Belly Laughs

Got my smiles in for the day!

I SOOO needed one of these a few months ago!



Update: Still on bedrest, aparantly don't have a yeast infection, my doctor is baffled, so I'm sure she'll be running more tests today at my apt... OH WHAT FUN!. Ultrasound Friday.... Mom and Dad get in today, they are here for the weekend; mom came for my shower, and dad has offered to help Jeremy with the flooring project.. BUSY weekend (for them.. I'll be sitting around watching... :-(   I am very excited to get out of the house for a few hours for my shower though.. I'll be staying put in a recliner the whole time, but who cares... there will be PEOPLE to talk to!! :-) YEAH

Baby Room and Back to Bedrest

So I am back to strict bedrest until I get to 36 weeks.. (about 2 1/2 more weeks). What is to blame? spotting, thinning cervix, and a yeast infection (and maybe me not behaving on "modified bedrest"...bad Nicole)!!! I'm so ready for baby draggoo to be here so all I have to worry about is not getting any sleep and lots of laundry and dirty diapers~! Those will be the days.. and i'm not kidding! :-) I'm also looking forward to the smell of a new baby, his soft skin that is perfect to kiss, sitting for hours just staring at him while he sleeps, all of it... CANT WAIT!~!

I'm very glad I got this done when I did....

The baby room is basically put together.. here are the pictures of us putting it together and what it looks like.

Inspection crew making sure it is suitable and safe... :-)

Me and baby in his crib just before we make the final attachments!

The Crib... His name will go on the wall between the two trees after he is born

Whole thing.. I hope to put a rocking chair in soon.. if it will fit (it's a pretty small room..)

Changing Table

Valance and the animal wall decorations I painted.. They match the bedding



Now all that is left to add is a baby!

~~New Years Update~~

Sorry it's been so long since I updated!! It's been crazy here with being gone and our house project... but here's what we've been up to: A few weeks before Christmas, I had an ultrasound and it showed that I had had a significant change in my cervix (still within normal range though), so my doctor put me back on strict bedrest, I decided that if I was going to do bedrest, why not be in Boise where I would be close to a NICU hospital and I could hang out with my family instead of being home alone all day. So... Brian picked me up and drove me to Boise when he was done with finals, then Jeremy came down for Christmas and I went back to Omak with him. I got to spend 2 full weeks in Boise! I was pretty good about staying down and taking it easy, but I did decide that I HAD to go shopping a few times. At the mall my mom and grandma pushed me around in a wheel chair, then at Costco, JoAnns and Cabelas I got one of those motorized scooter things they have. It was great, EXCEPT that at JoAnn's I crashed the stupid thing into the cash register, then into the wall when trying to park it, and because it was in the checkout line, there were like 25 women watching!! SOOO humiliating. Here are the pictures of me getting around bedrest style!

We spent Christmas morning with Nicole's family: her Mom, Dad and Brother, and her Grandma and Grandpa Cable. These are us getting ready to open the presents...

We had a very nice weekend, very relaxing. We played games, went to a movie, ate lots of good food! and of course got a great deal of entertainment from the 4 dogs. One game that has been a Cable family tradition is called "Give Me 5". I've been playing it since I can remember, so we had to bust it out for a few matches.. :-)

While I was in Boise playing, Jeremy was at home working extremely hard to get the flooring done, or at least to a point that they could lay the carpet after new years. Here is one picture I took of him working on the new tile before I left for Boise. I'll post some of the AFTER pictures in a little while...... after we get our house back together! We still have a few weekends worth of work to do before it will all be done, the goal is to just have it complete before baby decides to introduce himself. We are re-doing every surface of flooring in the house in tile and carpet. So far it looks AWESOME!! They installed the carpet this past week, and we are both very happy with how it turned out!

When I was in Boise I met with my old doctor 2 times and had ultrasounds, they showed no change! YEAH.. I've had 2 more in Omak since then and they too show no change! So i'm back to working part time, and am hoping that this will last until the baby is born. With all of the stuff we bought for baby, and the new flooring, we can use all the money we can make right now. So even if i'm only part time, it's better than nothing!

For new years we didn't even make it until midnight! We did go over to some friends of ours in town to play games and have dinner, but only lasted until about 11:00. One of our good friends are also expecting.. they live in Pullman, but there family is here in Omak, so they were in town visiting for new years. She is due 2 weeks before me. This was taken at meeting on Sunday.

Wishing everyone a very happy 2011! I know ours will be filled with lots of sleepless nights, dirty diapers, laughter, happiness and love!

27 Week Bump

It's been a few weeks since I took a belly picture.. I have "popped" since the ones I took at 21 weeks, so its fun to compare :-) Thanks to Jeremy for setting up the background and photography equiptment and taking these since I can't do it right now. Enjoy :-)

Blue Paint and Bedrest Update

Blue Paint

My brother Brian finished finals early and offered to come to Omak for a few days and help out. He did a ton! He ripped up the old floor in the kitchen to prep it for Jeremy putting in tile this weekend, fed the animals, helped me paint the baby room.... BLUE!~ and even nailed himeself with 240V taking out an old baseboard heater, OUCH! Here are a few pictures of him painting.. i'll post more when the room is complete.



The pink color is the old color.. no our little boy isn't going to
have a pink and blue room :-) The Blue is the one on the wall
behind Brian.. A light "sky" blue. The plan is to paint accents
in the dark brown that the crib is... you'll have to wait and see what I mean later.... :-)



Duke doing his part in painting the baby room..
Chewing on his rawhide.. he couldn't stand being
outside of the room, so we finally let him in, all he
wanted was to be in the same room as us.. typical
Lab!!



and Bedrest Update

I went in last week for my ultrasound (the doctor wants them weekly to check changes in my cervical length) and also to do the glucose and iron check. I received a call Tuesday that my iron was low and my glucose was elevated... "GREAT" I thought! "now this?" So now i'm taking 325 mg of iron sulfate 3x a day and had to go back in today for the 3 hr glucose screening. It luckily came back normal. I also had another ultrasound today. All of the ultrasounds up until now showed my cervix at about 4.3. I knew something had changed when the ultrasound tech (who has no personality and barely talks), looked at me and said "when do you see your doctor next?" I asked what my length was and he said "it's definately changed, its 2.9, you aren't to leave this clinic until you have talked to your doctor"... talk about freaking me out! So I hung out (had to so they could poke me with needles 4 times) and eventually got in to talk to my doctor. She explained that it isn't too big of a deal at this point, that sometimes the cervical length will change from week to week, and that it isn't until I get below 2 that they start to get really concerned. She did put me back on strict bedrest until I could have another ultrasound done. So that is where I am at. She did still give me permission to go to Boise for Christmas though, so I actually decided to stretch it and get approval for 2 weeks there. Other than the long drive, I am more comfortable being there for bedrest because I'll be 5 min from a level 3 NICU and Labor and Delivery facility and because i'll be away from my daily responsibilities that made me overdo it in the first place. Christmas will mark about 29 weeks, so i'll be really close to being out of the "scary 20s". 

Special Meeting and 2 Basketball Bellies

We had special meetings this past Sunday in Tonasket, I was able to go because I took my portable recliner chair to lounge in. It was so nice to get to be there for both meetings, I was really whiped by the end of the day, but it was worth it! Came away fed as usual :-)

Jeremy's cousin Angela and her husband Dave are also expecting, they are due exactly one month before us. They were in town for the weekend, and so Angela and I had to compare our baby bellies...  Can't wait to have pictures of us holding actual babies in a few months :-).. but for now, these are pretty fun too! 

Jeremy looks like he is afraid to touch my belly.. (he really isn't, he loves feeling baby move... or do push-ups as he calls it)

I hope to have some new updated belly pictures of me posted soon....I have really "popped" the past 5 weeks, so it will be fun to compare...

Doctors Orders and Super Mom...

I had an apt with my doctor on Tuesday and she is keeping me on bedrest, but has changed it to "modified" and is basically giving me the freedom to trust my body. "If it makes you have a contraction, you can't do it". She has approved me to work 2 days a week, but I can only do office work. So basically I am training my replacement until the new year, then we'll see where I am at. She is having me get ultrasounds every week for a while so we can see if there are any changes in my cervix (now that I am up and doing more). If there are changes, then its back to strict bedrest. If there aren't any changes, then I have also been cleared to go to Boise for Christmas!! YEAH.. I just can't fly, and we have to stop every hour so I can walk around (we don't want blood clots).. which stopping every hour won't be a problem.... ;-) The only thing she told me was that if I should go into labor and deliver while in Boise, that I would have to stay there with baby until he is out of the hospital.. which, being close to mom and dad wouldn't hurt my feelers! Plus Boise has as good of NICU as Spokane which is where they'd send us if we went into preterm labor in Omak.. I was excited to get this news, it is so much better than being on my back all day, but I am still going to take it really easy, I have a tendency to over do things, and this is one time I really don't want to!

My mom has been here in Omak since Monday and it has been such a HUGE help!! Jeremy and I both have appreciated all of the cleaning, organizing, feeding of the animals, shoveling of snow, cooking etc she has been doing for us!! Takes a huge stress off, and makes our short evenings much more enjoyable!