My five week check up

Went to my five week check up today at Womans Reproductive Health. I saw Sheri, she is the one who delivered Owen. She described my birth as an exorcism birth..LOL. I was cracking up. I think that was a very appropriate way of describing it. Everything seems to be in working order. She said I could start swimming again. So I cant wait. I am going to start this Saturday.

Wes and I went to look at the daycare today. It does seem really nice..kinda expensive but very nice. I feel really comfortable leaving him there. But they said they may not have any openings in June. The girl who gave us the tour said Owen was so perfect. She said he has the perfect shaped head and features. I was like thank you very much..proud as a peacock..LOL.

Anyways, got a picture with Sheri and Owen. Will post that soon..Sheri said she misses us pregos when we have our babies. I laughed and said I felt the same way about them there at the office. I was really sad about not going back for a while. Now I have another appointment in July and not again until the next July..unless something happens of course. I guess I am pretty sentimental too.

Not much else..

Rude People

Hey everyone. If you went to my FLICKR page in the past and now can not get in it I am sorry. I set my information to private for friends and family only...I had some pervert leaving nasty comments on some of the pictures. Why do people have to be so rude..

You can always join Flickr for free and become my friend and we can share photos...

Just a memory

Just wanted to write about this before I forget one day. When I found out that I was pregnant, it was toward the end of July..and I am pretty regular on the monthly thing. I was running just a few days late and was having small cramps. Wes joked with me and said maybe I was pregnant. HUMMM got me thinking. So I told my friend Stacy that I am going to go buy a pregnancy test if I do not start my period the next day. She laughed.

So sure enough no period so I went and got a test..POSITIVE!! So I wanted to verify it with the doctor so I called Fairhaven and they gave me a test and it was negative. So I came home and took another test and it was Positive..so the next day I went and bought two more tests and took those..positive and then I bought two more and took those..positive..so I called the nurse at Fairhaven in Goshen and told her and she said that I am def. pregnant and she is not sure why their test indicated different. Just to be on the safe side I took one more test for good measure and yep it was positive...lol. I took 7 tests. Yes I am a bit obsessive. So that is when I decided not to go with Fairhaven..if they can not even get a pregnancy test right..OMG!!! So I talked to my friend Karen and she was telling me about Midwifes. So I decided to go that route and found one in Elkhart..set up the appointment and went to my Chiropractor in Mishawaka. He asked me what I was going to do and I told him that I was going with a Midwife. That is when he suggested the Womens Reproductive Health Midwifes. So I called them and made an appointment there failing to call and cancel my appointment in Elkhart..Now that was God because I am nothing but happy with the Midwifes in South Bend and I am going to continue to see them as my woman doctors..

But thought that was pretty funny..me and my obsessive behavior..yes I am still that way. Sometimes it is good though..

Picture above is my friend Stacy..

MOM, ANOTHER DOCTOR VISIT~!!!

Took Owen to the doctor again today. Poor little guys belly button was looking very nasty. Found out that it was part of the stump hanging on tight. So Dr. put silver nitrate on it and then wrote us a prescription for an antibiotic ointment. Hopefully it clears up soon.

Owen has really grown a bunch. He now weights 11 pounds. My gosh he is a big boy already. He is solid as a rock and long..Wes says he is super human..not Wes but Owen..lol. He is already rolling over and follows me with his eyes. He can not roll from his back to his belly but he can roll from his belly to his back..oh I take that back he did roll from his back to his belly once..he has to be really ticked off to do that.

He has redish blond hair, but he got the temper of a red head..The nurse was like WOW he gets mad. I was like tell me about it. It is not very often he acts like that..but it is normally around bath time. HE HATES BATH TIME. But we still have to watch his belly button so we can not get him fully wet yet. So cant wait for this belly button thing to be over so I can get him in the bath tub. I think he will like that much better.

Well my little man is five weeks old today..unbelievable my time off work is now half over. I am sad to go back for various reasons..one I will not be able to spend as much time with him, two I will miss him tremendously and finally it cost a freakin lot of dough to put him in child care.

Wes and I need to get a new vehicle so Karen may buy my car now. It makes me sad cuz it is almost paid off and if we get a new one we are going to be starting over again. BUT my little car is just too small for a family and if we decided to have another child down the road we are going to need a bigger car. We are thinking a small SUV one that is good on gas. There are a couple that are good on gas and they are the RAV 4 Toyota and the Forester by Subaru. They both have the same size engine as my car now..which is pretty wimpy but that saves you bucks on the gas issue and as much as I will be driving that is what is important.

Well enough said for now..

PS Right now my two men are sleeping on the couch..

my old description and new added..chaning it now but wanted to remember this one

I am 29 years old and pregnant with my first child. We started kinda late, but Wes and I seem to do that with a lot of things. Now everything is happening all at once. We bought a house in 12/2005, we got married 12/2006, and were gonna have a baby in 04/2007. I love Wes so much, we have been through a lot together and I know now that he is the one and only true love that I could ever have. Other than spending time with my husband and cute little dog, I like to spend time with my friends. All of our lives are so crazy, but no matter the amount of time that goes by it never seems like a moment has passed once we get together. I dream of having a job that I love one day, and being a good mother. I also wish that people would not be mean to animals or one another and I wish I could talk everyone I know into recycling and taking care of our environment. We only get one chance at this world and I want it to be the best it can be for my little one. I am a vegetarian, with the exception of eating fish now and again.
I love all things beautiful. I believe in God and know that he works wonders in my life every moment of every day.

We had our little baby on 3/22/2007, he came early because I had high blood pressure. I had a water birth with no pain killers. I feel especially connected to Wes, my friend Karen and my midwife Sheri for being there for me when my son was born. I needed a lot of moral support because, frankly, it was the most painful experience of my life. But the BEST!! I did not know what to expect and I screamed and cried and grunted the kid out but I would not have changed the experience. If we have another one I now know what to expect...so I understand now why everyone says there is nothing like the first..its true. I fear that I would not be able to love another child as much as Owen..but I know its not true..Of course O will always have a special place in my heart..forever and ever.

Gaurd Dog

What a great day

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle. The miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.
-- Anne Morrow Lindberg

Today was beautiful. It was 82 degrees outside. Wes and I walked Owen and the dog. Owen just fell asleep of course..since that is what he does best. Then we took him to see Great Grandma and Grandpa Hoogenboom. I think it made them very happy to see him. They of course thinks he looks like Wes. He does a lot. I have a picture of Tim and Kelly holding Wes at one month and you would think it was Owen. He is getting so big. It blows my mind that he is going on Five weeks old this week. How can that be. I swear I just called work telling them I was going to the hospital to have him..time flies. I have one more entire month off work and then back to work in June. How sad is that. I was wanting to go back at first but now I just want to stay home with him. He is getting to the point that when he gets tired of everyone else he wants me. I love it!! He is gonna be moms little man. He was screaming like mad today though..I think it was because he was super tired. I fed him and laid him down and he was out like a light and he is still sleeping. I think I will wake him soon cuz I really do not want him to be up all night. And I really do not want to go driving him around at 3am in the morning like we did last night. I was so tired. I have to admit that I fell right asleep too for a little while.

Well not much else is going on here..just not looking forward to Wes' work schedule this week. He is back to working split shift and will be home only in the afternoon for four hours. I hate that. I need him home at night. At least his mom will be here so that will help a lot. Maybe I can go up to Walgreen's or CVS for a minute to get away..I swear when I was pregnant I lived at Walgreen's because I had to keep getting prescriptions for one thing or another..or just plain ole prenatals. OK enough..

Laters...