Back story: I'm an idiot. I thought I could just take Lily anywhere for a flu shot and she could get one and be done. Reality, that is not the case. Most places the kid has to be at least 16 or even 19. I did find one that was 10 and one that was 4. But the problem is, Lily is not any of those ages. So I was stuck. I had to call the clinic. I had to take her in. All this while I was trying to avoid having to pay the dang copay for a flu shot. So I end up calling late. After all the flu shot clinics are done at her normal Dr. Office. And the only ones they have available are at another clinic here in town on Thursdays or in the next town over on Wednesdays. Both days suck for me, as I have to take time off work, pull her out of daycare and pay the dang co-pay for the visit. Now, normally I would have just probably skipped it as I don't think the flu shot is the be all and end all in medical importance, BUT we will have a newborn, who can't be vaccinated in prime flu season. So I suck it up since I suppose it was mostly my fault for waiting so long and schedule her an appt at the clinic here in town. For 9:15 this morning. So I debated long and hard my options, as I start work at 7 and so 9:15 isn't the most convenient time for me. I ultimately decided to just stay home and take her and then come to work after.
Fast Forward to this morning. Miss Lily was super excited to go to the Dr. Yes, I think she is the only kid ever that LIKES going to the Dr. We left the house at 9 because the clinic is close to the house and I new the general area it was located. So I didn't think much of it. Until I drive out there and I can't find a building marked as the clinic ANYWHERE. After turning around and making several loops I ultimately decided to stop at the Business office (that I drove past several times) and asked them where the clinic was. She takes me to the back door, points to a building a couple blocks away and says "See that green building over there? that's it." Now this wouldn't have been a big deal had I planned ahead and actually gave myself some time. But nope, at this point it was at least 10 after 9 or so and I'm holding Lily, 8 months pregnant and I have to make a choice. The choice to either walk/run to the clinic to make it there on time, or to walk/run around the building and get back in the car and drive over, get out and hope I can make it in time. Well I figured it would be quicker to just walk/run over. So I'm carrying Lily, Running across these parking lots trying to make it there on time. Then my brain starts swimming with thoughts about how I'm going to miss this appointment and have to reschedule and take MORE time off work and miss MORE daycare (that I have to pay for anyway) And then the tears come. Yes, I'm running across parking lots carrying my 28 pound little girl, crying. Then miss Lily hugged me and told me this: "Calm down mommy, I'll wipe your tears for you" Which of course made me cry harder because it was so unbelievably sweet. So we finally make it to the clinic. Now to find the door. I put lily down and asked her to be a big girl and run with me so I can catch my breath a bit before we go in so I don't look like a crazed lunatic going into the clinic.
We get there at 9:17. I was nervous. I mean you all know how Dr.'s offices are. They can make you wait for 45 minutes after your appt time but heaven forbid you are a few minutes late. But thankfully they were understanding and she told me people get lost back there all the time. Which actually made me feel a lot better. So we get our form and go wait. (we ended up waiting 5-10 minutes yet anyway) Lily was happy though cause she got to watch the fish swim around in the fish tank. We get called back to the room and she was happy. Remember my kid loves the Dr. office. Until we have to take her pants off so they can give her the shot in her leg. She cried. A Lot. Poor thing. But she was rewarded with a scratch n sniff Strawberry shortcake sticker. She was happy, wanted to go and look at the fish again. OK. Fine, we made it, hopefully things will calm down now right? WRONG. She started crying when an elderly man in a wheel chair said hi to her. I don't know what her deal was, but I figured we wouldn't subject all the poor people in the waiting room to her crying so we left.
I knew we had a walk back to the car but Lily usually wants to walk and the weather wasn't too bad so I assumed this would be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong. She screamed to be carried. Then screamed when I asked her to walk, So I carried her. She cried anyway. THE WHOLE WAY BACK TO THE CAR. And she was carrying a paper and pen and it was windy so at one point the paper went flying out of her hands and I was left to run after it to make her just be quiet for 2 minutes. I tried bribing her with Halloween candy I put in my purse as her reward for being good at the Dr. That did not work, In fact I think it angered her more that I bribed her and she cried harder. FINALLY we made it to the car and she stopped crying....which is where I started. I was physically in a lot of pain (remember, 8 months pregnant) and tired and disappointed in myself for not planning ahead better.
So long story short....I've never been so happy to get to work than I was today.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Just Like Dora Does
Oh Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that saying through the course of a day. I sure would have a lot of nickels.
The other day I asked Lily if Dora jumped off a cliff if she would want to do that too. Her response was not what I was expecting when she excitedly ran over to get one of her little Dora dolls and asked me if we should throw her off a cliff. Can I? Can I? Can We? Sigh. And of course my kid doesn't forget so she brings this up frequently to me now.
And yesterday I told her when I picked her up from daycare. "We are going to go and vote and then you can have mommy's sticker" and as we were getting out of the car at the polling place she told me this: "We are going to go and get a yellow boat, just like Dora does."
Where did I go wrong?
The other day I asked Lily if Dora jumped off a cliff if she would want to do that too. Her response was not what I was expecting when she excitedly ran over to get one of her little Dora dolls and asked me if we should throw her off a cliff. Can I? Can I? Can We? Sigh. And of course my kid doesn't forget so she brings this up frequently to me now.
And yesterday I told her when I picked her up from daycare. "We are going to go and vote and then you can have mommy's sticker" and as we were getting out of the car at the polling place she told me this: "We are going to go and get a yellow boat, just like Dora does."
Where did I go wrong?
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
35 Weeks.
My thoughts on the whole thing? Get her the hell out. I really can't believe how similar my pregnancies have started out and yet how different they seem to have turned here towards the end. With Lily the end was my favorite. I wasn't terribly uncomfortable. I didn't experience a lot of pain and mostly I just enjoyed feeling her move, after a rough start to the pregnancy I was just enjoying not feeling sick all the time and the fun of decorating her room and getting ready for her arrival. With this one though, I am SO sore. Sore in areas I didn't know could be sore. I can't sleep right. It is painful and uncomfortable to walk or even really move my legs a whole lot. I really just want to be done.
2 weeks until I am FULL term. And I am hoping by sheer willpower that she will be born before her due date. That would be so wonderful.
2 weeks until I am FULL term. And I am hoping by sheer willpower that she will be born before her due date. That would be so wonderful.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
So you're telling me it's actually October?
News:
1. I'm 33 weeks pregnant today. I will be SO SO SO happy when she decides to get the heck out of my body. Hopefully only 7 weeks to go.
2. I picked out the girl's Halloween costume. She is going to be a fairy princess. For those that know me, also know that I was totally stressed out about the costume thing. I mean it's probably the last year I get to pick FOR her and I certainly didn't want to screw it up. Ultimately I decided to use the fairy wings we got her at the Ren Festival and get a dress and crown and wand and call it good. So she will be somewhat unique. I wanted her to be something warm and I managed to find a nice long sleeved, long princess dress at Savers and it's big enough I can put stuff on under it, so it doesn't ruin the effect of the costume.
3. We went to pick out pumpkins last weekend. Had a lot of fun, went to the A Maze'n Farm in Eden Valley, They had a ton of stuff to do and the girl had fun and so did we. However, we didn't buy our pumpkins there cause they were too dang expensive, and since we had to pay to get in I couldn't justify it. So Lily and I stopped yesterday and bought some at the grocery store. She is so frickin' excited to see what's inside them it's not even funny. Hopefully I can get her to reach in and grab some goo. We'll see.
4. My house looks like a bomb went off in it. I'm kinda sick of it, but apparently not sick of it enough to actually DO anything about it. One of these days though.
5. Work is slow, REALLY slow. They are talking hour cuts and heaven forbid, layoffs again. I am not thrilled about it but really what can I do? Hopefully they wait until at least I would be off for maternity leave before they lay off anyone. We need every last cent we can get right now.
6. Adam had a week off from work and finally got the front sidewalk done. We've only been planning to re-do it since practically we moved in 3 years ago. It looks great, him and his friends did a good job. Sadly there wasn't much else that got done over his "working" vacation. That's ok, I probably would have done the same.
7. I have some new pictures of the girl, but I am feeling far too lazy to upload and caption them, so I'll try and do it another day. No promises though.
1. I'm 33 weeks pregnant today. I will be SO SO SO happy when she decides to get the heck out of my body. Hopefully only 7 weeks to go.
2. I picked out the girl's Halloween costume. She is going to be a fairy princess. For those that know me, also know that I was totally stressed out about the costume thing. I mean it's probably the last year I get to pick FOR her and I certainly didn't want to screw it up. Ultimately I decided to use the fairy wings we got her at the Ren Festival and get a dress and crown and wand and call it good. So she will be somewhat unique. I wanted her to be something warm and I managed to find a nice long sleeved, long princess dress at Savers and it's big enough I can put stuff on under it, so it doesn't ruin the effect of the costume.
3. We went to pick out pumpkins last weekend. Had a lot of fun, went to the A Maze'n Farm in Eden Valley, They had a ton of stuff to do and the girl had fun and so did we. However, we didn't buy our pumpkins there cause they were too dang expensive, and since we had to pay to get in I couldn't justify it. So Lily and I stopped yesterday and bought some at the grocery store. She is so frickin' excited to see what's inside them it's not even funny. Hopefully I can get her to reach in and grab some goo. We'll see.
4. My house looks like a bomb went off in it. I'm kinda sick of it, but apparently not sick of it enough to actually DO anything about it. One of these days though.
5. Work is slow, REALLY slow. They are talking hour cuts and heaven forbid, layoffs again. I am not thrilled about it but really what can I do? Hopefully they wait until at least I would be off for maternity leave before they lay off anyone. We need every last cent we can get right now.
6. Adam had a week off from work and finally got the front sidewalk done. We've only been planning to re-do it since practically we moved in 3 years ago. It looks great, him and his friends did a good job. Sadly there wasn't much else that got done over his "working" vacation. That's ok, I probably would have done the same.
7. I have some new pictures of the girl, but I am feeling far too lazy to upload and caption them, so I'll try and do it another day. No promises though.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
4 Quick Takes (cause I'm too lazy to come up with 7)
1. I had a Dr. appointment on Friday for 28 weeks. I failed the one hour glucose test, and I'm anemic. I googled the anemia to see what the symptoms were:
Easy fatigue and loss of energy
Unusually rapid heart beat, particularly with exercise
Shortness of breath and headache, particularly with exercise
Difficulty concentrating
Dizziness
Pale skin
Leg cramps
Insomnia
And wouldn't you know it, I have EVERY SINGLE SYMPTOM. Never mind the fact that I'm pretty much pale all the time though. But still. I've been on the Iron supplement (which is very temper mental I might add) Since Friday and I am STILL anxiously waiting for some of those to go away. Though I'm sure I'm screwed because I AM pregnant after all and some of those symptoms just simply come with being pregnant. Lucky Lucky.
As far as the Glucose Test. That's to test for Gestational Diabetes. Now A LOT of women don't pass the one hour. It's fairly common and not SUPER accurate. They use it more for screening to see if you need further testing or not, which is a good thing I suppose. Either way I spent my Tuesday morning sitting in the clinic for 3 hours while I couldn't eat and had to drink something that tasted pretty much like solid sugar water and try to keep myself from Horking it up. Either way I passed. I didn't fail a single one of the 4 blood draws they did. So I felt irrationally irritated that I had to spend basically 4 hours out of my day sitting there for no reason. But I guess better safe than sorry.
2. Adam's company is celebrating their 10 year anniversary and for that they are bringing all the employees plus a guest to the Renaissance Festival. I am SO thrilled about this for a couple of reasons. Mainly because I WANTED TO GO SO BADLY. Second. It's free. They are providing transportation, food, ticket entry. How much better could it be? Of course it would have been cool to go with Lily but really Adam and I could use some adult time outside of our house. So I'm thrilled, and the weather is supposed to be nice too which is an added bonus!
3. Our new Super Walmart opened up here last week. I am happy about this as it's the only real competition for grocery in our town so hopefully we can save a little money by shopping there. Well, this past weekend we decided to go over and check it out, and as everyone knows you CAN'T go to Walmart and not buy something. (I think it's a law actually) Well the whole shopping experience was fine until the check outs. Now If I ever had to complain about something with regards to walmart, it's their check outs. They never have enough open and you literally spend more time waiting to check out than you do shopping their massively huge store. So we pick a line, they were all long so we just picked one. I swear we stood in line for at least 15 minutes still being like 3rd in line. When they CLOSED THE LINE. Oh we were not the only irritated people in that line, as we had all been waiting forever to check out and we all had to find new lines to stand in and just pray that they didn't do the same thing. Whatever, I was ready to just abandon our cart and leave but we had gotten Lily a pumpkin to put her Halloween candy and she was pretty excited about it, so we decided to just suck it up and find another line. We only waited about 10 minutes in that line. For the self check out. Blech. So Walmart, reluctantly I will go back, but I will not be happy if I have the same experience this time.
Easy fatigue and loss of energy
Unusually rapid heart beat, particularly with exercise
Shortness of breath and headache, particularly with exercise
Difficulty concentrating
Dizziness
Pale skin
Leg cramps
Insomnia
And wouldn't you know it, I have EVERY SINGLE SYMPTOM. Never mind the fact that I'm pretty much pale all the time though. But still. I've been on the Iron supplement (which is very temper mental I might add) Since Friday and I am STILL anxiously waiting for some of those to go away. Though I'm sure I'm screwed because I AM pregnant after all and some of those symptoms just simply come with being pregnant. Lucky Lucky.
As far as the Glucose Test. That's to test for Gestational Diabetes. Now A LOT of women don't pass the one hour. It's fairly common and not SUPER accurate. They use it more for screening to see if you need further testing or not, which is a good thing I suppose. Either way I spent my Tuesday morning sitting in the clinic for 3 hours while I couldn't eat and had to drink something that tasted pretty much like solid sugar water and try to keep myself from Horking it up. Either way I passed. I didn't fail a single one of the 4 blood draws they did. So I felt irrationally irritated that I had to spend basically 4 hours out of my day sitting there for no reason. But I guess better safe than sorry.
2. Adam's company is celebrating their 10 year anniversary and for that they are bringing all the employees plus a guest to the Renaissance Festival. I am SO thrilled about this for a couple of reasons. Mainly because I WANTED TO GO SO BADLY. Second. It's free. They are providing transportation, food, ticket entry. How much better could it be? Of course it would have been cool to go with Lily but really Adam and I could use some adult time outside of our house. So I'm thrilled, and the weather is supposed to be nice too which is an added bonus!
3. Our new Super Walmart opened up here last week. I am happy about this as it's the only real competition for grocery in our town so hopefully we can save a little money by shopping there. Well, this past weekend we decided to go over and check it out, and as everyone knows you CAN'T go to Walmart and not buy something. (I think it's a law actually) Well the whole shopping experience was fine until the check outs. Now If I ever had to complain about something with regards to walmart, it's their check outs. They never have enough open and you literally spend more time waiting to check out than you do shopping their massively huge store. So we pick a line, they were all long so we just picked one. I swear we stood in line for at least 15 minutes still being like 3rd in line. When they CLOSED THE LINE. Oh we were not the only irritated people in that line, as we had all been waiting forever to check out and we all had to find new lines to stand in and just pray that they didn't do the same thing. Whatever, I was ready to just abandon our cart and leave but we had gotten Lily a pumpkin to put her Halloween candy and she was pretty excited about it, so we decided to just suck it up and find another line. We only waited about 10 minutes in that line. For the self check out. Blech. So Walmart, reluctantly I will go back, but I will not be happy if I have the same experience this time.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
28 weeks....
Where on earth does the time go? I mean, I thought my first pregnancy went fast. That was NOTHING compared to this one having a 2 year old in the mix too.
There is still a lot I would like to get done before Claire makes her first appearance.
Still so many of her things that need to be cleaned/prepped.
I still need to get her some diapers and formula.
Drag out the baby stuff and wash it all up (toys, etc)
Last time I had pretty unrealistic goals of things I wanted to get done while I was home on maternity leave. Yeah, they never got done, and I highly doubt anything will this time either. So I don't know. I don't think I'll plan anything for that time. Just take it day by day and see what happens. If I get stuff done, great. If not, that's fine too. Especially since it's over the holidays. I'm sure it will be a very hectic time.
There is still a lot I would like to get done before Claire makes her first appearance.
Still so many of her things that need to be cleaned/prepped.
I still need to get her some diapers and formula.
Drag out the baby stuff and wash it all up (toys, etc)
Last time I had pretty unrealistic goals of things I wanted to get done while I was home on maternity leave. Yeah, they never got done, and I highly doubt anything will this time either. So I don't know. I don't think I'll plan anything for that time. Just take it day by day and see what happens. If I get stuff done, great. If not, that's fine too. Especially since it's over the holidays. I'm sure it will be a very hectic time.
Adventures in Pottyland.
It's that time. That time in every kids life when using the potty really becomes a part of your daily habits. You know when you get candy or a special treat for using the potty. In my daughters case the reward last night was getting to wash her hands. She LOVES to wash her hands and there was no need for it, so I told her if she went potty she could wash her hands. I've never seen a 2 year old whip off their pants and diaper so quickly. She hopped up and went potty. She got to wash her hands. She was happy. I was happy.
Fast Forward to after dinner. She gets down and walks over to her potty chair and takes her pull-up off and sat on the potty, all without us asking if she had to go or her telling us she had to go. And she went! Such a big girl. This time her treat was some candy that daddy brought home from work.
Fast Forward again to after bath time and we are laying in my bed getting her all dressed and ready for her story and bed. I go to put my foot under the blanket and wouldn't you know it, the girl peed in my bed. Sigh. So you see it's all a guessing game in Pottyland. We aren't actively pushing her to use the potty, just more encouraging her to let us know if she has to go so she can sit on the "big girl potty". So far she's doing pretty darn good. I think we'll have this down soon. But then again, in Pottyland, you just never know.
Fast Forward to after dinner. She gets down and walks over to her potty chair and takes her pull-up off and sat on the potty, all without us asking if she had to go or her telling us she had to go. And she went! Such a big girl. This time her treat was some candy that daddy brought home from work.
Fast Forward again to after bath time and we are laying in my bed getting her all dressed and ready for her story and bed. I go to put my foot under the blanket and wouldn't you know it, the girl peed in my bed. Sigh. So you see it's all a guessing game in Pottyland. We aren't actively pushing her to use the potty, just more encouraging her to let us know if she has to go so she can sit on the "big girl potty". So far she's doing pretty darn good. I think we'll have this down soon. But then again, in Pottyland, you just never know.
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