It's Been a Yr!!

My baby girl is now a year old...the time has flown by so fast and I can't believe she's already on solid foods and done with formula. Hopefully within the coming year we can try for a sibling for her.. hopefully a sister but will take what we get. I've had my back surgery in Aug 2010 and no recuperating from it. It has been a very long and painful recovery and I hope to be able to pick Adrionna up without pain in the future. We moved from NC back to RI and I'm not looking forward to the winter. We will probably end up in Ma somewhere just because RI is high in taxes and corruption. We hope to be able to buy a home in the coming years but had to file Chapter 13 bankruptcy back in Jan. My pregnancy was awesome but being out of work for 6 months not a good thing on the wallet, then with me having back surgery just made things worse. I'm thankful to Anne-Marie to give us a place to land while we found a new place to live and find work. Carl is back at Monroe Dairy where he left when we moved south and I'm hopefully returning to the work force by early 2011. Adrionna is not walking just yet but pulling herself up on everything and walking along furniture. She has a head full of curly brown hair and the most sparkling blue eyes that just light up when she looks at you. She has one tooth on the bottom with another coming up soon right next to it. She's my angel and my heart and a gift that we waited over 5 years to get. I just hope we don't have to wait another 5 yrs to give her a sibling, considering I'll be 34 next month.

36 weeks

Four weeks left to go and everything is almost ready for her arrival. Just a few odds and ends I still need to buy either for myself or for her. Dr's apt this week went well. She gained 6oz and now weighs 5lbs 4oz, I also gained 2lbs so I'm over my 20lb mark by 1lb. I didn't have any change in my cervix and she said next week I'll get yet another u/s to monitor her weight gain and will also discuss the options of getting her here. The Dr's says she should weigh at least 6lbs when she is born, but we'll see. I'd like to have her this month, so I can get back to work sooner and also cause the birthstone is prettier. October is an opal where Nov is an orange stone, not so pretty. Besides mom will be coming Nov 4Th and would rather have her visit with Adrionna then just me. Since she won't see her again until June or July when we go up to RI to get her baptized.

5 Weeks to go!!

With having only 5 weeks to go I'm getting very anxious to met Adrionna. I'm now on weekly Dr's appts and u/s. When I went this week I was a fingetip dialated, and she weighed 4lbs 140z. She's very small so hopefully she puts on alil more weight before she arrives. We got two swings, one from a friend and one from Candi. This is great so now I can have one in the bedroom and one in the living room. Adrionna is very active and her daddy loves to feel her move. I've gained 19lbs so far so not doing to badly. Sugers have been good for the most part, I'll be happy when she comes and I can go back to eating whatever I want again.

34 weeks

Less than 40 days we should have alil girl to share our home with. We are very excited to meet her and I'm very excitied to get back to work. This staying home buisness is soo damn boring, plus it doesn't pay the bills, we are struggling month to month. This definelty won't happen again with the next pregnancy, I'll be looking shortly after I return to work for a new job that will allow me to work my whole pregnancy. We are actually looking to move to TN on the boarder of NC where there's more medical jobs for me. It probably won't be till spring/summer but we'll see. Depends on how bad the mold is this winter in the house. I went to the chiroprator today and jumped on their scale, it said I gained 3 1/2 lbs since last Wed, I hope thats not right. I go back next Wed Oct 7th for my next appt and can't imagine gaining another 3lbs before I get there.

33 weeks

The countdown is really on... I'm feeling good for the most part have bad back pain in between my shoulder blades if I sit at the computer to long. Also have pain under my right ribs where her butt and legs are, she's getting pretty cramped in there. She's weighing in at 4lbs 2oz right now and my weight is 175lbs, I gained my 2lbs back I had lost 4lbs but thats fine. Her room is just sitting their waiting for her. I've bought a few things she didn't have yet, but there is still more I need to get. Also got what we needed for the hospital and labor to help ease the pain. Hopefully everything goes smoothly.

8 weeks left

32 weeks and counting down the weeks. The back pain is getting worse along with the pain under the ribs. I can't sit in the computer chair very long cause my back starts to really hurt. I've also been experiencing severe hip pain. I'm guessing my body is getting ready for her arrival and is letting my hips get loose to get into place for delivery. We've gone to a breast feeding class and found it to be very informative. We also met our new babysitter for Adrionna, very nice and intelligent lady who's got kids of her own. She's going to watch her for $20.00 a day which is great for us considering we only need her for two days mostly. We go next week for another u/s hopefully we'll get another 3d one, there really neat. She's been rolling around in there and amazing Carl every time he watches her move. I also had my shower this week, it was ok but would have been nicer if the invitations had been sent out 2-3 weeks before not less than a week before. I got some stuff but not what I was hoping for.

31 Weeks

I've been really slacking on the blogging, I'm getting tired now alot and just don't have the energy to do alot of things. I don't know if she's having a growth spirt and stealing all my energy or what. She's moving all around, constantly. Carl & I still go for our evening walks for my suger which has been doing very well. We went to the dr this week and I lost 3lbs which she said is ok, and is very happy with my sugers. We also got a 3d picture of her from the u/s which is really cool. I'll have another u/s in two weeks when I go back.