Easter Celebrations

We just got home from a long Easter weekend in Murray. Roman was officially introduced to the Thomas family. The entire family was there except one person, I believe 47 in all. Roman first met his cousins. Bella was so cute- she would check on Roman while he slept, she "helped" change diapers and his clothes, and the highlight for her was getting to hold and feed him. Cole, in a typical boyish manner, alternated between kissing his new cousin and poking him in the nose. Warren's sister and her fiance were in from California. It was her first time seeing the baby and our first time seeing her fiance, who was nice as can be! Bella was so funny because she was OBSESSED with my breast pump. When we got there Roman was hungry and I said I needed to feed him. She asked if I took my shirt off to feed him. I told her no, and sort of in a four year old way, explained why. She obviously remembers her mom nursing her brother, but was fascinated by this crazy boob machine. She wanted to see how it worked, assemble the pieces for me, and help me "work my boobs". When the milk would come out she would exclaim "It's milk! The milk's coming out!" At the official family get together Roman was passed from aunt to aunt, but mostly hanging out with JoAnn and Peggy. We were talking to Warren's cousin Josh about him and his wife having kids so he decided to have a go round with Roman. I gave him Roman and he was feeding him. He stopped to burp him and Roman spit up all over him. It wasn't that much spit up, but somehow it managed to splatter completely across Josh's shirt. Nice intro to parenthood! I cried when we left yesterday. The stay in Murray was great, the car ride there and back, not so much. The annoyance of crying is greatly multiplied when you are in a confined space! We survived though. I don't know how we are going to fit everything in the car to go on vacation this summer. We were packed front to back just for this trip! I have cute Easter photos that I will share soon.
So the bad thing that happened over the weekend was that I almost completely stopped making milk. Not that I was making much anyways, but still. I talked to Warren's cousin's wife, Jessica, about it and she said she took Reglan. I didn't try it before because I didn't like the side effects, but now I'm desperate. I called my OB and she called it in yesterday. I just took the first pill. So we'll see how it goes.
Speaking of side effects, Rain got me on a tear about vaccines over the weekend. She had a bad reaction to the pertussis vaccine, and never had any follow ups. Warren and Mason never had it due to her reaction. After A LOT of research, I think we are only going to do a few vaccines. Mainly we want to skip MMR, DTaP (the pertussis part), and Hep B. A few others as well. We want to follow the Dr. Sears selective schedule, minus the pertussis. We are still waiting to sort this out with our pediatrician. Fingers crossed!
Zeus is coming home tonight. Ahhhh-I'm nervous!
This Friday I have to go to school for my end of year evaluation. I'm taking Roman and going to see my kids and I am so so excited!!!

Birth Class, Belly, and Baby Shower

After my last post, I am glad to be out of my funk! Being off of work makes me weird. It's not like I wake up every day thrilled to go to work. I want to sleep in and lay around just like everyone else. I have noticed though, that whenever I am not working I am so icky. I think I am just really lazy, and then I beat myself up about being lazy. But all is well now!



Lots of exciting news happening! Roman moves like crazy. You can see my stomach move on the outside and it totally looks like I have an alien in my belly. My fascination with this wears off when he does it every night right when I am trying to fall asleep! That's about all there is to report, but as always, no news is good news! I keep getting bigger and bigger and can now only wear maternity clothes. I have been wearing maternity pants for quite some time, but I could still wear a lot of my shirts. I made it 31 weeks before my wardrobe went extinct, so I don't think that's too bad.


This past weekend I had my second baby shower. It was with Warren's family in Murray. It was so nice! Everyone got the cutest gifts and we are especially grateful for the car seat everyone chipped in for! Joy got us our entire set of cloth diapers and we also got a cute embroidered blankie and a beautiful handmade quilt from Warren's aunt. My adorable niece Bella aided in the opening of the gifts, which of course I loved because then it helps with the "everyone staring at you" discomfort!!! We don't get to see Warren's extended family much, so most of all it was just really nice to visit with everyone. They are so sweet and generous and I wish we saw them more. What is really crazy, is the next time we do, it will be with a baby in tow! Hopefully I can get some pictures up from the shower, but my camera was dead, so this will mean relying on my horrible at photo sharing mother in law ;)

When we came home from Murray on Sunday, we went to our first birthing class. I love the teacher, Nicole, who is the doula not taking March clients I previously wrote about. I think the class is going to be fun and helpful. However, I did notice that Warren and I seem to be the only ones with a sense of humor, as we leaned over making puns and smart aleck remarks to one another. Everyone is is very, very serious. We don't do serious too well! So it only seems fitting that when each couple was assigned an exercise to explain and demonstrate to the class, Warren and I draw our card, turn it over, and see KEGELS. Bawhahahaha!!! So hilarity ensued as Warren and I tried to figure out how to explain kegels, while maintaining our composure. When we finally get it together (and I am finished hissing at Warren not to be weird!) its our turn and the teacher does most of the talking for us. Pretty painless, and it makes a great memory!

8 weeks from today!!!

Only one more secret!

Last Thursday night, Warren and I facebooked the baby! The same evening he told his sister. Then Friday morning, I shared at work, for anyone who is not on facebook that is! Most of my coworkers seemed to already know...and my friends and work did tell me that there were rumors going around! The best part about work is that my friend Sarah is also pregnant. She facebooked it about a week ago. Of course at that point we hadn't told everyone, so I messaged her and told her. We are less that three weeks apart, with her due date being February 9th. I am just so excited that we are going to get to go through this together!!! It has already been a lot of fun!
So who is the only secret left? My nana. God love her, I just haven't been able to tell her yet. My nana is one of the most important people in my life. She took care of me (not as in I have a deadbeat mom, as in childcare!) until I was in middle school and even then I still hung out with my nana on the weekends. We have always been super close and actually if this baby is a girl she is getting named after my nana. However, in recent years nana has spent a lot of time telling me not to have kids, that the world is too ornery, and so on. Like, a lot of time. So that is where my hesitation comes from. I think today might be the day though, so if I get the nerve, wish me luck!