Kiersten and I had a great week of pretty much vacation. We had a lot of girl time while Daddy was at hunting camp. Because I work 12 hours shifts and daycare is hard to come by in the evenings, I just decided to take some vacation while George was gone so I didn’t have to worry about Kiersten. Twice we made cookies in the 9 days… and here is a couple photos of Kiersten making them!
Back in October we did a gender reveal party instead of a baby shower. I felt like I didn’t need anything to have a baby shower for but still wanted a fun way to tell everyone what the gender of the baby was. So… we had our ultrasound, put the gender in an envelope and sent it to a baker in orofino! She baked the cake with pink or blue on the inside…and when we cut the cake everyone including us, found out we were having a girl!! I’ll just say I was very surprised and the first words out of my mouth as I clutched my husbands arm was “You’ve got to be $#*!!*@& me”. Here are photos from the fun event! Thanks everyone who could make it! It was fun to celebrate the news with everyone!
Baby Drake #2 is doing well, had my follow up appointment today about the ultrasound. She said EVERYTHING ( I didn’t realize they measures so much) on the little one looked great. I maintained my weight this month and babies heart rate was 156. I talked to her about the sinus headaches I’ve been having for the last month and half and she prescribed antibiotics to help get rid of the infection. Hopefully it will work because the headaches are driving me crazy, and I hate having to take Tylenol to battle them. Baby is moving more and more in my tummy. The kicks are great, but the rolling around…I’m not so fond of. Kind of reminds me of my nausea again. :) Speaking of nausea, it has gotten much better, I rarely actually get sick anymore (for the last week and half). In the evening I still feel a bit sick but nothing like before. Definitely can tell baby is taking over my belly because I can’t eat much with out feeling overly stuffed. Well nothing else to report on the baby home front. Hope everyone is doing well and look for your Gender Reveal Party invite soon. Party is being planned for October 15th. Please, get me your addresses so I can get them to my momma. Drake.jocelyn [at] gmail.com Looking forward to sharing the news of babies gender with all our close friends and family!!
~Jocelyn
Last weekend Kiersten and I went to experience another Lumberjack days in Orofino. Since she has been born I don’t think we have missed it, and she loves it. The parades, the rides, the animals and this year my mother in law came up and brought her cousin Carson. Kiersten had the best time with him and I’m so glad they came up to enjoy the fun.
This ride they called “The Slide” it was more like an obstacle course where you climbed up nets and across these hanging bridges and it ended with the slide. Kiersten loved it, however the bottom photo in this collage you notice she is concentrating very hard….her cousin Carson thought it would be fun to jump on the bridge and scare her. She yelled “stooooppp” at him just after I snapped this photo!
And her winnings!
Baby Drake #2 made its presence known, At around 3am. Could it have had any better timing? Kiersten has been sick waking up and coughing a lot over the last few nights and I am tired all the time so I try to get sleep in whenever I can. However last night was a bit different. Kiersten woke up crying and coughing at around 2am and I couldn’t fall back asleep only to feel flips happening in my belly. I was still attempting to sleep all morning however these flips kept me from falling into a deep sleep from 3am on. When George woke up in the morning I said, I think I have started to feel this baby move and kick. He didn’t say much as he was in a hurry to get to work. Kiersten woke up at 6:45am and came in and laid in bed with me. Shortly after George left for work the movement started all over again, so I laid on my back, and I was surprised and shocked to see the little kicks on the outside of my belly.
You might be asking why I appeared surprised, and that’s because according to the doctors I’m only 15 weeks and some odd days. This seems early to feel and see the baby kick. I didn’t see or feel Kiersten until 20 weeks. And another thing that makes me suspicious that this baby is going to come earlier than they think it is… the kicks are about an inch above my belly button and they say your uterus doesn’t even hit your belly button until 20 weeks. The only thing I can think if they are correct is that the baby is merely is kicking the top of my uterus instead of out towards the front and that’s why I feel it higher! Either way the kicks are real, I can see them when I look at my belly and that tells me baby is healthy and active, and has been active ALL MORNING its now 9am and it started at 3am!!
On another note, My belly is growing and I’ve gotten away with wearing scrubs at work with my job so I can hide it and haven’t had to buy new clothes. However I took a new position at work and start orientation this week and have to dress up…so this means that today… I have to go clothes shopping…not looking forward to this!
Not a lot to report with our appointment today. Went in and saw Stephanie, discussed all my symptoms, shortness of breath, weakness, and more importantly nausea. She is a little concerned about my nausea because I’ve just been losing weight since I got pregnant. She wants me to gain some weight. So any time I feel good, EAT and Drink water whenever I can, because I feel dehydrated a lot! Although I will say that I do eat and drink already whenever I feel good! She gave me some hints to help with the nausea but most I have already tried, so my goal this month is at least to maintain my current weight, and try to keep some vitamins down (currently doing gummy vitamins cause it’s the only ones I can keep down part of the time). She said to try anything with papaya in it….I guess it helps ease the stomach. So I’m looking for juices and stuff with that if you know of anything! I don’t even know what it tastes like so who knows if I can keep it down either! All my vitals were good, pressure was 106/60 which is a little lower than average for me but not my much. My weight like a mentioned before was down a bit again. But the baby was super easy to find by Doppler and the heart beat was strong! Next appointment in one month. She said we could have the US then or wait till 20 weeks. I opted to wait until 20 weeks because she said that sometimes they can’t to all the anatomy of the heart at 18 weeks. So we will have our US in a month and half…. we probably won’t be finding out what it is at the ultrasound but rather will be having a get together to reveal the gender with friends and family. Haven’t decided when we will do that though, was thinking November but may actually do it in October instead due to limited weekends available for my mother, mother in law, and my schedules to coordinate in November! We will see! Until next time….
Every 4th of July we go camping with George’s side of the family. Its always a fun time, but I have to say this year was much more fun since we couldn’t salmon fish we got to play at lake cascade and the kids got to actually fish! Kiersten always has a blast with her cousins especially Carson. They just seem to like to get into trouble together! The dirt pictures were one of the first nights of 5. She was so disappointed (not really) when she had to go swimming to clean up! The highlight of the week was fishing, the kids couldn’t seem to get enough of it and Kiersten caught a fish ALL BY HERSELF, which she was very jazzed about. She has come along way…just last month she was terrified of the fish when we took her with Grandpa Scott. This time she actually held it, not something I even do! Yuck!. We got to fish, swim, play on the boat, and just hang out in the sun for a week. A well needed vacation! Thanks everyone for making it such a great time!
Sister in Law might kill me for this one but I thought it was a great dive caught on Camera!
