Baby Clothes!

I quickly stopped at a consignment store after my OB appoinment today and got the baby 4 outfits. The Scotty dog Valentine outfit is my favorite and then the Pooh outfit.



My NST went really good today. My bp was 130/80 and I passed my 24 hour protien test!! YAY!!

Bed rest is not so bad today!!

My awesome neighbor made dinner for us tonight!! YUMMO!! Stouffers lasagna, garlic bread, a fantastic salad...and look at those brownies!!!





Had an u/s today (like every Wednesday) and the baby looks good!! My OB will weigh the baby next week. Last week she estimated the baby to be 3 pounds and 12 ounces. My bp was 140/80 so that is still good! I will be doing a 24 hour protien test every week now until I have the baby just to be certain that I am not throwing protiens.

I'M HOME!!!!

I went for my NST this morning and my blood pressure was 150/100 so she put me in the hospital for observarion. I thought for sure it was going to be for 24 hours but, I passed my protien test and my bp was back down to 126/86 when I was admitted. That was at noon. At 7:30 my OB came in and said everything looked good and I could go home if I wanted...Well of course I wanted to go home!! I am now officially on bed rest! Potty and doctor's visits is the only thing I am allowed to do.
We are thinking between the hip and back pain I had over the weekend and the migraine I had this morning that is what sent my bp so high.

I am just really glad to be home! I will take bed rest at home vs staying in the hospital anyday!

32 1/2 weeks!

I have not posted a belly picture in a while so I thought I would put one up. I think my belly has dropped considerably the last few days and when I am out I am really hurting. Then as soon as I come home and sit back on the couch I feel better.

Rabbit...AKA..new quail hutch!

I got some quail eggs a few weeks ago to try and hatch...none hatched but, I am going to try again. I thought that a rabbit hutch would be perfect for putting quail in. So, I had my mom ask my step sister if she knew of anyone giving away a rabbit hutch since she is involved with 4H. Well, she remembered seeing this one for sale so my mom went and checked it out yesterday...I did not get to see it until DH brought it home. The guy was asking $110 for it. I told my mom to offer him $75...he counter offered $80 so I bit!! The guy said he had over $300 just in treated lumber and supplies in it. It is 12' long x 7' high x 3' deep! It took 6 full grown men and the two oldest boys to put it on the trailer. Our trailer is 10' long if that helps you judge how big this hutch is. I think it will be perfect for putting some of my Black Jersey Giant peeps in a couple sections and quail in one section. There are 6 sections all together...three two story sections each with there own separate door. I must say that I am very impressed with this hutch!! It is much bigger than DH would build for me and we could never have built this for $80!!

DD just being so darn cute!!!

This is a mini version of what I look like all day!! DD is just facinated with the computer and when I went potty for the millionth time today this is what I came back to find!


I have been trying to rest as much as possible to keep my blood pressure down to try to make it through at least the next four weeks. I have been able to keep my sugar under control. My blood pressure has been hovering at 130/90 for all of my OB appointments. I now go to the OB's three times a week...Monday and Fridays are NST's and Wedneday's are u/s. I did get a steroid shot on Tuesday to help develop the baby's lungs in anticipation of an early delivery.

New look in the living room!

DH and I had a 'lively discussion' a couple of weeks before Christmas because I wanted to get rid of half of our huge sectional couch. We never used it...well unless you count piling mountains of laundry on it!! It was to big to move around in the living room and rearrange so we have had it in the same place since we added the living room onto the house 7 years ago!! We have a tiny tv that sits on the other side of the room 18' away so sitting on the couch watching tv was not practical. DH said there was no reason to get rid of it...I wanted it OUT! We moved part of the couch to the middle of the room because I could not sit in the wooden rocking chair anymore because it made me to sore and 6 and 3 yo wanted to sit on me all the time and in the chair there just was not any room. Thus half the couch is in the middle of the living room. My second reason for wanting that half of the couch out was because I wanted to move my rubberstamping table out of the spare bedroom and put it in that corner so I could put my sewing stuff on it and clear off the dining room table because we had not seen the table in MONTHS!! DH and the kiddos got me some fabric for Christmas from JoAnn's because I wanted it for making cloth diapers...and while they were there the kids spotted a sewing table!!! So I got a new sewing table for Christmas!! When I got it Christmas morning DH came to realize that getting rid of the couch was a GREAT idea afterall!! Plus now 6 yo has a great place to set up his Geo Trax so we are not tripping on them and they can stay sat up so he is loving it too!
Here is my new sewing table...sitting where the old couch used to sit...and 6 yo's Geo Trax city!



(Can you hear the under tone in the background saying "I WON!!")

More Napkins!

In my quest to become more self sufficient or 'green' (not sure which but to ulitmately save $$ in the long run) I have been making some reusable homemade items....including cloth diapers, TP, wipes for the baby, hankies, sanitary napkins, and cloth napkins. I got a HUGE flannel sheet set at Goodwill yesterday for $5.98 for the top sheet and fitted. I was able to make 54 napkins and 11 towels just out of the top sheet! I still have to figure out what I am going to do with the fitted sheet! I used the awesome serger machine that the lady from my church gave me along with the gold thread that came with the machine. So, for about $3 I have a TON of cloth napkins!!

Necklace!

This is a necklace for my mom. She bought all the beads and we put it together on New Year's Eve. She has been wanting this kind of stone for a while. I think it turned out pretty nice!

This is a work in progress!

I got a mattress changing pad at Goodwill yesterday for $1.99. It has PUL fabric on it that I am using to make cloth diapers for the new baby. Cloth diapers are my new endever! The pad was in mint condition. I just paid $9.99 a yard to order PUL fabric online for cloth diapers so when I saw this I could not pass it up. I am also trying something else new...homemade sanitary napkins. I was able to fit four newborn diaper pattern pieces, 4 SN, and 2 SN liners on the mattress pad. I also got a large flannel sheet that I cut to put as filler inside the SNs. I hardly made a dent in the flannel sheet. Then I put some of the super cute flannel that I got on sale the day after Thanksgiving on top. I have the middles all sewn together but now I am waiting on DH to change the color of thread on the serger back to white because I used the gold thread today and I think white will work better on the SNs. For a $1.99 I thought this was worth a try!!