Since AnthonyPaul’s been back home, we have tired to get back to normal…or at least the adjusted normal with 3 kids instead of 2. Ty’s back at work and the girls are on summer vacation. Jo and Ana have been a great help with the baby. However, the lack of fun activities have left them … Continue reading Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Progam
The past month has been a roller coaster of emotions and one of the toughest times for our family. Bottom line up front: Anthony Paul Jr was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 25 days with bacterial meningitis. The full story: Thursday, 12 June. Anthony Paul was fussy and didn’t what to … Continue reading Our Little Fighter
At my 38 week appointment (Thursday 29 May), I was already 2 cm and 50% effaced, so my doctor decided to strip my membranes to get things moving. I had cramping that entire night, but nothing too crazy. I had braxton hicks throughout the next few days, but still went to work. I wanted to … Continue reading IT’S A BOY!!
Totally late in updating and I’m sure you can all understand why 🙂Anyways, I have to back track a little before I post about our newest addition. I had an extra day off in conjunction with the Memorial Day weekend, so I decided to treat myself to a day of pampering. My newest food addiction … Continue reading 37 & 38 Weeks
One month away! Not much to report other than my growing belly And here’s a picture of my oldest baby getting her hair did. Continue reading 36 Weeks
Here are some of the events from this past week. Ty and I had the unique opportunity to have dinner at THE Air House..Google it people! Really cool. Here’s a terrible picture of me in front of their 10 ft picture window overlooking DC.Hopefully we can get some pictures from the professional photographer that was … Continue reading 35 Weeks
So here we are just about a month out and we still haven’t set much up for the baby. I know that there isn’t much we have to do, but we should be doing something to prepare, right? So we pulled all the baby stuff out of the guest bedroom and took a visual inventory … Continue reading 34 Weeks
We celebrated Ty’s birthday by having dinner with some good friends in DC. Of course we also celebrated as a family on his actual birthday with some pancit and homemade cards from the girls. I had my regular OB appointment this week. Everything looks great with baby. Heart rate at 136 and measuring right on … Continue reading 33 Weeks
We’ve had an eventful week. The kids were on spring break and we tried to fill it with fun activities.Prepare for picture overload.Reston Zoo The cherry blossoms are in bloom We’ve been so busy that I didn’t even know that my promotion date came and went. I was out of regulations for 5 whole days. … Continue reading 31 & 32 Weeks
These past couple of weeks have been BUSY and very CHAOTIC.Ana developed a fever that took forever to go away. I got a call from the school letting me know that her temperature reached 104. Later that same night I started to have severe abdominal cramps and Ty rushed me to labor and delivery. They … Continue reading Week 29 and 30