewelry? My necklace my mom gave me for my 1st mothers day, I’d love to pass it onto Alivia on her 1st mothers day!


11. Favorite hobby? Taking Photos, scrapbooking, reading and shopping! (is that a hobby?)


12. Do you have A. D. D.? Nope


 13. Do you wear glasses/contacts? Nope


14. Middle name? Ann


15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment: 1) Why did my kids get up so early today? 2) I need my coffee! 3) I need to make Christmas cookies today so we can eat them while we decorate the tree tonight.


16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink: Water, Pepsi and coffee


17. Current worry? My brother!!! He’s leaving for Afghanistan the 2nd week in December :(


18. Current hate right now? That my brother has to leave! And a much smaller hate…I lost my crock pot ???


19. Favorite place to be? Home


20. How did you bring in the new year? Can't remember - probably sleeping!


21. Someplace you’d like to go? I agree with you Laura!!! Anywhere to meet my fellow D moms!!


 22. Name three people who will complete this…hummm who hasn’t done it yet??? Wendy, Shannon and Hallie


23. Do you own slippers? Yep…somewhere, I need to find them though the tile in the kitchen is getting pretty cold these days. 


24. What color shirt are you wearing? Pink


25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Not really, they’re too cold when you first get in.


26. Can you whistle? Yep


27. Where are you now? My room


28. Would you be a pirate? Probably not, unless the pirate ship was like a huge cruise ship!


29. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don’t sing!


30. Favorite Girl’s Name? Alivia and Ava!


31. Favorite boy’s name? Anthony and Blake


32. What is in your pocket right now? No pockets


33. Last thing that made you laugh? Probably something strange Alivia said


34. What vehicle do you drive? Mazda MPV…but I miss my trailblazer everyday :(


35. Worst injury you've ever had? Broke my wrist in January and got to wear a cast from my fingers to my shoulder for 7 weeks! Had to have it “re-set” twice (took 2 grown men to hold me down!) Even after months and months of therapy I’m still not able to turn it all the way over and it still hurts!


36. Do you love where you live? The town…yes. Our current house…no (it’s closing in on us!)


37. How many TVs do you have in your house? 3


38. How many computers do you have in your house? Just 1


39. If you changed your job, what would it be? If I had to work out side the home I’d like to be a labor and delivery nurse.


40. If you were granted three wishes, what would they be?1) A cure. 2) For Alivia to be able to get pregnant easily and have as many healthy babies as she wants 3) To never have to worry about money again

It's a...

17 weeks 2 days...

"I'm a Girl"...Ava Jean!!Leg... Foot... We were all very suprised that it was a girl, everyone including me thought it was a boy! Anthony's a little disappointed that he wont be having a brother, but he's got a LOT of work ahead of him to protect all 3 of his sisters!