Upgrade

 So a few weeks ago we finally made the move and upgraded our kitchen lights! We love the way it looks now and we think he makes our kitchen look a lot better! We are hoping that it helps with reselling our house. 

Before

After

It is so nice having a fan over our table. It really circulates the air in our kitchen and it makes it feel so much cooler. 

Brandon is kind of mad that he did not just look up online how to do can lights because as he watched the guy do it he realized how easy it was. But, it would have taken him probably a lot longer and he probably would not have known what to do with a bar that was in the walls. Oh well, we really like the way it looks now and we think we are officially done with upgrades in our house! 

FHE and Potty Time

So tonight for FHE we started by making homemade pizza together for dinner. 

Then after dinner we went to Walmart to find a big boy potty for Ethan and then went to McDonalds for some ice cream! Ethan was so excited to be getting a big boy potty.  

 He chose this froggy potty over a lightning McQueen potty. We were pretty surprised but he insisted and that was ok with us since it was half the price! haha 

When we got home he was all excited and wanted to go potty in his new froggy potty. He pushes so hard to get out just some pee pee but he does it! haha So he went both number 1 and 2 in his big boy potty tonight!! So much going on in this family this week. Having a new baby and Ethan is deciding that he is starting to be ready to potty train! We will see how much he wants to go in his potty but at least it is a start! 

Oh and I do have to tell the story that brought up him getting a big boy potty. Well the last 3 times we have given Ethan a bath he gets in and then wants to sit on the toilet and go potty. So we would hold him over the toilet and he would push with all his might until he went pee. After he would do that we would get all excited and give him a high five and he would want to do it again! haha Pretty funny! That is really the only time that he ever thinks of using the toilet to go pee pee. Then yesterday (Sunday the 23) Ethan went and pulled the diaper gene empty canister out of the trash and put it on the floor and sat down on it saying it was a toilet and that he wanted to go pee pee in it. I told him it was not a toilet and he then went and put it on the toilet and acted like he really wanted to use it. So we then threw away the diaper gene canister and I asked him if he wanted to get him his own big boy toilet and he said "yes" right away and then told me he wanted to go in the car so we could go get it right then. Since it was Sunday I told him we could not get it because it was Sunday but that maybe we could get it the next day and he was very excited about it! So we decided to get one for him tonight as part of Family Home Evening and he LOVES it! He is such a silly boy and he is just growing up so fast! 

Fun indoors!

So last Tuesday my friend Whitney and I went to an indoor playground place. It was such a nice place! Everything is padded and netted off so you don't have to worry about your kid falling off something super high. They also have a little cafe that has good healthy food. It was a little bit more expensive than I was expecting just because I did not realize you had to pay to just get in but it was totally worth it. Ethan played for probably 3 straight hours and then we ate some lunch there and he ate almost a whole sandwich which is not normal for him. haha It was so nice to let him go off and play while Whitney and I could just sit and chat for a while and go check on the kids every once in a while! We will totally be going back some time! :-)  

Heads up!

Well lets see when I got pregnant this time around my biggest thought was how I was going to try to go natural this time around. I had hated my epidural last time and especially hated having a catheter. So I just thought I really wanted to try and go natural. Then as we have gotten closer I started getting a little bit nervous about it and wondered if I could even handle it. I started to think that maybe I would just try to go natural again and if I wanted an epidural then it could be better then the last time. It could be a way better experience and I knew that I could ask for nausea medicine with my epidural which would make things way better. However, my so called wanting to go natural has been thrown out the window.  At my 33 weeks ultrasound (which we were having because of low fluid with Ethan) they found he was breach. So at my next check up they had me go in for another ultrasound to check and see if he was still breach at around 37 weeks. So I went in for my ultrasound at 37 weeks and low and behold he was still breach. I knew he was still breach because his head is between my ribs. Every night his little head goes right in between my rib cage which makes it very hard to sleep. Plus he is always kicking my butt (LITERALLY). So I kind of figured that he was still breach before I even got to the Ultrasound. We were hoping that he would have flipped since I had been doing things at home to try and get him to flip. I was getting on my hands and knees and rocking back and forth probably 4-5 times a day for about 10 minutes each to try and get him out of my pelvic bone and encourage him to move. I tried ice on my stomach while sitting in the bath with the water right at the bottom of my stomach. I tried putting my knees on the couch and hanging down on the floor as well as some little hammock thing that we were told to do on some website for flipping babies. Nothing worked!! He is a stubborn little boy. So at my check up at 37 weeks when my doctor could still feel his head in my ribs she told me that if we couldn't get him to flip then we would be scheduling a c-section (not in my plans). So she then checked me and found that I was 3 centimeters dilated already and about 50% effaced. She told me that that scared her because I could go into labor anytime within the next week. So she wanted to try the version at the hospital to try and physically flip him. So she suggested that we do it the next day just because I was already dialating. That was all so crazy to me, but I thought whatever we need to do to get this baby to flip lets just do it. So I got home and told Brandon what was going on and he got all excited knowing that we could have a baby within the next week (little did we know that it would not happen. haha)! So my neighbor dropped me off at the hospital on Friday September 14th for the version. Brandon drove so that he could get home if he needed to so thankfully we have really nice neighbors that were willing to drive Ethan to our friends house to be watched and then take me to the hospital. The only thing that made me nervous about the whole thing was the risk of possibly having to have an emergency c-section from the baby not tolerating the version. I did not want to have an emergency c-section without Brandon there with me. So I got to the hospital and got all registered and then was taken to my room where the nurse got my I.V hooked up and had me sign a consent form. I also asked her how fast they would do an emergency c-section and if it came down to that if I would be able to call my husband so he could get here. She told me that if they had to do an emergency c-section that it happens really fast and he would have no time to get here. That FREAKED me out!! So when she left to go get paperwork I had to say a little prayer in my heart that nothing would happen because I did not want to have a c-section without Brandon there with me. So then the nurse told me the risks and then my doctor came in and the Ultrasound Tech came in and they got started. First they made sure the baby was still breach and checked the heart rate, then my OB doctor started to push. It was really weird to have her pushing on my stomach trying to get the baby to move, and I am super ticklish so when she felt around with her fingers near his bum and started trying to push him it tickled. The rest of it was fine, it was not very comfortable and it hurt a little bit but nothing I could not handle. The only time that I actually flinched because of pain was when she dug her fingers in near my pelvic bone to try and move his bum out of there. Ya that did not work! haha So after trying one way, then the other way and back again she decided he was not moving. So that was it. We were going to be having a c-section! They then got another read on the babies heart beat and he looked great still. Then as I was talking with them while being monitored the nurse started to walk out and told me to sit up a little bit and that she was going to go get and I.V. I did not like the sound of that, so I asked if everything was alright, which she reassured me that it was. She said that the baby seemed a little lazy on the monitored so they were going to give me some fluids through my I.V to try and wake him up a little bit. They figured he was either in a little bit of shock or that he was asleep. So she got the fluids going and I sat there for another hour so they could make sure that everything was still fine. Once they left the room I texted Brandon with the details and what was going on and he decided to come to the hospital just in case which was comforting to me because I kept thinking, "what if all of a sudden this little baby is not doing fine and I do have to have an emergency c-section." luckily nothing happened, but it was nice to have Brandon there with me even if it was for nothing. Plus he got to take me home and I did not have to have my neighbor come pick me up. So we went and grabbed Ethan at a friend of ours house and went and grabbed lunch before I dropped Brandon off at school again. So it was official unless this baby decided to turn on his own we were having a c-section. Then I decided to try going to a chiropractor. I had heard of ladies getting adjusted and having their babies flip soon after. So I thought, with the back pain that I have had in the pregnancy maybe something was just off balance and making it hard for him to turn. So last Tuesday I went into a chiropractor that specializes in a technique that is supposed to help babies flip heads down. It was my first adjustment ever and I was actually interested to see how off my alignment was and to see if it would actually work. However, as the day went on after getting adjusted and the night came and went and nothing happened I figured it was not going to work. The Chiropractor wanted me to come in again later that week but I did not want to spend more money on something that was not going to work. So we have stopped trying to get this baby to turn. He obviously knows better than we do of why he is not turning and now it is up to him if he will or not. So totally different than I thought things would ever work out. So lets see with Ethan I had low fluid and was induced at 37 weeks and with this little boy he decided he liked being breach and thus I will be having a c-section. I guess my kids just don't want me to have a natural experience! haha Oh well, at this point I do not care anymore. I am so ready to meet this little guy and I am SO READY to be done being pregnant. So this Wednesday the 26th (which is also my dads birthday) at 7:30 in the morning we will be going in for our scheduled c-section to finally bring this little boy into our family. We are so excited to see what he looks like and we are just hoping that I don't go into labor on my own before then. I would rather have a nice calm experience then feel like we have to rush to the hospital to have a c-section. So that is all we are wanting now. Is a nice calm experience and that our little boy is healthy and strong and that everything goes great! :-) 

Prego Pics and Big boy bed round 2

So my mom came out for the Labor Day weekend so that she could bring us a twin bed frame for Ethan, and to take some maternity pictures. It was a short but fun weekend and we are so glad that she brought the bed frame because Ethan has been doing great in it. We were a little bit scared to try doing the whole big boy bed thing again but he has done GREAT!! We got him a twin mattress and let him help Brandon and my mom put the bed together and we bought Toy Story bed sheets for his bed. I also made him a Toy Story blanket for him to use in his new big boy bed. Oh, and we changed his door handle to a door knob so that he couldn't get out of his room. For the first little while he would not even get out of bed. He did not really know how to get out of the bed because of the railing that goes all around it so he would just call for us when he wanted to get out. Now he can get in and out of it but he can not get out of the door and so sometimes he just plays in his room for a while and then either goes back to sleep or calls for us. It has been great!! The first night that we put him in it he LOVED it!! He LOVED having his pillow and being on a softer mattress. Sometimes he wakes up and does not want to get out of bed, it is pretty funny! Then I think it was last Sunday Ethan put himself to bed. He just walked upstairs by himself and went to sleep! It was amazing! It has been a few weeks now that he has been in his big boy bed so I am hoping that he continues doing well when we have this baby because he is sleeping in until 8 or 8:30 again and sometimes even later. It will be great if he keeps doing so well when we have this new little baby. So we shall see! :-) So here is a picture of Ethan in his big boy bed!

 I am pretty proud of my blankets that I made! 

Ya they were not super difficult to make but I did them and it was fun! :-) I also made a blanket for little Wyatt but I will just have to put a picture of that up later, maybe when he is using it! :-)

 Ethan loves his new big boy bed!! Especially since it has Buzz Lightyear on it! Which is his all time favorite guy! :-) 

So then here are just a couple pictures that my mom took for my maternity pictures with little Wyatt. So the picture with me in the purple shirt is 36 weeks with Wyatt and the pink shirt is 36 weeks with Ethan. Totally different poses but you get the picture! :-) 

We are so excited to be having our next little boy soon!

And these are just some fun pictures from when my mom came to visit! :-)

 

Ethan was pretend sleeping with my mom but sadly he would not stay pretending while I took the picture! Silly boy! haha