Pregnancy Photo Shoot...

I tried posting these on Facebook but not all of them would up load, so I guess I'll post them here for the whole world to see...

Baby A????

Is it just me or is the name "Baby A" starting to sound really good!?

As soon as we found out I was pregnant I knew we needed an "A" name, all 3 of our other children start with "A". Very quickly we both decided on Austin Jacob or Ava Jean and at 17 weeks when we found it was a girl we instantly started calling her Ava. Months passed, we even got things with her name on them...

Then out of the blue Hubby tells me he doesn't really think Ava is the right name!!! Back to square one! I threw out a ton of suggestion but he's shot them all down. When I asked him for suggestions he said "Harley"...what!!! that's not even an "A" name!!! No Way!!!

So since I'm not getting any help from him I need help from all you. You only get 1 vote and you HAVE to use it! No "any name is fine", you know you have an opinion! The middle name has to be Jean (after my Grandmother).

Your choices are...

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  Ava
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  Addison
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  Adelyn
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  Avery
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  Alexis
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  Ashlyn
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  Amily

Here are a few belly shots...

25 Weeks

28 Weeks

29 Weeks

30 Weeks

34 Weeks

37 Weeks

Pump Start!!!

Monday Alivia got a delivery from the UPS guy…

it was her Pink Ping pump!

She was so excited to open it up! 

She loved looking at it and was very excited to try it out.

It was hard for her to pack it up and wait until the next day when we met with the trainer.

Tuesday the trainer arrived at our house around 1pm and spent a good 2 hours going over the basic setup of the pump and showed us how to put a site on Alivia. Alivia did great! We used the numbing cream and she didn’t feel a thing! We didn’t actually fill the pump with insulin but the trainer wanted her to keep it on as long as possible so she could get a feel for it and she wanted Tony and I to play around with the pump and remote as much as possible.

1st site

 I drew the circle to show where I had put the magic cream...Daddy was a little off target.

As you can see she was very excited to start using her Hello Kitty pump pack...

Unfortunately her 1st site only lasted 6 hours. That evening we had gone to Old Navy and while looking at sunglasses she got the tiny amount of tubing that was showing stuck on a hook and didn’t notice so when she walked away the site got ripped out. She handled it very well! I did not have another set with me so I figured we’d just let her be for the night and try again the next morning, which we did. That day was a real test of how she would handle wearing it! We spent a good 6 hours playing and running around at the Children’s Museum and another few hours playing at the park. Every meal and snack I would use the pump and practice giving her insulin the whole time wishing I could use it for real! She did have a lot if trouble being able to lift the pack over her site to be able to pull her pants down to potty without rubbing it against it and by the end of the day a small corner of the adhesive was starting to peel up. Her only complaint all day was that the pack itched her, so that night I sewed a few pouches onto the front of her tank tops.

She loved these! Unfortunately I’m not the best at sewing and the weight of the pump eventually took it’s toll on the stitching. I do think that the tank tops work best for her right now so I plan on taking the rest of the fabric and the other tank tops to a professional to have done right, I’m sure they can make them to last.

Thursday morning we lost the 2nd site, the corner that had started peeling up the day before got stuck to the inside of her tank top and when she went to take off the tank top the site came with it. We chose not to waste another set and let her have one last day with nothing stuck to her body. We did however learn a very important lesson…IV prep is a MUST!!!

Finally Friday arrived and so did the trainer! It was a very quick lesson, actually more like a quiz, she had us do the site all on our own (we used the IV prep this time!) and re-set a few of the targets, my idea of Alivia’s target and her Drs were a bit off, I like her in the 70-150 range during the day and 150-250 at night and he wanted it more like 100-250 during the day and 150-300 at night. We settled on 100-200 during the day because all it really means is that if she was below 100 the pump wouldn’t have me cover much if any of a snack and it wouldn’t have me correct her until she hit 201. And 150-250 at night. She reminded me that they weren't set in stone and I could always change them when we got everything fine tuned.

She answered a few of my questions, wished us luck and was off! Just in time for lunch!

That 1st meal shot free was priceless!!!

We’ve had pretty good numbers the last few days except for a few near disasters the pump caught and we were able to avoid…Thank Goodness for the IOB feature! Going to bed at 90 with almost 3 units on board would have been really really bad! I loved that I could play around with the carb amounts on the meter and know exactly how many carbs she would need to cover the IOB…a whopping 40 grams! I never would of given her that many carbs with out covering before but I trusted the pump and it worked out PERFECTLY 168 ALL NIGHT LONG! I called the Blood Glucose Management Team the next morning to figure out why she had so much IOB in the 1st place and she said it can take the Lantus a few days to completely leave her system. It happened again the next night but not again since! Overall I’m very happy with our choice!!!

Thanks for all your guys help and support!!!

Keep your eye out for my next post… “Help us name Baby “A”

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!