Enjoying the quiet at work...

but wish I had a cot or something. Man, I'm tired of being TIRED. Ho hum...

The dreaded belly pics

Since we still haven't told my family that we are PG, I thought I'd post a few picture here. Pretty pathetic of me that I was feeling so badly at 6 weeks I never took any pictures. There is quite a difference between weeks 4 and 8, though. YIKES. I started this pregnancy a little heavier too, so I guess I better just get used to it. I think I was around 146 pounds this time. With Jacob I started at 143 pounds (more muscle, less fat), with Nicholas is was WAY too skinny at 134 pounds (too much stress). If you want to see the other pictures they are on our family website (which honestly hasn't been touched in a year and a half because I need the new version of FrontPage for our computer with Vista (BOO). http://www.jbgresham.net/. Sign-in: guest, password: gresham88.

Wow...time flies

Sorry I haven't posted ANYTHING here in SO long. I had such high hopes for this to be my venting ground about wanting baby #3, but I guess I have a pretty good support group of ladies who helped me with this.

That being said, I can say BABY #3 is ON THE WAY!!! And...man...I feel terrible. I am due on August 4th, 2009. I have been SICK, SICK, SICK, since 5 weeks. YUCK. Last week it got so bad that my midwife called in some anti-nausea meds for me that they use for Chemotherapy and Radiation patients. They have definitely helped, but I still feel gruddy. I guess Nicholas spoiled me by not making me sick. I pretty much ate what I wanted. The nurse I talked to last week is predicting this IS my daughter "because sometimes girls just don't get along" and they make their mom's sick. LOL. Let's hope so.

I am not sure if I posted about us trying Dr. Shettle's theory to try for a girl this time, but we did and I think our timing was pretty good...2.5 days before O. I honestly was shocked that we got PG the first month again. I thought this was going to take longer...and actually was counting on that, so I wouldn't be sick for the Holidays. Don't get me wrong, I'm VERY happy to be so lucky in getting pregnant. We are truelly blessed. I just can't wait until I feel better.

So, my big problem is how to tell my family. I know this will sound TERRIBLE, but I fear my parents aren't going to be all happy about this. They are the type of people that are always practical and frugal and make the smart choice. Clearly in the current economy, having a baby now may not be the "smartest" thing to do, but DAMN, tell my heart that. I have to admit I'm a little nervous about money, but I've already got childcare figured out...YAY for Jacob starting Kindergarten in September.

Anyway, I want them to be happy for us. DH has been AWESOME, I must say. With the first two pregnancies he left something to be desired, but he has really grown up since we had Jacob. He has been very supportive, since I've been sick, which is such a relief. It is SO hard to chase my boys while I feel like I've been run over by a truck. Honestly, it feels like a mild case of the flu, but it stays and stays and stays.

He said yes to Baby #3!!!

I am sort of surprised and then sort of not. :) My DH is a great guy and loves our boys so much. I really hoped that if I shared with him how much I still thought about another baby he's be on board, but I was so scared of the possibility he'd be against it that I kept putting it off. Silly girl!! We are good for January 2009 to TTC. YAY. We are going to try the Shettle's method to see if we can get a girl this time. That means I need to stop BCP after this pack and chart for the next 4 months.

Can you tell I'm excited?!

My little man turns 2 tomorrow!!

I can't even believe it has been two years already. At this moment 2 years ago I was starting to have contractions, but for some reason was trying to sleep through them. I had walked literally 6 miles earlier in the day trying to get things moving, to no avail. Of course, when I was too exhausted to want to do anything other than sleep, the real thing started. I think I called my mom around midnight to come and stay with Jacob and DH & I headed to the hospital around 2 am. Nicholas was born at 7:25 am on 8/11/06.

He was SO much fun today too...which was a nice break of the crabby 2's. I hope tomorrow is the same, since I'm taking both he and his big brother (who is 4 years old) to the zoo. The weather is supposed to cooperate at least. YAY.

I'll try to find a couple of my favoriate pics of Nick and post them below. I have to admit they aren't that recent, since I REALLY need to download the camera!!

IUD out on Tuesday...conundrum.

Well, after some discussion with DH I decided to get my IUD out earlier this week and start BCP with the next AF. I did some reading on-line and realized that with my timing, there is actually a chance I could have gotten PG this cycle. I keep obsessing about it. Although it definitely wasn't planned and DH would FREAK out, the thought of baby #3 has been crossing my mind lately as friends of mine are TTC #2 right now. We have 2 little boys (hope to put up some posts about them soon...my intention with my first posts was to introduce my family, but as you can see I got side-tracked). Anyway, I've been dreading bringing up the subject with DH because I fear he won't go for it at all. It's an interesting situation. He thinks he is "too old". He's 42, but honestly looks 34 (as one of my co-workers said to me yesterday after meeting him for the first time at my work picnic last Friday). He really does too. He's fit and doesn't have to do anything for it (he has good genes, but I might talk about that more someday...want to be sure he won't ever read this blog first).

Anyway, it's a strange and scary conversation I dread having later this fall. Here is the one thing that gives me some hope. At our u/s for baby #2, when we found out we were having another boy, DH looked at me and said "Maybe when Jacob starts school (that will be in the fall of 2009), we can try again". He really was hoping for a girl and honestly I was too, although I wouldn't say that to anyone but my closest friends. I never want Nicholas to feel like we are dissapointed in him because we most surely are not. Most of the time he is a joy and very sweet...although the terrible 2's haven't been so fun...and he's not even 2 until this Monday.

Back to my conundrum, we FD's a few days before I O'ed (actually not exactly sure when I did, here is my chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/cd702. I was keeping it this month to see if I was actually ovulating before I started on BCP). There are two OK timed FD's in there and I read on the morning I was getting my IUD out that if an egg had fertilized, there was a chance it could now implant. I have to admit the thought really excited me, but I have the fear that DH will feel deceived. I posted about this on one of the webMD boards and got a nasty email back from someone about trying to trick my DH. I was VERY offended at that and now realize why there is hardly anyone on those boards anymore. I digress, though. I feel so conflicted about the whole thing and guilty that I hope that I might be PG. Am I terrible person? I hope not.

I guess only time will tell. I'm not sure anyone reads this yet as I just started, but I will post about what happens next week. I am expecting AF on Tuesday or Wednesday. We'll see if she comes. My midwife actually didn't help my hopes when I asked her about this whole thing. She simply said "Watch, you won't get your period". UGH...don't give me hope. She knew I was OK with whatever happened when we removed the IUD, so don't hold anything against her.

This is getting long and rambling, but I got a new type of BCP this time...Yaz. They are supposed to help skin (one of the major reasons I wanted to switch BC methods, the other was that I have been having 24 day cycles with 8 days of AF...NOT fun) and they are low dosed, so hopefully won't affect my libido, which has suffered from BCP in the past. Anyone have any experience with this one? My insurance didn't cover it, so they were > $50. YIKES. Glad I have lots of money left in flex-spending. Crazy!

My DH - a complicated man

DH (Bill) & I met in 1998 through my roommate, who worked with him. It's funny, but we met going out with a group to watch Monday Night Football and didn't really get to talk, but we must have both really noticed the other. I thought he was really handsome, but left it as that. Then he came to our Christmas party that year and we talked ALL night. I'd say we were together from that day on...even though we didn't speak for a couple of weeks. It was kind of a complicated situation I guess, since my room mate (a guy) had told all his co-works that I was his girlfriend (which I wasn't), so Bill didn't know what to do. Once I found that out there was no problem...except I didn't have a room mate anymore. LOL.

Anyway, I finally convinced him to get married in 2001 and we tied the knot on 2/2/2002 (yes, he has NO excuse to EVER forget our anniversary). He jokes now about how I forced him, but I know he is happy I did. He's one of those guys that had never witnessed a good marriage and thought marriage and kids weren't for him. Seems I keep pulling him through life.

A new adventure!

So, I've decided to delve into the world of blogging...like I need more distraction in my life, right? I hope I can keep this up better than my family website (http://www.jbgresham.net), email me if you'd like the log-in information, but be warned I haven't updated it in over a year). I haven't decided exactly what I want to accomplish with this site, though.

Hmmm...what's going on with me right now? Well, I have two boys who are 4 and almost 2 years old who are making me crazy and for some reason all I can think about is having another baby. What's wrong with me. I know my DH will not be for this plan, so I've kept it secret for the time being, until I can show him proof that we can afford it, etc. I pray he will come around. If I'm going to talk about that topic here, so I guess I better not let him know about my blog. :)