Spaghetti night!!!

So, as some of you know, Cayley has been sick since Monday. Thankfully, today she looks and is acting much better. She was telling me that she was hungry, so I plopped some spaghetti on her tray to see if she would eat it (and to distract her while man child and I ate). Her are some pictures.

This Boy is coming down the birth canal! (come july!)

I met with a midwife today and she accepted me as a new patient!! She is the only one that would let me have a VBAC. I was very worried that I would have to have another c-section purely because I would not be able to find a health care provider to accept me.

She did lay out three rules.
1.) If I go past 40 weeks I will have to have a c-section.
2.) I must go into labor naturally.
3.) Once I go into labor, she will do nothing to help it progress. NO PICTOCIN.

So, there is a good chance that I will be having another c-section, BUT, I am happy to at least be given the chance to do it the natural way.

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I received my package from Ellie!!!! Thanks so much Ellie, I love everything!!!

The pillow and the onsie are too cute, and the candle, lotion and purfume smell so good!

Thanks!!!

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Wow. I sure dropped the ball on my blog. (my commitment issues are showing again!)
Not much to report other than that we found out NBS is a BOY!!! His name is Eli! I have been smiling and floating around for days now.
(You know what just popped in my head? I still have not gotten Cayleys birth certificate…She will be 7 months old on Sunday! )
Also, I am going to be meeting with a doctor friend of my OB to see if she will accept me as a new patient. If she does, I will not have to have another c-section!! I am terrified and excited about this. I want to feel what labor is, since that is the final part of pregnancy, but I am a little bitch when it comes to pain… I am however crossing my fingers for the chance to feel labor and have my little boy naturally.
At my monthly appointment I found out that I am already up 20lbs. I gained 10 lbs last month. That is a record for me. I have been eating better for the most part this week. I really don’t want to gain too much weight. I am already starting to feel the heaviness of my ass and I still have 4 months to go. Eli is only 1 lb of the 20 and if he is anywhere near Cayley’s 9 lb birth weight… I’m gonna be in trouble….
Work has been crazy busy and I find that I have no patience and no attention span. I keep forgetting things, or procrastinating. I think subconsciously I am trying to get my self fired. I can’t afford to right now so I really need to buckle down and shape up. That is a goal for next week though… LOL
Cayley has started saying Momma. Momamamamamama, squeal, Mommamamamama, giggle, Momamamama, SCREETCH! She has also started to try to pull herself up onto things. She still isn’t crawling though… Maybe she’ll skip crawling and jump right into walking? I have found this past week that her favorite yogurt is strawberry. And she tries sooo hard to grab anything anyone is eating and stuff it in her mouth. She got smart and started pulling on the table linen until the food on the table is within her reach. She’s crazy!!! She is just so pretty and makes me melt every time she smiles. Especially when she wakes in the morning. I often bring her in our bed when she first wakes up for a bottle, and then around 7 or so she wakes up again and when she looks at me with her sleepy eyes and smiles…
Man Child is being the perfect husband as of late. It is such a difference from when I was pregnant with Cayley and one that I am extremely grateful for. The consideration and attention he shows me make me love and appreciate him more everyday. (yet I am secretly waiting for him to fuck-up so that all of this good behavior is null and void… *sigh* I am such a bitch sometimes)
I have been dealing with this cold for just about two weeks now. I keep waiting for it to go away and it seems like it is, and then BAM! My ears plug up. It is a very awkward feeling, this ear "fogginess". I finally broke down and called my doctor this morning and she is calling me in some antibiotics that I can pick up after work. Hopefully I’ll be good as new come Monday morning!
I guess that is it for now. I need to go catch up on all the blogs I haven’t been keeping up on lately…

I miss the internet drama called OBBC

Seriously.

I miss the mockery, the dirty name slinging, the outrageous accusations... The "personal attacks" and the hipocracy of it all... The shut down threads and deleted posts... The gang raping of inoccent posters just looking for advice or support. The popcorn eating, grammer policing, fake medical professional advice giving, judging someone because thier parenting style differs from your own...
Aaaahhhh... The memories... I guess I'll have those forever. And my Sassy Bitches of course! I LOVE YOU GIRLS AND APPRECIATE YOU FOR ALL FOR THE LOVE AND SUPPORT YOU HAVE SHOWN ME OVER THE LAST YEAR!

But seriously... Can we bring back OBBC?

Busy Mom's -Week 6-

Week 6… Late as usual, but this weekend I seriously had no time to sit down and type any thing up.
Ricky came in on Wednesday night/Thursday morning and I am proud to be able to say that I did not get lost at the airport. I was very nervous about picking him up because I have never parked at the airport and I am not the greatest when it comes to navigating a parking garage. (yeah I know… You go up, then you go back down… For some reason it does not work like that for me) But, it went smoothly and I think I’ll do it again… (hint, hint… Some one come and visit me!!!) He and I went to Denny’s when he arrived in and the milkshake I ordered came in a crooked glass. I was fascinated. It leaned to the right and for a few moments I thought that my tiredness started causing me to be delirious, but Ricky confirmed that the glass had a "gansta lean". When the time came to pay the check the waitress reminded us that we could leave the tip on the receipt since we were paying with a debit card. I was flabbergasted. I wish I had recorded exactly what she said because the lady had balls about it. When she walked away Ricky said "Damn, the cup isn’t the only thing in here with a gansta lean". LOL. I don’t think I have laughed that hard in forever.
I went to work as usual on Thursday and the day pretty much sucked. But it did eventually end and I went and picked up Cayley. Ricky decided that he wanted Papa Johns for dinner so we ordered a couple of pizzas and he introduced me to Guitar Hero. That is a very interesting game if you want to work on your eye/hand coordination. I was so lost just trying to use the three buttons that are on the easy level. Green, red, and yellow. Oh, and the strum bar. Holy hell… I felt like a total ass because it’s only THREE keys and I kept missing them. More so the yellow. Friday morning came around and Cayley and I hung out until Ricky woke up. Then we had coffee and eventually made our way down to Man Childs job so he could feed us. We had shrimp, I had steak and Ricky had ribs. Very very yummy. Cayley had sweet potatoes when she was done making the rounds saying hello to all of Man Childs friends. She is a complete ham. Later that night Man Child went to his second job and Ricky and I played on the play station, computer and just talked about random stuff. At about 11 pm Cayley coughed and scared the shit out of me. It was a crazy sounding cough and she couldn’t stop for a minute and then she struggled to catch her breath. This went on for the rest of the night and at three in the morning she was crying from coughing. And she was feverish. When Ricky got up on Saturday morning Cayley was still coughing and running a fever. I asked him what he thought and he said her cough sounded "croupy" and she might need antibiotics. He felt her lymph nodes too and said they were swollen. I called her doctors office expecting to leave a message for Dr. R. to call me but they were OPEN!!! On a SATURDAY!!! Dr. R. was not in, but the other doctor was so I asked to make an appointment. The girl on the phone asks me what kind of insurance the patient has before she asked my daughters name or what is wrong with her. I told her BCBS and she said "ok, we have an opening at 10:30". That pissed me off. What if I hadn’t said BCBS? Do certain insurances get discriminated against on the weekend? I am going to talk to Dr. R. about that the next time I see her. Well the doctor confirmed that Cayley has viral croup and put her on a steroid to help relieve the swelling in her throat. He told me that I needed to monitor her breathing and temperature closely and bring her to the ER if either got too bad. A little while after the appointment I brought Ricky to the train station so he could go to Tampa and see our father. I would have loved to go, but having no money… It all worked out anyway since Cayley was sick. She wanted to be held and rocked ALL WEEKEND. There was no putting her down. She slept for a few minutes until another awful cough shook her body and she woke up crying… That poor baby… Man Child worked crazy hours this week getting a total of maybe eight hours sleep from Friday night to Monday afternoon. I felt bad for him, but I felt worse for those around me on account that come Sunday night, that last shower I had gotten was Friday morning. I was smelly, hungry and tired. (which means I was a complete bitch) When Man Child came home Sunday, I started crying because I just wanted 5 minutes in the shower before he ran off to his other job. He turned the shower on, took Cayley, and told me to take as much time as I needed. When I got finished scraping baby food and cheetos off my neck and out of my hair, and scrubbed the Infant Motrin off my foot that I had clumsily knocked of my dresser (brand new bottle just about wasted) I found them both sleeping peacefully cuddled up in pillows and comforters on the bed, so I left them there. I made some Ramen Noodles and just sat there and enjoyed my baby free arms. It lasted maybe thirty minutes before Cayley woke herself up coughing and crying, but I certainly felt refreshed at that point. I helped Man Child get ready for work and saw him off. Then Cayley and I settled in the room and watched the movie "Shutter". Monday morning rolled around and Cayley was still running a fever so I stayed home. We snuggled all day and I did laundry in between her short siestas. We picked up Ricky at the train station and went to the diner for dinner. Cayley was such a good girl. She just sat in her car seat eating bits of banana and playing with napkins. Her and Man Child passed out when we got home and Ricky and I hung out in the living room. I dropped him off at my mom’s this morning and Cayley went to the baby sitter and here I am at work… Counting the minutes till I get to see my baby… oooh… Yesterday I had put Cayley in her exersaucer, and when I walked by she put up her arms and whined at me!!! And she now has two teeth.

Here is my baby yesterday...